|
Also wouldn't the rerelease of old GW stuff smell of the failure of current GW stuff? None of this hangs together. I don't buy it.
|
#
?
Nov 12, 2015 16:11
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 7, 2024 15:15 |
|
|
It might explain the cryptic "revisiting the lines" line in that notorious investor report. My FB feed has some stuff suggesting that it's maybe happening ...but way off and nobody is even tasked to it. So even if it's true, it's way too soon to make any announcement. (Which is a pretty big sign that it's bogus.)
|
|
#
?
Nov 12, 2015 16:13
|
|
|
Even if it is real they won't be metal minis and the prices will be insane. Want a resin juve model, sure thing $18USD please.
|
|
#
?
Nov 12, 2015 16:20
|
|
|
One of the stores posting about it says that it's just been sent out in a company wide email, but if that was the case then why isn't every single store posting it?
|
|
#
?
Nov 12, 2015 16:36
|
|
|
And why not just copy-paste the actual text?
|
|
#
?
Nov 12, 2015 16:43
|
|
|
A company wide email with a do-not-release tacked on. This is how they will find those quisling managers who deviate from company orders, and so know which shops they should close.
|
|
#
?
Nov 12, 2015 16:53
|
|
|
My Northstar order just arrived and I must say I'm really happy with the sprues. So, in case GW decides to reboot Mordheim (sure), here's something you may consider buying: Frostgrave Soldiers 20£ http://www.northstarfigures.com/prod.php?prod=7467 Front:  Back:  Undead Encounter 13£ http://www.northstarfigures.com/prod.php?prod=7489 Ghouls Front/Back & Zombies:  Skeleton Warriors:  (Sorry for the heavy shadows, but the image should be clear enough if you open it at full size) More undead are also available on Mantic's webstore. I've also bought some metal wardogs and I must say they're quite tiny. They're large-dog size with real life proportions and I was expecting something larger. PS: the jigsaw mat has still not arrived, but if I'm lucky I'll get it by tomorrow.
|
|
|
#
?
Nov 12, 2015 16:57
|
|
|
Is mantic's KoW stuff not metal and restic anymore?
|
|
#
?
Nov 12, 2015 17:21
|
|
spectralent posted:Is mantic's KoW stuff not metal and restic anymore? I thing every new release is metal (blisters) or hard plastic. The quality seems fairly good too, I don't see fusion lines or smudges; I've also been surprised by the dimensions, everything seems to be proper human-sized (IE: hands, heads) - but to be honest It's been a long time since I've last bought any minis, so maybe it's just the standard now (I remember old GW giant hands+heads minis from a long time ago).
|
|
|
#
?
Nov 12, 2015 17:33
|
|
|
I kind of dig some mantic stuff but their restic was just loving horrible to work with forever. Then I hear Warpath's plastic, and now their faux-warhammer stuff is too? 
|
|
#
?
Nov 12, 2015 17:39
|
|
|
I think I'm just gonna copy the best reactions and replace the OP with them 
|
|
#
?
Nov 12, 2015 17:47
|
|
|
goatface posted:A company wide email with a do-not-release tacked on. The guy who posted the flyer said that the company wide email went out yesterday, but nobody said anything because they didn't know if it was a hush-hush thing. He said got GW approval to post the news. I'm not sure what to think - on the one hand, I'd like to see those games return. On the other hand, with the current pricing structure, and the fact that something like this will be GW Online only, I don't see it bringing in any new players. My money's on a lovely boardgame line, similar to the Assassins or Calth games, just so they can keep their IPs intact. EDIT: Some commenter on BoLS says: quote:I sent an email to GW and they responded this: Thank you for writing in to us! Yes, we are looking into specialist DOUBLE-EDIT: GW Peterborough FB page: quote:So I've been e-mailing most of the day and here - hopefully is the end to the rumours! berzerkmonkey fucked around with this message at 18:19 on Nov 12, 2015 |
|
#
?
Nov 12, 2015 18:14
|
|
|
Oh, so they had a meeting where someone said it would be cool and everyone nodded and said "let's look at it in the new year".
|
|
#
?
Nov 12, 2015 18:25
|
|
|
goatface posted:Oh, so they had a meeting where someone said it would be cool and everyone nodded and said "let's look at it in the new year". I'm sure this is a pretty accurate assessment.
|
|
#
?
Nov 12, 2015 18:54
|
|
|
Well it looks to be true: http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?414990-Specialist-Games-are-back-What-if&p=7565988&viewfull=1#post7565988 Rumour mongers can be a bit poo poo but Hastings is not wrong very often. It's clearly a sub-studio of GW/FW so hopefully it's staffed by people who know what the hell they are doing.
|
|
#
?
Nov 12, 2015 19:02
|
|
|
enri posted:God what a colossal gently caress up, there's store managers piping up going "yep totally legit, how awesome?!" and others going "not heard a thing about it" My local manager got an email from HQ confirming it today.
|
|
#
?
Nov 12, 2015 19:47
|
|
|
berzerkmonkey posted:
"In the future, GW will put money into specialist games." That's about as vague as it possibly could be, but it's definitely the best news to come out of GW for a long time. The main problem with GW relaunching anything is that they don't know how to make good games. Their current track record for new stuff is: * Dreadfleet (abominable) * that assassins game (not really a game) * Age of Sigmar (  )* plus a host of updates to 40k that bolt on a series of problems to its 80s design structure Unless they do some really smart recruiting into this new department and throw out their entire design process in favour of a non-1980's model (involving significant playtesting on a solid foundation of modern board game design), that's the kind of quality rules that GW are going to keep throwing out. Basically, this will only be good news if they also announce the new specialist games team is made up of veterans from other companies. Necromunda is what I'd be most worried about. A £20 multi-piece plastic gang set (like frostgrave) would print money, but that's too sensible an option for GW, who'd likely split it into individual gangers for their current single resin figure prices (£12+). On the design front, Necromunda is still my favourite miniature game (with significant caveats and house-rules), but it falls fairly quickly compared to modern board-gaming. It's also significantly better than 8th Warhammer or the current 40k, which is hugely problematic. GW haven't learnt anything or improved their rules writing one bit. The Supreme Court fucked around with this message at 20:05 on Nov 12, 2015 |
|
#
?
Nov 12, 2015 20:02
|
|
|
It's worth pointing out there's one more game in their "recent track record" - a faithful reproduction of Space Hulk, which did update the rules but only lightly. A lot of people don't like Space Hulk but the point is that it was faithful to the original game. That does not inspire a ton of hope, but it's something that actually happened.
|
|
#
?
Nov 12, 2015 20:05
|
|
|
That's a good point, and probably the best option for any of the specialist games.
|
|
#
?
Nov 12, 2015 20:07
|
|
|
Leperflesh posted:A lot of people don't like Space Hulk A lot of people are wrong 
|
|
#
?
Nov 12, 2015 20:09
|
|
|
enri posted:A lot of people are wrong 
|
|
#
?
Nov 12, 2015 20:11
|
|
|
Pictures making the rounds of the Warhammer app confirming they'll be looking to update a bunch of the old games.
|
|
#
?
Nov 12, 2015 20:23
|
|
|
I wonder if this means they'll eventually go after people like the NetEA/UK folks who have been keeping their games alive all this time.
|
|
#
?
Nov 12, 2015 20:26
|
|
|
krushgroove posted:Pictures making the rounds of the Warhammer app confirming they'll be looking to update a bunch of the old games. I am so conflicted about this... Also does this mean Necromunda fire sales on eBay?
|
|
#
?
Nov 12, 2015 20:27
|
|
|
I'm just excited to maybe be getting new models for some of these games, as expensive as they may be. I've been doing a lot of 10mm fantasy (mainly tolkein) stuff lately, and sure there are some alternates but most of them in the fantasy genre pale in comparison to what GW did for Battle of Five Armies and some of the Warmaster stuff I could use for subbing in if it was a crazy overpriced in the second hand market. Similarly, there are a ton of space ship games out there but (personally) most of the models I don't like as much as those that were created for BFG, generally. It might be because there isn't really a GW store around me and I don't play in clubs (because there aren't any near me really) but I'll just take the models and use them to whatever rules I need them to fit to. Would be great if they start making good rules as well, but I'll just be happy to have more options back on the table for the pieces themselves.
|
|
#
?
Nov 12, 2015 20:28
|
|
|
That Italian Guy posted:Skeleton Warriors: Is that a skeleton rat on that sprue? Oh my god I'm in love
|
|
#
?
Nov 12, 2015 20:29
|
|
|
Interested to see how they intend to employ "forging your own narrative" in the games that already had campaign options.
|
|
#
?
Nov 12, 2015 20:30
|
|
|
 This is what I saw first on Facebook, it is in the app. Seems like they are actively watching social media stuff, in addition time remembering that 'games' is on the name of the company...
|
|
#
?
Nov 12, 2015 20:30
|
|
|
Going to be utterly disappointed when Warmaster comes back with nothing but 10mm Sigmarines and Khorne Bloodbuddies.
|
|
#
?
Nov 12, 2015 20:30
|
|
|
krushgroove posted:
Well poo poo, there goes $300+
|
|
#
?
Nov 12, 2015 20:33
|
|
|
enri posted:A lot of people are wrong
|
|
#
?
Nov 12, 2015 20:37
|
|
|
 Looks like internally people are pleased that the times are changing. Here's lookin' at a brighter gaming future where 50%+ of the world doesn't lust for the company's death!
|
|
#
?
Nov 12, 2015 20:46
|
|
|
poo poo, all we had to do was close the Death Thread?!
|
|
#
?
Nov 12, 2015 21:01
|
|
|
They closed Death Thread? I don't go out of the bookmarked threads much... PierreTheMime posted:Looks like internally people are pleased that the times are changing. Here's lookin' at a brighter gaming future where 50%+ of the world doesn't lust for the company's death! Unless, you know... moths posted:Warmaster comes back with nothing but 10mm Sigmarines and Khorne Bloodbuddies. Also, Calth is baffling to me. It's obviously aimed at old fans to make them buy more Marines at something near approaching something that can be mistaken for sensible prices, with a runty board game tacked and new plastic (which means expensive new molds) minis.
|
|
#
?
Nov 12, 2015 21:42
|
|
|
spacegoat posted:I wonder if this means they'll eventually go after people like the NetEA/UK folks who have been keeping their games alive all this time. I would wager that, assuming they go with the actual SG games, and not a revamp, they will just reprint the books and resurrect the minis lines. NetEA was in progress while SG ws selling the core rulebook, and there was no issue - Jervis even gave the project his blessing, for the most part. Obviously, this may change with the new CEO, but I think we are still looking at something that is a long way off, so I doubt there will be any major issues. (Though I would like to see the Army Champions stop dicking around with lists just because some guy in their community is pissing them off.) Speaking of shutting down projects, does anyone know why the community BB was killed, while NetEA was allowed to continue? I've always been curious about that - I kind of wondered if there was bad blood between GW and the community organizers or something.
|
|
#
?
Nov 12, 2015 21:48
|
|
|
I am curious what they mean by 'revamp'. An update to bring the games up to modern standards? New cover art and straight reprint? Metal models released in whatever they call Finecast now? New plastic models?
|
|
#
?
Nov 12, 2015 21:58
|
|
|
Nobody knows - apparently, the group was just formed, so I doubt that even they know what the hell is going on...
|
|
#
?
Nov 12, 2015 22:10
|
|
|
berzerkmonkey posted:
Maybe something to do with multiple computer, card and board games of blood bowl exist and are actively sold?
|
|
#
?
Nov 12, 2015 22:10
|
|
|
Joe_Richter posted:Maybe something to do with multiple computer, card and board games of blood bowl exist and are actively sold? Yeah, that's could be it - I forgot about the card game. The PC game used the actual BB manual too, didn't it?
|
|
#
?
Nov 12, 2015 22:22
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 7, 2024 15:15 |
|
|
Yep. PDF of it.
|
|
#
?
Nov 12, 2015 22:27
|
|