The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread

[richstrach]

This thread inspired me to have another look at the WFRP books a couple of weeks back, and I felt much the same way you describe. There's so much flavour in there, and a fair few bits of humour which complement the atmosphere of dark Germanic fantasy surprisingly well.

It was WFRP that got me into the whole hobby many years ago: I can't stress enough how obsessed I was with that book/setting, which lead naturally to WFB and then 40K (plus all the superb boxed games GW put out back then). My copy of the 1st edition is long gone, but I think I'll scour ebay for nostalgic reasons if nothing else.

[Lovejoy]

... My copy of the 1st edition is long gone, but I think I'll scour ebay for nostalgic reasons if nothing else.

I picked up a hardback copy last month pretty cheaply, and it's every bit as good as I remembered... do it now!

[Mason]

I picked them all up last year and we should be playing a campaign in the new year.
Looking forward to it.
 

[Momotaro]

I've always thought that WHFRP 2nd Edition would make for a great skirmish tabletop game anyway, with a few figures a side.

We WILL get that plan going this year!

[Momotaro]

The new "Start Collecting!"  bundles up for pre-order today are looking suspiciously sane... new year, new plan?

[Elbows]

I've been perusing their site and listening to some podcasts and I agree.  Their battle forces were always pretty reasonable (particularly when purchased at an online retailer with a bit of a discount).

They do look pretty good for the most part.  In fact some of their 40K plastic kits are quite reasonable, then others are idiotic.  Example...new Eldar jetbikes, three bikes for $32...or one Farseer on foot for $20?

The Tau starter box is particularly good value given the cost of broadsides.

[Ray Rivers]

Fyreslayer army inbound:

New Stunties

[Za Zjurman]

Fyreslayer army inbound:

New Stunties

those are rather nice actually...

Cheers,
Za

[Dr. Zombie]

They look like they just escaped from some form of fetish bunker or the Blue oyster bar.

[beefcake]

Why the helmets? They make them terrible. Dragon things in the back are cool.

[Modhail]

They look like they just escaped from some form of fetish bunker or the Blue oyster bar.

Maybe we just discovered where Slaanesh is hiding?

[Timbor]

I think the dwarfs look pretty cool, I would probably prefer them to the sigmarines.  Will wait for better pics though.

Also, just saw this - a couple preview sculpts for the first 'new' specialist re-release - BloodBowl

http://www.beastsofwar.com/blood-bowl/previews-blood-bowl-returning-tabletop/

[Rhoderic]

I've been wanting dwarves with "cannon on a stick" style handguns for years. But I want them looking like this...



...so it's something of a cruel irony to me that when dwarves with the correct armament do show up, they're of the AoS aesthetic

[Elbows]

I love Dwarfs.  If I played fantasy (ever) it would have been Dwarfs.  However, slayers have always been a bit "meh" to me, and the over-done AoS styled new ones look pretty terrible.  I'm sure they're marvelous figures/plastics etc...but they look absolute crap.

[Vanvlak]

Maybe we just discovered where Slaanesh is hiding?