The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread

[Cait Sidhe]

If anyone actually read the blurb they would know it is a limited edition marine which is a reimagining of the first marine figure (the one everyone is saying they have already) to celebrate 30 years of space marines.

It is actually a collectors piece hence the stupid price.

Huh, it's £18 which is pretty much the standard for single character models from GW now, so nothing to do with being a "collectors piece". 

same as...

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-EU/Space-Marine-Captain
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-EU/Space-Marine-Librarian
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-EU/Blood-Angels-Sanguinary-Priest-2014

etc... none of which are limited edition and some are even £20 or more if they have wings or something.

[FramFramson]

I smell a reworking of 'Blazing Saddles' with 40K races. It's a winner, I tells ya!

Well, we're definitely gonna need a shitload of dimes!

[Hupp n at em]

Well, we're definitely gonna need a shitload of dimes!

    That is priceless, well done Fram.

[Westfalia Chris]

Well, we're definitely gonna need a shitload of dimes!

Remember to get rid of the chewing gum first. 

The way things are going, though, a shitload (metric or imperial, BTW?) of dimes will probably not even buy you a Games Workshop starter army...

[Elbows]

EDIT: Just kidding, thanks GW Canada! 

[rebelyell2006]

I smell a reworking of 'Blazing Saddles' with 40K races. It's a winner, I tells ya!

Poor old Gavriel Johnson, with his authentic rogue trader gibberish...

"The emperor is a gree*BONG*!"

"What did he say? The emperor is agreeable?"

"No godrum dagnabbit the emperor is a gree*BONG*!"

"The emperor is agreeable!"

[nic-e]

The new games workshop boxed game confuses me. It's meant to be played on a 6x8 table but regardless, how much maneuvering are you really gonna do with just two knights?

[throwsFireball]

The new games workshop boxed game confuses me. It's meant to be played on a 6x8 table but regardless, how much maneuvering are you really gonna do with just two knights?

28mm really does not suit miniatures this big.

... Thinking on which, are there any Japanese style mecha games?

[nic-e]

28mm really does not suit miniatures this big.

... Thinking on which, are there any Japanese style mecha games?

Indeed.I imagine when the box gets bought by bit sellers looking for cheap knight parts you'll be able to pick up the rules/cards online cheap and play the game with smaller minis.

[Vermis]

The new games workshop boxed game confuses me. It's meant to be played on a 6x8 table but regardless, how much maneuvering are you really gonna do with just two knights?

Maybe I'm adding 2+2 and getting 5, but since Mark Rountree's last report mentioned that they absolutely wouldn't cheapen their premium image (or somesuch) by dropping prices on their existing products, I've had a feeling that all their 40K-themed board games - new products - are stealth price-drops for minis intended for 40K. Who really bought all those 30K marines just for Battle of Calth, or all those genestealer hybrids just for Deathwatch: Overkill? Especially with concurrent WD and much-vaunted Forgeworld Horus Heresy rules to go with them. You just buy the minis in bigger box sets with two forces, rather than boxes of ten minis for £35-40.

Maybe it's a bit of a stretch for those two games, where the minis don't already exist in 40K, at least not for a long while; and I don't know if the scouts and stealers in... erm... the scouts 'n' stealers game... are new, or just repackaged. But I think there's a better case for the knight game. Buying two knights, a chunk of scenery, and whatever other gewgaws for £120 has got to sting a little less than buying the two listed knights (original and warden flavour) alone, separately, for £180.

Oh, and you'd do it for Leman Russ.

[Queeg]

I would think that the GW board of directors would be happy just to settle for being in a position to celebrate 3 years of the Age of Sigmar in the future, let alone celebrate 30 years of any of the fantasy range .... celebrating it's history after wiping it out would be rather on the nose even for them wouldn't it?

[beefcake]

A knights game? Seriously? 2 knights and some terrain with some rules. Obviously this is just a discount deal for 2 knights. I'd be highly suprised if the rules were any good. And if the rules were any good I can imagine a lot of people just using the old knights from Epic and playing it on a board the size of the Heroquest board.

...Unless these new knights have real firing* weapons and targets on them for little kiddies to aim at with arm popping** action when you hit the target, pew pew.

*Spring loaded
** More spring loaded action

[Vermis]

I would think that the GW board of directors would be happy just to settle for being in a position to celebrate 3 years of the Age of Sigmar in the future, let alone celebrate 30 years of any of the fantasy range .... celebrating it's history after wiping it out would be rather on the nose even for them wouldn't it?

Are they doing that? Any links?

[Elbows]

A knights game? Seriously? 2 knights and some terrain with some rules. Obviously this is just a discount deal for 2 knights. I'd be highly suprised if the rules were any good. And if the rules were any good I can imagine a lot of people just using the old knights from Epic and playing it on a board the size of the Heroquest board.

...Unless these new knights have real firing* weapons and targets on them for little kiddies to aim at with arm popping** action when you hit the target, pew pew.

*Spring loaded
** More spring loaded action

I'd say look at it from the other side.  Instead of buying one Knight...you can get two for a "little bit" more money so you're probably likely to take a swing at it.  And let's be honest, sheets of plastic don't cost that much.  I think GW is doing some rather sly "get you to spend a bit more" strategies which will probably work.

[pixelgeek]

The new games workshop boxed game confuses me. It's meant to be played on a 6x8 table but regardless, how much maneuvering are you really gonna do with just two knights?

They'd have more space than they do on a typical 40K table.