The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread

[Elbows]

For the computer gamers here...there will apparently be a "Dawn of War" game announcement tomorrow.  I'd guess this would be Dawn of War III.

[throwsFireball]

For the computer gamers here...there will apparently be a "Dawn of War" game announcement tomorrow.  I'd guess this would be Dawn of War III.

Dawn of War III, which will have a single unit on each side with twenty different abilities.

Seriously, though, DoWII's big problem was the divide between singleplayer and multiplayer.

[zemjw]

There's an unboxing of Lost Patrol over at Tabletop Gaming News

5 marines, 12 genestealers, 6 page rulebook

[throwsFireball]

For the computer gamers here...there will apparently be a "Dawn of War" game announcement tomorrow.  I'd guess this would be Dawn of War III.

Dawn of War 3 just got announced.

[Elbows]

Can't get a read on how this one will be.

[throwsFireball]

Can't get a read on how this one will be.

Damn you can just post the YouTube link.

Let me break it down:

• Three factions only. Space Marines, Eldar and Orks.
• Weird singleplayer-multiplayer integration so you have a single persistent army across both.
• They seem to be implying they're at Epic / Apocalypse scale with a LOT of things fighting on the map.

That's pretty much all we know so far.

[YPU]

They seem to be implying they're at Epic / Apocalypse scale with a LOT of things fighting on the map.

Are you getting this from some other source then the trailer? Cause I'm getting a "GW is pumping out absurdly large models these days, so lets use them!" vibe.

[throwsFireball]

There's a few screenshots from PC Gamer, too:

Are you getting this from some other source then the trailer? Cause I'm getting a "GW is pumping out absurdly large models these days, so lets use them!" vibe.

Steam page.
Dawn of War is famous for its epic action and those immense clashes are back - but now they're off-the-scale. Wage war with massive armies across violent volcanic terrain or onboard battlecruisers travelling fast through space.

I mean, I doubt they'll be competing with Supreme Commander but we'll see.

[Elbows]

Yeah the article said a return to more of the original Dawn of War scale...which really isn't huge, but is not the small 12-man approach from Dawn of War 2.  I've been playing around with Dawn of War Ultimate Apocalypse mod which is a lot larger than either.

As neat as it all looks, I probably won't bother.  I can bet money that units/armies etc. will all become DLC instead of being included in a normal $60 game.  Sega unfortunately went this route with the Total War franchises, and the last Company of Heroes (which was a huge failure compared to the first). 

[The Voivod]

There's now an unboxing vid on beasts-of-war as well of lost patrol.

http://www.beastsofwar.com/warhammer-40k/unboxing-lost-patrol/

GW seems to be sending out review copies. It would seem they are slowly starting to get back into the online community.

[YPU]

in that first image, roughly in the middle there is a SM with a hammer jumping in a pose that just cracks me up. Nothing more to add here. 

[Hupp n at em]

in that first image, roughly in the middle there is a SM with a hammer jumping in a pose that just cracks me up. Nothing more to add here. 

 

[Vermis]

in that first image, roughly in the middle there is a SM with a hammer jumping in a pose that just cracks me up. Nothing more to add here. 

Are you sure he's jumping? Sure his hammer hasn't inexplicably started to float away and he's hanging on for dear life and flailing his legs in confusion...?

Overall, for me, take away the twinkly effects and it looks like they've done a great job of capturing the tabletop game.

... which means they're taking all these fantastic futuristic guns and lining up to shoot eachother from a dozen metres away, over an area the size of a football pitch.

TL;DR: the Verhoeven SST effect.

[Hupp n at em]

Are you sure he's jumping? Sure his hammer hasn't inexplicably started to float away and he's hanging on for dear life and flailing his legs in confusion...?

Yep, looks like Curious George being carried away by a balloon.   

[horridperson]

@Hupp n at em

You made me laugh my hole off because it's true  .