The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread

[Malebolgia]

And the new Typhus mini is friggin' huge (read: larger than a Gravis Captain fella).  Personally I think the old mini trumps it...the new one is just "meh", but you can always toss his head on one of the other Deathshroud fellas.

Agreed. The new one is daft. Way too much detail (which doesn't suit Death Guard at all imo) and a silly drunken pose. Nope, old one is way better.

[nic-e]

I really like to look of firestorm.
Compatible with AoS skirmish and all other AoS play styles, So no need for huge armies and massive units. Just a few heroes carving out a kingdom in the wild parts of the mortal realms.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/09/17/firestorm-the-armies-of-the-great-cities-and-the-elite-of-the-death-guard/

"Firestorm is a new way to play Warhammer Age of Sigmar, allowing you and your friends to battle for supremacy in map-based campaigns. As you win battles, you’ll be able to capture territories and build a kingdom of your own, adding powerful gameplay benefits to your army. Inside the box, you’ll find the campaign map, decks of dominion cards for each player and stickers to mark your impact on the Realm of Fire – all of these are fully reusable, meaning after one Firestorm campaign you’re free to set up another one. There are unique strategic challenges to map-based play for gamers, while for narrative players this is an easy way to structure a campaign. Firestorm has been designed to be compatible with any kind of play – you can fight your battles in tense games of Skirmish or try the new siege rules from the General’s Handbook 2017, or even string them together to create varied, rich, and thematic games.

There’s more! Firestorm comes with 10 new allegiance abilities representing the unique armies of the Great Cities and those who would tear them down. The Great Cities are the kingdoms of Order in the Mortal Realms, each home to a unique and varied collection of humans, elves, duardin and Stormcast Eternals. You may remember some of them from the Season of War campaign, such as the Greywater Fastness, others you may have already explored, like Hammerhal, while some are completely new, like Tempest’s Eye. The new allegiance abilities are designed to represent how these cities fight; the forces of the Phonecium, for instance, are inspired to fight harder by the deaths of their comrades, honouring the Ur-Phoenix, while the armies of Anvilgard crush their foes underfoot in relentless marches. We’ll be previewing some of these next week in detail – what’s more, these are usable in any of your games, not just Firestorm! "

[YPU]

A boxed set for map-based campaigns gets my stamp of approval, for at least being interesting content.

[chamberlain]

It certainly has potential.  Their Open War cards work well enough.  Hopefully this box builds on that same approach.

[JamesValentine]

well I've been hearing that the revised BFG is supposedly going to be set during the horus heresy.
no alien races.
just loyalist and traitors.
so pretty much 1 design of ship in different sizes.

on the topic of sizes I've heard the scale will be smaller than the current OOP ships.
so if you already have a fleet GW are laughing in your face.

just what I've heard so far

[stone-cold-lead]

well I've been hearing that the revised BFG is supposedly going to be set during the horus heresy.
no alien races.
just loyalist and traitors.
so pretty much 1 design of ship in different sizes.

on the topic of sizes I've heard the scale will be smaller than the current OOP ships.
so if you already have a fleet GW are laughing in your face.

just what I've heard so far

Not heard about BFG coming back!

I think we tend to expect GW to just rehash these old games the way they were or at least they way we remember them, but that's not really good business. They want people to buy the games and to encourage old timers to spend money on the new product rather than on Ebay. GW aren't being shitty or trying to piss off the old fan base intentionally. We have to be careful as well that we're not expecting a full range of products for some of these things. Adeptus Titanicus gets resurrected and everyone assumes that the full Epic range is going to return. Some of these games might just be one off stand alone games. I could see BFG Horus Heresy as a one off.

[nic-e]

Not heard about BFG coming back!

I think we tend to expect GW to just rehash these old games the way they were or at least they way we remember them, but that's not really good business. They want people to buy the games and to encourage old timers to spend money on the new product rather than on Ebay. GW aren't being shitty or trying to piss off the old fan base intentionally. We have to be careful as well that we're not expecting a full range of products for some of these things. Adeptus Titanicus gets resurrected and everyone assumes that the full Epic range is going to return. Some of these games might just be one off stand alone games. I could see BFG Horus Heresy as a one off.

I could see it as a standalone or as a starter kit in all but name, Ibn the style of calth and prospero.
They'd have those boxes for people to play with , put out a few plastic kits, and then have the other more custom stuff done by foregworld. the plan was for foregworld to handle specialist games for the most part from what i understand and the model seems to be working well for bloodbowl.

[Elbows]

The main thing to remember with both Adeptus Titanicus (also set in the HH) and the new BFG (likely set in the HH) is that these are, by now, unproven games.  While there is a cult following online for the games - nothing is proven, and the Horus Heresy is doing well for them.  However, they're following the original AT philosophy.  By doing Horus Heresy you get to test the waters with one set of models.  If the game is a failure, just leave the boxed game as is, and carry on with other projects.  If successful, then continue and eventually do alien races, etc.

It's smart, and the same reason they did it way back when the first Titanicus game was released (which, if I recall was two sets of Imperial titans done u in different colour plastic?).  Also if BFG goes to multi-part, convertible plastics...all the die hard BFG fans will absolutely be buying new models to supplement their current fleets.  The rules will be different, and ships will be different, etc.

This is just a safe business decision and has nothing to do with spiting players.

[Vanvlak]

It's smart, and the same reason they did it way back when the first Titanicus game was released (which, if I recall was two sets of Imperial titans done u in different colour plastic?). 

Correct - they also had a choice of 2 heads, with one slightly more chaos-y, although I've seen both on Imperial plastic Warlord titans from the period. Red and blue, if I remember correctly (I have also seen black).

[nic-e]

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/09/19/starting-a-gaming-club-sep-19gw-homepage-post-2/

A nice little article from Warhammer community,written by some of the guys at weta workshop about starting a gaming club.

Obviously this is a case of YMMV but it's nice to have GW putting these ideas out that might not haveoccoured to some newer players and could promt them to look into their local clubs.

[Vanvlak]

A painted Mortarion is already up for sale on ebay with 6 heroes, 3 drones, 20 Plague Marines and I'd guess 40 pox walkers - for a cool 4 grand $...!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Warhammer-40K-Chaos-Space-Marines-Army-Mortarion-Death-Guard-Nurgle-PAINTED-/322760962907?hash=item4b260d735b:g:pmUAAOSwnyBZwTT8
It's nice and all, but not the highest level of paintwork I've seen, and - $4,000?!?!!? 

[Elbows]

As we used to say in the car business "there's an ass for every seat". 

[beefcake]

If anyone is interested in Warhammer fantasy Roleplay digital books, Humble Bundle has a good deal going now. $20 for a crap load. I think 22 books in total. This includes the 1st edition in digital format too.

Good for another 5 days or so.

or you can just pay $1 and get 4 of them (including the core book)

[Elbows]

Shhhhh, I've been trying not to look at that again.

[DivisMal]

Shhhhh, I've been trying not to look at that again.

Damn you all! I so wanted to ignore that!!!