The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread

[Tactalvanic]

Yes, but I have banned myself any new computer games until me birthday at the soonest

It can wait.

Suspect a few more will crop up in the next couple of months quietly, to add to the growing list.

I for one have to much reality to pay for first this year

And toy soldiers...

[3 fingers]

Forgive me fathers for I have sinned, I blame the Malibu and cokes ,but last night I bought off gw.
I now have hobbit Orc trackers,wyches razor wing flock and a nurgle chaos sorcerer being sent to me.
Plan is the Orc trackers get some blunderbuss type guns and the the scorcher gets a pistol for a scavvy gang and the wyches become eschers or a vampire/goff  gang and the razorwings will be used as part of a rat skin type gang .

[nic-e]

These fantasy rumours are actually the sort of thing that would make me want to start fantasy . right now it feels like a game I could never afford, and seems to be played mainly by people who already have an army from years ago.

Round bases, smaller units and battleforces that are big enough to actually play a game with.

I was never a fan of big infantry block games,but I know kings of war fills that gap in the market well and alot of old fantasy players have switched to it as a more balanced rule set.

[beefcake]

Not sure if anybody else was aware, but apparently there is a warhammer quest PC game out now?

Is that the same game that was on iOS? Top down view, pay loads through the nose for extra characters and scenarios?

[YPU]

Is that the same game that was on iOS? Top down view, pay loads through the nose for extra characters and scenarios?

Yes it is. Pay loads trough the nose option included. They sure took the games worksop classic into the modern age there. 

[beefcake]

Figures. I bought it for the iPad. Gets very repetitive, very quickly.

[YPU]

The one review I watched mentioned that with all the dice rolls going on behind the screen and it being single player you loose most of what is interesting about these somewhat simpler table tops in the first place. No whooping when the other guy rolls a 1 and such.

[Ajsalium]

A little bit more of the posible future of Warhammer...

It will take place 200 years after the current End of Times. And the world has exploded. Literally, it seems. Say goodbye to the old map that has been the one proper and true trademark of Warhammer. Apparently, each faction will live on their own planetoid, floating in the warp. Or something.
One faction will be the elves. Chaos another. Humans other; these are described as the chaos warriors minus the spikez and skullz, so heavily armoured. Undead will likely be other faction. The other two may be greenskins (containing ogres) and dwarves.
It has been said, with good reason, that it looks like Warhammer is being made more like 40K fluff wise. All elves being a single race... humans being strong armoured warriors...

And regarding old GW fans, apparently they don't give a damn. It's a conscious business decision to place their efforts on attracting new players, hence dropping all previous armies, miniatures and background.

[Gibby]

Say goodbye to the old map that has been the one proper and true trademark of Warhammer. Apparently, each faction will live on their own planetoid, floating in the warp. Or something.

That sounds bloody stupid and shit. Fantasy worlds for me depend on there being... a world and a map and some lore to get into.

[3 fingers]

Warhammer apocalypse ?

[Tactalvanic]

So nothing new then, throw out all the old, including fans/customers.

Aim for the young teen affluent cash rich, skull poor kids...

not sure they will find enough of those on any planet including this real one.

What a pile of steaming cack.

GW on their usual form following their normal rules and doing exactly as thought, one of each race burn the old miniatures and racial devides and F anyone that don't agree/buy into it.

utter waste of time.

I will keep me money/continue to spend elsewhere and use any other, including old GW rules editions I like

Although I reserve the option to actually buy something from somewhere that is GW if its cool or fits with what I am doing and I can afford it...

Other than that anyone thing this is last gasp or?

How do their latest financials look, have they been released yet?

But yeah warhammer skirmish apocalypso, no doubt there will be a 40k version of Nagash soon, maybe as a Necron big nob?

[3 fingers]

Sounds about right.
And I blame you lot with your scaremongering for my impulse online purchases 

[YPU]

Sounds about right.
And I blame you lot with your scaremongering for my impulse online purchases 

We might just have found the reason for all the over the top GW rumours. 

[Momotaro]

Financials are on the 14th January I've read, so next Wednesday.

The way it's being talked about, THIS IS the last gasp for Fantasy - presumably the alternative to a complete revamp of the game + all new models is that the line just gets cancelled.

What a waste.

Pictures of the new Rat Ogres, sorry "Stormfiends" are surfacing... gatling gun arms, heavily armoured, one appears to have warpstone nipples on its armour    Ludicrous range of special abilities.  If that's the future...  Steamhammer anyone?

[Ajsalium]

Steamhammer? Surely you mean Warmachine?

Oh! Wait!