Warlord Games 'Aesthetic' Change?

[Kommando_J]

''Reading between the lines and probably getting it wrong, my impression is that GoA is a vanity project, a "screw you!" to a former employer and so gets quite focused attention from one of the Warlords in particular; it will be a success come hell or high water (and possibly even at the expense of profit).''

100% agreed, Priestley is desperate to show he still is relevant.

I'm starting to see the aggressive buying out of other ranges as a con, they ruined the bef miniatures and didnt even release all of them, similar other ranges have been snapped up and butchered or have been packed into a crate for ''top men'' to take care of which has pissed off more than a few.

I get the ''must be warlord'' crowd (poor things were mostly ex-GW fans).

''The original BA ranges also disappeared over time, quite quickly in the case of the Italians. Opinions may vary, but I think the old Paul Hicks BA sculpts were far better than their replacements. As the Warlord figures vary considerably across the range 'incompatibility' can't have been an issue surely?''

A bullshit excuse considering the fact that they still sell Paul Hicks sculpts(and some of which are some of his earlier/cruder sculpts) like the guarding the chateau pack and the old British paratroops(now relabeled as Polish paratroops), and if they truly cared about compatibility they wouldn't have sculpted the new Aussies to a much larger scale than the old and still very ice Paul Hicks chindit sculpts.

I believe some of the bef minis appeared(mostly vehicles but some Belgians/early british) but the officer didn't and the range went from fixed to separate head.

[Lowtardog]

Yep, I was chatting to Crouchie about his old ranges a while ago and they swapped heads out etc

[nic-e]

If you look at licenses go no further than Mongoose, now their is a "rise and fall" with miniature wargaming to avoid as a model

I'm sure spartan are giving them a good run for their money on terms of completely ballsing everything up.

[Kommando_J]

Anyone have links to these delightful scandals? The spartan one I remember but I never heard all the details of the Mongoose one, all I know is they somehow fucked up judge dredd.

[nic-e]

Anyone have links to these delightful scandals? The spartan one I remember but I never heard all the details of the Mongoose one, all I know is they somehow fucked up judge dredd.

Spartan was nothing specific, They just can't keep interest in a game at the cost of good business sense.they also make the same mistake world made by choosing weird scales for things that would have otherwise been popular. (35mm for dystopian legions ,15mm for halo, massive relase gaps between games, releases without stock, products dropping out of production, several dead systems.relaunches and launches of new systems without announcement followed by months of no updating.)

[Kommando_J]

I remember now, I recall the disappointment I felt for the bizarre scale for dystopian legions and the kickstarter shenanigans.

[Kommando_J]

Has anyone noticed some stuff missing from the warlord store? The guy lizard command vehicle seems to have been up briefly, also I recall a winter soviet command previewed a few times two ears ago but now...gone.

Also found this online (think its legit as the painting/sculpting style is consistent with the new stuff), it seems to be sold along with the other ECW stuff on foreign stores but is absent from the warlord site.

[vodkafan]

I think the New "Primaris" Chindits are the way forward 

[Kommando_J]

Lol nice, these seem to be by the same fellow as I have the townsfolk pack and I have to see they are done to a bigger scale, also whoever is doing the new paint jobs needs to be fired .

[Lowtardog]

Anyone have links to these delightful scandals? The spartan one I remember but I never heard all the details of the Mongoose one, all I know is they somehow fucked up judge dredd.

They had a great game in Starship troopers, lots of good plastic models and a nice ruleset, hat killed it for them (or seemed so at the time) was getting the light infantry made originally plastic then eventually metal but they missed the boat 

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/666987.page

[jetengine]

Mongoose cant hold a license due to a mixture of incompetence, poor advertising and kickstarter fuck uppery.

Starship Troopers became a pre-paint which kills games, B5 waned as a franchise, Trek they made shit models for, Dredd they fucked up the kickstarter had mixed sculpts and needed Warlord to do the heavy lifting practically from launch. Lets not forget their Rogue Trooper game which got successfully funded....and nothing happened.

Spartan have an angry fanbase, shit rules, odd scales and too many games to support. They also threw their first game under the bus to support Steampunk which made it obvious  they'd do it again to chase the money. Also they somehow managed to mess up making a game out of the biggest videogame sci fi franchise of all time.

Terminator was a stupid mistake, Warlord somehow thinking that the 5th film in a tired sci-fi franchise would be the new LOTR. Add in iffy sculpts, slow restock and two factions killed the game before the terrible reveiws for Genysis came in.

Doctor Who was another easily preventable mistake. First of all make them Wargaming miniatures, none of this pseudo collector bullshit. Then release the fucking catds so people can use their miniatures dammit !

Day Z etc are just to make a quick buck off of Wargames Factory sprues.

[Anna Elizabeth]

I like Warlord's rule books and supplements, but the only miniatures from them that I'm truly enjoying are my Bolt Action metal US Airborne. I don't know who sculpted them but I love them, lots of character and detail, I'm making good progress painting them.

 I always end up disappointed with Warlord plastics. I just bought a box of British Household Brigade Cavalry and I am not impressed at all. Nor do I like these new Australians. I think I shall but Artizan or Perry for any future WW2 forces.

[Antonio J Carrasco]

Warlord is... peculiar. Some sculpts are half-decent and are not that bad to bulk up a force. And yet, the lack of detail make them a pain in the ass for the painter. I bought an Army Box -against my better judgement- for a Successors army. I am almost done with the first 24 pikemen unit, and while it hasn't been terrible it hasn't been an enjoyable experience either. To be honest I did paint them one miniature at a time, interpersing Footsore Late Romans, Aventine's EIR Auxilia (a side project where I am adapting Lion Rampant for skirmishes along the Roman frontiers during the high days of the Empire) and Iron Duke's Indian Mutiny (a joy to paint!).

But one of my problems with Warlord, especially with their WWII ranges, is the weirdness of the poses. Sometimes I don't know if they are representing soldiers or chorus line dancers in some Broadway production!

[FionaWhite]

I remember now, I recall the disappointment I felt for the bizarre scale for dystopian legions and the kickstarter shenanigans.

I'll never understand the reasoning behind their choice of scale.
"We'll make them off-scale with every other manufacturer in existence. That way, we'll... we'll maximize sales and..."
At least I saved money for other stuff, though. 

But I digress, sorry.

[nic-e]

Day Z etc are just to make a quick buck off of Wargames Factory sprues.

This if why I'm glad that Test of Honour was written by two guys from outside of warlord and they basically bought it to go with their miniatures.
At the very least when warlord eventually pull support or forget that they make the game the creators will still be there to support the community or publish new rules themselves.

(I mean really warlord, It's a good game but no rulebook, no core card deck and none of the character figures outside of the infantry boxes,plus you can't buy the infantry and the multi bases seperate...Sodding hell, Do you want people to play the game or not?! )