New GW Game next Saturday

[joroas]

Whilst buying a pot of paint today, one of the boyz bounced over and asked if I'd heard about the new secret game out next weekend.  He couldn't/wouldn't tell me what it was, so I wheedled out:

A stand alone game like Space Hulk.
Fantasy
About £50/60
Something about John Blanche and pirates.

Sounds intriguing.  Any other info out there? 

[Comsquare]

Rumors at "Brückenkopf Online" say it should/could be a "Manowar" like game.

http://www.brueckenkopf-online.com/?p=43232

[joroas]

That all ties in. 

[Comsquare]

Hoped they relaunch "Warhammer Quest" though

[joroas]

I collected WHQ on EBay last year and found all the magazines/cards on various sites.

I will assume that this is way too expensive to retool and support.

A stand alone, short run game is the only thing I can see them producing now.

[OSHIROmodels]

There's quite a big grumpy thread on Dakka Dakka about it as well.

Seems to be four 'nations', Empire, Elves, Orcs and Vampire counts and it would appear (according to the rumours) that it will be warmaster scale and not Man-o-War scale.

I'm in two minds about this one, as a long term Man-o-War fan I'm hoping that it use the same rule types and give the same amount of fun but on the same token there won't be any support for it what-so-ever and once it's gone, it's gone 

On a slightly different note, I saw a copy of the newest version of Space Hulk going on the bring and buy at Colours for £100 

cheers

James

[joroas]

Nice to have ships for my epic, though.

[OSHIROmodels]

They might do this once a year with 'Quest', 'Battlefleet Gothic', etc

Trolls in the Pantry would be good 

cheers

James

[joroas]

I could cope, nicely, with an annual infusion of reto games, that only cost the initial outlay.

[joroas]

Obviously poor sales, but they did not give it much of a chance?

Not sure about that.  There were two boxed add-ons and fleets for all, even sea monsters.  So it was well-supported.  But, when you've bought your fleets there is nothing else to buy.  So no long-term sales like a 3000 point army with changing codexes and new figures.

[voltan]

I'm hoping it is man o war as I never managed to get hold of it first time round and it was tremendous fun, as for finding the money for it, does anyone want to buy a liver, I don't need both of them.

[OSHIROmodels]

As John says, there is no perpetual market and it was mainly the older players that liked it and therefore, a thoughtful budget to spend on it  

I still play it now though (but not as often as I would like)   and I still have a fair few different ship types that we came up with. Nothing crazy, just different sizes and classes, merchant men also.

cheers

James

[joroas]

does anyone want to buy a liver, I don't need both of them.

You have two livers? 

Burn the heretic..... 

[capthugeca]

 

[rob_the_robgoblin]

More to it than couldn't/wouldn't tell you. I work in Leamington store and we literally don't know anything.

I'm really excited though!