The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread

[Elbows]

Yeah, I saw that mentioned on facbeook and had a chuckle (see my post above about GW getting to act like a hero when they...sell a product they produce)

I'm sure the expansions will disappear pretty quick.  Cursed City didn't go as insane as many of the other mainstream 40K or AoS boxes, but they were still going for a subtle premium on eBay recently.

[beefcake]

Yep, I'm still interested in it but will never get it due to the price.

[Major_Gilbear]

I'm torn on getting it TBH. I did rather fancy it, but I also don't want to condone this:

GW getting to act like a hero when they...sell a product they produce

I'm also still pretty miffed that they took down any/all content relating to Cursed City when it sold out, and then refused to answer any questions whatsoever about what happened. I mean, why not just be honest and say a reprint is coming sometime later in the year (and in the process screw over all those scalpers who were banking on milking their copies on ebay)?

I really am totally tired of the "overhype - sell out - reprint to order" sales model, and that more than anything else has made me stop bothering (again...) with anything GW has been doing in the last year or two. Endless "limited edition" stuff which are models to fill in product gaps, and that people actually want a model for is also not helping (e.g.: why can't we just have even one standard Terminator Chaplain plastic model, instead of two limited release ones? Or a nice Catachan senior officer instead of two limited release ones?).

Anyway, sorry to moan, but I evidently needed to get that off my chest! 

[beefcake]

Yoou're right though. I'd prefer there to be a standard product of those sorts of things.

[FramFramson]

Still no sign of a Blackstone Fortress reprint tho. 

[Grumpy Gnome]

I loathe the secrecy that permeates GW. While I have not worked for them myself, I have enough friends who have. GW makes some products I really like, it has some great artists (in all mediums) but the lack of transparency really bothers me.

It seems to be the same with Mantic and Warlord Games but I do not know anyone well who has worked for them so that is only my outsider impressions.

[McMordain]

Still no sign of a Blackstone Fortress reprint tho. 

You can still buy the base game, but I doubt they will make a reprint of the expansions...

[Diablo Jon]

Fair enough. I prefer the more understated look and aside from the stripy-quilted armour I don't see much resemblance with the Orlock gang.

I have heard some likening them to the old Free Company sprue from Mordheim and I can certainly see a lot of conversion potential, especially with a bit of kit bashing.

Yeah, these guys are filler or conversion fodder and that's not only okay, but quite useful.

I'm surprised that outlander/outcast gang set sold out that quickly. It looks rather bland and uninspired - to me - and only 1 small sprue that you'll get 3 times in that box. I'd expect to get Perps, rag-tag post-apoc wasteland survivors and/or cyberpunk style miniatures than this underdressed Orlockians...  Rather underwhelming, this

Just in case anyone is interested I managed to get my hands on a box of the outcast gang and think they are great little minis. I've converted some to use them in my IG army.







https://diablocrusade.wordpress.com/2021/12/22/the-last-charge/

[Lost Egg]

They look cool. I grabbed two boxes but wasn't so impressed when I built them up. They are still ok and I built a preacher and some militia. I will use the rest of the first box at some point but I will likely sell off the second box.

[beefcake]

I like the source lighting you've done there. The outcasts seem perfect for the IG to me. Impressed.

[Elbows]

I got to glance the outcast sprues at my buddy's place.  Again, I think great conversion fodder, but what struck me as odd...all of the heads suck.  I mean, weirdly, look at the kit - the bodies, arms, guns, etc...all pretty cool.  All of the heads are garbage in that kit.  Luckily that's very easy to replace, but just a weird lack of quality in any of the head sculpts.

[Lost Egg]

They're ok, as always some better than others. The oddest one to me is the head with the spiked hair and then a bald patch on the centre of his head...thats not how baldness works (strangely a receding hairline follows a pattern defo not represented here). One of the oddest things for me is that some of the arms are skinnier than others so while at first it seems like you get the option to mix everything up thats not the case. To me its potential only really comes out when added to other kits.

[jetengine]

GW are legitimately trying to resell the 1998 40k starter set. Madmen.

[Major_Gilbear]

And only three months after I bought a load of old Dark Eldar Warriors on eBay. Sigh. 

I mean, is it so difficult to telegraph some of this stuff in advance a bit more?

[swiftnick]

GW are legitimately trying to resell the 1998 40k starter set. Madmen.

Have you got a link please?
I couldn't find it on the GW site.