The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread

[has.been]

Not for me even if they were cheaper

I agree.

[beefcake]

I'd be interested in the sci fi snakeman, but only if it were metal. And not at that price.

[Elbows]

Yeah, at a glance I thought they were all failcast, and that's why I assumed they were going to move to something like Siocast to replace it, so they can stop going through a half dozen boxes at the store to find one that isn't awful.  (Yes, that's what they do when you buy finecast in person, ).

[NotifyGrout]

So buying Imperium per-issue here in the States does not seem to be viable.

The local Barnes and Noble carries them, but someone buys up all of the Necron stuff (and the rarer Marine items like the Issue 11 Librarian, which would have been fun to paint) before I ever even see it.

There's a local store that I've bought a couple of issues from, and I'm sure they'd gladly pre-order just the ones I wanted...but they haven't heard anything from their distributors about Imperium since issue 5

I guess I either need to subscribe and later become a hypocrite, selling off the excess later, or just not worry about it. It's almost as if this is by design 

[Elbows]

Pretty common unfortunately - I've seen a lot of reports of employees buying them up and flipping them on eBay etc.  Not something I find terribly surprising.

[Lost Egg]

I found the same things happens with GW store exclusives on their birthdays. I wanted to grab a copy of the Eldar sketchbook, got their early but it was already gone, claimed by a staff member.

[Verderer]

Well, I am getting my copy of Cursed City today, the local game shop is finally getting the new batch

[Verderer]

And the minis are nice, the reason I got the game mostly, but I have to say that the graphics on those map tiles look a bit rough? I've seen much better ones in older games, what gives?

[Elbows]

I think you're just seeing the result of modern digital art.  For something like a board game that most people are just buying for the minis - they're skimping hard on the art.  It's a little weird because the art on the Dungeon Bowl stuff looks pretty solid (from what I can see) as it's basically a copy of the old WHQ tiles from the orginal game in the 90's.

I have found the majority of GW art in the latest stuff I own to be very...underwhelming?  I think they put out so much product they're just blazing through digital artists work, and it shows.  I admit I miss the classic Mark Gibbons style stuff.  There's plenty of brilliant fan art out there though

[Verderer]

I dunno, it may well be, although the drawings LOOK hand drawn, only a bit rough? Another thing I can't understand about the art is the box cover, it's really rather underwhelming two colour thing, more like a sketch than anything... who thought that was a good idea? Maybe I just don't like the artists' style, but to me it seems poor art-direction.

[Vanvlak]

Well the Squat League of Votann trikes are here! I never thought THAT would happen. No wheels, though, and I am trying to decide whether it's for the better or not, currently thinking 'yay' not 'nay'.

[Belligerentparrot]

I wasn't expecting a hover trike either! It fits in with the old gyrocopters and airships I think - it seems like a Squattish machine.

Personally, I'm most impressed with the new Chaos Cultists. A much improved version of the Blackstone Fortress ones!

[FramFramson]

All the new Chaos sets look pretty damned good. The Possessed Marines in particular are really great too.

[Lost Egg]

The face on the new Daemon Prince is awful but the rest look good, in fact the new possessed kinda put me in mind of the classic Chaos Renegades, all twisted by the warp.

[Elbows]

I'm indifferent on the Squat bike, leaning toward not liking it.

Chaos stuff is exceptionally Chaos, though GW continues to make models I can't see most people painting competently.  The cultist aesthetic is decent, not sure I like it more than the older scrappier dudes.  Matches the BSF expansion box more or less 100% style-wise.

The Chaos spawn/possessed stuff will look 100x better when someone paints them properly grim dark.  I think GW's "box art" painting style doesn't do anything useful with models like that.  If ThirdEyeNuke was still painting, I'd love seein his palette/style on the Chaos gribbly bits.

I'm to the point though where I'd rather they ditch Chaos Space Marines as a faction, and rather go full bore on a full Chaos faction, which can take a smattering of powerful, 10,000+ year old veterans.  I know it won't happen because marines sell, even spikey ones.  I'd just much rather see waves of Chaos beastman, traitor guard, etc. then just...space marines with spikes, etc.