The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread

[Gibby]

Perhaps they have seen how popular the Warhammer/Specialist licensed computer games have been. I doubt it is true and it probably is wishful thinking but I recall that in the early days of the Age of Sigmar rumours I was like "Pff, yeah right!"

[OSHIROmodels]

If it does go ahead then it'll be as a new vision... Newly sculpted figures etc. expect the original figure sculpts to go for even more on eBay 

[Rhoderic]

If it does go ahead then it'll be as a new vision... Newly sculpted figures etc.

I could live with that, if the sculpts aren't all too... you know... "contemporary GW-y".

Although... it's notable that GW has re-released some of the old non-Cadian metal Imperial Guard figures (Tallarns, Valhallans, etc). At least I assume that they've been re-released (that is to say, that they've been OOP for a while), though I can't claim to be sure about that.

At any rate, I'm less confident about the realness of this McCoy now than I was at the time of my last post in this thread. Better just follow the example of others and sit back until the fog has lifted.

[grant]

The "other" Imperial Guard have always been there. Sometimes they've not had the heavy weapons teams though.

I'm not 100% convinced, but it would be cool although likely obscenely expensive if true. Existing vintage versions of all this stuff would potentially skyrocket in price too. That Necromunda hardback (prob. one of my favourites for production value out of this time) would be out of this world.

Besides, Specialist Games was the place great games went to die. It was originally a side venture but it soon became apparent that it was just meant to put it in the corner and forget about it. Jervis couldn't keep it alive.

[YPU]

Like we all have noted licensing of specialist games to computer has been trough the roof of late, so there does appear to be some sort of Specialist awakening at GW. So who is going to buy the inevitable big box boardgame of dark future?

[Rhoderic]

Would you guys please make up your minds about what I should believe! You've got me oscillating like a sine wave

[Tactalvanic]

Don't worry its good excercise, helps keep you healthy and awake.

I think we all definitely agree at this stage that its Australian, a rumour dreams are made of, we can't afford any,  the spelling is bad and we are all appaulingly hopefull, until said hope is bashed against the GW walls of despair, hoplessness and oscilation,

Meanwhile we will all continue to wait/oscilate according to necessity.

[Timbor]

I would probably only be interested in buying up original necromunda or mordheim figs if they are metal.  Considering with the Hobbit releases they were charging over $20 apiece for simple resin characters I can't see them selling too many of the specialist games figures at that price.

[Treebeard]

Can't wait seeing these oldies coming back on the market with a 45% price increased   

[robh]

Would be great to see a re-issue of things like the Chaos Carnival for Mordheim, I have been after a set of those for ages.

[mcfonz]

The local GW store manager (to me) has confirmed this. So it's accurate.

It makes sense to me IMHO. And what they should have been doing for ages. They can put ideas out there and see what the response is. Very much like how the demand of 30k stuff probably suggested that a 30k boxed set was worth a punt.

That said, I really, really hope they do not go back to the last Necromunda sculpts, they were absolutely hideous compared to the originals (Orlock, Ratskins and Goliath although there may have been others as well).

I also wonder if there will be a re-introduction of the 'living' rulebooks or complete re-writings of the rules. Personally, I was a bit miffed when they wrote sustained fire dice out of them as it was an element of chance / chaos that you couldn't be in control of. You could get off a number of shots or jam up your gun. I don't think a massive overhaul of the rules are needed for Necro, everything worked fine in the campaigns I ran.

Bloodbowl sort of makes sense, a pretty nice small and simple board game really.

[3 fingers]

With the mad max film,wonder if dark futures coming back?

[Timbor]

Yep, my local store confirmed it as well. My guess is that they will do it more in box-set all-in-one games rather than reintroducing a whole system.  We can hope they bring back the old figs though, 

[Modhail]

Can't wait seeing these oldies coming back on the market with a 45% price increased   

Still better than the Ebay "RARE OOP" 500%+ price increase! Only if they bring back the good sculpts though (and in a decent material, not that Finecast atrocity).

Mcfonz, seeing how, with the 30K boardgame, GW seems to have gotten over their allergy for specialty dice, one can only hope for the return of sustained fire dice... Love those little cubes of random.

[Streetline]

I hope not. My hobby budget is funded by selling old mostly SG figures on eBay, and "get them before they're available again" doesn't sound so snappy, sales wise!