The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread

[FramFramson]

Poor old Gavriel Johnson, with his authentic rogue trader gibberish...

"The emperor is a gree*BONG*!"

"What did he say? The emperor is agreeable?"

"No godrum dagnabbit the emperor is a gree*BONG*!"

"The emperor is agreeable!"

[YPU]

the knight: renegade games looks kind of interesting, though I have no intent of buying the actual set. Chances are the rules can be bought online for next to nothing soon enough, and I figure you could play it with epic scale models just as easy. 

[Kitsune]

A knights game? Seriously? 2 knights and some terrain with some rules. Obviously this is just a discount deal for 2 knights. I'd be highly suprised if the rules were any good. And if the rules were any good I can imagine a lot of people just using the old knights from Epic and playing it on a board the size of the Heroquest board.

...Unless these new knights have real firing* weapons and targets on them for little kiddies to aim at with arm popping** action when you hit the target, pew pew.

*Spring loaded
** More spring loaded action

I like the knight model, but never bought one because I didn't want a 40k army to go with it and just one wasn't enough for a force on its own. I wanted to have just Knights duking it out, Robot Jox style. £90 online - split the box with someone and arrange giant robot boxing matches. Gonna be good fun, especially with 6-7 players.

[Elbows]

Yeah that'd be fun...and if the rules are decent, nothing stopping you from kit-bashing other stuff.

[Eric the Shed]

no GW presence at Salute....says it all really..

[stone-cold-lead]

no GW presence at Salute....says it all really..

Weren't Forge World/GW there?

[Charlie_]

Weren't Forge World/GW there?

I think I saw them just to the right of the entrance when you first went in.

But no they weren't really making their presence known.

[von Lucky]

That's... stupid.

Wasn't there a guy in Space Marine suit out the front?

[fastolfrus]

I just take really good care of mine so I don't have to replace them. Cant think of the last time I purchased a brush.

Clean clean clean with water while it is being used as well as afterwards

And occasionally use a drop of hair conditioner.

[throwsFireball]

That's... stupid.

Wasn't there a guy in Space Marine suit out the front?

I think that's a cosplayer, judging by Reddit:

[Vanvlak]

He didn't remove the mould line off his bolter muzzle....

[beefcake]

 

[pixelgeek]

That's... stupid.

I can't imagine a show where they would have less success than Salute.

[Vermis]

I can't imagine a show where they would have less success than Salute.

GW's fervently avoided reference or comparison to other games and minis for years. Salute practically demands it, with many other manufacturers and clubs that are right there, making their own noise.

Not to mention that anyone going to Salute has probably already at least one foot outside the GW ringfence, and are there to look at those other games. I'd say zealous GW fans marked Games Day, and now Warhammer Fest, on their calendars instead.

[Humorous_Conclusion]

Games Workshop stopped having an "official" stand at Salute, outside of Forgeworld, some years ago. I think they figured out that no-one was going to buy anything directly from them when you could get them from half a dozen other stands at a substantial discount. There's still plenty of Games Wokshop buying and selling at Salute, just not actually from Games Workshop.

What was surprising was how quiet the ForgeWorld stand was this year. In previous years it was swamped. Last year they introduced a queuing system, but the queue was huge. This year it was never more than a dozen people. Maybe it was because they didn't bring anything like the full range?