The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread

[nic-e]

Man, GW are really doing awesome stuff now. I am pretty damn excited for this. Post-Apoc/2000AD fans should be too; multipart plastic gangers!

Fingers crossed for my old Ratskin buddies returning!

The poster they were giving out looks to face a ratskin on it.

[Nord]

Finally! I love those figures, looking really promising. I know a lot of you guys have been stoked by GW recently, but much of what they have done had been meh for me. I mean, come on, recyling space marines by making them bigger, boxes of skulls, and the AOS sigmarines - talk about self parody. I wanted to like Blood Bowl, prices were decent for a change, but the sculpts somehow did not do it for me. But now, fingers crossed, these look far, far better. I will definitely keep an eye on this. I won't be frothing like the fanboyz, but I am interested. A decent small scale skirmish game ripped off from based on Mad Max/Judge Dredd would be a good thing I reckon.

[Mr Brown]

A decent small scale skirmish game based on Judge Dredd is what youre after? Did you ever consider the Judge Dredd game?

It is actually really good...

Anyhoo, yeah this should bring in much more players if done well. The chat on twitter seems to be 6 gangs available on release with outlanders to follow and 'new' gangs following that. I'm not overly fussed on the new sculpts but hoping they price around the same as the BloodBowl teams they recently released. Scenery will no doubt be a key sale for GW now.

I'd hope for a decent volume of rules to be available and echo the dismay at the limited run hype GW plumps for. No surer way to turn people into keyboard warriors than to limit the amount of product to create more hype. Using the old excuse of underestimating demand doesnt cut it when youve used it for over a decade...

[Andrew Rae]

I wonder how much teeth gnashing there will be about the figure size. Those Escher look to be around the size of the recent Sisters of Silence i.e. pretty bloody tall!

[nic-e]

I wonder how much teeth gnashing there will be about the figure size. Those Escher look to be around the size of the recent Sisters of Silence i.e. pretty bloody tall!

Eschers are on 25mm bases according the the painter ,where the goliaths are on 32mm.

I don't mind these guys being a little taller in exchange for more detail and stylish garb, 40k's scale is all over the place anyway so the bits will still work with enough other stuff.

Did people really think the SoS are too tall? I think they're some of gw's best proportioned minis in a while.(plus bare in mind they were being made alongside custodes and primaris, so there would have been some future proofing going on.)


Also:
From LittlePlasicSoldiers

"We have an info dump of information for you from speaking to the amazing Specialist Games veteran designer Andy Hoare at The Forge World Open Day 2017.

So we are broadly looking at a game based on the 8th Edition 40k mechanics, but tailored to skirmish warfare. We see the edition of Action Points, that can be used to active gangers in a similar way to how Space Hulk works. Different actions will cost different points, such as activating a Heavy will cost two Action Points, whereas your run of the mill Ganger will cost only one.

We are looking at a release schedule much like BloodBlowl, this is the ‘Preview’, launch of the initial box set will follow in the same sort of timescale as from when BloodBowl was ‘Previewed’ then launched.

The box itself will contain the Escher and Goliath gangers we have seen already, the rules, accoutrements and most likely Shadow War terrain. The Specialist Games studio do not have the resources to produce terrain solely for Necromunda, so they are trail blazing the Shadow War release with all the cool terrain that was released with that boxed set, and subsequently in individual kits until present. The rules will allow for play in the way we are used to on gangways, ramps and gantries, but also in tunnels making use of the Zone Mortalis tiles available from Forge World.

We will see all the gangs from Hive Primus return, along with the gangs from Outlanders and Fanatic. We will also see new gangs and some expansion of the fluff on Necromunda.

HIVE SECONDUS was written about in the Fanatic days, a Hive overrun by Genstealer cult, nuked by the Necromunda Defence Forces to rid the planet of the infestation. However, the hive toppled on its side with most of the Cultists surviving resulting in the Defence Forces building a large trench system in the surrounding Ash Wastes to isolate the remains of the Hive from the rest f the planet. It is hinted we will be visiting this intreaging story in the future!

We will be posting updates as we get them!"

[3 fingers]

Those are quite nice,I started doing some with historical/fantasy28mm as didn't want pay the prices some necromunda figures are fetching.still got the rules an outlander supplement in loft.

[Redmao]

Looking forward to what will come out for the game.

[Elbows]

My only concern with the use of SWA terrain is that the game needs far more to play reasonably.  The SWA box, while a good deal, was nowhere near enough to play an actual game on a legitimate table.  Necromunda is in the same vein.  Not a big deal as I look forward to eventually doing a full table for SWA/Necromunda/40K etc...but it's a consideration of the limitation of the cool plastics.

[Andrew May]

Jesus wept I think I'm going to go all in on this. Haven't been this excited about a release in years nay decades.

Gorkamorka next please?

[3 fingers]

HMM still waiting to see if dark future gets rereleased.

[Dr. Zombie]

I am definitely intrigued by this. Figures look rather nice.

[Dr Mathias]

Genestealer Cults, Mechanicus, Necromunda... I have to admit to being slightly amazed at what the design studio is putting out. Might as well mention Shadow War and Gangs of Commoragh, whuch appear to be side projects but they're fun games none-the-less.

[YPU]

Genestealer Cults, Mechanicus, Necromunda... I have to admit to being slightly amazed at what the design studio is putting out. Might as well mention Shadow War and Gangs of Commoragh, whuch appear to be side projects but they're fun games none-the-less.

If anything those side projects are what get me. Does anybody remember the age that the GW website was full of mini games? Skaven pit fights with rat ogres and other mutant beasts, chariot races etc. Those were the the golden days in my rose intend nostalgia goggles.

[Derek H]

Necromunda is back baby! More info and two escher and goliath sculpts in the link!

www.warhammer-community.com/2017/08/13/breaking-news-necromunda-returnsgw-homepage-post-1/

Am I the only person who prefers the original miniatures (metals not the plastics) to these new ones. 

The new ones seem overly detailed and fussy, just like most of GW's recent stuff.   

[Major_Gilbear]

Hmm, I think it may be a slightly unfair comparison given that we've not really "seen" the full model kits yet, and also keeping in mind that are painted versions are not from the 'Eavy Metal team.

The features and details that I've seen so far look very encouraging I think.