The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread

[Vladimir Raukov]

This is probably going to be my only purchase for a while. https://whc-cdn.games-workshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/PeachysPDF.pdf

[Belligerentparrot]

Rogue Trader is £80. That is less painful than I thought it might be!

[grant]

Actually spent some money on a LOTR figure today when I found a mounted Eowyn/on foot metal blister. No finecast will tarnish my table!

[Verderer]

Rogue Trader is £80. That is less painful than I thought it might be!

Is Rogue Trader an independent game/spinoff, or is a campaign set for Killteam?

[TheMightyFlip]

Is Rogue Trader an independent game/spinoff, or is a campaign set for Killteam?

Expansion, Kill Team is required to play, though you do get 40K rules for the two new factions, if you care about that.

[Verderer]

ok, thanks Flip. RT is definitely on my radar

[mcfonz]

Yeah, at £80, I thought it was a tad expensive considering it's not a stand alone game and requires another £20 or whatever for the core book.

At discounted rate it's not too bad I suppose.

[Lost Egg]

Whoa...I thought you got the Kill Team rules with the RT box. That seems a little cheeky.

Oh well, I wasn't interested in those minis anyway.

[AWu]

It is suxy. I dont plan to play it but they should be there instead of these quick start rules...

[Verderer]

I am ok with that, provided the minis are good & it's a good value for the price otherwise.

[AWu]

Minis are great (I am buying it for the minis alone - both teams are great) but value is not that good in comparison with Kill team starter terrain sprues.


 GW would probably want 30+ pounds for each team minimum separately and it have two sprues of Ready-for-Necromunda terrain and decor.
But that pale in comparison to 50+% off in the original set.

[Lost Egg]

I was looking through the new WD earlier and I started wondering if GW will do smaller starter sets for MESBG? I've not interest in painting large armies like Pelennor Fields but a couple of smaller skirmish forces might be fun.

[Chico]

Getting rather tempted to jump in on the new Middle Earth game honestly as it's quite nostalgic for me.

I was GW Staff when the Fellowship of the Ring game came out and had painted a few of the sets for the Watford store so I'm thinking about grabbing some now and seeing how badly my painting has changed in the last 15 or more years .

[Coenus Scaldingus]

I was looking through the new WD earlier and I started wondering if GW will do smaller starter sets for MESBG? I've not interest in painting large armies like Pelennor Fields but a couple of smaller skirmish forces might be fun.

You mean like the getting started boxes they have for their other games? The main limitation is that those sets only contain plastics, a playable army requires characters to lead it, and there are very few plastic character miniatures in the range (just a handful of named ones and some boxes have the option to build captains). Although there will be more plastic characters in the future apparently. Of course, a small starter for this game just means one or two boxes of troops really - a box of 24 warriors and one of 6 cavalry gives you a very playable force. One more box and you've got a fully fledged army in many cases.

If by skirmish you mean a dozen figures a side, the Battle Companies system may be of interest - it's SBG's version of Mordheim, using the standard rules and profiles for the game, with a campaign/experience system added on. Single sprue of most warrior types will get you a starting warband (with spares); add a single blister of each of the faction elites and you're set for a full campaign.

[Cubs]

I was GW Staff when the Fellowship of the Ring game came out and had painted a few of the sets for the Watford store so I'm thinking about grabbing some now and seeing how badly my painting has changed in the last 15 or more years .

I remember entering a painting contest at the Cardiff GW store about 15 years ago - before I started painting for money. I painted the Boromir with the horn model and handed it in for the contest. When I went to collect it, the staff looked all embarrassed and said they'd entered it into the kids competition by mistake … in consolation they said it won easily. I felt very odd about that whole experience. I forget what the prize was, a crappy Warhammer novel I think.