The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread

[Lost Egg]

Yeah, thats not strictly true as these aren't full codexes so you need both Codex Marines and the Chapter Codex.

I can see both the good and bad points of doing it like this but as I don't play 8th Ed its no skin off my nose. Besides, I dislike playing SCs so wouldn't get one anyway.

I would be intrigued to hear if there is any clear indication of chapter organisation for a full Primaris Chapter as at the moment that range still seems like its missing some key options.

[AWu]

His hobby isn't Games Workshop games. His hobby is complaining about Games Workshop games.

He got me unprepared

BTW due to some unknown glitch in new and otherwise very cool Necromunda expansion (there are rules for use robot from Blackstone Fortes as a black market Brute for example)
- The Enforcers (Neo-abitrators) cannot use nor buy their most trademark item - manacles
There was even Community article about top 5 Enforcer equipment listing Manacles as Top 2 IIRC

But somehow they are only gang that cannot buy them in the rules and every other gang can buy them on black market 

Necromunda groups are puzzled and I find it very hilarious 

[Lost Egg]

That is tragically hilarious...and entirely in keeping with GWs rules writing

[armchairgeneral]

I noticed my local Games Workshop in Chester has changed it's shop front to Warhammer. Is this part of a company name change?

Just curious. As a historical wargamer, I only buy the odd pot of paint or other modelling items from them occasionally.

[Lost Egg]

All new shops are called Warhammer and the old shops have their name changed when they get refurbished. I think its a very slow roll out for a company wide name change. No idea how long it will take but likely in the end Games Workshop will be known only as Warhammer.

[zemjw]

The main (possibly only) Edinburgh store changed its name a couple of years ago. I'd assumed they would rebrand all the stores at once, quite surprised to hear they haven't.

[Lost Egg]

Maybe its a cost thing as they only tend to do old stores when they refurbish. I suppose that way they don't need to worry about confusing people as they change has enough time to filter through to the community with little to no effort.

[Chico]

The Watford store changed names last week and as far I know (Yet to go inside only walked past) it's haven't had a refurb.

Not keen on the name change to be honest but then again when I worked there the amount of people calling the store thinking it was ''Game'' was rather annoying so all down too name recognition and all that.

[TheMightyFlip]

All new GW products have Warhammer on the spine instead of GW.

Stumpy marines are still getting released in the blind box single figure packs, Series 2 is Terminators and is out in September.

[mcfonz]

Yeah, thats not strictly true as these aren't full codexes so you need both Codex Marines and the Chapter Codex.

It's bang on true. 3rd ed had exactly the same set up. With a main vanilla marine dex and then supplementary dex for each specialist chapter.

I mentioned 2nd ed because each chapter needed it's own specialist book apart from Angels of death which had two chapters in it. Not the same, I agree.

So it has been done before is all I was pointing out. Which is true.

He got me unprepared

BTW due to some unknown glitch in new and otherwise very cool Necromunda expansion (there are rules for use robot from Blackstone Fortes as a black market Brute for example)
- The Enforcers (Neo-abitrators) cannot use nor buy their most trademark item - manacles

I wouldn't say it is their most trademark item. I would suggest shock batons would be those. Or the combat shotguns and bolters of old. It is also not entirely true.

There was even Community article about top 5 Enforcer equipment listing Manacles as Top 2 IIRC

But somehow they are only gang that cannot buy them in the rules and every other gang can buy them on black market 

Necromunda groups are puzzled and I find it very hilarious 

As with a lot of things these days, folks like to jump to conclusions before the read through stuff properly and flake out over it.

They don't have manacles but they have access to a drill that replaces the Coup de Grace action with one that removes a model from play in close combat like they had succumbed to a webber attack. That is to say they have been hogtied and prepped for collection to be taken off by the law. So essentially, they have been manacled. For the purposes of the rules it does exactly the same thing as models that have been webbed in the post game sequence.

This is exactly what the manacle rules do. So I suspect what they are saying here is that they either follow a code of killing on sight or they try to arrest. Which fluff wise makes more sense to me.

Either your police force is going to shoot first and worry about prisoners when they find someone still skulking around after, or they will seek to cuff and detain folks at the first opportunity to do so.

[mcfonz]

The Watford store changed names last week and as far I know (Yet to go inside only walked past) it's haven't had a refurb.

Not keen on the name change to be honest but then again when I worked there the amount of people calling the store thinking it was ''Game'' was rather annoying so all down too name recognition and all that.

Yeah - this. I worked for them back in '98 as a 16 year old. We used to get calls for poker sets, backgammon sets etc.

Couple that with the fact that both main games include the word 'Warhammer' in their titles, as do some of the specialist/box games (warhammer Quest etc). And that the majority of folk not in the hobby use the term 'warhammer' to identify it. I have even known people to as "are those warhammers?" - it's what the company is famous for. It makes sense.

It's a bit like people using 'hoover' as a descriptive term when vacuuming is the term and Hoover just happened to be an incredibly popular brand. That then adapted to "I'm doing the hoovering".

[JamesValentine]

So the actual police of 40k cannot buy handcuffs...
Wow...just wow.

Thank god you don't pay a premium for amateurish trash right?...

[AWu]

As with a lot of things these days, folks like to jump to conclusions before the read through stuff properly and flake out over it.

They don't have manacles but they have access to a drill that replaces the Coup de Grace action with one that removes a model from play in close combat like they had succumbed to a webber attack. That is to say they have been hogtied and prepped for collection to be taken off by the law. So essentially, they have been manacled. For the purposes of the rules it does exactly the same thing as models that have been webbed in the post game sequence.

Not really
Restraining protocols skill is very different to Magnacles.
Its coup de grace action wth +1 to capture result
 vs
combat action that do not remove enemy from the battlefield but block movement and give penalty to combat
Fun fact magnacles are described as being used by arbitrators and Enforcers

And there was this..
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/08/02/palanite-enforcers-kit-focusgw-homepage-post-2fw-homepage-post-3/

Super hillarious.

[Condottiere]

I share your resentment for the rest of the statue (it would be great in place of walls ad IMHO muli levels are overrated in this game - it happened sporadically in my gaming and only when somebody could deploy above the ground floor) but I love the lone head..

kinda Age of Zardoz

On a side note I started to make statue that Steelheart champions have on the bsse (again head only

Needs more boobies...

Have you considered using the tumbled heads from Mount Nemrut, the Colossus of Constantine  or the various other colossi as references or would these be too historical for your liking?

[Condottiere]

All new shops are called Warhammer and the old shops have their name changed when they get refurbished. I think its a very slow roll out for a company wide name change. No idea how long it will take but likely in the end Games Workshop will be known only as Warhammer.

The Brookline store has been called Warhammer from the get-go...

Went there on opening day, October 15, 2016, to pick up Gorechosen...