The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread

[Belligerentparrot]

Right now everyone is roughly on the same level but it's still going to be a real slog for a new player in 2 or 3 years time to make an army for TOW compared to the more freeform army building of AOS.

I'd guess in three years TOW will be mostly done. Not that I have any insider knowledge or anything, TOW just strikes me as the new Necromunda - they'll give it a massive push for 2-3 years, release one big expansion at the end of that time, and then less and less frequent, smaller and smaller, releases like we're seeing with Necromunda. Which does seem to be broadly the pattern of anything that isn't the big 3. Warhammer as you say had problems when it was one of the big 3, but (I would guess) it isn't going to be that this time around.

TWD noted further up the thread that this release is just a play for nostalgia-driven spending, it isn't about making a significantly better game. I agree some of the mini choices are odd given they were complained about at the time, I imagine they're going with what was most cost-effective (for GW, not for us  ) to bring back. But I also imagine the "I hate AoS, GW should never have wiped the Old World" folk will still part with considerable sums of money to own minis they once disliked 

[TWD]

What gets me is the atmosphere around the hype of: "At last we can play Old World WFB battles again!" As if they ever had to stop. But that's the "GW Hobby" for you, I suppose. Encouraged to stick with what's official and supported...

Yes I'm very amused by the folk posting about "finally being able to play Warhammer again" - I've played hundreds of games of Warhammer since AoS came out.

[Gibby]

Yes I'm very amused by the folk posting about "finally being able to play Warhammer again" - I've played hundreds of games of Warhammer since AoS came out.

I thought of your games when I was posting that. 

[Elbows]

It's even more weird with things from companies like GW - which, if they're popular, often generate vast online communities.  Look at the people still playing Mordheim/original Necromunda, etc.  The community resources are vastly superior to normal GW publications, and nowdays you have huge libraries of 3D printable miniatures, etc.

The consensus from some podcasts I listen to was that more people are still playing "old" Necromunda over new Necromunda...simply because the amount of fan-made content, etc.

I know Fantasy had "WAP" and even the large group of people playing Kings of War using GW armies, etc. 

[Daeothar]

When I want to play oldhammer, I will grab the older rules set and go at it.

It has always baffled me that people stop playing certain games or editions, simply because they're no longer officially supported or were surpassed by a new edition.

I mean; they were perfectly good games when they were current, so why not play them anymore when they are the ones you like!

There are currently no competative players in my group (anymore), therefore the need to keep up with what's new and 'official' is completely absent. So why do they still want to play the latest edition, while we all own the old version that we played and loved for so long and were perfectly content with?

Just weird... 

[Tactalvanic]

+1 just what Daeothar just typed.

I kept trying but could not be bothered.

I guess because they are doing it for the next customer catch, I wish them and GW the best.

Same old.

I have old warhammer on the shelf in 3rd Edition flavour - good enough. I have plenty other rules to play with when I wish.

Really does not matter as we all have opinions varied regards the good/bad edition and so on. It'll do.

[Daeothar]

The wonders of 3D printing...

Just browsing the auction sites, as one does, when I came across these beauties:


Marketed as 'Vespa Marines'.

Gave me a right chuckle 

[Tactalvanic]

yup so many people so many varied ideas, and such wonders can be produced

[Onebigriver]

Issue 2 of Combat Patrol is out with three Tyranid Von Ryan's Leapers for £6.99. The boxes of 3 Leapers sell for around £30.

[syrinx0]

The wonders of 3D printing...
Just browsing the auction sites, as one does, when I came across these beauties:

Marketed as 'Vespa Marines'.
Gave me a right chuckle 

Ok. I could buy and paint those. 

[Luigi]

The wonders of 3D printing...

Just browsing the auction sites, as one does, when I came across these beauties:


Marketed as 'Vespa Marines'.

Gave me a right chuckle 

I now need, and I mean NEED dwarfs riding a Vespas and Lambrettas

[Daeothar]

I went back with the intention of buying them and painting them up as Angry Marines, but they were already gone... 

[JollyBob]

Shriner Marines! I love them, please can you post a link?

[Daeothar]

Had to do some searching, as the auction had already disappeared, but I eventually found them through an image search based on the above picture.

They're free models available through Cults3D:

https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/scooter-cosmic-soldiers

Have at it 

[FramFramson]

Angry Marines!  Yes!