The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread

[Momotaro]

Thats it, I'm sticking to Oldhammer.

Or 8th Edition, as we currently call it.

[Timbor]

Does the Stormfiend on the left really have a gatling gun coming out of his chest, or is that just some awexxome armour platez or something?

[Modhail]

You know, once upon a time I really, really enjoyed the (main) GW games. First I started liking the rules less and less as they changed them, then I started liking the models less and less, the only thing that kept me interested and looking longingly at GW's offerings over the years was their rich and expansive setting (even if most of it was appropriated and mashed up from elsewhere) and now they seem poised to dump that in the shredder. The very IP GW themselves claim is their biggest asset?! 
It seems to me, that GW have finally found an orbital bombardment cannon and are in the process of aiming it squarely at their feet...

Scariest thing to me is, if this turns out to be less than a total catastrophe for WFB, 40K will await the same treatment.
These developments (and their potential consequences/backlash) do shed a new light on Kirby's choice to depart the company now... Something with rodents and seagoing vessels. 

[Barbarian]

Does the Stormfiend on the left really have a gatling gun coming out of his chest, or is that just some awexxome armour platez or something?

He has.

I want to cry.

Quick, I'll have a look at my 90's Dark elves army on the shelf, taking dust.

I don't feel better.

[Vermis]

If they all end up on different planets in the aftermath of the apocalypso how do the races then get at each other to warhammer?

Apparently the bubbles of reality collide with eachother, spilling their occupants together, and that's how a fight is born. And afterwards... pfff. I dunno.

Which is what confuses me.  Business startups are told to find their niche and charge "bespoke" prices rather than compete with the big companies that can always undercut them.  But GW ARE the big company in the field!  Why are they retreating from ANY competition?  Why are they copying the model of one of their smaller competitors?

If I had a pound every time I saw someone tearing their hair out trying to understand GW's business plan... Tom Kirby would nick my idea and make another fortune.

GW wants £95 for a UNIT of nine Skaven riflemen

I only just noticed myself.

Or 8th Edition, as we currently call it.

[beefcake]

Oh... Only  $300 for a unit of nine miniatures. What a deal. Guess I'd better go and buy 100+ miniatures from elsewhere for that price.

[FramFramson]

Christ, that's £10.55 a figure! For rank-and-file!

[Constable Bertrand]

This is grim dark news indeed.

I am not optemistic that this is a ruse, as the 'buy new limited edition' models seems very in line with current policy. As does 'remove anything that is similar to normal fantasy/history'.

My hopes of a few bretonnian models and a rule book have cracked in half.


Matt.

[Modhail]

Yeah, I was hoping for a Bretonnian update as well. I guess that's out the window.

I was just wondering, if these rumours turn out to be true, will we have to start posting our warhammer figures in the post-apocalypse board?

[Vanvlak]

Yeah, I was hoping for a Bretonnian update as well. I guess that's out the window.

I was just wondering, if these rumours turn out to be true, will we have to start posting our warhammer figures in the post-apocalypse board?

 

This is speculation, but I wonder which races will get offed.
Bretonnians seem (regrettably) to be in the running to get the chop: although they could be absorbed into the human group I doubt they would retain their flavour.
Lizardmen, I'd guess - who would they go with?
All undead and all elves would become batches (so goodbye wood elves?)....

[Too Bo Coo]

Night goblins?

[Too Bo Coo]

And with all due respect to member sensibilities, GW at this point totally friggin sucks butt!

[Tactalvanic]

I dont get it. I am not saying you guys are lying but you must realise how insane this all sounds. So they know something we don't?

Its not just any insane

Its GW insane.

But based on the amount the rumors that have gotten a bit of it right, the latest nuts releases for skaven etc, it does look like GW want to take WHFB to a place were they can say "this is ours its not generic cease and desist"

Ok that to be honest is fine by me, go for it. But I am sorry, the prices are insane. I am not about to pay £90 quid - over a tenner a mini for plastic toy soldiers!

I am English, and eccentric but I am not that insane 

Overall if enough of this is true, in combination with their standard "model" of business, namely hike the price every minute and drop the number of models, its an impossible game to play.

If in addition which seems likely with such sweeping changes it precedes the arrival of a new starter box set, what kind of insane price will that land at, £250?

If so you will likely only get 12 minis for each side!

and whats the point of a nine mini box? Same with the laughable 3 plastic skellies in a box they have been doing for years it seems now - argghhh I need a padded cell to bounce around in for a while.

They can have it after me.

[Momotaro]

Christ, that's £10.55 a figure! For rank-and-file!

In the interests of fairness, it's a team of 2 on a base. Does that help any?

No me neither 

[Too Bo Coo]

I suspect in a year or two the conversation will be,  "Remember GW that company that folded?  They used to make great stuff int he 90's..."