The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread

[Argonor]

And the second half of the year is always going to be higher than the first, thanks to Christmas sales, unless something has REALLY gone wrong.

Yeah, but funnily enough they don't count December in those 6-months reports 

[FramFramson]

Oh that's odd. I always thought quarterly meant quarterly. Well never mind then.

[beefcake]

I imagine if they do change to warhammer bubbles they will see a profit from the old geezers ie. Us, buying the last of what we want from GW before it goes under.

[Cubs]

Typically, Crimbo retail sales tend to be 30%-ish of total annual sales, but with the GW business model who knows?

[Too Bo Coo]

Well, this is unexpected news.....

http://www.beastsofwar.com/warhammer-fantasy/creative-assembly-accidently-announce-total-war-warhammer/

[Too Bo Coo]

LMFAO, errr warhammer based total war has been out for years. Look up call of warhammer. Good to see they finally realised its a money maker.

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?1377-Call-of-Warhammer

massive total war fan here but only when its been modded to within an inch of its life.

There is a very good lord of the rings (movie version) mod as well.

Hmm, I wonder if my mac version mods....

[beefcake]

I'd be into that. I remember playing call of warhammer and finding it extremely hard to gain money in it and I had to use cheats (which I detest doing) to end up with any money to make units. Maybe it was buggy then and they gave it a reboot.

[beefcake]

Yeah. It's pretty easy to make money in the normal unmodded total war. Maybe I'll give it a go some time again. Then again, official game coming out might be better. Might not as well.

[Major_Gilbear]

Weird that I feel sad to see WHFB 8th go... 

Whilst there are still a few models that I'd like to buy, their prices have made this super-difficult and I doubt I'll bother to get them now.

The "new" stuff just leaves me cold in design terms - and the new prices? Absurd. Really, you can justify the prices any way you like, but I don't have £60 to sling at models that are so huge and delicate that I cannot realistically play games with them. That goes double when I look at what other models and games I can get for £60.

I was really looking forward to the new Skaven Vermin Lord, but after seeing the End Of Times rubbish models, I wasn't hopeful. Seeing the actual VL kit now just confirms what I was dreading in design and cost terms. So, yet another model that I wanted but won't be buying now. Well done GW, well done. 

[Vermis]

This might be the week's head cold and the subsequent drugs talking, but I quite like these and don't think the price is
completely nuts.



http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/New_Stuff

[FramFramson]

I love love love the design of that particular line of automatons.

They are still QUITE expensive though!

[von Lucky]

They are nice.

This was just referred to me:

www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/01/16/holy-ships-battlefleet-gothic-armada-announced

Holy Ships: Battlefleet Gothic – Armada Announced



Cathedral ships, ahoy! Focus Interactive have announced that they will publish a real-time strategy adaptation of Games Workshop’s Battlefleet Gothic. Armada is already in development and we’ll be taking a closer look in very near future but the first details emerged moments ago. Fleets will be drawn from four forces – Imperial, Chaos, Eldar and Ork – and ships will be fully customisable, from their weaponry to support sub-systems. Admirals and crew will gain experience from one battle to the next, but the initial press release doesn’t contain any details regarding campaign or mission structure. Giant images await below, in the Warp.

Click to see the full majesty of the pics, including the one at the top of the article.





These ships really couldn’t be any more goth, could they? Sure, you could add eyeliner and big hair but that would cross the gothic streams and we’d end up with Robert Smith measuring out space for a flamboyant arch around his bedroom niche.

Developers Tindalos Interactive have previous in the space-based RTS space, most notable with Stellar Impact, which pleased Brendan back in 2012.

I had a brief dalliance with tabletop Battlefleet back in the day, as I did with most things Games Workshop. Weirdly, despite my preference for dark futures, I preferred Man O’ War, mainly because I knew a couple of people who had stacks o’ ships for use in its seafaring skirmishes. As is usually the case with 40k, I love the aesthetics but I don’t remember the specifics of the ruleset well enough to intelligently ponder how much will be jettisoned in the move to computerised realtime. I’m looking forward to finding out though and will tell you all about it in due course.

More confirmation the cats will just let the IP feed them.

[FramFramson]

Yep. They're farming everything over to computer gaming.

[thenamelessdead]

Just had a look at the new Skaven models and was overwhelmed by a cheesy pong emanating from my device. Anyone else experience this?

[Momotaro]

This might be the week's head cold and the subsequent drugs talking, but I quite like these and don't think the price is
completely nuts.

Got my first Forge World model at the end of last year - split a pack of Vorax Automata.  A lovely detailed model and a good clean sculpt.  Those Thrallax look amazing too.

Go for it, models of that quality DEMAND to be built and painted!

Fallen in love with the Anvil Industries resins too - some really lovely stuff out there in resin at the moment.  if I was a better painter, I'd be all over the Hasslefree resin masters.  That's an expensive hobby though... I'm looking at Forge World now and thinking... hmm, Magos is cool, maybe some Beaky Marines, Verminlord...