Author Topic: The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread (Read 1742340 times)

beefcake · « **Reply #2790 on:** March 06, 2015, 07:42:07 PM »

Yep, one and the same. Price hasn't increased much at all either, however Iid it had bee sold through GW this would be at least £30

http://www.solegends.com/citdragon/drag1zombie/index.htm
http://www.ralparthaeurope.co.uk/shop/ral-partha-fantasy-c-37/heroes-and-horrors-c-37_38/01140-zombie-dragon-p-3247.html

Chico · « **Reply #2791 on:** March 06, 2015, 11:52:25 PM »

Aye it is one the and same, RP and Citadel used to share a few licences in the 80's such as the Trogs and Lizardmen. You never know they may get a re-release at some point

Vermis · « **Reply #2792 on:** March 14, 2015, 01:23:49 PM »

So... any discussion about how they finally blew up the Warhammer World?

Linked 'cos of size

Did anyone even notice?

Storm Wolf · « **Reply #2793 on:** March 14, 2015, 02:50:05 PM »

M`mm definite bullcrap, but looks ripe for a mixup with 40K but who the hell knows? or cares?

Oldhammer all the way for me baby

Glen

Diakon · « **Reply #2794 on:** March 14, 2015, 04:43:05 PM »

Quote from: Vermis on March 14, 2015, 01:23:49 PM

So... any discussion about how they finally blew up the Warhammer World?

Linked 'cos of size

Did anyone even notice?

What is that from?

FramFramson · « **Reply #2795 on:** March 14, 2015, 06:46:55 PM »

Well, someone has to post the obvious.

beefcake · « **Reply #2796 on:** March 14, 2015, 08:19:43 PM »

Makes me feel sad and disappointed that the world that made me interested in miniature wargames has been destroyed. I'd write something a bit harsher but it's a family friendly site.

Vermis · « **Reply #2797 on:** March 14, 2015, 08:29:34 PM »

Fram:

Yep, I've seen that one doing the rounds.

Quote from: Diakon on March 14, 2015, 04:43:05 PM

What is that from?

The last page from the last Warhammer: End Times book, apparently. The Archaon one, I think. Setting up for the new background, rules and minis for Warhammer 9th ed.

Modhail · « **Reply #2798 on:** March 14, 2015, 08:32:33 PM »

They had such an awesome world (I'm going through the old Gotrek and Felix and Guenevieve novels currently, lovely stuff. Nice and dark and irreverend), first they filed off the rough edges, then everything got sandblasted with a mix of skulls and OTT. Finally they blow it up.

Such a waste, and ignoble end.
The old Old World was a great, compelling setting, whose loss I've lamented for several years already.

The current (soon to be previous) setting is, to me, a piece of excrement polished to a mirror sheen, and good riddance I say. I'm just afraid what, with the current crop of typewriter-monkeys they have now, the new setting will be like.
Either way, I'll just keep gaming/adventuring in the setting I like best, the Old Old World...

beefcake · « **Reply #2799 on:** March 14, 2015, 08:34:17 PM »

Fantasy space marines and the rest. Just like 40k minus the fantasy.

Vladimir Raukov · « **Reply #2800 on:** March 15, 2015, 12:01:42 PM »

Quote from: beefcake on March 14, 2015, 08:34:17 PM

Fantasy space marines and the rest. Just like 40k minus the fantasy.

Um..so it's just like 40K then?

Also, forgive me for being a smidge out of the loop, but how badly have they kerploded it all up?

Edit: Just checked the previous page. I was expecting a little deus ex machina, but...oh dear...

Cubs · « **Reply #2801 on:** March 15, 2015, 12:17:03 PM »

I'm writing my own ending. It goes something like, "Bobby Ewing woke up in the shower and realised it was all a dream."

It all reminds me of a child who has ballsed up a picture or a piece of writing and then decides to rip all the paper up instead of trying to make it right.

Vermis · « **Reply #2802 on:** March 15, 2015, 02:33:09 PM »

Vlad: Yup! They kerploded it good. All except for that one glowy crumb that becomes the seed for whatever comes next. Little pocket universes inhabited by steampunk races, oscillating in the void and spilling their occupants together in savage conflict when they collide, by all accounts.
(The lizardmen got a head start from the looks of things, when the Slann said 'we're gone' and the temple cities lifted off into space... although it's not yet certain if lizardmen is one if those old races that gets cut.)

Cubs: yeah, that's pretty much GW's problem. Nobody buying your game? It's the customer's fault! It's the game's fault! Get rid of it.

Vanvlak · « **Reply #2803 on:** March 15, 2015, 02:42:19 PM »

The current Games Workshop doesn't deserve Warhammer, just as Warhammer doesn't deserve the fate settled on it by Games Workshop.

Modhail · « **Reply #2804 on:** March 15, 2015, 04:40:46 PM »

Too true, Vanvlak!

Vermis, the list of factors GW has blamed over the years for their games not doing well is, well, unusual to say the least:
-Beer
-Girls
-Motorcycles
-the Internets
-computer games
-International trade with the southern hemisphere
-bits sellers
-third party products
-long term customers
-having a high profile and and lucrative franchise during its peak of popularity

Absolutely without blame in their eyes:
-Games Workshop
-GW pricing strategy
-their handling of their own IP
-the (lack of) quality in their rules and background writing.
-total isolation from their fan and customer base. (With, bizarrely, an increasingly large lack of overlap between fans and customers; more and more fans have ceased being customers...)

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