The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread

[FramFramson]

Haha, that's incredible.

[matthais-mouse]

...Meanwhile, I've only just discovered this rich little vein of joy ore:
https://09cd64678bddc0198cca7fef0df8ce7b359fff2d.googledrive.com/host/0B3Z9sXPTD9rpN2owNGdVWmdFWXM/agp.html
I'm sure it's been passed around here before, but that is awesome, and it's made me an IG fan. Apparently just in time for the IG to get JJ'd out of existence.

I really enjoyed that and very inspirational, oddly enough haha.
Its what really makes me worry about what GW are doing to their customers, there loyal bloody customers....

[Andrew May]

Momotaro, YPU: 9th ed is rumoured to have a smaller model count, somewhere around God of Battles or ranked-up-40K I think, so it's assumed this is the skirmish game with a smaller buy-in cost. Personally, I'm not even opposed to the idea of orbiting universes (for the old fluff, as the apocryphal author said: "all my books are still here on the shelf, they're fine"), though I don't know if I trust GW to pull it off, same as I don't really trust them to write good rules for it or make it actual good value for money.

And yeah, that Microsoft example sounds familiar.

I wouldn't count on "ranked up" with round bases!

[Vermis]

Looks like it might be just characters and war machines on round bases, as unit attachments. But... we'll see when 9th ed explodes onto the scene, or flops on the carpet like a dead halibut.

[Tactalvanic]

mmmmm dead halibut... that would be good.

Cheaper than a GW product and if its fresh enough you at least get a meal out of it.

[Major_Gilbear]

I wouldn't count on "ranked up" with round bases!

Why not? It lets them sell all those LOTR base trays!

[Tactalvanic]

Why not? It lets them sell all those LOTR base trays!

With a suitable price hike, repackaging and re-invention as completely new product for the latest edition of Warhammer of course - at least then something from the LotR range will survive the abandonment...

Sounds too much like a good idea though, don't see them going with it.., more likely to go with round base converters, so you can put the round base in a square shaped one, and then rank them up in the existing style of movement tray..

Lets see wait and see what they come up with....

[Andrew May]

I've just remembered an obscure bit of WH fluff....
....weren't the ancient Dragon Ogres supposed to awaken at the end of the world to do battle? I assume that was forgotten? Would have been ace...

Edit: http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?406276-Dragon-Ogres-in-End-Times
It wasn't just me then.

[weismonsters]

Very good point. There was definitely some kind of dragon ogre Ragnarok mentioned in The Lost and the Damned. This adds further weight to the theory that it was all a dream.

I not read any of the warhammer books. Does the chaos toilet feature in any of them? I would like to think that it does.

[zemjw]

Ah, the Chaos Toilet and the Up The Wall Crew - not sure what GW were smoking back in those days, but it must have been the good stuff 

[beefcake]

Yes a mountain-sized Dragon Ogre would have been an excellent addition to end times. I don't know why they didn't they are all into big minis at the moment.

[Tactalvanic]

There's still plenty of time left in their end of times to shove one in.

Multi-part kit, that makes one of three different versions (e.g. different skulz/heads) of it 

[Dr Mathias]

There's some interesting rumors about an official (that is to say GW proper, not Forge World) Adeptus Mechanicus release- there are leaked photos of a White Dwarf with 'All Hail Mars' written in binary.

Might get me buying...

[Duke Donald]

They weren't bluffing; they really blew up the Warhammer world. Somewhat oddly this leaves me quite indifferent but I'm curious to see the reaction on Warseer.

[Vermis]

Dr. Mathias: gotta say that sounds interesting, but I can't help but wonder how much the price tags will curb that enthusiasm.

Duke: levels of denial that send the PKE readings off the chart, I imagine.