The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread

[Tactalvanic]

No, no need; I expect the next incarnation to have dispensed with all bases completely.

You will instead be expected to buy a complicated overhead model suspension system, complete with fake plastic servo skull adornments, and there will be on launch a limited edition version of the same that comes with a clamp so that you can attach it to the side of the gaming table for play (and comes in a canvas bag that adds £100.00 to the regular RRP cost).  So, all very Terry Gilliam really. 

Rules-wise, I expect the next edition will award all sorts of weapon bonuses for the players who actually make the sounds of their models' weapons being used, and armour bonuses for the players who act out the pantomime of their models being struck by said weapons. Victory points will be determined at the end via a single round of rock-paper-scissors, modified by the final score difference (this outcome will require an FAQ to resolve, but that will never actually be released - instead the FAQ will just correct an IP name spelling to be more IP-protectable).

ahhh so more like LARPHammer then - maybe you have to play with your dangly miniature bits whilst dressing in a convincingly similar way to your armies theme...?

That certainly might make some games more interesting.

[Vladimir Raukov]

ahhh so more like LARPHammer then - maybe you have to play with your dangly miniature bits whilst dressing in a convincingly similar way to your armies theme...?

That certainly might make some games more interesting.

Especially if the seraphon keep their predecessor's dress code of nothing at all! Nothing at all! Nothing at all!

Stupid sexy Lizards!

[FionaWhite]

Especially if the seraphon keep their predecessor's dress code of nothing at all! Nothing at all! Nothing at all!

Stupid sexy Lizards!

Great, now I've got mental images of a Saurus warrior shaking his rear and I don't know if I should laugh or cry.

[Tactalvanic]

Especially if the seraphon keep their predecessor's dress code of nothing at all! Nothing at all! Nothing at all!

Stupid sexy Lizards!

I see. 

So sir finds those lizards....

sexy...

 

Well that got weirder as fast as expected, good thing there's no Tyrannids in AOS

Yet...

 

[Dewbakuk]

Well, love it or hate it, they're going full bore with it.

This was replaced today




With this

[zemjw]

Looks like they found a use for all the leftover FailCast resin  , although the poor thing's hammer will probably melt in the next week or so

[Tactalvanic]

I can understand the comments in other forums regarding that and the new symbol on the building.

At least they have maintained the

heroic stance.

[Major_Gilbear]

Hmm, needs more gold. Some shading and highlighting would probably help too. 

[Momotaro]

Hope they didn't bankrupt themselves using their own £17/can gold spray paint...

[Major_Gilbear]

Hope they didn't bankrupt themselves using their own £17/can gold spray paint...

Especially as it's paint and not primer, so any fans who touch* that Sigmarine would soon find the paint just flaking off!






*Don't ask... There's probably a rule benefit associated with it. 

[Tactalvanic]

Especially as it's paint and not primer, so any fans who touch* that Sigmarine would soon find the paint just flaking off!






*Don't ask... There's probably a rule benefit associated with it. 

Sudden death rule for trying to play with partially/unpainted minis if to much flakes/rubs off?

[Mr. Peabody]

Spray your mouth with gold paint and auto-success all your to-hit rolls?

[Momotaro]

*Don't ask... There's probably a rule benefit associated with it. 

Probably a +1 on EVERY roll in the game if you can prove you made the pilgrimage to Holy Lenton to touch the foot of the Blessed Sigmarine...

Still, the building looks less like the backdrop to a Nazi rally now... 

[nic-e]

So what happened to the big marine and the giant eagle?
 I imagine they sold the marine to some warlord as a prototype weapon, and the eagle to a young up and coming political dictatorship to adorn their headquarters.

Also, really?! That marine and aquila ,whilst old, were universally known symbols of games workshop! You didn't need to have played or even know a damn thing about the lord/hobby, you know that that is a gw space marine and that's the warhammer 40k eagle! now what will people think?

[Dewbakuk]

The marine and Aquila have gone round the back to join the rhino etc outside Warhammer World.

The local taxi drivers often used to refer to the GW building as either the Reichstag or the nazi building. That probably helped the decision...

I think it would look better if it wasn't on a gold plinth too.