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A friend of mine sent me this. I asked where he got it, but he hasn't replied yet. Thought I'd share it anyways:

Everyone and their mother claims it will be Bloodbowl 2013, sadly I have news for you it ain't coming. Besides Games Workshop licenses Bloodbowl out to any 3rd-party developer who can write a check; Blood Bowl was just one of those rumors that makes sense to a fan-boi, but not (remember Dreadfleet) Games Workshop. Speaking of misfires Games Workshop cannot afford to take random risks. Now, GW has consolidated (killing off specialists games) there IPs, they are turning to making new products.
With a lust for a Space Hulk type gravy train GW will return to what makes them the most money: the Warhammer 40k universe.
So, what is up GW's sleeve?
GW is about to enter the skirmish scene with the release of
Warhammer 40k: Inquisition
Inquisition is designed for 2-4 players and each side will use custom cards and dice. Army sizes consist of about 5-10 models per side. A whole new set of models drawn from Blanche artwork will accompany. The game should be flexible as you can make and design your own Inquisitorial retinue. As for rules complexity that is anyone's guess, but the general marketing goal for Inquisition is a gateway game into the greater Warhammer 40k universe.
Beyond that GW, seems to be taking cues from Kickstarter projects like Sedition Wars and home-brewed rules like Inq28 for Inquisitor. This also might not end up as a limited edition run, but that all depends on sales, and if any support is continued will be done through digital expansions and updates.
As it is that is all I have for now, but if my sources hold true expect more information as it comes!

That's from Blood of Kittens blog.

Link: http://bloodofkittens.com/blog/2013/07/15/rumor-it-blood-bowl-come-inquisition/

Thanks!!

Title updated...

So...as I don't read Blood of Kittens, how reliable is this, or is it just shenanegans?

Interesting...... Very interesting... *chin scratching orkmoticon*

A skirmish Inquisitor game?

Yeah right...

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
A skirmish Inquisitor game?

Yeah right...

You don't think GW is capable of taking an older good idea and squandering its potential with a half baked limited release?

No I don... oh right Dreadfleet.

A skirmish scale game involving Inquisitors and their retinues? Inconceivable! GW would never make something like...oh, wait a second.

"Custom cards and dice" makes me wonder if GW is going to try and do their own Warmachine. That might be fun.

When you think about it, now the specialist games are dead (or at least on their way out) it is the perfect time to start releasing "new special edition" games. I bet next year they release an exciting new special edition game where you fight space battles in the 40k universe.


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All I want is for them to re-release Dark Future

I could see this happening. A 28mm scale Inquisitor game would capitalize on all of the Inq28/Inquisimunda interest that has been going on for years.

Of course, that would assume that GW is actually looking at forums, that's a big leap of faith. But all of the Blanche Inquisitor warband stuff that has been published in WD lately seems to be consistent with this idea. Also a 28mm Inquisitor game would not be exclusive to itself- the models could easily be moved into 40k. I feel like this concept is well-represented by the Wraightknight- a model that I feel is hitting the point of being too big for a standard game of 40k, but something that GW didn't want to be Apocalypse-only so they shoehorned it into the regular Eldar codex.

An inquisitor game at 28mm would fill out a Grey Knights/IG HQ section quite nicely. That said I still wish it was Bloodbowl, I was so hyped for a "25 years" release...

I'm a bit more worried about it being based off the Blanche artwork. I realize there are lots of people out there who like his stuff but I'm definitely not one of them. For me, the Blanche Black Library art book was an instant sell whereas the Goodwin one was a definite keeper.

It could be GeeDubs pulling the old switcharoo on us.

"Everyone thinks it's gonna be Bloodbowl, lets leak rumours of it being a 28mm Inquistor skirmish game. Then when it's released, BAM! Bloodbowl in your face."

 warboss wrote:
I'm a bit more worried about it being based off the Blanche artwork. I realize there are lots of people out there who like his stuff but I'm definitely not one of them. For me, the Blanche Black Library art book was an instant sell whereas the Goodwin one was a definite keeper.

I have to agree. The last thing we need is a bunch of scribble-art inspired 40K models that don't fit with regular 40K models.

Of course that'd be just like GW - Release a one-off game with models specifically incompatible with regular 40K and then wonder why people are unhappy.

Everything you have been told is a lie.....


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Nah I'm just kidding.

Here's your copy of Trolls In the Pantry!

I swear I have been down this road before...

(@dementedwombat: scary, same thought process)

I assume it will be done to a 35 1/2 scale or something non-standard? So that people will use the 28mm figures anyway.

If John Blanche is designing the models they will all be based off the "Nurgle Lord".

I am sure each group will have a special leader that coordinates their group with psychic power with a limited number of energy points...

I suspect the space battle game would be made to the same scale as X-wing so we can play across IP's!

Ehh, 'based of Blanche's artwork' is probably not copying it directly, but more miniatures in that style, wich is awesome.

Sounds bloody brilliant to me. But keep up the hate guys!

Even if the rules suck, we'll get some great minis out of it.

 BryllCream wrote:
Sounds bloody brilliant to me. But keep up the hate guys!

I haven't seen any hate for it yet. It's just not what people want to see from GW from this release.


It's not like people are saying they don't want this, it's the majority would prefer Bloodbowl over an Inqisitor based game. No outright hate though.

 BrookM wrote:
Even if the rules suck, we'll get some great minis out of it.

I'm hoping the other way around.

 Snrub wrote:
I haven't seen any hate for it yet.

Let Bryll punch his straw man. It's all he's got.

Would be cool, if they keep it around for more than 3 months, but I'll believe it when I see it.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Let Bryll punch his straw man. It's all he's got.

Oh this is a recurring thing is it? Riiight.

Well, in this case it's 28mm, so unlike Dreadfleet you can easily convert your own minis and whatnot.

Interesting development... Hmm.

I still think it's blood bowl though.

So this is warmachine: 40k edition?

Can GW resist the urge to squeeze everything for profits and make an actual good, sustainable game?

If it does happen, it'll be funny that inquisitor went from an 'advanced' (I guess is the word) game to a 'gateway' game in a different scale. I wonder if it will share characters or not

This interests me a lot more than Bloodbowl. I absolutely adore Blanche's artwork, and models that really heavily draw from it (the Chaos cultists in DV, for one) are some of my absolute favorites. It seems a little too good to be true to me, but if there's any truth to it I'm preordering it for the models alone. At the very least I'd get a cool Necromunda gang out of it.

For those wondering, TastyTaste has the following reputation from pretre's rumor tracking thread:
Tastytaste at Blood of Kittens - Total rumors: (86 TRUE) / (9 FALSE) / (12 PARTIALLY TRUE/VAGUE)
So that seems pretty solid.

 Grundz wrote:
So this is warmachine: 40k edition?

That right there is crazy talk. Games Workshop, (the most reputable and original company in the world) would never take ideas from someone else. Everything Games Workshop does is entirely of their own disign and is in no way influenced by any outside forces.

Can GW resist the urge to squeeze everything for profits and make an actual good, sustainable game?

That is teetering on the edge of sounding like heresy* that is.



*The concept of Heresy is a Games Workshop creation and may not be used by other parties without prior consent.