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One of the techmarine models has a conversion beamer. There are also some Forgeworld models.

 Sinful Hero wrote:

Barfolomew wrote:
Anyone made a list of all the models that had rules prior to this court case which have now been axed? Anyone look at the decision and make some speculation on what GW cuts next because they don't have the IP locked up tight and therefore don't want rules to exist?

Off the top of my head,

Tyranid Parasite of Mortrex
Tyranid Doom of Malantai
IG/AS Sly Marbo
IG/AS Chenkov(or whatever his name was)
Couple Ork characters
Dark Eldar Asdrubael Vect
Dark Eldar Baron Sathonyx
Dark Eldar Lady Malys

The Tyranid and Dark Eldar characters didn't have models(other than Vect, and the Doom was replaced by the Neurothrope).

Is that a thing that's happening? Games Workshop is cutting units and therefore shrinking the hobby because they don't want anyone else profiting where they are not?

Yep, it's been happening for a while.

Not familiar with GW's lunatic tendencies? Go look up the "Spots the Space Marine" debacle, it'll show you how crazy they've gotten trying to protect their IPs that they originally created from everyone else's concepts.

I never go too far down the rabbit hole but I was aware of the space marine issue with Spots the Space Marine. But I think removing units is a step beyond frivolous and/or overly aggressive IP lawsuits just to limit other companies' sales.

It is ridiculous but sadly it seems to be the way the company is going. It's really pretty terrible that this is what they are worried about rather than producing quality product people want to buy.

The 'benefit' of them removing entries due to lack of a model is that they get to re-release them as a DLC when they bother creating said model.
It's a nasty thing to do, and they usually change the model quite wildly. So older models, if they ever existed, look out of place.

And, no, there were never Warlock or Farseer jetbike models.
Look to CHS for that.

Yeah, to be honest, I don't have a problem with GW not including things that they don't have models for in the codexes. The lack of appropriate models for various things is something that people have been complaining about for as long as I've been in the hobby (more than 20 years now....)

But removing existing units rather than just releasing the damn models for them was a bit of a surprising move.

Were the other parts of this article still being worked on?

 AduroT wrote:
Were the other parts of this article still being worked on?

I'm curious as well.. It really is an interesting read.