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(yeah people have done it before but I've done this every year so why not!)

The categories are...

Best GW metal miniature?

Worst?

Best GW plastic miniature?

Worst?

Best metal miniature by another company?

Worst?

Best plastic miniature by another company?

Worst?

Best GW rule book?

Worst?

Best GW/BL fluff book?

Worst?

Your fondest hope for 2010?

Your greatest fear?

Best GW metal miniature? Deathmaster Snikkt

Worst? Khan; he's not on a bike

Best GW plastic miniature? Vakerie

Worst? Thunderwolves, oh that's right, they didn't make it.


Best GW rule book? Space Wolf Codex

Worst? Space Wolf Codex with vague writing

Best GW/BL fluff book? Fallen Angels

Worst? Night Lords HH Audiobook.

Your fondest hope for 2010? Get codexes up to speed with 5th edition and well written FAQs

Your greatest fear? Slower codex release cycle.

thanks for that valuable input farmer!

My votes for the few i have an opinion on are:

Best GW plastic miniature?

i have 4. Hellhound and variants, Valkyrie, the Cadian and Catachan command squads

Best metal miniature by another company?

easy. Pig Iron Products

Best GW rule book?

IG codex

The categories are...
Best GW plastic miniature?
IG Sentinel

Best metal miniature by another company?
Pig Iron

Best GW rule book?
IG Codex

Worst?
SW codex

Best GW/BL fluff book?
Tales of Heresy

Your fondest hope for 2010?
New ogre kingdoms codex (a man can dream)

Your greatest fear?
Even worse codex creep than the SW codex.

Best GW metal miniature?
Head Taker Queek

Worst?
Hive Guard

Best GW plastic miniature?
Screaming Bell/Plague Furnace

Worst?
Can't remember any I didn't like

Best GW rule book?
Guard

Your fondest hope for 2010?
A job

Your greatest fear?
Infection from the Parasite of Mortrex

Best GW metal miniature? = would Legion of the damned count since i got them already?

Worst? he man on battlecat

Best GW plastic miniature? Valkyrie

Worst? reducing guard infantry to kits of 10 models

Best GW rule book? planetstrike

Worst? the 3rd 40k codex release of 2009...

Best GW/BL fluff book? Fallen Angels

Worst? still having a pile'o books to read...

Your fondest hope for 2010? angels of death returning with a plastic thunderhawk

Your greatest fear? the lotr/wotr range refuting to die

Best metal-Chakax, the Eternity warden
Worst metal-Marius Leitdorf

Best plastic-Tie between Screaming bell and Brother Omnio from Spulk
Worst plastic-It makes me sad to say this, but the Empire archers.

Best Rulebook-Lizardmen
Worst Rulebook-Space wolves (For being wrote badly, not for the actual theme itself)

Best BL book-Cadian blood
Worst BL book-the last half of Shadow king

Fondest hope-Beastmen are returned as a competative army
Worst fear-The Marine releases in March. I'm a Marine player myself, and honestly we have enough already!

And I would also like to award Jeromy Vetock my GW designer of the year award, for writing a rather excellent Skaven book (In my opinion).

Best GW plastic miniature? Screaming bell kit

Best GW rule book? - Drawed between IG and Skaven

Your fondest hope for 2010? - A new Tau empire codex, complete with epic kick arseness and loaded with vitaman chuck norris

Your greatest fear? - The necron codex by the same guy who did the chaos marines one (*sigh*)

Superscope wrote:
Your greatest fear? - The necron codex by the same guy who did the chaos marines one (*sigh*)

That'd be terrible. He'd take away all your cool upgrades and unique wargear.

Kid_Kyoto wrote:(yeah people have done it before but I've done this every year so why not!)

The categories are...

Best GW metal miniature?
Chaos night Lord (nuff said)

Worst?
Chaos Space Marine Doomrider (waaay, im driving in 60mph )

Best GW plastic miniature?
Tau Fire Warriors (dont know why, but i think they`re kinda smooth)

Worst?
Mawloc (eww!)

Best metal miniature by another company?
PP`s Tarynn Di La Rovissi (two pistols are always win!)

Worst?
PP`s Pirate Queen Skarre (the helm ruins the whole model ).

Best plastic miniature by another company?
FoW`s AC006 Hs 129 Flight (stuka is almost as cool, except the wheels)

Worst?
FoW`s Warhawk flight (i just plain don`t like it)

Best GW rule book?
Ork Codex (boyz a little cheap though)

Worst?
Chaos Sphessh Murreen Codex (no fluff!)

Best GW/BL fluff book?
Horus Rising (the start is too awesome )

Worst?
AoBR the novel (Come on, 100 Smurfs beat 50 000 Orks and lost 7, while ONE Meganob can take out 2 marines. What?)

Your fondest hope for 2010?
Dark Eldar or Necron `dex

Your greatest fear?
More Sphessh Murreens (please GW, I cant take it ).

My five cents!

Mekboy wrote:

Superscope wrote:
Your greatest fear? - The necron codex by the same guy who did the chaos marines one (*sigh*)

That'd be terrible. He'd take away all your cool upgrades and unique wargear.

Imagine codex: necrons... with even less options

yeah,

Best GW metal miniature? Space Marine Thunderfire Cannon
Worst? Canis Wolfborn

Best GW plastic miniature? Imperial Bastions and Defence Line
Worst? blastscape craters

Best/Worst miniatures by another company? Dunno, I'm a fan boy...

Best GW rule book? SpaceHulk... I Guess.
Worst? FAQs

Your fondest hope for 2010? New Edition of Bloodbowl
Your greatest fear? GW goes bust because of the Dakkas Great Fan Pushback of 2010!

Panic...

The categories are...

Best GW metal miniature?
Khorne lord on Jugger

Worst?
Easily Canis and his daibeetus cat.

Best GW plastic miniature?
New clanrats, such a great improvement over the last lot.

Worst?
Drop pods, overly expensive plastic boxes...

Best metal miniature by another company?
The Infinity range is beautiful and we've seen some strong new sculpts from PP, but my favourite must be this fella from gamezone miniatures, their work is like high art...
http://www.gamezoneminiatures.de/product_info.php/info/p433_The-Venerable-Thaumaturge.html/XTCsid/fb2638db7ba680ee4c57fc24ea46771a

Worst?
These things...
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/257151.page

Best plastic miniature by another company?
Perry Miniatures French Cav for Napoleonics.

Worst?
too few out there atm...

Best GW rule book?
skaven army book was nicely done.

Worst?
Space Wolves codex, all that 'insta-remove' bs like it was written for 7 year old kids



Your fondest hope for 2010?
That gamezone miniatures or one of the others producing excellent 28mm heroic metals will make the leap into plastic multipart unit boxes thus facilitating the complete break from GW for me. GW desperately needs competition, it's grown bloated, detached and arrogant and needs a workout against some savvy up and coming firm or two.

Your greatest fear?
That GW will continue to price grown-ups out of the game, that eventually it will become the purvey of the kids of rich parents and that GW will eventually kill it's self and end up absorbed by WotC or Mattel or some thing and all that beautiful fluff and history will be absorbed into 'prepainted plastics with a more family orientated theme'...

I plumbed the Gallery for this one.

Best GW metal miniature?



Worst?


Dude, where's my bike?

Best GW plastic miniature?

I'm torn between:



and



Who am I kidding? The Gretchin are simply a re-do of their metals. Engine of the
Gods ftw.

Worst?



After making REALLY COOL LOOKING lizards for the Dark Elves to ride on, the lizards
who ride on lizards get to ride on the ugly tree cousins.

Best metal miniature by another company?



Worst?

Hard to say. Some of the stuff I'd call bad look okay in light of its genre (retro sci-fi, for
instance).


Worst?

Arcane Legions line

Your fondest hope for 2010?

Amon Ad-Raza Theme Force, wup wup

Your greatest fear?

Amon Ad-Raza Theme Force.

Best GW metal miniature? - Deathmaster Snikch

Worst? - Canis Wolfborn

Best GW plastic miniature? - Screaming Bell, particularly the Grey Seer riding atop it

Worst? - Difficult, because GW plastics are so good these days... I have no great love for the Space Wolves stuff though

Best GW rule book? - Codex Imperial Guard

Worst? - Codex Space Wolves

Your fondest hope for 2010? - Skaven Wave 2 please

Your greatest fear? - That there will be no time for wargaming (have a new house to renovate, a baby due end of May and my Masters degree to do)

Best GW metal miniature
New Kroxigers look nice, so do the new Skaven characters. I'd have to go with the skaven characters, esp Headtaker.

Worst
The Lolcat Cavalier

Best GW plastic miniature
I am relly torn between the Engine of the Gods and Temple gaurd. Heck, Temple Gaurd. They were just needed.

Worst
Blastscape

Your fondest hope for 2010
Lotsa awesome new kits!

Your greatest fear
Wallet Implosion

Best GW metal miniature: Imperial Navy Officer of the Fleet

Worst GW metal miniature: N/A

Best GW plastic miniature: Imperial Guard Valkyrie

Worst GW plastic miniature: N/A

Best metal miniature by another company: MacKenzie by Hasslefree

Worst metal miniature by another company: Flames of War late war German Panzer grenadier company (though I could just be having a bad blister)

Best plastic miniature by another company: N/A

Worst plastic miniature by another company: N/A

Best GW rule book: codex: Imperial Guard

Worst GW rule book: N/A

Best GW/BL fluff book: the Imperial Armour series

Worst GW/BL fluff book: Index Astartes and the Inquisition

Your fondest hope for 2010: the hinted at plastic kit of the Thunderbolt fighter and a good number of new Elysian releases

Your greatest fear: The company going bankrupt.

Best GW metal miniature: Queek Headtaker (don't even collect WHFB, but he looks awesome).

Worst: Canis Wolfborn, easily

Best GW plastic miniature: Trygon, if it counts (come on, we've all seen the model even if it doesn't technically release til 2010). If not, then Space Hulk Broodlord.

Worst: No idea currently, I'd have to think about this.

Best GW rule book: I honestly don't know what rulebooks released in 2009.

Worst: See above

Your fondest hope for 2010: That the BA re-do is true and doesn't make them any worse. New Lemartes and a Thunderhawk would be awesome too.

Your greatest fear: That the BA re-do somehow makes them worse, or that Lemartes DOESN'T get a new model. I suppose I'll echo the GW going bankrupt too. I hate how the company acts, but I love 40k and don't want to see it get nixed.

Kid_Kyoto wrote:(yeah people have done it before but I've done this every year so why not!)

The categories are...

Best GW metal miniature?

Worst?

Best GW plastic miniature?

Worst?

Best metal miniature by another company?

Worst?

Best plastic miniature by another company?

Worst?

Best GW rule book?

Worst?

Best GW/BL fluff book?

Worst?

Your fondest hope for 2010?

Your greatest fear?

Well either people can't read, or (more likely) those that can't seem to be bothered to post on NON GW products, either don't know they are there, or simply don't care about them.....so in a similar vien, here is my "vote"

Best Metal Miniature by "abother" company: Oniwaban (Boarding Shotgun)

Worst: Pig Iron Factions

Best Plastic Miniature by "abother" company: AT-43 Oni Faction

Worst: AT-43 Karmens

Fondest hope for 2010: Never to spend my hard earned at GW

Worst fear for 2010: That certain companies cease to trade ( Rackham anyone? )

Delephont wrote:
Well either people can't read, or (more likely) those that can't seem to be bothered to post on NON GW products, either don't know they are there, or simply don't care about them.....so in a similar vien, here is my "vote"

Best Metal Miniature by "abother" company: Oniwaban (Boarding Shotgun)

Worst: Pig Iron Factions

Best Plastic Miniature by "abother" company: AT-43 Oni Faction

Worst: AT-43 Karmens

Fondest hope for 2010: Never to spend my hard earned at GW

Worst fear for 2010: That certain companies cease to trade ( Rackham anyone? )

AT-43 Karmans were 2008.

Why do so many people post things that are not 2009? For example, the "old" Marine stuff (which was released late 2008).

Best Metal GW figure:
Imperial Guard Advisors
Worst:
IMO the cat isn't so bad. I'd rather say the new Kroxigors or new Terradons.
Best plastic GW figures:
Stegadon
Worst:
Empire Greatswords. You know the reason.
Best metal miniature by another company:
IMO the new Khador (or was it Cygnar?) Extreme Destroyer is pretty cool. I think it was 2009 when it was released.
Best Codex: Lizardmen
Worst: I dunno, Space Wolves?

Best GW metal miniature: IG Advisors get my vote simply because they look great, they're not screaming or pointing and they have better anatomy than most.



Worst GW metal miniature: Loki, or whatever his name is. great creepy face but poor pose and weird claw ruin it.



Best GW plastic miniature: Imperial Guard Valkyrie, I just bought number 3 and they are my favorite GW vehicle. EVAH! The new Space Wolves should get a mention just for the sheer number of bitz. Oh and Bastions. Even the Jersey Barriers are pretty decent.

Worst GW plastic miniature: Would it be OK to vote for replacing the 20 for $35 IG with 10 for $25 and not adding a thing? If GW had just thrown in a new sprue with special weapons I think everyone would be happy but for now it's just a ripoff. Otherwise the crashed space ship vac formed carp.

Best metal miniature by another company: Hrm, nothing comes to mind.

Worst metal miniature by another company: Again, nothing comes to mind.

Best plastic miniature by another company: Gotta give it to Warlord's English Civil War stuff.



I've no interest in the period but those are some great sculpts. Perry's ACW and Napoleonic stuff also temps me.

Worst plastic miniature by another company: Some of the Star Wars sculpts are rubbish.

Best GW rule book: codex: Imperial Guard, I thought the removal of doctrines would kill it but exciting options like vets as troops and Valks make up for it. Some of the stuff is overpowered, even in my opinion, but it's pretty much a solid book.

Worst GW rule book: Planet Strike did not tempt me at all. Even the SW book with all its problems got me to buy it and has me tinkering with ideas. PS, just didn't interest me and from what I see on this board no one's too excited by it.

Best GW/BL fluff book: I got back into BL stuff this year, read a bunch of Gaunts Ghosts and generally liked them, not sure if any are from 2009 though.

Worst GW/BL fluff book: Mechanicus. Yuk.

Your fondest hope for 2010: That Wargames Factory or someone will make multipart plastic SF or near future figures.

Your greatest fear: We've lost some manufactuers over the last few years and some games. I fear we'll lose some of the exciting entrants in plastics.

Best GW metal miniature? tough call there werre many good ones...off the top of my head i'd say Lord Commisar or chakax,eternity warden

Worst? canis wolfborn (thats really the only one i can think of)

Best GW plastic miniature? Either that Warp powered monster of a plague furnace or the Leman Russ demolisher and all its variants(ahh tank treads that make sense and none of this here glue these wheel spacers in place it will make you believe they serve a purpose but really they don't) not that iwas complaining or anything

Worst? Hmmm this is also a tough call I can't think of anything that I wasn't thrilled with ..only thing I can really make mention of would be anything LOTR related but thats a personal bias, not that it looks bad. Possibly the fact that I don't think battleforces are as good a deal as they once were ...especially when you look at the amount of models you get in say a cadian battleforce

Best metal miniature by another company? Id offer up some ideas with this but I dont know which modles were proioduced just this year

Worst?

Best plastic miniature by another company?

Worst?

Best GW rule book?

Worst?

Best GW/BL fluff book? Cadian Blood was pretty amazing

Worst? some of the moreterrible short stories from Heroes of the space marines(possibly the entire novel since it wasn't about heroes per se and mostly about chaos as well so I'd say that book for title alone)

Your fondest hope for 2010? That GW reverts to the old bits system that was awesome, and that they allow me personally to squash all Lotr to end its reign of crap under my boot heel.


Your greatest fear? That Lotr will continue to be a thorn in my side and that the White Dwarf that I once knew,loved and was sad if I missed an issue. Will continue to be a ridiculously priced advertisement.

Best GW metal miniature?
Khorne Lord on Juggernaught- I want to own it just because it looks so very badass.


Worst?
Hmmm. Hard to call, but the space wolf special characters were pretty goofy.

Best GW plastic miniature?
Probably the Screaming Bell/Plague Censer, but there is some stiff competition.

Worst?
Hmmm. Space Wolves. Didn't like them as much as the others.

Best metal miniature by another company?
Mulg the Ancient, by far.

Worst?
Gonna go with Trollkin Runeshapers, because the proportions are so badly out of whack. Quality control PP! You can learn from GW!

Best plastic miniature by another company?
Hmmm. Were the Celts from warlord this year? I liked them.

Worst?
D'n'D minis. All of them.

Best GW rule book?
Lizardmen is pretty good, as is Warriors of Chaos.

Worst?
Planetstrike, as I'm not interested in unbalanced rules.

Best GW/BL fluff book?
Hard to say.

Worst?
Also hard to say.

Your fondest hope for 2010?
Decent release schedule.
Your greatest fear?
Crap release schedule.

Best GW metal miniature?
Inquisitor w/ bolter and power sword, awesome, I actually have 2.

Worst?
Wraithlord... $20, why god, WHY?

Best GW plastic miniature?
Trygon

Worst?
Plastic miniatures, bad?

Best GW rule book?
Daemons

Worst?
Necrons because it's so.... unique

Best GW/BL fluff book?
Malus Darkblade Series (Couldn't pick one)

Worst?
Brothers of the Snake

Your fondest hope for 2010?
New Simon Pegg & Nick Frost Movie

Your greatest fear?
No DE codex...

Best GW metal miniature:
The IG advisors. (Full of character.)

Worst:
Canis. (Anatomically ridiculous, even by GW standards. And just plain fuggly.)

Best GW plastic:
Space Hulk minis. (Superb quality, character.)

Worst:
battlescape terrain. )Substandard quality.)

Best non-GW metal:
Pig Iron heads. (Reasonable quality and character, filling a gap GW leaves open.)

Best GW rulebook:
IG Codex. (Particularly for the Orders capability. Makes the army very characterful, distinctive -- yet very playable within the existing rules platform.)

Worst:
Planetstrike. (Half-baked, and basically broken.)

Fondest hope:
A return to quality for White Dwarf. (I really miss that magazine. Currently not worth buying.)

Biggest fear:
Economic pressures will continue to batter FLGS's, driving more out of business. While GW continues to ignore New England and starve its community building efforts. Hobby and game slide into obscurity.

Worst GW Book? Imperial Guard

Your fondest hope for 2010? Dark Eldar

Your greatest fear? Kinda obvious given my fondest hope.

Best GW metal miniature?
Daemon Prince

Worst?
Dante

Best GW plastic miniature?
Ironclad

Worst?
Thundercannon

Best GW rule book?
Orks

Worst?
CSM


Your fondest hope for 2010?
DE codex

Your greatest fear?
JJ will write a codex

Um, guys? 2009 releases if at all possible. Kind of a year in review sort of thing.

Also sorry to nitpick but wuestenfux the Thunderfire cannon is a metal model so yes i guess it would be a terrible plastic model