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Why does GW do alot of things that it does.

Gorkamorka?

At that rate, why not ask for a re-release of Bommas Over Da Sulfa Riva?

Or Dark Future?

Or Dracula?

Or Dark Eldar?

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JohnHwangDD wrote:Gorkamorka?

At that rate, why not ask for a re-release of Bommas Over Da Sulfa Riva?

Or Dark Future?

Or Dracula?

Or Dark Eldar?

...

Or Inquisitor?

jp400 wrote:Just throwing some more chum out in the sea of sharks....

Gorkamorka.

Enjoy.

That one has been thrown out there already a few weeks ago in the other thread

Whatever it is, it will be an actual game. That part has pretty much been confirmed by the letter GW sent out to employees, telling them to prepare for demo games, as has been posted earlier in this thread. So everyone who still thinks it will be one model like a Deathstrike... that is not going to be it.

I'm not familiar with all the old games they had:

- Space Hulk
- Gorkamorka
- Warhammer Quest
- Trolls in the pantry

... ?

I'm also still trying to figure out how they could fit the old Space Hulk content + enough (plastic) terrain into a 90,- Euro box and have it all be good quality. Normally those Terminators & Genestealers alone would be 90,-, and I refuse to believe GW will give us an actual bargain like that until I see it in from of me. This is probably the reason I'm still a bit sceptical about it being Space Hulk.

TBD wrote:and I refuse to believe GW will give us an actual bargain like that until I see it in from of me.

Granted:

My 2 cents..

: Its a stand alone game that most likely will be compatable with current miniature range.
: Its been said several times that it isnt space hulk
: Its set in the 40k verse.
: Its something they have already done in the past.

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Make sense to me as being a logical canadate.

It is gonna be Judge Dread the board game yea I like that one

Yes those are definitely bargains, but I kind of view those as exceptions because they are the starter boxes meant to lure more victims into their web


Why would they do us a favor by temporarily giving us a great deal when they have nothing to gain by it in the future?

jp400 wrote:Its been said several times that it isnt space hulk

It's been said several times that it is Space Hulk.

How do we reconcile this? We can't, that's what. So we just wait and see until someone manages to leak it before GW reveals it.

"Oi! Dat's My Leg!" must be due a come back, surely...

TBD wrote:Why would they do us a favor by temporarily giving us a great deal when they have nothing to gain by it in the future?

What do you mean? Space Hulk was plenty of people's first intro into 40K the first two times, why would this time be necessarily any different?

jp400 wrote:: Its set in the 40k verse.

I'm not sure a GW source has actually ever said it's 40K related.

(but sure, that does make the most sense)

So with rumors of it being a "new" game, who wants to take bets on GW not supporting for more than a year?

If the models aren't compatible with any other systems, GW will axe it in a year because of it. Relegating it to the defunct Specialist Games... (or as we call it, where the fun goes to die). If the models are compatible with one of the primary game systems, GW will axe it because it will either: A) be a cheaper and better source of miniatures which they will decide to fold into the core systems with recut and significantly marked up sprues; B) the models are redundant to models GW can get a better markup on.

mikhaila wrote:

NAVARRO wrote:And foreigners, with no GW,interested in the thing will not be able to get the space hulk.

Not quite sure how they are doing it yet. I've heard at times that you can pre-order off their website. Other rumors have been only actual GW stores. I was told that I would be able to get them for my independent game stores. (And no hints were given about what it is, just that I'll be able to get the 'mystery box'. Guess we'll know in a week.

Ussualy the independ store around here would be clueless about this, then customers like myself bug them to get the box... they spend a couple weeks digesting the thing... decide to call GW... tell us its ordered and should get at the store soon... one month later customers start to bug again about the box that doesnt arrive... they digest and a couple weeks later call GW... GW says they never aggreed to send the box in thefirst place and its a online store thing exclusive ( besides at this time its already out of stock)... and finally store tells customers they cant get the box because GW doest sent them.

Sorry for rant but even if it seems a parody its in fact a major pain in the ass and has cost me deals like apoc armies etc in the past, so even if GW makes this available I doubt I will get it since the limited time deals means a big no no around here.

Platuan4th wrote:

TBD wrote:Why would they do us a favor by temporarily giving us a great deal when they have nothing to gain by it in the future?

What do you mean? Space Hulk was plenty of people's first intro into 40K the first two times, why would this time be necessarily any different?

Was it available for only a limited period back then? I don't even know which year Space Hulk was originally released and when they dropped it.

If it really is that limited this time around most of the boxes will probably be bought by current players, so I don't know about it being useful as an intro for new players.

Looking on the bright side, if the mystery box isnt Space Hulk that means we get whatever the mystery box is as well as Space Hulk as its def being released!
Mick

Somewhere in an empty conference room in the bowels of GW HQ, the marketing intern that came up with this whole mystery box idea is cackling to himself with maniacal glee.

Maybe it's going to be a Space Hulkesque style boardgame, except instead of BAs vs. Genestealers on a space hulk, maybe it will be Tau vs. Tyranids onboard a hiveship, similar to Tyranid attack, or Dark Eldar raiding a Necron world engine for ancient technology.

Every once in a great while GW throws something at us that doesn't include SMs...

Archonate wrote:
Every once in a great while GW throws something at us that doesn't include SMs...

That's true, but SMs is their bread-and-butter... if it's going to be Space Hulk, you've got to figure that Marines are going to be in there..

Platuan4th wrote:

TBD wrote:

typhus wrote:spoke to a staff member today he said it was NOT space hulk but was definatly a splash release and and a different game that was NOT space hulk

The GW employee who claimed to have actually seen the product in China said it isn't Space Hulk as well.

If it does turn out to be Space Hulk I will rub their lying in their faces though.

It's not Space Hulk.

It's a game called Hulks in Space. It comes with 10 Space Infantry and 20 Chromosome Thieves, as well as a full set of Space Corridors and Industrial Towers.

Hm, do you know where I could just get some Space Corridors and Industrial Towers? I don't really want Space Infantry or Chromosome Thieves.......

Archonate wrote:Maybe it's going to be a Space Hulkesque style boardgame, except instead of BAs vs. Genestealers on a space hulk, maybe it will be Tau vs. Tyranids onboard a hiveship, similar to Tyranid attack, or Dark Eldar raiding a Necron world engine for ancient technology.

I like where this thread is going. Have you seen the new DE figures?

I guess that it's always a possibility. GW may simply have decided that Terminators in the required quantity was too good of a deal. Giving us standard marines maybe their alternative.

H.B.M.C. wrote:

jp400 wrote:Gorkamorka.

Why would GW re-release a game that wasn't successful in the first place? Gluttons for punishment?

You blaspheme sir! I loved Gorkamorka... Necron world, all ork on ork combat, humans dressing up as orks... What didn't that game have going for it?

Scottywan82 wrote:You blaspheme sir! I loved Gorkamorka... Necron world, all ork on ork combat, humans dressing up as orks... What didn't that game have going for it?

It was the game that homogenised and bland-i-fied Orks. After Gorkamorka all Orks begame 'Generic Goffs'.

Scottywan82 wrote:

H.B.M.C. wrote:

jp400 wrote:Gorkamorka.

Why would GW re-release a game that wasn't successful in the first place? Gluttons for punishment?

You blaspheme sir! I loved Gorkamorka... Necron world, all ork on ork combat, humans dressing up as orks... What didn't that game have going for it?

Rules that differentiated the basic factions more. Vehicle Rules that made sense. A clear difference from the then fairly-well supported Necromunda game. The only thing GorkaMorka had going for it was the list of Glyphs and orky words at the end of "Da Uvver Book" Digganob might have improved it, I don't know. My group never bothered with it. But why did they make it Gorkas vs. Morkas when they already had fluff for the main Klans. Goffs vs. Blood Axes vs. Deathskulls vs. Snakebites vs. Evil Sunz vs. Bad Moons had so much more potential.

chaplaingrabthar wrote:

Scottywan82 wrote:

H.B.M.C. wrote:

jp400 wrote:Gorkamorka.

Why would GW re-release a game that wasn't successful in the first place? Gluttons for punishment?

You blaspheme sir! I loved Gorkamorka... Necron world, all ork on ork combat, humans dressing up as orks... What didn't that game have going for it?

Rules that differentiated the basic factions more. Vehicle Rules that made sense. A clear difference from the then fairly-well supported Necromunda game. The only thing GorkaMorka had going for it was the list of Glyphs and orky words at the end of "Da Uvver Book" Digganob might have improved it, I don't know. My group never bothered with it. But why did they make it Gorkas vs. Morkas when they already had fluff for the main Klans. Goffs vs. Blood Axes vs. Deathskulls vs. Snakebites vs. Evil Sunz vs. Bad Moons had so much more potential.

Thanks for that succinct recap of all that time ago. Are you one of the Stony Point Refugees, btw? Just curious if I should be looking for you on the other board, too.

chaplaingrabthar wrote:

Scottywan82 wrote:I loved Gorkamorka...

But why did they make it Gorkas vs. Morkas when they already had fluff for the main Klans. Goffs vs. Blood Axes vs. Deathskulls vs. Snakebites vs. Evil Sunz vs. Bad Moons had so much more potential.

Presumably, Klans would be the obvious add-on expansion if Gorkamorka didn't suck.
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Potentially, GW printed the entire batch, and is only now releasing it...

Scottywan82 wrote:Thanks for that succinct recap of all that time ago. Are you one of the Stony Point Refugees, btw? Just curious if I should be looking for you on the other board, too.

I've lurked a little on the Stony Point Refugees board, but not yet joined or attempted any gaming stuff through them (got personal, job & car issues to work out first.)

chaplaingrabthar wrote:

Scottywan82 wrote:Thanks for that succinct recap of all that time ago. Are you one of the Stony Point Refugees, btw? Just curious if I should be looking for you on the other board, too.

I've lurked a little on the Stony Point Refugees board, but not yet joined or attempted any gaming stuff through them (got personal, job & car issues to work out first.)

Wicked. Not much of a gamer with them either, but they're a pretty big group. A buddy of mine and I both work at the Gamestop up on Broad next to Walmart and we both play down at Hobbytown now. We ran into them there.

I have film of what's inside the box....