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looking at site seems been a long time since new stuff has been shown - 2014 - am just getting to get back into 40k and dont want to waste money other than fact I am buying GW product/

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Haven't seen anything to suggest they are dead in the water. Quite possible they just don't have anything new out lately.

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To be honest, considering what they went through I'd be amazed if they could keep the heart to keep making things that were anything to do with GW. I certainly wouldn't have wanted to.

Shame they couldn't have branched out into making custom bits for some of the other games out there, many of which would no doubt welcome new products with open arms.

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 Pacific wrote:
To be honest, considering what they went through I'd be amazed if they could keep the heart to keep making things that were anything to do with GW. I certainly wouldn't have wanted to.

Shame they couldn't have branched out into making custom bits for some of the other games out there, many of which would no doubt welcome new products with open arms.


Ehhh...there are plenty of other places doing it with better quality, IMO.

 
   
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 Pacific wrote:
To be honest, considering what they went through I'd be amazed if they could keep the heart to keep making things that were anything to do with GW. I certainly wouldn't have wanted to.

Shame they couldn't have branched out into making custom bits for some of the other games out there, many of which would no doubt welcome new products with open arms.


Which games? WMH has very restrictive conversation policies and Infinity figures are metal and a pain to convert. He could have tried scenery, WMH doesn't have much and there are a ton supplying top quality for infinity though.

Possible that new SM kits with the hands on the guns instead of separate killed demand.
   
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 silent25 wrote:
 Pacific wrote:
To be honest, considering what they went through I'd be amazed if they could keep the heart to keep making things that were anything to do with GW. I certainly wouldn't have wanted to.

Shame they couldn't have branched out into making custom bits for some of the other games out there, many of which would no doubt welcome new products with open arms.


Which games? WMH has very restrictive conversation policies and Infinity figures are metal and a pain to convert. He could have tried scenery, WMH doesn't have much and there are a ton supplying top quality for infinity though.

Top quality for Infinity is debatable. A large amount of the scenery is MDF or simple cardboard.

Doing some hard-plastic/quality resin scenery for Infinity would be easy enough to break into.
   
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 silent25 wrote:
 Pacific wrote:
To be honest, considering what they went through I'd be amazed if they could keep the heart to keep making things that were anything to do with GW. I certainly wouldn't have wanted to.

Shame they couldn't have branched out into making custom bits for some of the other games out there, many of which would no doubt welcome new products with open arms.


Which games? WMH has very restrictive conversation policies and Infinity figures are metal and a pain to convert. He could have tried scenery, WMH doesn't have much and there are a ton supplying top quality for infinity though.

Possible that new SM kits with the hands on the guns instead of separate killed demand.


They've Greatly loosened up the official conversion policy. Only slightly stricter than GW's old policy of requiring 50% of the model to be PP parts, but with the additional of no identifiable non-PP IP/Copyrights.

 
   
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I stand corrected regarding PP. Good to see they changed their policy. I don't remember it being that liberal half a year ago. Still CH always capitalized on supply figures and parts specified but not produced by GW. I'm not sure how much there is to take advantage of with WMH.

As for Infinity, I like some of those MDF kits.
   
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A shame, really. All that casework effectively benefited the community as a whole. I really would like to see them grow their business but it seems that they chose to fade away instead.


 
   
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I PMed them here and messaged them via their site to check the viability of having some pieces sculpted and cast. That was back in April. No replies to either message.

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Infinity could standard some bits services. They have weapon packs but don't sell them and I'd like to be able to get weapons for conversions and profiles they don't have models for.

 
   
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The downside there is each faction has a distinct look to each weapon, and I'm sure CB would clamp down on anything made that even slightly resembles their stuff.

The other option would be partnering with them to make weapon packs, but that would depend on the quality of your sculpts. No partners that I know of currently make miniatures, only terrain. Antenocitii is the closest with his civilian vehicles and dropships, but those are still terrain.
   
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Despite essentially winning the case, Chapter House took a heavy gut beating. Essentially a one man business, they went through 18 months of drawn out litigation during which GW pulled out an array of very dodgy moves to try to ruin CH's business and make his life hell.

The appeal ended with an out of court settlement, which means we can't know the details.

My suspicion is that during the appeal process, GW were brought to realise they would lose on some important points they won at trial, and offered CH a big chunk of money to fold his tents and slip away quietly. Haggard from the 18 months fight, CH took the opportunity to get out of the whole nightmare.

Whilst this was a disappointment from the bigger picture of clarifying GW's shaky grasp on IP law and their supposed properties, I don't blame Chapter House at all.

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Didn't they celebrate with a kickstarter?

Alternate ageis lines IIRC.

How did that go?

 
   
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Fulfilled, but CH lost money on the project, and the project ran into delays: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1877613212/28mm-wargaming-sci-fi-trenches-and-emplacements-te/comments

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very late as their funds got frozen but fulfilled at the beginning of the year I think

 
   
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 Kilkrazy wrote:
Despite essentially winning the case, Chapter House took a heavy gut beating. Essentially a one man business, they went through 18 months of drawn out litigation during which GW pulled out an array of very dodgy moves to try to ruin CH's business and make his life hell.

The appeal ended with an out of court settlement, which means we can't know the details.

My suspicion is that during the appeal process, GW were brought to realise they would lose on some important points they won at trial, and offered CH a big chunk of money to fold his tents and slip away quietly. Haggard from the 18 months fight, CH took the opportunity to get out of the whole nightmare.

Whilst this was a disappointment from the bigger picture of clarifying GW's shaky grasp on IP law and their supposed properties, I don't blame Chapter House at all.


GW tried to scare him, and he flinched.

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weeble1000 wrote:
 Kilkrazy wrote:
Despite essentially winning the case, Chapter House took a heavy gut beating. Essentially a one man business, they went through 18 months of drawn out litigation during which GW pulled out an array of very dodgy moves to try to ruin CH's business and make his life hell.

The appeal ended with an out of court settlement, which means we can't know the details.

My suspicion is that during the appeal process, GW were brought to realise they would lose on some important points they won at trial, and offered CH a big chunk of money to fold his tents and slip away quietly. Haggard from the 18 months fight, CH took the opportunity to get out of the whole nightmare.

Whilst this was a disappointment from the bigger picture of clarifying GW's shaky grasp on IP law and their supposed properties, I don't blame Chapter House at all.


GW tried to scare him, and he flinched.
More that they kept piling bricks on him until he buckled - a flinch is sudden, in this case... GW just kept making life harder for him to do business, nothing sudden about it.

I have not bought anything from GW since, nor am I likely to. *EDIT* Mind you, their current games are making that an easy choice for me. It's easy to vow never to buy things you don't want from a company that you don't like....

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Kilkrazy wrote:When I was a young boy all my wargames were narratively based because I played with my toy soldiers and vehicles without the use of any rules.

The reason I bought rules and became a real wargamer was because I wanted a properly thought out structure to govern the action instead of just making things up as I went along.
 
   
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weeble1000 wrote:
 Kilkrazy wrote:
Despite essentially winning the case, Chapter House took a heavy gut beating. Essentially a one man business, they went through 18 months of drawn out litigation during which GW pulled out an array of very dodgy moves to try to ruin CH's business and make his life hell.

The appeal ended with an out of court settlement, which means we can't know the details.

My suspicion is that during the appeal process, GW were brought to realise they would lose on some important points they won at trial, and offered CH a big chunk of money to fold his tents and slip away quietly. Haggard from the 18 months fight, CH took the opportunity to get out of the whole nightmare.

Whilst this was a disappointment from the bigger picture of clarifying GW's shaky grasp on IP law and their supposed properties, I don't blame Chapter House at all.


GW tried to scare him, and he flinched.


Hardly, he fought for 18 months, and finally got a settlement which satisfied him.

The whole story demands an in-depth review and essay. The shenanigans that GW got up to, and their abyssal depth of ignorance about their legal position, have to be read to be believed. People who didn't follow it as it developed would find it very hard to patch it together from internet records like DakkaDakka.

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 TheAuldGrump wrote:
weeble1000 wrote:
 Kilkrazy wrote:
Despite essentially winning the case, Chapter House took a heavy gut beating. Essentially a one man business, they went through 18 months of drawn out litigation during which GW pulled out an array of very dodgy moves to try to ruin CH's business and make his life hell.

The appeal ended with an out of court settlement, which means we can't know the details.

My suspicion is that during the appeal process, GW were brought to realise they would lose on some important points they won at trial, and offered CH a big chunk of money to fold his tents and slip away quietly. Haggard from the 18 months fight, CH took the opportunity to get out of the whole nightmare.

Whilst this was a disappointment from the bigger picture of clarifying GW's shaky grasp on IP law and their supposed properties, I don't blame Chapter House at all.


GW tried to scare him, and he flinched.
More that they kept piling bricks on him until he buckled - a flinch is sudden, in this case... GW just kept making life harder for him to do business, nothing sudden about it.

I have not bought anything from GW since, nor am I likely to. *EDIT* Mind you, their current games are making that an easy choice for me. It's easy to vow never to buy things you don't want from a company that you don't like....

The Auld Grump


He flinched. It was sudden. Litigation is oppressive, but he flinched. It happens. It isn't a slow process of being weighed down; it is a moment of weakness. Understandable, but regrettable.


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 Kilkrazy wrote:


Hardly, he fought for 18 months, and finally got a settlement which satisfied him.


With all due respect Krazy, you don't know that. You don't know the terms of the settlement and you don't know the man's state of mind, then or now.

What you do know is that GW made a last ditch effort designed to break an opponent's resolve, and the case was settled swiftly thereafter. GW went after Nick's personal assets, which is designed to create leverage. You know that this did not happen until after almost a year of time in which the parties were ostensibly negotiating.

The parties were unable to come to an agreement during that time, but rapidly came to an agreement after the plaintiff attempted to execute the judgment and pierce the corporate veil.

We can't come to an agreement, so you put a gun to my head, suddenly we come to an agreement. You think I'm happy with that agreement?

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weeble1000 wrote:
GW went after Nick's personal assets, which is designed to create leverage.

I've always wondered, couldn't Nick have filed for bankruptcy to protect his personal assets given that GW was essentially a creditor?


 
   
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Weeble you really should do a full write up of the case. It deserves to be chronicled for the future, and you are really the best candidate for such. I don't think I would be wrong in saying that all of dakka would be very grateful and thankful to you for it.
   
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The legal process is exhausting and really draining emotionally. It's like going to war, one side may come out ahead but there's no real "winners" as everyone involved comes out worse than they went in. Even though I was only involved for 1 1/2 years (and not 4) it was such a soul sucking experience that even once it was behind me it really dampened a lot of the enthusiasm I had towards gaming and modelling as a whole. My interest level in anything remotely GW related was completely dead for quite a while.

I imagine the process was much worse for Nick given how much longer it went on for him, add in difficulties with a KS project and it's very easy for things to grind to a halt (even if it's just for a time). A small business (especially an art based one) lives and dies by the enthusiasm/energy of the owner so if he's burnt out or overwhelmed then there's a good chance you'll see things slow down or even stop for a bit until they can get get that internal energy built back up.

I hope Nick is doing ok and that he wasn't soured on gaming too much, it certainly wasn't an easy thing to go through.

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weeble1000 wrote:
 TheAuldGrump wrote:
weeble1000 wrote:
 Kilkrazy wrote:
Despite essentially winning the case, Chapter House took a heavy gut beating. Essentially a one man business, they went through 18 months of drawn out litigation during which GW pulled out an array of very dodgy moves to try to ruin CH's business and make his life hell.

The appeal ended with an out of court settlement, which means we can't know the details.

My suspicion is that during the appeal process, GW were brought to realise they would lose on some important points they won at trial, and offered CH a big chunk of money to fold his tents and slip away quietly. Haggard from the 18 months fight, CH took the opportunity to get out of the whole nightmare.

Whilst this was a disappointment from the bigger picture of clarifying GW's shaky grasp on IP law and their supposed properties, I don't blame Chapter House at all.


GW tried to scare him, and he flinched.
More that they kept piling bricks on him until he buckled - a flinch is sudden, in this case... GW just kept making life harder for him to do business, nothing sudden about it.

I have not bought anything from GW since, nor am I likely to. *EDIT* Mind you, their current games are making that an easy choice for me. It's easy to vow never to buy things you don't want from a company that you don't like....

The Auld Grump


He flinched. It was sudden. Litigation is oppressive, but he flinched. It happens. It isn't a slow process of being weighed down; it is a moment of weakness. Understandable, but regrettable.


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 Kilkrazy wrote:


Hardly, he fought for 18 months, and finally got a settlement which satisfied him.


With all due respect Krazy, you don't know that. You don't know the terms of the settlement and you don't know the man's state of mind, then or now.

...


I said at the outset that my post was my opinion or suspicion of what has been going on.

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 Fenrir Kitsune wrote:
That'll learn him to argue back against GW. They say stop, you stop.


Lol. GW 'learned' a whole lot more in the case than Nick. You file predatory litigation and folks will make you pay big for it.

GW took a HUGE hit in the Chapterhouse case, and utterly failed to shut Chapterhouse down. As Jon mentioned, that kind of litigation is draining for both parties. GW didn't realize how draining it would be until waaaay too late in the game. Pretty much after the fact. This is because Kirby was driving the litigation, but wasn't really involved in it or engaged in it in any substantive manner. As a result, his company suffered, and his employees suffered. Just ask Gil Stevenson how she feels about it, or Andy Jones.

GW doesn't want to go for round two, which is a darn good idea, because its position would likely be far worse than in the Chapterhouse case.

For all we know, Nick doesn't feel like making miniatures anymore, for reasons entirely unrelated to the case. But the litigation did not shut Chapterhouse down. Nick protected his, and everyone else's, rights to make accessories for another company's products.


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 Kilkrazy wrote:

I said at the outset that my post was my opinion or suspicion of what has been going on.


I understand. And I apologize for not being more clear. I think your speculations were unreasonable given the facts, and somewhat unfair.


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 Phobos wrote:
Weeble you really should do a full write up of the case.


Tried it. Can't do it. Not worth the mental and emotional effort.

We all know the results of the case, and we can feel its impact on the market. Nobody really needs me to write about it.

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AlexHolker: "Allow me to put it this way: Paramount is Skynet, reboots are termination attempts, and your childhood is John Connor."
 
   
 
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