WISHLIST TIME!

You're head of GW and can greenlight 3 projects (codex, expansion, minor game). What do you go with? And why will they make GW a huge dump truck full of money?

Codex: Space Wolves
Codex: Blood Angels
Codex: Space Marines (just because)

Warhammer Armies : Chaos Dwarfs. Because the background is cool, it was just the Hats that were silly. Plus moar Warhammer Fantasy is always a good idea.

Warhammer Quest Version 2. Well, why the hell not? Supremely fun game, and like Space Hulk but with knobs on.

Codex Mercenaries. Just a fun little side project really. Little bit here and there of random mercenary units, with of course the option to field the book as a single Army, a sort of league of non aligned worlds.

LATD,

A deep space boarding parties game,

A new random race for the fun of it.

Codex - Squats (someone had to)

Minor Game - Hellish Hockey (Game takes place in the frozen chaos wastes..chaos teams with mutations on skates using a head for a puck!)

Expansion - Space Hulk (wait... ).. I mean Space Hulk 2 with other races .. like Orks, Eldar etc..

1. Obvious but important none the less, updating all codices to fifth edition rules. Not necessarily new models just updating of the core army rules and fluff

2. A new expansion that focus' on small skirmishes, i'm thinking necromunda style for game size, terrain and general tactical style. However using 40k armies, so you could have a couple of squads of Space Marines hunting down xenos in a hive. Dark Eldar doing a slave raid on a small Guard outpost. Something that focus' on small squad to squad combat and relies heavily on tactics. ( I cant say I know of a game like this, odds are there is one though, I havent played anything but 40k)

and I really cant think of a worthy third option

Codex: Adeptus Mechanicus (this needs to be an army)
Codex: Lost & The Damned (the most common enemy in the fluff needs representation in the game)
Codex: Chaos Space Marines (retcon the current abortion from existance and re-do it).

And if I didn't re-do CSM, it'd be Genestealer Cults.

1) Plastic Vostroyans
2) IG codex with different rules for each army like the SM codex.
3)Replica 40k weapons(life size)

Necromunda

Why? GW needs an introgame for the 40k universe that people can get into fairly easily. It was a popular game that still has a following. CoD terrain makes it easy to make a stunning Necro table with ease.

How? New edition, with 6 basic factions.
1. Hive gangs - No more trenchcoat gang vs bandana gang. they're all hive gangs.
2. Genestealer Cult - any questions? Good.
3. Chaos Cult - any questions? good.
4. Redemptionist Cult - any questions? good. The nice thing the 3 can all share a sprue with a ton of bitz to differentiate them.
5. Pit slaves/servitors - zombie cyborg gladiators! It's almost as good as space ninja catpeople jedi!
6. Arbites/Enforcers - the man who keeps you down!

So now you have 6 factions who represent a good cross section of 40k fluff and are differentiated by more than what clothes they wear.

Codex Lost and the Damned

I'd take it in 2 directions. 1 is the obvious Dark Guard method. The other is a Cultist-based guerilla insurgency army. It's probably the main form of warfare in the 21st Century but there is no 40k army that plays that way. So lots of infiltrate and ambush.

Warhammer 30k

A big hardcover with Imperial Crusade army lists vs Horus' rebel legions.
A plastic box set with marines in historic armor.
A plastic box set with trenchcoat and gasmask guard
rules for custom primarchs (since no one will ever agree what the primarchs stats should be).
Insanely expensive Forgeworld Primarch models.
Tell me this wouldn't make GW a gazillion dollars!

Warhammer 20K or whenever that age of awesomeness was. We could have huge antigrav ships, totally sweet Tau-like weapons, and sentient robots everywhere. It could be like playing Star Trek, but totally awesome.

Warhammer 2000

In the grimdark future of the here and now, there is only warlike behavior.

Featuring Such Armies as:

• Somali Pirates
  
• Chuck Norris Militia Men
  
• Inner City Gangbangers
  
• Internationally Backed Religious Insurgents
  
• French Worker Unions
  
• And more...
  
  

Codex: Forces of the Inquisition (With Grey Knights, Sisters, and Deathwatch drafted like Cult Marines in a revised: )
Codex: Chaos Marines (With special cult rules and org chart modifications dependent upon which HQ option you take. If its good for Skull Marines, its good for Spike Marines.)
Codex: Lost and the Damned

malfred wrote:Warhammer 2000

In the grimdark future of the here and now, there is only warlike behavior.

Featuring Such Armies as:

• Somali Pirates
  
• Chuck Norris Militia Men
  
• Inner City Gangbangers
  
• Internationally Backed Religious Insurgents
  
• French Worker Unions
  
• And more...
  
  

Ha. I'm going with my Democratic People's Republic of Cornea. We have an all-seeing, all-knowing leader who doesn't poop and we can totally kick all your asses.

1) The Lost and the Damned:
-Tons of cheap, horde troops with lots of Gets Hot! (Maybe 18" S4 AP5 Gets Hot! as the standard weapon), and Generally crudy stats (WS2 BS2 S3 T3 W1 I2 Ld6 Sv--)
-Lots of Scout/Infiltrate
-The ability to take CSM's and Daemons basic troops as Elites
-Option to take Traitor Gaurd Platoons and Vehicles

2) Squats.

3) Dogs of War book for Fantasy

1: New Rules for Sisters (Don't you dare change my exorcists though)

2.Plastic Sisters

3.Give them to me for free.

yup, that works.

1: Plastic Thunderhawk for Apocalypse.
2: Necromunda 2.0... pretty much as Kyoto summed it up.
3: Plastic titans for Apocalypse, 1 every 2 months for a year:
1: Warhound
2: Revenant
3: Hierophant
4: Chaos Warhound
5: Large Tau Flier, larger than their current ones but much smaller than the manta, or failing that 2-3 of their fliers in a box
6: Something for the necrons.

1. Project Horus Heresy: Why? Because most hobbyists are thinking about it already and its time is now.

All 18 SM chapters complete with full line of MKIII and MKIV armor plastics.

Within the project I'd bring in Guard, Dark Guard, AM, Dark AM, and Adeptus Custodes armies and models. AM would have as a foundation Skittari(Troops), Praetorians (Heavy), Protectors(Elites), Adepts, Electro-shock priests, Servitors, and super-techy AM stuff.

2. Necromunda - a stand alone great game/intro game to be sold on highstreet. See all Kid Kyoto's comments, he's got it spot on. All his selections for models make great alternative armies for 40K as well.

3. A return of Specialist Games. Not the red-headed step child treatment that is has gotten the last few years.

1: Codex Inquisition (with full combination of WH n DH and all the other bits n bobs most definately including plastic SOB kit annnnnd a multi,multi part inquis n retinue plastic kit). - Sales? The multipart kits, esp the Inquisitor and Retinue, would provide so many bits for sculpting, converting etc... oh yes, this will be a winner, plus most of the army already exists.

2: Codex Dark Eldar (lets just get this done, with Jes G sculpting it, it will be a winner despite my slight loathing of them since their creation).
- Sales? If Jes works his magic, it will be a winner.

3: Legendary Armies Tome, this heavyweight book contains the character armies lists: Known Craftworlds, Ork Klans, Selected Imp Guard Regiments, Tyrannic Splinter Fleets, Famous Space Marine Chapters, Specific Chaos Legions and The Lost and the Damned. It would be a hardback book the size of the rulebook and similar price and would sell like hotcakes due to the range of sub-armies covered in it.
- Sales? The Beauty of this book from a sales angle is that you still need the parent army book for any of the forces included, and it covers so many 'do wants' from different players.

1) A proper Errata/update/faq for all current codice with no ambguity or ask your opponent answers.

2) An update of all codice wthout tying them to model release.

3) Plastic models for all troops for all armies followed by elites, fast attack and heavy support.

It's a pipe dream but it's what I'd like to see.

Space Hulk
Chaos Dwarfs
combined ordo (inquisition) codex.

Codex: Lost and the Damned
A wave of all-plastic APOC releases that gives all armies 'one big thing' to play with (and I'm counting this as one, even though it'd be a bunch of releases). Thunderhawk, Necron Pylon, etc.
Codex: Adeptus Mechanicus

(1) 6th Edition 40k, I'm tired of 5th already!
(2) The Codex UNIFORMITY Project, all Codices in one big black book to be released alongside 6th edition 40k. ~75 hardback.
(3) 40k Battlegroups: Warhammer Skirmish game with {3-20} models a side, incorporatng all the rules for, and making it possible to essentially play, Necromunda, Space hulk, Gorkamorka, Combat Patrol and 28mm scale inquisitor (with all races from 40k represented) in one game.

I would greenlight the hiring of several more games designers/playtesters.

I would then do so again.

And again.

That should bring the number of designers/playtesters to an almost acceptable level.

1. Codex Dark Eldar
2. Codex Dark Eldar
3. Price lowering scheme (did I mention Codex Dark Eldar?)

...I don't even play dark eldar!

Hey! Gonads got 6 wish llisty things, not fair! I call shenanigans! He may be listing in 1 wish but it has several sub wishes within it.

1. Codex: Inquisition. Complete with Plastic GKs, GKTs, Sisters, and a plastic Inquisitor/Retinue kit.

2. Codex: Dark Eldar. I hate the bastards, but they deserve an update with a completely overhauled line.

3. Codex: Ad Mech. Come on, you make Dark Eldar but not the Adeptus Mechanicus? That's f'd up!

Some kind of Armor Wars. A 40K based game system using just vehicles/tanks/walkers. Squadron rules, more advanced vehicle combat and what not. Would be total eye candy, and they already have a large portion of the models.

1)Space dwarves either as a Terminator armoured version of the Adeptus Mechanicus or as the Demi-Urg.

I prefer the demi-urg idea.If The bloody elves have there own seperate space faring race then so should the dwarves.

Tying the Squats to the imperium was GWs mistake with the dwarven arch-type. It limited them to using Imperial Iconography(?), or to put it more easily imperium gothic look as oppossed to a dwarven warhost look. The imperium look limited them by the fact that the Dwarven arch-type would be best represented by a MEQ and the imperium alsready had SMs.

Dwarves with their own look and tech would sell like crazy.

2)I agree with the halonachos, but I'd add making a merchandising agreement with Nerf. Maybe make them a do it yourself, assemble your own, kit.

Do I need to really explain the idea of how this would start kids(and their dads)getting into the hobby earlier and be a great promotion for the base game.


3)Dark Eldar, Instead of chasing trends get on one while its just getting hot. Their seems to be a major shift in the societal acceptance of the concept of tight revealing outfits with a hint of bondage thrown in.

Don't believe me. Check out the (Not promoting it as good, just popular) Legend of the seeker. The fact that the Legend of the seeker hasn't sent the Religious community into an absolute frenzy is a testament to this thought.

If your wondering what I'm talking about. Watch the show and count the number of times women and men are bound. Then count the number of times that torture is implied if not out right shown. I don't think there is necessairly anything wrong with a series depicting such but there is a line where such depiction becomes gratuitous. I'm just surprised at the times it is running and how close to that line they sometimes come.

My point here is that if my usually prudish country is being accepting of such a show then it might be a good time to release the DE.

Please do not take my reasons for why making items from my wishlist would be profitable as an excuse to derail the thread.

I would use all my newfound resources towards a 40K MMORPG featuring Space Marines. There's been a huge demand from Blizzard fans for a Starcraft MMO, so I think the time is now to produce a 40K one and steal their users. If done right, it holds the most promise as a WoW killer.

H.B.M.C. wrote:Codex: Adeptus Mechanicus (this needs to be an army)
Codex: Lost & The Damned (the most common enemy in the fluff needs representation in the game)
Codex: Chaos Space Marines (retcon the current abortion from existance and re-do it).

And if I didn't re-do CSM, it'd be Genestealer Cults.

Agreed. Those would be my three as well. With the same genestealer cult note.

First and foremost, I'd re-energize a corporate commitment to community building. e. g., restore GTs, improve WD (beefing up coverage of players' armies, player/club campaigns, etc.), encourage/sponsor club and indy tournament events, perhaps revive Black Gobbo...

Then, LatD Codex

Then, Chaos Dwarves (less goofy, this time -- sort of a steampunk Dark Mechanicus for WHFB)

1) New Chaos Codices -- I can't stop at one. I'd junk the current CSM and Daemon codices, and replace them with three new ones. Chaos Renegades would actually cover renegades and true, old-style mishmash Chaos armies that included some CSMs alongside Traitors and all kinds of gribblies. Chaos Daemonworlds would include daemon stuff from the current codex, but also mutants (who live on daemonworlds in vast numbers) and rules for fighting on daemonworlds. Chaos Legions would be CSM-centric, covering the big 4 of Chaos (and other similarly monogod Legions) and the Black Legion.

2) Horus Heresy -- An absolute no-brainer and something that's either in GW's blind spot, or something they're massively overthinking. Your publishing division has a series far more popular than anything they've ever done, and they're leveraging that across the company by...doing absolutely nothing. *facepalm*

3) 40K Skirmish -- It's self-contained, using existing models and a main rulebook that includes the rules for all playable factions. The rules are slightly different than 40K, but include some of the basic mechanics. It gives GW an entry game that's actually replayable (unlike AoBR), helps sell existing boxed sets, takes up virtually no extra shelf space, and allows them to take on their competition where they're strongest (skirmish level).

1) Space Hulk
2) 40k Skirmish (not 40k game mechanics)
3) Studio Website & Forum

Am I me or am I the head of GW? If the latter:

1. Move the three starter games (AOBR and BFSP and whatever the LOTR starter is) into cheap, pre-painted plastic sets a la AT-43/Confrontation with easy to follow rules to get new players.
2. License all game production to FFG and concentrate on miniatures creation. At minimum, license the former 'side' games (Necromunda, Gorkamorka, Inquisitor, Mordheim, Epic, etc) to FFG or similar company.
3. do whatever necessary to keep the LOTR license; if too expensive, pursue other licenses (Heroclix is now open...)

1. Fire entire current rules writing and proofreading staff.
2. Hire competent rules writers, editors and proofreaders.
3. Release 40K 6th Edition.

1:start a campaing to destroy all ultramarine armys
2: Khan mini
3: update all codexes

The Green Git wrote:1. Fire entire current rules writing and proofreading staff.
2. Hire competent rules writers, editors and proofreaders.
3. Release 40K 6th Edition.

Ha! I like that!

1. Make future 40K editions into four hardback books including Rules, Imperial Codex, Chaos Codex, and Xenos Codex. These would be released simultaneously to prevent prior codeci from becoming obsolete or unbalanced and include a basic list for regular game play. After this initial release, issue an army-specific codex that expands on the army list and provides alternate lists to play with that army: Dark Angels (Ravenwing/Deathwing), Space Wolves, Blood Angels, Iyanden, Biel-tan, Bad Moons, Kult of Speed, etc.

2. Combat Patrol: Just like KK's Necromunda, but with the armies of the 40K codeci. Great way to get started in a game; include details on campaigning to increase your patrol's skills and talents as well as making them completely compatible with the 40K core rules. This would be appropriate for small scale actions including espionage teams, boarding parties, explorator units, gladiator fights, and hive world conflicts. I'd love advancing an eldar guardian patrol to an exarch council and then playing that exarch council in a 2k game...

3. Production of all Troops selections in plastics, including alternate Troops like Wraithguard for Eldar.

Space Hulk
Genestealer
Deathwing

I'll trade in 2 of my "greenlights" to put in more effort and awesomeness into this one:

The Warhammer 40k Black Book:

Featuring:
- Balanced Races!
- All Codexes updated, unified and tabbed for easy referance! (i.e. Dark Angles, Ultramarines, Space Wolves etc. updated and under the Space Marine Core Rules subsection)
- 2 NEW races! Squats (yeah!) and something else, like Telepathic Super Space Squid that possess other people's bodies that give players the chance to buy new units or convert old ones that they have lying around...
- Painting guides!
- Expanded Fluff for all races, not just Imperium!
- Pockets for WD or future rulebook updates/expansions!
- 90% less taint of evil capitalistic corperation!
- And, released simultaniously, The Warhammer 40k Black Book S.E. featuring a "backstage" look of the modelling process, inspiration of the storyline, a day in the life of a GW Designer and a Special Edition HQ Unit from your favourite race!

I'll go with mostly combined codices (ala armageddon and eye of terror)

1) Codex Inquisition (Deathwatch, Daemonhunters, Witchhunters all in one book)

2) Codex Founding Chapters Part 1 (SW, BA, IF, WS) add on

3) Codex Traitor Legions Part 1 (pick 4-5) add on

4) Dark Eldar


yes, i added a fourth since, lets face it, my wishes don't come true anyways.

Dark Eldar!

and make Daemonhunter / witch hunters /
into ONE codex.

Arbite / Mechanicus into another ONE codex.

Of course its impossible since GW loves money.

Stop cheating the "three greenlight" system you fools. It may cause a paradox of some sort followed by a black hole.

1) Necromunda/40K Skirmish. Offering more detail than the larger battle rules of 40k. Great springboard for potential new players who look at the game and the cost to get into it and think, "WTF!". This would complete a linear "Small/Medium/Large" offering, with this game/40k/Apoc. A "Trilogy of Carnage" of sorts.

2) New Army Books: Eldar/Skaven. Thanks!

3) Mass-Media: 40K Movie - With real actors. A real director. A real budget, to coincide with the release of the 40K MMORPG - and yes, it'd be a requirement for the company to allow players to play characters/races OTHER than Space Marines.

Just random thoughts.

Chavalanche> Game of battles on a council estate rather like Necromunda with Chav gangs battering six shades of cacka out of each other

Plastic Warhound (cause come on face it the resin one is uber expensive and I live In constant fear of giving in buying and getting a mess of warped pieces through the post all neat uber plastics on a frame)

HEROQUEST! : A reboot of this boardgame would be legendary! with better detailed pieces al'la WHFB.

1. Release Codex: Adeptus Mechanicus along with a plastic range, including a set of greatcoat troopers that can be used to make guardsmen or skitarii.
2. Codex: Traitor Legions. A REAL chaos codex, not just used to represent some minor renegade chapter. Rules for all of the 9 legions.
3. Either Lost and the Damned (including allies rules for chaos) or Inquisition (including arbites for real this time)

1. Update all codex to current rule version. Combine where necessary.

2. All plastic figures.

3. Work on fluff for all races. I would love to see some great books for other races than the humans.

Hopefully this last suggestion doesn't open a vortex since I am stepping outside the list of three. But as a couple other folks mentioned, having a line of product based on the Heresy timeframe could be super groovy. I'd buy it. Since GW has most of my cash anyway, why not take the rest?

1) Update all the relics to 5th Edition ASAP ( Space Wolves, Dark Eldar, Daemon Hunters and Witch Hunters )
2) Reorganize the rule support for the games ( FAQ/Errata ). Give one or two persons the authority and responsibility to straighten up the current mess.
3) Space Hulk. Nuff said.

halonachos wrote:Stop cheating the "three greenlight" system you fools. It may cause a paradox of some sort followed by a black hole.

crap... i didn't realize that. well, at least if all our avatars suddenly grow goatees we know what caused the shift to the alternate universe!

I agree with the users who said a 40k mmo

It should be done in the style of Necromunda however... with higher levels having access to ways to branch into chaos worlds or Marine worlds... the highest levels able to war later there in. It would ROCK

Chaos, IG, Marine, and inquisition players start in the underhive as normal, orks start in the feral camps outside the hive city, tyranids are a constant outside threat.... Tau? could be in a small section of the city trying to influence them to sway to the greater good... Eldar would be a tough one to include in this scenario....

Man I should write the background story for this idea....

1. Bring back Specialist Games to the prominence it had in the mid-nineties. Focusing specifically on boxed sets(Like AoBR and the upcoming Space Hulk) that allow an easy shift into the larger games of 40k and WFB. This would include(but not be limited to) Necromunda, GorkaMorka, Space Hulk (yes, I know they are doing it already ), and Mordheim.

While each of the SGs would be different, the basic rules dynamics would be uniform across them(other than special rules, scenarios, etc.) much like the Expansion books change the dynamic in 40k. This would allow players to create crossover games with the systems with ease, giving players free reign to create endless scenarios between the systems and essentially allow a large variety of skirmish games to be played in many different setting.

Also, LoTR would be relegated to a SG, with support only equal to each of the other SGs. Essentially, there would no longer be a "Big Three." Just 40k, WFB and SGs.



2. Give all armies new codices for 5th ed. without waiting for a new model launch. Model range updates would follow as scheduling dictates.



3. Raise prices.

1 codex: cyber chocolate
2 ironlad dreadnought model.
3 world wide free models for all day

Kid_Kyoto wrote:

Warhammer 30k

A big hardcover with Imperial Crusade army lists vs Horus' rebel legions.
A plastic box set with marines in historic armor.
A plastic box set with trenchcoat and gasmask guard
rules for custom primarchs (since no one will ever agree what the primarchs stats should be).
Insanely expensive Forgeworld Primarch models.
Tell me this wouldn't make GW a gazillion dollars!

Hell Yeah!

Codex: Eldar (Normal, Dark and Pre-fall)
Smaller skirmish game (à la necromunda)
Codex:LEGIONS (horus heresy era, W/primarchs (apocalypse only) and with jetbikes, lots and lots of jetbikes )

1. Replace/change the GW Community System (WD, Website, GDs, Tournaments, etc) so that it promotes/focuses on the hobby and games with real articles, ideas, faqs as needed and other such inspiration/stuff instead of basically being limited advertising.

2. Warhammer 40k reboot line: have 40k rebuilt to make it a better game. Main products would be the core rulebook which would have options to scale from combat patrol to apocalypse; an all-in-one army book that supported all official and active armies (or merge this into the main rulebook if it does not make it too huge); fluff books would replace the current codex releases; supplemental books like Cities of Death, Space Hulk, or Planetstrike to fill in areas rules/concepts the main rulebook would not have space for and are less likely to be major focus at a tournament; line of "codexes" for experimental/"beloved" army lists that do not fit the current game model lines nor normal tournament play but niche players still clamor for such as LatD or maybe even Squats.

3. Prepare a similar reboot of Warhammer for a year or so after the 40k one came out.

Yes, I realize this violates KK's specification of "codex, expansion, minor game". LotR fits the post reboot model close enough already, I would just release it as a new edition when The Hobbit comes out to cash in.

In order:

40k Codex: Imperial Guard
- 2010 revision by Phil Kelly
models:
- Greatcoat Guard conversion sprue (greatcoat legs & gasmask heads for Cadians)
- Light Infantry conversion sprue (cameoline torsos & hooded heads for Catachans)
- Heavy Infantry conversion sprue (armored arms & full-face helms for Cadians)

WFB Warhammer Armies: Dogs of War!
- Tilean armies
- Dogs of War
- Regiments of Renown
- For Hire! Allies rules
models:
- refreshed re-release of WFB5 DoW & RoR units

40k Codex: Lost and the Damned
- Traitor Guard
- Mutants
- Cultists & Daemons
models:
- Traitor Guardsmen (compatible with Cadians & Catachans)
- Mutants (compatible with Cadians & Catachans)
- Cultists (semi-compatible with Cadians)

1: Change the entire system of codex writing so that everyone gets a new dex at the same time so we're all fair and balanced with the new rules.

2: Definitely bring squats back with new codex and miniatures.

3: Update kill team to be more fun to supplement 5th.

1: Codex: Demiurg (Cuz we need them. We do. Shut up! It's true!)
2: Codex: Adeptus Mechanicus (Duh. Shut up, again!)
3: Plastic Knight Titan (for AdMech Heavy Support)

and a #4, just because: Codex: Jokaero

Cadaver wrote:1. Bring back Specialist Games
2. Give all armies new codices
3. Raise prices.

I think we will see just one of your 3 wishes granted...

#1: CODEX CHAOS: Chaos space marines, Daemons, Lost and the Damned, Dark Mechanicus. One 300 page hard-bound book.
#2: CODEX CHAOS: Chaos space marines, Daemons, Lost and the Damned, Dark Mechanicus. One 300 page hard-bound book.
#3: CODEX CHAOS: Chaos space marines, Daemons, Lost and the Damned, Dark Mechanicus. One 300 page hard-bound book.

With a textured cover, like an ancient tome bound in Human skin. "Klaatu, Verata, Ni-Achooo!!!"

1. Move the entire metal range into all plastic kits. All of it.

2. Include a ribbon of GS in every $75+ box, and a tube of it in every $200+ box.

3. Bitz bags: 2 lbs of random plastic bitz in a bag, from arms, weapons and heads to scenery, books, and small pieces of terrain, at a discounted rate. You don't get to pick the specifics, but it would be a well-stocked pile.

1;destroy all pots of ultramarine blue
2:kill the person that made the vulkan mini
3:give all dakka members free stuff for life

garret wrote:3:give all dakka members free stuff for life

Best suggestion yet.

Dronze wrote:1. Move the entire metal range into all plastic kits. All of it.

Absolutely. Plastic miniatures are the best stuff ever. However, I like Crayola air-dry clay better than green stuff. You can get a tub of it the size of a tub of cool-whip for $5, and there's no kneading required.

Project One: Consistency and Standardization
1. Compile all units and their options referencing points, attribute and the army.
2. Any item that goes across multiple armies is standardized in it's points and attributes.
- Example: All land raiders are 230 points base and transport 12 models.
3. Units are then compared against each other to make sure their attributes align correctly when compared against other units.
- Example: CSM terminators are better in melee than SM terminators, while SM terminators are better at range.
4. If changes are minor, release chapter approved / FAQ update
5. If changes are major, release 40K 6th
6. Once 40K is complete, repeat for other product lines.

Project Two: Chaos Redux
1. Codex: CSM and Codex: Demons are removed from production.
2. Codices are then split into 3 books and released one after the other. Each codex will be independent with no Allie rules. Summoning system is done away with and they will either start on the table or adhere to a DS & assault mechanic.
- Codex: CSM - Covers the 5 undivided legions. Sort of like CSM plus guard, with cult units as elites. New models to include generic demons and a fast attack choice.
- Codex: Gods of Chaos - The 4 cult armies are covered in this book and what benefits you receive are based on the god you choose. Cult marines and cult lesser demons are troops. Heavies, elites and fast attack choices to be filled out better.
- Codex: Traitors - Guard plus demons. Lost and the damned done correctly.

Project Three: Marketing IP
1. License a 40K cartoon. Hasbro and Ban Dai has used cartoons for years to sell product.
2. License a 40K movie, a good movie with a real budget. Same as above.
3. Further develop IP by providing writing input on the above to make the universe more detailed.

I don't really think I'd mess with the product release schedule too much, save for one exception below. So -

1) Bring back the bitz service. Fire anyone in management who signed off it's removal, as they fundamentally do not grasp how to grow the hobby. It's essential to the creativity that retains long term gamers and inspires new ones.

2) WD's economics don't work - so pull in fan work for free (or models) to fill it chock full of content, and keep employed editorial staff to cover new releases, edit and tidy said articles and perform nice photography only. Reduces costs, improves content, increases sales.

3) My exception - a Lost and the Damned codex. Requires virtually no new production resource (no new models... maybe an upgrade sprue). Developer time is, comparatively, very cheap. Sells decent and sells more models, hence gaining a better return on investment than any other project. Not doing this is actively dim.

Phazer

- Codex: Tau Empire 5th Edition
- Expand production facilities in the U.S. to help lower the damn prices...
- RETURN OF THE SQUATS! Perhaps a Rebel grot army/Codex as well.

1) Fix WD to have Less ADs and more content, Drop its price to £3 an issue, more hobby content and freebies, and the old subs deals (you know buy a 2 year sub get £20 of mini's free)

2) Convert Price restrictive metal modelas to allow for to plastics (think ogryns and wraithgaurd rather than sterngaurd and tankbusters)

3) Streamline the 16 existing codexes down to 3 marine dexes as opposed to 5 (Codex, a bit deviant and very devient), inquisition to one book, codex daemons re-intergrated into codex chaos but in such a way as to allow full armies of marines daemons or both, maybe Eldar and dark eldar into one book (depending on if DE go more towards space pirates or chaos eldar). once this is done and all dexes are up to speed use the space gained to split chaos into the aforementioned book, a big 4 book and a LaTD book, then a second ork book for clanz. Even if the eldar are not combined this still reduces the overall number of books to 15 and its 15 that folks actually want.

After reading this thread some more I've updated my list (unfortunately it overflows a bit)
1. Warhammer 30k. Big awesome book, all armies get pre-heresy rules and plastic conversion kits, new character models. Basically a huge new release like apocalypse. Imperial jetbike squadrons, a conversion sprue for each old mark of power armor, primarchs with FW models, and other such crazy things.

2. An Advanced Codex line. This would include:
Codex Imperium: Another big, hardcover book. Has Adeptus Mechanicus, Arbites, 3 branches of inquisition.
Codex Chaos: daemons, lost and the damned, dark mechanicus.
Codex Chapters: rules for loyalist chapters. This would feature all 9 of the original loyalist legions, as well as some more popular later foundings such as BT.
Codex Craftworlds: lists for each craftworld, exodites, and Dark Eldar.
Codex Traitors: lists for all 9 traitor legions
Codex Ork Clanz: lists for all clanz

3. Profit

Release a SM sprue of nothing but beakie helmets

Plastic Hellhound & Leman Russ variant sprues

Put a stat card in every model box for use in gameplay.

1 - Make greatcoat guard.
2 - Print money using license obtained in step one.
3 - Cocaine and hookers and ponies and lasers and gold.

1. Codex Mechanicus
2. Great big book o' Chaos, including chaos marines, lost & the damned, and daemons.
3. I dunno, Necrons?

1. Completely overhaul White Dwarf, return it to it's "Hobby Magazine" status of the early 200's issues.

2. Resurrect the bits service.

3. Place Blood Bowl teams (all of em) above any future vanilla marine projects.

- Take the current CSM codex, and stick it where the sun dont shine with everyone that had anything to do with creating that abomination! Create a codex: Legions, stick all the legions in there, both pre and post heresy, and add renegades in there too. And give us back our ARMORY! ...I miss my mini-hero aspiring champs...

- Recreate codex: squats, or make it Demi-urg for all I care. Go wild with it. Failing dwarves, go for codex: Hrudd or codex: Loxattl.

- Put back BFG and the other SG´s where they belong. I don´t care about the new kiddyhammer tactics of Jervis-the-overfiend and sons. i want my SG´s back. Seriously.

Only 3?

I like H.B.M.C.'s idea.

Okay, here's my take:

1. Codex Chaos
One large book with CSM, Demons, and LatD.
The CSM would work like this: you dedicate them to either one of the Gods or original traitor legions to gain special traits.
For example: Nurgle favoured CSM units, gain FnP, Plague grenades, +1 Toughness (and I mean, real toughness, not that 4(5) stuff) and -1 Initiative. There has to be some drawback.
Demons would be like they are in the current Codex right now. Therer are not really bad choices, but they're just not interesting enough to justify a single army.
Lost and the Damend would be a combination of IG vehicles and special units together with stuff like Mutants and Zombies.
There would be bonuses if you keep your army within a single theme, kinda like the old lists for Death Guard and World Eaters.

The most important thing in this book would be an official apology by everyone who wrote the last CSM 'Dex. And a promise that they will never ever get to write a Codex for an army that already exists.

2. Codex: Forces of the Imperium
This would include all 3 Inquistion branches, Adeptus Mechanicus and Allies rules for Imperial Guard and Marines, but only if a Inquisitor Lord or High Mechanicum Magis is present.
It would be only one book, but with more restrictions. Unless you play the an Apocalypse-sized game there is no reason to field Grey Knights together with SoB.
There would be rules for Arbites, Inquisitorial Stormtroopers and a few Alien allies if you use an Ordo Xenos Inquisitor.

Right now I can't think of a 3rd one.

Double Post, because of weird Dakka hick-up

1) New Eldar Codex to make Eldar amazing again (and to up Eldar abilites like FoF, Vectored Engines and anything else nerfed by V5), with a release of EVERYTHING in the Codex in plastic.
Autarch Boxed set (like CSM termie lord) with ALL available upgrades, same with Farseer (plus boxed set of jetlocks)

2) Necromunda (see above), I fething LOVE necro!

3) Reissue everything for IG in multipart plastic.

I played a few rounds of Necromunda, but I didn't nearly enjoy it as much as Mordheim. My main problem was, that most of the time, you just don't see anything and the whole game was about who would dare to go out in the open and trigger's the opponent's overwatch first.

That's why you ban Overwatch. All that rule does is stall games.

And I like your ideas as well Anung.

Maybe it's time for another Thread in the proposed rules section

JohnHwangDD wrote:

Cadaver wrote:1. Bring back Specialist Games
2. Give all armies new codices
3. Raise prices.

I think we will see just one of your 3 wishes granted...

Yeah, number 1.. cause we know the other 2 are just smoke and mirrors.

1Blood pact and other nefarious traitor guard style scum (blood pact are the ultras of this army and will always be everywhere.)
2Alpha Legion.. Secercy plus cultists..
3 Slaanesh .. really depraved not ths rockstar gak thy have now.

Oh yeah chaos would get demons back.

Id also fire the feth wits at the top.. And Eat their Pensions and/or Babies

Anung Un Rama wrote:Codex Chaos = One large book with CSM, Demons, and LatD.

Codex: Forces of the Imperium = 3 Inquistion branches, Adeptus Mechanicus and Allies rules

Instead of 3 (or more) Chaos releases spread over 3+ years, it's one big splash and then nothing, which is totally against the GW business model. Plus, you have Chaos guys sitting around with nothing shiny for a "long" time (4 to 6 years), wondering when Chaos is going to get more love. And from past experience, we all know how good a job GW does of balancing multi-list Codices with lots of options...

Imperium is a similar problem, but that's still like 5 or 6 lists in one book that bounce against 5 flavors of Marines (SM, BA, BT, DA, SW) + Guard.

Each of these is so much work, I just can't see GW doing a good job on either project. I think they'd be the royal screw-ups of royal screw-ups.

Hell, GW can't even get *Guard* right, and that was a single list with whose problems have been known for a *long* time. What makes any of you think that GW can possibly get an uber-Chaos or uber-Inquisition / uber-Imperium book right?

What's so wrong with Guard

See the IG thread for details.

malfred wrote:Warhammer 2000

In the grimdark future of the here and now, there is only warlike behavior.

Featuring Such Armies as:

• Somali Pirates
  
• Chuck Norris Militia Men
  
• Inner City Gangbangers
  
• Internationally Backed Religious Insurgents
  
• French Worker Unions
  
• And more...
  
  

Ok that Schite was funny!.. i dont care who you are...

Hi all.
I would just do what is REALY NEEDED!

1/A total re-write of the 40k rule set to cover the entire 40k universe!
A elegant and efficient rule set that allows the wide and varied units in the 40k universe to be acccuratley represented with the same stat line for ALL units.

Then develop a solid force composition method coupled with a provable and definate PV allocation sytem.

Then produce as many cool minatures as possible knowing any element-model-unit could be worked into a customisable army ,that would be ballanced to any other customisable army created using the force composition -PV allocation printed in the back of the rule book.

No need for Codexes any more!Just pick you favorite minatures -kits to build YOUR own personal army.

2/Close all B&M stores , sell everything direct -online/mail order at 30% of current RRP.(The B&M stores massive overhead costs would no longer have to be passed on to the customer.)

3/ Replace the B&M stores with a few key positioned 'hobby centres', and promote/activley support GW gameing clubs in Schools- Colledges etc.

1)Truescale (I’m sorry if Jes doesn’t like the term!) Marines. It would revitalize the entire line, bring it into step with the fiction and, here’s the good part for GW, sell Marines to all the Marine players, again. Kind of an LP to Cassette to CD kind of thing…

2) A 40K Chaos Codex that actually represented, even if only in a minor way, ALL of the Traitor Legions.

3) WFB Chaos Dwarfs – because that’s the only ‘new’ army I’d actually buy for Fantasy…

1) The Horus Heresy - I must say this has the potential of being the big thing that put 40k into the mainstream. A movie based on it would sell millions, but only if done right, by some director who loves the IP as much as if not more than Peter Jackson loved LOTR.

Think about it. Why is the Heresy so big now just in our gaming circles. You have all the elements of drama, action, and horror all rolled into one. I would love to make a Heresy era army and be able to play some of those titanic battles.

2) Reboot the rules - If Gw wants to make more money and keep people interested in their games then the rules have to be good. This whole notion of releasing one codex at a time makes no sense. It's would be like D&D releasing the DMG and then trickling the Players handbook across 7 books all released one at a time.

I propose with 6th edition releaseing the BRB and all the codexes tested, reviewed, and tourney ready. that way they can focus on being a mini company and releasing some great plastics.

3) Tourney support. Get/hire/make a department just with the sole purpose of stimulating and growing a thriving tourney scene. City Tourneys, State/Province/ etc.. tourneys, country tourneys, and a World tourney. Have a universal floor rules, and FAQ/Errata to support your judges rulings. Then get the best people out there competing for some prize money and it will make millions.

For example FLGS buys into tourney scene for $1000 charges $25 entrance fee gets 100 people playing, it equals out to $2500 brought in to the FLGS and GW . GW and the FLGS make more since people will need more models, paints, supplies, etc...

It's the same model WOTC uses for Magic and it works to this day. There are still people playing in the pro tour and people buying cardboard crack by the case full.

Alpharius wrote:1)Truescale (I’m sorry if Jes doesn’t like the term!) Marines. It would revitalize the entire line, bring it into step with the fiction and, here’s the good part for GW, sell Marines to all the Marine players, again. Kind of an LP to Cassette to CD kind of thing…

I think that rescaling all the marines would not only not sell well, cost a lot to re-do essentially the entire line, and cause problems with scaling of chaos, older SM that would not get new minis, etc... there are too many reasons to count. Changing the scale at this point would be a horrible move.

Okay. Here is what I would do

1) Drop the prices of everything by aprroximately 20%. I have so many friends who say "I would do it, but it's too expensive". If, by doing this, and even getting another quarter of sales on top of what they have already, profits SHOULD skyrocket.

2) Random bitz bags. this would be SO UNBELIEVABLY great for converters, and also for challenges, for example: Make the best model you can out of a bitz bag. It doesn't need to be anything in particular.

3) At least 1 plastic superheavy for each army. NOT just fifty seven Baneblade varients.

4) Revamp all the ones that have not had a new codex for more than, say, seven years.

Sorry about there being four ideas, but oh well

1. steal underpants
2.
3. PROFIT



seriously though, as much as we all have criticisms for the way GW handles its business model, I think they are on the right track now.
people talk about how bad codex creep is, or how crazy army specific rules hamper gameplay.... but what does it also do: sell models.
MtG does this, each new edition is more complex, more rediculous, and more powerful than the last. What used to be an all powerfull competitve deck of cards 6 years ago is trash compared to the cards available today.

i would rather have a game system that is unbalanced, but popular and long lasting than one that is completely fair and balanced, but doomed to corporate failure and being lost to obscurity.

Somali Pirates

Chuck Norris Militia Men

Inner City Gangbangers

Internationally Backed Religious Insurgents

French Worker Unions

And more...

That brought a tear to my eye!



Bue seriously, I would want:

Lost and the Damned
Adeptus Mechanicus
Genestealer Cult

ph34r wrote:

Alpharius wrote:1)Truescale (I’m sorry if Jes doesn’t like the term!) Marines. It would revitalize the entire line, bring it into step with the fiction and, here’s the good part for GW, sell Marines to all the Marine players, again. Kind of an LP to Cassette to CD kind of thing…

I think that rescaling all the marines would not only not sell well, cost a lot to re-do essentially the entire line, and cause problems with scaling of chaos, older SM that would not get new minis, etc... there are too many reasons to count. Changing the scale at this point would be a horrible move.

You might be right, but as I'm the head of GW in this fictional universe, I'm doing it!

All kidding aside, they might be able to spin it into a W30K Horus Heresy setting, and go from there...

I for one have been out of the hobby (read too much school, too little time and money) for a good 2-ish years and just got myself back, after reading the first page and seeing the general "I'm sick of 5th ed 40K" I guess some major re-do is necessary.

1) All codexes that haven't been updated since 3rd ed will be fixed (this means dark eldar, blood angels, space wolves, etc.

2) More models per price to the people, I'd LISTEN to the hobbyists and down the price per model, 10 models shouldn't cost 2+ USD each...

3) More and better modeling & painting equipment/Colors (brushes included). It's 50% of the hobby and the glue is crap and costs bijillions... cmon!

Oh and I have a seceret number 4) Make the super-awesomeness forgeworld stuff cheaper now with apocalypse here! (this includes everything you can buy from them that has anything to do with the game (not busts, belt buckles, etc.) give the gamer a chanse to finish his battle company with a thunderhawk dammit!

1) 30% Price Cuts
2) Buy one Get one Free Days
3) Making bitz more accessible

1) PC 40k, ala Vassal, but with DoW graphics.
2) Bitz the way they used to be.
3) Necromunda gang revamp/additions.



Ghidorah

1) Price decrease: One of the best ways to get new fans in, and get vets to buy more.

2) Print codex: LATD: It does seem popular, and the DE dex works well enough even though it is old. I do not see why GW feels the need to fix things that are not broken.

3) Warhammer Armies: Fishmen. The joke is made enough, time to make it real.

1:put polar bears in every army
2:make plastics for things that shouldnt be metal
3:have a book where the ultramarines die off

One word: Mordheim.

The game was incredible.

-J.

I totally agree on the dark eldar. If they are sculpted really well (which seeing new sculpts you KNOW they will) and the codex is good, people are going to say screw it Im starting a DE army. Cmon those guys are more terrifying then Orks in CC and thats a pants pooping type of thing

Codex : Lost and the Damned

I would release the book mostly without new models, with the intent of highlighting existing models that don't really sell to begin with.

(Boxes of guard, Chaos hounds, Chaos Spawn etc.)

The book takes minimum work because it would just be a 5th edition compatible version of the EoT list, drawing from 5th chaos and 5th guard.

It would make money for my company because with a minimal investment, I simultaneously push model lines from three different races across two gaming systems, 40k and WHFB.

The problem with LatD like that, is, like the EoT list, there are no models to track sales against. So GW's bean counters figure it loses money.

1. Price Drop, as has been mentioned. Probably the 10-15% range. Not much, but it might help.

2. Forge World price drop. Tell them to drop their prices by 35% or MORE or GW will make everything they make in plastic and put them out of business.

3. Work with RAPP (Paintball company) to create 40K looking paintball markers. Seriously, I'd love to be slinging a storm bolter around in the woods. Or a psycannon.

1; LatD
2; adeptus army
3; ALL core units plastic and 20% price drop on everything

1. Codex: Ordo Xenos (may be used with existing models and armies, a few new interesting kits, and has a built in campaign book)
2. Warhammer Quest Redux (more of a selfish request, but with the technology available now can be produced in a more profitable way)
3. 1 year price freeze. Company wide Six Sigma introduction. The implementation of a more stringent quality control program will improve the product, improve customer satisfaction, and will ultimately lead to greater, and more stable, future earnings.

1. 5th Ed codex update for every army.

2. Chaos Legions Codex: Big book with demons, black legion, Thousand sons, red corsairs, night lords, alpha legion, iron warriors, all of it.

3. Codex The Imperium of Mankind: All inquisition forces, 10 or so marine chapters including pre-heresy emps children and such, and imperial guard.



I think once all the rulebooks are taken care of then it's time to break out with model release waves.

1) Update all armies for current edition

2) All metal non HQ models become plastic which should increse the sales of WH, DH, DE other metal armies

3) When working on the next edition prewrite all the codex's, when 6th is released release a pdf for each army giving them new rules etc. Then produce the mini's in waves, when the 1st wave is introduced the codex is released with edits (for clarity) and other things that needed changes (but not too drastic). Then give the GW community 3 to 5 years (after last codex) with only mini releases, apoc books etc. Start 7th ed a good 10 years after 6th...repeat

For #3 I would make SM 2 codex's (Vanilla like now, and then SW, DA, BT, BA as 1 dex), WH and DH become 1 dex. CSM stay as 1 dex but regane some of their lost fluff. Perhaps DE and Eldar to 1 dex? This would speed up GW's production timetable whith fewer codex's out.

Casper wrote:Perhaps DE and Eldar to 1 dex?

We have this already.

It's called "Codex: Eldar".

Mattlov wrote:
2. Forge World price drop. Tell them to drop their prices by 35% or MORE or GW will make everything they make in plastic and put them out of business.

Forgeworld is owned by Games Workshop LTD.
So in conclusion,
Fail.

anyway...

1: A project for recruiting voluntary and competent gamers to play test, edit, proofread, and find loopholes and rules problems...
we all know that there are more than enough people out there that would be more than willing to do this for free...

2: Necromunda 2nd Edition, it was a damn sweet game the first time with a few problems, so lets fix it up, make it nice, and start again...
hell, they could even do a specifically =][=Munda version, either a stand alone or as part of the same game...

3: I agree on the plastic super heavies for every army...
heirophant and//or heirodule
warhound//chaos warhound
gauss pylon (or something better)
thunderhawk
revenant
brass scorpion
and... something cool for tau and dark eldar...

Wow... So, I'm a shot caller at GW, huh? Here's a few...

1.) Mordheim: Redux.
2.) Return of true Army Deals.


I have to think about the 3rd.

-J.

1. Eldar/Ork specific terrain
2. Plastic Titans
3. Campaign Settings w/ Special characters, Missions, Objective Pieces