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Well, made me grin...

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/blogPost.jsp?aId=18800014a

"In other news, we recently received a batch of pictures from a local hobbyist called Steve Wren. He's a big fan of tournaments and gaming weekends and thought we'd like to see his Daemons of Chaos army, which he's getting ready for the Warhammer Doubles event in November. He was right; we did want to see them..."



See those PP Horde Spell Martyrs?

Holy toledo! What does this mean? Lawsuits being issued?

I don't think it really means anything - the web guys probably didn't notice it. Or thought that it was not important.

I actually think it's cool that GW's "What's new today" often shows sweet conversions and the like. Don't ruin it!

Indeed, I doubt it's a harbinger of a forthcoming buyout or merger... It did just make me grin though, given GW's foamy mouthed attitude to 3rd party suppliers and using parts from other companies minis in conversions.

True... a funny slip . Hopefully the web guys continue to be the cool kids out of the GW gang

RiTides wrote:True... a funny slip . Hopefully the web guys continue to be the cool kids out of the GW gang

Isn't that like being the pretty one in a rugby team?

RiTides wrote:I actually think it's cool that GW's "What's new today" often shows sweet conversions and the like. Don't ruin it!

I'm sure they love being "outed" like this. Hope their resumes are updated...

Oops!

Oh well, give it a day or so and they'll issue a note to tell people not to submit pictures that aren't GW pure... again.

There's a Cryx Scarlock in there too. Nice army, shame it won't be on show for long.

Steve Wren.
Master troll.

I like his idea of 'filler units' to make the units larger without adding more infantry while putting something unique and decorative in the middle.

I'm not sure which is the more hilarious explanation-
1-GW employees/higher ups don't know their own model lines enough to notice the out of place models.
2-GW pays so little attention to the rest of the war gaming hobby world it didn't even occur to them that there might be non GW models in the pics.

Where is the Skarlock? Edit: NEVERMIND! I found it

Also, notice how the bloodletters are the only image that doesn't have the ability to be brought up in a lightbox?

(clicking to bring the pic to the foreground of the page)

That's a nice green shade.

Alfndrate wrote:Where is the Skarlock? Edit: NEVERMIND! I found it

Yup - right there in the front rank. Pretty awesome job with the cloak to cover it up.

It is, I first thought it was the changeling!

CorvidMP wrote:I'm not sure which is the more hilarious explanation-
1-GW employees/higher ups don't know their own model lines enough to notice the out of place models.
2-GW pays so little attention to the rest of the war gaming hobby world it didn't even occur to them that there might be non GW models in the pics.

Personally I find it more hilarious that you don't realize that it's user submitted content, and they don't check it for a reason.

Wow that Skarlock looks awesome. Good idea for my Cryx force

Kanluwen wrote:... and they don't check it for a reason.

They don't check to ensure that they aren't using other peoples copyrighted models to advertise their own competing products-ON PURPOSE? Seems like an odd policy, I'm much more inclined to believe they just did a cursory check and overlooked it on accident.

I'm just poking fun at the lumbering corporate behemoth, relax bro

Also- Skarlocks are awesome, both ruleswise, and as models (the bright green soul spiraling around the pale undead skarlock is just money).

And this from the company that won't show pics of Golden Daemon winners in White Dwarf id they combine WFB and/or 40K models with LotR models. The world really is going to gak.

warpcrafter wrote:And this from the company that won't show pics of Golden Daemon winners in White Dwarf id they combine WFB and/or 40K models with LotR models. The world really is going to gak.

In fairness, I believe that was a contractual necessity. I think Jon even stated in another thread that LOTR contractual obligations also helped drive the latest round of secrecy/leak control.


As to OP--I chuckled--as I'm sure PP did.

AgeOfEgos wrote:

warpcrafter wrote:And this from the company that won't show pics of Golden Daemon winners in White Dwarf id they combine WFB and/or 40K models with LotR models. The world really is going to gak.

In fairness, I believe that was a contractual necessity.

It was. It even said so in the White Dwarf where that was a problem, for a Warhammer Fantasy Wood Elf Lord.

I think Jon even stated in another thread that LOTR contractual obligations also helped drive the latest round of secrecy/leak control.

I think it was more speculation about the contractual obligations being behind the latest round of secrecy/leak control--but I would not be surprised that it is.

CorvidMP wrote:I'm not sure which is the more hilarious explanation-
1-GW employees/higher ups don't know their own model lines enough to notice the out of place models.
2-GW pays so little attention to the rest of the war gaming hobby world it didn't even occur to them that there might be non GW models in the pics.

Or the actual explanation that it doesn't matter they're not all GW models.

This is almost as good as the GW employee that had his army on bases made from GW basing kits when infact they were micro-art

AgeOfEgos wrote:

warpcrafter wrote:And this from the company that won't show pics of Golden Daemon winners in White Dwarf id they combine WFB and/or 40K models with LotR models. The world really is going to gak.

In fairness, I believe that was a contractual necessity. I think Jon even stated in another thread that LOTR contractual obligations also helped drive the latest round of secrecy/leak control.

I think they said at Games Day though that they were just trialling the new secrecy policy, and if it wasn't popular they would switch back to the old plan.

Also, the "Cauldron of Blood" seems to have been built straight out of a tutorial from No Quarter 38.

http://privateerpress.com/files/NQ/38/teaser04.pdf

MunkeyKungFu wrote:This is almost as good as the GW employee that had his army on bases made from GW basing kits when infact they were micro-art

Except it wasn't a GW employee. It was an army submitted via the Flickr pool with no information on the bases.

MeanGreenStompa wrote:It is, I first thought it was the changeling!

It's the Changeling's top half with Skarlock arms and bottom half by the looks of it.

This pic has truly made my day, it was up there with the DE army in the cabinet at my local GW (not sure if it's still there) that had entire PoM Wracks on the Raiders!

Just goes to show what beautiful things can happen if everyone just ignores GWs moaning and went with the flow.