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Nope, not a chance.

A few years ago I'd probably of been all over it like a rash, but not now.

I like some of the models, but some, to me, are just butt ugly, and I do like the idea of a naval game (I loved Man O' War), but as so many have said - the mish mash of races just doesn't do anything for me.

£70 for this is just far to much for me to consider. I don't play games anymore, and I don't really have anywhere to keep it - so I'll pass.

Must admit the variety of ships grabs me more than two sides - especially for a one off.

I am sure that they will either be stated for Uncharted Seas or the Uncharted Seas ships will appear for Dread fleet by someone

Nope, i'm not willing to pay $190 for a game that I won't use. Hell if I wanted to build model ships, I would make my titantic model that I've had for about 15 years.

After I played a particularly good hand this weekend (letting Mrs notprop lay-in both days, being the exemplar of the loving fun dad, cooking some decent scran and taking one and all to a local regatta) I popped the question and the Chairwoman of the board instantly okayed the purchase of Dreadfleet.

The to make this even sweeter, having spent over £3k on house/car insurance and a new boiler myself in the last week she offered to buy it for me!

Was not expecting that! I knew there was a reason I kept her about the place.

Arrghh me hearties! Splice the main brace; strangle the parrot, run up the cabinboy, tot a rum all round!

DrownedRat117 wrote:LOL.

It looks silly, IMO. They wasted a large chunk of time making a boat game (Sounds worse each time I say it) When they could've been doing models for
-Crons
-Tau
-Eldar
You catch my drift. So I'll put £70 (For boats (MENTAL)) away for something, anything else.

I don't think that is necessarily correct.

GW employ 82 staff in their R&D studio. They can't lack for resource to produce new stuff.

They also have cash on hand to invest in production, and, if a game like this is successful -- i.e. profitable -- then there will be even more money for doing Necrons and Tau.

Kilkrazy wrote:They also have cash on hand to invest in production, and, if a game like this is successful -- i.e. profitable -- then there will be even more money for doing Necrons and Tau.

But they can't afford to keep selling the game though, that would be crazy. If it becomes popular and you want to buy it a month after it's released you're just fethed.

I'm admitting to being tempted. I'm not going to be bounced into a snap decision though. I'm going to wait a couiple of weeks and see if I still want it. If my desire has gone off the boil, then I'll not bite. If I still do want it, and its sold out (unlikely?) then I'll just shrug my shoulders. There are plenty of other options for my £70 out there at the moment.

To be honest, I do not see this selling out as quickly as Spulk did and there were copies of that available many weeks after the initial release. I'm will in to bet there were muppets that bought it from eBay whenit was still available in store.

As for me this won't be the first thing I've bought without the nod from internet experts/reviews. I think that it looks nice, we'lljust have to see if it plays nice.

Sidstyler wrote:

Kilkrazy wrote:They also have cash on hand to invest in production, and, if a game like this is successful -- i.e. profitable -- then there will be even more money for doing Necrons and Tau.

But they can't afford to keep selling the game though, that would be crazy. If it becomes popular and you want to buy it a month after it's released you're just fethed.

Space Hulk was available longer than a month. Since the consensus here seems to be that this game sucks becasue

1. It is from GW
2. It is a limited edition
3. It isn't X where X is what ever the poster desired
4. It is over priced and not X where X is what ever the poster desired

Then it stands to reason there will be copies of this available for quite some time. And since you didn't want it any way, why care even if it did sell out?

Sidstyler wrote:

Kilkrazy wrote:They also have cash on hand to invest in production, and, if a game like this is successful -- i.e. profitable -- then there will be even more money for doing Necrons and Tau.

But they can't afford to keep selling the game though, that would be crazy. If it becomes popular and you want to buy it a month after it's released you're just fethed.

What I mean is say the production cost of the game was £25 and they made 100,000 copies. Say they make £10 profit on each copy sold, they only need sell 71,000 to break even and when they've sold the entire production run they will have made a profit of about £1,000,000.

They don't need to keep selling the game forever. It being a "limited edition" will increase its appeal to the right customer.

If people like it and think it will sell out, they had better buy it soon.

Not for me

I wont be getting it, I'm dissapointed that they didn't re-release Hero/Warhammer Quest instead. If people wanted to play a naval game, they wouldn't/shouldn't choose GW IMO.

Pre-ordered my copy today

Personally, I think it looks nice.

This game might have gone over better had GW done it back when the PotC movies were popular.

If you follow that logic then you will have to wait until they make the next D&D film to get a Warhammer Quest.

I'd rather have the latter without the former if the previous effort was anything to go by.

Anyway since when does Warhammer have anything to do with popular culture?

notprop wrote:Anyway since when does Warhammer have anything to do with popular culture?

It worked when the Lord of the Rings movies came out....for a while at least.

At first I was like, "meh". Then I looked again, and was like "mm pretty cool". Then I came back the next day and looked again and thought, "looks cool but there's no way I can afford it...". Then I came and looked some more.... went back again, watched the video.... came back again again and said I MUST HAVE IT NOW, BUY BUY BUY...

And then there was silence.

Damn GW.

I have space hulk, I played old space hulk, I LIKE space hulk. Man o War (or its 115 dollar derivative) doesn't really do it for me, so its a big no for me.

Never

Gorechild wrote:

notprop wrote:Anyway since when does Warhammer have anything to do with popular culture?

It worked when the Lord of the Rings movies came out....for a while at least.

[pedant]I said warhammer, not the third system that did for my beloved Epic! [/pedant]

I shall try to get past this but I guess that we will have to just take things one day at a time.

No promises. x


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Arclaw wrote:At first I was like, "meh". Then I looked again, and was like "mm pretty cool". Then I came back the next day and looked again and thought, "looks cool but there's no way I can afford it...". Then I came and looked some more.... went back again, watched the video.... came back again again and said I MUST HAVE IT NOW, BUY BUY BUY...

And then there was silence.

...

And don't forget the sense of shame, failure and dirtyness.

But mostly the shame.

Don't worry it will pass when the shiny new box arrives.

Gorechild wrote:

notprop wrote:Anyway since when does Warhammer have anything to do with popular culture?

It worked when the Lord of the Rings movies came out....for a while at least.

Absolutely. For a time it was wonderful, I was working for GW at the time and we could barely get stock out on the shelves before it was snatched by customers.
And again there was a brief surge when the movies appeared on DVD and came back into the public consciousness. What came afterwards however would not make comfortable reading.

I still maintain however it was a wonderful bit of initiative by GW and has no doubt made some people extremely rich off the back of it.

Also, that tying into a release such as the Star Wars prequels would have been a similarly big (if not bigger) opportunity. I don't know whether it would have been possible because of licensing issues, but nevertheless if handled in the same way as LoTR it would have been a great opportunity.

Pirates of the Caribbean maybe not so much (and we would have all argued that GW had sold a large chunk of its soul) but nevertheless maybe something could have been done off the back of it.

Pacific wrote:Pirates of the Caribbean maybe not so much (and we would have all argued that GW had sold a large chunk of its soul) but nevertheless maybe something could have been done off the back of it.

Something was done. Pirates of the Spanish Main "constructable" card game was pushed out within a year of the movie and for the most part was a pretty big success for WizKids, especially given the expectation of sequals to the PotC movie. Now styrene cutouts are obviously cheaper to design and produce than plastic sprues but still, it shows that a company can leverage external markets to drive sales. GW simply (pardon the pun) missed the boat.

Not interested in spending $115 on a one off game no one will be playing in two months that I can't even use the models elsewhere. Especially when there is my Ogre Kingdoms to expand on and I've just discovered how awesome Bloodbowl is.

Tzeentchling9 wrote:Not interested in spending $115 on a one off game no one will be playing in two months that I can't even use the models elsewhere. Especially when there is my Ogre Kingdoms to expand on and I've just discovered how awesome Bloodbowl is.

Well, the point is that it doesn't matter if anyone's playing it in two months if you have the game. You can just have anybody play with you straight of the box. I don't care if nobody's playing Memoir '44 anymore, since I can just break out the game and ask just about anyone to play and they will.

CptJake wrote:

RandomSauce19 wrote:I find Dreadfleet overprice (what a surprise!),especially for the size of the miniatures. Only 25x50mm Bases! What about you guys?

I think the models are a lot bigger than that.

From the GW web site:

Well the Heldenhammer is 100mm long and 110mm tall

If your gonna trash the game you should at least be accurate.

If you going to post in a thread, why not offer a opinion on the topic and not just on how well/what someone else replies?

I think we all know how well GW supports their 'One off' games. Meaning, not interested in it for me.

I voted no. Not interested in the price or content. Would have preferred that they put the energy into reviving BFG.

I still haven't played through every mission in Space Hulk nor painted any of the models. I just don't think I'll ever actually play Dreadfleet. So I voted maybe (but it'll likely end up "no").

alarmingrick wrote:

CptJake wrote:

RandomSauce19 wrote:I find Dreadfleet overprice (what a surprise!),especially for the size of the miniatures. Only 25x50mm Bases! What about you guys?

I think the models are a lot bigger than that.

From the GW web site:

Well the Heldenhammer is 100mm long and 110mm tall

If your gonna trash the game you should at least be accurate.

If you going to post in a thread, why not offer a opinion on the topic and not just on how well/what someone else replies?

I think we all know how well GW supports their 'One off' games. Meaning, not interested in it for me.

Thanks for the advice. I have a few posts on this topic and the other topic ( http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/392918.page#0 ) about the game. So I have given my opinion. I'm also of the opinion that if you are gonna trash something, you should be accurate. Can't see where that is not a valid opinion either.

Speaking of valid opinions:

Just out of curiosity, how much support do you expect for a 'One Off' game? How much support for a 'One Off' game changes your level of interest? Care to offer more of an opinion? Pot, meet Kettle....

It doesn't look like my kind of game.

Brother SRM wrote:

Tzeentchling9 wrote:Not interested in spending $115 on a one off game no one will be playing in two months that I can't even use the models elsewhere. Especially when there is my Ogre Kingdoms to expand on and I've just discovered how awesome Bloodbowl is.

Well, the point is that it doesn't matter if anyone's playing it in two months if you have the game. You can just have anybody play with you straight of the box. I don't care if nobody's playing Memoir '44 anymore, since I can just break out the game and ask just about anyone to play and they will.

Tell that to all those people with Space Hulk*.

*I'm sure people still play it, but I only play at my local GW and it's a myth there now.