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You know, I had another idea. If I was in charge of GW/40k for a day. I'd make people scan in good copies of every edition of white dwarf, and then sell collection PDF's of all the old issues. LIke "White dwarf 1992" "White dwarf 1993", etc. They could be like $5 each for the whole year of old white dwarfs. Probably take it all the way from the start of WD up to maybe... 2 years? Or do they sell pdfs of the new ones now? If they do sell PDFs now then I would do this old scan/sell thing up to the modern era.

I have decided: if i were in charge of GW for a day, Id cut a licensing deal for Denis Villeneuves Dune universe and release a game built on the MESBG engine.

GW already has a wargame based on Dune. it's been a thing for like 30 years

AOS has no genuine werewolves…

I’d introduce a full werewolf faction for AOS. Why they’ve not done this yet I have no idea. There are some designs that are reminiscent of werewolves of course (Vargsykr etc) but no genuine Big Bads…

It’s an outrage and needs correcting asap.

 StudentOfEtherium wrote:
GW already has a wargame based on Dune. it's been a thing for like 30 years

Shhhhh.... don't tell anyone...

 StudentOfEtherium wrote:
GW already has a wargame based on Dune. it's been a thing for like 30 years

Oh, you mean kind of like how they had a wargame based on Tolkien for like 30 years prior to launvhing MESBG?

chaos0xomega wrote:
I have decided: if i were in charge of GW for a day, Id cut a licensing deal for Denis Villeneuves Dune universe and release a game built on the MESBG engine.

MESBG?

The Lord of the Rings game.... Battle for Middle Earth

 Lathe Biosas wrote:
The Lord of the Rings game.... Battle for Middle Earth

Ahh, ty. Though I still can't parse the acronym

 Insectum7 wrote:

 Lathe Biosas wrote:
The Lord of the Rings game.... Battle for Middle Earth

Ahh, ty. Though I still can't parse the acronym

Middle
Earth
Strategy
Battle
Game

Lathe Biosas wrote:The Lord of the Rings game.... Battle for Middle Earth

Lathe Biosas wrote:

Middle
Earth
Strategy
Battle
Game

The Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle Earth and Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game are two different games.

The former is a RTS published by Electronic Arts, the latter is GW's LotR tabletop game.

Yeah, that was supposed to be an edit, but I was too slow, typing on this teeny tiny phone.

 Lathe Biosas wrote:

 Insectum7 wrote:

 Lathe Biosas wrote:
The Lord of the Rings game.... Battle for Middle Earth

Ahh, ty. Though I still can't parse the acronym

Middle
Earth
Strategy
Battle
Game

Ty!

I'd add alternating activations to the game to make the core gameplay more interesting and less "fething around on my phone for 20+minutes while my opponent does their thing"

 VladimirHerzog wrote:
I'd add alternating activations to the game to make the core gameplay more interesting and less "fething around on my phone for 20+minutes while my opponent does their thing"

I like the BattleTech everyone shoots at once thing.

 VladimirHerzog wrote:
I'd add alternating activations to the game to make the core gameplay more interesting and less "fething around on my phone for 20+minutes while my opponent does their thing"

Not gonna lie, the point where my opponent pulls out a phone during my turn is about where I pack up and go find an opponent who's actually interested in the game.

If you're not interested in social interaction while playing, at the very least watching what your opponent is doing so that you keep up with what's going on and don't need prompting when it's time to take a save or a LD test is just common courtesy.

 insaniak wrote:

 VladimirHerzog wrote:
I'd add alternating activations to the game to make the core gameplay more interesting and less "fething around on my phone for 20+minutes while my opponent does their thing"

Not gonna lie, the point where my opponent pulls out a phone during my turn is about where I pack up and go find an opponent who's actually interested in the game.

If you're not interested in social interaction while playing, at the very least watching what your opponent is doing so that you keep up with what's going on and don't need prompting when it's time to take a save or a LD test is just common courtesy.

See this?

THIS.

Also, if you’re gonna go alternating activation? Go the Epic route, and have me define, via “secret” orders what my forces can and can’t do. Because anyone can set a trap, but the true skill is in spotting and avoiding the trap, before you’ve even set it. And secret order assignation gets you really good at that.

Certainly better than the “oh hey wow, I didn’t think of that, but if I react *right now* I should be good, because that’s what makes a good tactical game, right. Right?”

 insaniak wrote:

 VladimirHerzog wrote:
I'd add alternating activations to the game to make the core gameplay more interesting and less "fething around on my phone for 20+minutes while my opponent does their thing"

Not gonna lie, the point where my opponent pulls out a phone during my turn is about where I pack up and go find an opponent who's actually interested in the game.

If you're not interested in social interaction while playing, at the very least watching what your opponent is doing so that you keep up with what's going on and don't need prompting when it's time to take a save or a LD test is just common courtesy.

I'm sorry but when a game is structured in a way that basically forces solitaire play, its boring. I much prefer the games with AA where we both are actively participating in the game. This kind of gameplay doenst even HAVE downtimes where picking up your phone is possible...

And AA games go much faster than IGOUGO, so playing a game doesnt take up half your day either, leaving more room to chill with the gang before/after the game