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Congratulations on failing...
I'm adding you to my ignore list because i believe you are trolling and i don't trust myself not to do something silly.
Goodbye.

Oops double post , internet playing up

Read this thread, study it, get to know it, for this is the secret to getting many pages on your threads ladies and gentlemen.

Then why was that extra bit about "who washes your underwear" in there?

KingCracker wrote:Read this thread, study it, get to know it, for this is the secret to getting many pages on your threads ladies and gentlemen.

.....wtf......and I contributed........

coolyo294 wrote:Then why was that extra bit about "who washes your underwear" in there?

Curiouser and Heresier...

Someone do me a favor and shoot me, this thread is trully becoming a trainwreck, its so horrible but I cant look away

ref washing underpants , its the oily mechanics who do the servicing. Its the role of the lesser races to serve the greater ones. These lesser races scarcely get a mention in the fluff.
Did Nixon mention his barber ?


Keeping inline with fluff can be very important. But sometimes it can box you in a corner. Its a royal pain when rules editions get updated, and also when codex's are lagging.
Its a delicate balance between pandering to customers and dictating with out listening. Its the same with online servers, but with GW games it kind of happens in slow motion.

I think the Mechanicus is the Imperium's mechanic.

I don't see the appeal of this "mechanic" army. it seems like another trite overused idea, but unlike 40k armies it doesn't have that one redeeming factor that makes it more than "mad max in space".
Sure a new idea can be neat, but we've been playing elves, orks and space mans for a long time in alot of different games because they're good ideas. Why change whats working?
Honestly if you don't like 40k and think you can do better; do it. Put up or shut up. 40k has books, video games, tabletop games and movies. Pick one and implent your "better" ideas.
I'll even help: http://www.freewargamesrules.co.uk/
i frequent this website; its a place to post up your own games.
Make a better 40k, don't just complain about it.

The introduction of new races has to be done with great care. Even the lesser races.

Shaving / reshaping of plastic is easier. This is an option open to GW production and modelers alike

I have highlighted quite a few issues where i feel GW has come up short (some untidy armies & untidy models ). The plastic only gets as good as we the buyers demand it to be. GW needs to be more proactive in getting feedback from its customers. You cant please everyone , but you can pee of a lot of people if you dont listen and act, or dont act without careful planning.

At the end of the day GW is in charge of production sales and distribution. But that never prevented a company from shooting itself in the foot. With the recession hanging around for a good while longer yet i hope GW has a real good think about where it wants to be in another 20 years time.

For me , I hope these sees the introduction of new armies, with look and play better than the current ones. I also hope a few tweaks to their present line up will tidy things up. The more armies you have, the more sharply defined they can be in terms of playing style, visual style and other aspects. That's how i think it should pan out. Its a long thread , but reading through the good bits has got me thinking.

What good bits? This whole thread is nothing but a hotbed of bad ideas.

The more armies there are, the harder it is to focus on each one. That's common sense..

One more thing-YOU talk about untidy armies when, well I'll be frank, you're spewing out this crap.

Stick around folks, Blame the Victim 2 is coming up after these messages!

A Black Ram wrote:Stick around folks, Blame the Victim 2 is coming up after these messages!

I was really hopng it might happen...

swuk wrote:
I have highlighted quite a few issues where i feel GW has come up short (some untidy armies & untidy models ). The plastic only gets as good as we the buyers demand it to be. GW needs to be more proactive in getting feedback from its customers. You cant please everyone , but you can pee of a lot of people if you dont listen and act, or dont act without careful planning.

then


now


i'd say they're definately trying to improve some of their old sculpts give time everything will look like this. As far as new armies go, all it means is a non space marine player will have to wait even longer for their "mad max in space" army to get an update. Aside from that the fluff nuts will get pissed when armies suddenly starting spawning out of no where. Sure the demiurge, mechanicus or exodite might become there own armies one day; but i bet i will be way before the mechwarriors come from mechanics union.

DrownedRat117 wrote:
That is new fluff, 12 times over,
12 new model ranges (Considering one model take around 1-2 years to perfect),
12 new army books (Try to make that unique..)
12 new angry things for space marines to shout
12 new ideas (Which would probably be the hardest part. Let's be honest, they've gone as far as swarming space bug dinosaurs, they must be running low..)
12 new areas of grumbling. Nothings perfect...

And 12 Angry Men....

Brother SRM wrote:I'm glad my parents didn't drop me on my head when I was a child, or else I'd be making posts like the OP's.

They didn't drop him on his head...that's a trifle unfair to any child who was dropped on his head. They curb stomped him instead

I've had my fun.

PS; A Killteam is en route to your location. Prepare to receive termination within 24 hours

Am I the only one who thought the older dark eldar were much better than the new ones?

A Black Ram wrote:Am I the only one who thought the older dark eldar were much better than the new ones?

Probably.

You're so compassionate.

Thanks.

I wish I contributed to this thread sooner... That said, lol.

Seriously though, my forgiving factors for GW's (otherwise) BS way of running things, is their product and fluff. I love their fluff, and the models are extremely customizable.

Then again, I love the Cadian models, so something may be wrong with me.

This thread is quite hilarious, as I'm not quite getting what this person means.

Well, reading this thread was quite enjoyable , OP needs to understand his opinions are not facts, and no one is forcing him to buy WH40K.
I personally love the fluff and I think the IG tanks fit perfectly in the army with its WW I/WW II theme.

I'm not sure what to think of this thread
but my mind is surely blown
ref his writing style and 3+ edits are really strange

Battle Brother Lucifer wrote:I'm not sure what to think of this thread
but my mind is surely blown
ref his writing style and 3+ edits are really strange

Yes, I can't imagine what he did in his 17 edits of his 2nd post
that left it still unreadable

I forget what we're talking about.

I've been inspired by Jimsolo to try and give some imput.

First of all, I have not read half of your posts, swuk, because the formatting is just so...caddywhompus. Bolding certain parts of the sentence that don't need to be make for a very confusing read.

I like the asthetic of the 40k armies. I think one of the reasons they chose to design off of history is because it's familiar. People like familiar. People buy familiar. The human race should be the MOST familiar. Give the people what they want.

I would like to see more 40k armies as well, but I don't think the mercenaries idea is worth expanding on. In 2 minutes of thought, I came up with a scenario where a large portion of the Empire has been rediscovered quite suddenly, but they are not loyal to the Emperor. The Imperium is still larger by far, but this second empire is large enough and strong enough to wage war. Make of that what you will.