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From http://www.battlegames.co.uk/

http://www.battlegames.co.uk/documents/BG_HH-RP-JS-interview_unabridged.pdf

Very interesting and informative about the history and development of GW and the influences and thought processes behind the designer of the first editions of WFB and 40k.

An excellent interview on a number of interesting topics. Thanks for posting this!

Phew! A long read.

I got through maybe half of that, skimming through.

Thanks for posting it.

Great read. The stuff about how 40k changed games workshop was pretty interesting.

fascinating stuff, alot of insight into why GW developed the way they did and the history of wargaming in general.

RP: You have to be so careful. If you take tournament players as your driving force behind games
design, you end up with a certain kind of game. And I would venture to suggest that it’s not the type
of game that is terribly accessible to someone in their middle teens or a youngster who is starting
out.

haha Dont blame Jervis

Was an interesting read.. I quite enjoyed it thanx for linking it.

I liked that quote too. Shows they are conscious of what's going on but making a deliberate choice. Whether or not you agree with that choice though...

Very interesting, I've always respected RP, and do so even more now.

Wow, great read (although I was less engaged in the earlier pages, about RP and JS's journey through early wargames years). The stuff about design decisions behind WHFB and 40K is quite informative. Some of it we've heard before (what type of gamer you build for, the merits/drawbacks of IGO-UGO), but others are new to me (like the engaging nature of allowing the defending player to make saves for their figs during what is otherwise a long hands-off wait through the enemy turn).

Thanks for posting that, Osbad.

For someone like myself, who never dug into the inner workings of GW or its history(rather spend my time playing the games or painting), this was a pretty good read, although I did skim through half of it.

Interesting to see that Tom Kirby was the driving force behind plastic kits, army books and GWs expansion. He's always painted on most forums as a head chopping money collector. From what I gather from this interview of his former employees, seems like he saved GW from stagnation and opened up creative flood gates. Regardless of your views of him or GW, they did pave the way for alot of folks, in my opinion.