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I think the games are nice, usually; Firewarrior and Soulstorm were meh and OH GOD IT'S HORRIBLE respectively.

I was introduced way back, right when 3rd edition Eldar got the Craftworld Codex. DoW1 et al. was nice, but too traditional RTS and lacked a lot of units like bikes, Killer Kans, Wraithguard, those "Space Elf Knights on Jetbikes" aspect warriors. Also many players I've met who got into the game that way can't seem to tell the difference between super fluffmarines and the actual gameplay ability of a Space Marine.

DoW2 is as close as possible to a real-time version of the game. Its got everything that could actually be fun and usable in an RTS setup, but I still find that some tactics from the tabletop work.

Final Liberation I loved when I found a demo of it on an old CD lying round but I've never played the full version.

As for the film, well it does have Zod and the Secretary General of the Norse Fire party... But I would've preferred it if they had put the Blood Quest movie back into production and updated the animation to the 2010 standard.

They really are doing everything possible to get attention, Table top, Cards, PC, Consoles, Novels, it just boils down to GW trying to make a wargamers heaven, at least that's what i got from it. Example would you rather see a picture of a hot chick at the beach, watch a video of a hot chick at the beach, or,play a video game of that, GW says, why not all three?

I like the dow series the most. Its good for expanding your image of 40k.
I also dislike it because in Dow you can kill a squiggoth with a squad of guardsmen
(impossible in the tabletop game (except with the heavy weapons)).

In my opinion GW should do more advertising. 50 people in my school of 1000 play either WH40k, WHFB, or LOTR. We have a club and we petitioned our library to subscribe to White Dwarf. Now imagine what would happen if we had 100 people. We might even get boards!!! eek!

Ed_Bodger wrote:I think it is a good thing but it would be nice if Space Marines were perhaps not quite so prevalent even though they are the easiest to market and thanks to Halo people love the idea of being a superhuman warrior running round shooting aliens and slapping them in the face (like the average Bradford teenager on a saturday night outside the old people's home.)

Yeah, I can understand the gripe about the prevalence of Space Marines (and gripe about Bradford!). But as you said, being super-human is always fun and common-place these days (and the hobby) and let's be honest, the whole concept of Space Marines is pretty damn cool! Similarly, I'd say playing as, say, a Guardsman would be a bit of a short game! But Fire Warrior worked, didn't it? Maybe Storm Troopers could too?
Maybe the MMORPG I've heard about could introduce a step away from Space Marines?

P4NC4K3 wrote:I think that the video games are a fine expansion for GW (DoW has taken up a lot of my free time over the years) although I do think that a GW film (Ultramarines) is taking it a bit too far

Yeah, I agree in both ways. Are there any official 40K comics? akin to those used to benefit Halo? I reckon that could probably work...

Cadichan Support wrote:In my opinion GW should do more advertising. 50 people in my school of 1000 play either WH40k, WHFB, or LOTR. We have a club and we petitioned our library to subscribe to White Dwarf. Now imagine what would happen if we had 100 people. We might even get boards!!! eek!

I disagree personally, the hobby has too much of a limited appeal for them to bother with masses of advertising. Through markets such as video-games, book and comics(?) they can target a similar (stereotypically 'geek') market IMHO...

Dawn of War is what got me into WH40k in the first place. As long as relic keeps making em (the rts ones at least) I'm down with them vidya gaemz. I think there's lot of potential too for FPS, TPS, battlefront/TF2 style games, RPG's like inquisitor, and so on.