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I remember my first White Dwarf, it had an article on how to convert a Battlewagon into a Battlewagon with Blitzcannon, complete with templates for the card/plasticard for you to photocopy.
I remember my second White Dwarf had an article on how to make and assemble a Baneblade (all the templates for the card/plasticard included with something like 5 pages of instructions!).
Then there were the articles about how to make Coach Houses and Mine Entrances for WFB...

Those were the days...

I predict articles entitled "How to convert new models using two, three or even four of our nice shiny plastic kits" or "Seeing the forest for the trees - how to ignore the all the mis-castings in your new finecast models and just enjoy them from 4 feet away".

Not that I'm a cynic or anything.


text removed. Sorry we can't have links to things like that. Reds8n

I had the good fortune of meeting a lot of the new White Dwarf folks at Games Day Chicago. They were all pretty awesome.
Maybe some pictures of Games Day Chicago will actually end up in the White Dwarf, like the 20 ft. long Chaos Cruiser that Snake Eyes Gaming brought with us: http://snakeyesgaming.blogspot.com/2012/08/gamesday-2012-pictures.html

 SilverMK2 wrote:

Even the paper is a higher quality

Finepaper? Perhaps fixed with Green-Ex?

Bound and printed on human skin. Which explains the occasional hole.

ill reserve judgement until I see a few magazines.

The encouraging thing out of all of this is that presumably they have listened to the fans, and realised the magazine was in severe need of an overhaul?

Not something that has happened too often in the modern history of GW. Will be crossing my fingers in any case, and giving a few issues a try.

Since one of the new staffers is listed as a "Digital Editor", does this mean we can expect a digital subscription option in the near future?

 Pacific wrote:
The encouraging thing out of all of this is that presumably they have listened to the fans, and realised the magazine was in severe need of an overhaul?

Not something that has happened too often in the modern history of GW. Will be crossing my fingers in any case, and giving a few issues a try.

Or they read the comments section on their Facebook page every once in a while?

furbyballer wrote:
ill reserve judgement until I see a few magazines.

If only more people did that instead of jumping the gun and making finecast jokes.

 pretre wrote:
If only more people did that instead of jumping the gun and making finecast jokes.

I look forward to a new White Dwarf golden age as much as the next person but this is GW we are talking about... I've long since given up hope of anything good coming from them, especially not for any sustained period of time.

I hope that I can be proved wrong on this one, but I am not holding my breath (or opening my wallet) based on GW's promises.

 Kung Fu Hamster wrote:
Since one of the new staffers is listed as a "Digital Editor", does this mean we can expect a digital subscription option in the near future?

I hadn't thought about that... Interesting. Either digital copies, or perhaps, digital add-ons.

This is exciting new indeed.

I really like the new blog name White Dwarf Daily. It's a much better fit then the old "What's New Today?". I always though that name was rather lame.

I'm sad that they'll be redoing the White Dwarf logo. It's so iconic and 'familiar'.

 SilverMK2 wrote:
I've long since given up hope of anything good coming from them, especially not for any sustained period of time.

GW is obviously not perfect, but look at the last couple armies they have released and tell me that they aren't releasing quality ranges.

GK, DE, Necrons and DV. All solid ranges of minis. To say that nothing good comes from them is silly. Have they had some crap in that time? Sure. Have they also put out a ton of great kits? Yep.

 kronk wrote:

 Kung Fu Hamster wrote:
Since one of the new staffers is listed as a "Digital Editor", does this mean we can expect a digital subscription option in the near future?

I hadn't thought about that... Interesting. Either digital copies, or perhaps, digital add-ons.

I highly doubt it, but who knows with their recent foray into the iBooks store. She'll probably be doing page layout and choosing which photos to use or perhaps making / editing the YouTube videos.

 pretre wrote:
GK, DE, Necrons and DV. All solid ranges of minis. To say that nothing good comes from them is silly. Have they had some crap in that time? Sure. Have they also put out a ton of great kits? Yep.

I'm not going to argue subjective tastes (especially since I feel that only a handful of kits in those ranges are any good), however my comments were less directed towards the kits that they put out than the company, the IP and the way they go about their business and put themselves out to the public. Check out the context of my post

Maybe its been too long since I cared about WD... but I just read that whole thing as a justification for an inevitable price increase on the magazine.

I will remain positive and look forward to this new era of White Dwarf - I'm even looking forward to once again subscribing to WD.

How crazy is that?

I'm not holding my breath on it.

They come out with something like this every couple of years or so. "The New and Improved.." ends up being worse then the original.

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

Really? Because I'm fairly certain a whole new staff and office is a bit different than any new and improved they've done before. Just saying...

Interesting, have to wonder if this is a by product of the 'we want to release more stuff quicker' going on at the studio.

I get mine each month here at the shop, so looking forward to seeing how it changes.

Since they're actually releasing rules, I might resub for the first time since the 90's.

This looks like good news. I'm excited to see what they might change/improve. Some of you guys are so cynical and negative it's sickening. Just quit if you hate GW so vehemently...

orkybenji wrote:
Some of you guys are so cynical and negative it's sickening. Just quit if you hate GW so vehemently...

Quitting is for quitters

And just to note; you can like and enjoy the game, or background, or any other aspect, and not like GW. It is not like you have to embrace every aspect of something to be able to take part in it.

 Pacific wrote:
The encouraging thing out of all of this is that presumably they have listened to the fans, and realised the magazine was in severe need of an overhaul?

Not something that has happened too often in the modern history of GW. Will be crossing my fingers in any case, and giving a few issues a try.

Or, alternatively, they've found ways of reducing the cost to them and are dressing it up as a relaunch in order to provide a bump in interest, because why miss an opportunity to sucker in a few optimists?

I myself, as a rabid cynic at heart, will be borrowing copies from said optimists(everyone knows one) for at least six months to confirm that it is actually an improvement and that they intend to continue it going forward rather than just in the first few issues in order to boost subscription sales.

Although, while I suspect the reason for the website blog chap being involved is so they can drastically scale back the actual blog content to just teasers with "See the new WD for moar!" every four lines, he does occasionally acknowledge that things like plasticard, insulation foam, and a capacity within sentient humanoids to make their own models and terrain all actually exist, which is more than you can say for most of the current WD staff.

I see they got the turd polish and glitter I sent them in the post

 Orinoco wrote:

It has to be said that your want seems to be of relatively small stature.

Here's the good thing. Somewhere along the line "they" moved out of the party line "we ARE THE HOBBY. LOVE US AND DESPAIR!!!" and realized something was wrong and something needed to change. They're trying something new and they're excited about it. That's a good thing.

Now I don't think I've so much as picked up a WD in 2 years let alone buy one, but I'll check out their next issue and if it's worth buying I'll buy it. It's really all you can do or ask of.

In advance---I skimmed this thread. Worrying about leaks from the WD aka leak about magazine articles. LOLOL R U SRS?

@ Orinoco

BOOM, HEADSHOT!

whitedwarfteam wrote:We'll also be featuring models from our Flickr pool on a regular basis too, just like Michael Boonk's Goblin Hero on the left. With over 43,000 pictures on Flickr now, it's virtually impossible not to find something inspiring in there and we'll continue to show your pictures in White Dwarf Daily. Incidentally, if you do upload something to Flickr then please make sure you email the pictures to us too - that way you'll definitely catch our attention.

So, will this mean that we actually can make money from Games Workshop instead of the other way around? Or are they conviently forgetting about copyright-issues & compensation? Even though you have taken a picture with a crappy point and shoot camera / bad setup you are entitled the same compensation as professional photographers. If you've uploaded pictures to their Flickr-pool, check what copyright settings you have on them. ( http://www.flickr.com/account/prefs/license/ )