Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

As taken from their website:
"We can no longer accept any further orders for our products

We would like to thank our customers who have purchased our publications over the years and hope you will continue to get many more years of gaming enjoyment from them

If you have any queries regarding orders that have been placed with Warhammer Historical please
contact the Forge World Customer Service team"

As a huge fan of WAB for years I am not suprised to see this happen but am very disapointed as honestly few systems out there match up to the quality and equal play as WAB did.

Well done GW.

WHH produced some of their best rulesets yet given how much disdain that GW have shown for the last few years(and the departure of Rick Priestly) this was only a matter of time.

Palindrome wrote:Well done GW.

WHH produced some of their best rulesets yet given how much disdain that GW have shown for the last few years(and the departure of Rick Priestly) this was only a matter of time.

Mmmhmm saddly WAB tourneys are frequent and big so this was rather stupid on their part.

melon-fether, I kept wanting to buy their Old West books but they kept reporting the core book as out of stock for well over a year now. Does this mean Warwick is out of a job now at GW? Or was his 1:35 WWII skirmish game self published?

I have one old west book, the core book, I bought it over a year ago when it came back in stock for a short time. The sad part is those old west books on amazon and on ebay will now skyrocket again to above $300 like they did 2 years ago. I wish I bought the Waterloo when I had the chance.

Huh, was wondering why there was a sale on at Salute.

Seems odd that GW don't release their back catalogue at a nominal price on PDF, you can bet they have the files, it only needs a corner of their server, but hey who am I to make suggestions...

Isengard wrote:Seems odd that GW don't release their back catalogue at a nominal price on PDF, you can bet they have the files, it only needs a corner of their server, but hey who am I to make suggestions...

Heck, even GW proper has most of their 'other' games for free as a PDF in order to continue selling the models. But if FW doesn't sell historical miniatures then there is really no push for that.

Excellent, I can make a tidy profit on books I'm never going to use! Upside! :-)

That's a shame, but I'm not surprised that they'd shut down something that doesn't drive sales of their own miniatures. At least I got my new WAB rulebook before this happened.

Oh right, so that's why they are trying to shut down people trying writing any articles for the system then.

http://www.guildwargamers.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=266&t=22858

Not only do they cease publishing, but they kill off player support elsewhere. That's aggressive even by GW standards, usually they just let old stuff die a slow death.

Isengard wrote:Seems odd that GW don't release their back catalogue at a nominal price on PDF, you can bet they have the files, it only needs a corner of their server, but hey who am I to make suggestions...

I wish they would, it's the 21st century now and that sort of thing isn't hard to do.

Pffft, reasonable priced pdfs? Have you seen how BL goes about its digital business?

The extraordinary thing is that KGN only came out a year ago.

I presume that GW saw WAB as a gateway into non-HHHobby games.

That sucks, but I saw it coming when I started hearing Legends of the old west was gone

Howard A Treesong wrote:Oh right, so that's why they are trying to shut down people trying writing any articles for the system then.

http://www.guildwargamers.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=266&t=22858

Not only do they cease publishing, but they kill off player support elsewhere. That's aggressive even by GW standards, usually they just let old stuff die a slow death.

No, this is typical GW. They do that to all of thier fans/shills.

Sad though. I wasn't a player of these game books, but they were some very well written material. I liked thier Old West books for good reads.

Does anyone want to pool money together to purchase enough GW stock to become a major shareholder? Just so we can shake Kirby so hard his teeth rattle at the annual stockholder meeting?

Kilkrazy wrote:The extraordinary thing is that KGN only came out a year ago.

About those, how well received was that set of rules?

Very well, they are an excellent WW2 ruleset.

Slightly annoyed that I didn't pick up Legends of the Old West and it's companions at Salute. I had. Thought that this was because they were to be rolled into FW since its mostly the same people but alas.

At least I got Legends of the High Seas a few years ago.

No more official KGN books.

Damn it.. I wanted Waterloo.

Waterloo is an excellent book. One of the best if not the best rules book I ever purchased. Great eye candy, a lot of information and the game plays well. <-No, it's not a simulation it's a fun game.

Yeah, thats one of the main reasons I wanted it.. it was a Proper Napoleonic Wargame.

That and I loved War of the Ring.

Valhallan42nd wrote:Does anyone want to pool money together to purchase enough GW stock to become a major shareholder? Just so we can shake Kirby so hard his teeth rattle at the annual stockholder meeting?

Problem is he controls the majority of shares hence their is no way to pull a vote of no-confidence. The sad thing is had they put it out there for sale, the I.P and production rights I mean, it would have easily been purchased as I know of several companies in the past that wanted to buy it. Honestly this was a pretty dumb move on GW's part as even though thisdidn't support any singular game system of theirs, it was an easy sell. They write the book and that was it for the next few years.

The other problem is that you can only buy stock if it is offered for sale. And people buying stock in bulk tend to get noticed.

Empchild wrote:

Valhallan42nd wrote:Does anyone want to pool money together to purchase enough GW stock to become a major shareholder? Just so we can shake Kirby so hard his teeth rattle at the annual stockholder meeting?

Problem is he controls the majority of shares hence their is no way to pull a vote of no-confidence. The sad thing is had they put it out there for sale, the I.P and production rights I mean, it would have easily been purchased as I know of several companies in the past that wanted to buy it. Honestly this was a pretty dumb move on GW's part as even though thisdidn't support any singular game system of theirs, it was an easy sell. They write the book and that was it for the next few years.

I mean, hell, sell the License to FFG, FFS.

Shame to see it go but imo it was inevitable due to how little GW even acknowledges it

I wonder if any of the spiritual successors are any good (like KoE)

Games Workshop, penny wise, pound foolish as usual.

Personally I balked at paying £40 for a single rulebook for KGN but lots of people liked it and it got good reviews.

As somone who loves WAB it may seem costly but think of it like this. Unlike other gw games they produced one book every few years as opposed to a main book then five millions add ons so the initial cost was honestly worth while. Thankfully i got my antiquities book last month.

BrookM wrote:melon-fether, I kept wanting to buy their Old West books but they kept reporting the core book as out of stock for well over a year now. Does this mean Warwick is out of a job now at GW? Or was his 1:35 WWII skirmish game self published?

Normandy Firefight was self-published by Warwick.