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So does this thread re-open the debate about whether or not FW is acceptable in "normal" games? If I'm not mistaken that was put to bed a while ago due to a combination of people very loudly arguing the point that "GW = FW" and implying that we were some kind of dunce for thinking otherwise when it's so obvious that they're the same company and all their products are meant to be compatible, and GW themselves throwing game balance completely out the window so that most people who actually cared about such a thing didn't even play the game anymore.

Now here we are, years later, arguing the point that FW actually is not GW, and now the implication is that we're a dunce if we consider FW products and GW products to be compatible and try to use them in their stores, because they can't actually be purchased there. It's also incredibly odd to me to see a company effectively competing with itself in this fashion, and I don't think this would be the case if the GW/FW relationship was as it was always said to be.

So which is it? Because it can't be both. If they're the same company and the products are designed to be used together, as it was always argued before, then I would fully expect to be able to use them in GW stores because I already paid GW for the privilege. If that's no longer the case and we're now insisting that FW and GW should be kept separate, then once again I posit that FW products should be considered an unofficial third party product and that their assumed acceptance in "regular" games of 40k is now no longer correct, and people who expect to use FW product need to go back to asking permission first. They clearly are not "designed" to be used together if official GW policy is to disallow that, and according to GW money spent on FW is not the same as money spent on GW product.

I don't even want to get into the absurdity of suggesting that you should buy a whole new army every time you play at a different store, because your old models didn't directly benefit that specific manager.