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 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
I would love a Warhammer 28-29k game with Thunder Warriors, Mark 2 Marines, techno savages, rogue psykers, genetic horrors and the like.

I just read the Valdor novel (spoilers Valdor is like not even one of the top 5 most important characters in it) and it's entire set in that era.

I think the appeal is that Earth is well, the only planet I have an emotional attachment to and a battle in the streets of Hy Brazil or Hind just means more to me that one in Warzone Omicrom Percy I-8.

Valdor was a great novella. I really enjoyed it.

I don't have faith in GW doing the unification wars justice. It would take a individual like Mr Bligh to come along again, and he was a once in a life time kind of creative mind. I loved his Badab war IA books and the style of writing. The early Heresy stuff from GW followed that. Now its just marketing telling the studio what to make and getting FW to do it.

FW used to seem like it was its own little playground, and Mr Cotrell and Mr Bligh used to know how to 'play the game' to basically keep FW away from the dreaded middle management syndrome.

His passing derailed FW and it looks like they totally got swept up into the 'specialist game' catagory that they are in now a days. Long gone are the passion projects and models. Like the studio of old when Jes would come in from a weekend with a sculpted goblin with a metal ball and chain.

I really miss Old FW so much. The nail in the coffin was the 'regional pricing' that totally saved you money and made shipping easier just like the official GW marketing dept memo said.