The worst thing games workshop could do?

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**Luke_Prowler**

hotsauceman1 wrote:
Introduce a race of furry cat people.

Too late. There's mention of an abhuman race called the Felinids in the sixth edition rulebook.

**AtomicEngineer**

Luke_Prowler wrote:
hotsauceman1 wrote:
Introduce a race of furry cat people.

Too late. There's mention of an abhuman race called the Felinids in the sixth edition rulebook.

You're joking right? please say you are

NOOOOOOOO

**Tyranid Horde**

They could roll BT into that god damn SM codex.

**AegisGrimm**

Roll Templars into the vanillar Marines book (I really hope this doesn't happen)?

People keep griping and panicking about this. Seriously. It's so far down the list of things GW do do to negatively affect the game that it's not even worth mentioning.

Hell, changing a Chapter's Codex color scheme would make a bigger impact.

**Luke_Prowler**

Honestly the worse thing GW could do is shutdown the whole 40k line. It's very unlikely to happen, but it would be terrible to all of us who love the game.

**Necroshea**

They could make C.S. Goto in charge of all fluff.

Who's ready for MOAR MULTILASERS!

**Grimtuff**

AtomicEngineer wrote:
Luke_Prowler wrote:
hotsauceman1 wrote:
Introduce a race of furry cat people.

Too late. There's mention of an abhuman race called the Felinids in the sixth edition rulebook.

You're joking right? please say you are

NOOOOOOOO

Nope:

Also Fishmen.

**Bobthehero**

Cut off all ties with Forgeworld.

**Tyranid Horde**

AegisGrimm wrote:
Roll Templars into the vanillar Marines book (I really hope this doesn't happen)?

People keep griping and panicking about this. Seriously. It's so far down the list of things GW do do to negatively affect the game that it's not even worth mentioning.

Hell, changing a Chapter's Codex color scheme would make a bigger impact.

All that wasted time on making your models with a 2 special weapons in 5 man squads would make my models illegal, then having to change them. That's a pretty big impact to me. Plus I'd lose what I'd started BT for, badass fluff, and cool models to be shoved into a paragraph on a special character page in the SM codex.

**ZebioLizard2**

Grimtuff wrote:
AtomicEngineer wrote:
Luke_Prowler wrote:
hotsauceman1 wrote:
Introduce a race of furry cat people.

Too late. There's mention of an abhuman race called the Felinids in the sixth edition rulebook.

You're joking right? please say you are

NOOOOOOOO

Nope:

Also Fishmen.

Yeah those used to be apart of beastmen in 40k and fantasy, nothing really new. Like reintroducing squats again.

**tomjoad**

Tyranid Horde wrote:

All that wasted time on making your models with a 2 special weapons in 5 man squads would make my models illegal, then having to change them. That's a pretty big impact to me. Plus I'd lose what I'd started BT for, badass fluff, and cool models to be shoved into a paragraph on a special character page in the SM codex.

Honestly, you might want to get ready for that to change anyway. They could be Sternguard/veterans, but I don't see any of the other chapters with 2 special weapons/5 marines, so I'm guessing BT's will lose that either way.

Anyway, BT players will lose nothing except something to complain about if they get rolled in. You'll have an updated codex, you'll always have an updated codex, and taking Grimaldus or whoever could grant whatever army wide rule y'all think is SOOOOO important that you just can't be Black Templars without it.

On topic, making their website effectively useless would be my answer if they hadn't already done that...Giving Tau or SoB the Squat treatment would be terrible not only to the Tau and Sisters players left out here, but it would send such a clear message that all of our collections are in jeopardy of being garbage at any time (and no, BT guys, getting rolled into C:SM would not do that to your army at all. Be serious).

**Billagio**

Making Orks a serious pants race.

**ZebioLizard2**

Billagio wrote:
Making Orks a serious pants race.

So..Third edition?

**amanita**

Let's see...continue its current course, i.e. shoddy rules, lousy customer support and over-priced models?

**Veteran Sergeant**

Necroshea wrote:
They could make C.S. Goto in charge of all fluff.

Who's ready for MOAR MULTILASERS!

I am.

Multilasers kick ass.

**Dominatus**

Replace all plastic kits with expensive failcast. Kind of like they did to nearly all the Eldar aspect warriors, except they were metal.

**Agent_Tremolo**

Mistaking a niche product for a luxury one... Wait, they're already doing that

**RegalPhantom**

1. Raise prices even further. I understand that costs are increasing, but it is starting to get to the point where it is restricting new entrants to the hobby, and without fresh blood the hobby will die.
2. Create another faction. This is largely because of the current release schedule causes some armies to be left alone or far too long. If they manage to find a better way of organizing releases, however, they may be able to squeeze more codices in as long as they occupy an unique mechanical design space.
3. Fold Forge World into the main operations of GW. While I would like to see more Forge World integration into 40k (ie, outright stating in 7th edition that Forge World are as much a part of 40k as any codex), the nice thing about them being seperate is that they are able to operate outside of GW's main release schedule, and thus aren't constrained by other games (Fantasy, LorT/Hobbit) and other factors (ie, Cruddace admitting that the reason so few codices were released this year was because GW wanted a steady 40k release schedule rather than a boom year followed by a bust year). Recognize FW, but keep it separate.

**Bobthehero**

Forgeworld does some Fantasy stuff.

**Archon Tobias**

LOL!

An Ork warboss is sitting in a trench with his horde of boyz behind him, when he hears an Astartes shout from the other side of no-man's land "One Space Marine is worth ten Orks!" Recognizing a challenge when he hears one, the Warboss immediately sends ten eager boyz up and over to make the space marine eat his words. A moment later, the sounds of battle echo across the field, and ends just as quickly without a single Ork returning.
Then the same voice calls out "One Space Marine is worth fifty Orks!" Now a bit miffed, The Boss sends fifty lads to stomp in the challenger's face. Once again, the sounds of combat are heard, the Orkish warcries filling the air, but after a few minutes it dies down and the greenskin attack is completely silenced.
"One Space Marine is worth a HUNDRED Orks!" cries the champion. Utterly furious, the Warboss summons a hundred of his best warriors, taking a while and enlisting a few Grots to help count that high with their fingers, and the warhost charges the Imperial position with a deafening WAAAGH. An epic battle is heard for ten minutes, but much to the boss's frustration, even that peters out until the field is silent once again.
However, this time a single nob crawls back into the Ork trench, and tells him "They cheated, boss! Dere was TWO of 'em!"

**-Loki-**

AtomicEngineer wrote:
and Matt ward just loves space marines way too much, well I mean Ultramarines. Because all space marines wish upon a star to be just as good as an ultramarine

Do be fair, Award was just aping Rick Priestlys 2nd edition fluff. He didn't start it.

**Barfolomew**

Honestly, I think they have just about reached the point where I'm going to sell my army and move on. The rules are still wildly inconsistent and army prices are sky high. I just looked at the GW site and my jaw dropped at how much they want for some of that crap. I am getting the feeling that I would rather just sell everything and be done with it. With that said.

1 or 2 more price hikes and I'm done.

**Sephyr**

Well, they embargoed my continent for independent stores and pantsed my two armies in a row after giving a giant middle finger to faction balance, something I care about.

Yeah, not much they can -realistically- do. GW can be relied to be greedy and lazy, but they are not going to make it so that one player can force the other to only use d4s on all rolls (Next Ward-dex pending) or outright supervillain stuff like that.

Honestly, the wrost thing they could do now is to do stuff that messes with club formation and getting new players. Sky-high hobby entrance cost, shifting unit power all around to make more armies invalid and the like.

**Savageconvoy**

"In the 41st millennium there are only 7 roommates all living together in a condo. How will they get along? Real world 40K"

"Summer of Squats"

"We're getting rid of orks. We need to make room for a ramshackle space marine army with green skin. They also have weird Australian accents."

"To make things more realistic we've changed the d6 to a d20. Hope you're good at quadratic equations."

"We've managed to incorporate the F.A.T.A.L. System into rouge trader/dark heresy."

"We've decided to hire on some more writers. We found them posting proposed rules on Dakka. We hope they'll really change the power curve."

**xSPYXEx**

Honestly, the worst thing Games Workshop could do was cause a string of nuclear explosions that sends the world into a nuclear apocalypse that destroys all life as we know it.

You guys are thinking too small scale

**Valkyrie**

xSPYXEx wrote:
Honestly, the worst thing Games Workshop could do was cause a string of nuclear explosions that sends the world into a nuclear apocalypse that destroys all life as we know it.

You guys are thinking too small scale

While Mat Ward emerges from the ashes, destined to rewrite the forgotten history in his own words...

**undertow**

Galdos wrote:
ShatteredBlade wrote:
Raise prices yet again while 7th ed increases the points level so that every game resembles apocalypse.

Ya I would say another price increase but a big one.

Even if Matt Ward wrote all the knew fluff, people COULD just ignore it. You cant ignore paying more for minis

I've always mostly ignored the fluff anyway, so bring on the Ward Codices.

**gaovinni**

Valkyrie wrote:
xSPYXEx wrote:
Honestly, the worst thing Games Workshop could do was cause a string of nuclear explosions that sends the world into a nuclear apocalypse that destroys all life as we know it.

You guys are thinking too small scale

While Mat Ward emerges from the ashes, destined to rewrite the forgotten history in his own words...

Be quiet now. You are traumatizing people.

**g0atsticks**

how to make GW worse? sell it to wizards of the coast...

**ENOZONE**

A complete and total meltdown where the IP is released to the highest bidder and grabbed by EA or another massive corporate entity. The models are banished and lore is streamlined into a good vs. evil plot that is put into a rushed video game like CoD that puts normal human's on par with Ork Warbosses. Nothing remains of the game we once knew, the hobby is now a cult following where the rules are fought over bitterly because there are nothing but house rules. After a single generation the Imperium of Man collapses entirely as the 40k universe is replaced by industry giants like next Gen Halos and GoW, ect.