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2012/12/06 18:00:24
Subject: The worst thing games workshop could do?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Stay on their current course. I can't think of many things they've done well lately.
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2012/12/06 18:01:12
Subject: The worst thing games workshop could do?
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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Summon Cthulhu.
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Mandorallen turned back toward the insolently sneering baron. 'My Lord,' The great knight said distantly, 'I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offence against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fur which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornment for a human face. Is it possibly that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat?' - Mimbrate Knight Protector Mandorallen.
Excerpt from "Seeress of Kell", Book Five of The Malloreon series by David Eddings.
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2012/12/06 18:17:39
Subject: The worst thing games workshop could do?
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Dakka Veteran
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Really? Obviously, they failed miserably in their last attempt at a miniatures war game, but they have changed and learned a lot since then. 4th edition D&D was a huge upgrade over 3 and 3.5 and Magic pretty clearly the best hobby-type game on Earth.
Most importantly, WotC are super open and communicative with their fans. Want to know why Magic designers made a particular card? What the D&D guys are doing with the newest setting? Want your game's competitive, casual and everything in-between communities to get more than a head-nod, so they feel important and empowered? How about just having a guy who knows the rules and can actually answer questions about them?
I am being 100% serious when I say that, although I strongly doubt Hasbro would allow WotC to dip into the minis market again (since Dreamblade nearly bankrupt them), GW being acquired by WotC would be the best thing that could happen to WHFB, WH40K and the Hobbit or whatever it's called now.
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2012/12/06 18:38:59
Subject: The worst thing games workshop could do?
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Furious Raptor
A top the tip of the endless spire
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EDIT: seems to take you to a random site unless you hyperlink it. I apologise in advance. They are very NSFW, be warned!
Oh feth... it really is the end of the world...
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''I am the prophet of doom!''
Really?
''Yes... the last thing you shall see before your eyes close...''
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2012/12/06 18:41:36
Subject: The worst thing games workshop could do?
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Wight Lord with the Sword of Kings
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2012/12/06 18:58:10
Subject: The worst thing games workshop could do?
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Sneaky Lictor
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 tomjoad wrote:
Really? Obviously, they failed miserably in their last attempt at a miniatures war game, but they have changed and learned a lot since then. 4th edition D&D was a huge upgrade over 3 and 3.5 and Magic pretty clearly the best hobby-type game on Earth.
Most importantly, WotC are super open and communicative with their fans. Want to know why Magic designers made a particular card? What the D&D guys are doing with the newest setting? Want your game's competitive, casual and everything in-between communities to get more than a head-nod, so they feel important and empowered? How about just having a guy who knows the rules and can actually answer questions about them?
I am being 100% serious when I say that, although I strongly doubt Hasbro would allow WotC to dip into the minis market again (since Dreamblade nearly bankrupt them), GW being acquired by WotC would be the best thing that could happen to WHFB, WH40K and the Hobbit or whatever it's called now.
yeah but wotc is just as money hungry. like space marines? to bad they randomize them in a pack, have to buy 50 packs just to get the tac squad you need. what they didn't give you interchangable weapons? better buy another 50 to get that rare melta gun figure. its a mystic rare now to, so if you try to buy the single it'll cost you your soul.
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On building Tyranid army flow chart.
Do you have enough Termagaunts?
No > Add More
Yes > No you don' t > Add more
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2012/12/06 19:29:18
Subject: The worst thing games workshop could do?
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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Mat Ward making another codex.
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2012/12/06 20:12:59
Subject: The worst thing games workshop could do?
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Regular Dakkanaut
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g0atsticks wrote:yeah but wotc is just as money hungry. like space marines? to bad they randomize them in a pack, have to buy 50 packs just to get the tac squad you need. what they didn't give you interchangable weapons? better buy another 50 to get that rare melta gun figure. its a mystic rare now to, so if you try to buy the single it'll cost you your soul.
Ignoring you poor analogy, the secondary market for buying singles is very well supported. If for some reason they ever did that, I would bet it would still be cheaper than GW. Besides, GW does worse by completely invalidating previous models with rule changes OR forcing complete remodeling.
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2012/12/06 21:47:07
Subject: Re:The worst thing games workshop could do?
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Beast of Nurgle
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Continue making books for each of the Space Marine Chapters.
Honestly, consolidating all the chapters into one or two books would better everyone. Every. Single. Hobbyist.
GW's sales would also be more balanced, although they probably would take a small profits cut. However, fewer books means more updates around the board. That means more sales of all products, and more balanced game play.
The entire hobby would be better off if GW stopped making books for each chapter of SM that we all know play almost exactly like each and every other chapter.
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2012/12/06 22:50:10
Subject: The worst thing games workshop could do?
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Shadowy Grot Kommittee Memba
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Achieve grand success with their Hobbit miniatures game, sell a ganillion minis in 2 months, and give 40k and fantasy the Blood Bowl treatment.
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"Got you, Yugi! Your Rubric Marines can't fall back because I have declared the tertiary kaptaris ka'tah stance two, after the secondary dacatarai ka'tah last turn!"
"So you think, Kaiba! I declared my Thousand Sons the cult of Duplicity, which means all my psykers have access to the Sorcerous Facade power! Furthermore I will spend 8 Cabal Points to invoke Cabbalistic Focus, causing the rubrics to appear behind your custodes! The Vengeance for the Wronged and Sorcerous Fullisade stratagems along with the Malefic Maelstrom infernal pact evoked earlier in the command phase allows me to double their firepower, letting me wound on 2s and 3s!"
"you think it is you who has gotten me, yugi, but it is I who have gotten you! I declare the ever-vigilant stratagem to attack your rubrics with my custodes' ranged weapons, which with the new codex are now DAMAGE 2!!"
"...which leads you straight into my trap, Kaiba, you see I now declare the stratagem Implacable Automata, reducing all damage from your attacks by 1 and triggering my All is Dust special rule!" |
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2012/12/07 02:30:28
Subject: The worst thing games workshop could do?
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Regular Dakkanaut
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Grimtuff wrote:
EDIT: seems to take you to a random site unless you hyperlink it. I apologise in advance. They are very NSFW, be warned!
GAH! THE FORKS! THE FORKS! 
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This message was edited 2 times. Last update was at 2012/12/07 02:36:41
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htj wrote:I break my conscripts down into squads of ten, then equip them with heavy weapons and special weapons. I pay 1pt to upgrade their WS, BS and Ld, then combine them into larger squads when deployed. I've found them to be quite effective.
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2012/12/07 02:33:09
Subject: The worst thing games workshop could do?
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Nigel Stillman
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Stop makeing mini's.
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2012/12/07 03:11:46
Subject: The worst thing games workshop could do?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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I'm with the guy that said turn everything Fincast. eesh
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2012/12/07 03:26:31
Subject: The worst thing games workshop could do?
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Regular Dakkanaut
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Lord Castellan wrote: Grimtuff wrote:
EDIT: seems to take you to a random site unless you hyperlink it. I apologise in advance. They are very NSFW, be warned!
GAH! THE FORKS! THE FORKS!
*Oggthrok gets home finally, and peaks at this thread* Dear lord, I've got to see this...
Huh...
Well, okay, I get the responses, but my imagination for horror seems to have outgrown reality's ability to produce it. Those are just naked female humans with horse heads thrown on top. The sculptor has more talent than I do, though my criticism is primarily that the horse heads look like horses... the modern MLP design doesn't really look like that, as the eyes should be much larger and the muzzles much smaller. Plus, you know, they're not naked human females.
Still, consider that actual GW official miniatures include nearly bare naked savage orcs and pants-less minotaurs. These are basically female beastmen blanks, painted to tease at a popular IP that they don't really very closely resemble...
My advice to any sculptors out there wanting to get brony money: sculpt little ponies that *look* like My Little Ponies. That means unsexualized, walking-on-all-fours, suitable for MLP fans to paint up as who ever they want it to be, sculpting on what ever hair they want. Then, release a hashed together ruleset that lets them fight Necromunda style with flank-mounted miniguns and holding laspistols in their mouths. It'd be a hoot.
Wait, what were we talking about?
Oh, what GW could do wrong? How about advertising a book in White Dwarf, emailing me about it, and promoting it heavily in the banner of the website every day for a month, only to see it sell out early in the pre-order phase, and give my local store none to sell? Not enough? Okay, how about a sprue with a plastic dance floor on it? They could call it a "goblin town", and charge $60.00 for it.
Right then, back on topic.
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2012/12/07 04:55:51
Subject: The worst thing games workshop could do?
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Devestating Grey Knight Dreadknight
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 Necroshea wrote:They could make C.S. Goto in charge of all fluff.
Who's ready for MOAR MULTILASERS!
No worse than Dan Abnett's much revered Eisenhorn novels where every man and his dog is toting an Autocannon and driving a hover speeder.
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"Did you ever notice how in the Bible, when ever God needed to punish someone, or make an example, or whenever God needed a killing, he sent an angel? Did you ever wonder what a creature like that must be like? A whole existence spent praising your God, but always with one wing dipped in blood. Would you ever really want to see an angel?" |
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2012/12/07 07:57:23
Subject: The worst thing games workshop could do?
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Wight Lord with the Sword of Kings
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Let me correct that for you.
People falling over Ward's writing powahs.
Also, note that he made the Main Rulebook for 6th ed and WHFB 8th ed.
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2012/12/07 20:35:34
Subject: The worst thing games workshop could do?
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Hardened Veteran Guardsman
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Selling factory painted figs would be awful...
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 Imperial guard - 800 points
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2012/12/09 05:53:30
Subject: The worst thing games workshop could do?
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Shunting Grey Knight Interceptor
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I'm surprised they haven't already done that, actually.
With all the blatant money-grabs, this one would seem to be a no-brainer.
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2012/12/09 07:34:01
Subject: The worst thing games workshop could do?
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Potent Possessed Daemonvessel
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Basically continue what they are doing now. This recent branching into digital/online media (codices, little apps, etc) has me hopeful that they finally get their heads out of their asses, and realize that their close-minded and isolationist approach to their business is not the best way to go about things.
I hope they get pounded by the jury in the chapter house hearing, just to drive the point home.
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2012/12/09 08:05:31
Subject: The worst thing games workshop could do?
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Depraved Slaanesh Chaos Lord
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Sigvatr wrote:Mat Ward making another codex.
I like Mat Ward codices and wish all of them were written by him. Seriously. It would bring both balance and extreme diversity to the game. Just... get him a story editor. That's all that is required.
The worst thing GW can do to its customers is win their lawsuit against Chapterhouse Studios.
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2012/12/09 09:09:33
Subject: The worst thing games workshop could do?
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Ladies Love the Vibro-Cannon Operator
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Cutting all communication channels from the customers to GW. Oh wait...
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Lanchester's square law - please obey in list building!
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2012/12/09 09:18:10
Subject: The worst thing games workshop could do?
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Yeoman Warden with a Longbow
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Make the battleforce boxes contain units that are completly redunent for your army or make another unblanced starter set...
Oh wait....
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2012/12/09 09:39:32
Subject: Re:The worst thing games workshop could do?
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Fixture of Dakka
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License the IP for a video game to Bioware.
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"'players must agree how they are going to select their armies, and if any restrictions apply to the number and type of models they can use."
This is an actual rule in the actual rulebook. Quit whining about how you can imagine someone's army touching you in a bad place and play by the actual rules.
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When people ask, "What's the point in understanding everything?" they've just disqualified themselves from using questions and should disappear in a puff of paradox. But they don't understand and just continue existing, which are also their only two strategies for life. |
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2012/12/09 12:16:13
Subject: The worst thing games workshop could do?
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Beautiful and Deadly Keeper of Secrets
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 wuestenfux wrote:Cutting all communication channels from the customers to GW. Oh wait...
A few try now and then, and are run off. One was chased away in the news and rumors forum a small while ago.
It's not like they have any reason to, seeing as all they will get is vitriol in return.
License the IP for a video game to Bioware.
Now why would that be bad? Bioware puts out good things.
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2012/12/09 13:32:55
Subject: The worst thing games workshop could do?
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Aspirant Tech-Adept
Aschknas, Sturmkrieg Sektor
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Get rid of the rules for customizing armies and make it so you have to take fething special characters and gak to customize your army.
They already did that. Automatically Appended Next Post:
At least it doesn't mention Matt Ward. Though, it does seem obvious where this is going to go.
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As a discussion grows in length, the probability of a comparison to Matt Ward or Gray Knights approaches one.
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The Vault - Fallout Wiki Wikia still maintains their plagiarized copy |
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2012/12/09 13:45:19
Subject: The worst thing games workshop could do?
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Hardened Veteran Guardsman
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Suing everyone who posts in the Dakka fiction section for copyright violation...
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Imperial guard - 800 points
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2012/12/09 13:50:02
Subject: The worst thing games workshop could do?
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Aspirant Tech-Adept
Aschknas, Sturmkrieg Sektor
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As a discussion grows in length, the probability of a comparison to Matt Ward or Gray Knights approaches one.
Search engine for Warhammer 40,000 websites
Note: Ads are placed by Google since it uses their service. Sturmkrieg does not make any money from the use of this service.
The Vault - Fallout Wiki Wikia still maintains their plagiarized copy |
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2012/12/09 16:32:04
Subject: The worst thing games workshop could do?
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Terminator with Assault Cannon
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Grimtuff wrote:
EDIT: seems to take you to a random site unless you hyperlink it. I apologise in advance. They are very NSFW, be warned!
I can't unsee that....
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SickSix's Silver Skull WIP thread
My Youtube Channel
JSF wrote:... this is really quite an audacious move by GW, throwing out any pretext that this is a game and that its customers exist to do anything other than buy their overpriced products for the sake of it. The naked arrogance, greed and contempt for their audience is shocking.
= Epic First Post.
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2012/12/09 16:39:02
Subject: Re:The worst thing games workshop could do?
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Fixture of Dakka
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The worst thing Games Workshop can do is... NOT EXIST!
I love their stuff. Honestly I don't think I'd be as enthused as I am in the hobby if it weren't for them. They weren't the first company whose stuff I tried when I got into miniature wargaming but they kept the fires burning...usually...
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2012/12/09 18:05:22
Subject: The worst thing games workshop could do?
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Potent Possessed Daemonvessel
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 ZebioLizard2 wrote: wuestenfux wrote:Cutting all communication channels from the customers to GW. Oh wait...
A few try now and then, and are run off. One was chased away in the news and rumors forum a small while ago.
It's not like they have any reason to, seeing as all they will get is vitriol in return.
A corporate shill spouting lies and propaganda is not communication.
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Fluff for the Fluff God! 
