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 reds8n wrote:
Maybe the omnipresence of Inquisitorial warbands modelled and painted in WD has been leading up to this.

The entire box will be made up of modified Nurgle Chaos Lords! D:

This is only thing I'm planning to buy from GW in a long time. It must be an £80 box, knowing them?

Already got mine pre-ordered/saved/dibbed/shotgun'd with my FLGS!

My prediction: They make it limited, produce stock for only 2 days and then celebrate selling out so fast (Space Hulk strategy).

Screw that, I want my Blood Bowl.

I am pant soilingly excited about this. I hope that it is a long term thing. I could see how they could very easily support it long term with little investment.

Bring out a box set to start with then just bring out a update book/box once a year to add in new characters/races etc. No need to even make new minis, just run mostly with 40k minis. Maybe add a few characters in, which will also be useful for 40k. As long as they make stuff for every race they can get buy in and people in to 40k. Just have to be carefull not to tread too much on FF's work (Why don't they sell the RPG books in GW? It seems very odd)

I am not too hopeful, but fingers crossed.

If it's limited edition it'll have to be amazing just to get me to consider buying it. If it's not I'll defiantly buy it in November.

I'll certainly be buying this, sounds right up my street. I love =I= related stuff.

Just hope that if it is indeed limited edition they do a big enough run. I suspect they'll be a huge demand for this game.

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I hope it isn't limited. They don't need to constantly churn new models for it, just keep it in print and maybe do some random expansions now and then.

It'll be limited and a one shot, I'd expect nothing less.

Wonder if there'll be a bit of terrain in the box?

 Crimson wrote:
I hope it isn't limited. They don't need to constantly churn new models for it, just keep it in print and maybe do some random expanisions now and then.

Yeah I don't why people are talking like gw has released 12 one-off boxes every year for the past decade and this is just the next one to come along. If it sells well there could well be expansions, the setting lends itself to them.

Space Hulk, Dreadfleet and Hobbit were all limited edition box sets. That's why.

xruslanx wrote:

 Crimson wrote:
I hope it isn't limited. They don't need to constantly churn new models for it, just keep it in print and maybe do some random expanisions now and then.

Yeah I don't why people are talking like gw has released 12 one-off boxes every year for the past decade and this is just the next one to come along. If it sells well there could well be expansions, the setting lends itself to them.

frozenwastes wrote:Space Hulk, Dreadfleet and Hobbit were all limited edition box sets. That's why.

Not only that but GW have just spent the last few months quietly dropping their Specialist Games section (or at least, stopping producing the models). I think it is a very valid concern that any potential future releases will be one-off, possibly limited edition, and probably unsupported.

The hobbit was not a one off it was the first of three - it has two guaranteed sequels.

Dreadfleet was crap so that only leaves us with one game, space hulk, that was released and then forgot about. Which sucks yeah, but you can't build up a pattern from a data sample of one. You may as well say the Inquisitor game will just have terminators and genestealers in it.

I hope that getting rid of the Specialist Games was to make room for this new game.

Space hulk originally got some White Dwarf support. I wouldn't be surprised if they squeaked a few scenarios or additional rules in to WD for this game if it sells well enough.

Fenrir Kitsune wrote:
This is only thing I'm planning to buy from GW in a long time. It must be an £80 box, knowing them?

I hope it's $100 like Space hulk.

Even $150 would be stretching it, but I wouldnt' exactly mind. Dark Vengeance is $165 and I'm tentative about that at $120 on ebay as it is.

Shaozun wrote:

Fenrir Kitsune wrote:
This is only thing I'm planning to buy from GW in a long time. It must be an £80 box, knowing them?

I hope it's $100 like Space hulk.

Even $150 would be stretching it, but I wouldnt' exactly mind. Dark Vengeance is $165 and I'm tentative about that at $120 on ebay as it is.

I'd expect it to cost at least as much as the dark veneance box, if not a little more.

my impression about this release (if it will really happens and i have still some doubts) si that will be a one-shot limited game...
some cool minis and scenics inside a box with a book covering all major and minor races in the galaxy...
it could be a necromunda 2.0 but based on the armies we have now...
so you will buy the box and use the rules to play skirmish games wth warbands of any model you want...
then after the box will be sold out the rulebook only will appear in 40k section like any other expansion (apocalypse city of Death and so on) and you will buy rules only playing with the miniatures form GW range...
in this way GW will make you pay for the KILL TEAM rule set...

my 2 cents

To be honest, the last year GW has done some unexpected moves.
Bringing in fullscale allies, bringing back supplements, releasing codex/armybooks like they had hellhounds on their trail, changing the WD loggo

My point being, there has been lots of moves most people would hotly argue against as they were rumors.
This game could be way out of their usual pattern (as I hope! a "new" necromunda would be really sweet)

Can't wait to see hat happens when this is online order only and not available through flgs. Popcorn at the ready.

Damn I was hoping for BB, not really a fan of small scale skirmish games, though the minis might be nice i guess !

 Kroothawk wrote:
My prediction: They make it limited, produce stock for only 2 days and then celebrate selling out so fast (Space Hulk strategy).

For a few years GW has been trying to produce a one off game that leads into the 40K univers that they can sell in standard stores like Toys R Us. Maybe this is that step but then again....

Allies was a completely expected addition to the last 40k rule set.

A small scale skirmish game, while completely welcome, is almost completely surprising!

 Fishboy wrote:

For a few years GW has been trying to produce a one off game that leads into the 40K univers that they can sell in standard stores like Toys R Us. Maybe this is that step but then again....

Source on that? I think you got their marketing brief from the Space Crusade era...

 Fishboy wrote:

 Kroothawk wrote:
My prediction: They make it limited, produce stock for only 2 days and then celebrate selling out so fast (Space Hulk strategy).

For a few years GW has been trying to produce a one off game that leads into the 40K univers that they can sell in standard stores like Toys R Us. Maybe this is that step but then again....

That would make sense, therefore i can safely say that it wont happen !

This should be interesting.

If they want this to be an "entry" type game, I hope it comes with an "entry" type price point.

I too am hopeful we see new xenos to purge.

And as for this talk of GW trying to get a foot in the door to the mass market retailers- what's stopped them from attempting something like Space Crusade/ Heroquest on their own?

If I can find Munchkin, Catan, and Pandemic along with a few oddball Fantasy Flight games laying on the shelf at my local Target, I don't get why GW doesn't try to whip something together to chase after that same demographic (I got my copy of Heroquest in 8th grade from Target*).

Maybe this will be the one.


*I'm still bitter to this day that I never EVER came across a copy of Space Crusade in my area of CA. After reading a glowing review of it in Dragon magazine I wanted it SO BAD. I had to settle for Space Hulk at the time instead.

GW tried putting products into big chain store before but pulled out when they were being squeezed to reduce their costs goin forward.

As we know GW are somewhat intransigent on such matters.

 filbert wrote:
I'm the lone dissenter. Very disappointed. I would much rather have had a Blood Bowl game. The problem as I see it is that BB lends itself much more to being a one-off box release that can be pumped out and requires little or no after-support whereas something like Inquisition, whilst it can be released stand alone, would seem to require or at least benefit more from continuing support and further releases to supplement the box set and I can't see GW providing that support.

I disagree...Blood Bowl single box release would be problematic: the game has many factions, which ones to include to the new box? Existing BB players are mostly either "meh, it's not my team, pass" or "cool, but I already got tons of those". By contrast, Inquisition vs whoever doesn't need extra factions, if the models are any good people will buy the game just for them to convert them to 40k, and once the print run is gone, zillion existing 40k miniatures means that there is plenty of room for people to devise home rules and new factions and characters. Problem with the Dreadfleet was that it wasn't compatible with anything existing.

Concept seems idiot-proof, it only leaves the matter of execution...

I wonder how much, if anything, it has to do with old Inquisition. Isn't that some sort of quasi-RPG?

 Fishboy wrote:

 Kroothawk wrote:
My prediction: They make it limited, produce stock for only 2 days and then celebrate selling out so fast (Space Hulk strategy).

For a few years GW has been trying to produce a one off game that leads into the 40K univers that they can sell in standard stores like Toys R Us. Maybe this is that step but then again....

Correct. Then they released the proven perfect introductory box for 40k, made no advertising at all (not even on Game Day germany a day before release), then made it limited (so that the following two Codices of Blood Angels and tyranids couldn't profit from the new fantastic models) and produced stock for 2 days. Yes, that was Space Hulk. Dumb strategy as hell, but celebrated as a huge success internally.

Did they learn? Well, look at their idea of drawing everyone into the Hobbit game.

Concerning Bloodbowl: I wouldn't have bought a box, because you get everything you need much better now from other companies.