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Bloodbowl is popular here too, and has players who no longer play fantasy/40k... but who would buy a new BB box in an instant.

Just stopped by the GW online store and seen that the Australian Blood Bowl box set (in the specialist games part) has dropped its price form $130 to $82.

Scratch that - Got my hopes up.... Was on the wrong country's site :(

I'm pretty much resigned to the fact that the 40K skirmish Inquisitor game is NOT the "October Surprise" and that it will be Bloodbowl.

Oh well...

After playing quite a lot of Dreadball... anyone who was a fan of Bloodbowl, you really need to try Mantic's game it's bloody brilliant. It's more fun, faster.. and I think all in all a better game! (There, I said it! )

I am hoping to play both, Pacific and I think they might actually feed into each other (i.e. a revamped Bloodbowl gets people interested in sports games and they branch out into futuristic dreadball).

 Alpharius wrote:
I'm pretty much resigned to the fact that the 40K skirmish Inquisitor game is NOT the "October Surprise" and that it will be Bloodbowl.

Oh well...

I'm still holding out for inquisitor. I really want that to be a thing in skirmish format. Would be so awesome.

I'd greatly prefer Inquisitor, but I would welcome Bloodbowl as well.

I will continue to support almost any Specialist Games type releases by GW, but that's about all I'm willing to give them money for these days.

 stormwell wrote:

But I said in my post I would find BB a bit odd since GW pulled the plug on Specialist Games, though thats my opinion.

Killing off Specialist simply means that they are no longer supporting second tier games. Out doesn't have to stop them from one-off releases, as with Dreadfleet and Space Hulk.

Im hoping for a simpler version of necromunda with a healthy does of eisenhorn / ravenor. If that happens, Ill sell all my armies, and stick with the new game and space hulk!

Seems we haven't had any news on this in a bit... When are we due for a revelation? Marines are out, so hopefully the next release should be leaking out soon, right? I don't follow news and rumors too closely, so I'm not sure precisely when we might begin seeing leaked pics, stuff from WD, etc.

As for me, I sure as heck hope it's Inquisi-munda. And while I normally put my betting money on the exact opposite of what I'd like to see, it seems a bunch of people like Blood Bowl too, so I'm not sure which might happen. Maybe GW won't surprise me though, and instead of Inq/BB, they'll release some third option that NO ONE WHATSOEVER wants.

-C6

Maybe GW will nip this new HeroQuest 25th anniversary thing in the bud and do us a proper and bring back on of their Quest games.

I'd be down for Inquisition skirmishes though. Hope we hear something soon.

Blanchitsu, not in last months wd...everything you have('nt) been told is a lie...

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
Maybe GW will nip this new HeroQuest 25th anniversary thing in the bud and do us a proper and bring back on of their Quest games.

That's what every other company with common sense would do, but that's not how GW works

The only thing to get me enthused about GW games for a long time and willing to open the wallet looks like a big nothing after all.

Oh well, back to the other games it is then.

This release will be so cool, GW will not advertise it in WD until it is OOS. Or maybe it will be Bloodbowl which will obviously ramp some folks up but not myself. I've resigned myself to believe there will be no news until gamesday. :(

I have to keep watching the GW website at the end of each month as my local Sainsbury only get WD in on the Tuesday (at the earliest - once it wasn't on sale until the Thurday!!)

 Insurgency Walker wrote:
This release will be so cool, GW will not advertise it in WD until it is OOS. Or maybe it will be Bloodbowl which will obviously ramp some folks up but not myself. I've resigned myself to believe there will be no news until gamesday. :(

Yeah, if we get news it will probably be at Gamesday or maybe the day before.

Has Tastytaste had any follow up news?

Every time this thread pops up I get all excited thinking there is some real news !

How sad will I be when it turns out to be Blood Bowl.

Nephilim

 insaniak wrote:

 stormwell wrote:

But I said in my post I would find BB a bit odd since GW pulled the plug on Specialist Games, though thats my opinion.

Killing off Specialist simply means that they are no longer supporting second tier games. Out doesn't have to stop them from one-off releases, as with Dreadfleet and Space Hulk.

Well if they were intending to do a BB special one-off release then it would've made sense to say about it when Specialist Games was killed off, kinda bit of a silver lining and to build up hype for the eventual release, or better yet announce this skirmish game.

Alas, GW Marketing...

 stormwell wrote:

 insaniak wrote:

 stormwell wrote:

But I said in my post I would find BB a bit odd since GW pulled the plug on Specialist Games, though thats my opinion.

Killing off Specialist simply means that they are no longer supporting second tier games. Out doesn't have to stop them from one-off releases, as with Dreadfleet and Space Hulk.

Well if they were intending to do a BB special one-off release then it would've made sense to say about it when Specialist Games was killed off, kinda bit of a silver lining and to build up hype for the eventual release, or better yet announce this skirmish game.

Alas, GW Marketing...

I wish people would stop blaming something that does not exist.

It's like blaming dragons for being big, unicorns for being pokey or Eskimos for eating all the penguins.

There is certainly a such thing as GW's marketing strategy. There is nothing mythical about clamping down on information right up til release and then posting some teaser vids on YT and sending emails.

 stormwell wrote:
Well if they were intending to do a BB special one-off release then it would've made sense to say about it when Specialist Games was killed off, kinda bit of a silver lining and to build up hype for the eventual release, or better yet announce this skirmish game.

Tell people what they are working on? Sorry, that's a crazy idea. GW have sales data to prove that telling people what you are going to release before you release it means that by the time you actually release it, they've lost interest and won't buy it.

This theory is also backed up by a quick look at the release strategies used by the movie indust... oh... er... the music... er... the video ga.... er... other miniat.... um... boiling a cane toad in a pot of water and drinking the resultant unpleasant but rather psychedelic brew...






(Don't boil a cane toad in water and drink it... Seriously)

So...

...we're getting closer, and unfortunately, more rumor mongers are starting to lean towards Blood Bowl and, sadly, not a 28mm skirmish 40K Inquisition game.

Unless - someone's heard otherwise?

Certainly seems like the rumours have shifted from the October release being the mystery box (Inquisition or BB game) to the direction of it being a Dark Elves release.

But there is something I would like to mention that hasn't received a lot of attention on this topic though. That is, if the October release was going to be some sort of highly customizable Inquisition game, then GW would need to release kits with plenty of different guns/weapons/armor etc prior to the release of the game - so GW staff could direct customers to them. I believe (and hope) that the release of the sternguard and vanguard marine boxes, with their plentiful array of weapons, is an indication that the Inquisitor game is to follow.

 masterdoobie wrote:
. That is, if the October release was going to be some sort of highly customizable Inquisition game, then GW would need to release kits with plenty of different guns/weapons/armor etc prior to the release of the game - so GW staff could direct customers to them.

When GW released the original Inquisitor game, it was in a different scale to 40K, and had a very small range of miniatures. It was also a miniatures-based RPG with essentially no campaign support... they just released a ruleset and a handful of miniatures and said 'There you go, get into it!'

Don't make the mistake of assuming that GW always thinks these things through.

Actually I remember them releasing one scenario a month or so after the game came out. So it technically was supported. But, it was DOA due to a poor action mechanic and no balance mechanism for designing Inquisitor squads.

Spoke to a dude who was working at games workshop today who off the record says it's going to be blood bowl. I can't see it myself, but he was convinced. I hope it's not. Personally I've never liked the game despite owning it twice, and really trying to get into it countless times. I want to love it as it combines to of my great loves - gaming and american football however I just find it soooooo mind numbing. Wish I didn't.

I hope it's a 40k based skirmish based game as other rumours allude to.

Or perhaps I can fantasise that it'll be a beautiful, gorkamorka re-boot with beautifully sculpted forge world style vehicles and miniatures. Or totally reworking of battlefleet gothic I can dream can't I?

They also released 'upgrade packs' for some of the more popular characters which were sprues of extra limbs/weapons/utilities/tools/head swaps etc

Pretty cool stuff, some of it.

The Inquisitor scale Eldar figure, with the upgrade pack was a fantastic model imo.

 silent25 wrote:
Actually I remember them releasing one scenario a month or so after the game came out. So it technically was supported. But, it was DOA due to a poor action mechanic and no balance mechanism for designing Inquisitor squads.

Yes, it got some support... But not enough to make it a viable game. Those monthly releases vet quickly became bi-monthly, and then just dried up altogether. And while the upgrade packs helped, the miniatures range was never anywhere near big enough, given the scale completely incompatible with anything else.

If the Inquisition skirmish game ends up being Blood Bowl, at least I will have the cash to buy some X-Wing minis product.

 Black Lantern wrote:
Spoke to a dude who was working at games workshop today who off the record says it's going to be blood bowl. I can't see it myself, but he was convinced. I hope it's not. Personally I've never liked the game despite owning it twice, and really trying to get into it countless times. I want to love it as it combines to of my great loves - gaming and american football however I just find it soooooo mind numbing. Wish I didn't.

I hope it's a 40k based skirmish based game as other rumours allude to.

Or perhaps I can fantasise that it'll be a beautiful, gorkamorka re-boot with beautifully sculpted forge world style vehicles and miniatures. Or totally reworking of battlefleet gothic I can dream can't I?

Pinch of salt on the bolded bit.