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Not sure if this really counts but......

Hero's Quest!!!!

Necromunda, Not only is it the one that I would support the most, it's also the one that I think would be able to get the most traction locally.
I'd probably be one of the folks moaning about how much the figures cost (they had gotten pretty ridiculous by the time they were retired) but, if Necromunda was supported and not just a hulk-off, I'd pony up for a rulebook to get my gangs back on the table. I might even buy some new figs.

 zedmeister wrote:
All Specialist Games add to the richness of their respective universes. They were abandoned with so much untapped potential.

Well put.

What I've often said since is that Games Workshop have bottle-necked their universes. To look at Inquisitor, this was a massive boon for the core WH40K game. It further developed previously vague concepts like the Inquisition and introduced large chunks of new background - this would later allow the development of the Daemonhunter and Witchhunter codices, which were good, lore-friendly developments of the background.

What do we get now? Spess Mahreens inside Spess Mahreens.

 MarcoSkoll wrote:
What do we get now? Spess Mahreens inside Spess Mahreens.

Don't forget Spayse Maurines

I's trying to get my nephew interested in Battle Masters as a gateway wargame. Technically a GW game!

Arggg, it really boils my piss that GW seem wholly content on ignoring gateway games. Anecdotally speaking, based on my own peer group and posters here on Dakka and other forums, the MB games like Space Crusade, HeroQuest and Battle Masters introduced pretty much an entire generation of gamers to GW games. The amount of people here on Dakka that say they got into GW games this way makes me think GW are losing so much new blood from not having an easy and accessible entry to gaming.

It has to be BIG for me, I sold all my fleets as my car failed it's MOT and I needed money....a month later GW stopped supporting the game, gutted does not begin to describe how I felt!

 AegisGrimm wrote:
I's trying to get my nephew interested in Battle Masters as a gateway wargame. Technically a GW game!

Definitely a gateway wargame and definitely a good idea! It was one of my early wargaming experiences.

If your game is missing any parts, let me know as after assembling a complete copy. I've got a fair amount of extras that I'll let go for not-much-$.

Thanks but I have all the pieces. Battlemasters and Heroquest were definitely my gateways to minis gaming, and then Tyranid Attack (nearly the same as Advanced Space Crusade) was my intro to 40K.

All of which were a really, really long time ago.

Aeronautica was my jam. Yeah Battlefleet was great and Epic was, well, pretty epic but I loved me some Aeronautica.