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Holy crap, now I'm excited.

I'm, a touch concerned that I'm in Oz and my local redshirt doesn't know anything about this but god damn some new BFG would be amazing.

I certainly hop this is true. With this and the BFG game, all my BFG dreams will be coming true. And tau might finally get a battleship, instead of a carrier.

 RiTides wrote:
The problem for me is, it's likely too little too late (even if true). Why would I go back to a "specialist" division of GW for, for example, a skirmish game when so many other skirmish games have taken their place?

Still exciting though, and makes so much sense I'm almost not sure if I believe it

Depends if the rules are worth it. There's two reasons I'm bitter at GW right now - 40k is expensive as fething gak, and the balance is, quite frankly, embarrassing.

However Epic, for example, sidesteps the cost. An Epic army has never been super expensive, even with multiple titans. Redoing Epic in full plastic with 40ks current aesthetic? I'd likely jump in. An accompanying BFG type game? Super awesome. I'd buy the gak out of a new Warhammer Quest/Hero Quest style game (yes, I'm aware of Gamezones Heroquest, but I'm not too big on their model aesthetic).

Not sure I'd ever buy back into a 28mm game at the current prices, but I'd definitely consider their smaller scale stuff. Especially since it fits the fluff so much better with the whole mass war angle.

Yeah, it's true Loki, just trying to keep my hopes / expectations low . But it would be the most exciting thing GW has done in a long, long while in my mind, if true!

Why would anyone go back to GWs specialist games after they gave everyone the big middle finger and got rid of everything. Them being GW will also charge a fething arm and a leg for these 'specialist games'.

All my money would go to bfg. Please be true.

Time to be perfectly honest:

If this is true, and if they're truly bringing back BFG and other specialist games as fully-supported tabletop miniature wargames, I will very likely buy from them again. We'll see how this plays out.

Specialist Studio? Sounds interesting

Just as well I bought the Specialist Games domain names a few years back, might have to actually use them at some point

My local GW just posted this so I'm assuming it's true, I DO BELIEVE IN SANTA

Well crap. Will wait and see how this plays out.

Maybe GW is suck of everyone else trying to steal their thunder?

Just typical that every game they announce will be returning are none of the ones I'm most interested in- Quest and Mordheim to be specific.

Ah well.

Could make for some exciting times!

Good ol' Epic Arm...E...geddon?

What a terrible lame joke

overtyrant wrote:
Why would anyone go back to GWs specialist games after they gave everyone the big middle finger and got rid of everything. Them being GW will also charge a fething arm and a leg for these 'specialist games'.

Because I like Necromunda a hell of a lot more than I like Deadzone. Chances are good that this is too little, too late with the way they've been jacking up their prices, but GW at least could make something worthwhile out of this.

Is it April 1st? Why would this be announced in an ugly little greeting card written casually by a non-PR person? Are we to believe that GW suddenly dropped their draconian communication policies, brought back Specialist Games, and... Oh gak I just saw a pig fly by outside. brb

I just saw the updated first post.
I really really hope this is not some hoax.
That said.. the old Specialist Prices were a joke and a major barrier at the end. The initial box releases were priced great. If we see boxed games at $100ish, that'll do. If they try to do some $250 nonsense.. well.. we've gotten on this long with the alternatives.

Arm E geddon.

what the feth you guys

I can't find this anywhere on Facebook.

This studio will include Forge World

Well, say goodbye to Forge World then. It was a good run while it lasted.

Seriously, the last time they did this they promised rainbows and cotton candy but instead lured poor Charlie to a cave in Candy Mountain and took his kidney.

Yeah guys this is fake. Move on.

Disbelieve. This is far to big of a moneymaker and what a good company would do.

That said....
OMG OMG OMG OMG

so stoked.

Saved to the gallery in case the original goes away.



Though I think it's fake, are we to believe GW cannot spell the names of their own games?

Possible, but unlikely.

This studio full of dreams and rainbows?
Are they taking the piss?
I'm not sure if that's condescending. Or if they're trying to say the GW design studio is sub par and they know it, this is the fix?

Does anyone remember Warhammer Forge? Yea, neither does Forge World.

The image was created by the GW Belconnen store manager, as he stated on the Facebook page from which it was taken, not by GW HQ or anything of the like.

That is, btw, a legitimate GW store FB page. So fake? Seems unlikely, unless he fancies the sack.

The store manager seems pretty serious that it's real. Very exciting.

 Necros wrote:
Maybe Specialist Games will make all of the games, because Games Workshop is just a model company?

I do hope this means specialist games will be coming back for real though. That would be real nice.

Specialist Games = games with actual rules

To me it sounds like the old school nerds at FW have been whining about the old SG's long enough, and now GW is saying "fine, do whatever you want with those". So it's more like FW expanding their range.

Also, it only took what, 10 years for GW to notice that other companies making money with SG clones?

Why would we "return" to the specialist games?

Blood Bowl does not need GW's support and there's also Dreadball
Epic has been replaced years ago by Dropfleet commander and that Spartan Game
BFG see above
Necromunda would suffer vs all the other skirmish games like infinity, malif etc.
Mordheim vs Frostgrave...

Yeah, it's not going to be that successful.

 prowla wrote:
To me it sounds like the old school nerds at FW have been whining about the old SG's long enough, and now GW is saying "fine, do whatever you want with those". So it's more like FW expanding their range.

Also, it only took what, 10 years for GW to notice that other companies making money with SG clones?

Except that for the past few years the only thing FW has put out is HH Marines. I really don't see how they have the room to take on and support these other games. Still, we may see a return of their old Epic/BFG modes to the catalog.

Well, I suppose this could jive with the whole training at HQ thing. It would make many people very happy, if true

Akragth wrote:
The image was created by the GW Belconnen store manager, as he stated on the Facebook page from which it was taken, not by GW HQ or anything of the like.

That is, btw, a legitimate GW store FB page. So fake? Seems unlikely, unless he fancies the sack.

 Mymearan wrote:

So crazy it's true!

This looks legit to me (otherwise that Aussie manager is toast lol).

Also the most exciting and common sense thing GW has done in a long time, if done well, imo! Not sure it would get me to buy back in to any of those games, but still very cool