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This must be an exciting time to work at GW,

Since it's has been used so many times in sarcasm and satire I'm going to stick my neck out and say with all sincerity and only one exclamation mark:

THIS IS GREAT NEWS!

Use spoilers for feths sake.

The shock of GW not trying to hide something unsuccessfully and then annoceing it a week before launch is realy surprising. It's almost like they just decided they were going to do it, and then announce it right away.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!! What's that you say GW haters??This is superb for table top games in general. The biggest player in the field reworking their top games. Giving them to the hugely hugely talented FW team is a superb idea. Necromunda and BFG??? I'm lost for words.

 Azreal13 wrote:
Use spoilers for feths sake.

Resized it, should be less bothersome now.

Great news. I hope they come up with Mordheim-ish rules for AoS minis in the AoS universe. Can't wait to see things progress. Love GW models and games and glad we'll have a wider range of options.

I knew there was a reason I started painting a new bloodbowl team...

Can't decide if I want to see a stormcast team or not.

In all honesty though, if handled extremely well, this could save GW.

I have everything to gain from this too, as I still actively play BFG, Necromunda, Epic, and Man O War...

Please GW, don't feth this up....

Stand alone boxes with add on packs is very, very the right way to go in my book. I have a lot of friends that would play 40k if it wasn't for the money/time investment, but it's much easier to convince them to just go halvsies with you on a box set.

It'll probably be something like 6 months before we see the first one (well, second if you count the 30k box as the first), but I'm happy about this.

 Lockark wrote:
The shock of GW not trying to hide something unsuccessfully and then annoceing it a week before launch is realy surprising. It's almost like they just decided they were going to do it, and then announce it right away.

Ah, but this is the Forgeworld team doing this and advertising, excitement and hyping building is their bread and butter!

Holy crap for crap!! This is the second best thing GW has done in forever (Plastic HH still wins for me). Well played GW, well played....


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 zedmeister wrote:

Brilliant!

The reference to "boxed games and standalone sets" at least indicates that it won't all be biennial blackbox affairs like Spacehulk or Dreadfleet.

DIfficult to know anything really and if the announcement has come this early then at least I've got 6 months to save up and see what the indications are.

Using BloodBowl as an example though, is there anything to stop GW simply 'reclaiming' the current living ruleset and publishing that?
Not a lawyer by any stretch, just curious.
And if they did do that, would that be 'better' or 'worse' than producing a whole new ruleset, because frankly they seem damned whichever they do.

coldgaming wrote:
Great news. I hope they come up with Mordheim-ish rules for AoS minis in the AoS universe. Can't wait to see things progress. Love GW models and games and glad we'll have a wider range of options.

 JamesY wrote:
I knew there was a reason I started painting a new bloodbowl team...

Can't decide if I want to see a stormcast team or not.

*rolls up newspaper* No! Bad! Keep that Pound-store Planescape the hell away from my cherished childhood memories, you fiends!

Also goddamnit how am I going to force myself to be cynically detached for months? I'm already getting ideas for new projects.

RoperPG wrote:

And if they did do that, would that be 'better' or 'worse' than producing a whole new ruleset, because frankly they seem damned whichever they do.

Actually, just sticking the current rules (well, the current rules and all the old fluff) in a box with brand new, FW quality miniatures would probably be a smashing success.

 Fango wrote:
In all honesty though, if handled extremely well, this could save GW.

From what? Making quite not as much money as last year but still making 10% on £100m+?

Nah, this them realising they have capacity after LotRs and perhaps a realisation that there is a real desire for these titles, ergo money. Lots and lots of luverly money!

I have everything to gain from this too, as I still actively play BFG, Necromunda, Epic, and Man O War...

Please GW, don't feth this up....

Indeed.

Don't change any scales.

Don't change any forces except to add to them.

Do what you want with the rules cos I have all those, though if the were to be good then that's a bonus.

I just want the models!

Ahhhhhh I'm just so excited for all of this! That announcement from the app is fantastic to see.

NECROMUNDA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Guys, I was tossing out the idea of standalone games with expansion sets as a kind of wishlist.. that's not based on anything so please don't get your hearts set on that. If someone has heard that they are going that way please share.. I just don't want there to be confusion or think that I'm claiming to have heard that as a rumor or anything.

If they ever bring back Inquisitor (which isn't likely for a long time) I really hope it's 28mm scale. That would make the models much more appealing as they'd be applicable for 40k as well.

I'll reserve my judgement for when I see what they do with the rules.

There's no need, there's already perfectly good rulesets out in the wild, all we need is straightforward access to appropriate models.

alphaecho wrote:

 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:
But the big questions are these:

1) Are they going to do a Dreadfleet on us? i.e here today gone tomorrow.

2) Are these games going to be ridiculous, limited edition runs?

A lot of people have had their fingers burnt and I don't blame their scepticism.

When hard evidence, and not half-ass FB posts turn up, then we'll see.

How about the announcement via the Warhammer app as posted above? Is that half-assed enough?

Well, they did announce that finecast was what we had been waiting years for...and we know how well that turned out.


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Zwan1One wrote:

 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:
But the big questions are these:

1) Are they going to do a Dreadfleet on us? i.e here today gone tomorrow.

2) Are these games going to be ridiculous, limited edition runs?

A lot of people have had their fingers burnt and I don't blame their scepticism.

When hard evidence, and not half-ass FB posts turn up, then we'll see.

Meaning: Please don't drop dreadfleet on us!!

I made a lot of money buying up copies of dreadfleet and selling it on later at vastly inflated prices.

I wish they would bring Dreadfleet back.

Huge fan of necromunda and I look forward to breaking out my 200+ bulkheads and cardboard terrain again besides basement games. Also excited for mordheim, but I never really got into the other games. My only concern is that they waited too long for this and while the games are beloved, I think they just won't stand up to other games such as infinity, frostgrave or the other hundreds of games that filled the gap of the years (has it been a decade yet????)

@ Do_I_Not_Like_That

And yet you're disgusted by GW behaviour.

Strange.

 Azreal13 wrote:
There's no need, there's already perfectly good rulesets out in the wild, all we need is straightforward access to appropriate models.

Otherworld do some beautiful minis. Their vampires are amongst the very best IMO.


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 notprop wrote:
@ Do_I_Not_Like_That

And yet you're disgusted by GW behaviour.

Strange.

Market forces at work. If people bid ridiculously high at an auction, what can I do?

And in my defence, I spent hours painting them to a high standard. I also sold a fully painted Dreadfleet to some kid for his Christmas for £100, when it was retailing unpainted for around £70. Absolute steal and proof that I'm not entirely heartless.

It's typical for non-Scots in the UK to resent a Scot making some money


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Henshini wrote:
I'll reserve my judgement for when I see what they do with the rules.

Very wise.


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 Knockagh wrote:
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!! What's that you say GW haters??This is superb for table top games in general. The biggest player in the field reworking their top games. Giving them to the hugely hugely talented FW team is a superb idea. Necromunda and BFG??? I'm lost for words.

I wouldn't be so sure.

I'm surprised at how popular X-wing is, and with a new star wars film coming out...

A friend of mine has been ridiculing me for years for being a wargamer.

But as soon as he saw fully painted versions of his favourite star wars ships...well...lets just say he saw the light

GW can't compete with that.


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Anybody want to buy Necromunda stuff?

There's a new starter set for X-Wing featuring the black painted TIE Fighters from the new Star Wars film.

There's been too much water under the bridge, too many kickstarters, and too many new companies doing a good job, for GW to think they can waltz in and act like it's the 90s again, just because they're re-releasing some old rulesets.


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 Kilkrazy wrote:
There's a new starter set for X-Wing featuring the black painted TIE Fighters from the new Star Wars film.

You'd be forgiven for thinking that FFG plan these things out.

Heh, I haven't stopped buying from GW.. so this is all gravy for me.

Kickstarters have some great stuff I agree, but I'm happy to do both.

I wonder if Blood Bowl will use the AoS setting or the old world.

I'm fine either way, but I hope they don't mess with the core rules too much or combine all the races on one team like Dreadfleet.

I'm cautiously extremely hopeful.