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From Mat Ward's own Twitter:
https://twitter.com/thetowerofstars/status/760503644076793856


I wonder what he'll be working on...

Hopefully the next Necron codex...

Let Matt write the next Blood Angels codex!

Maybe a novel or two?

I think he's going to be the main plot writer for the AoSification of 40k

Just in time for some 40k End Times action. Oh Draigo and Calgar will have such a grand time. Will they take Magnus's other eye?

 Eldarain wrote:
Just in time for some 40k End Times action. Oh Draigo and Calgar will have such a grand time. Will they take Magnus's other eye?

Calgar and Draigo will rip Magnus' eye out then spend eternity throwing it back and forth to each other and never quite letting him get it.

Everyone deserves a second chance. Or a tenth chance.

But it never hurts to start oiling up torches and sharpening pitchforks.

Maybe Vandus Hammerhand will now become the 'Spiritual Liege' of all the Stormcast?

He's there delivering from dominos

 Eldarain wrote:
Just in time for some 40k End Times action. Oh Draigo and Calgar will have such a grand time. Will they take Magnus's other eye?

No, they will BE Magnus's other eye...dun dun dunnnnnn.

OK... i guess i will return to play 40K second edition right now... Cause in 1 year or two 40K will be 50K with pokemons fighting against GI Joe...

 Brother SRM wrote:

 Eldarain wrote:
Just in time for some 40k End Times action. Oh Draigo and Calgar will have such a grand time. Will they take Magnus's other eye?

Calgar and Draigo will rip Magnus' eye out then spend eternity throwing it back and forth to each other and never quite letting him get it.

Yeah, right after making tsons cults -50 points, able to choose from specialist weapons and a 1k sons codex with "normal" marines lead by lvl1 psykers. and psy-dreads. and access to ALL powers...

He is writing all their novels, rules texts, and press releases from now on, but he's farming all of it to a simple piece of software he's written that spews out text by combining a random number generator, the results of an academic study into the most popular words in heavy metal lyrics, and the phrases "Necron BloodFistBump" and "and then Draigo killed them all."

There is another theory that this has already happened.

Let him write the next Tau. Let it be so!

He will make the "Ordo Draigo" Canon, and they WILL provide the Hams

Every Ultramarine suddenly becomes Grey Knights and Calgar and Draigo are actually brothers.

At the end of the current warzone fenris campaign draigo has his illusionary mask ripped off by azreal and reveals he was Magnus all along. Magnus then shouts " and I would have gotten away with it to if it wasn't for you meddling dark Angels and that stupid dog" (in reference to leman Russ).

- Matt ward

To be honest, Ward was actually a pretty good rules writer. His codexes had excellent internal Balance (at least relative to the current ones) and weren't too far off from each other in terms of external balance. Keep him away from the fluff and let him write the rules and things will actually be pretty good.

 casvalremdeikun wrote:
To be honest, Ward was actually a pretty good rules writer. His codexes had excellent internal Balance (at least relative to the current ones) and weren't too far off from each other in terms of external balance. Keep him away from the fluff and let him write the rules and things will actually be pretty good.

Didn't he make ridiculously OP GK, and ruin 7th Fantasy with Daemons? Plus the High Elves book. He is not good at rules.

Calm down everyone. He's not back at GW, he's just writing a novel for Black Library.

gungo wrote:
At the end of the current warzone fenris campaign draigo has his illusionary mask ripped off by azreal and reveals he was Magnus all along. Magnus then shouts " and I would have gotten away with it to if it wasn't for you meddling dark Angels and that stupid dog" (in reference to leman Russ).

- Matt ward

I'd read that to be honest

 oni wrote:
Calm down everyone. He's not back at GW, he's just writing a novel for Black Library.

Oh God!
Even Worse!

pm713 wrote:

 casvalremdeikun wrote:
To be honest, Ward was actually a pretty good rules writer. His codexes had excellent internal Balance (at least relative to the current ones) and weren't too far off from each other in terms of external balance. Keep him away from the fluff and let him write the rules and things will actually be pretty good.

Didn't he make ridiculously OP GK, and ruin 7th Fantasy with Daemons? Plus the High Elves book. He is not good at rules.

High Elves was Adam Troke.

Ward got better at writing rules and fluff writing as he got more experience. I seem to remember him getting a lot of positive feedback for his work on Lord of the Rings stuff.

But if he's being brought back as a consultant, I doubt he's doing the same work as he was doing when he was part of the development team.

 casvalremdeikun wrote:
To be honest, Ward was actually a pretty good rules writer. His codexes had excellent internal Balance (at least relative to the current ones) and weren't too far off from each other in terms of external balance. Keep him away from the fluff and let him write the rules and things will actually be pretty good.

I agree. I also don't think his fluff was too bad. It just became a meme to hate on it and I'm sure 90% of people hating on it never actually took the time to read & process what was actually happening.

Every time somebody calls Kaldor Draigo a "mary sue" instead of "sisyphus incarnate" i can guarantee that they either didn't read or didn't spend more than a second thinking about what Kaldor Draigo's story actually meant. Never thought I'd say it, because it IS very shallow, but apparently it has layers and most people can't get past the first one.

The best part about Wardian fluff is when the 7th edition book came out, untouched by him, and ACTUALLY made Kaldor Draigo a mary sue (and explicitly refers to him as stronger than the Chaos Gods instead of a strange anomaly in a realm of anomalies), the masses praised it for making an effort to "fix" the "mess" that was Draigo. Come on, people!

His codexes had great internal balance, but horrible external balance. Generally nothing in his codex would be auto-take or completely useless, but the entire codex would be heads and shoulders above another codex entirely.

And it's not like he was consistent with the level of power either since if I remember the Necron Codex was much more powerful than the GK codex, both of which were written by him consecutively.

pm713 wrote:

 casvalremdeikun wrote:
To be honest, Ward was actually a pretty good rules writer. His codexes had excellent internal Balance (at least relative to the current ones) and weren't too far off from each other in terms of external balance. Keep him away from the fluff and let him write the rules and things will actually be pretty good.

Didn't he make ridiculously OP GK, and ruin 7th Fantasy with Daemons? Plus the High Elves book. He is not good at rules.

And everything he wrote was approved by someone higher up, so let's take a moment to remember the name Alan Merrett, who stated, in court, that he believes that GW's customers' favorite hobby is buying GW products.

Yeah his 7th edition Daemons was just...wow. I had just started working at GW and I had to have a army for all three systems. I had Tau and SM for 40k, I wanted to do a nazgul army for LotR and I was going to do a Chaos army for Fantasy. My manager told me to hold off on getting the Fantasy army as a new army book was coming out and I should wait for that..... well it was Daemons and I was TFG even tho I hardly new Fantasy...thanks Matt!!

Captain Crunch returns! It will only be a matter of time before all armies are balanced, internally and externally.

Rumors of plastic Daemon Primarchs... can Mat Ward be far behind? I think there might be 3 or 4 that Kaldor Draigo hasn't written on yet. Looking forward to The End Times: Draigo Autograph Tour 40,000.