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shogunzerg wrote:

 Yodhrin wrote:

Looking at that guy's videos, I'm sure there was absolutely no context to that situation at all...

In what context is it acceptable to assault someone? Waiting eagerly for your no doubt comprehensive and well reasoned argument.

How about NO, not here in this topic.

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
I wonder if Munchkin 40K is the super secret announcement?

Wow I called it, to see the day when GW is once again comfortable enough in themselves to play nice with another big gaming name is kind of fun,

I hate Munchkin, fnar fnar fnar.



That said, perhaps a better gateway game than ruddy Monopoly.

skullking wrote:That super star Destroyer (is that Executor, from Empire & Jedi?) looks great! How much bigger would a Dreadnought from 'The Last Jedi' be? I'd imagine they'll try to do one of those if they can.

The only ship that might be bigger is Snoaks Capital ship; otherwise yeah the dreadnought is smaller. Also note the dreadnought is (if I recall right) no a one-off ship but a battle-line ship so they've got more than one. And yeah I'd love to see those big Imperial ships from the new film appear in models!

Why all this talk of Executors and silly Sequel Trilogy ships?

Are they doing massive capital ships for Armada?

 BrookM wrote:
That said, perhaps a better gateway game than ruddy Monopoly.

The only thing Monopoly is the gateway for is having fewer friends!

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Why all this talk of Executors and silly Sequel Trilogy ships?

Are they doing massive capital ships for Armada?

 BrookM wrote:
That said, perhaps a better gateway game than ruddy Monopoly.

The only thing Monopoly is the gateway for is having fewer friends!

 ingtaer wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Why all this talk of Executors and silly Sequel Trilogy ships?

Are they doing massive capital ships for Armada?

 BrookM wrote:
That said, perhaps a better gateway game than ruddy Monopoly.

The only thing Monopoly is the gateway for is having fewer friends!

Special rule= Once this ships shields are gone a base of a-wings can move into base and destroy this ship.

40k Munchkin, how dull. A far cry from the games that we saw FFG produce with the GW license, Chaos in the Old World, Forbidden Stars, Conquest.

Munchkin is at its core a very simple and bland game that can have any skin painted onto it without it having any impact upon the actual game play aside from cosmetic appearances, that is the sign of a bad game. For proof look at how many reasons of Risk, and Monopoly we see flood the market. All very bad games, hopefully GW license their IP to a company who can bring out a good product soon enough.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
But this is Steve ‘co-founder’ Jackson getting at least partially back in bed with GW?

And given Munchkin is satirical, it says a lot about GW extract stick from butt.

It's a different Steve Jackson-the American one, not the English one.

Ooooh... I think that's my fav SW ship of all time.

Now do an Eclipse Class FFG!

Going Munchkin is definitely a mistake. That's the last thing you do when your brand is over to milk it one last time, not when it's at its strongest. The gak art, gak rules and fourth wall breaking flippant attitude to the setting will just devalue 40k.

I very much doubt that.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
That said, perhaps a better gateway game than ruddy Monopoly.

The only thing Monopoly is the gateway for is having fewer friends!

Munchkin is also surprisingly good at that from own experiences..!

 BrookM wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
That said, perhaps a better gateway game than ruddy Monopoly.

The only thing Monopoly is the gateway for is having fewer friends!

Munchkin is also surprisingly good at that from own experiences..!

Pfft no more or less so than playing a 5+ person game of warhammer on half a table with a few hundred points each. The fast formation of alliances and the fast breaking of them; the mini battles; the grudge match and then the final end slog as two finally get left half dead to battle each other.


Munchkin is lots of fun and its one of those games that can often never end. I've fond memories of a session lasting ages and just going on and on with people dropping in and out and swapping over control of their character as they went to play other games

Play a few games against my brother and his coworkers, you'll never meet a bigger pack of jerks playing that game.

So, does GW (main studio, not the boardgames) actual also have a presence at GenCon this year, or is it just FW and BL with their stands?

Adepticus Titanicus is getting a big reveal with all the box stuff there; though its just for show.

Otherwise I think GW is letting the card and board games have the lime light right now. Which makes sense as GW has its own big Eurofest event coming up to focus on their own products. Though we might hear tid-bits of info if any manage to corner a FW worker and interrogate them

 Overread wrote:

skullking wrote:That super star Destroyer (is that Executor, from Empire & Jedi?) looks great! How much bigger would a Dreadnought from 'The Last Jedi' be? I'd imagine they'll try to do one of those if they can.

The only ship that might be bigger is Snoaks Capital ship; otherwise yeah the dreadnought is smaller. Also note the dreadnought is (if I recall right) no a one-off ship but a battle-line ship so they've got more than one. And yeah I'd love to see those big Imperial ships from the new film appear in models!

Well there were more than one of these ssd's

tneva82 wrote:

 Overread wrote:

skullking wrote:That super star Destroyer (is that Executor, from Empire & Jedi?) looks great! How much bigger would a Dreadnought from 'The Last Jedi' be? I'd imagine they'll try to do one of those if they can.

The only ship that might be bigger is Snoaks Capital ship; otherwise yeah the dreadnought is smaller. Also note the dreadnought is (if I recall right) no a one-off ship but a battle-line ship so they've got more than one. And yeah I'd love to see those big Imperial ships from the new film appear in models!

Well there were more than one of these ssd's

Outside of the films perhaps, in the films themselves the Super Star Destroyer is basically shown as the single capital ship of the fleet; the biggest and most powerful and also I believe it was basically Lord Vaders ship.

 Overread wrote:
Outside of the films perhaps, in the films themselves the Super Star Destroyer is basically shown as the single capital ship of the fleet; the biggest and most powerful and also I believe it was basically Lord Vaders ship.

Luke:
Vader's on that ship.

Han Solo:
Now don't get jittery, Luke. There are a lot of command ships.

Even a regular Star Destroyer is still a command ship capable of major operations on its own. Plus in Return of the Jedi there is at least one or two scenes where its reinforced that the Empire has brought the bulk of their fleet to the battle (or at the very least the bulk of their most mobile fleet that can be spared)

Solo at least acted like there were others. And would be unlikely and illogical for entire fleet to be there

nagash42 wrote:

 ingtaer wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Why all this talk of Executors and silly Sequel Trilogy ships?

Are they doing massive capital ships for Armada?

 BrookM wrote:
That said, perhaps a better gateway game than ruddy Monopoly.

The only thing Monopoly is the gateway for is having fewer friends!

Special rule= Once this ships shields are gone a base of a-wings can move into base and destroy this ship.

Nah. The hard counter will be that if you bring in a ship out of hyperspace, either as the objective or with Raddus, if you overlap the Super Star Destroyer it is destroyed.

#why hasn't the hyperspace maneuver been discovered in the last 4,000 years before Last Jedi?

 Overread wrote:
Even a regular Star Destroyer is still a command ship capable of major operations on its own. Plus in Return of the Jedi there is at least one or two scenes where its reinforced that the Empire has brought the bulk of their fleet to the battle (or at the very least the bulk of their most mobile fleet that can be spared)

There is no where in the film where they even imply that.

And you think the Empire controls the galaxy with 30 ISDs? Come on...

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Overread wrote:
Even a regular Star Destroyer is still a command ship capable of major operations on its own. Plus in Return of the Jedi there is at least one or two scenes where its reinforced that the Empire has brought the bulk of their fleet to the battle (or at the very least the bulk of their most mobile fleet that can be spared)

There is no where in the film where they even imply that.

And you think the Empire controls the galaxy with 30 ISDs? Come on...

Going into the recent stuff as well, if the bulk of the Empire's fleet is at Endor how do they have so many ships present at the Battle of Jakku? Which actually is a significant portion of the entire Imperial Remnant at the time, if not the vast majority (and they definitely do have at least one Super Star Destroyer there, as seen in Star Wars Battlefront "1" and "2" from EA, and the wreckage Rey climbs through in Ep 7)

"Around the time of the Battle of Endor in 4 ABY, Alliance Intelligence estimated that the Empire had more than a dozen Super Star Destroyers including Darth Vader's flagship Executor, the Annihilator, the Arbitrator, Emperor Palpatine's personal ship Eclipse, and the Ravager. However, the true number remained a subject of debate. "
from some sw wiki I found online.

Edit: tried to play Munchkin a few times, garbage game. YMMV.

 BrookM wrote:
Play a few games against my brother and his coworkers, you'll never meet a bigger pack of jerks playing that game.

Well, that's Munchkin. If you aren't screwing over your friends at key moments, you aren't doing it right.

The cards should be entertaining. There's SO much that can be made fun of.

Can't wait until the rest of the licensed games get released:

Warhammer Panic
Risk 40k
Settlers of Calth
Inquisitor of Nottingham
Heresy! (themed sorry)
Loopin' Leman
Don't Wake the Emperor

I can't wait for more actual news from Gencon!

You forgot

Hungry Hungry Squigs

Grot Trap (buld the bestez ork trap evur to get the sneaky git!)

ChaosTwizzler (spin the cursed arrow to a colour and body part and see if you and your friends can become the most twisted abomination of hands and legs ever created!

Heck we might even see the Top Trumps game come back!


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 Mysterio wrote:
I can't wait for more actual news from Gencon!

The worst part is being in Europe and being awake whilst all of gencon is sleeping and vis versa it seems

zerosignal wrote:
Edit: tried to play Munchkin a few times, garbage game. YMMV.

Indeed, it's not for everyone...it's more for those with a good group of friends and a sense of humor.