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Table sizes for standard play depend on points.
According to GW, these are 4x4 up to 1000 points, 6x4 up to 2000 points, and 8x4 thereafter.

At the same time, I see new releases like Thunder and Blood with included gaming mats.
These are much smaller.

There is something that has struck me since being immersed
in a culture on the other side of the world from my home.
Space is at a premium here.
This was not so much the case in rural Missouri, or suburban Florida, or even downtown Cleveland.
I was never rich but I always had room for a gaming table.
After moving to South Korea a few years ago, I asked students at the university where I was working if they played 40k.
One response that stuck out was that they had no place to put the table!
In the USA, responses would have been much different.
Either too much trouble, too nerdy or too expensive and not enough time.

With the release of Thood and Blunder, and the upcoming First Strike and so on,
I see GW opening a window on this very much neglected demographic.
Kids trapped in tiny places with homework and phone games.
Already, Gundam is a popular mainstream hobby, though this is perhaps fading a bit for RCs and drones.
Card games are of course popular.
The guy who lost at Go against the computer recently is from South Korea.
Kids go to Go schools here, daily.
There are two or three dedicated Go TV channels here, along with Starcraft/yada computer game channels.

My point is that there is a big market here for 40k
and even AoS (but without the charm of the old mythological synergy, more difficult to get a toehold in the popular attention. GW made a mistake there but moving on...)
that may be closed otherwise solely due space constraints.

If GW as a company realizes that the future of the company as a business lies with smaller format play leading to larger format play for more dedicated hobbyists,
how would you feel about that?
If models were sold fewer, larger and at a higher premium,
for games that aim for popular market saturation rather than niche luxury brand newness,
e.g. every kid has a Thood and Blunder box under his/her bed next to his/her Legos and so on,
is this a future that you will embrace?

Moreover, and this is what is most interesting to me as I am one of those people without 8x4 to give to a table,
what are the conditions in which you see this new small format working well with existing factions and variety?
Could a small format game be competitive, like Go?
And, what format do you think is reasonable, table size and point caps and so on?

The tend to have more space in the North =D

I got into drop zone commander specifically for the small table format. It was a blast while it lasted but games dried up locally.

Some of my fondest GW gameplay was in Necromunda. Which was perfect for small table format.

GodDamUser wrote:
The tend to have more space in the North =D

I will just have to take your word for it.


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 argonak wrote:
I got into drop zone commander specifically for the small table format. It was a blast while it lasted but games dried up locally.

Some of my fondest GW gameplay was in Necromunda. Which was perfect for small table format.

Yes. Agreed. Same here. But then GW runs Shadow War as a super limited box.
I just do not understand lest they come out with Shadow Thunder 8th edition.