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Battlefront is closing its forums on March 15.

https://www.flamesofwar.com/hobby.aspx?art_id=5964

They've got Facebook groups that they expect to take the place of the forums.

Stupid move, if you ask me. But Battlefront's repeatedly made it clear that they don't much care what my opinion is on their actions.

There aren't many pleased with this. Nice first anniversary present for the utter mess that is V4 FoW.

I'm sure they're looking forward to hearing less about how bad V4 is (without having to improve the product). I'd love to know how well V4 is selling right now.

I deliberately avoid their official Facebook groups.

The unofficial Facebook group OTOH has added Battlegroup to it's name .

One more in a whole series of stupid decisions they have made since first announcing v4.

 George Spiggott wrote:
I'd love to know how well V4 is selling right now.

At my store, pretty well actually. There's been more and more people interested and playing the game lately, which has been fun.

Pretty sad news, we’ve already lost the Warlord Games and GuildWargamers forums. Now this one too, I’m not a face book user and don’t really like Facebook groups.

Much prefer being able to see people’s projects grow over time with logs on forums but ah that’s change for you I guess.

 xKillGorex wrote:
Pretty sad news, we’ve already lost the Warlord Games and GuildWargamers forums. Now this one too, I’m not a face book user and don’t really like Facebook groups.

Much prefer being able to see people’s projects grow over time with logs on forums but ah that’s change for you I guess.

Wait what? Is The Guild down for good?!

I don't use Facebook either so it's pretty important for me to connect to Battlegroup stuff...

Forums are for old people!

Everyone now is using <Insert newest Facebook Killer Here>! Get with the times!

 Strombones wrote:

 xKillGorex wrote:
Pretty sad news, we’ve already lost the Warlord Games and GuildWargamers forums. Now this one too, I’m not a face book user and don’t really like Facebook groups.

Much prefer being able to see people’s projects grow over time with logs on forums but ah that’s change for you I guess.

Wait what? Is The Guild down for good?!

I don't use Facebook either so it's pretty important for me to connect to Battlegroup stuff...

Yep sadly that forum has gone now. Gutted as there was some very good stuff on there, god knows where we will get our historical fix from now. Really hope Warlord Games bring their forum back.

Well damn. Ive been trying to get on there for weeks now but just figured someone was on vacation as the index is listed as "updating". I really don't want to have to go to Facebook for my Battlegroup discussions.

Oh well. I suppose I'll have to be more active in this subforum.

Shame as the author of the Battlegroup books was easily accessible on the Guild.

 Strombones wrote:
Well damn. Ive been trying to get on there for weeks now but just figured someone was on vacation as the index is listed as "updating". I really don't want to have to go to Facebook for my Battlegroup discussions.

Oh well. I suppose I'll have to be more active in this subforum.

Shame as the author of the Battlegroup books was easily accessible on the Guild.

Luckily Battlegroup rules have moved to a new forum http://battlegroupwargame.forumotion.com/ . See you there

 Easy E wrote:
Forums are for old people!

Everyone now is using <Insert newest Facebook Killer Here>! Get with the times!

Lol,somebody told me the other day that being on Facebook is so old.

 Dominatus wrote:

 Strombones wrote:
Well damn. Ive been trying to get on there for weeks now but just figured someone was on vacation as the index is listed as "updating". I really don't want to have to go to Facebook for my Battlegroup discussions.

Oh well. I suppose I'll have to be more active in this subforum.

Shame as the author of the Battlegroup books was easily accessible on the Guild.

Luckily Battlegroup rules have moved to a new forum http://battlegroupwargame.forumotion.com/ . See you there

You saved my life.


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 Strombones wrote:

 Dominatus wrote:

 Strombones wrote:
Well damn. Ive been trying to get on there for weeks now but just figured someone was on vacation as the index is listed as "updating". I really don't want to have to go to Facebook for my Battlegroup discussions.

Oh well. I suppose I'll have to be more active in this subforum.

Shame as the author of the Battlegroup books was easily accessible on the Guild.

Luckily Battlegroup rules have moved to a new forum http://battlegroupwargame.forumotion.com/ . See you there

You saved my life.

Any insight on what happened to the Guild?

Some sort of terminal error with the forum, This is the official announcement from the admins.

"After a rather confusing and sad week, "The Guild" admin team are now announcing that it appears that the forum has gone for good.

We share the sense of loss that has been circulating online for the last few days, and like you we mourn the loss of what was not only a great wargaming and modelling resource, but was for us a labour of love and place to hang out with friends online.

Between us we have run forums together for over 14yrs, first at Elhiem, then Showcase20 and most successfully with "The Guild" which ran for over 11yrs, our success based around treating others the same way as you would expect to be treated. A sign of this successful ethos was the fact that the forum pretty much ran itself as the 3500+ international membership were polite and encouraging. The reputation that the forum built up is an immense source of pride to us, and we thank those who helped foster that. We would also like to thank those of you we have met, travelled with, played games with, crashed at homes and generally been amazing friends with over the last few years. The friendships we have built I hope will endure beyond this.

With the death of the main forum, this FB page is redundant and the decision has been made to turn this off in the next two weeks also.

At present the admin team are talking about the possibility of starting again and creating a new space to hang out in, but 11yrs on we now have much busier real lives, with added demands from work, family and children and other hobbies, so nothing is yet confirmed….

We thank you all for your recent communications and we hope to see you at a wargaming show soon…"

There’s also a link on the battlegroup forum to a fresh new site put together by some of the peeps from the old site. I’d provide a link but I don’t do techno magic.
It’s blows up when I try and small creatures perish. Lol