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Big Community Survey 2019
Today, you have the power to make the Warhammer hobby better than ever!
Take a few minutes to fill out the survey and help us create the games, models and events you want to see. In the past, our survey showed us a groundswell of support for a redesigned Adepta Sororitas army in plastic, among other things. Well, guess what?
This year, as a show of thanks for your feedback, one lucky participant will win* a plastic Sisters of Battle army once they’re ready for release! 10 more will win themselves a squad of the new plastic Battle Sisters.
As awesome as that prize might seem, it’s not even the best reason to take 2019’s Big Community Survey. Your comments, suggestions and feedback go directly to the teams that need to hear it. You’ll have a hand in shaping the future of the hobby we all share. How cool is that?
This year, we’d like you to tell us your best ideas about events, Warhammer-Community.com and codexes, battletomes, boxed games and other books. You never know – we might soon be making that amazing thing you’re about to tell us about!
The survey is up, time to let GW know what you want fixed and what they are doing well.
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Man, they weren’t kidding about it being a big survey. That thing too forever. Did anyone else see the question of “How many?” With our an indication of how many what?
BrianDavion wrote: they're really asking a lot about events. I don't know how many times I answered "not really intreasted in playing in WAAC tournies GW"
If you could participate in events where no models were actually placed on the table but instead everyone just math-hammered various lists into being for 6 hours (3 opponents x 2 hours each)...
Would you do that
Every week
Twice a week
Every night
Multiple times every day
EDIT: I complimented them overall for the past 2-3 years overall but let 'em have it for Necromunda's handling this time around
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Narrative gaming is my focus at the moment, so I asked for greater guidance on setting up narrative battles - I feel like more people would play narrative games if they felt they were more balanced. I get that narrative games are designed to be asymmetrical, but not everyone has the experience in playing them (nor the trust in their opponents) that they might need in creating a battle that's fun for both sides.
Planetstrike is a good example. I love the game mode, but how do you know whether the defender has enough fortifications? The attacker's army should be bigger than the defender's, but by how much? Few people have the time to playtest it to come up with a good rule of thumb, and so you never see Planetstrike missions being played.
If narrative game modes like this felt more balanced, I think more people would be interested in playing them. As it is, it seems to be a case of "who can roll more mortal wounds than the other".
For Matched Play, I suggested a nerf to CP farms, and a tweak to how Character targeting rules work. Those are my biggest bugbears for Matched at the moment.
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my answers were no, no, no, I dont game, for most of the questions. but I suggested an individual parts service for kitbashing and converters. not gonna hold out hope but maybe. if they could offer that service in the days of mail order, I dont see why they couldnt do it now with the aid of the internet.
AduroT wrote: Man, they weren’t kidding about it being a big survey. That thing too forever. Did anyone else see the question of “How many?” With our an indication of how many what?
The indication was the question just before it.
“Have you ever introduced any friends into the hobby?”
The awkward thing was it moved onto the next page for the How Many one
Honestly it felt like it spent waaayyyy too long on tournaments, and should have just accepted inevitability and had a set of five boxes at some point for you to say what you wanted them to make, since that's all anyone who fills out the last box will do.
BrianDavion wrote: they're really asking a lot about events. I don't know how many times I answered "not really intreasted in playing in WAAC tournies GW"
I think you missed an opportunity there. I made comments about the return of Games Days and more outreach and interaction- seminars and lore talks and the like. Tournaments didn't seem high on this list of events they were actually talking about.
The Phazer wrote: Honestly it felt like it spent waaayyyy too long on tournaments, and should have just accepted inevitability and had a set of five boxes at some point for you to say what you wanted them to make, since that's all anyone who fills out the last box will do.
It's a compromise. You slog through the stuff they want to know more about for your chance to tell them you want Tomb Kings back.
Can't fault them for that, and it's a nice touch that they further incentivize participation with a couple of plastic Sisters to win.
BrianDavion wrote: they're really asking a lot about events. I don't know how many times I answered "not really intreasted in playing in WAAC tournies GW"
I think you missed an opportunity there. I made comments about the return of Games Days and more outreach and interaction- seminars and lore talks and the like. Tournaments didn't seem high on this list of events they were actually talking about.
Yeah, even though I don't really go to events (and said as much in the survey) I thought it would be good to tick seminars, converting and painting because those are still relevant to my interests.
Nehekhara lives! Sort of!
Why is the rum always gone?
Oi, listen up ya gitz! Dis is Da Red Gobbo, and I heard you lot was takin a survey of da Kommunity. Im here to giv ya da perspektiv of the Grotletariat on behaff of da Gretchin Revolushunary Kommittee and make shure our voices git herd ova the shoutin and yellin of the Borkgeoisie. Below is our Manyfesto of Demandz:
1. (Re)Introduction of Rebel Grotz as a playable faction on the tabletop - We'z all green, after all, and our revolushunary compatriorks on Vigilus alreddy seemz to be risin up to throw off da shakkles of servitude
2. Bring back the Black Gobbo - As a young snotling new ta da hobby, da red gobbo enjoyed readin his feetured kolumn on yer website every week - betta den da White Dwarf e wuz, bring 'im bak on WarCom!
3. (Re)Introduction of Kroot Mercenaries as a playable faction on the tabletop - Dey may not be Grots, but dey is more dan willin' to take ar teef n' help us fight da Orks! I rekkon day also haz a Revolushun of their own to fight wit dem blueboys on T'au.
4. Additional Auxiliary Races for the T'au - No Taxashun Witout Representashun! Or sumfin' like dat. Dey is under-represented minorities dey is, dey deserv mor' opportoonity on da table, 'speshully since dem blueboys keep tellin' everyone that dey is sum sort of multi-rashul Empire. Allz dey got iz dem poor bird-brained Kroot and the buzzyboy Vespids. We knowz dey got some humies workin' wit dem too, and rumor iz dey got sum rock-krystal peeple in sekret.
5. Rough Riders for Astra Militarum - Kannon to da right o dem, Kannon to da leff o dem, Kannon in front o dem, Volley n Thund'r! Kno' who likes a gud horsey-boy? Da Red Gobbo does, n lotsa Guard playas do too!
6. More unit options for the Militarum Tempestus - Da poor gitz don't even hav a heavy support or fast attack choice, poor ladz cannae take a Brigade Detachment. Howz bout a Snipa Team (wit anti-tank rifles!) or Kombat Enguneers? Or a rite n proppa assault buggy!
7. Plastic Aeldari Aspect Warriors - Hasnt it been long enuff? N DONT FORGET DA FEENIX LORDS!
8. Introduction of Crone World Aeldari and Aeldari Exodites as playable factions - Pointy-ears ridin' lizzards! Pointy-ears ridin' daemons! Do tha thing!
9. Introduction of Agents of the Imperium as a playable faction - MAKE INQUISITORS GREAT AGAIN! Giv' us Rogue Traders too!
11. Give Chaos Daemons access to Daemon Engines - Com on ya gitz, the name "Daemon" is rite their in da title! Da Red Gobbo is very angry dat his collection of forgeworld blood slaughterers, brass skorpions, and blight drones dont fit inta iz daemon armies anymore like dey did in 6th n 7th edishuns.
12. Mutalith Vortex Beasts should be a Daemons unit - Same goes for da Slaughterbrute. What is a creature of da warp if it is not a daemon?
13. New plastic guardsmen minis - Da guard might not a broke, but der planet sure did! Cannae Cadian Shock Troopas witout a Cadia, time for a new regiment!
14. Emperors Children and World Eaters get the Death Guard treatment - Deez blokes deserv der own books wit der own Primarks I rekkon, not fair dat da dusty boyz and bloaty boyz get all da glory! Speakin of dusty boyz...
15. Thousand Sons get the Death Guard treatment (again) - Poor ladz play secund fiddle to da beaky-beastie-boyz in der own codex, wut givz? Da Tousand Sonz need some more karakter and dedicated legion unitz like da bloaty boyz get wit da Plagueburst Crawler n da Bloat Drone.
16. Another Imperial Primarch - Rowboat Gillyman is a weaklin', Rogal Dorn could pummel im gud wit iz hand cut off! I hear dat El'Jonson bloke is also havin imself a wee bit o a nap, maybe its time for him to wake up? How bout Vulkan? Russ? Khan? Corax? Anybody? Dis ting on?
17. Bring back the Wall of Martyrs terrain line (Firestorm Redoubt, Aquila Strongpoint, Plasma Obliterator, Vengeance Weapon Batteries) - Dey is outta produkshun, but da red gobbo wants em (n doesnt wanna give hundreds o teef to da freebotaz on orkbay!)
18. Balance Necrons - All dem skelly boyz is still overcosted points!
19. Make Terminators more survivable - Da brainboyz suggested the following rule fer termies:
Terminator Armor - Weapons with an AP value of -1 are treated as having an AP value of 0 instead. Units with Terminator armor may re-roll failed saves against weapons with a modified AP value of 0.
20. Make Power Armor more survivable - Da brainboyz suggested the following for mahreenz:
Power Armor - Units with Power Armor may re-roll failed saves against weapons with an AP value of 0.
21. Update Forgeworld rules to bring them in line with the Codexes - No Chapter Traits fer Carcharadons or Minotaurs? Death Korps n Elysians witout Doctrines? No strategems for anyun? Wot givs mate?
22. Better terrain rules - We'z needz betta terrain rules. We want Area Terrain and non-true Line of sight, like in 4th edishun (but betta!).
23. Reintroduction of The Lost and The Damned as a playable faction - Not jus' traitor guardsmen, but mixed forces of renegades n traitors as iz right n proppa!
24. Reintroduction of Eldar Corsairs as a playable faction - Forgeworld did em dirty, bring em back!
25. Give us an app - Jus like the one fer Age of Sigmar, wit datasheets n rulez at ar fingatips n buyable bookz n a built in army builder.
26. Clearer indicators of which products have limited availability - Da Red Gobbo gets confused bout wut he should spend his teef on, sumtimez he tries to buy a box n finds out that the box is out of producshun n innit comin back.
27. Netflix/HBO & Chill - Da Red Gobbo is very sad that Game o Thrones is comin to n end... maybe you lot haz sumfin you can bring to the telly to fill da void?
28. Age of Sigmar - My cuzzin in da Mortal Realms tells me you lot iz doin good there, keep doin what ya doin (and giv them humie gits a cogfort).
29. Battlefleet Gothic - Bring back da spaceshipz!!
30. Man O War - Bring back da wetshipz too!! My cuzzin in da Mortal Realms says dey got plenty of water ta float on.
CoALabaer wrote: Wargamers hate two things: the state of the game and change.
I asked for all new BSF stuff to stick to the 'lesser seen' parts of 40k. Minor-Xenos being something I'm particularly keen on. Even referred them to the 'teaser' art in the 3rd Ed Rulebook. It seems their natural home, and a way to better distinguish it from the wider 40k galaxy.
Other than that, very keen for Lost and The Damned. After all, a planet may well be in big trouble if a Traitor Legion decides to pay a visit. But the threat of such a thing pales compared to the Cults and Nutters that continue to plague The Imperium, destabilising it from within, and drawing away assets which might otherwise be used to better tackle nominally larger threats. They to me are the true threat of Chaos, destabilising planets, systems and potentially sectors, all without much in the way (if any) of Power Armoured Support. They're off to a decent start via BSF, but we need and deserve more. It'll also even the Soup Playing field somewhat, at least for Chaos.
Speaking of Soup, I asked for something to make Imperial Soup less attractive overall. I mean, I have no issue with those using it - I fully understand it's appeal. But when only on Faction gets that level of 'ooooh, you cheesey swine!' option, it's not fair on everyone else.
And Epic. I want Epic. As a mix of 2nd Ed Epic army organisation (set Companies to choose from, flex and flavour from Support Cards, and Special Card as the cherry on the top) and Epic Armageddon Rules (split weapon profiles for Anti Infantry and Anti-Tank). Gives the game a distinct flavour all it's own by combining those two. Well, I think it does, anyway! You may remain to be convinced, or indeed straight out call me a Loony.
Fed up of Scalpers? But still want your Exclusives? Why not join us?
Oi, listen up ya gitz! Dis is Da Red Gobbo, and I heard you lot was takin a survey of da Kommunity. Im here to giv ya da perspektiv of the Grotletariat on behaff of da Gretchin Revolushunary Kommittee and make shure our voices git herd ova the shoutin and yellin of the Borkgeoisie. Below is our Manyfesto of Demandz:
1. (Re)Introduction of Rebel Grotz as a playable faction on the tabletop - We'z all green, after all, and our revolushunary compatriorks on Vigilus alreddy seemz to be risin up to throw off da shakkles of servitude
2. Bring back the Black Gobbo - As a young snotling new ta da hobby, da red gobbo enjoyed readin his feetured kolumn on yer website every week - betta den da White Dwarf e wuz, bring 'im bak on WarCom!
3. (Re)Introduction of Kroot Mercenaries as a playable faction on the tabletop - Dey may not be Grots, but dey is more dan willin' to take ar teef n' help us fight da Orks! I rekkon day also haz a Revolushun of their own to fight wit dem blueboys on T'au.
4. Additional Auxiliary Races for the T'au - No Taxashun Witout Representashun! Or sumfin' like dat. Dey is under-represented minorities dey is, dey deserv mor' opportoonity on da table, 'speshully since dem blueboys keep tellin' everyone that dey is sum sort of multi-rashul Empire. Allz dey got iz dem poor bird-brained Kroot and the buzzyboy Vespids. We knowz dey got some humies workin' wit dem too, and rumor iz dey got sum rock-krystal peeple in sekret.
5. Rough Riders for Astra Militarum - Kannon to da right o dem, Kannon to da leff o dem, Kannon in front o dem, Volley n Thund'r! Kno' who likes a gud horsey-boy? Da Red Gobbo does, n lotsa Guard playas do too!
6. More unit options for the Militarum Tempestus - Da poor gitz don't even hav a heavy support or fast attack choice, poor ladz cannae take a Brigade Detachment. Howz bout a Snipa Team (wit anti-tank rifles!) or Kombat Enguneers? Or a rite n proppa assault buggy!
7. Plastic Aeldari Aspect Warriors - Hasnt it been long enuff? N DONT FORGET DA FEENIX LORDS!
8. Introduction of Crone World Aeldari and Aeldari Exodites as playable factions - Pointy-ears ridin' lizzards! Pointy-ears ridin' daemons! Do tha thing!
9. Introduction of Agents of the Imperium as a playable faction - MAKE INQUISITORS GREAT AGAIN! Giv' us Rogue Traders too!
11. Give Chaos Daemons access to Daemon Engines - Com on ya gitz, the name "Daemon" is rite their in da title! Da Red Gobbo is very angry dat his collection of forgeworld blood slaughterers, brass skorpions, and blight drones dont fit inta iz daemon armies anymore like dey did in 6th n 7th edishuns.
12. Mutalith Vortex Beasts should be a Daemons unit - Same goes for da Slaughterbrute. What is a creature of da warp if it is not a daemon?
13. New plastic guardsmen minis - Da guard might not a broke, but der planet sure did! Cannae Cadian Shock Troopas witout a Cadia, time for a new regiment!
14. Emperors Children and World Eaters get the Death Guard treatment - Deez blokes deserv der own books wit der own Primarks I rekkon, not fair dat da dusty boyz and bloaty boyz get all da glory! Speakin of dusty boyz...
15. Thousand Sons get the Death Guard treatment (again) - Poor ladz play secund fiddle to da beaky-beastie-boyz in der own codex, wut givz? Da Tousand Sonz need some more karakter and dedicated legion unitz like da bloaty boyz get wit da Plagueburst Crawler n da Bloat Drone.
16. Another Imperial Primarch - Rowboat Gillyman is a weaklin', Rogal Dorn could pummel im gud wit iz hand cut off! I hear dat El'Jonson bloke is also havin imself a wee bit o a nap, maybe its time for him to wake up? How bout Vulkan? Russ? Khan? Corax? Anybody? Dis ting on?
17. Bring back the Wall of Martyrs terrain line (Firestorm Redoubt, Aquila Strongpoint, Plasma Obliterator, Vengeance Weapon Batteries) - Dey is outta produkshun, but da red gobbo wants em (n doesnt wanna give hundreds o teef to da freebotaz on orkbay!)
18. Balance Necrons - All dem skelly boyz is still overcosted points!
19. Make Terminators more survivable - Da brainboyz suggested the following rule fer termies:
Terminator Armor - Weapons with an AP value of -1 are treated as having an AP value of 0 instead. Units with Terminator armor may re-roll failed saves against weapons with a modified AP value of 0.
20. Make Power Armor more survivable - Da brainboyz suggested the following for mahreenz:
Power Armor - Units with Power Armor may re-roll failed saves against weapons with an AP value of 0.
21. Update Forgeworld rules to bring them in line with the Codexes - No Chapter Traits fer Carcharadons or Minotaurs? Death Korps n Elysians witout Doctrines? No strategems for anyun? Wot givs mate?
22. Better terrain rules - We'z needz betta terrain rules. We want Area Terrain and non-true Line of sight, like in 4th edishun (but betta!).
23. Reintroduction of The Lost and The Damned as a playable faction - Not jus' traitor guardsmen, but mixed forces of renegades n traitors as iz right n proppa!
24. Reintroduction of Eldar Corsairs as a playable faction - Forgeworld did em dirty, bring em back!
25. Give us an app - Jus like the one fer Age of Sigmar, wit datasheets n rulez at ar fingatips n buyable bookz n a built in army builder.
26. Clearer indicators of which products have limited availability - Da Red Gobbo gets confused bout wut he should spend his teef on, sumtimez he tries to buy a box n finds out that the box is out of producshun n innit comin back.
27. Netflix/HBO & Chill - Da Red Gobbo is very sad that Game o Thrones is comin to n end... maybe you lot haz sumfin you can bring to the telly to fill da void?
28. Age of Sigmar - My cuzzin in da Mortal Realms tells me you lot iz doin good there, keep doin what ya doin (and giv them humie gits a cogfort).
29. Battlefleet Gothic - Bring back da spaceshipz!!
30. Man O War - Bring back da wetshipz too!! My cuzzin in da Mortal Realms says dey got plenty of water ta float on.
God, I really hope you actually did type all that up and submit it!
Me, I'm simple, plastic Aspect Warriors and consolidated FAQ's is what I want.
Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote: I asked for all new BSF stuff to stick to the 'lesser seen' parts of 40k. Minor-Xenos being something I'm particularly keen on. Even referred them to the 'teaser' art in the 3rd Ed Rulebook. It seems their natural home, and a way to better distinguish it from the wider 40k galaxy.
Other than that, very keen for Lost and The Damned. After all, a planet may well be in big trouble if a Traitor Legion decides to pay a visit. But the threat of such a thing pales compared to the Cults and Nutters that continue to plague The Imperium, destabilising it from within, and drawing away assets which might otherwise be used to better tackle nominally larger threats. They to me are the true threat of Chaos, destabilising planets, systems and potentially sectors, all without much in the way (if any) of Power Armoured Support. They're off to a decent start via BSF, but we need and deserve more. It'll also even the Soup Playing field somewhat, at least for Chaos.
Speaking of Soup, I asked for something to make Imperial Soup less attractive overall. I mean, I have no issue with those using it - I fully understand it's appeal. But when only on Faction gets that level of 'ooooh, you cheesey swine!' option, it's not fair on everyone else.
And Epic. I want Epic. As a mix of 2nd Ed Epic army organisation (set Companies to choose from, flex and flavour from Support Cards, and Special Card as the cherry on the top) and Epic Armageddon Rules (split weapon profiles for Anti Infantry and Anti-Tank). Gives the game a distinct flavour all it's own by combining those two. Well, I think it does, anyway! You may remain to be convinced, or indeed straight out call me a Loony.
I politely emphasised my interest in Epic.
Otherwise, I was quite positive about the general direction being taken.
One point I tried to make a number of times was the possibility of ad-hoc releases over time that weren't necessarily tied to large army updates that would slowly update some of the older plastics to newer kits. Particularly the Rhino, as an example, but bringing certain metal/resin kits up to date, too, like some of the Eldar range.
I asked for live stream flogging of rules developers
I'm fairly sure that's against the Twitch TOS.
queen_annes_revenge wrote:my answers were no, no, no, I dont game, for most of the questions. but I suggested an individual parts service for kitbashing and converters. not gonna hold out hope but maybe. if they could offer that service in the days of mail order, I dont see why they couldnt do it now with the aid of the internet.
That was when they were doing metal bits, and could either cast what was needed or just had a stock of various parts on hand - now everything is on a plastic sprue, it is a bit trickier.
I did suggest doing small sprues of commonly asked for parts (shoulder pads, special & heavy weapons) at a reasonable price point as a way of competing with third party producers, rather than the daft "No model, no rules" policy, but I doubt it'll get me very far
Tyranid Horde wrote:Yeah, I suggested more painting/modelling events for those kind of things, or have a big convention in some place other than Nottingham.
Last time I checked, Coventry isn't in Nottingham, dude
Neither is Birmingham, as they have a reasonable presence at the UK Games Expo (or they did last year, anyway).
Gamgee on Tau Players wrote:we all kill cats and sell our own families to the devil and eat live puppies.
Kanluwen wrote: This is, emphatically, why I will continue suggesting nuking Guard and starting over again. It's a legacy army that needs to be rebooted with a new focal point.
Confirmation of why no-one should listen to Kanluwen when it comes to the IG - he doesn't want the IG, he want's Kan's New Model Army...
tneva82 wrote: You aren't even trying ty pretend for honest arqument. Open bad faith trolling.
- No reason to keep this here, unless people want to use it for something...
I asked if the Black Library could have it's decisions made by actual bibliophiles.
"Bloody typical, they've gone back to metric without telling us."
"As the days go by, we face the increasing inevitability that we are alone in a godless, uninhabited, hostile and meaningless universe. Still, you've got to laugh haven't you?"
"We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!"
Heresy World Eaters/Emperors Children 
2200pts/1750 painted
2800pts/1200 painted
2200pts/650 painted
217pts/151 painted 
