Warhammer 40k: Inquisition. Skirmish game rumours

[energongoodie]

Word is there is no Special Blood Bowl release this year and instead we are getting a 40k skirmish game. I am a massive blood bowl fan, but I have everything and I don't really need anything else. But a new 40k skirmish game.....I'd be all over that like white on rice!

What do you guys think?

From [URL="http://bloodofkittens.com/blog/2013/07/15/rumor-it-blood-bowl-come-inquisition/"]Blood of Kittens[/URL] 7-16-2013

GW is about to enter the skirmish scene with the release of:
Warhammer 40k: Inquisition

Inquisition is designed for 2-4 players and each side will use custom cards and dice. Army sizes consist of about 5-10 models per side. A whole new set of models drawn from Blanche artwork will accompany. The game should be flexible as you can make and design your own Inquisitorial retinue. As for rules complexity that is anyone's guess, but the general marketing goal for Inquisition is a gateway game into the greater Warhammer 40k universe.

Beyond that GW, seems to be taking cues from Kickstarter projects like Sedition Wars and home-brewed rules like Inq28 for Inquisitor. This also might not end up as a limited edition run, but that all depends on sales, and if any support is continued will be done through digital expansions and updates.

[eldargal]

I'll be in my bunk, 'purging the heretic'.

[daboarder]

I'll be in my bunk, 'purging the heretic'.

always such a way with words.

looking forward to this one, hope its not limited as cash is tight at the moment.

[DrLove42]

I'll start saving my money....

[Psychosplodge]

Didn't we have two perfectly good ones they withdrew support from? And a 54mm one as well?

On the other hand will be potentially awesome. But they're going to need more bits to give people customising options

[eldargal]

A box set with 5-10 plastic models per side would be considerably superior to the former incarnation and if they can keep the price point decent would make a good gateway to 40k if they don't make it limited and try and stick in in toy stores around the world.

[StraightSilver]

I sooo hope this is true.

It would make sense.

GW are now able to produce more card stock items cheaply and need to produce a lot of them to keep costs down so a game that uses a card mechanic would make sense.

However this is usually Fantasy Flight territory but they aren't allowed to produce actual 28mm minis so would make sense that it would be a GW project.

They also have the rules pretty much already written so could recycle the old 54mm rules into 28mm which would reduce development time considerably, plus there are a lot of 28mm groups including design studio staff that they can reference.

The failure if Inquisitor 54mm was that there were no crossover sales and you couldn't use the minis in anything else so a 28mm version makes perfect sense as you could use the minis in 40k too.

I'm sad to say I'm a bit sceptical as it sounds a bit like wish listing based on the swathe of 28mm Blanchitsu articles in WD, but then again that could just be paving the way.

I hope it's true as it would be great.

[energongoodie]

If it is true then all my old Necromunda stuff is coming back out the cubboard. I'm trying to be cool about this but I want this to be true so chuffing bad!!!

[Cap'nSmurfs]

Very interesting. I might allow myself to get excited if there's something more concrete. This sounds more likely than the perennial rumour of the Blood Bowl redo.

[pgarfunkle]

Hmmm this could be handy on tipping one or two of my non wargaming friends into the hobby as they are currently very happy to play Space Hulk and Dreadfleet.