GW revives Specialist Games?

[Insert_nickname_here]

I have to admit, I find it satisfying that most of the epic players are talking about dusting off their orks, none of this poncy Imperium nonsense. In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only Waaagh!

[Erik Setzer]

Guys, please don't rake me over the coals too much and call me "Negative Nancy" and all, but... That announcement has me kind of worried.

It talks up the "success" of Betrayal at Calth selling as a boxed game (missing the point entirely that people don't order multiples of a board game, people are buying it for much cheaper figures to use in a miniatures game), and seems to be hinting that the Specialist Games are going to come back as boxed and stand-alone games. If the first part of that just means starter boxes with add-ons released (like Necromunda, Mordheim, BFG), fine. Strange to word it that way, but okay, that's cool. If they give it treatment like Man'O'War being "revamped" as Dreadfleet... no. Just no. Standalone games on the side, like Space Hulk, Tyranid Attack, HeroQuest (though it did have expansions), Space Crusade, and Bombers Over the Sulfur River? Sure, those are cool.

We're not buying BoC because we like the board game (that no one's really had a chance to even play yet). We're buying it to boost armies in a completely different game. The miniatures games are what people want.

It also seems odd that they'd do this less than a week after BoC went up for preorders. So they decided, just based on the first couple days, that they're going to create a whole new branch of the company? That's less than a week they've had to decide to do this. How much do they really have fleshed out? (It's possible - likely, rather - that they planned it before BoC's preorder, but don't want to say that, for some reason.) And hey, what about the sales for Execution Force? Oh, um, right... yeah, I remember all the copies sitting in the local GW store and FLGS's...

I hope they catch what people really want and aren't just trying to do a bunch of board games.

[JamesP]

"Low sales" basically means they didn't like that a person can get a Necromunda gang for $100. Meanwhile, they're pushing 40K to have more super-heavies, lower points for models, and everything they can to make a basic 40K game feel like a game of Apocalypse used to feel, meaning you need a few hundred dollars of stuff easy. Heck, I think the basic box for Necromunda might have been less than the current 40K rulebook.

Excellent points.

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In case people haven't seen it, Natfka has a post which has recent comments from Hastings, the BFG Heresy one from Atia, two GW branches and noting that GW is advertising a lot of design posts: [URL="http://natfka.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/all-you-need-to-know-about-new.html"]http://natfka.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/all-you-need-to-know-about-new.html[/URL]

This post predates the official confirmation from GW, he's only just put that up.

[JamesP]

I have to admit, I find it satisfying that most of the epic players are talking about dusting off their orks, none of this poncy Imperium nonsense. In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only Waaagh!

Makes me very glad I've finally been updating my Mega Gargant

[Mr Mystery]

DA FYOOTCHA IZ GREEN!

Stomp da humies!

[JamesP]

He'll be joining some veteran 'oomie-stompaz, and bringing some orbital support with him:

[Mr Mystery]

Pinched of Lil Legends FB feed. Again.



I think this was previously missed/glossed over....

[Kirsten]

awesome, and oh so cute

[Wolfshade]

Its awesome news.

[YorkNecromancer]

I have to admit, I find it satisfying that most of the epic players are talking about dusting off their orks, none of this poncy Imperium nonsense. In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only Waaagh!

I think you'll find we servants of the Omnissiah will be dusting off our ENTIRE TITAN LEGIONS.

Because in the grim darkness of the far future, I'll see your WAARGGH! and raise you ALL THE HIDEOUS DEATH BY SUPERHEATED PLASMA YOU CAN EAT.

Pinched of Lil Legends FB feed. Again.



I think this was previously missed/glossed over....

OH MY OMNISSIAH.