The Specialist Games Wishlist.

[Mr Mystery]

1- Supported Blood Bowl. The only trouble is that the 'current' Blood Bowl rules set is awesome, so we don't want anyone screwing that up. But I'd love to see some fantastic new minis for Blood Bowl, and I'd welcome new teams as well.

2- I'd love to see Gorkamorka and Necromunda merged together and updated a bit (I prefer the 3rd+ 40k rules for close combat and vehicles instead of the 2nd ed rules that Necromorka used).

Actually, I'd really love to see it turn into a new kill team style game. Take one of the planets overrun by chaos during the 13th crusade, and make the game about playing the stragglers on the planet. Chaos has turned its attention away from the planet, so the human population is split into cultists and resistance. Even make a few stranded Astartes that have held one bastion against the tide (probably Relictors) and now act like Necromunda's Spyrer gangs.

- Warhammer Quest would be nice.

- I see absolutely no hope for either Heroquest or Space Crusade, since I don't imagine that GW could get Hasbro on board with another joint venture. It'd be cool if they did, though.

I wouldn't necessarily rule out Heroquest or Space Crusade making a comeback.

Board games have hit a whole new level of popularity these days. Main hurdle would be selling it (for they are foremost children's games) at the right price point. With two parties wanting their slice of the cake, that could be the biggest hurdle.

[Defenestratus]

Re-releasing the necrofunda box with the new high quality Space Hulk like tiles for the terrain pieces would be awesome. New ganger models would be great as well.

[odinsgrandson]

I wouldn't necessarily rule out Heroquest or Space Crusade making a comeback...

With two parties wanting their slice of the cake, that could be the biggest hurdle.

That last part is why I don't think it will ever happen.

Back in the day, MB and GW could get along well enough to put out games together (three that I know of) but I don't think they could cooperate well enough to get them done now.

And both companies would have to look at the project and not think "Hey, we could just put these resources into a game we don't have to share."

[Mr Mystery]

Depends how keen GW are for an early feeder game.

They both worked a treat on me at the beginning, and here I am 26ish years later, still spending.

[ChaosLord127]

BFG and Necromunda.

Been proxying other space ship models for BFG because the original models all have insane prices. Looking forward to a revamp of the system! The game is awesome!!!

[odinsgrandson]

I guess I've gone a ways towards re-creating Space Crusade- does that make it more likely to happen?

I'd honestly love to see an updated rules set for it. If you update the game concept into something contemporary, you'd probably have a game without a GM player.

And, if they aren't using MB's rules, they might be able to use the title just fine. I wonder if they could get away with making a new edition that isn't much like the old one. It could be a great game, and I know the Space Crusade title would sell it for a lot of people (yeah, me as well).

I'm surprised they didn't let FFG do Quest as a Descent re-skin, rather than as a card game. Then again, card game was the direction they went with for Blood Bowl as well.

Yeah- what I've heard is that Fantasy Flight's deal with Games Workshop allows them to make games based on GW properties so long as they do not produce a competing miniatures line that could be used in their games (ie- their games can't have heroic gaming scale miniatures in them).

I don't have an official source on this, but it would explain why Relic uses busts instead of minis. Ther'es an exception to the pattern with Talisman, though. Don't really know what's up with that.

[Just Tony]

My wish is for BFG sprues for each fleet, like a frame that has one capital ship, two cruisers, and four escorts. I'd be happy with that. Two frames give you a decent fleet, and people who want to spam a certain ship type will have to buy more than that to build esoteric builds. Add in some modularity for the weapons and I'd be all in.

[odinsgrandson]

That'd be cool.

Overall, what I think we're all saying is that we want Specialist Games to give us new plastic kits for all of the old games.

I wonder if that's what GW has in mind. For a good long while, the old Specialist Games wouldn't make new minis at all- they just kept some of the old ones in print.

Let's hope they're more ambitious this time around.