Specialist Games, part two...

[MarcoSkoll]

Many of you have probably already heard this news elsewhere, but:



That's via GW's official Warhammer App, so we can rule out misinterpreted leaks, overblown rumours, trolls or wishlisting.

My personal thoughts... well, I'd like to be optimistic (if it's done right, it could be great), but I'm currently veering towards trepidation, as GW of late haven't exactly demonstrated an attitude I hugely want near the SGs, and I have a nasty feeling that if they do approach Inquisitor (although I think that's unlikely to be their top priority), they're likely to try and make it more mainstream - completely remaking it into a more familiar genre and losing the whole "wargaming for poets" feel.

That said, if they don't screw up Inquisitor, it's potentially good news for INQ28 players, as a new/returning Necromunda range will provide a load of new modelling options.

[DapperAnarchist]

I'm very very curious to see what 'incompatible' models (i.e., not out of the box ready for 40K and Sigmar) will be released, and how they'll do that economically. All the recent boardgames (Execution Hour, Calth, and I've seen piles of Space Hulk in a LFGS near me in the Hague) are instantly compatible with existing 40K armies, but Dreadfleet really really wasn't compatible with WFB or with the new Sigmar stuff (other than, of course, as parts). Will this mean more Dreadfleet stuff? A return of Battlefleet? Epic and Warmaster? And, of course, Inquisitor. I'm not much worried about the prospect of a new and inferior rule set though. There are people playing 2nd and 1st edition 40K, early editions of D&D, the existing/extinct Specialist Games, early WFB editions, hell, there's probably someone out there playing Little Wars and Kreigspeil. The absence of publisher support for a ruleset does not, at all, mean the death of that ruleset - even when a new ruleset exists. I'm only curious about how new 54mm models will be structured, priced, manufactured. I'd really like a full parts system - abandon selling models as a single set, just produce X kinds of legs in armour and robes and clothes and nude, X torsos, X arms, X heads, equipment. That's not very likely, but it'd be pretty cool, and fit with the in-practice use of Inquisitor models by the Inquisitor community.

[MarcoSkoll]

I'm only curious about how new 54mm models will be structured, priced, manufactured.

I suspect the question might not be "how", but "if".

1) Given that INQ28 (and Inquisimunda) has been a huge chunk of Blanchitsu features in the last few years, I wouldn't be wildly surprised if it had a part in influencing GWs thinking on whether SGs were still viable.

2) The 28mm range has changed massively since 2001. At the time, GW's 28mm was still primarily few-piece metals (the kind of model that people now look at me slightly funny for trying intensive conversions on) and very few plastics, so the new 54mm range and its multi-part characters did actually compete for conversion potential - but that's obviously no longer the case, what with the sheer abundance of plastic 28mm kits.

I'd like to see GW producing more 54mm models (the suggestion is that the new studio will be loosely part of Forge World, and I think FW working at 54mm would be a recipe for stunning models), but I've a feeling that actually doing so would be a hard sell. And probably ignored by most players.

[krenshar]

I came across this via the misinterpreted-leaks-overblown-rumours-trolls-or-wishlisting route.

I called in to my local GW and the manager told me that essentially, the company has put aside a pot of money while they look at quite what they want to do with the specialist game ranges and haven't even started putting a team together for it.  She suggested that the best way to know when they get serious about it is to watch their vacancies pages, because forgeworld is so busy with the horus heresy stuff (Calth, despite the plastic, is a forgeworld product rather than GW), that they'll have to recruit in order to get anything SG-related done.

[Sumaki]

She suggested that the best way to know when they get serious about it is to watch their vacancies pages

http://jobs.games-workshop.com/2015/11/13/specialist-brands-product-manager-nottingham-uk/

Ta-daaaaaaa.