If GW ever did drop official model support it would become very difficult to attract new players to the hobby.

Because that's so easy at the moment

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Yes, it will kill wargaming as we know it, lets hope something survives!


Niel in Bangladesh looked into it. Too expensive for such a small client base to be a viable risk. Plus few small manufactures wish to send their moulds off to Asia with good reason.

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There's this rather neat pamphlet of GW TO&E existing apparently:

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Shame they don't practice what they preach, aye.

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More of a current misconception which seems to be that every army in Rogue Trader consisted of 2 squats with toughness 15 force fields and homing autodestructive 50" blast vortex missiles on jetboards...

My (rarely) updated hobby blog

Apparently this isn't IP or any such, as it's a "mechanism" (my guess).

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so far we can only reach slight speed.- Erik M
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RUG: by "shows" are you talking about the roadshow idea that you talked to me a while about? If so did you get my PM at all?


BLACKLEGION SAID:
"I`m used to the specific Wh40k background/fluff and the aesthetic look of the established ( = official)unit types. So i want to collect, build and paint models which reflect that.
Non-GW models are a poor substitue for me (only EW has some decent Space Skeletons) unless they are scratchbuilds."

I find myself falling under the same category here.  Whilst, like many, I do not play or enjoy playing 40k in 28mm scale it's the 41st millenium that does it for me: in the future I can perhaps see myself collecting some other 6mm sci fi armies to play different rulesets with but I tend to be a bit of a purist when it comes to mixing and matching!

Like E&C I do however reckon the current life-line support from GW is better than nothing at all: free rulebooks and a (tentative) line of miniatures to show new gamers that things are easily available: a lot easier than saying to someone, "well...you can get that from ebay, that wierd model you've never heard of MIGHT be able to be found somewhere else, we use X companies mini's as Y..." and so on!

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Nah that's alright mate, figured that would be the case,
look forward to chatting about it then :-)
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That's ridiculous.  It's straight out of their annual report and available on their investor relations website.  It's pure public domain.

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Yes, but GW doesn't want their "fanbois" reading it, so they threaten legal action... and people who don't know the truth simply comply.

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Was the thread removed from Warseer?  If not, I'll gladly go over and point out that it's information that GW is required to disclose.  They have no standing to restrict its dissemination.

BTW, I was sloppy in my terminology above.  It might not be public domain in terms of copyright, so they might be able to bitch about a direct reproduction.  However, they cannot complain about reasonable excerpts and links to the annual report.

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