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Post subject: What if you could get a GW license for epic?  Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 5:44 pm |
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| Quote (dafrca @ 30 May 2006 (17:31)) | | Quote (Chroma @ 30 May 2006 (09:26)) | | Quote (nealhunt @ 30 May 2006 (17:15)) | | It's really that simple. |
Sadly, that's the truth... why can't GW see that? |
Because they have an agenda from the Men in Black. Now we just need to figure out what it is......
Thus starts the X-Files Episode: The GW Conspiracy
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I think attributing it to a conspiracy gives GW too much credit. That would mean they've actually spent time thinking about it. Personally, I think a better explanation is that the powers-that-be at GW have all had a lobotomy. 
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Post subject: What if you could get a GW license for epic? Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 5:56 pm |
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| Quote (Dwarf Supreme @ 30 May 2006 (18:44)) | | Quote (dafrca @ 30 May 2006 (17:31)) | | Quote (Chroma @ 30 May 2006 (09:26)) | | Quote (nealhunt @ 30 May 2006 (17:15)) | | It's really that simple. |
Sadly, that's the truth... why can't GW see that? |
Because they have an agenda from the Men in Black. Now we just need to figure out what it is......
Thus starts the X-Files Episode: The GW Conspiracy
dafrca |
I think attributing it to a conspiracy gives GW too much credit. That would mean they've actually spent time thinking about it. Personally, I think a better explanation is that the powers-that-be at GW have all had a lobotomy. ? |
Transcript from a meeting in the GW marketing department
"Uhhhhuuuuhh..."
"Muuuuhhh"
"Uuuuuhhhhmmm"
*Sound of head slamming agint the table*
"Uuuuhh?"
"Huuuuhhhhmmmm"
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Post subject: What if you could get a GW license for epic? Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 6:00 pm |
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| Quote (Warmaster Nice @ 30 May 2006 (17:56)) | Transcript from a meeting in the GW marketing department
"Uhhhhuuuuhh..."
"Muuuuhhh"
"Uuuuuhhhhmmm"
*Sound of head slamming agint the table*
"Uuuuhh?"
"Huuuuhhhhmmmm" |
"So, we're all in agreement then... screw EPIC!"
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dafrca
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Post subject: What if you could get a GW license for epic? Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 6:52 pm |
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Post subject: What if you could get a GW license for epic? Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 7:18 pm |
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I'm reaaaally liking this thread. Fun GW bashing (non-hateful), Swedish Pr0n, what-ifs...
Okay, here we go. Use 3d modellers to design the minis and produce them with new 3d printing technology (cheaper than you think). Have a model for EVERYTHING there is a rule for. Offer terrain that allows things like hive worlds, desolate wreckages, etc. Release BFG ships that are actually closer to scale (without getting stupid). Convert everything to imperial measurement (jk:p ). Develope enough depth to warrant dividing the book into 2 parts: 1:main rules 2:armies of Epic. You might even be able to justify small codices if you Elaborate and offer enough options. I'd like to see tokens/counters also not just for Epic but every game... this adds a cool element to the game. Maybe have the units parallel the ones in 40k a little more closely to match the modern rule sets. It seems a little to detached on one side or the other. Introduce strategems much like the Cities of Death stuff that's coming out. I'm a really big fan of this sort of thing as it really seems to add a bit of Murphy's Law to the equation. Having someone drop an orbital bombardment on an objective on the last turn could really screw things up eh? That and have the Swedish Volleyball Team deliver my daily status reports with a Vente Caramel White Chocolate Mocha and a hot oil rubdown.
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Post subject: What if you could get a GW license for epic? Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 8:11 pm |
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| Quote (Dwarf Supreme @ 28 May 2006 (04:35)) | | The first thing I would do would be reproduce the really rare OOP minis, starting with Psy-Titans, working my way through Exodites and then anything else I could think of. Then I would move on to the rare OOP minis like just about everything from the AT era and all the Squat minis. As for new minis, I would complete the TO&E for all the armies so that no one would have to worry about having to scratchbuild or proxy minis. Most importantly, I would sell all of the minis at reasonable prices, like just barely above operating costs. |
Amen!!
Not for the first time I can't disagree with D/S.
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That is OK, take all the time you need. Just don't try and think about what they would/could do to you.....
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Post subject: What if you could get a GW license for epic? Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 12:54 am |
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Hi Guys,
I think if I had a license... I would restore some of the lines and offer an archive service.
I would also work on getting Epic back into the mainstream.
Shalom,
Maksim-Smelchak.
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bloodman
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Post subject: What if you could get a GW license for epic? Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 8:14 am |
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some one needs to send this thread to jervis....then mabye he'll come back to us
remember the good old days where your were posting and jervis whould post what he though of your idea....sigh.....
but then again that was years ago when the rulebook was a word document....and i was still living with my parents and in high school....yikes has it been 2 years since ive had an epic game....ok now im depressing this dreamy topic....sigh...
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dafrca
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Post subject: What if you could get a GW license for epic? Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 10:54 am |
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| Quote (bloodman @ 31 May 2006 (00:14)) | | remember the good old days where your were posting and jervis whould post what he though of your idea....sigh..... |
yes. 
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Post subject: What if you could get a GW license for epic? Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 12:44 pm |
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| Quote (bloodman @ 31 May 2006 (08:14)) | | remember the good old days where your were posting and jervis whould post what he though of your idea....sigh..... |
It seems to me that the MIB have cut off his Internet access...
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Post subject: What if you could get a GW license for epic? Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 2:45 pm |
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Maybe he was just assimilated into the collective...
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Post subject: What if you could get a GW license for epic? Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 4:21 pm |
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1st step - relocate to 3rd world country or simple go in partnership with neil in Bangladesh. Sort out warehouse shipping point in UK (and if I'm genourous US).
2nd step - release everything ever made for Epic
3rd step - have one balanced army for each 'race'
4th step - look at whats selling, sort out box set and army sets based on that - lower army price raise individual price.
5th step - get the rest of the army lists done
6th step - do stuff like dark eldar
7th step - look at doing new models/resculpts of old moulds.
8th step - buy out other ranges and work them in somehow (step 8 being of course take over 6mm sci-fi world)
And something I've love to do at every step - make the damn scale the same!!! Though I fear how much it would cost to rescale the range I suspect this would just be scaling the plastic infantry to match the metal vehicles.
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Dwarf Supreme
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Post subject: What if you could get a GW license for epic? Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 4:32 pm |
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| Quote (The_Real_Chris @ 31 May 2006 (16:21)) | | And something I've love to do at every step - make the damn scale the same!!! Though I fear how much it would cost to rescale the range I suspect this would just be scaling the plastic infantry to match the metal vehicles. |
I'd be happy with infantry and vehicles being the same scale. I can live with Titans, CIs, Leviathans, etc. being out of scale compared to everything esle.
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