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Fanatic Online #100
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PostPosted: Thu May 22, 2008 10:12 am 
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Andy Hall:

Regular visitors to the site will have noticed a lack of updates recently. This has been because of some behind-the-scenes changes that are now slowly coming to fruition.

As American readers will probably already know, there?s a brand new Games Workshop website that?s gone live recently. This is just the first stage of a global web launch. As part of that plan Games Workshop?s Specialist Game support will be integrated the new site, giving it a much more prominent status than the range currently has.

There?s also other changes afoot ? the recent global range review that has been carried out means that Specialist Games products are now widely available in all parts of the world. A feat that has eluded us until now as the many hobbyists in Australia will attest to. We?re also building the range back up again, with Blood Bowl players being the first to gain with team booster packs that will be coming in July. Theses are 4-man blisters with a selection of positional players allowing you modify your teams. There?ll also be a Goblin Secret Weapons blister for all you cheeky greenskin players. The other Specialist Games will also get similar packs in the future.

The new website has no forum provision, however, as these areas on the current site have developed a community and unique character of their own they are also moving to a new home. Under the guidance of Lex (the head-moderator) and with invaluable help from EpiCom?s Cybershadow the forums will be migrating to a new place with the only difference being a change to the URL. Many of the Moderators and Answer-Mods who look after the forum on a voluntary basis will be also making the move to the Specialist Games forum?s new home. I wish all who post and sail in her well!

So, there?s loads happening for the Specialist Games and more to come in the future. However, this point effectively ends the ?Fanatic? era of support. This website will no longer be updated as all future material will be published on the new sites. On behalf of Jervis and myself I?d like to thank all the contributors, Fanatic team members from the past (Steve, you're still remembered), and, most importantly, you ? the players of the Specialist Games.

For now,
Andy @ Fanatic

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PostPosted: Thu May 22, 2008 10:12 am 
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Going Forward

Regular visitors to the site will have noticed a lack of updates recently. This has been because of some behind-the-scenes changes that are now slowly coming to fruition.

As American readers will probably already know, there?s a brand new Games Workshop website that?s gone live recently. This is just the first stage of a global web launch. As part of that plan Games Workshop?s Specialist Game support will be integrated the new site, giving it a much more prominent status than the range currently has.

There?s also other changes afoot ? the recent global range review that has been carried out means that Specialist Games products are now widely available in all parts of the world. A feat that has eluded us until now as the many hobbyists in Australia will attest to. We?re also building the range back up again, with Blood Bowl players being the first to gain with team booster packs that will be coming in July. Theses are 4-man blisters with a selection of positional players allowing you modify your teams. There?ll also be a Goblin Secret Weapons blister for all you cheeky greenskin players. The other Specialist Games will also get similar packs in the future.

The new website has no forum provision, however, as these areas on the current site have developed a community and unique character of their own they are also moving to a new home. Under the guidance of Lex (the head-moderator) and with invaluable help from EpiCom?s Cybershadow the forums will be migrating to a new place with the only difference being a change to the URL. Many of the Moderators and Answer-Mods who look after the forum on a voluntary basis will be also making the move to the Specialist Games forum?s new home. I wish all who post and sail in her well!

So, there?s loads happening for the Specialist Games and more to come in the future. However, this point effectively ends the ?Fanatic? era of support. This website will no longer be updated as all future material will be published on the new sites. On behalf of Jervis and myself I?d like to thank all the contributors, Fanatic team members from the past (Steve, you're still remembered), and, most importantly, you ? the players of the Specialist Games.

For now,
Andy @ Fanatic

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PostPosted: Thu May 22, 2008 10:13 am 
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rofl, exact same timing....

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Evil and Chaos
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PostPosted: Thu May 22, 2008 10:14 am 
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My post topic is more melancholic though. :)

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PostPosted: Thu May 22, 2008 10:17 am 
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I'm replying to this thread instead of E&C's, as I feel his is unnecessarily downbeat (sorry E&C :)).

This is good news I feel.  GW finally deciding that maybe the ugly stepchild has some intelligence that people like (hmm, stretching that analogy maybe!).

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PostPosted: Thu May 22, 2008 10:21 am 
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I actually think putting the rules directly on the webstore is a great idea and is a promising move.


It's notable that the two Epic Chaos lists didn't make the cut.

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PostPosted: Thu May 22, 2008 10:36 am 
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Oh yeah...hmmm, what's going to happen with Chaos then?  I've still got a Chaos army waiting for me to glue it together!

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PostPosted: Thu May 22, 2008 10:38 am 
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I don't think we'll need to wait long to find out what's going on there.

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PostPosted: Thu May 22, 2008 10:44 am 
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I'm a bit lost as to how this can be considered good news - surely we are losing any possibilty of GW developing official rules.
We now have no chance of getting official status even for well developed lists like the Tau.
The only files in the new 'Epic resources' section are the rulebook, Swordwind, Speed Freeks and White Scars - as E+C points out, even Chaos didn't make it!

And the SG forum appears to be losing 'official' status and becoming a voluntarily run affair.

Unless I've missed something, we're losing all experimental and development files. I'm gutted. Here's the new 'Resources' section - see for yourselves:
http://tinyurl.co.uk/8nwh

Now I'm really depressed. I'm off to sculpt some tanks to cheer myself up.
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PostPosted: Thu May 22, 2008 10:44 am 
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What are you implying? ?I'm confused!

(EDIT - that was directed at E&C)




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PostPosted: Thu May 22, 2008 10:48 am 
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Two threads merged.

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PostPosted: Thu May 22, 2008 10:49 am 
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Hah!

Natural selection at work... MY THREAD IS THE FITTEST! :D

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 Post subject: Fanatic Online #100
PostPosted: Thu May 22, 2008 10:51 am 
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(Bombot @ May 22 2008,10:44)
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What are you implying?  I'm confused!

(EDIT - that was directed at E&C)

I don't think that the Chaos presence on the web rules set will be gone for long.




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PostPosted: Thu May 22, 2008 10:55 am 
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(Evil and Chaos @ May 22 2008,10:51)
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I don't think that the Chaos presence on the web rules set will be gone for long.

Well I hope so.

Between Warmaster and Forgeworld and the Chaos boxset, there's a perfectly workable range of Chaos models.

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PostPosted: Thu May 22, 2008 11:03 am 
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Well I think that it looks ok for our future, we have seen little to nothing really come from the last two years apart from fan based stuff. Being under the bigger umbrella with more support and the said new items for each system is a step forward.

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