Warhammer 40K thread

I fucking ==HATE== the new Stormtooper re-deisgn. It's shit.

Why are they trying to hard to merge WH and WH40K?

I don't mind them, but Cadia's Kasrkin or the Death Korps Grenadiers are better looking.

Right on. They look great.
I love both.
Especially the Death Korps. They are a fun, happy bunch.

I hate it too.
Its more that the good artists and sculptors left GW ages ago, and the people they have now (a) aren't very good
(b) are working with CAD rather than traditional methods, making problems from (a) worse
(c) have been told by GW to put in as much fiddly crap as possible to deter resin recasters and to give the impression that they're still the best mini company in the world.

Its nothing to do with merging Fantasy and 40k, if only because they blew up the Old World, salted the ashes and told the remaining fans to piss off. GW is a monumentally terrible company that survives on inertia from when it was slightly less terrible more than anything else.

I don't think GW is as bad as all that. I just think that they're old, crotchety, and absolutely immune to criticism. Nothing penetrates their offices so they do what they do, all the time, and damn the consequences.

Now, five or six years ago, sure, I would have said that's a bad thing. But all you have to do is look at how Wizards is raping D&D to appease the progressive deathmarch to realize that, maybe, being out of touch isn't always so bad.

I'm not saying they don't take monumental shits on their playerbase almost constantly, though.

*they do what they want

One of the problems, hell probably the overwhelming issue is/was, Tom Kirby is a massive cunt.

For those who don't know who he is, he is one the founders of GW and is practically responsible for the utter fuckery that's been hapenning for the last decade or so.

He's not even one of the founders, he joined in 1986 and led the management buyout in the early 90s.

Shit, I thought he was. Point still stands though.

I'm not really disagreeing with your main point, the man's probably doomed them in the long term with his terrible policies, just pointing out he wasn't even involved with the gamey stuff at all and led the takeover by suits. It's quite clear from some of his comments down the years he has a fair amount of contempt for the player base, and that mindset infects everything else.