They generally get them, and then all the information is repurposed and lobbed online.

KG

Great ideas in here.
WiC style troops as opposed to base building. Yes please.
CoH directional facing for heavy bolters, etc. great idea.
CoH cover system. Yeah its good but could actually work properly.
CoH would be moddable for 40k as the way the infantry and vehicles interact is very similar to the way 40k is supposed to work, just the lack of melee combat is a problem.

I think they’d get more than a few hippy groups (and, well…everyone else, too) up in arms if they used pure lead for their figurines.

Warhammer Online was originally going to be about building armies and in a way recreating the tabletop experience, but for some reason (*money) GW wants people to keep buying their lead white gold.

Anyway, who’s doing the preview so we at least know who to harass?

I suspect if it’s DoW2(…)

Man, is this you being a big ol’ flirtatious tease; I thought you and Alec got to visit Relic HQ in quasi-recent memory?

Anyway. Imperial Guard acting like the Company of Heroes infantry and tanks would be marvellous. As would Tyranids swarming around and up and launching themselves off ruined Imperial architecture, combined with Dawn of War’s signature brutal melee synchronised kills. It was the original that got me to stop mucking about with my spare time and using it productively to teach myself proper 3d modelling and animation; so it would be somewhat of an understatement to say that the prospect of a sequel gets me a little excited in a manner that games rarely do nowadays.

In fact, it could be said that I dis-disrelish Dawn of War 2.

One of the big draws to tabletop is being able to look down and say “Dude, this is MY army.” If Relic can capture that, then I think the game’ll do well.

I used to spend hours making skins for Quake models. I’d love to do a proper skinning job on a DoW army.

Aside from that I’d like CoH’s facing fire feature please and something that makes me get as excited as DoW did when it was released but stops short of being such a horrendous dissappointment as was the case when Soulstorm was released.

It’s not that it was rubbish it’s just that it was meh.

In fact Soulstorm could almost become a dictionary definition of “Meh!”

Also it needs ragdoll physics dismemberment physics and really fucking big explosions, all the time.

In terms of the Image, someone on Qt3 says that this 40K image is the silhouette.

KG