Comments on: Warhammer is 25 (and a few days)

By: Xerxes

Xerxes — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:45:10 +0000

Sabbat not Bolt Thrower!

By: Mr Fish

Mr Fish — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:19:43 +0000

I got sucked into the whole games workshop thing in about 94/95. Endless days and nights were spent mustering WAAARRRGH! (sorry for the enthusiasum nut god I loved orks!!!) painting and converting untill my fingers were permanantly glued together. I had the largest and only fully painted army of out group, however the rest of my mates were beardy, rule loving bores who had no concept of the “spirit of the game” or the richness of the back ground. This lead to Terminator armys, Imperial gaurd with Bainblades and annoying Eldar armys with masses of aspect warriors, an avatar and that bloody farsear(YOU ALL KNOW THE ONE!!!). I got a bit old when my well balance ork army was getting torn limb from limb by rediculously all powerfull forces tooled up to the max with wargear cards and near on impossible to kill generals.

Lost interest when 3rd edition 40k was released as I was old enough to sus out that it was just an exersize in making armys bigger to sell more models.

Still play a bit of blood bowl, man’o'war and space hulk, and recently have started to play 40k 2nd edition again with a few mates, only small skermishes but its really good fun with a few beers and the defening sound of some old skool rock (no blot thrower though, thouse guys both sucked and blew)

By: gnome

gnome — Sat, 10 May 2008 17:25:09 +0000

Awwww…. :)

(doesn’t make much sense, I know, but that about sums it up)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 10 May 2008 13:44:33 +0000

I admit, I’d be love for someone to do a warts-and-all history of Games Workshop book.

You should write it yourself, you’ve got all the qualifications.

By: Okami

Okami — Sat, 10 May 2008 11:57:26 +0000

Blood Bowl was the first GW game played by a majority of my friends back when we were 13. We went absolutely berserk. We spent every free minute at school comparing our painting skills, argued endlessly about the rules in “Star Player” and “Companion”, wrote little cards for all our team members with all their stats on them, set up a big league and made blood bowl boards out of cloth, so we could play in the baths after school or when wer were on excursion.

The funny thing was, that us four nerds who started the whole thing managed to infect our whole class with our enthusiasm for some time. For a few months it was cool to play in our Blood Bowl league..

By: The Fanciest Of Pants

The Fanciest Of Pants — Sat, 10 May 2008 09:16:36 +0000

Pricehikes and countless space marine codex re-re-re-re-releases(not that I’ve ever collected those cheeseball wonderboys) aside, the biggest GW-related pang is the axing of the spinoff games. As awesome as some moments of 40k and WFB can be, they pale when compared to necromunda, mordheim(which I’m right now building little houses for), space hulk and all the rest.

There’s rumours of a kill-team spinoff expansion sometime this year or the next, that would be a nice throwback.

Oh and for those who still buy these little men, be sure to mail order EVERYTHING from the good ol’ USA. Compared to what they sell for here in Oz and in Rockpapershotgunland, you can usually cut the cost by nearly half. I shit you not.

Why this happens I have no idea, but check the online stores for yourself:

us.games-workshop.com

uk.games-workshop.com

By: theapologist

theapologist — Sat, 10 May 2008 09:08:55 +0000

11 kids in a street competing in a Blood Bowl tournament over the course of a summer, with us sharing around a black and white striped Newcastle Utd top to indicate who was playing referee.

Still makes me laugh…

By: Saul

Saul — Sat, 10 May 2008 04:16:32 +0000

mathew: http://www.bloodbowlonline.com/

Blood Bowl is also my all-time favourite GW game, although W40K has the most style. Space Hulk is another great game, although not what you’d call balanced. I spent more money than I cannow comprehend on GW products during my high school years.

By: wyrmsine

wyrmsine — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:50:37 +0000

When I played, GW had a 24 hotline. If you called them at 3AM and blurted a random string of words into the phone, they would give you a series of dice rolls to help you make sense of those words. They would do this without hesitation or, seemingly, any thought whatsoever. They were wired to understand you’d been looking for an answer in the rulebooks for an hour, and that you’d never find it there. You had to go straight to the source, the living tomes of the Emperor’s knowledge. Only then would you find out what happens when a Rhino hits an Avatar, and the battle could continue.

By: mathew

mathew — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:50:27 +0000

Blood Bowl (the 3rd Edition, I think?) is my fondest memory. A little long to play (pushing 2 hours) but probably the tightest design they had at the time. So great that I wish they still published it, as I’d buy it again (really.) — in fact, I will, when the PC version comes out (can’t wait!)

Other than that, I wish I’d bought Warhammer Quest when it came out. It was pretty great, and is worth a ton of money now!

They have so many great game designs, actually — it’s a shame they concentrate on a small core set of products to bleed a particular sort of GW fan with more and more models and rules revisions.

By: Kadayi

Kadayi — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:28:50 +0000

@Arsewisely

Planescape torment is pretty standout, principally because as Jochen rightly points out it’s not atypical in many ways. If you’ve time on your hands it’s worth hunting down a copy. Also aside from some shitty path finding (esp in Dungeons…) Baldurs gate is well worth a look, and the sequel is highly regarded and you can carry your character across from the 1st to the second (ensure you have the Gold pantaloons in your inventory if you do though ;) ) . Icewind dale isn’t quite to the same standard as BG or PST, but it’s still a fun timesink ;)

Atari? do a big bumper box with BG1 & 2 and IWD 1 & 2 in for about £10

By: Cargo Cult

Cargo Cult — Fri, 09 May 2008 21:35:18 +0000

My lasting memory of Games Workshop stuff is watching classmates take the entire lunch hour to take the barest handful of moves in Blood Bowl or some other overly-complicated monstrosity.

Also, the plastic miniatures were great – in that I wasn’t banned from going near them. (Lead poisoning FTW.) Painting them with Humbrol enamels intended for Airfix planes? Not so great.

(Edit: my school bus went through Eastwood, and I’d often see lavishly-decorated Games Workshop vans in the vicinity…)