GW is licensing 40k comics

Man, Titan Comics got licences to everything.

>>85143728
oh man, I wonder if Dan Abnett is gonna write some

It's just going to be more bolter porn. We'll never get something like Deff Skwadron ever again.

>>85143755
Nope. DC has exclusive rights to him. The only way that he is going to get in that action is if someone in DC gives him the clear.

That being said, I would not mind if someone adapted the Inquisitor series into comic form as it seems that we will never get any more printing of those masterpieces.

>>85143728
Oh wow. I wonder which of their "superstar" writers is gonna write these. This is gonna be a clusterfuck.

>>85143728
Written by George Mann (Dark Souls), with art by Tazio Bettin (Independence Day) and Enrica Eren Angiolini (Doctor Who: Supremacy of the Cybermen).

The first issue of that mini will be out on October 12.

>>85143841
Exclusive contracts generally just mean don't work for Marvel. He's still doing stuff for 2000ad for example

>>85144453
>Bendis writes 40k dialogue
>between fucking Inquisitors

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>>85143728
I mean its not like its the first time they've done it, there was inferno and warhammer monthly in ages past, back before the final conversion of white dwarf from a hobbyist magazine into a sales magazine.

>>85144744
"hey"
"What?"
"You're a heretic"
"No you are the heretic"
"No you are Im possitive."
"You think? Im sure you are the heretic."

I'd be hyped if it was like a Legends thing where they dug real deep into the vault. Like, half-Eldar, the frat boy beakies, Ork rokkaz, that kind of stuff.

>>85143728
Depends on the content. Will it be canon with the novels?

>>85143748
I've noticed a lot of video game, television and movie comics from the recently.

>>85144714
I think that 2000ad is owned by Warner Brothers who own DC. I think ultimately they really wouldn't care as Abnett is still making money for them in the end. I don't think that Titan has that same relationship with WB so it would be unlikely Abnett will be allowed.

>>85144855
2000AD is owned by video game company Rebellion Developments

>>85143728
>Dark Angels
More like dark faggets

Well, 40k comics have usuall been pretty solid - I've certainly never heard of a BAD series from that setting
>>85144480
Whoa whoa whoa, back the fuck up... there's a Dark Souls comic?!

Oh boy Dark Angels, the most interesting chapter to read about. Fucking Ultras and DA are the goddamn Poochiest chapters in 40K, give me some Salamanders or Fists or something, fuck.

>>85145048
It's atrocious and has nothing to do with DaS

>WH40k with additional pandering since its the current year
I will pass.

>>85145175
>Fists
No one actually likes Imperial Fists, even GW. They're Ultras in uglier colour. And they got almost wiped out by an ork in M32 or so.

>>85145221
Fists are like UMs that are even bigger macho assholes, and their ability to fail makes them more interesting to read about.

>>85145192
Welp, never mind then.

>Another possability at getting a flyboyz like comic

PRAISE MORK

>>85145048
>Well, 40k comics have usuall been pretty solid
There were some with really really terrible art.

>>85143748
Titan has the licence to print and distribute a lot of nerd stuff in the UK, and they own Forbidden Planet bookstores as well. I think one of the owners sold the whole company to Diamond in the 90s as well.

>>85145551
Deff Skwadron: Deff 'Arder would be brilliant, so of course GW won't do it. You'll take your marines and like 'em!

>>85145048
>there's a Dark Souls comic
In name only. I gave the first issue a read, it's garbage.

>>85145196
>WH40k with additional pandering since its the current year
wat

>>85144855
No, DC like to use 2000ad creators that's as far as it goes

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>>85146236
Perhaps he means more cameos from new Fan Favourites the Stormcast Eternals! Got to let go of the Old World, you losers, and get with the times.

>>85146236
He means you can't sell a comic these days if it does not prominently feature transwomen of color.

>>85146359
>Immediately releases a game with a AAA developer set in the old world
I'm getting mixed messages here, GW.

>>85146518
Don't pretend that that is not a common position to take on /co/.

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>>85146534
You have to understand that there is a deeply ingrained mindset among GW management that video games are direct competition, ie. that every copy of, say, Dawn of War that was sold was a lost purchase of Space Marines. Allowing games like Mordheim, Vermintide and Total Warhammer to be made now makes perfect sense from this perspective - the developers can do what they want, they're not going to take any sales away from a dead setting!

GW is an amazingly terrible company, and it gets worse the more you know about them.

If there's not at least a cover by Geof Darrow then what's the point?

>>85146359

>kill off Karl Franz, swaggest mother fucker this side of the Reik
>keep Archeon, Arielle, Grimgor, god damn Nagash because fuck it
>make a whole set of not-Space Marines that totally are their own thing guys, we swear
>Tomb Kings never

Fuck off, GW

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>>85147096
Grimgor bought it during the End Times, he got turned into the "Incarnate of the Lord Of Beasts" and then Archaon beheaded him at Middenheim. Someone on the writing staff was clearly PISSED at how Storm of Chaos went down the first time.

On the other hand, Grimgor got out with his dignity still largely intact, while Archaon is now one of the *stars* of Age of Sigmar (only without his sweet ass model, aka the thing people actually liked about him). I'd call that a victory, on balance.

Spare a thought for Brettonia, land of shining knights and dung eating peasants, murdered offscreen to show the Skaven meant business and then never heard of again.

>>85147341

Brettonia was doomed as is. They were decades behind the Empire and Dwarves tech wise, plus they're reliance on muh Lady of the Lake kept thier armies too top-heavy. If the Skaven didn't do them in, Chaos would eventually.

>>85146762
That sounds abominable. Tell me more

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>>85147426
I don't know about that. Apart from the fact its all made up anyway, when you've got superhuman knights that can tank a cannonball to the face and keep on trucking all the Early Modern technology in the world won't help you. Same principle as Chaos Warriors, and they get by OK.

They were mostly doomed because GW didn't care enough to update them. Their last update was in 2003, and then nothing until the Warhammer World got exploded. Didn't help that between then and now GW went insane with the "try to secure a copyright on absolutely everything and prevent competitors from producing equivalent units". Whichever way you slice it, Anglo-French Medieval types were always going to be around in some form so long as historical wargames exist.

>>85147612

True, but how many Grail Knights did they have for every peasant spear man in their ranks? You can have an army of Captain America's but even they can't outlast thundering hordes of mutant berzerker knights or literal millions of demon rats.

Also, did GW seriously try to claim the image of a Medieval knight as their own? Jesus.....

>>85147746
They tried to do various other things. I think even they realised they were onto a loser with medieval knights, which was one of the reasons Bretonnia all but disappeared but its been so long now I can't remember. They did all sorts of other shit though. The Spots the Space Marine saga, or the Chapterhouse debacle, for example.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21409490
https://1d4chan.org/wiki/ChapterHouse_Studios

I can't find all the Chapterhouse details right now, but I remember reading at the time that even the Judge told them they were making a big mistake going in

>>85146762
GW went to shit as soon as they became a publicly traded company. They make terrible decisions because their share holders see anything other than exponential growth as a complete failure.

>>85147864

>somone uses spess merines, a concept older than GW itself
>NU-UH, WE TOTALLY OWN THE SPESS MERINES!

This is why copyright/trademark laws are a double edged sword. Keeps rights in the hands of creators but also keeps basic, universal things in the hands of come truly knobbin' gits.

>>85147746
Mann you should have seen the stupid things they tried to copyright. there's a court document floating around where a solicitor picked apart some of their cease and desist letters and found that they claimed to have invented the word "space marine" and have the sole copyright on the roman number V

>>85143728
No Necrons no buy.

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>Yfw they bring back based Redeemer

>>85146762
You also need to understand that once Kirby left and Rountree took position, that, in the past year, the company has slowly become a lot better, improving Age of Sigmar dramatically, putting out really good boxed sets that contain great deals and are a perfect way to get started, a return to a monthly White Dwarf, that isn't an advertisement for that week's products, and smarter decisions as a whole that benefit both the gamers and the company itself. Games Workshop is returning to its former glory.

>>85150531
what's rountree's background?

>>85150848
I've tried looking him up, but can't find much. He actually plays the games the company makes unlike Kirby.

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>>85143728
Is it only going to be Space Marine stuff?

I want Eldar or Tau or something.

>>85146359

>Day 67
>It has been weeks since my battle against the cowardly sorcerer who flung me through the warp and into this realm.
>I have successfully infiltrated the ranks of these "stormcast eternals"
>None suspect me

>>85146762
Fantasy was dead for years

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I like Age of Sigmar
High fantasy doesn't get enough love
Want to see how they refine the setting

>>85152590
I didn't even notice it until now

>Necromunda Ongoing

All glory to the Redeemer!

So, what's the best way to get into the Warhammer 40k universe?

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>>85150174
>>85153439
GLORY TO HIS NAME

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>>85153538
1) Play Dawn of War and the Sequels as far as you like
2) go to one of the wikis and just binge on anything you find interesting
3) Read Imperial Guard Black Library books.
Stay the fuck away from anything not Strictly human, because chances are it will be fucking awful. You're not safe just sticking to IG, but you've got a better chance at something decent.

>>85147592
https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Games_Workshop
Just read this. GW is notorious for being a mess in management. It's a wonder they are still ongoing.

games work shop doesn't give two shits about any thing but making money.

we would have several WH40k movies if other wise.

>>85153790
http://youtu.be/0J4_r0ds138
Germans came up with one.

>>85153790
>companies shouldn't make money

Cool socialism bro

>>85153931
>stupid reduction

Cool assumption bro

>>85153711
Which ones are by cosmic king?

>>85153538
Play the video games (Dawn of War, Space Marine, Battlefleet Gothic -is it good btw?-), browse the wiki pages, read the novels and stay the fuck away from the tabletop games.
40k and every other licence of GW are stuck in this weird position of having an interesting enough setting that its worth to seek out but where the source material is utter garbage.

>>85153790
But anon, there is an official movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsvCLG1QZjs

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>>85153711
>Stay the fuck away from anything not Strictly human
RIP as always

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>>85154149
I'd argue that the tabletop RPGs are well worth getting into even if the wargame is terrible because they get into the interesting stuff about the setting in a lot more detail. They even make Space Marines interesting, for God's sake.

>>85153711
>Stay the fuck away from anything not Strictly human


The honourable exception to this rule is Deff Skwadron, because Top Gun with Orks is the best thing that's ever come out of Games Workshop.
http://www.cold-moon.com/40k/Deff%20Skwadron/deff_skwadron.htm

>>85144762
maybe bendis will write the thoughts of the tyranid hive mind

>>85146644
It isn't really, polucucks don't call us /co/mblr for nothing. In every thread where the word diversity gets uttered it's always just two or three stupid shills trying to saturate everything with their righteous, wholesome and non-degenerate memes. If anything it's only a vocal minority that get their panties up in a bunch over that stuff.

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>>85155307
>>85155486
I suppose in hindsight I should have said to stay away from anything set in important areas.

The basic rule of thumb seems to be that the more central it is to the setting, the more likely it will be shit.

>Horus Heresy that tells us shit nobody asked for and makes everyone a dribbling retard
Shit
>False Hero syndrome Commissar in the ass end of nowhere that bullshits his way to glory
Great
>Ork Diplomats humiliating the high lords of fucking Terra with Ork Deathstars
Utter dogshit
>Plucky regiment dealing with the loss of their homeworld and unlikely leadership
Great
>Reworking Macharius, the single most obvious reference in the setting, and somehow missing the point
Suicide inducing
>Deff Swadron
Propa Orky/10

Etc Etc.
it's why the video games are generally good; they don't have fluff ideas above their station.

>>85155595
What else could this post mean then?
>>85145196

Honestly, I hope this will be an occasion to republish some old stories. I'd kill for a trade of Deffskwadron and of The Redeemer.

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>>85155670
You might be onto something there, but I wonder if its not so much the "iconic" events that are the problem so much as GW only really trusts its in-house writers and authors, to do the heavy lifting on them. Sandy Mitchell on Ciaphas Cain was clearly a fan, but he was a freelancer. The classic Warhammer Monthly comics were almost all written and illustrated by 2000AD's then current stable. Dan Abnett's early work on Gaunt and Eisenhorn was when he was one of those freelancers and corporate management was a lot more hands-off with what would become Black Library. Si Spurrier did some damn good work back in the day too, although they've sort-of retconned quite a bit of his best GW novel, Lord of Night since then. I'm pretty sure he swore off the company having become sick to death of GW manegment dicking him about too, but I can't remember where I found that out. Might be just gossip.

>>85156384
I managed to snag a complete digest edition of Daemonifuge, the Sister of Battle comic, the last time they did that, back when it was half-way affordable.

>>85150531
Kinda sad that I completely lost interest in GW's stuff at about the time that Based Rountree came in.

>>85156932
It's very possible, and makes sense since the early HH novels are generally more well regarded, and the later ones are clearly a bodge job (like that shit with the Navigator guilds being the reason the emperor was secretive, apparently thinking that his own children were gossiping housewives when galactic scale security is at stake).

Normally it would be baffling that more attention being focused on a series would make it worse, but GW is brilliant at making absolutely pants-on-head retarded decisions.

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>>85155670
"not the important areas" might also explain why the RPGs work so well - it goes back to the original mission statement of the setting that "The universe is a big place and, whatever happens, you will not be missed..." Your groups adventures can be enormously important for your own little corner of the galaxy, with the actions of the players having epic consequences that will shake the fate of worlds... but the galaxy is so big that this is true for every other game group in existence. One of things 40k did really well that's been lost is a good sense of how bloody enormous the galaxy is. Your Dudes could be immortal heroes and terrifying villains on a par with Abbadon or Creed, but the sheer scale of the galaxy means that even the most terrifying warlord is still a mostly local phenomenon. The increase focus on the GW made special characters and sub-groups has meant thats been lost to a certain extent. I mean, I love the Black Templars and Biel Tan and all that, but I also liked the fact that an Empire of a million worlds had so much more than that going on.

Does that make any sense, or am I just rambling?

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>decide to give the GW webstore a look since I've not kept up with them
>everything is of course twice as expensive as it was last time
>the names have all changed and its a complete clusterfuck, the empire for Age of Sigmar is split into a bunch of factions and theres five different sub factions for space marines
>battleforces have been replaced with something even poorer value for money, 'Start Playing' boxes
>the Imperial Guard one comes with 13 fucking models for £50

Can the whole GW board of directors just commit seppuku already

>>85157272
It makes perfect sense.

The setting allows characters to have major events occur with them, yet not steal the spotlight, still feel like the underdogs and have real risks at stake, given that a planet or two getting blown up in the Imperium is, depressingly enough, just another Tuesday..
When it's explicitly stated to be Galactic importance, you're less engaged because they feel less relatable, and the stakes actually get lower because you know the Eternal Fluff Stasis will kick in .

The All Guardsmen Party, for example, would be much less entertaining if they were elite marines trying to save Terra and Mars, because we know damn well that they're still going to be there at the end of the day.
What we don't know is how badly the Vampire Ork, disguised as an exceptionally lucky interrogator, will fuck things up for the heroes.

>>85143728
>gays, trannies and female space marines

yeah, great....

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>>85152958
I bet you unironically like He-Man too

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>>85157810
>talking shit about the Dark Angels

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>>85143728
>ITT

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>>85160003

>>85145221
Hey... it was a big fucking ork. There were a lot of big fucking orks.

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>>85160126
>it was a big fucking ork

>>85143728
>Not Ultramarines or Space Yiffs.

I'm tentatively interested.

>>85156932
>I managed to snag a complete digest edition of Daemonifuge, the Sister of Battle comic, the last time they did that, back when it was half-way affordable.

Would you say the current $40 price is worth it?

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>>85143728
Slut Patrol Reboot when?

>>85146477
Warhammer is almost entirely immune from these effects.

Seriously, you don't see this stuff outside of people baiting with the whole "female space marines" nonsense.

>>85160174
I think even the emperor was like

"That's a big fucking ork, damn"...

I'm confused, I think the emperor fought another really, really big Ork.

I dunno, apparently Waagh! the Beast was like... regular boyz were Warboss sized and the warboss was like warhound titan sized. They were also really smart.

It's been a while since I've fucked with 40k lore.

>>85162380
I know. I just elaborated on my percieved meaning of the post I linked, since anon asked.

>>85147096
Karl Franz may be dead, but he's in a better place. And by better place, I mean anywhere but Age of Sigmar.

I swear to god, if it bring back Karl Franz as one of those god awful Stormcast, which look like what would happen if Dobson was asked to redesign C-3P0, I'm going to be pissed.

>>85147341
I envy Brettonia in a way. Unlike the Empire, they don't have to play second banana to the Stormcast.

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>>85160639
Honestly? Unless you're a huge Sister fan, no. The story certainly has some really good bits, but as a whole its somewhat disjointed. The strongest bit is the first and final story, but the end clearly sets up a sequel that isn't ever going to come (and didn't really in the first place - the final part of the story was never published, because Warhammer Monthly was wound up before it could properly concluded).

If you're rolling in cash, I'd suggest following before Daemonifuge: The Redeemer (Necromunda, lunatic religious fanatic with flamethrower hat scourges and purges), Kal Jericho (Necromunda, cool bounty hunter hunts bounties), Bloodquest (three stories about a group of Blood Angels on a quest to recover a relic), Titan: God Machine (about a titan and its crew) and of course Deff Skwadron. Some of the Boom! comics are OK, the ones with Tancred the Dreadnought particularly, but they didn't grab me as much as the older Warhammer Monthly ones.

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>>85163253
I hate to break it to you anon, but its already been implied that Sigmar is wearing Karl Franz's body like a meat sock and had his soul bunged into the "Lord Celestant Prime", ie this thing. Double the violation!

>>85144749

I still have the trade of Bloodquest Volume 2.

It's actually one of my favorite comics, and normally I hate black and white comics. But the arts really good, and the story is cool.

>>85143728

I just want a mini series of a Tau Pathfinder squad trolling Orkz in a jungle planet.

make it happen!

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>>85143728
40k is terrible, and Games Workshop is worse, so disappointment.

The only good thing they had was Warhammer Fantasy, and its dead forever because they wanted to be DC fucking Comics.

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On a related note, Matt Ward got rehired by Games Workshop.

He posed in front of the Age of Sigmar decorations with a selfie to announce it.

>>85166138
no

>>85150531
Improving Age of Sigmar is like saying you improved an iphone game.

Its still casualfag garbage.

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>>85147096
>Tomb Kings never

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/tms-undying-dynasties-army-release#/

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>>85148099
>>85147746

>>85153538
Watch the "If The Emperor Had A Text To Speech Device" series.

Warhammer 40k was created to be a satirical setting based on Judge Dredd because GW distributed Judge Dredd merch at the time, combined with Moorcock's works and themed around Paradise Lost.

They fucked it up royally when they made it ultra serious and unironic.

So to understand it, go watch the video series that goes back to the humor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_2nM1GEllg

>>85143728
is kal jericho coming back?

>>85166138
>On a related note, Matt Ward got rehired by Games Workshop.
I wasn't aware he was fired, I stopped doing Warhammer stuff at the peak of his shit.

What happened exactly?

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>>85166165
https://twitter.com/thetowerofstars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31g0YE61PLQ

>>85166542
Age of Sigmar.

Due to massive fan hatred of everything he touched in 40k, he was booted from 40k to just working on Warhammer Fantasy. He started the game in Fantasy, and loved Wood Elves and Slaaneshi.

Then he found out they were shitcanning all of Fantasy and replacing it with Age of Sigmar, kind of like killing off the DC Universe in Crisis On Infinite Earths and making the new setting take place on Marvel's Battleworld with just a small handful of characters surviving.

So he gave his notice, worked on the very last Elf books, and was gone.

Now he's back.

>>85144762
>Guardsman, why do you say that?
>What? About the Emperor's greatness? Because he is.
>No I know. And believe me, he knows.
>But..
>But...
>You know...
>What?
>Come on...
>What's happening?
>Guardsman... you're a heretic.

>>85166676
Damn, the world was almost free of him.

Why would Games Workshop take him back KNOWING that everything he touches is shit? Was his Fantasy stuff actually decent? or is GW just in such deep shit they'll take anyone?

Age of Sigmar sounds weird too, is that as bad as it sounds?

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>>85166836
His Fantasy stuff actually WAS good.

Gav Thorpe is the Matt Ward of Fantasy, Matt Ward is the Gav Thorpe is the Matt Ward of 40k.

Both should be kept away from the opposite game.

>>85166886
Ignore that second "is the Matt Ward".

>>85166886
I find that really surprising but ok.

Is he coming back to do Age of Sigmar stuff now or did he somehow get back with 40k?

>>85166984
We don't know. The only thing we know is that tweet of his.

>>85167029
Cross your fingers

>>85166744
kek

GW is licensing Warhammer everything. They're desperately trying to keep their overpriced product line relevant.

>>85167238
They should have kept making statues.

Or made action figures.

Or good comics.

No better advertising.

>>85167238
What all is there on the games front? I know we have a new Dawn of War coming soon and Eternal Crusade in early access, anything else?

>>85167398
Just for 40k?

They're resurrecting Specialist Games. Necromunda is coming back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyeoBm5QFnA

>>85143728

>>85166676
>
Due to massive fan hatred of everything he touched in 40k, he was booted from 40k to just working on Warhammer Fantasy. He started the game in Fantasy, and loved Wood Elves and Slaaneshi.
I assumed GW was being like Marvel is with Bendis and not giving a shit.
What exactly was the tipping point? Did he fuck something up beyond belief? Last thing I remember was him messing with the Necrons

>>85167398
Battlefleet Gothic recently came out, there's also Space Hulk: Deathwing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MERJhTprNpw

>>85147341
I love Kopinsky's art so fucking much

>>85143728
Depends, the novels were a mixed bag. The comics probably will be too.

>>85172292
You... double heretic

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I'm mildly exited

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>>85172292
I'm sorry, but how could you possible think that this is better than the new artwork for Age of Sigmar.

>>85152769
This. If you wanted to keep fantasy and its god-awful rank and file gameplay, maybe people should've bought more from its range when it still was there, not to mention how many new players were treated like shit by long time players who saw it as "their thing."

>>85158284
>Opinions I don't like is bait!

>>85166886
So that means that Gav Thorpe's 40k stuff is decent?

>tfw we will never get a Gav and Bob comic

>>85171488
There wasn't really a tipping point; in fact he was actually getting better when he left.
GW just used him as a scapegoat, but then pissed the opportunity away by keeping on the likes of Cruddace and then making absolutely retarded fluff decisions that made Ward look like Shakespeare

>>85177649
I want more Blood Bowl comics. Fuck Warhammer.

>>85176417
You should rename this to something like Official_AoS_Realm_Of_Death or something. That much shittiness has to be accentuated vehemently.

>>85145175
>Salamanders

Fuck yes, I want some stories with the bro-est Marines in thr Imperium.

>>85181244
My one worry with the Salamanders is that they'll do what they did to the other First Founding chapters and try to make them special. What makes the Salamanders so cool is that they're content to do the unglamorous jobs in any crusade, and are more interested in helping people than in the honor of their chapter.

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>>85181478
You're a bit late. One of the Black Library editors has decide to take them as his personal hobby horse.

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Nick_Kyme

Its probably for the best if you don't read them.

>>85181582
I won't, thanks.
They should really serve as supporting characters honestly.

>>85181128
Oh, its only part of the Realm of Death. The Realms are "near infinite", so they can't be defined as a whole on a map. Some like the Realm of Metal come in layers with each section of the underground being a new olane which has a sky somehow, and the clouds are made of metal like shifting floating continents.

>>85181623
My point is I think people don't get that it's official art

>>85181728
In an ebook they charge $32.99 for, no less.

>>85181823
Seriously? Fuck, it looks like a fucking shitty Flash game over world.

It's bad enough when /v/ tries to understand both Age of Sigmar and 40k /co/.

Don't you make yourself look that bad, please. I mean you're listening to the Age of Shitmar trolls, you don't want your piss kicked in after all.

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>>85181880
Yep. "Battletome: Fyreslayers"

>Charging into battle without hesitation, screaming war cries at a cowering foe while hefting enormous war-axes, the Fyreslayers are the descendants of the shattered warrior god Grimnir. They bear runes of shining ur-gold hammered into their flesh - ur-gold which, they believe, contains the very essence of Grimnir himself, giving the incredible strength for which they are notorious. Since the Age of Myth they have travelled the realms searching for this precious bounty, offering their services to any who will pay; more than mere mercenaries, their quest is a matter of spiritual honour. Their fury in combat and unbreakable oaths are legend, and their axes are feared - berserk warriors born for war, the Fyreslayers burn with Grimnir’s ...

They killed the Dwarves for this.

>>85181968
Dwarf player here.

AoS has done more for us than the last 20 years of Fantasy, go fuck yourself.

>>85181968
Goddammit. Just.... fucking....
Goddammit.

>>85181999
"Cloud mines".

Enough said.

Shit, as a High Elf player I stand to "gain" the most, but fuck that. Eltharion was our last hope.

>>85182050
I like how despite making the Skaven part of the main 4 Chaos Gods they still make them pussies.

>>85182050
>As a High Elf Player

Ah yes, I can see why you're an Age of Shitmar shitposter.

You're crying you don't have the entire game dev team sucking your collective needle dicks every army book.

>>85181968
>that almost perfectly symmetrical dorf in the front

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>>85182122
Cute.

Elves are stronger than ever, and Dwarfs are now their subordinates.

Both of which are fucking stupid.

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>>85182969
I got another.

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>>85164606
If you liked that, the artist's name is Colin McNeil. He's done a lot of work for 2000AD, and if you enjoy 40k you'd probably also like Insurrection, which is set in the Judge Dredd universe.

The way he draws power armour in Bloodquest is how I imagine it. Something more like stone than metal.

>>85186702
A-are they arresting a mime?

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>>85187229
Japery without a permit is highly illegal, citizen.

Can I just say that I really like /co/'s /tg/-face?

>>85187469
/tg/'s /co/ face is nice too. Probably seen more 2000AD there then here, to be honest.

>>85187469
It's an odd phenomena that many boards share when it comes to niches that connect to the main board.

I assume it's because there's enough interest for discussion, not enough widespread knowledge for shitposting and the lack of subject fatigue that you'd see in the primary board for the subject.

>>85143728
The "Heros of Ultramar" "Graphic Novel" was... ok.

It had young men training to become space marines
Space marines in a sort of natural environment.

At this point, I want to see how people live in 40k.
How does an average person use a cogitator?
How does an average person eat/sleep.
Etc.

>>85143728
>Hype anyone? Or is hype the first step on the road to disappointment?
It's GW. You know the answer.

>>85143728
>Dark Angels.

Not even once

>>85187828
Yeah, sounds plausible. It's phenomenon, you posted the plural

>>85167398
Oh god.
>Eisenhorn game for IOS
>Knight Titan game for IOS
>Digitizing Horus Heresy board game
>Spacehulk: L4D edition
>Eternal Crusade
>40k Battle Chess
>Deathwatch strategy game
>Space Marine Contra clone
>Imperial Fists "Choose your adventure"
>Dawn of War III
>Inqusitor: An Action RPG

All that is just this year.
Not to mention DLC for most of those.

>>85187918
Yeah, I edited the post halfway through and forgot about it.

>>85145175
My favourite Chapter is still the Crimson Fists. Partly because they're the Space Hombres, partly because they have that unkillable sergeant. The one who disarmed an Ork warboss by catching his sword between his ribs.

>>85144762
It's SOMEHOW gonna be worse than Matt Ward, C.S. Goto, and Robin Cruddace, COMBINED!

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>>85187469
>>85187712
>>85187828
The two boards have always been pretty close, even back when /co/ was a floating city.

You had to be there at the time.

>>85143841
your probably new to comics so ill give you a buy but exclusive contracts mean "don't work for marvel/dc" and they've always meant that and always will mean that. kirkman had an exclusive deal with marvel and still put out invincible/walking dead.

>>85166886
>His Fantasy stuff actually WAS good.
Orc and goblin player here.
I disagree.

>>85171488
People started refusing to buy codexes/armies with his name on them, so GW changed the author thing to "GW DEV TEAM", and when that didn't work, they moved him to fantasy.

A while later, he disappeared and we discovered he'd quit. No one really knows why.

>>85188863
When baiting was called trolling, and shitposters were told to get back to /b/ instead of /v/. Those were the days.

>>85191609
I tell them to go back to /pol/ now, but different strokes for different folks.

>>85166676
>AoS is so cancerous even Ward could not stomach it
Damn.

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>>85184201
Man, Spaniards are good at that modelling thing aside from cheesecake filled sci-fi skirmish games.
And here I thought Pollacks and Britons were the best at not-GW.
Who's the manufacturer of the guys at the top? I rarely see WoC like third party guys that I actually like. Pic related is one of those rare exceptions, from Hasslefree.

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>>85194378
>Man, Spaniards are good at that modelling thing aside from cheesecake filled sci-fi skirmish games.
I worded that wrong; I meant "they're also good at things that are not sci-fi themed cheesecake skirmish games". Their sci-fi cheesecake game is top notch.

>>85143841
You're a dingus. He's the closest thing Black Library has to a marketable name and GW would be retards not to exploit it.

>>85143728
>first step
that was a long time ago

>>85194378
I believe they are Mom Miniatures "Guerreros del norte"
http://www.momminiaturas.com/miniaturas/b%C3%A1rbaros/

I always liked Rackham, myself. Terrible shame that AT-43 never took off the way it could have done.

>>85144762
I'm hearing this in a valley girl voice, and suddenly it's all worthwile

>>85143728
GW has been putting out comics for decades.

>>85157708
I remember back when £10 could get you a rhino, or a squad of all metal miniatures, including heavy weapon team, when starter boxes were £40 and came with a fuck ton of models, when Epic, Necromunda,, Blood Bowl and Warhammer Quest were still played in shops, when bases were goblin green, weapons were bright red. A simpler time. A better time.

>>85162380
Not for lack of trying. It seems every month some lefty with an axe to grind screams about how it's producing racist fascists.

>>85166500
>Judge Dredd

And Nemesis the Warlock
And Strontium Dog
And Rogue Trooper
And plenty of other stuff.

>>85181999
Other Dwarf Player here; go fuck yourself and thank fuck for Kings of War

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So is Age of Sigmar Games Workshop's attempt at competing with Wamachine/Hordes, with it's skirmish gameplay, advancing story line and higher fantasy concepts?

>>85198391
No. They're attempting to replicate 40K's success in a fantasy setting. The Sigmarines should really tell you everything you need to know.

Of course, this is an extremely stupid idea, because GW already has an extremely popular game using the 40K style and aesthetic in an essentially infinite fantasy world where everything is possible and it's all grimdark. It's called 40K.

>>85198391
The sudden turn for the hideous in art direction would say so.

>>85198940
>Of course, this is an extremely stupid idea, because GW already has an extremely popular game using the 40K style and aesthetic in an essentially infinite fantasy world where everything is possible and it's all grimdark. It's called 40K.
That was the problem, 40k was selling like hot cakes while WFB was selling worse than the modelling tools.
I like their return to specialist games, but I've been turned off from 40k by Sigmar. Locally a lot of smaller games like WarmaHordes or infinity have had an influx of former GW customers because of it.

>>85198391
Warhammer Fantasy was already high fantasy. In fact, it's extremely high fantasy, probably moreso than Warmahordes.

Just because people get muddy and there are shit-grinned peasants hanging around doesn't mean it isn't high fantasy. There is a giant Mesoamerican civilization of lizard people ruled by magical frog men who possibly have spaceships and can move tectonic plates around with their minds. There are elves that ride castles that ride sea serpents. Spotting a flock of roaming harpies is something that just happens in Empire villages every so often, and it tells people that the horrible eldritch beastmen that infest the forests are near. WHFB is high fantasy to the extreme.

AoS isn't high fantasy, or dark fantasy. It's Jack Black's Brutal Legend Fantasy, except it takes itself seriously.

>>85199009
Ultimately, it was a problem of their own making.

WHFB didn't sell because GW did everything they could to make it unappealing. They upped the model counts, they made terrible sculpts, they continually declined to update the models/army lists for several armies and then wondered why nobody was buying them, they made it almost mandatory that you had to buy huge, gaudy, overpriced monstrous creatures and war machines...

Almost everything GW could do wrong, they did do wrong.

>>85199172
Fuck, The Lizardmen were great. It was cool to have a civilization of lizards monsters that weren't savage barbarians.
Also, I liked the bit of lore where the Elves traveled through Lustria, at great personal cost, they finally manage to reach the temples of the Slaan, having lost half their number to disease and the creatures in the jungle. They get escorted to meet the Slaan, who take one look at them and just say REEEEEEEE GET OUT and it all goes to hell.