Matt Ward appreciation thread

Say something nice about Matt Ward.

his codexes were actually balanced in relation to each other

His work on the Lord of the Rings game was fucking fantastic.

The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game is one of the greatest skirmish systems ever created.

well if codex includes warhammer fantasy, he sort of buttfucked them though.

6e Wood Elves were pretty terrifying, but Fantasy Daemons were flat out broken, while his Orc book was regarded as a thematic neutering mess.

I forget, da fuck is he doing today? is he even with geedubs? Seems like most writers either left or were let go.

>is he even with geedubs?

Nope, haters drove him off

He resisted the urge to make the Grey Knights a bunch of Emperor clones with strength/toughness/etc of 10 each.

And he didn't make them have like a million marines in their chapter because of muh codex.

This.

It's clear he put all his real effort into the good game and then trolled the fuck out of the 40k players.

World Engine was pretty cool, BL novel aside.
His bad fluff was merely a symptom of the shit trajectory all 40k fluff has been taking for more than 6 years now.

He had too much honour and integrity to stick around for Age of Sigmar. He gave his beloved Fantasy a Viking funeral and then walked away into the sunset.