WizKids Announces New Partnership with Games Workshop

Why is GW so hellbent into alienating their loyal consumers?
Every other companies would kill to have GW loyal consumer base and this fuckers are constantly poking their consumer

Thin your paint GW! Lol
But real talk. The crackling looks nice. If this is some old painted marble statue or petrified kommissar, the miniature would be good.
But i feel sorry for that user, who did that

My guess is that whizkid makes epic or BFG board games.
Maybe take over BloodBowl. So incoming season booster with several double unwanted minis.

They don't want to have "the loyal niche" anymore.
They want the big pool of pleebs.

Shame that Dice Masters is a dead game. I would be delighted to build a neat __Nids__ deck

Can someone post some actual pictures of Wizkids pre-painted minis?
All I found googling were probably bullshots

>Why is GW so hellbent into alienating their loyal consumers?

Who are they alienating with this?

This stupid fucker to start with
And nothing of value will be lost

When your consumer joke about the drop of quality, in the sense that it looks more like a toy with each model release. Joining up with the shit quality company of toys does not help that fear go away.

I'm going to be super surprise if they end releasing boardgames with proper rules and proper miniatures like a middle ground between the stuff FFG and GW made.

But WK and GW do not exactly have a consistent track record.

Best case scenario, we'll get games like HeroQuest or remakes of old GW boardgames with single piece plastics at somewhat reasonable prices.

Worst case scenario, welcome to the age of 40Klix

Quality isnt relative. You could say "leading seller of" or something relative, but to say that their models are in any way high-quality is farcical.

Lmfao

you are all gonna be begging for John Kirby to come back

I'm waiting for Andy to return, his lore is shit, but his game mechanics are excellent

Chambers? Not any time soon. He's working for Warlord now.

>this mindless conjecture

Yeah lads, don't panic because this is just going to be like the FFG deal I imagine. They won't be making 28mm depictions of GW IP at all.

So we'll see new games, but we probably won't see Wizkids making new versions of games created under license by FFG.

We will see new versions of games which were GW-created/owned when they made these games themselves, like the mentioned Dracula and Talisman-based Relic.

>Blood Bowl, BFG, Epic

No chance, GW only just set up Specialist Games as part of Forge World again, the fuck would they then outsource it to someone across the Atlantic?

>Heroquest

Impossible, I still play the game but it's not actually a GW game is it, it's Milton Bradley's.

"The big pool of plebs" has been their target audience for ages now. That's who space marines are for to begin with, and why there are so many books about them when large chunks of the lore will probably never be fleshed out. You can go around pretending to be GW's core consumer to validate your opinions all you like, but it's never actually been in anyone's interest to go after the kind unpleasable autists who post here. Their real "loyal niche" are the people who can run Epic games with normal scale minis.
...And every other company would eventually give into the temptation to do GW shenanigans. At least GW are finally learning to do it responsibly. We could be far worse off right now. Just look at how badly PP shit the bed the moment they got a taste of real success.

>up Specialist Games as part of Forge World again
Did they? Thought FW did Blood Bowl just for fun.
And blisters with sportlers would fit their heroclix formular.
And after X-Wing, i just think GW going with heroclix like minuatures. But ok, FW would make more sense.

>it's not actually a GW game is it, it's Milton Bradley's.

Its got GW's style slathered all over it. That's like saying Grand Theft Auto is a Take Two game because they're the publisher, forget Rockstar.

I fucking loved Quarriors. So hyped for 40k dicebuilding

Pre-painted 40k was my dream. I suck at painting now let’s play a game.

Mindless conjecture? No.
Baseless, certainly.

Games like heroquest was meant to imply similar to, rather than "for example."

Style loses against legally held rights 10 out of 10 times.

Most do, at least.

tbf, I think that's more an issue of the absolute ass paintjob (and to a lesser extent the shitty soft plastic used) than the sculpt.

It certainly has got their style all over it, they sculpted the models for a start. It's also loosely set in the Warhammer World, sort of, using the unique Fimir for example.

Like I say though, I know quite a bit about this and Heroquest is an MB game, made in partnership with GW. Stephen Baker the actual creator of the game worked fully for MB.

It is semantics though.

GW won't be letting them sculpt 28mm miniatures of their works, I can guarantee it.

Mage Knight: Rebellion got me into wargaming!
I'm not sad about this at all. I think wizkids does quick, fun, casual games pretty well. I'm interested to see what they make.

Lol it doesn't even mention AoS
So much for a "successful game"

And that's why they made Warhammer Quest, so it's not like we'd be seeing that anyway.

yeah, but with wizkids, you're likely to get blind boosters so...

Have fun fishing for that last Ultramarine sgt. you need.

I would think relic was at least partially owned by FFG, neat I guess. (fuck wizkids are actually than GW)

>expect it to be a fake link
>it's real

FUCKERS TAKING THE HOBBY AWAY FROM ME

IMMA TAKE ALL MY RUSTY BOX CUTTERS TO GW HQ AND MAKE NEVADA LOOK LIKE A FUCKING JOKE

>high quality pre painted miniatures

Do it user. We're all with you in spirit.

I reserve judgement until we see a game.

Quality absolutely is relative and subjective.

I'd settle for Hoare, honestly.