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Exactly. People are buying magic wands because of Harry Potter, yet they have no practical use and are not as fancy looking on shelves as for example some movies or anime figures. Good marketing can drive people buy everything just because the concept is too good. So I guess if Warhammer TV show succeeds then GW will see a major flow into its main product.

I have to say, though, the new Prismacast stuff and even Heroforge colour prints look a lot better than traditional prepaints.

Hey, that's not true. Anyone remember the horror of the screwtop pots?

It was always a luxury item. I think you’re underestimating the human desire to buy stuff when they like a tv show. I own a Sonic Spork because of a tv show. A spork.

Yeah, but GW has become a more luxury item since then. I think both those points are the big pillars that GW have to fight to become something mainstream.

Moving to prepainted miniatures has been the death-knell for multiple companies.

When the Lord of the Rings was first licensed, the tabletop game outsold 40K and WHFB combined. Because the films were still in the cinema, and later seeing the dvd release, tons of people wanted merchandise and it brought people into GW to buy models who had previously never touched wargaming. A super popular 40K adaptation could very well see a similar boost to sales. Like LOTR, it won’t last forever, but the bubble will pay for a lot of new toys before it burst just like LOTR paid for advances in plastic design and casting.

Never heard of them, but those look good. I know GW explored pre-paints internally (I used to work for Ronnie Renton who ran the design studio at GW among other things), and decided against it. That was a while ago now though. Who knows, but I don't think it'll happen.

The Megaboss is one of the units I would point to as an example of a good brawler hero. I think the fact that he's slow is a weakness inherent to the role of an infantry brawler, which is honestly fine. They have trouble getting in, but should be really scary when they do. This probably means that you will rarely see even good brawlers in competitive lists (because a damage dealer without a reliable delivery mechanism is just not that useful), but I don't think competitive viability should be the measure of success here. As @Beliman said, I think it's more about the characters matching the fiction, or perhaps about them having any role at all (even if the role is not that valuable).

Another pretty solid example was Pariah Nexus. It was short but pretty solid. And a pretty interesting ending.

With the trajectory of how D&D is heading, it already kind of is? Well, not on the scale of army painting but we're heading there.

The Megaboss is 8 3/3/1/2, fight on death and gets bigger as a reward for fighting and killing. I used him a lot in smaller games (1000 pts) and he always felt like a very competent melee brawler. He's very slow, though, and all his specific artefacts were better suited for the Maw-krusha version.

Boy, will you be shocked when you hear about all the books, video games, in-house animations, and an Amazon live action TV series GW is involved with...

I just finished the Fallout show yesterday and it was so good that it filled me with a lot of hope for the Warhammer shows. I wouldn't mind them doing a adaptation of existing stories as there is a certain series I could see lending very well to that idea (Gotrek and Felix) but I'm assuming we'll see a 40k show first, from which I hope they would maybe take some inspiration from ASTARTES, make it very self contained and really show the weirdness of the unvierse. I'd also like to see a high budget animated show in the vein of Invincible coming from 40k, maybe more xenos focused. The warhammer+ shows are of questionable quality, not to be critical of the animators themselves as I'm assuming they didn't have a lot of resources to work with. Otherwise I'm very hopeful of what will come from this collaboration.

Talking about pre-painted minis: The result and durability are quite surprising on those sprues from Archon Studios. Wouldn't be that mad to think that GW would have a line of pre-painted models.

Other people playing pre-painted miniatures doesn't really take away from the enjoyment that I get from customizing my own army, honestly. I don't think GW will ever go for selling pre-paints, but I really don't have much of an issue with other people only enjoying some parts of the Warhammer hobby, but not others. I also don't get angry at people who play netlists or, in the future, Spearheads. I get that list building is not fun for everyone.

While I love painting mini's, painting mini's will never become mainstream. It will be a niche for eternity.😉 And pre-painted mini's are doomed to fail.

I don't know, I think damage is very much one of the issues for melee brawlers. 4 3/3/1/2 is just kind of a bad stat line. The expected damage is almost exactly the same as a100 points screen (10 dudes, champion, 2 4/4/-/1). I honestly don't know how much of a problem it would be from a gameplay perspective to just double the damage output of infantry heroes whose main role is to fight. It feels like the game can handle it, honestly.

The warhammer hobby is so vast that the show could have an impact on video games, novels, merchandise as well as their mainline miniature games and model kits. Parents will buy kits for their kids as well, so it could have a reasonable impact all round. Other than X-wing, pre-painted minis don't sell. I also know GW experimented with it internally and didn't back it.

A couple of interesting rumours:

It is quite a reasonable timeline. And makes sense that WoC make their appearance in TOW once they are not tournament-allowed for AoS. And hopefully by that time we have Chorfs around as well as a way to calm the waters.

Another speculation I heard it is about beastmen brayherds will hit ToW only in summer 2025 when BoC will be considered no more legal in AoS tourrnament/matched play. Valrak video containing rumors about Empire (and empire new miniatures) after Dwarfs , had also small talks about woC and He to follow so the total unofficial roadmap should look as follow : Autumn 2024 : Empire Winter/Spring 2025 : WoC and HE Summer/Autumn 2025 : Beastmen and Wood Elves

Hopefully Amazon learned a lot from the Fallout show. Never ever ever pick a very specific area/time/character and try to recreate it. Thats what all the other shows did and failed. 40k lore is so expansive they can do exactly the same thing as Fallout...just pick a random place, make a new story entirely with new characters. My fear is, like so many shows before, they will focus on a well known established character and butcher it.

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