Posted by
MortiS-the-Lost on
Mar 25, 2009; 4:53pm
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/you-utter-utter-utter-robdog-f-kers-stick-your-sodding-hobby-GW-tp2531467p2533596.html
You'd be surprised how much attention GW staff don't pay, Me and Rob have played Mordheim in GW Bath a few times using warbands mostly consisting of Ral Partha and Heresy miniatures and staff didn't even notice, one time one of them even picked up a Harbinger miniature I had sitting in a case and said, “nice conversion”, “yea, I'm rather pleased with that one” I replied (I wasn't lying either it was converted ). Another member of staff at GW Bath recently told me he wasn't too bothered if people played using non-citadel miniatures as long as they where OOP
and as I've mentioned before, what with you being an Imperial Guard you've got it easy finding alternative miniatures as most sci-fi human troops will blend in seamlessly with existing IG armies
Another interesting point I'd like to bring up is the gray areas created by games that GW no longer publish but have been taken up by other companies, for instance: could me and George walk in a GW store and play the Judge Dredd Roleplay game? The book was published by GW in the late 80's to early 90's – most of George's Judge Dredd miniatures are Citadel Miniatures, however most of my Judge Dredd mini's are by Mongoose Publishing (also Foundry also make a range of 2000 AD miniatures).
Can we still play Talisman in a GW store now it's published by Fantasy Flight?
What about Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay and Dark Heresy for that matter?
Can we use a model of Thrud in games of Warhammer or Blood Bowl?
Can GW's Traveler miniatures still be used to play 40k like in the days of RT?
What about Eternal Champion? (GW and Chaosium joint published the game and Citadel made the miniatures)
And also what about using citadel miniatures for other games?
Would it be ok to play MERP in a GW store if I was using Citadel's LotR miniatures?
What about using Citadel's early stuff to play D&D 1st edition? (after all GW wouldn't have gotten so big in the first place if they hadn't started importing D&D into Britain in the late 70's)
Can I use my miniatures from Citadel's licensed AD&D range in a GW store?
And finally scratch built miniatures and ones we've sculpted ourselves?
I'd be interested see the reactions of different GW staff to these questions
the way I look at it, this is OUR hobby – not GW's hobby, they just happen to have monopolized a large corner of it
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~The ravings of a single mad Goblin is bad enough, but such a power-hungry, malice-filled creature as Mortis can never hope to be understood~