Re: So will 'The Hobbit' bring life into GWs range?

Posted by MortiS-the-Lost on Dec 11, 2012; 10:49am
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/So-will-The-Hobbit-bring-life-into-GWs-range-tp7579052p7579259.html

Wishful thinking there Mr Lumberjack…

Yea it may well bring in some new customers - but it'll be more of GW's target audience, people with no sense of value for money and no conception of what makes good miniatures - they'll just be milling in another wave under a slightly different demographic. Most existing Tolkien fans aren’t going to leap at GW's new line of The Hobbit miniatures, the core market for GW's hobbit game will be the kids who never head of it before the films and will be paying to watch in 3D

As for will it be more RPG like?
Of course not - GW don't do RPGS any more, RPG's don't sell armies! It'll be a skirmish game at it's smallest!
Of course if you'd read the book you might be wondering how a pure wargame of The Hobbit is going to work, since there isn't that much fighting (a lot of running, but not so much fighting) until the Battle of 5 Armies and the rest of the fights are better suited to an RPG environment - and of course you are right … for the book.
However, the book was about 250 pages (and then add a few more pages for The Quest of Erebor) and we know the story is going to get a lot of padding to stretch it out to 3 films of around 2 hours each - and I'd say it's safe to assume a fair amount of that padding will involve extending the fighting sequences and maybe even adding in a battle or 2 that never happened

But the overall factor in this, is that GW are too busy making easy money out of the people stupid enough to pay their prices, for them even to stop and consider making a good game or good miniatures for the people who'd appreciate them.