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[Richard Hazen]

What would you think if Battletech ended up at Games Workshop? Since GW has started doing massive models right now, there could be potential for them to do something similar with Mechs, or perhaps they could just created the smaller traditional models.

[Mechteric]

An example would be nice, so I've found one. And yes, it would be cool

https://www.games-wo...V128-Stormsurge

[Richard Hazen]

Yeah sorry, should of gave an example, there's other stuff to like.

[Damocles]

prolly kiss your wallet goodbye.

(those models look nice tho)

[Metus regem]

Damocles, on 06 April 2016 - 10:19 AM, said:

prolly kiss your wallet goodbye.

(those models look nice tho)

Lol you know not the cost of Warhammer /WH40K....

More like kiss good bye a lung, kidney, arm, leg, eye, ear, pints of blood, your first born, your house, car and your wallet....

Half a squad of guys here in Canada is $45-75, most tanks run $75-100, and large kits like the ones above are $150+

[SnagaDance]

They could also make sweet models at the scale of the current Ironwind models, selling a whole company or star in a box, made from model plastic that's great for conversions and all in all they'd look sweet.

But...we would also be getting the bad from GW. Like universes whose story timeline never goes anywhere, and even when there's a huge world wide event that is said to influence the story it will be retconned (looking at you there Storm of Chaos) or there will be no clear impact (why Abaddon hasn't been turned into a Chaos spawn for all his failures in 40K I'll never know).

Worse, they might decide the franchise wasn't making enough money and turn the whole story upside down and have all factions fight each other in floating realms of jump space (please come back WHFB, I miss you so much *sniff*)

You can also kiss a balanced and consistent through time ruleset goodby, as each staggered release of a faction armybook/codex would be overpowered in terms of rules to previous ones, especially the rules pertaining to the sweet new models that came with the release.

And finally there'd be skulls everywhere. If lucky it would only be decals but somehow I'm imagining huge skulls, swinging from mechs their hip actuators etc.

[Karl Streiger]

Seriously people rage about what PGI or Wizkids did to BattleTech.... you don't want to get the cash & burn guys of GW for BattleTech.

Droping nuclear weapons to remove one half of your regiement sized dropdeck would be the norm

[Mechteric]

Marack Drock the Unicorn Wizard, on 08 April 2016 - 11:53 AM, said:

Looks like a Roman orgy of random weapons that got legs attached to the floor below it.

I like the other models though. But this one is worse than the Dark Age Atlas.

Different universe entirely, so yeah Warhammer 40K is a roman orgy of sorts. The example is more to show the detail.

[Nightshade24]

Karl Streiger, on 07 April 2016 - 05:59 AM, said:

Seriously people rage about what PGI or Wizkids did to BattleTech.... you don't want to get the cash & burn guys of GW for BattleTech.

Droping nuclear weapons to remove one half of your regiement sized dropdeck would be the norm

It's to late...

[Hit the Deck]

Nightshade24, on 09 April 2016 - 04:23 AM, said:

It's to late...

By none other than Alex himself!

[Emilio Lizardo]

GW would ruin the game as we know it.

FASA was the company that originally designed and produced Battletech. GW started a little earlier on their own wargames. FASA produced great background material, stories, histories, and a cohesive game universe. GW (Citadel, whatever they were called at the time) were run by shrewd and effective businessmen. Oversimplified, GW have a great business model and FASA (now Catalyst and Iron Wind Metals) produce detailed game content.

They are two very different game universes and that's fine. Each has its own target market of players.

IMHO, GW has a lot of young, disgruntled gamers who never really arrive at making the game an enduring hobby because they are fascinated by the models and universe but put out by the prohibitive cost and rapidly changing (ie quickly obsolete) books and army lists.

I think BT players tend to be more interested in the overall story and disappointed in the disorganized nature of the game's products. GW does a great job marketing corresponding paints, supplies, scenery, and even instructions on how to put it all together and make it look nice. For BT, most of that is provided by the player community with minimal clear guidance from the producer. I know that this has changed a lot in recent years, but the game used to be much less visual because so few players had much background in painting figures or even knew how to assemble them well.

But, all of that said, Iron Wind (formerly Ral Partha) and Reaper, I believe have produced a huge array of BT miniatures in various scales. There were some "museum scale" minis a while back that were great for shelf displays or dioramas and there was also a series of plastic kits produced by a company called Armorcast that you can still find floating around ebay.

[Vanguard319]

let's see:

Aleksander Kerensky would be an immortal godlike being

Comstar adepts would be actual wizards instead of just dressing the part.

the Smoke Jaguars would worship Khorne

Tetatae would be a playable faction (shudder)

Elementals would have huge pauldrons and chainswords

Capellans would likely have commissars

The Draconis Combine? Weaboo space communists

The Federated commonwealth would be highly xenophobic and genocidal, and with a strange obsession with skulls

The Word of Blake would not build any new tech, since innovation is heresey

There would be no periphery, as the SLDF exterminatused it

Jumpships would jump through literal hellscapes

You would not be able to use homemade custom miniatures in tournament play, or print your own record sheets because that's less money you're feeding GW.

Edited by Vanguard319, 05 October 2016 - 12:47 PM.

[RAZOR22]

IT WOULD SUCK!! We don't need them meddling in this game; COOL MINI'S OR NOT.

[Skave]

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Worse, they might decide the franchise wasn't making enough money and turn the whole story upside down and have all factions fight each other in floating realms of jump space (please come back WHFB, I miss you so much *sniff*)

Or they could decide to leave the franchise sleeping, bring it bag year later just for a video game and kill all the fan web site by the way.



I really love the miniature and the universe from GW, I have grow with them. but GW is evil and want your money.