Games Workshop

Naf said:
Used to play some sort of game where you had to go around the board (as Orks) and collect scrap metal etc and you'd write down after every match how many people had died, how much metal you collected, how many points you had gained and then the next match you would start from scratch and use the points/scrap metal to determine how many units you could use. Can't remember the name though but it was proper fun! (Armageddon springs to mind, probably wrong though...)
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You're thinking of Gorkamorka! I remember as the miniatures were pretty groundbreaking at the time as they were fully customisable and they were rolled out to the other games. Haha love it. :p
 
I used to work at a printers and we had to sign confidentiality clauses cos GW were developing all the LOTR and Warhammer online stuff. We printed all their instructions books etc, my god how complicated were they?
A few of our employees left to go to work for GW HQ as its only down the road.
Been there a few times myself. Bugmans bar is cool. Last summer when i took my 10 year old son who was starting to collect space marines, you should have seen his face when he entered the gaming room.....lol his eyes lit up, his jaw dropped. Big battle gaming lanscapes all over the place. With a huge scaled Minas Tirith in the corner which was amazing.
I can see the fascination and i admire the artwork and skill that go into making/painting, but never for myself....and too costly as well.
My older bro collected the citadel miniatures about 20 years ago he had/has 100's and 100's of em.
 
Noel Gallagher said:
Chatting to babes, playing my guitar and listning to music = my hobbies xD
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You haven't leanred yet that all babes online are men, and all underage babes are FBI agents. Tut tut :p

Wish I had such amazing hobbies. Used to love Warhammer when I was young, but just grew out of it and realised that playing games should move to the playstation or outside :D
 
SideWinder said:
If i bought some, can i pay people to paint them for me? :o
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Some people do paint them for a fee, although quality varies a lot depending on the models chosen and the people painting them.

One of my brothers friends is amazing in what he can get done to a reasonable standard in a very short space of time - he and another friend painted up a reasonable sized Necron army in about a day to gaming standard (as opposed to show/shop/character standard*).
To someone like me who can take a month to paint a single squad up to a basic standard that's amazing :p



*When you've got multiple squads of 5-20 models of the same type you really don't want to spend the same time on each one as you would for say a command or special character of which there might only be one or two in an army.
 
I spent ages painting an orc mob group.

Gave up and sprayed my whole army black, they were then ninja orcs and always won :D
 
Had some tanks and stuff just because they looked cool and were fun to make and paint.

Tried playing the game once and will never play it again.
 
Crizzy said:
You're thinking of Gorkamorka! I remember as the miniatures were pretty groundbreaking at the time as they were fully customisable and they were rolled out to the other games. Haha love it. :p
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YES!! GORKAMORKA!!

That was awesome! Used to have a tournament when we were in year 7 and 8 at school with about 6 people where we'd go round each others houses with our armies once or twice a week and then again on proper tables at the weekend (once used a friends entire living room floor for a 6 man brawl, it took forever and there was way too much scenery to tidy up at the end!). Never used to cheat by giving me and my friend extra scrap metal when we finished playing against each other, honest ;)

That's how I started my Ork army in 40k, using the Gorkamorka bits that I had from 3 years previous. The younger kids at games workshop/wherever I played thought the miniatures were proper expensive and imported (I may have fed them this lie...) but the older gents knew of Gorkamorka and we eventually had a few games when they'd found their old collections.

Good times, geeky but good! Haven't set foot in a Games Workshop for 3 or 4 years, but often have a good look at the models on display in the window - some very talented painters out there!
 
Im 22 and only just started collecting a few months back, loving it so far, although its kinda expensive.

Collecting 40k Space Marines for now (2500 points so far), and tempted to try a Tau army too shortly.

Me and a mate having a game. Marines Vs Guard, the board is flaming massive.
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played it in the 80's , had a lot of W40k marines and units. Then GW decided to tell us if our painting did not reach there mark we could no longer play in their shops using their battlegrounds, but could, for £2 a figure, let them paint them for us.....

We sold the stuff and went playing battletech, best move we made..

Shame though, was fun playing it on massive sales. Then titans came out and ruined it even more for many other people.

ColiN
 
That must have been a rule made at your store.
The official line was that any figures used in store on the gaming tables had to be painted.
However the quality of painting did not matter - not everyone can paint well and just because somebody couldn't was no reason they shouldn't be allowed to play.

We had some good painters in the Cambridge store.
Basically people would buy a blister pack, open it and leave it on the painting table.
By the end of play one of our regulars would probably have painted it for you to a pretty good standard and it wouldn't cost you a thing.
 
I had the epic 40k with 2 warlord titans and 2 orky dreads

Also had battlefleet Gothic with planetkiller :D

Aint got any models or games now but read some of the novels, I have the full Gaunts Ghosts :cool: and a few others. Not to mention the Dawn of War series on the PC.
 
stoofa said:
That must have been a rule made at your store.
The official line was that any figures used in store on the gaming tables had to be painted.
However the quality of painting did not matter - not everyone can paint well and just because somebody couldn't was no reason they shouldn't be allowed to play..
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Sounds like my local stores, and when i've been to play at other places - iirc even the tournament rules are generally just the use of 4 colours, which even the most basic paint job will manage.
As long as the models are painted in some manner, and recognisable as squads I've never seen the staff object to them.

I was in a local branch the other day and had to smile at one of the guys there helping a kid (probably about 10-12) who was looking to start playing, choose which army asking what models he liked etc and then helping him work out a small force list and I think as I left he was giving some painting tips.

Having said that, I found it really hard to keep a straight face when one of the other staff was dealing with my brother, and kept calling him "young man" (or something similar), I think the assistant was younger than my brother :p

What I have noticed, is that over the past 10 years or so the staff seem to have become less pushy/desperate :p in my local stores. It used to be that if I went into one of the local stores i'd almost be pounced upon by an incredibly gushy assistant, now they tend to leave me alone after the initial "Do you need assistance" rather than going on about the latest models constantly.
It seems like (at least locally) a very different attitude, more professional/friendly without being overly matey/pushy.
 
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