RE: [Epic] Titan Legion rules vs. Epic 40k

From: Kelley, Kevin J., JCS <kevin.kelley_at_...>
Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 15:27:39 -0400

There are actually two second tier GW games that have been resurrected -
dont forget space hulk (the thing that got me into GW in the first place).
Now looking to the future ... Gorka Morka will go the way of Necro-munda.
Blood Bowl follow the re released Space Hulk into a second demise. GW has
to support WHFB and WH40k - those are their bread and butter. I am sure that
soon in the pipeline will be another edition of WH40k, maybe late fall. I
suspect there will be one last flurry of Epic releases and publicity to
cover the missing titans and Chaos, hopefully before the WH40k. After that
I suspect even GW does not know what they are going to do. The way to
influence GW is to buy Epic stuff and put on games - attract folks to the
[epic] hobby. E40k is ideal to introduce new players - its simple,
colorful and has some depth. It should be the DBA of GW.

GW seems to be on a course of releasing products (box art wise) that appeal
to the "younger" crowd - but I think after an 11 year old gets GM home and
him and his parents realize it is not "ready to play" - that there is
substantial work involved to put the thing together - sales resistence will
develop. 11 year olds want instant gratification. Parents do too in that
they (and us veteran WGr's are an exception) dont want to put the thing
together either.

Kevin who is supposed to be working on his thesis presentation.
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> From: Jimi Axelsson[SMTP:jimi_at_...]
> Sent: Thursday, May 07, 1998 12:56 PM
> To: space-marine_at_...
> Subject: Re: [Epic] Titan Legion rules vs. Epic 40k
>
> At 23:31 06/05/98 EDT, some fine fellow wrote:
>
> >For those epic fans who do not know GW's official position on E40K, here
> it
> >is. E40K is NOT one of their main games; they consider it a secondary
> game.
> <snip-a-chunk>
> >Rumor has it that once GW releases
> >their Chaos line and the new Eldar titan figures, they will STOP
> production of
> >E40K. What does this tell you? It tells me that the demise of E40K has
> already
> >been written. Not that I will miss E40K, but I WILL miss Epic. GW's loss.
>
> Whether the above is a fact or something else;
>
> Ok, just what I thought. It's a hell to keep up with all things that come
> and
> go at GW. It got me bloody irritated back when BloodBowl got dropped last
> time. But my question is: has anybody else heard of the 18 months rule ?
>
> It means simply that GW products have a 18 month production span and then
> they are dropped. I was told this by a fellow running a store,
> who seems knowledgable (and who told me that I should wait - BB would be
> out again
> in the near future. Which it did.).
>
> On the other hand, what do we do about it? Let E40K crash and burn? Hope
> for
> better times? Maybe we all should eat bananas instead?
>
> Jimi
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