Ah yes, the game that people hailed as anti-woke and the new 40k during the whole female custodes thing, just for the people behind it to double down and deny it being anti-woke, thus turning quite a few people away from it.#
And let it. Get the retards out of my hobby.
No, that's not right, is it?
Probably a little bit of everything. Paid by the TC people, given some freebies, and others just wanting to post videos to jump on the hype for views.
It's the miniature grifting PR rounds. This mean jackshit if they don't post any content from the game after. Newest example was Warcrow, that shit got astroturfed to hell and back, how do I know? Because you cannot find almost any single video that isn't 3 months old about the game from any of the channels with more traffic and anything newer is just unboxings or painting stuff at most. No battle reports beyond "demo". That means nobody gives a shit, or at least not in the youtube spehere. Mordian Glory still made Bolt Action videos even before he started getting glazed by Warlord Games. You cannot fake enthusiasm, best you can do by paying influencers is to give it a try and hope it triggers one of their tisms.
Two times the Tranch Crusade people have had power hungry discord trannies shit up the community.
Fair point.
I did consider it, but I recently got the bolt action v3 rulebook and I'm still reading through it, without even knowing if I'll actually play, so I'm not in that much of a hurry. I'm also a sucker for nice rulebooks, so not discounting maybe getting it in the future if it suddenly does become something relevant. It's just that I don't expect it to be anything more than a flash in the pan except for a few game clubs that go all in on it.
Were they for all the models, or for a singular army? I guess they're trying to compete with Geedubs prices.
There are better models out there that can be used for actual games that people play, that don't cost $400. If I were really interested in any of the models I'd just use them as proxies for IG, not as actual Tranch Crusade models. I see basically none of the warhammer youtubers that are usually hyper-critical of GW talking about Tranch Crusade either besides the typical "IS THIS THE NEW WARHAMMER KILLER?" like this is early 2000s FPS shooters with Halo. This game feels dead in the water, not to mention the fact that they have no real store presence anywhere. It's all online only, and the tranny retards that actually want to play the game and see people that want to play the game are all terminally online. TC would be better off making a TTRPG simulator alongside their game to get people introduced to the mechanics and the models than trying to compete with GW, when GW already has the logistics, the factories, the 40 years experience, and the storefronts. That's not even mentioning the lore. Every person has heard "The Golden Throne", "Blood for the Blood God", or any of the other dozen memes WH has had enter the wider public zeitgeist over their 40 year run, I can't name a single TC lore tidbit besides "Warhammer but edgier, somehow."
I'm not talking about spinning up a whole operation to compete online, I'm talking about supplying local demand unless you want to be forever a third-party GW store with some WOTC shit on the side or vice versa.
Sure, running a couple printers in your shed isn't something anyone is going to be talking about. But when it comes to doing something in the store, with employees, and municipal regulations/zoning, insurance, etc. those absolutely can come into play. If you do own a shop and leave the 3d printing bit for the shop at home, then yes it's a matter of getting snitched on for selling shit you may or may not have licenses to be selling but then you're also bringing work home and the entirety of the 3d printing mess at home becomes work.
This rings true. HeroClix is (or was) successful by doing exactly that. X-wing dropped the hobby aspects too and it was almost competing with 40k for a while.
Is Blanche involved in any official capacity? I thought he'd retired fully, and that he'd just converted and painted a few models for the current buzz about the system. As far as I can tell, this is Mike Franchina's project and he's kept a firm grip on the art.
I think the problem with Star Wars IP is there’s a set amount of model releases you could do. Same as the Halo tabletop. Once it gets to a point you’re just not bringing in new people, not selling models, and it’s dead in the water.
I'm sure Halo Space battles would be fun, but all these air/space battles seem to just struggle. Even GW's Aeronautica Imperialis struggles, as nobody wants to play the xenos factions. Even when they give T'au and Orks rules to use Imperial ships, most people still don't want to touch it.
AMG didn't buy it. Asmodee shuffled around which subsidiaries were doing what, and handed it to AMG.
And that's the real issue. Without Disney being willing to allow anyone to go to the old republic or some other era, you're basically stuck with the movie era and that's a limited number of ships, characters, etc. that will run out. For something like Legion or Shatterpoint(which doesn't seem to be doing so well for another reason I'll get to) you can at least re-release the same characters in different outfits and poses like marvel crisis protocol can get away with. With x-wing you're getting to the point of putting different colored racing stripes on the same ships and trying to pretend they're something different, when they don't even have different loadouts for variation like Battletech.
Yeah but they'd end up running out of models quicker than star wars did for x-wing and armada though.
Or it's because the half of T'au, Eldar, and Necron(all of it as I recall) stuff was forgeworld and no one wanted to pay those prices for a niche game. Even a couple of the ork and imperial models(and it's not like there were that many to begin with for xenos) for that game were forgeworld models.
No, you're not the only one seeing that, but it's also trying to fit the "grimdark" niche that GW hasn't been super into for the past 20 years at this point.
