We can proxy whatever new models Games Workshop releases. We could all just agree on some house rules for how the distances work. Sure you could play with them at the start. In 15mm scale, good luck dusting off those old fourth edition High Elves or sixth edition Kislev Kossars. They had been selling iterations of the same concepts for 40 years. We all know why.Įveryone had way too many models. Games Workshop destroyed the Old World a while back because sales were down. All that equals happy customers, happy companies. Same production costs for 30 models in 15mm, same price as 10 models in 28mm. In 15mm Games Workshop can still charge an arm and a leg, but it will feel like value because of the increased number of models. Most fanbois are out if they want have to pay those kinds of prices for a two or three hundred model army. They are going to want to sell a serious amount of models to get back that investment.Ī massive battle game with 28mm or 32mm models isn’t going to sell well at Forgeworld prices. This game is two years into a three year development cycle, if the rumors are to be believed. “Oh, but Forgeworld do a large range of 28mm fantasy models.” Necromunda – larger scale models and terrain.Īge of Sigmar – there’s some scale creep there. (Updated: I originally wrote 15mm)Īeronautica – Upscaled to 8mm. They have done it with all their latest releases.Īdeptus Titanicus – Upscaled to 8mm. Games Workshop Aren’t Afraid to Scale Change With computer aided sculpting and the much more advanced methods for injection molding, Games Workshop could make some truly revolutionary and detailed models for a new 15mm rank and flank game. These spiritual successors to the old smaller scale games have a lot of the DNA of their predecessors, augmented with some of the best models manufactured this era. Games Workshop have released a whole bunch of stunning new models for Adeptus Titanicus and Aeronautica Imperialis. When the last iteration of Epic was released, Epic: Armageddon, the models had gained a little more detail but were pretty clunky. They later followed up with the all metal miniatures range for Warmaster.Īt the time, even by Games Workshop’s simpler standards, these models didn’t have a lot of detail. This was the first of their large scale battle systems based around 8mm figures. Way back when Games Workshop first released Epic: Space Marine and Epic: Titan Legions the models were pretty plain. There are actually a few really great arguments for the scale change. I think it will be 15mm and I’m going to tell you why. Lately, there has been a lot of wishlisting about what scale people would like to see the game in. Some about which factions will be in the game? Could they move away from the old Warhammer Fantasy Battle rules? What period of the games extensive lore will it be set in? Needless to say, this has fueled an immense amount of speculation.

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