Oh me oh my.
>>46056094
40K newfag here, what is this Lost Patrol stuff?
>>46056270
Straight out of 1d4chan:
Lost Patrol is a 2-player board game designed by Jake Thornton and produced by Games Workshop way back in the day when they still did other things than cranking out new editions and codices for Warhammer 40,000.
One player takes control of a group of Space Marine Scouts (the eponymous lost patrol) trapped on a jungle Death World. His goal is to find the Marines' dropship and get the fuck off that hellhole. The second player controls the local fauna. His goal is to cackle maniacally while the Scouts drop like flies.
The game is played on a modular map consisting of hex tiles that is continually expanded as the Scouts move along. It is so ridiculously unbalanced that even finding the dropship is considered a major victory for the Marines. According to Thornton himself, this is intentional and part of the fun. The only way make Lost Patrol "fair" is to take turns at playing the marines and see who gets eaten faster.
Original copies of Lost Patrol are reasonably easy to find, but if for some reason you can't be bothered with tracking one down, you can easily simulate the experience of playing the Scout side by pulling a burlap sack over your head and having a buddy lock you into a small room filled with feral cats.
While the game is no longer produced or maintained by GW, Jake Thornton has recently published a FAQ as well as a couple of new rules on his blog.
>>46056294
They might be a little well-armored for a scout team.
>>46056094
so much damage control from geedubs.
Trying to net back in the players that they wanted to get rid of...
So they'll do this for a while, bring back oldies, rehash is what they do best.
And then they will piss on the fanbase again, and everyone will act surprised.
once bitten, twice shy, so fuck you geedubs.
ITS HAPPENING
>>46056094
Anyone else note those appear to be genestealers, not local deathworld alium?
>>46056362
No, they are wearing scout armor
>>46056407
40k is already broken as fuck only a matter of time before they blow up the setting and replace it with 1 page of rules (which tells you to just do whatever you want) and no points a la failmar
>>46056532
Between GW's putting out all their ancient games as new stuff, doing a few good things like BaC and Overkill they dying in a blaze of "glory" (cus fuck me if they do it like AoS, or letting it rot edition after edition so that it ends up as how Fabtasy looked like in the end of its life, my choice is made.
You guys want to know the most shocking part? It's a GW board game for under $100. Sources say it's going to retail for $60usd
>>46056802
Sweet babh jesus yes.
>>46056802
Unimpressive as far as most boardgames are concerned.
Fucking shocking for gw
>>46056270
https://toya.net.pl/~rycop/schowek/LostPatrol.pdf
>>46056802
>>46056094
ALL HAIL THE SPECIALIST TEAM, THE HERALDS FROM FORGE WORLD, OUR NEW LORDS AND SAVIORS
They should make a Blood Quest boardgame.
Because that shit I'd buy.
>>46061900
>>46062218
>bulwark against the chinaman
>chinaman sells recasts of all the specialist minis
ok
>>46056094
>Space Marines Get Raped By Tyranids: Again
I am so fucking sick of genestealers
>>46056094
If I didn't know better, just going by this cover, I'd say it was a shitty small mobile game.
>>46056690
this is what happened with fantasy battle a frenzy of armybooks and the endtimes models/setting and books then once they had everyone interested and had bought their expensive endtime books, they just blew up the whole setting and completely changed the ruleset
there is only one thing that GW hold in contempt more than their customers, and that's writing rules, they really fucking hate writing rules, when was the last time we had a decent FAQ? they simply dont give a fuck about the community that has sprung up around their games and setting, they constantly bleat that they are a cool models (more than a games rules) company then turn around and charge rediculous amounts of $$ for rulesets
>>46062625
>this is what happened with fantasy battle
No, it really fucking isn't. I know you're desperately trying to push this "They're going to pull an Age of Sigmar on 40k!" narrative, but it isn't even close.
>>46062625
i remember at my local store there was a budding fantasy scene starting around endtimes everyone was excited about the 9th edition, playing a little instore campaign with their little start up armies
nobody plays fantasy battle or AOS in my town at all let alone at the local store anymore
>>46062690
it would seem like madness but what you're forgetting is the staggering arrogance and contempt that GW have for the userbase
for that reason it will always be a possibility
>>46062625
Guess what? They said in their fb page today that an FAQ was in the plans. I know I know, it's nothing confirmed, but still, I've seen plenty of steps in the right direction by GW this year, and I hope they keep it this way.
>>46062731
Anything is a possibility, but that doesn't make it likely. FB stagnated for years and years before they finally gave it the Ol' Yeller.
>>46062757
This. And the fact that 40k continued to run strong and eclipse fantasy in popularity and sales, axing it to build a newer game with a new player base would have been a lot more effective than releasing a 9th edition, which would have been more of the same shit
unlike fantasy, 40k didnt need that treatment
>>46062741
>They said in their fb page today that an FAQ was in the plans.
Its gonna fix jackshit, they always do nothing.
>>46061900
The specialist team really is the last hope for gw
>white dwarf is kill
>age of sigmar is age of sigmar
>40k is producing diganobz
>BoC, Assasinorium, and Kill team are based as fuck
man o war was trash tho
>>46062801
Nigger we offer you a potential solution, you turn it down. I say we wait and see. For now, lots of things are pointing to good stuff happening is all I'm saying.
>>46062218
God bless Emperor Bligh and his French Sigilite.
>>46062857
Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.
>>46062857
Last FAQ made characters with infiltrate absolutely useless, dont hold your breath.
>>46062962
It also made hellturkey weapons hull mounted, which took them from 'retardedly good' to just 'still good, but not a stupidly retardedly good'. What's your point?
>>46062857
>>46062930
i concur, been burned too many times by GW, its better just to expect them to take a steaming dump on everything you love about the hobby than them actually fixing something
>>46063030
That I expect the FAQ to be absolutely fucking meh considering its been like a year since the last one.
>>46063030
yep, cos what the chaos space marines codex really needed was a nerf
>>46063093
It wasnt a nerf to csm, it was a nerf to every fucking power gamer that ran them allied to whatever the fuck they wanted because it was clearly a better flyer choice than what any codex had to offer
i cheered and rejoiced when i saw it, and it wasnt really that big of a nerf
>Blood angels
>Genestealers
TWO OUT OF THE THREE FUCKING THINGS I COLLECT GODAMMIT
TIME TO PONY UP THE MONEY FOR ANOTHER FUCKING BOARDGAME
>>46063194
>Blood angels
well you can paint blood angels, if you want. but it's not like the space hulk minis. i imagine they will do generic scout sculpts from the existing plastic kit to keep production cheap, to match its cheap price point
do not expect new minis. which i am ok with
>>46063224
If there are any new sculpts, I'll have to pick it up. Otherwise I'll let this one slide.
>>46063194
And a not so expensive one at that.
>>46063224
I wouldn't spit on some new scouts sculpts. It's not even models I use, but if I can have updated models just like they did with the Crisis ones, or what they do with the SM ones, which is genuinely just making it cleaner while keeping it nearly identical, I won't say no.
>>46063190
so instead they can ally in wraithknights, wraithguard or take necron decurions?
>>46063337
>>46063093
waaaaah! they nerfed my near invulnerably super killy cheap flyer a little bit, waaaah!
>>46063503
to be fair chaos is really really bad right now. Any nerf to their one single op unit is a pain
