Spike Magazine - Which Team is most sorely missed?

[faust_33]

Spike Magazines are coming out as new teams/minis are being released. But what of the old teams?! Which one would you be most interested in seeing covered first? Cast your Vote in the Poll, or simply abstain.

[Bakunin]

Ogre's needs new starplayers.

[Jip]

It's not on there (sacrilege!), but I'm really interested to see what they do with 'flings, given the changes Goblins got.

Definitely not a 'fling coach (managed one tournament with them and won't be picking them up again any time soon!), but the Zara/Karla combo makes them so much more difficult to play against so if they get something Doom Diver-esque as well, they could start to be a reasonable threat.

[BillyDee]

Slann...

[JT-Y]

What I believe Faust means is that the teams on the poll have been released as plastic kits already, but before we started doing the Spike! Journals, so at present they don't have an accompanying Spike! Journal.
Halflings and Ogres will get a Spike! Journal if/when we release a plastic team for them. We haven't done them yet.

[Jip]

What I believe Faust means is that the teams on the poll have been released as plastic kits already, but before we started doing the Spike! Journals, so at present they don't have an accompanying Spike! Journal.

Oh! That makes more sense, cheers.

For me, it would have been better to have (re)started from the first teams and gone from there, so I'd say Humans and Orcs.

That way, they're not racing ahead and 'forgetting' the first few races. Don't understand the format switch from Death Zone to Spike! Magazine, but saw somewhere someone suggesting that GW gets itchy feet every year or so with publication styles, so there may be a third iteration (Death Zone>Spike! Magazine>Something Else) in the not too distant future.

Also, there are already minis for the existing teams (those without additional content), so surely that would be a relatively easy thing to do without waiting on new teams to be sculpted? I'm assuming it takes less time to create rules and content than it does to plan, sculpt and produce minis. Again though, that's an idiots' assumption (the idiot being me)!

I wonder if the recent success of 3rd party Halfling teams might have caught GW's eye and pushed them up the pecking order a little; genuinely interested in any new positionals that Stunty teams might get, given the success of the Doom Diver (everyone always forgets the poor lil' 'Ooligan alongside that wonderful flying gobbo, don't they!) in the new addition.

[faust_33]

What I believe Faust means is that the teams on the poll have been released as plastic kits already, but before we started doing the Spike! Journals, so at present they don't have an accompanying Spike! Journal.
Halflings and Ogres will get a Spike! Journal if/when we release a plastic team for them. We haven't done them yet.

BINGO!

[faust_33]

I'm sure everyone has their own reasons for buying Spike! Magazine. For me, I find the fluff interesting, but also helps me with planning Star Player miniatures for the team. I chose Skaven, because I'm definitely interested in more background on them and also really curious what other Star Players might be out there that we haven't seen.

I'm also really interested in the fluff on the Chaos Renegades and eager to see any additional Star Players for the Goblins and Human teams. Skaven are my number one choice though.

[MacHurto]

Would be great to have a Spike! for already released races in between new races releases (so 2 Spikes per quarter). That would still take a couple of years to complete, so nothing too rushed. I guess it is mainly a resource issue. Maybe they can hire more people!

[Skitters]

I think people would snap up Spike's for the early releases - and to some extent I would think those Spikes would be some of the easiest to write fluff for.

I guess the question would be whether GW would want them to be released as part of a package of items. I guess a Goblin release for example could be timed to be released at the same time as the FW troll and second secret weapon pack and team cards....but not sure the other teams have as many gaps in the range.

Will also be interesting to see if the Denizens and Renegades will get their own box sets (though the 0-1's on the renegades set makes that seem a little unlikely)


For Human's I think it could be an opportunity to add a couple of new positionals to help cement them as being the jack of all trades, master of none (perhaps 0-2 blocker, and 0-2 safety which would be slightly upskilled linemen)

[PercyTheTroll]

For me, it would have been better to have (re)started from the first teams and gone from there, so I'd say Humans and Orcs.

That way, they're not racing ahead and 'forgetting' the first few races. Don't understand the format switch from Death Zone to Spike! Magazine, but saw somewhere someone suggesting that GW gets itchy feet every year or so with publication styles, so there may be a third iteration (Death Zone>Spike! Magazine>Something Else) in the not too distant future.

I don't know anything but my take on the shift was Death Zone was a way to get all the rules out and then draw a line under BB from a GW perspective. Forgeworld may have carried on in a more limited way but at least the rules were out.

When BB proved wildly successful (as we always knew it would be) the strategy shifted to a more long term plan. 4 teams a year with a rulebook for each one is a model that BB has earned.

To answer the question I'd like to see Spikes for any and all teams. Maybe they could publish an extra spike once a year? Maybe the pre-christmas slot could contain 2 Spikes, 1 for the hot new team and 1 for the left behinds?

[JT-Y]

Can you fix that quote please Raveen?

[lunchmoney]

Can you fix that quote please Raveen?

Done.

[JT-Y]

Cheers.

[Wobert]

I would think that any Spike for a race already released would do pretty well. Maybe not quite as well as a Spike associated with an unreleased team . . .. but still when enough to make it worthwhile. Just my view. No doubt GW will have their own view on this and will know where it falls in their schedule (5 year plan!).

For the record - I would buy any and all of them.