Games Workshop

Rabid_Bogscum · Post by **Rabid_Bogscum** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 11:30 pm

Not to stir the pot or anything, but is there anyone in the community who works for GW, and can give any insight into whether the heavy's at GW took notice of just how massive this World Cup was?

Darkson · Post by **Darkson** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 11:35 pm

Well, JJ said they did/have.
There was at least one GW employee playing in the WC, but for the life of me I can't recall who he was, or if he comes to TBB.

dwarfcoach · Post by **dwarfcoach** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 12:18 am

Darkson wrote:Well, JJ said they did/have.
There was at least one GW employee playing in the WC, but for the life of me I can't recall who he was, or if he comes to TBB.

It wasn't me...

Darkson · Post by **Darkson** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 12:37 am

Like I could forget you!

dwarfcoach · Post by **dwarfcoach** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 12:42 am

Darkson wrote:Like I could forget you!

I dunno mate, at the Blood Bowl that time you couldn't even remember what time games started on the Sunday and very nearly made me default the game and you were a referee...

*well that's my story and I'm sticking to it, even without my righteously deserved NAF points for game 4... *

Post by **DoubleSkulls** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 9:58 am

Apparently Jervis's boss's boss was in the bar and saw all the 216 coaches in Warhammer world playing BB. So he might even have a budget.

DaImp · Post by **DaImp** » Tue Nov 06, 2007 10:43 pm

Apparently Blood Bowl World Cup had the biggest ever turnout of any Games Workshop related event. I read the figure as 272 attendees. Right or wrong lets hope it makes GW realise that there is still a huge market out there.

Igor Tahavanale · Post by **Igor Tahavanale** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 10:52 am

@ DaImp - couldn't fit us all in to WarHammer World

, there was an overspill into the White Hart pub down the road. So they couldn't see everyone... which was just as well, some of us were very ugly

FischerKing · Post by **FischerKing** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 11:34 am

I guess the problem is how a bb team has like 12-16 players compared to a warhammer army consisting of many minis.

antipixi · Post by **antipixi** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 12:46 pm

FischerKing wrote:I guess the problem is how a bb team has like 12-16 players compared to a warhammer army consisting of many minis.

Seriously though, how many people do you know who play regularly who have resisted the urge to buy more than one team?

Duke Jan · Post by **Duke Jan** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 1:15 pm

antipixi wrote:
FischerKing wrote:I guess the problem is how a bb team has like 12-16 players compared to a warhammer army consisting of many minis.
Seriously though, how many people do you know who play regularly who have resisted the urge to buy more than one team?

I have, once. It contained a load of mutants etc though, not mentioning a ton of big guys who I didn't even get to paint before LRB 5 was issued and I chaos could only use minotaurs

Igor Tahavanale · Post by **Igor Tahavanale** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 2:47 pm

It's a good point. My old 40K Army (Eldar) was only about 50-60 figures.

I have (guessing) 14 or 15 bloodbowl teams, with support staff. Plus stars and referees. An average of more than 20 figs per team when your break it down.

Conclusion - GWs 16 figures per player theory can suck my nuts.

rodders · Post by **rodders** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 3:50 pm

antipixi wrote:
FischerKing wrote:I guess the problem is how a bb team has like 12-16 players compared to a warhammer army consisting of many minis.
Seriously though, how many people do you know who play regularly who have resisted the urge to buy more than one team?

Everyone at our club who plays Blood bowl apart from 1 has at least 3 full teams some of us have many more on the other hand those that play 40k mostly have 1500 - 2000 point armies and there they stop

Post by **Thadrin** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 4:25 pm

I dread to think how many teams I have.
At least a dozen ( many with support staff?

Grumbledook · Post by **Grumbledook** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 6:25 pm

olaf has a dwarf team with 60 minis on it