Signals from the Frontline: Warhammer 40K And General Gaming News, Rumors, Tactics and Comedy!

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Show Notes

Date

Intro

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News

  •  BAO Recap
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  • Best of Show: David Powell

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  • GW Annual Report
    • Revenue: -9%

      Operating Profit (pre exceptional items & royalties) -24%

      Operating Profit -43%

      Earnings per share: -51%

  • New Heavy Gear min: the Scimitar

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  • New Dropzone Commander sneak peeks

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Wave 1 – In store date of 30th August:
Resistance Starter Set
Reconquest: Phase 1 (Expansion Book)
Command Cards
M3 Alexander Command Tank
Cyclone Attack Helicopter
Rocket Technical
Gun Technical

Wave 2 – In store date of 13th September:
Lifthawk Medium Dropship
Breaching Drill
Zhukov AA MBT
Occupation Veterans
Freeriders
Berserkers

Wave 3 – In store date of 27th September:
Battlebuses
Kraken Medium Hovercraft
Hellhog Figher
Gun Wagon
Storm Wagon
Resistance Fighters

Wave 4 – In store date of 18th October:
Hannibal MBT
Leviathan Heavy Hovercraft
Fire Wagon
Barrel Bomber
Jackson APC

  • Dark Age releases some awesome new models!

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  • More Toughest Girls in the Galaxy!

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Rumors: The Rumor Section is gathered from the web and is not in any way information we receive from  any manufacturer nor is it necessarily accurate. This section of the podcast is intended for entertainment purposes only.

Tactics Corner

Rules Lawyer

List Review

 

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23 thoughts on “Signals from the Frontline: Warhammer 40K And General Gaming News, Rumors, Tactics and Comedy!”

  1. Archon4Lyfe

    Those resistance models are amazing!

    I wish there was a following in DZC in my area.

    “Make your own group.”

    I’d love to. Kinda tough while working two jobs.

  3. TinBane

    Someone complained about the prize pool?
    Shit, if it was the drawer, wouldn’t it be a mix of all the bad plastic and ‘fine’cast heroes nobody wants? A couple of catachan heroes, an aspiring champion of chaos, and two box of vespids?

  4. TinBane

    I wanted to post some thoughts on the GW financials.

    What’s good:

    They posted 9M pounds less operating profit this year than last, but that included 4.5 of redundancy payout, and 4M of website development. Now I’m not actually super optimistic that they’ll pay off their website quickly, I mean if you think about it, they just sunk 4M of their PROFIT effectively into that site, which at their current rate means the site needs to attract around 38 M pounds of sales, without cannibalising sales from other sources (ie FLGS).

    Shedding jobs, mainly in middle management on the other hand, will improve their operating efficiency. Which may mean in 2015 they start earning better profit on their overall revenue.

    The downside is that which ever way you cut it, they shed 10% of their total income. And this is in a year where they released a heap of awesome, new stuff. Such as the Knight, all the 30K stuff, and a number of codexes that traditionally stimulate sales well. I hope you are right about 7th ed.

    I can see why the CEO’s outgoing commentary was kind of positive. It’s signs that the business side of it, isn’t stagnating. GW was doing pretty poorly on returns from it’s income. However, at the same time it seems that he’s reiterating their stance on being “first and foremost” a miniatures company. He’s basically patting them on the back for ignoring customer sentiment and market research, despite the fact that they are facing contraction of their gross revenue, which can only really mean a reduction in purchase pattern and/or product reach.

    Hopefully the new CEO, will bring in fresh air, without doing away with what makes GW a great company.

  6. Jural

    I think that new leadership could be a really good thing. Although it doesn’t show in the numbers, I would say the last 12 months of 40k may have been the best 12 months GW ever did from a hobbyist’s perspective, collector, gamer, painter, etc. A lot of models, an edition that was a clear upgrade (if you ignore Daemon spam… I would say it was a clear upgrade in every way,) and multiple ways to spend money that don’t feel like you are getting the shaft (as bad…)- I’m thinking of dataslates here, the campaigns which the army releases are going to bookend, etc…

    It’s time GW really understood how to intergrate FW, how to utilize their web presence and brand, and how to reach out to the community for feedback withour giving up creative control. A lot of this runs counter to past practices, and a new eye from the top might just be what is needed to take advantage.

    1. TinBane

      The change in leadership will be a great opportunity. There’s both a “end user” and business case for the new leader to take a change of tack, which means we might start to see less (but obviously not a total lack of) nerd rage about GW.

      I agree with you, they are likely to focus on growing the hobby, having bedded down a series of really hard structural changes.

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