I got into Wh40k via Eldar, then Tyranids, then Tau, Then a grey Knights/Space Wolves split army that I built from free shit I got from a neighbor who worked at Lenton. For the amount of stuff I had, I rarely actually played.

I really liked their re-invention, it brought the idea of the devourer together quite nicely, and being Tyranids you could mod the shit out of them. The old carnifex is a classic, but the update really hammered home their whole shared genepool thing. I remember a lot of 'nid players in Lenton modded their centerpiece models with components from the old set to make some excellent chimeras.

The issue for me lies i the fact that modular kits brought the prices down and improved what the casual could do with a set (buying a box of just 'guants that you could go either way with was great) but then later on the prices all just hiked and it felt redundant.

Yeha I had plenty of Skaven heroes like Ikit Claw and Deathmaster Sknitch, some of the races had great heroes - Eldar Lords were some of the best as they had real personality. Just had alook at the board game section on their site. It's a real mixed bag. The Lost Patrol one is only £35 which seems great, but the new flying machine one for 40k is £60 per box (3 boxes) presumably because the light aircraft work in regular armies too?

Striking Scorpions for life bro, mandiblasters would fuck you right up.

Eldar are space elves, but they get past the shiteness of that by having craftworlds, soulstones and wraithbone (and the constructs that entails), their connection to the warp and webway, and the fact that aspects of their destroyer god bring to life molten metal avatars of destruction.

General Games News has now become so general, it encompasses tabletop.

There's probably something interesting to be read into the similarities and differences of the Space Marines and Eldar tbh. The former are all pomp and cirucmstance. 

Space Marine: Ah oooh a dreadnaught is the machine sustained corpse of a fallen battlebrother covered in silly prayers and trinkents aren't we impressive

Edlar: a wraithlord is a construct of living metal powered by the psychic anguish of the myriad dead eldar that are housed in it to prevent Slaneesh from eating their souls. 

Space marine: Ah hm, we are truly humbled but our emporer stopped chaos from taking over everything and we must fight it every day

Eldar: we broke the universe and we will eventually wink out of existence into eternal torment because of this

I was going to mention the idea of making a specific thread but I doubt this will sustain itself for much longer

Mon-keigh.

Ok.

Lizardmen were my 2nd army. They were cool and new and different. Warhammer always based the majority of its armies on some culture or another (for good or ill or indifference). Lizardmen went all Aztec. Dinosaur Army is obviously great.

Check that model. Games with this stuff please.

Yeah I've been waiting for it to go on sale and for the inevitable performance and stability patches. Looks amazing though.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/caz/a-profound-waste-of-time-a-gaming-magazine
Has this been posted? I saw it on someone from here's FB so thought it might have been.
Could be good.

Must have been all them vaginas

Whilst I'd blame the fucking awful adverts (might as well have just used Poochy), the original launched on previous gen as well, so that would have padded sales.

COD has been on a downward trend for years, since Modern Warefare 3 I think.

We're at the stage where digital is probably having some impact, although not enough to make up the shortfall. I've actually been wondering this week what the effect of MS having such a big digital sale on AAA will be next year.

It does seem like the a sequel that people didn't wan't. I'm surprised Ubi haven't got around to simply doing a proper GTA clone yet. That would sell, and although it would be a bit harder to do, they'd have more chance of success than they've had with The Crew, The Division or Watchdogs.