RE: (OT) What I love to hate was

EXACTLY why I dropped their stuff with Rouge Trader.  The rules were
just not 
good enough, and the background was just too bleak.  And it seems to
have only 
gotten worse.

Michael Brown

-----Original Message-----
From:	KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de
Sent:	Tuesday, February 13, 2001 2:32 AM
To:	gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
Subject:	Re: (OT) What I love to hate was

>Absender: derekfulton@bigpond.com
> Casquilho, Daniel wrote:
> >GW is looking to grow and thus they
> >understand that you need to kill off products that are not selling
> >and revamp the ones that might. We as older players may not like
> >the "new editions" but the fact remains that a tree that is pruned
> >grows better.
>
> Dumbed down more like it, I'll be the first to admit that their
> miniatures are good quality but their rules are based back in the
> 60's (borrowed form books with titles like 'Battlegaming' or the
> 'Boys bumper book of wargaming') and are simply there to get you to
> purchase more miniatures (exculsively from Gamesworkshop of course).

Inspired by the title of this thread:

I have seen a lot of people complaining of GW's marketing policies,
dumb rules, expensive figures etc.

But I rarely, if ever have seen anybody complaining about my own pet GW
hate:
The often gory graphic and bloodthirsty rhetoric of their publications.
Warhammer was first advertised with the headline "Let's smash skulls"
and it has gone downhill from there - see their recent Dark Eldar.

Like with other matters, your tastes may vary, but is it just me who
prefers his games in a language that would not make a Nazi
Kriegsberichterstatter blush ?

Greetings