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see … I made you remember 😉

next time : drink more coffee so you won’t forget 😀

• Why is G’Wullu so reluctant in releasing new Orc models?

They’re not spacemarines …
It is weird to see them announcing more AoS stuff that isn’t Sigmarine, but the 40k releases so far have been spacemarine or spacemarine-adjacent.

• How much did you order from brigade models?

nothing … but that’s only because I haven’t found anything in there that triggers my need for shiny

• Will we ever get a really new game or will everything in the future be a rehash from what is already there?

I’d argue that existing companies will only ever re-hash whatever is popular or ‘update’ their current ranges. Taking risks is for people who have nothing to lose.

And it’s not like there are any actual ‘new’ ideas out there. Pretty much everything has been done already.
The only thing missing is a combination of luck, timing and marketing.

Frostgrave for example is more or less D&D in its initial hobbyist format : an attempt at making a fantasy skirmish game with roleplaying elements. Replace the ‘dungeon filled with monsters and traps’ with an ‘ancient city filled with monsters and traps’ and you’re effectively back to early D&D dungeon delving adventures. Once they add rules for interacting with NPC’s we’re full circle.

Note : this doesn’t mean it is a ‘bad’ game …it just isn’t anything ‘new’ as a concept.
Other games have built onto that same format, because the core concept is solid and adaptable.
And as with any concept that strikes gold there will be companies that will copy/clone the format in the hope of getting some of that success. Some will match that success … and others won’t.

And so the cycle continues.

Pledge ?
Now that I have my Scale75 Instant colour sets, all of the primer paint variants (there were 3 colours) I shall attempt to paint a mini.
I also will need to figure out if the instant colour range can be used for my WW2 Soviets.