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Ok, I managed to get back home at a reasonable time, and considering it's been just over three hours worth of driving and technically the event hasn't even finished yet - this should really speak volumes about how poor this event was.
There was not a lot on show today, not just new stuff but a lot of the cabinets felt very sparse. Necromunda had an entire cabinet and table even though there were only 12 minis (4 painted, 8 unpainted), and Blood Bowl had an entire cabinet with the majority of it showing packaged items you could buy from the store (and not even anything new or previewed). Trish was there sculpting part of her massive Khorne Lord on Chaos Dragon, which was almost everything for AoS, the only thing specifically 40k related was a very early WIP of a Necron tomb they've started building for a new Exhibit piece (going to be BA vs Necrons, and the item in general was card with a couple of pieces of plastic stuck to it, not really picture worthy), and I snapped most of the new 30k items (I forgot to snap the BA doors)
Necromunda was obviously the big reveal for the event, but there wasn't much there. At least at the last Open Day the Blood Bowl stuff had a lot of previews from the models to the pitch and some of the rules - but the only thing for Necromunda beyond the models was a bowl with some badges in, so not really sure how to characterise it. I did manage to get to speak to Tony Cottrell early about it, and when I pressed whether the release was in 6-12 months his response was "Oh, it'll be much earlier than that", and around Christmas seems to be right judging by his evasive answering. But for something that's around 4 months away I would have thought there'd been more...
I need a bit of time to write down what I discussed with Rob, it was a lengthy talk, but we talked about the number of sculptors in FW and where they are allocated amongst other things. In short the Specialist Games division has had the majority of them and there's only a couple left in the HH section for the moment. They are in the midst of recruiting a new guy for HH, but they are running a bit short.
Всё очень плохо :( Очень-очень :(
Смерть Блая стала для HH-FW тяжелейшим ударом, а для IA - похоже, и вовсе смертельным.