"The Year of 40K" - An Utter Dissapointment?
OR "Has GW forgotten 40K"
I don't know the exact numbers, but is suspect 40K is a bigger system than Fantasy (it is round here at least, sure it changes place to place). This year is the anniversary. Both WD and through them GW declared this as being a year of 40K. A year of awesome stuffs
Its now April. We know Aprils release. (I know thats only 33% through the year so far)
In my head the year so far;
Jan - Vampire Counts (WFB)
Feb - LotR stuff
Mar - 2nd wave for 2 3-4 year old 40K codexes
Apr - Empire (WFB)
Thanks to the back page of WD now showing what we get next month again, we know next month is more Fantasy SoM datasheets. Leaving the first 40K slot of the year in June at the earliest.
Books that were rumoured seemed to be pushed back. At this point we think Chaos are due soon, but again thanks to GW rumour control we just don't know. Tau were pencilled in on the rumour front for the March slot. Now talk is of them next year. Eldar? Next year. Dark Angels? The spine of WD and a new painting set seem to be all that points at them.
Last year wasn't much more balenced, with 4 WFB books (3 armies and one expansion) and 2 40K (i think - Just GK and Necs last year?)
In addition to this we saw a single collectors edition marine for 40K
We've just had the FW open day. I wasn't there so its hard to judge, but based on comments and photos seems that Warhammer Forge dominated there as well, likely mostly due to the release of their new Monster book
I've discussdt this with a few people. The response I get is "Oh but we get a new edition soon, then everything will be better". And my response to that is "Do We?". At this point people are pegging their hopes of this year being 40K high on a book that GW haven't even hinted at or announced. That is just hearsay and whispers right now. If you were a normal player, not connected to the forums you'd have no idea that it "might" be coming out. And you wouldn't have that hope there, and the year would seem even more bleak.
So how can people put their faith in the year recovering in a book thats not even announced?
So my original post stands. Has GW so far failed in its self-billed year of 40K?