Possibly the best miniatures ever packaged with a board game. Some of the nicest I've seen in a long time. (Happy thoughts, happy thoughts, happy thoughts.) "There are hundreds of better things to spend £100 on."Īnd I'm bumming myself out talking about it, so I'm moving on. "Exactly five people are buying this to play the game." "Why do they bother releasing these games? They should just release the models." I mean, before Deathwatch: Overkill even went to retail, before there were even any reviews, and before we really even knew what the gameplay entailed, people (who had never played the game) had passed judgement. But that's okay, and at the moment I am not disappointed with any of my Games Workshop purchases.īut it is so difficult to be enthusiastic, when the Internet crawls with people who immediately mock and deride the games and anyone who might want to play them. When there is a new Games Workshop game hitting the streets, every other game that I could possibly want to spend my money on gets sidelined.Īnd sure, these games are not always quite what I hoped they would be (looking at Dreadfleet, there). They instantly go to the top of my "want" list. I'm bored with facing the constant negativity that overshadows every single Games Workshop release.īecause I admit it I get genuinely excited every time one of these games emerges on the horizon. I'll let that sink in for a minute while I make a small confession: I'm bored with Games Workshop. In fact, let's talk about how the designer is actually a bit of a genius. While that lot are off down the store buying six boxes to make an army, or fashioning a limousine out of an old shampoo bottle, let's take a moment to talk about Deathwatch: Overkill as a game, not just a way to get some genestealer hybrid miniatures.
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