Rod H Wrote:......Rod, their rule applies to tournaments that is run directly by Battlefront. Your local LGS or any the big regional competitions that is not run by Battlefront does not apply. Currently, only the 3 National tournaments in the U.S. plus the Masters fall under this rule.
With what I've seen of Games Workshop, so far they've never done this type of thing in anything I've been at. Yes, there's a floating rule of Forgeworld stuff- yes/no. But to actually gank everything that's not 100% GW product...so many cool conversions they'd loose. I've had the store gretchens/grots go "OOOOH cool, me wants." when I've pulled out the FW stuff I've got (Storm Eagle & Repressor tank)
Meh, it's not like I live somewhere where they actually bother to run official (GW rHQ organised) events beside Games Day & its related modelling events (Golden Demon, Armies on Parade).
Flames Of War had, before this, began to catch some of my attention. Now, it's lost it, for I've got enough wargaming minatures to work on and to find local places to play games with them.
--Rod.H
What is to prevent them from pushing this rule down the chain eventually, though? This rule smacks of all sorts of -isms. A hobby is by definition is something you pay to do because it's fun.
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