New Armies on Parade guidelines

[Evil Eye]

[Just to be clear I saw this pasted in a Discord server I'm part of, may or may not be accurate]

Never mind. It's real. Sweet Throne.

 

Well, I hope you weren't planning on using any AOS parts in your 40K AoP entry...

 

 

Edited January 29 by Evil Eye
Provided link to proof. [Weeps]

[HeadlessCross]

And this is why I never support official GW events LOL 

[Scribe]

Very stupid restriction. Pointless.

[TheMawr]

Thats.. quite ridiculous.

 

Every time I type some reaction here I delete it as it is hard to find words for the incredible stupidity of this. And thats coming from usual "see the good side" me...

 

 

edit :

All I can say that if I was a participant, out of protest I would make the absolute most ridiculous conversions from the things that are allowed.

Custodes with tyranid warrior arms ( and each finger replaced with gaunt arms), and Legion imperialis tanks for heads or something like that. Then next to it have a unit that only uses some head swaps and tiny bits that make it a coherent 40k vibed conversion.

 

With a note : "one of these is completely unacceptable for GW.. guess wich"

Edited January 29 by TheMawr

[tychobi]

Yuk. Way to stick it to us converters. But I guess this is Warhammer not funhammer.

[ZeroWolf]

I do wonder what the actual reasoning for this will be. If I recall, this event is just for fun isn't it?

[DemonGSides]

Infinitely dumb and I expect it to be reversed relatively quickly. It's making waves everywhere. 

[Northern Walker]

GW are highly trained snipers, as long as the target is their own foot.

[darkhorse0607]

So on one hand (please no pitchforks and torches)

 

I get it. Like Golden Demon entries having to conform to the IP, that's what they're doing here. If anyone thinks they have gone to advertising/covering AoP so much in the recent years for anything other than sales and advertisement (i.e. "look at what you can do if you buy our product) then I have a Golden Throne to sell you, complete with corpse Emperor

 

On the other hand

 

This is garbage. Armies on Parade was made to be an event to celebrate YOUR army/faction/whatever that YOU created, not to make you conform to whatever random nonsense GW wants to put in a rules section that didn't even exist last year beyond the standard measurements for your board

 

Corporations going to corporate. This is why Horus turned traitor, etc.

[Tastyfish]

1 hour ago, TheMawr said:

Thats.. quite ridiculous.

 

Every time I type some reaction here I delete it as it is hard to find words for the incredible stupidity of this. And thats coming from usual "see the good side" me...

 

 

edit :

All I can say that if I was a participant, out of protest I would make the absolute most ridiculous conversions from the things that are allowed.

Custodes with tyranid warrior arms ( and each finger replaced with gaunt arms), and Legion imperialis tanks for heads or something like that. Then next to it have a unit that only uses some head swaps and tiny bits that make it a coherent 40k vibed conversion.

 

With a note : "one of these is completely unacceptable for GW.. guess wich"

 

It's universes, so there's nothing to stop you using Legiones Imperialis (or even Battlefleet Gothic).

 

I reckon it's something to do with the licensing deal from Amazon and marketing etc.

Edited January 29 by Tastyfish

[MARK0SIAN]

I’m fairly sure their own guidelines on how to make various different Imperial Guard regiments included precise information on which bits they’d borrowed from AoS a couple of years ago. 
 

What absolutely nonsense 

[phandaal]

2 minutes ago, MARK0SIAN said:

I’m fairly sure their own guidelines on how to make various different Imperial Guard regiments included precise information on which bits they’d borrowed from AoS a couple of years ago. 
 

What absolutely nonsense 

 

Yeah. Kitbashing 40k and Fantasy to make unique IG armies has been a thing forever and GW has even featured them in their own official material.

 

Case in point:

 

Spoiler

 

...hey, what if this is just a way to get back at Chris Peach for quitting?? Dang it, James!

[SvenIronhand]

Genuinely baffling.

[Astartes Consul]

Yeah, this is insane. GW own all of the IP. It's not like the long-term ban on using LotR/Middle Earth parts in conversions for official GW events and contests. 

 

Can't fathom what the rationale behind this is. Baffling.

 

[tychobi]

Maybe GW has started suing itself internally for IP infringement?  

[Nephaston]

37 minutes ago, tychobi said:

Maybe GW has started suing itself internally for IP infringement?  

The internal war between the design team finally reaches its boiling point.

[Vardus]

Maybe they don't want to cross the streams (IPs) because the world will implode!

[Indy Techwisp]

So if I brought an AoP army consisting of 20 Tzaangors, 3 Tzaangor Enlightened, 1 Tzaangor Shaman and a Mutalith Vortex Beast that's A-OK because I'm only using stuff sold for my Thousand Sons army?

[Marshal Loss]

GW cop an ungodly amount of often unfair criticism for many reasons...and then they occasionally turn around and do something like this. What a bizarre, stupid decision

[01RTB01]

Use our models only! No, no, not those models!!!!

 

Genuinely facepalm-tastic at this stage. I love what they produce but this is honestly deranged. 

[HeadlessCross]

25 minutes ago, Marshal Loss said:

GW cop an ungodly amount of often unfair criticism for many reasons...and then they occasionally turn around and do something like this. What a bizarre, stupid decision

"Unfair" LMAO 

[Marshal Loss]

11 minutes ago, HeadlessCross said:

"Unfair" LMAO 

 

They cop a lot of well-justified criticism as well, without a doubt (I'm from Australia...), but I had people losing their marbles over slight tweaks to various models in mind. Love or hate GW but everything they do prompts a lot of hot takes. I'm not sure why my post prompted the juvenile 'LMAO' response but you do you

[CL_Mission]

Ridiculous. I could understand a policy against 3rd party parts but forbidding swapping bits amongst though own game systems is just silly. I wonder how strictly it will be enforced when it comes to the in-store submissions, if local managers just "won't notice" bits from different settings.

[Magos Takatus]

I imagine there are a lot of cool Inquisitor/Rogue trader conversions that are going to be invalidated by this. What a short-sighted decision to take. It's not as stupid as the complete segregation between Horus Heresy and 40k model ranges, but it's close.

[INKS]

you would think they would want to sell aos kits and 40k kits to people who play and convert. i don't understand why restrict it.