If it sounds to good to be true, there is no salt to be had this time! Games Workshop is going hard in the paint to pick up the pieces of organized play!
As Reported By BoLS Today:
This week the GAMA tradeshow is occurring at Bally’s casino & resort in Las Vegas. This is the major north american industry tradeshow for game manufacturers.
Games Workshop is in attendance this year (see the floormap) and isn’t just manning a booth. They held multiple seminars including one Wednesday, March 16th titled “Build Community”
There was apparently some big news in there. BoLS has been told the following was revealed during the seminar:
GW will be returning to Organized Play!
Details of the Organized Play program are sketchy, and I’m sure the full program will be rolled out over the next few months. But here are the broad brushstrokes of what was reported from the seminar:
- The Program will include Organized Play Systems for both Warhammer 40,000 and Age of Sigmar.
- There will be a “campaign system” for each game.
- Prize support is a part of the system.
- The system will engage players at the Store, FLGS, and Convention level.
and the big one….
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The Age of Sigmar campaign will include some type of “points” system!
Wow personally I just don’t know where to start. This is an amazingly good thing for the wargaming community and the hobby as a whole.
Organized play is what keep a community together and growing! Now it looks like GW will be jumping in both feet first and following the foot steps of other companies’ organized play programs like Privateer, Wizkids, and even Fantasy Flight Games.
After years of desolation on the community scene, GW is coming back to take the helm and steer the hobby back on course!
Maybe the biggest boon yet is a points system for Age of Sigmar. Mark this day on your calendar folks, who know how awesome the hobby will be six to twelve months from now!
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About Rob Baer: Founder, Publisher, & Managing Editor of Spikey Bits, the leading tabletop gaming news website focused on the hobby side of wargaming and miniatures.
Rob also co-founded and currently hosts the Long War Podcast, which has over 350 episodes and focuses on tabletop miniatures gaming, specializing in Warhammer 40k. and spent six years writing for Bell of Lost Souls.
Every year, along with his co-hosts, he helps host the Long War 40k Doubles Tournament at Adepticon and the Long War 40k Doubles at Las Vegas Open, which attracts over 350 players from around the world.
Rob has won many Warhammer 40k Tournaments over the years, including multiple first-place finishes in Warhammer 40k Grand Tournaments over the years and even winning 1st place at the Adepticon 40k Team Tournament.
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While he’s played every edition of Warhammer 40k and Warhammer Fantasy (since 5th Edition) and has been hobbying on miniatures since the 1980s, Titans of all sizes will always be his favorite! It’s even rumored that his hobby vault rivals the Solemnance Galleries, containing rulebooks filled with lore from editions long past, ancient packs of black-bordered Magic Cards, and models made of both pewter and resin.
