Stormy Teacups

The nice folks at The Unnamed Gorkamorka Site recently pinged me out of the blue to ask some questions about my time working at the GW Studio on Gorkamorka. I was happy to oblige as far as I could given the fifteen years that have passed and my extremely fallible memory.

The game was a lot of fun to work on and answering the questions brought back some great memories. I strongly believe that, while 2nd Ed 40k had a lot of flaws, Gorkamorka was the most fun and the most fluid version of those rules. Also being a skirmish game it avoided many of the systemic pitfalls that caused problems in WH40k. I always felt that 2nd Ed WH40K had too much focus on individual models and that strong characters were the main elements of an army rather than units of guys. In Gorkamorka, the much smaller scale works well with that dynamic.

I’d still like to see a more detailed skirmish system using the later 40k framework though. Maybe I’ll write one myself.

I’ve been asked to contribute to a new wargaming blog that’s just been started up by some friends of mine. The first article that I wrote for them is up now and others will be following at the same rapid-fire rate that readers of my two personal blogs will be used to (ahem). These are the guys that I joined up with for last year’s European Team Championship, they’re all a lot of fun so I’ll certainly be looking forwards to the other updates. Those of you in the Irish Republic will find a lot of useful local information too regarding clubs, events and general organisation.

So go and read my musings about tournament comp over on Wargaming Ireland and please add your comments to the discussion. It’s a topic that I feel needs to be discussed before we start arguing over precisely which combinations are too cheesy to be allowed.