From Voyageurs National Park on FB: Called “Catamaran” by locals, Bert Upton is among the strangest of historical characters on area waters. He lived in a hut built over a dug-out at Squirrel Narrows. Found frozen to death in the 1930s by Kettle Falls pioneer Oliver Knox; Upton was perched lifeless in the snow just a half-mile from his home. Shunning civilization, Upton defined the word hermit. First spotted rowing his crude log raft on Namakan, no one knows how he got there. Upton’s accent implied an English heritage but any personal inquiries brought a stony silence. Some suspected him a man fleeing the law; others saw a bizarre outcast; everyone knew he was peculiar. Just five feet tall and wildly unkempt, Catamaran wore hacked-off pants and walked barefoot with a stick. Winter demanded shoes but no socks, a cast-off Mackinaw, and a trailing cap made from the leg of old underwear. He was oddly religious, and suspicious of being poisoned. Surviving on snared rabbits and fish, he ofte...
It's probably not true, but if it is, I hope they don't fuck it up.
ReplyDeleteEven if it's true, I'm almost certainly not interested. The minis drive the games, not the other way around. Hooking up with Forge World, which is the priciest outcome possible, is probably a tell this is going to be way too expensive.
ReplyDeleteIan Williams Maybe it won't be bad if it's true. Maybe they're gonna get back all the talented people that have since left and produce really good skirmish rules for Gorka, Mordheim, and Necro while also fixing some issues in the Blood Bowl LRB.
ReplyDeleteIt's possible, right? Right? *begins shaking you violently* Tell me everything is going to be alright. I need this.
So I've been e-mailing most of the day and here - hopefully is the end to the rumours!
ReplyDeleteThere is a LONG TERM (at least 6 months likely more) investment into bringing back some of our classic beloved games from Specialist Games. This will NOT be falling under the auspice of the Games Workshop side of the business, but linked up with Forgeworld instead. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WORD on a timescale or indeed, which specialist games may be looked at, whether they will be given a rejig or anything of that nature.
I stress this is a while in the future - the team to oversee the project has not even been assembled!
That is the offical message I have now recieved!
That's from the GW Peterborough FB page.
ReplyDeleteLets see how long they last this time before they are abandoned due to being unprofitable (even if some of these are great games).
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