The BIGGEST ever 40K game? | Inquisitor

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Inquisitor was something special from Games Workshop: the only time they released a 54mm narrative wargame that owed as much to roleplaying and Rogue Trader as it did to the latest edition of Warhammer 40,000. A miniatures skirmish that was powered by roleplaying and storytelling.
Set in the 40k universe and introducing lore and concepts that had barely been explored to that point. The Imperium’s Inquisition was expanded and deepened, new characters and creatures like Arco-flagellants entered the universe, and Dan Abnett’s Inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn first took to the page!
This is the history of a game that took a fresh look at the lore of 40k, created new narratives, and reshaped the whole universe!
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[Ex Profundis INQ28] www.exprofundi...
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Corrections:
I mistakenly say that the Fanatic magazine preceded the dedicated Inquisitor magazine Exterminatus, but this is incorrect. Exterminatus was published between 2001-2004, followed by the combined Fanatic magazine between 2004-2005.
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@severindrax
@severindrax Жыл бұрын
i was working for GW during this time period, with a brilliant bloke named Matt. His ambition was to become a sculptor for GW, and he was continually practicing with Green Stuff. One of his practice pieces was a beaky helmet for brother Artemis, which i still own, but the piece that got him noticed was his inquisitor scale Daemonette, sculpted entirely from scratch. She appeared in one of the exterminatus magazines. Matt got his break, and is now a sculptor for GW, resposible for many kits ranging from the redesigned Broadside battlesuit, the Ork warbuggies, all the way up to Magnus the Red. An extremely talented and very humble, top-notch fella!
@Bluecho4
@Bluecho4 Жыл бұрын
I think the Inq28 movement was probably the best way Inquisitor could be preserved as a folk tradition after GW discontinued support. The 54mm scale certainly had its advantages...but 28mm is a lot easier to play with for most people. Easier to get minis and parts to convert them, easier to acquire terrain for, easier to store, and much cheaper. It was a good thing original Inquisitor used so few models per game: you were paying large monster prices for single infantry figures.
@TheBoyFromNorfolk
@TheBoyFromNorfolk Жыл бұрын
I placed 3rd at the 2012 inquisitpr GT and I got my fan rules published online in Fanatic 94. I love Inquisitor!
@jordansorcery
@jordansorcery Жыл бұрын
Nice work! What characters were you using?
@NisGaarde
@NisGaarde Жыл бұрын
Hats off to GW for daring to experiment with some of these early 2000s games. This was one that didn't really appeal to me back then for whatever reason. But cool to know the history nonetheless 🙂 PS: With the current growth rate it probably won't be long before you'll be able to use the old Inquisitor Space Marine model for Warhammer 40K proper 😅
@jordansorcery
@jordansorcery Жыл бұрын
Artemis the Space Marine is probably already smaller than a Primaris lieutenant!
@iatebambismom
@iatebambismom Жыл бұрын
Scale creep is not creeping, these days...
@DanielEbeck
@DanielEbeck Жыл бұрын
I loved the depth that Gav & the guys went into for Inquisitor. It really did feel like RT2.0. Without Inquisitor, we wouldn't have had Eisenhorn and all the awesome worlds of the BL. We had real fun during the development, blasting away at each other, with the occasional backstab from "I'll be a traitor" Thorpe. And thanks for showing the conversions page; my guy's on there ;)
@godofzombi
@godofzombi Жыл бұрын
In a way Inquisitor went back to the roots of Rogue trader, wich also had a games master. And you can find a similar lack of balance in the warbands form realm of chaos, especially Slaves to darkness, where you start rolling a D1000 (not a typo!) and your champion gets Albino wich reduces his toughness while your opponent rolls Technollogy and ends up with a frikkin' lascannon! (yers, thats a lascannon in WHFB)
@jordansorcery
@jordansorcery Жыл бұрын
You’re absolutely right, there’s a lot of RT DNA in there. I love that D1000 mutation table! (might come in handy soon!)
@EntropicEcho
@EntropicEcho Жыл бұрын
such fun. Also rolling up your warband: "Cool, I got 5 orks and some chaos dwarfs! You? " "That's nice. I got an emperor dragon"
@godofzombi
@godofzombi Жыл бұрын
@@EntropicEcho Exactly!
@brett7773
@brett7773 Жыл бұрын
At the time I considered the rules of inquisitor to be an evolution of the pre-Necromunda game “Confrontation”.
@CrimsonTemplar2
@CrimsonTemplar2 Жыл бұрын
Inquisitor was an interesting premise, but the scale - especially for metal minis - was a big challenge. Somewhere I’ve got an unassembled Artemis mini because at the time I didn’t have the tools or skill to do it well.
@richardbradley2335
@richardbradley2335 Жыл бұрын
Very off putting to get it right..
@paullittle835
@paullittle835 Жыл бұрын
Converting & painting challenges, but also scenery making, & gaming at that scale. Unless you had a 12' playing area half the game mechanics were irrelevant!
@andrewwing7484
@andrewwing7484 Жыл бұрын
Excellent video and interview with Gav! Inquisitor really got our creativity flowing, even though we just ended up sticking with our 28mm figs because of the terrain issue. I always felt the d100 base of the game and high level of combat detail owed a debt to WFRP and Runequest. Later when Black Industries put out Dark Heresy I remember thinking that it was just Inquisitor achieving its inevitable final form as an rpg.
@dekai7992
@dekai7992 Жыл бұрын
The 40k lore in general owes so much to this game, and it does indeed feature the most 40k art of any GW game.
@dr3dg352
@dr3dg352 Жыл бұрын
Omg I forgot all about this! I started 40k back in 2010, but could swear I remember seeing these Inquisitor miniatures on the site and being in awe of them. I probably would've loved Inquisitor, as I played Dark Heresy in the early 2010s. Update: Recently found the Inquisitor at my local used book store. Didn't realize it was paperback! Sadly didn't have $40 for it though... Amazingly the store also had d20 Modern: Dark Matter!
@Rabarbarzynca
@Rabarbarzynca Жыл бұрын
It’s worth noting, that FFG 40k RPGs borrowed heavily from Inquisitor. First of their games was more or less Inquisitor, just with more RPG focus.
@jordansorcery
@jordansorcery Жыл бұрын
That’s a very interesting point! I’ve only played their Rogue Trader, but I never actually read any of the books!
@thomasparker6124
@thomasparker6124 Жыл бұрын
Yeah Dark Heresy 1E was pretty much a mashup of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 2E and Inquisitor.
@jonesdan85
@jonesdan85 Жыл бұрын
The best thing about inquistor is it truly showed what the difference between a regular human and an astartes was. The stateline shown in the book is before he put his power armour on. He could literally take a kraken grenade to the face and still carry on fighting. As is lore accurate. Worth 1000 regular Guardsmen.
@N3MOII
@N3MOII Жыл бұрын
This book was the peak of 40k as far as I'm concerned
@jordansorcery
@jordansorcery Жыл бұрын
It’s a fantastically good book!
@MiniatureRealms
@MiniatureRealms Жыл бұрын
I’d love to try this one day, sadly it was another game that I missed while taking my ‘gaming break’ while at uni and just after. Another brilliant video, hoping to hear more from your chat with Gav Thorpe as well.
@jordansorcery
@jordansorcery Жыл бұрын
Cheers Stu! Gav was incredible to talk to and had loads to say about a lot of different games. Looking forward to sharing more!
@edwardblacklock2446
@edwardblacklock2446 Жыл бұрын
Great video. I love that creators like Gav see how fantastic you videos are and take the time to help give more historical context to what was happening at GW when their games were developed. Looking forward to next friday already 😊
@johnclarke25
@johnclarke25 Жыл бұрын
Loved the game when it came out and did play a game with gav at warhammer World with several others at an open day just before the book came out,shame I couldn't get enough friends to give it ago,collected about 60 figures for it but only got about 10 painted but your inspirational vid has made me look up the loft and find out the unbuilt and undercoated figures and maybe soon I'll get my 10 man imperial guard squad done to fight the mutants,need to expand on scenery as I only had one of the inquisitor buildings.....thank the gods for never selling any thing😊
@jonathan2950
@jonathan2950 Жыл бұрын
I never knew this existed until today. Thanks for the informative video!
@Upyours99xs
@Upyours99xs Жыл бұрын
I’m really glad I found this channel and these series of videos. I know you have more Warhammer Fantasy content, but I hope you start a history on the 40K side as well. Great video!
@jordansorcery
@jordansorcery Жыл бұрын
I’m glad too! 40k history is on the project list for sure!
@KateHolden
@KateHolden Жыл бұрын
I got this book and the eisenhorn mini when I was a teenager. I was so excited about the concept! It's a shame it never took off.
@PRAISE_HASHUT
@PRAISE_HASHUT Жыл бұрын
An awesome concept and aesthetic. I loved reading the narrative battle reports in White Dwarf back in the day. I think part of Inquisitor’s downfall for me, is the absence of between battle gaming. Omitting those social, investigative elements that would add context and investment for the battles themselves was a mistake IMhO. Have you ever tried ‘Dark Heresy’ Jordan?
@mind_onion
@mind_onion 4 ай бұрын
I bought a bunch of special 28 mm models from forgeworld after finding the pdfs for inquisitor online several years after its run (GW apparently put them up for free a few years after its run, wish they continued to do this with all their old rulebooks and games, they'd probably move more plastic imo, and it doesn't cost them anything, they aren't selling the old rulebooks anymore) and played it as an rpg like DND with my friends. We built a bunch of special terrain for it, and while things kind of broke down towards the end due to us raising some weird rules questions that we had no answers for, it was still interesting to play. I get the impression Inquisitor somewhat pivoted towards this style of play (albeit at 54mm) based on the existence of the conspiracies books, but it seems clear the intent wasn't originally to be a DND style rpg system, more of a small scale combat system, which was responsible for the lack of enemy stat lines and experience points systems.
@batjutsu
@batjutsu Жыл бұрын
Gav! 🤩 Thanks for an overview and deep dive of an anomalous game. After the first year of its release some friends and I dicuscussed ideas, but in part due to the lack of both miniatures and terrain we postponed playing. Eventually setting up proxy terrain and using other toys; like we did back in the 80s with a 10,000 point 40k that was half Star Wars toys. I returned to the game later using 28mm. These days we don't even use miniatures, I have a play-by-mail game that is a fusion of Inquisitor and some other systems. 😀 Inquisitor Khrulclaw, Ashen Prophet of Ordo Ratius (Squeak-Squeak) 🐀🌠
@jordansorcery
@jordansorcery Жыл бұрын
I love how games can evolve and grow in the hands of different player groups and communities; it’s genuinely one of my favourite things about the hobby!
@craigwelter5862
@craigwelter5862 Жыл бұрын
Yeah, I just played it with the 28mm miniatures and terrain I already had. And using a gamesmaster to have the players play against, like a battle heavy tactical story driven RPG. Probably why it "failed", because many people played without buying any of the miniatures, so they didn't see the sales. But I bought a lot of models just for this game. Same thing with Warhammer Quest. They should have kept that going, but I don't think they realized how many miniatures they were selling because of it.
@jacobturnerart
@jacobturnerart Жыл бұрын
I was long past collecting minis, but I came across a copy of 'Ravenor' at the library where I worked around 2006 or 7 and this got me back into the lore, so I guess Inquisitor was my gateway back into 40K.
@EntropicEcho
@EntropicEcho Жыл бұрын
Cool video! I never played Inquisitor, as I never liked the models and especially the scale, but I've played a good many games and campaigns using the Inquisimunda rules. Most notable achievement was shooting at the unkillable Inquisitor of my friend, with insane armour saves and ward saves,.. whereupon he indeed passed his save, but fell from a ledge and promptly broke his neck.
@fredericc.laurin9389
@fredericc.laurin9389 Жыл бұрын
Got that book back when it first came out. I didn't know it had impacted 40K lore so much. Currently getting into Imperium Maledictum (very exciting) and it's great to see how Inquisitor contributed to shaping that wolrd. Patreoned
@TheShauntrainor
@TheShauntrainor Жыл бұрын
I can't believe you're at 10,000 subscribers! I remember checking back once a day to see if you'd released the second Warhammer Quest yet, and now look at how many amazing videos you've done. Congratulations mate!
@jordansorcery
@jordansorcery Жыл бұрын
Thanks Shaun! It’s been a fun ride so far, and hopefully more to come. Appreciate you sticking with me!
@CMDRaudaxius
@CMDRaudaxius Жыл бұрын
He had them at "....hello."
@Ruggfish
@Ruggfish 7 ай бұрын
I started playing around the time the cities of death terrain came out. Those terrain kits actually sized up perfectly so I never had any issues. It was such a great game though. We never played with named characters, preferring to make up our own. My Inquisitor had Lucretia Bravus' closed helm, covenants swords, and Eisenhorns body. This game was the most fun I've had playing any 40k content (bar Dark Heresy). Seeing this has made me dig through the old models. I might have to repaint a warband or two and have another game!
@ThomasMurch
@ThomasMurch Жыл бұрын
27:28 - Oh, what a note of hope to end upon!
@TheCthogua
@TheCthogua Жыл бұрын
Inquisitor came out at a time when I'd completely stopped paying attention to anything that was going on in the Games Workshop and Warhammer worlds and I only found out about it many years later. I even own the Inquisitor art book and didn't realize at the time that I bought it that the art was from the game and not just extra incidental 40K art. It was only later when I really sat down and did more than just leaf through looking at pictures that I realized Inquisitor was it's own thing! 😆
@CocoHutzpah
@CocoHutzpah Жыл бұрын
A lifelong Tau player? My brother, you've just earned another patron.
@jordansorcery
@jordansorcery Жыл бұрын
For the greater good!
@CurtisAndersen
@CurtisAndersen Жыл бұрын
My game group played at the L.A. Battle Bunker (back when those were a thing) and we had a VERY large Inquisitor base. I still have all the stuff and would love to get a group to play again. It's quicker than it looks like it should be and so dynamic. When the original 13th Black Crusade world wide campaign happened, we had several Inquisitor games that were worked into the Bunker's campaign. #GoodTimes
@CurtisAndersen
@CurtisAndersen Жыл бұрын
We were lucky because the bunker had several pre-built tables that worked really well with both 28 and 54mm minis. Especially a really cool Necromunda highway/city block. Also one of our members, Matt Staley, made some Inquisitor specific terrain that was featured in Fanatic magazine.
@walt_man
@walt_man 10 ай бұрын
A few years ago, pre-sickness times of coof, I managed to find a NIB lot of almost the entire range of Inquisitor on Ebay. I had a White Dwarf that was new at the time, talking about Karnak? An alien bounty hunter for INQ54. Ah, good times.
@DefaultProphet
@DefaultProphet Жыл бұрын
I thought there were like 4-5 inquisitor 54mm scale figures but there’s loads and they’re so cool! But expensive on eBay…oh no
@godconvoy
@godconvoy Жыл бұрын
They also sold accessories for them! There was one Space Marine, but a load of options to change him up or any of other characters. Really a lot of conversion for the game. I made a Sister of Battle with bits from like 4 of the Inquisitor models and some regular 40k. There were rules for Sisters and other characters that exactly the models they sold.
@DefaultProphet
@DefaultProphet Жыл бұрын
@@godconvoy yeah I found a site called like mini set that has a bunch/all(?) of them and they’re incredible
@godofzombi
@godofzombi Жыл бұрын
I really like the Eisenhorn and Ravenor novels. In one of the novels there's a chase scene among an motorway on an Imperial world and then I realised that (at the time) we had no art or miniatures for civilian vehicles in 40k. Inquisitor definatly added a lot more grimdark to the grim darkness of 40k. Everything you've been told is a lie!
@marks6928
@marks6928 2 ай бұрын
I’ve always wondered if Inquisitor would have endured longer if it had been at 28mm scale from the outset. Would have made conversions, modelling and terrain usage easier. I’m glad to see it live on in the inq28 movement.
@dendronkenfoetus
@dendronkenfoetus Жыл бұрын
Very cool! Thanks for the video!
@boboayame2065
@boboayame2065 Жыл бұрын
Wait wait wait, Warhammer...in space? I've heard some pretty wild ideas but that'll never take off
@jordansorcery
@jordansorcery Жыл бұрын
They tried some wild experiments back in the day!
@richardharrison4762
@richardharrison4762 Жыл бұрын
I still have my Inquisitor models. My archo flagelent and mutant are currently been Nurgle Spawn for my Death Guard but if anyone fancies a match I think I have the rule book
@ben_has_hobbies
@ben_has_hobbies Жыл бұрын
Thank you for these! Your channel really inspired me to finally start my own channel. Especially your Warhammer History series. I thought: "If this man can make something this complicated and brilliant...I can make something straight forward and stupid at least!"
@anotherzingbo
@anotherzingbo Жыл бұрын
Inquisitor was released during my miniature gaming hiatus, but the White Dwarf announcing its release was the only one I bought between 1994 and my return to the hobby in 2018. I was intrigued by the idea of Inquisitor but at the time the cost of the models put me off. After returning to the hobby a friend bought a copy of Inquisitor and I had a look at it. Personally I find that the position it occupies between a more traditional competitive wargames and roleplaying games to be a bit of an awkward one, and its very crunchy combat mechanics put me off a bit too. So for me it remains an intriguing idea but not one I've looked into with any depth. It feels like personally I'm glad that it existed and agree it has had a positive effect on the 40k universe as a whole, but it's probably not for me! Also I find it curious that you managed to make an entire video about conflicts between inquisitors and the GW of decades past without once mentioning Jaq Draco and the Inqusition War trilogy of books in which he starred!
@jordansorcery
@jordansorcery Жыл бұрын
Fair point re the Watson novels, a mention certainly wouldn’t have gone amiss!
@godconvoy
@godconvoy Жыл бұрын
One of my favorite games, that I wish I could get the models for again.
@barbarapanfilly84
@barbarapanfilly84 Жыл бұрын
Yes ! You need to do that dog video ! I'm waiting !
@benbaxter1047
@benbaxter1047 Жыл бұрын
Not the best experience of role playing experience, but we bought into it after giving away Warhammer fantasy 5th Ed. I still have the models and books but we played 2x games and never painted the models. Our terrain was simple and what was left over from 40K.
@Octarinewolf
@Octarinewolf Жыл бұрын
I remember playing this with normal scale 40K figures. Mostly IIRC the figures that went with the Timewarp expansion for Talisman.
@jonesdan85
@jonesdan85 Жыл бұрын
That how inq28 began. Me and my friend was playing Necromunda with Inquisitor rules using 28.m models. It was super cool and engaging.
@user-Brian_Gregory
@user-Brian_Gregory 6 ай бұрын
Coming to this game from Necromunda, the things that ruined it for me were that it required a GM and that there was no attempt at competitive balancing. The 54mm figs weren't *required* (you could play it with regular 40K figs), but if you wanted to use them they had two huge problems: first, they weren't "modular", thus necessitating power tools and copious amounts of Green Stuff for even minor conversions, and second that the Inquisitors were a distinctly different scale than the Henchmen, making "kitbashing" even harder.
@amharapneb1773
@amharapneb1773 Жыл бұрын
Minor point, Exterminatus preceded Fanatic magazine. Fanatic magazine was the death knell for the Specialist Games.
@jordansorcery
@jordansorcery Жыл бұрын
My mistake, I'll drop a correction in the description. Thanks!
@peterixon8708
@peterixon8708 Жыл бұрын
I couldn't afford Warhammer Fantasy, Lord of the Rings, 40k as well as Inquisitor, so I never bought into it. I have regretted that decision ever since. Thank goodness for JoyToy. My local stockist is encouraging me to pursue Kill Team at that scale. I so want instead to do Inquisitor at 54mm.
@jojomerou4075
@jojomerou4075 Жыл бұрын
It was a nice game I still have the minis. The eldar ranger was amazing. For the mastiff, I think in Necromunda 1st edition 2 miniature were available and 3 necrohound.
@Mr_Waffle.
@Mr_Waffle. Жыл бұрын
Necron war machines vs Titans on Mars.... please GW, please... what a way that would be to bring Adeptus Titanicus to 40k.... 🤤🤤🤤 (as usual, a great video about a topic I know nothing about! Bring on the dog video!!)
@ChrisKCook
@ChrisKCook Жыл бұрын
Pretty sure that was the first Cybernastiff.
@cognitiveburp
@cognitiveburp Жыл бұрын
Dark Future!!! I loved that game!
@alexbarrett3832
@alexbarrett3832 Жыл бұрын
A bit of a gap in this history is Dark Heresy. Inquisitor was so close to being an rpg that it's no coincidence that just a few years later the first true 40k rpg would dive back into that Blanchian world of feuding inquisitors in even more detail! This game may have been a bit of a dead end mechanically, but it paved the way for DH by showing there was a market for an rpg!
@ChrisKCook
@ChrisKCook Жыл бұрын
Gav's voice is deepervthat I expected...
@raymondwright5996
@raymondwright5996 Жыл бұрын
I’ve heard of people playing this but on the 28mm scale. If I could get a hold of the book, I might give it a go. This way I can use the Necromunda terrain that I already own.
@ClaytonPajot
@ClaytonPajot Жыл бұрын
I've really been warming to the idea of larger scale minis, like Star Wars shatterpoint. The idea of less models, but more detailed ones, seems like a great option. I feel like in our current age of KZbin and instagram being full of incredible mini painters, that GW would be wise to consider some kind of return to the bigger minis. On the topic of older 40k rpgs, think you'll cover the Rogue trader or deathwatch books?
@jordansorcery
@jordansorcery Жыл бұрын
I think you’re quite right about a larger scale game working very well in the modern hobby era! I’ve played a little of the FFG Rogue Trader and thoroughly enjoyed it, and I’m a big fan of a lot of the FFG licence WD games so I wouldn’t be surprised if I get round to them at some point. Though probably not in the immediate future!
@ClaytonPajot
@ClaytonPajot Жыл бұрын
@@jordansorcery yeah, there is so much warhammer content out there, I imagine it's going to take years to really dig into the more niche stuff.
@Jackalblade9
@Jackalblade9 Жыл бұрын
This video was an education for me, I'd never heard of this game until now! It sounds like it might have been a fun one to play, too. In any event, another excellent video, sir, and I loved hearing from Gavin Thorpe.
@jordansorcery
@jordansorcery Жыл бұрын
So much great insight from Gav, I’m very grateful that he joined me to chat Inquisitor! Glad you enjoyed the video!
@richardbradley2335
@richardbradley2335 Жыл бұрын
Do Warmaster...never seen a vid on the history of this.
@godofzombi
@godofzombi Жыл бұрын
I always wondered why we never got a 40K equivalent of Bloodbowl, but with a different sport: Like basketball but with space marines with jumppacks.
@richardharrison4762
@richardharrison4762 Жыл бұрын
Well the Bloodbowl world is separate to Warhammer. Elves and vampire and so on go in most fantasy settings while Space Marines are very much 40K and it would not be in keeping with the setting to have Necrons having a kickabout with Bloodletters
@godofzombi
@godofzombi Жыл бұрын
@@richardharrison4762 I know, but you could have the same alternate world where you could have the Golden throne warriors play a match against the Phoenix lord suns in the NBA: Necron Bellicose Arena.
@SonofSethoitae
@SonofSethoitae 11 ай бұрын
Full contact laser space cricket? I think so!
@godofzombi
@godofzombi 11 ай бұрын
@@SonofSethoitae That's what those thunderhammers are for!
@jacobfarley2332
@jacobfarley2332 Жыл бұрын
Very good timing, as I found the Inquisitor book for $1 this week
@jordansorcery
@jordansorcery Жыл бұрын
Bargain!
@jacobfarley2332
@jacobfarley2332 Жыл бұрын
@@jordansorcery gotta love the surplus store at my local university, never know what you'll find there. I got it largely just for the art and lore
@blaked7532
@blaked7532 Жыл бұрын
I still have an inquisitor mini of Lucius Devlan.
@ChrisKCook
@ChrisKCook Жыл бұрын
Exterminatus came first Fanatic Magazine came after they decided combine the separate magazines into one.
@jordansorcery
@jordansorcery Жыл бұрын
Ah, that's my mistake. Thanks for the heads up, I'll drop a correction in the description
@Blacknight8850
@Blacknight8850 Жыл бұрын
Oh man, Inquisitor was a game I really wished I'd been able to get into when it came out, but there was no way 13yr old me could have put one of those metal minis together, let alone convert them into different characters. I think doing it at a scale where you couldn't get any bits for converting the models and had to do a lot of sculpting was what doomed it, but now that 3d printers are a thing maybe another game company could do something similar?
@richardbradley2335
@richardbradley2335 Жыл бұрын
The problem i saw was the shear size of scenery items needed...models were 90% lovely though
@komma8203
@komma8203 Жыл бұрын
I still have the rule books from the 2000s but sadly not the figs anymore, but me and my brother have been thinking about playing it with joytoy warhammer action figs
@Keithslawinski
@Keithslawinski Ай бұрын
While I appreciate the trailblazing INQ did for future 40k rpgs the its a bummer something like this wasn't released closer to the advent of 3d printing. With some more rules love, and 3rd party access to printable terrain and models, I feel this game could have extended its stay.
@dmeep
@dmeep Жыл бұрын
the scale really hurt it from my point of view since you couldnt use them in your armies or whatever terrain you had didnt fit so it was a big investment in time and money with no synergy to the other games. kind of a shame really. i was thinking about buying some of them for use as demon princes but never pulled the trigger before going out of production
@the13th
@the13th Жыл бұрын
More than anything else I really feel theres room for a new Inquisitor far more that BFG or even the new epic
@jordansorcery
@jordansorcery Жыл бұрын
I imagine it would be really popular if released today, 3D printing and the modern conversion culture is perfect for it
@the13th
@the13th Жыл бұрын
@@jordansorcery And with RPG's now effectively mainstream and with a large part of that audience looking for a 'new hotness', artistic hobby being more commercial than ever, even from a business standpoint it makes a lot of sense for GW
@marcraygun6290
@marcraygun6290 Жыл бұрын
Reminds me somewhat of confrontation
@hneugiii1245
@hneugiii1245 Жыл бұрын
GW doomed Inquisitor to failure as soon as they decided on 54mm. At the time it came out I hung out at the US headquarters store in Maryland multiple days a week. I got to know a lot of the employees and no one outside of the employees bought the game, and that's because they had to. It was a disaster. They pushed it hard but people didn't want expensive models they couldn't do anything else with. Part of the selling point of Mordheim was people could use the models for other things. When GW closed the Maryland factory and moved it to Tennessee, it was cheaper to give the leftover stock to employees and write it off than to ship it to TN. At that point they couldn't even give the models away. Employees took one or two but whole cases of them went in the trash because no one would take them.
@foxbat51
@foxbat51 Жыл бұрын
I'm not surprised. It also would have required new terrain that couldn't be used in anything else.
@Kolyarut
@Kolyarut Жыл бұрын
I love some of the models for Inquisitor, but the game itself felt like a rare swing and a miss to me. As others have said, 54mm meant a requirement for 54mm terrain which wasn't sold and no one had already, but also limited the pool of conversion parts available, and doing those conversions at that scale with metal models that barely wanted to stay together when assembled "properly" was a tall ask for most people. And the models themselves honestly are less detailed than most modern releases, they're just bigger. It was an RPG without character creation, a wargame without a points system... rather than being able to knit those worlds together, it just felt awkwardly positioned between them, not doing either that well. But we gained the Eisenhorn trilogy and the Deathwatch, and better to take chances than play it safe all the time. If they were ever to revive this one, I think it would be best done as a fork of Kill Team, at regular scale, which immediately gives you access to an enormous parts catalogue and a colossal pool of enemies to draw from.
@Madhattersinjeans
@Madhattersinjeans Жыл бұрын
The biggest hurdle for me trying new 40k games back in the day was money. Even in the early 2000s it was difficult to justify money on minis over getting new cds or films or the like. Today the biggest hurdle is time and the rulesets and money. It's funny, I used to not care about the rules too much. But now i'm just constantly being annoyed by them. Like they lead you by the nose rather than let the player have fun. idk maybe i'm just seeing the past with rose tinted glasses.
@Joseph-xg8vi
@Joseph-xg8vi Жыл бұрын
PRINGLES CAN SNIPER TOWER
@stevenkennedy4130
@stevenkennedy4130 10 ай бұрын
Adrian Smith? Didn't he play for Iron Maiden??
@wolvz7081
@wolvz7081 Жыл бұрын
I’ve got a suggestion for a future video. Can we get a one about every single dog in citadel history please? You can have that idea for free.
@jordansorcery
@jordansorcery Жыл бұрын
This is the kind of out of the box thinking we need more of round here!
@PutYourQuarterUpGaming
@PutYourQuarterUpGaming Жыл бұрын
Gonna sound weird but stopped watching your stuff lately… Cos I wanted to save up enough new episodes to watch during my vacation week here 😅 Love this stuff. Like exactly how I nerded out over blood bowl but for all stuff I just don’t have time or even knowledge of to do so. Holy fudge even got Gav on this one
@jordansorcery
@jordansorcery Жыл бұрын
Hope you enjoy your vacation!
@bob_jim6584
@bob_jim6584 Жыл бұрын
I always wanted to play this but could not afford it when it first came out. Any money I had went to Mordheim and Warmaster
@NmHJoker
@NmHJoker Жыл бұрын
Great video, really enjoy all your stuff but Nuala's name is pronounced Noo-la not Noo-a-la.
@jordansorcery
@jordansorcery Жыл бұрын
I didn't realise that, appreciate the correction!
@ernestgraves4401
@ernestgraves4401 Жыл бұрын
Cooooooooool!
@iatebambismom
@iatebambismom Жыл бұрын
I always wanted to get that but it was too much of a scale departure and I was neck deep in half a dissent other armies/warbands/gangs/etc already.. It did look stunning though.
@aquilaprimedesign
@aquilaprimedesign Жыл бұрын
it's only a matter of time where main 40k is 54mm
@jordansorcery
@jordansorcery Жыл бұрын
It may already be too late!
@godofzombi
@godofzombi Жыл бұрын
Well you got Joytoys making 1/18th action figures of a lot of 40k models. you could use those.
@lilv3966
@lilv3966 Жыл бұрын
I liked this video because I liked it.
@jordansorcery
@jordansorcery Жыл бұрын
The purest form of engagement!
@radeadcool
@radeadcool Жыл бұрын
Why not redo the game in the HH? Seems ripe for the pickings. I have just redone so models in 40k with my 3d printer and terrian just because i wanted to see what was possible.
@richardmcdonald4741
@richardmcdonald4741 Жыл бұрын
Comment no. 64
@dantipton1987
@dantipton1987 Жыл бұрын
I felt like a fool for wasting my money on it. Every one said it's a one off. Why oh why is every poor attempt by GW to make a RPG percentile? Blackstone was not poor but it was not a true rpg
@marcraygun6290
@marcraygun6290 Жыл бұрын
It failed as it didn't go far enough people wanted 18kmm scale inquisitors
@PiterMorbid
@PiterMorbid 25 күн бұрын
A skirmish game that requires a game master? Sounds like really bad, unpractical, idea, doesn't it?
@ja37d-34
@ja37d-34 Жыл бұрын
Never played it but bought the rullebook. Seemed real cool.. I wanted some RPG-ish in that universe too..
@harveydents
@harveydents Жыл бұрын
awesome as always Jordan!
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