 Editor in Chief Bill   | 18 Mar 2019 8:40 p.m. PST |
gideon asks: What is the status of the different rulesets formerly published in the WHW product line? Are they still being published anywhere? |
| Winston Smith | 18 Mar 2019 8:56 p.m. PST |
GW is loathe to give away copyright.
At this point, nobody can print any of their rules except GW.
When and if they feel like reprinting those titles, you will see them, and not from anyone else, and not a minute before. They aren't paying legal retainer fees for nothing. 
In the past on TMP, there were those who thought that this gave them the license to make copies on the grounds of "But I want it!" They were wrong.
Find some other rules, or look on eBay. |
| Griefbringer | 19 Mar 2019 2:30 a.m. PST |
Sometimes GW does lisence out rights to their old games – for example there was recently 4th edition of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay released by an independent company. That said, I haven't heard anything suggesting this might happen with the Warhammer Historical titles. Furthermore, there is likely quite a number of the books still rotating in the second hand market – and I think my local game store still had a few of them a while ago. |
robert piepenbrink  | 19 Mar 2019 6:44 a.m. PST |
Bill, welcome to the world of the Mickey Mouse Copyright Law. Three quarters of everything ever written in English is under copyright but out of print. That will not get better in my lifetime, the Justice Department having killed our last hope when they vetoed the Google Settlement. If I could fix it, dozens of real books and maybe 10-12 sets of rules would come before anything GW ever made. |
| YogiBearMinis | 20 Mar 2019 4:56 a.m. PST |
Current GW leadership is far closer to the old regime in its heyday than the Kirby years of shrinking stores and product with increasing prices. I don't think GW would ever branch into historicals because the money just isn't there, but they might at some point introduce "Classic Warhammer Library" collection or some sort to get some money off of these old titles—subject to concerns it could encourage players to buy other companies' historical miniatures rather than their own. GW has lately been far more willing to resurrect old line and old figures to grab a quick buck but also make fanboys and grognards happy. |
| Bowman | 25 Mar 2019 5:55 p.m. PST |
GW sent its historical division, Warhammer Historical, to Forge World after making Rob Broom redundant. Shortly after that (2011 or 2012 I believe) Warhammer Historical was shut down. I also believe all unsold historical product was eventually destroyed. The old titles are gone. Sad really. |
| shthar | 19 Apr 2019 11:39 a.m. PST |
You can't copyright rules concepts. Just rewrite em and publish them yourself. Don't use the same pictures. |
| von Schwartz | 21 Apr 2019 6:41 p.m. PST |
Hate to throw ice water on this but what does Warhammer have to do with Historical Wargaming? |
| Bowman | 25 Apr 2019 4:24 p.m. PST |
"Pissing in the well" might be a more apt description. |
| von Schwartz | 25 Apr 2019 5:47 p.m. PST |
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| Royal Marine | 27 Apr 2019 11:22 a.m. PST |
Black Powder – Hail Caesar – Pike and Shotte etc … this is what GW Historical has become, and all the better for it too :-) Just head over to Warlord Games for your 28mm fix of Historical fun-gaming. |
| TheKing30 | 02 Jun 2019 11:57 a.m. PST |
Black Powder – Hail Caesar – Pike and Shotte etc … this is what GW Historical has become, and all the better for it too :-) Just head over to Warlord Games for your 28mm fix of Historical fun-gaming. The Black Powder series of games are a blast to play – but they are not what Warhammer Historicals has become. They had very different mechanics and play very differently. Again, both are great games – but very different games. |
