The End of Warhammer 40,000 Conquest

Well the 9^th September 2016 will be remembered for a long time I feel, Fantasy Flight Games, the producers of Warhammer 40,000 Conquest: The Living Card Game announced that they were ending their relationship with Games Workshop. This simply means that Fantasy Flight Games will no longer be producing games or products relating to any Games Workshop material such as Warhammer or Warhammer 40,000. This article concluded that once all currently announced products have been released that there will be no more new products announced or released.

To bring it back into focus, this means that once the Deathworld Cycle is completed, there will be no more Warhammer 40,000 Conquest releases and after the World Championship event there will be no more tournament kits released either.

When I first read the press release from Fantasy Flight, I was almost baron of emotions and it took a good couple of hours to sink in that this game was going to be over soon. I started to get a little upset; I have experienced the end of games before; WWE Raw Deal and Vs System (the original version). I know the feeling our pouring yourself into a game, then watching helplessly as it suddenly disappears, for it to become an all encompassing part of your life and to suddenly end. It’s rather anti-climatic in all honesty and all a little silly, truth be told.

When Raw Deal stopped production it wasn’t that big of a deal, the game had all but ended anyway and with the rebrand into Raw Deal Revolution, the games attempt to stay alive was nothing more than a fools errand and everyone knew it. Vs System was another game that by the time the game actually ended I had not been fully involved in a while. Following Upper Deck Entertainment dropping the license with DC Comics, the Vs System became solely a Marvel franchise and that caused it to lose its appeal to me.

Warhammer 40,000 Conquest has been a major part of my life since it was released, I hounded all my mates until pretty much all of them bought into it and it has been almost an addiction since then. I sit at work on my breaks and lunches reading about conquest. I sit during evenings messing about with my decks trying to improve on them or come up with some new ideas and then try to play as often as possible. What will happen when this game is finally done and there are no more ideas, no new concepts? I have no idea.

Looking towards the future there are options of course, we have already existing card games to maybe buy into, such as Magic: The Gathering or a blast from the past in Yu Gi Oh. However there are new games that are potential new obsessions such as Arkham Horror: The Card Game which is due to be released in October 2016. But I guess time will tell. I don’t think anything will truly be able to replace Warhammer 40,000 Conquest as a game, I feel its mechanics are amazing and the actual source material used to add the story to the game is fantastic and out of all the games I have played in my life, this is probably the best one.

There is a wonderful world of games out there and I going to be on the lookout for new things to play. Conquest I feel has truly set the bar for card games moving forward and should I decide to buy into the Arkham Horror game it has some big shoes to fill.

I’m Big Boss..... I’m Out.... Peace!