@gorram good points – KS will kill projects rather than take risk, and the other companies are EU – more expensive/different legislation than UK.

As for why they haven’t gone after Kromlech, Spellcrow etc, I suspect it is easier to file with Kickstarter’s legal team than start chasing companies outwith the UK.

It sucks, especially when the KS had basically been done. Looking at the two models it seems like they are taking issue with, I can see why the did it. They are designed to ape the originals and it is very close to it. Still, few things that are best for the company are best for the community. Though I doubt anyone who backed that KS have bought a…[Read more]

@somegeezeer – agreed; Kromlech are far more delving into GW territory than the KS was. Nostalgia? KS had it. But those design concepts are so old. Small operation indeed – it would nice if there was a hobbyist who was a lawyer who would grab this torch pro bono…

It’s telling they’ve gone after a one man band rather than anyone larger such as Kromlech or Spellcrow. Themselves hardly million euro businesses but might be able to put up something of a fight.

How can GW own a generic term . And I thought GW changed all the orcs , elves , dwarfs etc to their own versions with their own terminology ,  If you copy GW’s figures I can see a problem . Might be just lawyers being dicks

And so the lawyers will feast. Very poor form.

The filing is from Lenton, so probably not a scam; seems like GW IP lawyers doing what they do.

It could also be a 3rd party scam . They know that Orks are / were a big GW property , so they claim in GW’s name . It happens on You Tube with music clips all the time . One channel had their music  theme  claimed by some lawyer’s office  , but the music belongs to the channel owner under his stage name . So no case and there was a counter su…[Read more]