Retro Warhammer unboxing: 1997 Gorkamorka with Andy Chambers
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- čas přidán 13. 10. 2021
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Special thanks to Andy Chambers, the lead designer for Gorkamorka and many other important Games Workshop releases, for chatting to me about the game, and being so honest and candid.
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I know this is only the second video on it, but I am loving the "retro stuff with the designer" series and long may it continue!
I know, right? I absolutely love making them :)
@@MidwinterMinis Hint for a next one: Mordheim...
Yes! It’s so cool. This is the sort of content I would have expected from Warhammer+
I agree. These have been just awesome.
As for being too old to get excited about building a toy fort - here's a quote from George Bernard Shaw:
"We don't stop playing games because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing games."
I know that quote from the freaking geek himself, Emgo!
Yea... I think a number of adults and already older teenagers don't dare showing interest in such things because they don't want to be called a manchild, wierdo etc.
I guess there is a lot of artificial peer pressure for adults or older teens not to do stuff like building Lego stuff, Tabletop games...
I personally couldn't understand how so many people in my school had completely removed every single toy from their rooms. No Legos, no plushies, no pirate ship on top of the wardrobe... Nothing! As from one day to the other interest in fiddling around with littel figures and their vehicles and houses vanished...
Its kinda sad that a lot of people stil consider the urge to play as something immature.
@@annasstorybox7906 Complex games keep your brain from degrading with age. Our culture is broken.
Andy Chambers is the GOAT of old GW, he was behind so many excellent projects.
Absolutely, and what a total gent for getting involved!
@@MidwinterMinis Another interview/stuff video. Gonna say it again, no one else is doing this and its the best type of content.
He also sounds a bit like John peel
He had some epic hair back in the day.
I always keep an eye on his projects, he always has something interesting coming out.
When the note mentioned to bring it to a games workshop store to get a paint starter set for £5 i was half expecting a cutaway to an actual warhammer store and seeing if it worked.
If the store manager honors your gorkamorka coupon he is an absolute chad
I was seriously considering it.
@@MidwinterMinis dooo ittt!
@@MidwinterMinis Do it
@@MidwinterMinis do it
I almost forgot how much empty space were on sprues on older kits. Now almost every part of the sprue is packed with something.
Totally! You could have probably fitted another 3 or 4 oil barrels easily on those accessory sprues.
One of the things modern warhammer has now
@@minishaw280 sad but true *guitar riffs*
that's CAD for you. it's nice getting more minis per sprue, but i do miss the simpler construction of models… interchangable arms and things, being able to pose the same model a variety of ways out of the box. most of gw's kits now seem to be a collection of models in set poses that you may or may not have one or two different head/weapon options for… and since a kit usually contains multiples of the same sprue, you often end up with pairs of models in the exact same pose.
Many complex cavities on the same sprue requires a lot of finesse when designing the plates, or you'll end up with trapped airbubbles and partial flow. I think GW just didn't have the knowhow yet.
Hey guy, I had basically given up on the hobby until I discovered your channel, you inspired me to start painting again(currently painting my black stone fortress box set using your guides) and now I have an almost 2000 point necron army. Thanks for the awesome content dude, can’t wait for more videos.
More power to you buddy!
Wow! That's a fantastic achievement, great job :)
Same @ethan gamer
0:17 Melanie Brown in a cold studio
I did the same. Congrats and stay with it! Guy's videos introduce all of the basic concepts so by the end, You can paint anything.
As a 26 year old man; I approve of building forts and giggling maniacally while putting plastic soldiers on the ramparts.
Those paint pots are insane. I found some at my parents house that are probably close to 30 years old, and they paint it still perfect.
Same, I've still got a pot of enchanted blue and the paint's still great. Clearly GW had to change their paint pots to get people to rebuy paint as it dried up.
Me too, still using a couple (even older, the paint line before that one) it’s slightly jelly-like but paints fine with a bit of water
@@DtLS I found that the paint pots died before the paint did. Well, more specifically the lids cracked and fell apart. I had to retire a few of the old paints due to this.
I can't believe you got Andy Chambers on, he was our childhood hero. What a legend!
I remember thinking his Lemmy style hair and beard were so cool 😂
The interviews you've been getting lately are fantastic! Keep it up, really adds an extra bit of interest and perspective on these kits as old as I am
100%
Totally got goose bumps when Andy Chambers voice came on. Always loved getting inspiration from his ork army in the old 3rd edition codex.
Was that really him? I honestly thought the narrator was just deepening his voice?
Andy Chambers is/was my absolute favorite GW designer and gamer. His battle reports in White Dwarf in the 1990s were astounding, and his personality toward the games made him so much fun to follow.
His appearance as "Lord Varlak" in the 'Heretic' battle report in WD 187 (1995) was hilarious!
That was a great decision to feature Andy Chamber's newest game BRS. But this segment now caused me to have the song "10 German bombers" stuck in my ear. I recall how at the World Cup 2006 here in Germany you Brits sang it quite a lot ;)
You got to interview Andy Freaking Chambers?!?! Holy shit - thanks so much for sharing!
It's great to hear from people like Andy Chambers and Bob Naismith, hearing their memories about how they created so many great things about our hobby. Combining your interview with Andry Chambers and your Gorkamorka unboxing was a great way to give the video both great audio and video content. :-)
The past few videos have been a total dream come true, if I'm honest.
Don't worry Guy, I'm a 57 year old man with kids, a job that's life and death at times, responsibilities etc etc, and I was totally excited to see that fort come together! It's inspired me to scratch build a copy.
Andy Chambers… man I remember his face from white dwarf. When ever you saw that face on a battle report you knew you were in for a good time.
I really love these interviews with the creators. There's so much information on 40k's in-game history, but so few resources talking about its real world development history.
I'm a 62 year old gamer and still love to build card buildings,loved gorkamorka.
Fully agree with you opening the box and the ethos that these games are meant to be built, painted and played. As someone fairly new to the hobby side of Warhammer after being into the lore since my teenage years, its really interesting and fun to see the retro stuff and get an insight into how it all came together from the people who were there!
Don't feel bad about being 36 and excited about a toy fort. My Dad is in his 60's and enjoys building toy forts as well
Thats so crazy I remember being on holiday to Jersey twice and each time using all my money in the little shop! Pure blast from the past!
I was there! I worked at GW in the United States Trade Sales team when this was released, and this brought back soooooo many memories. One fun piece of trivia: there was a thought at the time that introducing lore through other games would help solidify narratives going forward. In that vein, the art in this set included the first (for suitable values of "first") art of Necrons!
Love this, and the surprise of the interview being included was great.
Andy Chambers, Rick Priestley and Jervis Johnston were responsible for many many happy hours of my teenage years, between games and time just spent just flicking through rulebooks, codexes and issues of white dwarf. It’s always good to hear a bit from one of them.
Honoured to be in the roll call with Big Dic Jesus
I hope you're happy with yourself.
@@MidwinterMinis haha
Guy take the offer in.
If there is no expire date the offer is still good.
Which wording would they use. The £5 or the half price?
I cannot imagine how much you wanted to say "You've been handy, Chambers" throughout the conversation and burn that bridge forever
I am super jealous of both your Gorkamorka box and the fact that you got to chat with Andy Chambers
And when you'll be an 86 year old man with lots of grand (and possibly great-grand) children, 4 dozen businesses and a couple of mansions, never, ever lose that enthusiasm for the joyful things in life! I'm in my 50s now and the impacts are coming closer but as long as we're alive on the inside, we're alive. Do keep 'em coming, and never lose that spark! 🍻👍
Thanks for putting this video together! I just got my own intact starter box a few months ago and I can't wait to dive in, take pictures and document it!
Super-excited for your exploration of the art over time. Thanks for all you do.
Got me with the intro feels again. I was 17 and only had to worry about having enough scratch left over at the end of the week for a battlefleet gothic blister pack. Edit: holy bollocks it's Andy Chambers.
Man that was epic, right in the nostalic feels for me , GOMO is what got me into GW . Very cool to hear Andy Chambers voice after all these years
As much fun as it is watching that old gem of a game getting unboxed, I would have liked to hear the entire interview.
Andy Chambers was part of the team that made Games Workshop so great, back in the days. Things just haven't been the same since he left. Or perhaps he left because things weren't the same back then...
The most worrying part of this is that there's apparently been more time since Andy Chambers left GW than he spent there in total. Andy Chambers, Rick Priestly and Jervis Johnson are GW as far as my brain is concerned.
Not really worrying, I'm glad to know he's gone on to make new things (didn't know he did Blood Red Skies but long knew about it). Same case with Rick Priestly, he's made great games at Warlord Games (same company) with Bolt Action and Beyond the Gates of Antares - which seemed like a passion project for him making a hard sci-fi setting for a game when he's done interviews etc.
Also Alessio Cavatore, another core GW old timer, has made a lot of games with Mantic (Kings of War), and the new rank-flank game Conquest the Last Argument of Kings with Parabellum Games.
So, it's bittersweet that they aren't at the helm of the grimdarkness, but they've moved on to make new systems, and may be happier with more creative room :)
Don't forget Gav Thorpe! Poor Paul Sawyer is often overlooked, as well. I know these guys didn't show up until 2nd. Edition 40k, but they helped establish much of the fluff and setting that went into 3rd. and 4th. Edition. Gav Thorpe basically wrote all of the fluff behind the Sisters of Battle. Paul Sawyer made a bunch of contributions here and there, mostly short stories you'd read in the margins of each codex.
Absolutely amazing. Looking forward to more videos like this. Keep up the good work.
These retro unboxing videos have really taken me back to my teens, keep up the great work.
Andy Chambers is an absolute legend. I remeber getting his autograph in the Friar Lane store in Nottingham on the launch weekend of 40K 3rd edition.
Just like the 40K 2nd edition video, the nostalgia is strong here. When I dropped out of the hobby 20-ish years ago I sold 99% of the boxed games and minis I owned. I hurts my soul to think that I once had Gorkamorka, originial Necromunda + Outlanders, Warhammer Quest, original Blood Bowl, Mordheim, Warhammer Fantasy 5th edition + Warhammer Magic, and 40K 2nd & 3rd editions. It's bittersweet watching these videos but I'm looking forward to more.
Really loving the interviews for context. Please keep it up
Man, that was some concentrated notalgia injection for me, Gorkamorka was my first taste ever of wargaming back when for some unknown reason my mother decided to buy it for us to assemble and paint together when I was a wee lad. Thank you so much for doing this, hope you'll be able to do a couple of battle reports from it!
The production value on these retro videos are phenomenal!
Awesome video, can’t think why I’ve not found your channel before, lived the content and the way you put it together.
I missed this game myself, I was in my second year at uni in 97, trying to pretend I wasn’t a nerd.
I recently started painting 40k and absolutely love your channel. Thank you for the tutorials and phenomenal content!
Love these retro Warhammer videos was literally re-watching the space wolf video when this dropped, keep up the great videos.
Guy I absolutely love that you're able to have these awesome interviews while showing some hobby classics. It's so cool to see and hear the history from the people who started it all, especially for someone new to the hobby like myself.
that sigh at the end 😆😆👌 Wow, Andy Chambers... takes me back so many years! Another great vid
the interviews really make these unboxing videos stand out ! please continue with this :)
Got GorkaMorka back when it released as I was big into Orks, and loved playing it. Was going through the garage the other day and found all my old minis for it including the ones for the Digganob expansion
I'm 50 and I still get excited building this kind of stuff. The new Ork terrain in the new Killteam box is what made me buy it. I painted it all in about a week.
Dude! Youre smashing it with the interviews of these classic GW designers.
I love videos like this. They're so chill.
I continue to be amazed at the quality of content you are putting out. I know I should be expecting it by now, but you manage to keep my attention better than any other youtube channel. You're a hobby hero!
You have to arrange Jervis and Andy for some 2nd Edition 40k battle report commentary. Relive some of those classic WD battle reports.
Super excited to see someone actually cover gorkamorka! Ive only seen pictures of the box/learning about the goofy lore and stuff. Awesome to see you dive into the box and talk about its history
Another great video, exactly in the style of the 2nd edition unboxing, my favourite of yours
That Ork fort looks amazing!
This was a pleasure to watch. So many memories of the 90’s :)
One of the best games Gw ever made, on my second game i boosted across the map and just kept boosting in true orky fashion until i lost control crashed in a barrier and injured enough of my mob that i had to make a bottle out roll, of course i failed and my opponent won the game without even touching his minis or a single dice :D One of my boyz lost a leg and my nob ended up with a iron lung….great times lol!
I'm loving this newest style of video, it's so great to hear from the people who were living this history back in the 90s! Nice one Guy!
Excellent and extremely well produced content! When you tell about your own childhood memories and years without the hobby, it reminds me a lot about myself.. I was involved in Blood Bowl all the way back in the eighties and had a break from board games for just about 25 years, And I get a lot of good memory, vintage vibes from these retro videos. 👍
Good one Guy, great to hear from Andy Chambers, you're vintage unboxing videos are a real time machine. 🤘
Loved the interview! Retro stuff is always fun too :)
After my school started I completely forgot about this channel!
This is great content!
How have I only just seen this video?! Amazingly nostalgic stuff!
I remember playing a test game of Gorkamorka at the local game store down the street from my school. I absolutely loved it.
I have 40K Epic and Gorkamorka, as I was painting and playing them back then, when I was in my 30's. Cool to see a video on them.
Almost squealed when I heard Andy Chambers, he was such a big influence on my "first time" with Warhammer. Still have a Battlefleet Gothic box in my loft!
Great video. It reminded me of watching people playing this back when I was a little one wandering the local game shop.
Can't thank you enough for pulling this together, great to hear from Andy. Still hoping for an official re-release one day, the current Ork range is perfect for it.
I just found a bunch of Gorkamorka models this past weekend, so this video is very timely. Loved the interview, Andy Chambers was a bit of a hero of mine when I was a young teenager designing games in my room, very cool.
My 5 year old decided the Gorkamorka Orks are his army and he is going to paint them, wish me luck!
What a brilliant video! Fantastic bringing Andy Chambers for a chat! Awesome!
What! I recently learnt about gorkamorka and started watching tons of battle reports and lore on it.... Now you are somehow unboxing one ! Crazy!
I was an avid White Dwarf reader back in the day and it's great to hear Andy Chambers and find he's still doing well.
This was a really awesome video thanks for sharing it with us
I love Gorkamorka, still have the box displayed on my top shelf for the artwork!
You have the original stuff from the box but if anyone else is interested ive recreated the Fort, Tower and Turny Gubbin, as well as the Rebel Grot vehicles to widen access to now quite rare and expensive kits in the form of free 3d printable files.
Great vid and always nice hearing from AC :)
Your stuff is awesome! Thanks for all your hard work!🙏
Loved this one. Thanks so much.
Man, I love that you’re interviewing the people who made these. As someone who didn’t get into the hobby until a few years ago, this is fascinating!
Good memories of Gorkamorka, would love to hear more of your interview with Andy.
A game I always wanted to try but back then my friends were leaving the hobby so never picked it up. 😔 Looking forward to seeing these painted!
Oh man i love the specialist games!
The normal WH games of 40k sigmar and fantasy are good. But the specialist games are so diverse in their scope! Innovative with great miniatures.
And sometimes surprisingly affordable compared to the main game.
I also really like the interviews with the veterans of our hobby! It is an honour to hear tham out, and to learn WH’s history from first hand accounts.
Plus it is very unique and original when you compare MM to other painting channels.
Love these historical videos. Especially the interviews.
Damn that fort is sick!!!! I forgot how good it was! I do like how you get people like Andy on the channel to interview, its really nice to hear the designers perspective.
Always wonderful to hear Andy.
I love these interviews with the designers. Guy, you're smashing it mate. Awesome stuff.
I miss playing this game. It was one of the teaching tools I used in a club I ran in a little town at the end of the 90s.
Loved your interview with Andy. He was a massive part of my formative wargaming years.
Mate this is so nostalgic! Especially the intro. I remember i couldn't believe the amount i got in the box and the lore. Let alone that was all the same year.
I love this content! Great nostalgia throwback. Plez do more Guy!
Love it! And yes please, get that 2nd Edition box set finished! That was the first video of yours that I watched when you put it out, and I've been watching closely and waiting patiently... :)
That may be the best unboxing video I've seen; having the designer interview clips was very cool. I echo the sentiment that you should absolutely take that coupon to your local game store and see what they say.
That's amazing you got to chat with Andy, there is sooo much I'd love to ask him. All of the stuff I love most was written by him.
And I'd love for him to make a new battle fleet gothic.
Such a good series Guy. Also, remembering the early videos, your editing, video length and look and feel are really top notch now (I mean, they were pretty high quality even then!). Hats off good sir.
I remember this well, a friend of mine had it and used to thrash me at it regularly. Thanks for the nostalgia!
It's great to get insight on the models and games of the past.
Great Video! Hope you do more retro box sets!
Andy Chambers is a game design legend!
I'm newer to 40K so I really enjoy these types of videos to give me some history and look at how things have evolved in models/paints/rules today. Pretty cool to see the changes
This has been an overdose of nostalgia straight into my brain. Love it.
How perfect! I just got back home from a job interview, made a cup of hot cocoa and I see a new Midwinter Minis video about one of my favorite 40k things!
oh god a sealed box of classic imperial guard stormtroopers.
I love that you interview the old designers btw Guy, great job!
Thank you for these memories