A Good Rumour

[Scott]

There's a rumour going about just now that Gav Thorpe and Alessio have been fired by Games Workshop.

Link To Warseer

Finally! ;D

[warsmith]

Alessio one is NOT true (He still there, check Brimstone post)
from what I been told but then again I could be wrong?

Gav T he was not fire but rather handed in his letter. Did I also say he was half way through the new Dark Eldar codex as well

But again only Gav Thorpe has any truth from what I've been told.

Ether way good luck to him

[Big Dog]

Not really sure if that's a good thing I think Gav still gets a lot of hate because of the Storm of Chaos but really it's just a lot of angry Orc players moaning because Grimgor didn't kill Archeon.

[Scott]

Here are some of the reasons given on another Warhammer forum for why people dislike him:

In the eldar book, he made numerous other mistakes. For one, half the units sucked. The book could be put into 2 categories, the good units and the units that are so bad you wouldn't taken them unless you were trying to lose. Such as a 50 point jetbike h2h unit that struck with S5 on the charge allowing ASs and then S3...and a 3+ save at T4. In other words, it was worse at h2h than a 8 point ork, and as durable as a 15 point space marine. This unit made lothern seaguard look underpriced.

Until he nerfed it. Gav felt that ambush was too OPed for 7th...after all, you could crossfire enemies easily by having troops pop out from behind the army. Nevermind that even in 6th, a large number of armies were offensive enough by turn 2, even if your units came in place you'd be struggling to catch up in time to do anything. And ambush was not widely used anyways...its main use was supposedly to take down defensive targets. However a beast herd in ambush could charge a war machine on turn 3, same as a regular beast herd. Now the ambushing herd could not panic before coming in, but it also could scatter out of position. So whats your poison, dealing with the potential of 1st turn panic, or dealing with failing an ambush check and being screwed?

Ranks were OPed too. Sure, we've always had problems against terror causing monsters. Then again, why not nerf our ranks? Ambush is powerful enough that we don't need ranks right?

No contesting the fact they are gavs favorite army. They are also, by pure coincidence I am sure, the only book (7th edition version) he has made that contained no nerfs, and tons of buffs. Not that they didn't need it, but it was out of character for Gav. Which is perplexing, because hes too good of a Dev to let something like favoratism decide how good he makes an army. I mean its not disliking dark elves stopped him from making anything less than an awsome army, right?...Right? So why should liking dwarfs have anything to do with making dwarfs so good?

It should also be worth pointing out, its fairly clear his paranoia about ambush stems from how good it is against dwarfs. After all, they're the only race that gets screwed often by being crossfired by herds.