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Because they weren't selling very well at the time and they wanted to make room on the shelves for their ever expanding range.

Many theories but anyone who REALLY analyzes it can really one come to one conclusion.... big hats. The army list was/is a fine list. the comical nature of the hats doomed sales and thus the army.

This has been endlessly debated here and on other sites and should recommence in 3,2,1...

and what about
E) BFSP box?

C'mon... you can make a full plastic CD army, or buy it on Ebay, so I dont think your analyse worth any cent.

because they could sell CD's for £15 a box oir have us buy

A) a box of dwarves
a box of maurauders
and optionaly
C) green stuff
D) a box of chaos warriors

which one brings in more cash

And then they made the list unofficial and forbade us to use it in tournaments in a cunningly subtle and indeed totally opaque sales tactic. Brilliant! How do they do it?

Which is what exactly GW doesn't want, to be able to create a massive army from the starter set when they can have you buy 10 $35.00 plastic sets minimum... even better would be buying multiple sets across varying lines at least from a sales standpoint it would be... But what do we know eh?

Bottom line and back OT, good job for talking them up, it can't hurt.

Willmark your comment about the hats does sound pretty close to the mark.. alot of friends I know either love the hats or HATE them with a passion!
They seem to have some magical property to love or despise!
Evan a GW sale rep that I was hassling (by the way it did no good although he said that some guy had somehow commited GW to doing them eventually) tonight about the chaos dwarfs said that he loved the idea of chaos dwarfs but hated the hates!
I personally love the hats but I would not mind if the were axed if it meant we got a new line.

Furrie.. I think hell will freeze over before they release a chaos dwarf army book without models as I have tried that angle with GW staff and the answer was that they make no money on books and the models are where the good profits are at.

I have no problems with people liking hats despite my personal dislike of them. I lived through the 4th edition hat era and they were never that common of a sight in gaming locales. Now obviously more rare.

Something had to kill them, it sure wasn't the list that was fault. Sow what does it point to it, the hats.

YMMV