Games Workshop Price Hikes and Paywalled Miniatures
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I started gardening last year.
It's way less expensive.
I now collect Faberge Eggs to save money
Lol,
I've taken to keeping my fireplace lit 24 hours a day with money as fuel and ironically it seems I'm spending less than I was buying GW products.
This is why I 3D print. 3D printers are not killing GW. GW are killing themselves
Me too. Just insane comparing the cost of a printed squad of intercessors to GW 😅
This is the way.
@@pierceknoblanche5305 what is truly insane is a combat patrol and a whole 3d printer are basically the same price
@@pierceknoblanche5305especially when you think of how low GWs net cost for the product itself must be if you can run on 30% profit while financing the stores all over the world
3D printing is likely killing 3D printing bros. People who can’t even shower properly are almost certainly not handling toxic chemicals safely or bothering with the necessary protocols.
I wish more time allocated to explore Murray mouse milking operation
Hey I'm all for ongoing plot lines.
The price hike shouldn't hit us Aussies too bad, GW needs to actually have product on the shelves to raise the price on to begin with!
Watch it be bigger here than anywhere else (except Norway 😂)
@@TabletopTime Of course! need to offset those shipping expenses that we definitely don't already cover 🤣
@@FrayedBristleLeviathan cost over 400 bucks! Unreal and a wonder they sold any in Australia at all
@@TabletopTimeI had a friend who spent some time there back when it was, for some unknown reason, cheaper and easier to have a full on Forge World army than the normal plastics...he was not pleased when FW dropped the Elysians there because that's what he'd been building before moving back stateside.
@@FrayedBristleit’s almost like they could make the miniatures here and not pay that fee
The price hike is a symptom of companies being hog tied by their shareholders. Shareholders don’t care for the wider hobby community it would seem.
they saw the rumor mill online increase with the tv show stuff so they invest in the relevant company. which means they don't know anything about this but they want money.
WHO WOULD HAVE GUESSED ?
Cough Blackrock cough Vanguard!
Gamesworkshop don't care either. They've been like this for years, as to the reason so many original members left years ago
Microsoft just laid off hundreds of people to fluff their shareholder reports too. It's disgusting
i use a 3d printer, the cheapest printer costs about 3 times as much as 1 GW kill team but after you buy it, each mini takes about 3 cents to 8 bucks depending on your resin and where you find your 3d files. meaning the printer pays for itself in like 4 or 5 prints depending on the miniature.
The sad and somewhat ironic thing is, if they actually reduced prices they’d probably sell a lot more.
Not only would people be more inclined to buy, they might also buy more often rather than holding out for special occasions which is the case for many people now, and that’s only if they haven’t already been priced out of the hobby. Lower prices would also drive sales by reducing the financial barrier to entry to potential new players.
All the constant price hikes only make the hobby that bit more inaccessible to more and more people.
It’s easy to see why there has been such a boom in sales of OPR and 3D printers in recent years.
Resin 3d printers be looking good. 1L of expensive high quality resin or 1 box of Intersessors
I just printed two combat patrols worth of Orks with a 20 dollar bottle of resin and they're way cooler than GW's.
TBH the prices hikes are marginal for my region(euro), but they've done it so many times it ends up being aggravating (yay the already way overpriced paint and tools isn't going up 😆).
Buying my 3D printer a year ago was the best decision I made. It made my hobby substantially more affordable...so yeah, sorry not sorry GW I'm afraid the revolution has already happened and you've not invited.
This is why I 3D print. An LGS should offer catalogues of miniatures they can print for customers as a means of driving profit. More enterprising stores could even offer custom models.
Or GW could sell the Models as stl files.
I keep looking for a good place to do some resin prints for me since I don't have a place for a printer where I live...I do have access to some PLA printers at the local library where it's a print for filament costs, but they aren't going with a resin printer.
I haven`t space for a 3dprinter. So, how much will LGS charge you for a ok print?
@@davidmartyn5044 that would depend I guess. I am working on a store Modell like that where people can come in with files and we would print it out for them. But yeah I haven't thought about the space problem for a 3d printer
My printer died after several years of use, and when I was contemplating having to buy a replacement, I realized that if I only printed 8 characters, I'll already be saving money.
Plus printers have gotten a lot better(8k used to be very expensive and is now the norm) as well as more affordable than they were only a few years ago...also quite easy to get back to printing once you have the experience with a slicer. Which is definitely the kinda thing that would detract a newcomer...like the smell of resin which I'm not a fan of (although one could empty the VAT every time they're done printing...which is a pain so I'm happy to have a spare room to do this stuff ^^').
Big fan of legit political discourse on the nature of inflation. I'm from the UK and 10 years (Strictly speaking, I'd argue 12, broken up by a brief period where *everyone* was fucked by a need to stay inside for a few years) of austerity policies haven't altered the economic state of the country. If those at the top keep making money while prices increase, we need to do better in asking why. Good on ya!
One thing to consider is Brexit, they're probably justifying all the recent price hikes as a way to compensate shareholders for lost profit due the increased costs of global shipping. Doesn't excuse this blatantly greedy behaviour but it does something to explain it.
GW's pricing is hurting themselves. They could be making as much, if not more money if they priced themselves more accessibly. There was a time when it wasn't uncommon for people to have huge armies and multiples of them. It is no surprise that players started to specialize and churn their armies more as pricing increased. What the company would lose in profit per say, they would make up for in total volume of sales. Prices scare people away but give people a price they are happy with and they will gobble up your product.
Yeah the models were already too expensive as it was and as an example 34 usd just for 1 Castellon crowe of the grey knights, Like I get you have to pay the sculptors And have to pay for materials But they could have sold it for like 15 USD max And they still would have made plenty of profit And also 63 usd For a strike squad And it only comes with 5 units n a few extra parts
Really glad my brother is printing my army For me because I'm not trying to spend 2 grand Same with my sisters of battle and my Eventual Dornian heresy iron warriors each.
Yeah i am 41 years now, but i remember back in the days when i was 14 or so and had my own newspaper route on a good month i could earn around 1200 dkk, but usually i would earn about 600 to 800 dkk.
Now even if you take inflation into account from then to now, i can honestly say if i was 14 today, i would NOT be able able to get into warhammer.
The miniatures and everything else is simply too expensive for me to be able to get into it.
And that might end up be one of the things that eventually kills off GW.
With the whole femstodes thing they already made many of the whales say Zod this zog i´m out and the prices as they are make it hard for newcommers to get into the hobby, especially with 3D printing offering a much much cheaper alternative.
As a "nordic" the conversion rate from the pound means that BEFORE these hikes, prices have gone up around 10% and now we're getting ANOTHER 14% price increase...
This is why 3D printing is SOOOOOOO much more cost effective in the long run. There are so many talented artists out there that make awesome, sometimes better, designs.
It's a shame but it's time for people to cast their votes with their dollars.
Counterpoint, I like to make custom minis (building is my favorite part of the hobby, hate painting) and resin is absolutely awful for that because it’s poisonous and brittle, and doesn’t take plastic cement
@@milktenders6219Then use a plastic printer. Or learn to customise digitally before the print.
@@LupusSolitarius590 PLA minis look really bad at small scale because of the lines, plus it’s easier (not to mention way more fun) to kitbash with actual pre made parts. Creativity comes from limitation
@@milktenders6219 You know you can get sculpting resin right? Only the cheapest resins are brittle, resin is only an irritant when uncured (also plastic cement fumes are just as bad or worse than resin fumes) and you can use the resin as a glue with a UV torch that sets faster and harder than polycement.
You can use bluestuff or silicone to make molds of each bit and cast with Smooth on liquid plastic. Harder than gw plastic but a dremmel makes bashing easy.@@milktenders6219
Absolutely LOVED the deep dive into the different kind of box sets that have come out over the last decade or so, and with PICTURES! I'm personally really interested in different "sets" etc that have come out over the years and always find the research into "what actually happened" and prices etc quite hard to find.
Thanks for doing such a thorough job.
Really enjoying the new chatty theme of the weekly vids
This is probably the turning point for me to convince myself that resin is indeed worth the hassle.
Water washable resin isn't that big of a hassle. I just printed two combat patrols of orks for 20 bucks.
@@EyeXombie Water washable Resin is sadly still toxic af and probably more of an issue than regular resin because contaminated water is washed down the drain. Non toxic resin would be a dream but till then I'l still swear everytime I handle that god damn stuff while printing myself.
oh yeah
Resin printing is super cool! A little finicky sometimes but when you dial in the settings it totally worth it. Plus you can design your own models and unlock your own creativity.
Would be sweet if content creators pushed other miniatures games. I know they don't get much views as Warhammer but I'm kinda over how expensive Warhammer is getting.. Frostgrave is pretty cool 🤷🏼
Check out Ravaged Star!!
Ah yes, the army boxes, when you finally get your Astra Militarum codex but the official release is 3 months later and the new edition months after that. SO much fun.
GW had special minis for big boxes since Warhammer Fantasy 6th ed. There was a Wood Elves and Warriors of Chaos army boxes. The battle standard bearers for those two boxes were exclusive from those boxes.
I appreciate the time and effort put into this discussion. You all did a great job! You even worked hard to find positive points for each kind of box!
This is why you should never trust a publically traded company. They believe their only obligation is to their shareholders, and they believe they have to always increase that profit margin over everything else.
At some point the business runs out of things to make efficient, and corners to cut, then they start cannabalizing their customers and employees for the benefit of the shareholder. Then when the company has destroyed itself the shareholder moves on looking for more profit elsewhere. Never having to understand or care about what they bought shares in.
It's not their belief, it's law (in the US at least). The purpose for a corporation is for the profit of the shareholders. They can sue you (as the owner, or CEO, or board of directors, whatever) if you don't act in the best interest of the shareholders. They are literally required to by law sadly.
Edit: This is true for the publicly traded for profit corporations. Other kinds of business entities, like say am LLC, have no such obligation.
_"GW is raising their prizes to their highest point yet! This comes as a complete shock!_
_In other news; water is wet, the sky is blue and corporations are not run by people, but spreadsheets."_
Wait. Spreadsheets?! 😅
@@magnusmillerwilson Oh yeah. They've completely taken over.
Turns out James Cameron's prediction of AI taking over was right, just not the military Skynet part, but a self-aware, coporate profit maximising program run amok 😉
3D printer goes BRRRR!
It sure does
I am fairly sure that the composition for the Jumpack Lord battalion box is entirely "We have to include Raptors with the jumplord, but we can't include anyone else with power armour or people will realise how out of scale they are so we'll just whack a bunch of cultists instead"
Just got a new Creality large FDM printer for terrain as well as a large Anycubic resin printer for figures ❤️❤️❤️
The Dread Talons box is actually perfect for me because the cultists, accursed cultists, and dark commune are the three kits you need to make a chaos cults kill team. That plus wanting to add a bunch of warp talons and raptors puts me in a unique position of wanting everything in the box. I doubt many people are with me on that.
3D Printer goes brrrrrrrt :D
I miss the old Megaforces and Battleforces - they felt like epic sets when I saw them on the shelves and were just packed with minis.
I found a space marine megaforce kit on ebay (still sealed) for under 200$ about a year ago. Same box today just one year later is now selling for well over 500! All retired first born sculpts, and a shit ton of them. $200 would get you like one combat patrol and a squad of the current boxes/sets.
I'd love to hear your opinions about narrative campaigns, campaign systems. The thing that made me fall in love with wargaming was The Battle for Karak Eight Peaks campaign, the mix of story and hobbying and gaming, and it's my favorite thing about Warcry as well, the fantastic narrative content they put out, especially in first edition, and although I don't play 40k, Dawn of War: Dark Crusade is often reinstalled to scratch the itch with that campaign system it has. Then, there's the old General's Compendium, which is probably the best book GW ever released. Would be fun to hear if you have any memories, thoughts on this.
Dawnbringers: Daughters of Khaine - Krethusa's Cronehost springs immediately to mind. One incredible new character mini that everyone wants to build and paint, lumped into a £65 box with 10 sisters of slaughter and 5 Doomfire Warlocks, both of which are units with models that are over ten years old now. It's arguable that the price means you're effectively getting the Warlocks for free, but they're very much showing their age when set next to a sculpt as striking as Krethusa.
They did the same thing with boxes back in the 90s - I got the start of my WHFB chaos army by buying the remnants of a couple of these kind of boxes after the new kits had been pulled out and sold separately to folks with existing armies
I don't buy a lot from GW these days, trying to play and paint with other ranges. But the crazy Australian prices and double dipping on 'inflation' is just pricing me out of them altogether. I would have loved to get into Old World, but I tallied up what I would need to spend and it exceeded what I spent on every other range the year before. 😢
Exactly there is definite price gouging going on in Australia. I mean $400 for Leviathan!😩
Mind you, I started collecting Warhammer 40K some 30 years ago in the 1990's and I stopped in 2004 when they made most of my Orks and Tyranids obsolete. I only recently came back with some Kill Team, Mechanicus, Knights, a Stompa, Morkanaut, Gorkanaut, and Legion box last year, after a 19 year break.
No point in buying GW miniatures when you can print and proxy for a fraction of the cost.
Sounds like when Napster was totally cool and not at all definitely theft.
@@macdietz Proxies that have their distinct aesthetics and are not simply GW rip-offs are fine. It's up to the players to decide if they accept the "counts as...". I guess no one will have a problem with that as long as you don't field a fairy as a tank.
@@macdietzif you think proxies are theft, you really need to get out more and take your lips off GWs butt.
Where am I supposed to put the printer?
Where am I supposed to play if my flgs shuts down?
@@BeepBoop2221
1. In your house or shed
2. Refer to point 1
Definitely want to hear more topics like this.
It would also be good to hear about companies with a more positive approach to market behaviour; good value for money, respect for customers, etc.
My wife just told me I can't drive to Gippsland and buy another (3) Kroot box.
They'll stay on the shelves for a long time 😂 nobody plays kroot down here
The Kroot pack alligned well with me.
I started collecting when Farsight was more restrictive, and said no to all the auxulariies. I only had 1 box of the old Kroot, so the new is great additions to me!
Coming from the same general, I always found it so difficult to find a game store, between your store and one down in Bass coast (which is gone now too).
It's awful to hear such finite havens in rural areas are starting to close 😢
This episode with the skit start and news segment absolutely reminded me of good game.
Nailed it 10/10, no further comments.
Another bigger box thing that GW did for a while was the odd side game boxes. Some like Deathwatch Overkill and Speed Freeks came out with all new models. Others were odd pairings. I remember a Knight v Knight box and a Hellions v Reavers box. These boxes seem like a way to move minis with odd rules thrown in. Shadowwar Armageddon was an odd one that had Scouts v Orks with new terrain. I don't know if anyone plays these side games. They seem like product tests.
After having watched : I agree with the fear! I'm definitly interested in new eldar and orks model, but I sure as hell won't put the money in a huge box just to get the one or two among the swarm of old kits --' However, following the confrontation boxes, I'm really happy with the recent Kill team megabox : Nightmare is really nice, you can stil resell the half you don't care about, plus you get some sweet terrain ^^ looking forward to Termination in a few month as well !
Cadia Stands and the Astra Militarum update came out so late in 9th that I never got to play my guard with their codex rules that edition before 10th edition.
Love this new format!
I love this new video format.
Bern collecting and playing CSM since 2e. The last new models I bought were big Abby and Harkon Worldclaimer and they're still sealed in their shrink wrap.
I remember when shadowspear came out, I was camping and saw the awesome chaos minis and decided I was gonna make my own Warhammer TTRPG for some reason because of it
I actually like the idea of the clash boxes, as standlone armies, the short narrative campaigns
Did you get the reference?
Is it a Deadpool reference?
It's always sunny...until GW prices go up again
If Murray is doing Charlie work, then well the implications....
I did not and hope that someone in the comments will explain 😃
he's milking them, but does he have a rat stick?
What are your opinions on Conquest from Para Bellum? Got hooked into it this year and been having a good time! The only problem I have is with my country custom fees, that are ridiculously high
Here in Canada with the price increase a combat patrol will cost 200$ after the price increase and that's before taxes
love you guys for being so clear eyed about companies driving inflation while also talking like they're part of the community.
The Sunny coffee bit is peak 🔥
In the last 12 months I have seen my wholesale cost of MTG go up by about 13%, and have had to eat that cost as the online sellers in Australia cut the hell out of the price, Starwars legion up by 10%, GW well they are my only supplier that has increased my discount so my wholesale price in down 3% over the last 12 months.
Nobody should be following WoTC example. Worst margins
@@TabletopTimeI think you entirely missed the comment’s point.
I've had a trade account with GW for 10 years, if anyone knows exactly what they're talking about, its me. GW is the lifeline that keeps hobby stores open right now, im afraid they're going to make that unsustainable with their constant price hikes. The margin might be better on GW, but it doesnt mean people will buy it forever
ah and there's another great reason to get the spacebears STL packs and in general get into 3D printing
GW have not effectively taken action to keep prices down, they have taken action to keep revenue growth on track without additional supply.
They expand their stock storage but not expanding manufacturing. They have a few factories in the uk but that’s pretty much it.
They could open manufacturing branches other parts of the world (Mexico, Japan, Australia and so on), which could start out on a small scale focusing on limited releases/local preorders and high demand models in the local markets. For example when North America had no warhounds for months these smaller plants could have printed those models until additional supply could be allocated.
It would also allow games workshop to avoid import fees to countries like Australia and New Zealand. Countries that have regularly experienced economic landscapes where it’s cheaper to buy directly from British retailers than to walk 15 minutes to the local discount game store. That’s simply because the mark up on warhammer in Australia not only covers import fees but generates profit.
But they will never do this because that would mean investing money into a system that wouldn’t let them price gouge in demand models or the foreign markets. They don’t value the hobby supporters they value the consumers. It seems the company needs a complete change of leadership if it expects to continue growing or remaining profitable in the face of emerging technologies and competitors.
The crazy thing about the Soul forge box was literally a year later they dropped brand new Death Wing making these old ones obsolete
what's the chance that more hobby store start to propose a printing service to survive?
This was a very nice discussion. It definitely opened my eyes to some things that I didn't realize. Because I'll be honest, I definitely subscribed to the "added value" principle you described in the video when it came to clash boxes. So I appreciate you mentioning how getting models you might not want want can remove that "added value".
But I'm disappointed you talked about this *only* in the context of 40K. I really would have liked to hear you cover the history and value of these different boxes in the context of Age of Sigmar as well. Because I think the higher quantity of newer sculpts in most of its ranges helps rasie that "added value". But maybe thats just me, since I split alot of those 3rd edition clash boxes with friends and even had the stars align for me twice with armies I wanted. But, at least as a newer player in 2021, I really valued those clash boxes for helping me build up my collection for my other armies early on.
They can be fantastic - we like the ones with lots of new models like shadow spear, but loathe the ones with the oldest models they could shake out of the bin and hide behind a single new sculpt
This is why I play systems where I pay around 1,5 usd for a miniature (and I'm from a mid-poor EU country).
It's awesome to hear you talk about non-GW stuff.
We in norway will get a 8% to 14% increase in the same kits, sweden to. Tooth and claw was the 3th box i did buy after getting back in the hobby after a almost 20year break. And you just got to collect enough armys and then you will have use for both sides of the boxes 😂. And is it not both Spearhead boxes and Battleforce boxes now. But i love chaos and i getting both those chaos boxes, as i can always use the stuff in both, and add to my over 12k pt of chaos
The only saving grace in the world of Warhammer is that the models don't devalue at the rate of other similar hobbies. Having said that, them sunsetting the AoS stuff may change my mind on this, as my concern that this "Anti-Bloat" tactic is actually just another way of bleeding people's wallets faster than they normally would obtain a new army.
Great video 😊
What really frustrates me with the price changes is that they increase the prices in Norway where I live a lot more than in the rest of Europe.
Regarding boxes I think boxes with just one new charcter is a big pain, and truely done just to get more profit. But I sot of like the boxes where you get one faction and all the new stuff like they did with the new Cadians and with the Leagues of Votann (and with Old World too, even though I had to wait quite a long time to get a box of Bretonnians).
I got Blood of the Phoenix, Prophecy of the Wolf, Piety and Pain, Hexfire (which came with two of the new sorcerer models but no Castellan Crowe), I bought the cults half of Shadow Throne for cheap on ebay. I liked the two army boxes especially if they didn't have space marines as you got two sample armies to paint and play. For the Army boxes, I got the Black Templar and retired my Space Wolves as they are mostly firstborn and used them with the Indomitus and Leviathan SMs. I've always liked Black Templars since 3rd edition when my 10 year old son painted all the marines as Ultras (heresy!). But, there are a lot of BT Army boxes at my local LGS! I usually look forward to the Christmas boxes. I'm hoping for a new Orruk one that 'ardboyz instead of the Kruleboyz.
Barely 11am here in Denmark, package of terrain just arrived, and a fresh upload?! Damn good day. My last gw purchase was the Ashes of Faith box, probably also my last one for the foreseeable future if not ever.
Only purchase gw from 2nd hand FB groups saving 30-50% on everything, never buy it new.
They've been doing army launch boxes for as long as I can remember! I know I had a 6th edition Fantasy Ogres and Brettonian boxes. But I do agree that paywalling, and the GW scalping and money grabbing is absolute bollocks
One of the problems with flyers this edition is the scaling down of the battlefield. We used to play on 6x4 tables, giving flyers room to maneuver and be interacted with. This edion came with a shrunk-down play area, and flyers go too damn fast to be useful on a smaller scaled battlefield. The scale of the game is too small to make aircraft work.
Have you guys played Malifaux yet?
It's a cool game but I don't love painting the super spindly thin models
While I love these info/chatting to us video, I miss the painting videos from you guys, I love your painting style and wanna see more about all the armies you’ve been making up, either way, keep up the great work
Oh gosh yes, we should have had some out, but have had a delay on last Saturday's release. Definitely meant to be 1 project, 1 chat per week
Miss the days when your characters came in their own box and this battlion/combat patrol boxs (of ever shrinking number of models btw) where battleforce boxs that had enough for a small 750pt army or where great expansion boxs examples like the chaos/space marine boxs would have 30 marines and a vehicle orks and eldar had similar that started at like £50 and you could see and feel the savings and were great for more niche formations like Ravenwing and Saim Hann.
Its a shame they stopped it has these would of been great for all these new sub factions and such and would take away these demand issues and scalping of these new army boxs.
Just play the edition you like now or switch to OPR now. Use any mini you want from any range and don't support them unless you can afford or can't live without that model (I was with 1st edition warcry).
Hey guys make OPR collaborate with your space bears/drop bears and do another release . I'd definitely support you guys for one of those.
It's the yearly price hike. Every year, around this time, the prices go a little bit higher. Games Workshop is upholding their fiduciary responsibility by gaining the most bang for their buck for their investors on the backs of their customers.
Speaking of "tax models," my understanding of The Old World starter box is almost entirely tax models. Some of the designs are from way back.
Thanks for talking about the Fallout minis game. I'd love for more people to hear about it.
Thank you for putting something in the cups.
Can we see more of the rat darm of Murrays? What are they called? Murrats? Murrat milk farm sounds cool.
Box i got recently was the Auxilia battle force, you save like $220 nzd.
This is just really frustrating, im supposed to be going with my mom in july to grapevine texas where theres a warhammer cafe but now i feel like i should go buy a bunch now
We a f***ed in Straya then. We already pay some of the highest prices in the world for GW products.
One thing that went unmentioned in regards to the box set, is stuff like Dark Imperium which have exclusive sculpts for models. This is especially annoying as the standard pox walker kit still has half a Dark Imperium plague marine in it which is incompatible with the standard plague marines.
The skits are always hilarious😂
I have collected a skaven since I started the hobby, I have a fantasy army and my bloodbowl team. I am very excited about them having some new releases but I do wonder if I am going to be able to afford them :(
What is the state of other games in Australia?
My favorites are Infinity and Bolt Action.
Shatterpoint news! Loved this episode!
Aussies are already hit with a 50+% tariff on gw products comparing exchange rates on sale prices. I understand there are more costs to get them to Australia from the UK but the prices are already obscene on them.
The pricing thing is insane, but honestly, I'm a fan of the battalion boxes. I can freely ignore them if I have too many things that I don't want, but if there are things I want in there, I get a bunch of discounted models, causing the prices to go to 'unreasonably expensive' down from 'holy f***' expensive. and if there is an extra squad of stuff I don't want, using it for bits, or tossing it to a friend to get them into the game, or allowing me to do weird things with models I didn't really need is neat.
What’s worse than the price hikes is the fact that GW also charges 20% extra for Australian’s compared to getting them in the UK or anything
Over the last few weeks they've also had a mass exodus of subscriptions. Its quite the coincidence their prices went up at the same time....They have completely disconnected from the community for profit, what a shame.
So, when are you launching your coffee line?
man, the singular new units in boxes that are over 100 euros just make my go to a resin printer nearby and just buy the STL and print it for a fraction of the cost.
Hmm... Portal Games declared a new Neuroshima RPG on 5ed rules - which may mean opening into markets out of Poland. Maybe they come back to Neuroshima Tactics? That will be neat! Apart from that Neuroshima Hex is a great game anyway.
0:33 did he load that with his own bull-milk? 😅 This is great content!!!
well done ttt for the customer advocacy
said this 15-20 years ago during the Tom Kirby era. Dropped 40k/WHFM and went to HH. Once Mr Bligh sadly passed away and mainline GW got their hands on HH I dropped it also. Stopped buying the HH novels and 40k books also.
The only thing I want to get my hands on are the HH1.0 BBB's so I can play with a finish system and enjoy my admech and titans stomping stuff.
GW sold their soul to the dividend's/ shareholds two decades ago. They weren't even subtle about it back then.
I'm one of the suckers who's bought many many of these boxes, probably more than I should have.
Don't regret the Kroot box though. I'd been planning an all Kroot meme army for a few years and was going to go almost exclusively 3D prints. So having a box just for me that gets me at least a nice little handful of legit GW plastic felt really cool.
I also started a Skaven army last year with plans to base them to be compatible with movement trays for both AoS and Old World.
I feel very catered to.
As we said, if the box lines up it's fantastic. We are pro the launch boxes wit the codex. I got Cadia stands, Jenn got the sisters one, Murray got the Kroot
I've fallen victim to text not transmitting tone. I completely agree with your assessment of plenty of the boxes being very niche and of dubious value. I just have no impulse control and an enormous pile of plastic that will likely never see a tabletop. The Kroot box is the exception.
I'm nervous about some kits that are actually not to expensive here. I'm planning to get a Questoris Knight as they much cheaper than the others.
Once again, GW jump ahead of inflation FASTER than inflation!
Lol, the vyper jetbike at 27 years is the oldest plastic kit they sell for 40k, and the falcon grav tank is only four months younger than that. Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty certain no other army even has a model from last millenium!
On the topic of discounts, I live in nz and due to the exchange rate i think retail price in au ends up being cheaper. Then you have the one Australian shop i do use mostly for stuff i can't get in nz has a 20% discount on gw products, which is insane.
My i do usaly pay full retail as my lgs is a gw, but sometimes i need a discount. >.>
Did Murray say " Bollocks "? 😂
I was excited to start a chaos army. I no longer will be doing that. Not for a while at least. Just can't keep up with the prices
Maybe save up for a 3d printer, it's a high initial cost but as you print more and more it makes its cost back
Thought the "battalion" boxes started as the "Christmas " boxes...
I appreciate the less GW favourable discussion around the price hike. It's absurd.
I don't know about your local area, but in my area of australia the 3d print and recast armies are just becoming more and more common. It sucks, especially for supporting local stores, but it's pricing people out of the game and they're going for any option that works for their wallets.
With actual cost of living increases, I can't say I look at a $60 32mm character with anything less than disgust.