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Kid_Eternity said:
I'm surprised GW is still going tbh given the pressures of all the digital entertainment devices and content in the world today. I mean how many kids actually really want to collect and spend hours painting models and then hours playing with them these days?
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fucking shitloads, apparently.
 
FNG said:
I really like the flavour of the Bushido figures by GCT games, the rules are free to download from their site I am so tempted back into the hobby but cant decide which ones to start collecting first
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i'm really blind to non-gw miniatures. maybe i just like the nostalgia factor or the IP, but i can't get excited about them really. perhaps y imagination is a bit lacking. BUT i did like this:

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which is Zagor, aka the Warlock Of Firetop Mountain

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that Bushido game is a skirmish level as well, so no need for twenty meelion models.

Mutant Chronicles (old school) used to do some appaling miniatures.
 
I just go in for the articles.

By which I mean the fiction books.

Which have also massively increased in price.

And are almost entirely exclusively now Space Marines only.

Which is a shame because the setting is awesome, but they ignore two thirds of it just to sell metal space marine effigies to children.
 
Awesome Wells said:
I just go in for the articles.

By which I mean the fiction books.

Which have also massively increased in price.

And are almost entirely exclusively now Space Marines only.

Which is a shame because the setting is awesome, but they ignore two thirds of it just to sell metal space marine effigies to children.
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the fiction books appear to be the standard price for a novel in the book type - i.e. small paperbacks, trade paperbacks, and hardbacks are all priced at the typical price points in comparison to waterstones.

as far as i can see recent releases have also covered the mechanicum, chaos, tau, and imperial guard. although space marines are the subject of about 50% of their releases. when they release a dozen new books and ebooks a month i can't see cause for complaint. especially seeing as it's dead easy to get them free.

in fact, i reckon the fiction is about the only area of the whole GW thing that is still functioning. everything else is either broken, too expensive, or too expensive AND broken.
 
el-ahrairah said:
the fiction books appear to be the standard price for a novel in the book type - i.e. small paperbacks, trade paperbacks, and hardbacks are all priced at the typical price points in comparison to waterstones.

as far as i can see recent releases have also covered the mechanicum, chaos, tau, and imperial guard. although space marines are the subject of about 50% of their releases. when they release a dozen new books and ebooks a month i can't see cause for complaint. especially seeing as it's dead easy to get them free.

in fact, i reckon the fiction is about the only area of the whole GW thing that is still functioning. everything else is either broken, too expensive, or too expensive AND broken.
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the omnibus editions have increased in price, which is a shame.

Most of their output is space marines. I would like to read stories from the rest of the Imperium. More stuff about Inqusitors (currently Dan Abnett's brief, noone else). The Mechanicum books are the current exception really. There was a trilogy of Arbites stuff but nothing since, nor any books about Rogue Traders or whatever.
 
DotCommunist said:
abnetts the only one among them who isn;t at fanfic level
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he's alright but a bit pedestrian. aaron dembski-bowden is actually a fairly talented writer when he lets himself be.

there should be more novels about inquisitors though. that's where ther eally interesting stuff is in the IP!
 
Pseudopsycho said:
Having had both habits, Warhammer 40K is cheaper esp as you can get discount bits from Dark Sphere and Ebay :D

At least that what I tell myself now I don't go out partying...
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I love the setting. It's a quintessential british SF work, IMO - drawing influences from things I love such as Dredd, Nemesis the Warlock (ie 2000ad), Blakes 7, Thatcher's Britain :D - and probably lots of other stuff I'm not aware of.

But minis are not for me. There are better systems as well. So i get my 40k fix vicariously, as it were.
 
I'm waiting for th young'un to have enough patience and my mate's wife to give him time to play but I've actually got into the painting, it's a moment of calm in the craziness of our house. I am pleased to claim that my minis are now of "tabletop standard" lol
 
i did a kickstarter for reaper minis last year.. had forgotten about it up until today when i was reminded i had about 400 figures arriving in the next few weeks...
 
So its shaping up to be an interesting time for Warhammer players, possibly GW are doing absolutely everything to squeeze money out of the franchise while they still have some residual loyalty from old players and to drum up interest from new ones.

While the End Times is shaping up to be popular with new people its really divided older players (personally I hate the sound of all of it)

Then in the videogames front we have Mordheim, Warhammer: Total War and now Battlefleet Gothic to look forward to.
 
(Bumping this thread rather than starting a new one.)

Since I discovered there's an independent games shop in a nearby village that also organises weekly tabletop gaming nights, I've been idly toying with the idea of getting back into Warhammer (either Fantasy or 40K), after 25 years away from it. :eek:

Does anyone actually play regularly? If I go along is it going to be full of the sort of spotty teenagers I used to be, or is it only grown men with hundreds of pounds in disposable income that can actually afford the hobby nowadays?
 
Buddy Bradley said:
(Bumping this thread rather than starting a new one.)

Since I discovered there's an independent games shop in a nearby village that also organises weekly tabletop gaming nights, I've been idly toying with the idea of getting back into Warhammer (either Fantasy or 40K), after 25 years away from it. :eek:

Does anyone actually play regularly? If I go along is it going to be full of the sort of spotty teenagers I used to be, or is it only grown men with hundreds of pounds in disposable income that can actually afford the hobby nowadays?
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think comic book guy from the simpsons IME. the 40kers at the club I go to are very definitely in that area. the historical tabletoppers tend to be nore "intellectual" the dystopian wars ones more.. weird and us RPGerS are more "big bang theory".
 
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