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Offline Cubs

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Re: The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread
« Reply #525 on: February 01, 2014, 04:34:11 PM »
I rarely buy a mag I can't peruse first. How do I know if I want it if I can't see what's in it?
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Re: The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread
« Reply #526 on: February 01, 2014, 04:40:43 PM »
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It was wrapped in plastic so I didn't bother  Confused

Does this effect anyone else (I would imagine that it does) that if you can't flip through then you don't buy?

Was it on the top shelf with the other magazines about plastic photo-shopped models?  ;D
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Re: The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread
« Reply #527 on: February 01, 2014, 05:03:08 PM »
A magazine with painting guides, modelling guides, terrain building, scenarios rules and the like would be intresting to me. Even as someone who has given up buying anything from GW besides the odd pot of paint that kind of magazine content would be intresting me. I dont however want to pay for the privilege of being advertised too.

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Re: The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread
« Reply #528 on: February 01, 2014, 06:18:16 PM »
Was it on the top shelf with the other magazines about plastic photo-shopped models?  ;D

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Re: The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread
« Reply #529 on: February 02, 2014, 03:53:40 AM »
Was it on the top shelf with the other magazines about plastic photo-shopped models?  ;D
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Re: The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread
« Reply #530 on: February 02, 2014, 05:21:36 AM »
So with only a few dwarfs shown so far do you think next week will show a few more being released for preorder? Giving them something to fill up the weekly mag with?


Offline Johnno

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Re: The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread
« Reply #531 on: February 03, 2014, 03:01:56 AM »
I bought both. I wanted to see what the hype was about.
I feel they should have kept WD as it was.

Visions is simply a picture book. Maybe 3 lines of text per page.
The Golden Demon/Blanchitsu/Army of the Month spreads etc were good. 100 pages of Tyranids not so much. Probably even if you like Tyranids.
I guess I'd get it again when it relates to an army that I have an interest in. Otherwise no.

The new much thinner WD was simply that. Thinner, not much substance. New dwarves, stats and painting for the dwarves. Not worth the time or money to collect every week. Thankfully my subscription expired last November.

Yes it was wrapped in plastic but most WD's have been in the last little while. My local store has a copy you can peruse though.
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Re: The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread
« Reply #532 on: February 03, 2014, 12:21:40 PM »
My local store has a copy you can peruse though.

Don't worry.
Whoever is responsible for that lapse will probably be terminated before you return.
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Offline Constable Bertrand

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Re: The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread
« Reply #533 on: February 03, 2014, 12:29:42 PM »
I cannot see them finding enough material to fill that many publications. It will have more user content, player armies etc, which will be nice to see, but there are only so many to take pictures of. And they have Fb and their blog for that too!!

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Re: The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread
« Reply #534 on: February 03, 2014, 11:13:33 PM »
That there is a tabletop game is usually news to them.

That's quite interesting  :)

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Re: The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread
« Reply #535 on: February 03, 2014, 11:22:23 PM »
That's quite interesting  :)

I actually find it difficult to believe given how much GW advertises their miniatures in books and games.

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Re: The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread
« Reply #536 on: February 04, 2014, 01:58:39 AM »
Same people that think of Final Fantasy and video games when they hear RPG.

No lie, one guy even had a Horus Heresy art book and had never seen a figure, or claimed not to have.

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Re: The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread
« Reply #537 on: February 04, 2014, 02:12:51 AM »
on a sidenote "Games Workshop" and "Warhammer" got mentioned in the Brian Keene Novel "Castaways"
gave me a good Laugh when i read that Passage  lol lol


Offline Vermis

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Re: The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread
« Reply #538 on: February 04, 2014, 05:31:32 PM »
Urm ... yes ...

Yeah, but do you print books or do you print army rosters and airport boarding passes? ;)

I print stuff at home meself. I got an Epson PX650 printer a few years ago so I could print off relatively decent reference photos I found online, on proper photo paper an' all. It hasn't stopped me buying decent books on the given subject or clipping glossy magazines for the 'morgue'. Maybe it will, the way print seems to be going, but I'm still sceptical.

It isn't a legitimate comparison. Printer manufacturers make their money from ink and not printers. Hence the ridiculous price and the attempts to add DRM to printer cartridges. 3D printer manufacturers make their money from selling you a printer.

So who sells you the 3D 'ink'?

Offline Cubs

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Re: The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread
« Reply #539 on: February 04, 2014, 05:50:53 PM »
Yeah, but do you print books or do you print army rosters and airport boarding passes? ;)

Mostly just photos of Kate Winslet and Holly Willoughby.

 

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