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Miniatures Adventure => Fantasy Adventures => Topic started by: Ockius on 09 April 2022, 05:14:45 PM
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Hi everyone,
I sometimes wonder which of the GW models and ranges sold best and worst. Although this poll isn’t going to tell us this exactly, it would give a reasonable sense of what armies were more and less popular.
Apologies if this has been done.
I know some of these broad factions later got subdivided (undead, Chaos etc) but I’ve lumped them together to make the results neater.
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Over what time period? I've been playing WFB since 2nd that's a lot of armies but back then armies were a lot different to the last editions of WFB.
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Period not specified. It’s a pretty broad poll, and the results are going to be broad, but that’s what I am going for.
So I suppose it’s basically ‘what armies have you *ever* collected?’
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Ok well given I've been collecting,on and off, since 1984 that was pretty much all of them not including my third edition Slann. I think the only armies I've never collected is Dark elves ( though I did collect a dark elf Man'o'war fleet) and Ogre Kingdoms (though I had a big unit of ogre mercenaries in 3rd).
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Most collecting I did was during 5th and 6th edition. I have a complete DoW army (unpainted :D); shouldn't they have their own entry given the complete official miniature range and armybook from GW? Now I ticked "other" :?
DJ
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Had a modest-sized army's worth of 90's High Elf figures over the years, though I never used 'em to actually play WFB - they were used as figure upgrades for another game entirely.
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Most collecting I did was during 5th and 6th edition. I have a complete DoW army (unpainted :D); shouldn't they have their own entry given the complete official miniature range and armybook from GW? Now I ticked "other" :?
DJ
You’re right, I probably should have done a Dogs of War entry. I knew I would forget at least one!
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I’ve not really done WHFB since 1st or 2nd Edition when armies were very much bring what you’ve got. So I’ve added my Warmaster armies to the poll instead (and only the painted ones)
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I have a few unpainted dragon hoards which are not usable armies but definitely not just a handful of models either. lol
(However, a few painted ones too.)
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I had several scattered pieces from a lot of armies that I thought were interesting, but the armies that I did the most with was a Vampire Counts and Lizardmen.
On top of that, I had a few smaller forces with some Kislev (which ended up lost in a move), a Vampire Coasts, and the start of a Albion Wight one that didn't get much done.
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Got into Warhammer at the tail end of 5th edition and started an Orc and Goblin army which grew throughout 6th edition with the Brian Nelson 'gorilla orc' sculpts mainly - but it never really got painted.
Dropped out of the hobby altogether by the time 7th edition was in full flow but got back into it again towards the end of that edition and started a small Vampire Counts army which I committed to painting as I collected it.
And then with 8th - didn't play too much of but grew both my armies with the new units available in each army book and decided to start with my greenskins again and commit to getting colour on them.
They are now my main army for other games such as 9th Age, OPR and Dragon Rampart - fully painted and about 10,000 points in 8th edition points values.
Still pick up models here and there for the Orcs and Goblins mainly - don't enjoy the VC in 9th Age (our main Fantasy game these days) so rarely used the army any more and am looking towards building a small force made up of the Kev Adams style Orc and Goblin sculpts from back in 4th-5th edition
For the sake of this poll, my gaming group also fielded:
Dark Elves
Dwarfs
Empire
Lizardmen
Warriors of Chaos (no Beastmen or Daemons)
Wood Elves
Cheers, RK
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I’ve had Dwarf, Tomb Kings, Ogres and Orcs/Goblins armies over the years, but haven’t bought a GW miniature for more than 10 years now - they simply priced themselves out of my market.
I either sold or gave away all my armies around that time. My mates have started using the Warhammer Armies Project rules for their games, but I have no desire to get back into it, sticking to CoC these days.
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My brother and I had the 4th Ed boxed game, and built up the High Elves that came with that into a fair sized army, and the orcs and goblins into a big army.
Then bought bits and pieces we liked, but only Empire became an army’s worth.
Seems like orcs and goblins are leaders so far. Not really a surprise! Fun and characterful models, varied and fun army list, and included in several of the boxed game sets.
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Orcs were the main focus for me, but I also had hobgoblins, Slann, and a fair amount of chaos stuff.
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Empire - Grand Duchy of Flogberg in pink and green livery (also used for Mordheim) and Undead - Tombkings for Warmaster and Vampire Counts (with different noble bloodlines) for WHFB.
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I had Empire and Orcs and Goblins around 2010. I rebased and/or spruced up Orcs and Goblins over lockdown actually and they’ve seen a few games of dragon rampant and saga age of magic.
https://youtu.be/oGqGXw1REmw
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I collected a Slann army for WFB 3rd edition. I started on a Hig Elf and Orcs & Goblins army for the same, and tried to do an Undead army for 4th edition. After that I gave up and focussed on WH40K.
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About 1992 I started collecting skaven and wood elves, also chaos managed to get into my collection, I inherited both Dark Elves and Lizardmen from lapsed gamers. It's only really skaven and wood elves that I have pretty big forces (about 10K each). Just need to finish them. ::)
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Oh my, that actually was a bit of a list and I just realized I even forgot one ::)
So one more vote for Chaos Warriors; my bad! :D
The rest are:
Chaos Dwarves
Night Goblins
High Elves
Vampire Counts
And I've been wanting to start an Empire force for ages too, but never got to it...
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I've voted, but as I worked for GW for quite a while I'm not sure my habits are particularly representative.
(DE, Ogres, Kislev, Empire, Dwarf, O&G,Daemons, Chaos I have at least 2K painted of all these bar Kislev))
I can tell, you that during my time with the company (99-11) the biggest selling plastic troop set was the Dark Elf Warriors.
Which always surprised pretty much everyone.
Chaos and Ogres didnt sell in big volumes but were popular armies because you didn't need many models. The reverse was true for O&G.
IIRC the HE book was usually judged to be the best selling over time (sales obviously peaked on release) which might indicate they were popular.
Althougn the Daemons army was perceived as OP their range actually sold comparatively poorly (especially as the models did "double duty" across both systems) which showed that there wasn't actually all, that much correlation between on table performance and sales. Most people (despite what the tournament minority believe) buy models they like, rather than just the most broken thing. :)
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Never did get around to playing an actual tournament but fielded fully painted Brettonian and Skaven armies. Dabbled with dwarfs but never had a full complete army. Still have quite a few of my ancient Skaven forces around here somewhere.
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I've voted, but as I worked for GW for quite a while I'm not sure my habits are particularly representative.
(DE, Ogres, Kislev, Empire, Dwarf, O&G,Daemons, Chaos I have at least 2K painted of all these bar Kislev))
I can tell, you that during my time with the company (99-11) the biggest selling plastic troop set was the Dark Elf Warriors.
Which always surprised pretty much everyone.
Chaos and Ogres didnt sell in big volumes but were popular armies because you didn't need many models. The reverse was true for O&G.
IIRC the HE book was usually judged to be the best selling over time (sales obviously peaked on release) which might indicate they were popular.
Althougn the Daemons army was perceived as OP their range actually sold comparatively poorly (especially as the models did "double duty" across both systems) which showed that there wasn't actually all, that much correlation between on table performance and sales. Most people (despite what the tournament minority believe) buy models they like, rather than just the most broken thing. :)
Thanks for the insider perspective!
The high-selling dark elf plastic set is also surprising when looking at the sample here, as they are almost the least popular army it seems (I think ogres being a more ‘recent’ army naturally score low as many people voting probably dropped out of WFB before their launch.) Perhaps the dark elf plastic set was just really good!
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Of note is that of 101 votes so far, 52 had an orc and goblin army. More than 50%. So about half of us collected orcs and goblins for some period of time. Pretty high proportion!
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I collected Orcs & Goblins, and dabbled with Ogre Kingdoms (I dropped around 2008 or so).
Not really surprised about the greenskins popularity, they had some really good miniatures and they felt like the quintessence of Warhammer.
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Had a sizeable kislev army, sold it for a pittance. :'(
Love the old undead stuff and just recently bought into Ogres.
Also love the greenskins. Lots of fun minis in there with crazy rules early on.
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Thanks for the insider perspective!
The high-selling dark elf plastic set is also surprising when looking at the sample here, as they are almost the least popular army it seems (I think ogres being a more ‘recent’ army naturally score low as many people voting probably dropped out of WFB before their launch.) Perhaps the dark elf plastic set was just really good!
At that time it was the *only* DE plastic set and it did both the core troop types (spears and crossbows).
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I had about 5000 points of Lizardmen and about 1500 of Empire. I had considered starting a Tomb Kings army after reading The Serpent Queen, but I guess I dodged the bullet on that one.
My mate has a gorgeous Bretonnian army, he still hasn't forgiven geedubs for getting the proverbial lance.
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Orcs and Goblins are fun and silly and a great force for those who don't mind losing! They are so random and can win or lose to anyone on their day, especially if that wacky animosity starts to really kick in. They also have such a huge range of models and troop types available, they can be tailored to pretty much anything the aspiring general wants from a force, be it hordes, heavy infantry, cavalry, missile troops, artillery, rock hard heroes, beasts, magic users .. etc .. etc ..
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Never managed an army
Did have a few Realms of Chaos/Slaves to Darkness Warbands though
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I voted by army regardless of whether I actually ever got them painted and on the table, which between v1 and v6 of the rules was most of them at some time.
Chaos was back when you had to swear loyalty to a chaos god and stick to your decision, none of this "undivided" crap. That army was Slaanesh in pastel shades of green, pink, lavender, turquoise and baby blue.
My 2 main armies both topped out at well over 10k points, Vampire Counts (alternate models for all the v5 and v6 Bloodlines) and Gunpowder heavy Dwarves.
My VC are now re-purposed for Gothic Horror skirmish or unit based as an Impetus fantasy army (along with the shamefully still unfinished 3rd/4th ed High Elves) the rest have long gone to eBay or Bring & Buy stalls