The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread

[Cubs]

Having been very much out of the loop for a few decades, I am wondering what first convinced the Kroot that an enormous quasi-bipedal creature that presumably moves by bounding and changes from 4 to 2 limbs like a giant gorilla, was a suitable beast for a stable firing platform. Maybe they like to combine military ops with a fun rodeo?

[Mammoth miniatures]

All fauna on the planet peck (pech?) is some form of mroot evolution, so i imagine it was more a case of "this one can still understand basic commands and hasn't tried to eat me".

[FramFramson]

Not sure 26 figures == massive, but I'm not in marketing

Ah, but it very clearly states that it's the box which is massive.

[Daeothar]

Yup; the 26 miniatures are whopping instead... 

[beefcake]

I wonder, in the early 90's, how many snotlings came in a single blister.
Pretty sure you could get a whole bloodbowl team in a blister for first edition.
Probably wasn't considered whopping back then,

[Elbows]

How about getting three Rhinos to a box, for like $15? 

[Daeothar]

How about getting a whopping three Rhinos to a box, for like $15? 

Fixed that for ya 

[Elbows]

"How about getting a whopping THREE Rhinos in a massive box for JUST $15!"

Even better, yes?

[Storm Wolf]

"How about getting a whopping THREE Rhinos in a massive box for JUST $15!"

Even better, yes?

Indeed or 30 space marines for £9.99 or
14 Terminators or all of the Harlequins or a Mole mortar, Tarantula, Thudd gun and a Landspeeder for about £15 I think 

[beefcake]

Is it sad to think if I had a time machine I'd spend my turn going back and buying cheap GW stuff, .

[Tactalvanic]

nah not at all, but I would probably go back and buy cheap apple shares for me and come back to the future and buy expensive OOP minis from you 

[Constable Bertrand]

OOh Marauder Giant is coming up on a limited basis. How many dollarydoos is that going to cost in metal?

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/03/20/old-world-almanack-orc-and-goblin-classics-return-to-made-to-order/

[Mammoth miniatures]

Swanky new trailer for age of sigmar 4th edition.

I held off buying any books about half way through 3rd because I know GW now operate on a 3 year edition cycle, so buying into the game after 1.5 years seems like buying into the tail end of something. I do wonder if I'm alone in this, as I can't be the only one to look at a book released in month 34 of an edition and think  "hmmm...I'll leave it."

[boneio]

No, I don't think that's just you - most of the engaged players skip books as well unless they're going to use them *a lot*. And certainly there's no point buying the "end of edition" narrative books apart from as a collector.

Even within an edition there have been army books released within literally months of the previous version, so I pretty much don't bother and just use online sources. I've no idea if the trend is strong enough to impact GW's book sales in any noticeable sense. I hope it becomes that way, so that they do what everyone else does and release the rules for free via PDFs and keep updating them that way.

It's a little different with the niche games like Warcry and Underworlds. Those are self-contained so it's easy to just buy the books/cards and then not bother chasing the new edition.

[Elbows]

Reminds me of one of the local gaming stores which opened up several years ago.  The owner asked me to come in and explain 40K (8th edition, back when I tried playing it again).  I went in, played a few demo games with him and his staff.

He decided to buy in, and became a massive GW retailer locally (eventually).

However...two months after getting started, I visited the store and he excitedly told me about a store going out of business and he'd bought up their stock of books.  He excitedly showed me an entire bookshelf of...7th edition books.

I had to painfully explain to him that he had purchased a bunch of paperweights.  I told him to drop the price to $5-10 and sell them to excited kids who just wanted a cool 40K book to look at.  He was suitably nonplussed.