The LAF Games Workshop Discussion Thread

[fastolfrus]

£48 per figure! Who would ever dare play with them?

[von Lucky]

Everyone still hooked on the drug.

[von Lucky]

(We on LAF more enjoying the cocktail this hobby can give us.)

[grant]

Wow, that's like $290!!! Insane. Just ... insane!

I was at the mall today, and didn't even wander past the GW store. What point would there have been? None. I guess I have truly stopped the GW habit, because I'm not even curious about them anymore.

[nic-e]

Wow, that's like $290!!! Insane. Just ... insane!

I was at the mall today, and didn't even wander past the GW store. What point would there have been? None. I guess I have truly stopped the GW habit, because I'm not even curious about them anymore.

I know that feel.
I often look into the window of my local GW and see the lonely new manager i don't know too well sat there painting in an empty store and think i should get that new thing i want, then i remember there isn't a new think i want.

[Diakon]

Original versions are so full of charm and character too. These new ones are really sad.   Especially like the old Arkhan The Black.





(edit - pics "stolen" from cool mini or not. Not sure who they're painted by. Just googled them and chose the best example of each. Just coincidence that they were all cool mini or not.)

[FramFramson]

I've heard a theory that GW is actually going to blow up WFB in spectacular fashion (hence this END TIMESSSS nonsense) for a little "big event hype" and then convert WFB to a skirmish game in order to compete more directly with Warmahordes.

I don't know if I believe it, but it's certainly stupid enough to be plausibly GW 

[FramFramson]

Also a reply from elsewhere:

They don't want money from females?  Why?  Cooties?

 

Gracias,

Glenn

You've got me! I have no idea.

GW has few female figures in it's lines, even accounting for cheesecake. The only female-centred army they have (Sororitas) has been mothballed for ages. It's almost like they're afraid of them.

Pimply teen boys are buying "Girls Giggles & Garters" (well, okay, we have the internet now) and crowing about having seen boobies. Cheesecake is an easy winner here.

If there's a demographic that's still afraid of women, barricaded in clubhouses, behind "NO GURLS ALOUD!" signs, it's small boys in short pants. Hence my mockery of GW.

[nic-e]

I've heard a theory that GW is actually going to blow up WFB in spectacular fashion (hence this END TIMESSSS nonsense) for a little "big event hype" and then convert WFB to a skirmish game in order to compete more directly with Warmahordes.

I don't know if I believe it, but it's certainly stupid enough to be plausibly GW 

There was a theory floating around a while ago that GW were gonna convert fantasy into a skirmish game using only a couple of troops blocks and a hero, but that was a while ago.

[grant]

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[nic-e]

You know, if they actually did that, and Warhammer Fantasy was taken back to 4th or 5th edition, before the million-man-madness, I would maybe even consider playing again. Oldhammer has great appeal to me.

Why not just play the earlier editions ?

[grant]

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[Mason]

You boys are bad!

I have just gone for a stroll around the GW website after reading this and it is....awful!
That Dwarf in a 'cardboard box toy boat thing' was just laughable.
 

http://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/High-King-Thorgrim-Grudgebearer


Sad.
I have such fonds memories of the GW Dwarf range.
 

[Gibby]

Why not just play the earlier editions ?

That's what I'm doing. Going with 6th edition. Got the rulebook + ravening hordes. Enough for me, combined with Warhammer Skirmish. Yay!

[Vermis]

I've heard the 9th ed skirmish rumour too, round bases an' all, but I'll wait to see what GW actually do.

I know that feel.
I often look into the window of my local GW and see the lonely new manager i don't know too well sat there painting in an empty store and think i should get that new thing i want, then i remember there isn't a new think i want.

Thirded. Except GW Belfast still seems to be doing fairly well. Anyways, these days I generally only go in for some little thing, once in a blue moon - an occasional Black Library paperback especially, or a pot of some specific paint colour, maybe even a WD Weekly. Never minis these days, though. Most of the time I think the same as you two - 'there's nothing I want. I'm just not interested'. (Having said that, couple of days ago I checked what LotR Orcs they had in stock   )