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Heroic Knight
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you know, the only thing that will kill off porche is the price.
I mean seriously, anybody who knows anything about 40k will realise that th eLegion of the Damned are effectively a luxury item. You can paint a standard squad up as LoD if you want, you just wont get all the fancy scuplted parts.
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I couldn't really be bothered to read the WHOLE thread, but of what I have seen you are picking out the expensive models, most of my army is made up of packs of troops that equal about £1 a model, which is cheap considering the fact that they are also collectibles and most items that people 'collect' cost alot...
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dunno, your looking at £18- 20 for a box of ten plastic figures, slightly more than £1 a figure
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well not quite, most of my army is made up of boxes of 16 models for £18 wich is as I know slightly more than £1 a model but still worth it though... and the thing with GW is that they are not likely to go under for over pricing as many people are still willing to pay that much for them, I am one of those people, I do however have three fairly expensive hobbies
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Yeah they are overprice and increasingly becoming kiddy-hammer again. White Dwarf magazine has totally gone down the pan. The rules dummed down, the army books dummed down, smaller and still the same price!! They still do awesome models, but its just so hyped, increasingly aimed at a young market (c.11 to 16ish). I was surprised that my local gaming club wouldn't let me use either my Chaos Dwarf Army - a mix of the original ones and the "big hat" stylee - or m y equally ancient Dwarf army as the former "wasn't a current range" and the latter was "old models". And I couldn't use models not from the GW range either. Um...?
The problem is, there is no one out there to really challenge them. They've either bought up the competition or killed it off. The French game "Confrontation" is brilliant, but little known here and more expensive due to the size and i have to admit quality of the white metal miniatures (no cheepo plastics! wooo!) but has a more adult feel to it and also with the quality of the models more of a collect the models and/or play the game.
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Bombardier (9/19/2007)
Yeah they are overprice and increasingly becoming kiddy-hammer again. White Dwarf magazine has totally gone down the pan. The rules dummed down, the army books dummed down, smaller and still the same price!! I'm with you on White Dwarf being a pile of poo, and the rules being horribly simplified at every turn. But the army books aren't smaller. If there's one thing GW is doing well at the moment, it's background. The new Ork codex was wonderful fluff-wise, a huge improvement on the previous one. And was the biggest they've produced for ages, it felt like a 2nd ed codex. And this new Codex: Daemons looks like it should be pretty jaw-droppingly cool as well. And then you look at the stuff being produced by Black Library, especially their big sourcebooks and the Horus Heresy series... The background is at a level of depth and maturity that was sadly missing from 3rd Ed Kiddy-Hammer. 4th and 5th ed are pushing boundaries. I've given up playing the game, the rules don't particularly interest me any more. But the models are amazing, and the background is excellent. I want to do a 40k larp so damn badly. Yes, I know there are good sci-fi larps out there with a 40k feel. I don't want that: I want an actual 40k larp. It's my favourite imagined universe, I want more ways to interact with it. Bombardier (9/19/2007)
The French game "Confrontation" is brilliant, but little known here and more expensive due to the size and i have to admit quality of the white metal miniatures (no cheepo plastics! wooo!) but has a more adult feel to it and also with the quality of the models more of a collect the models and/or play the game.The plastics are excellent tho. They're so easy to convert, to mix-and-match, to create your own images. Confrontation is very pretty, but not as flexible.
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bunni (3/31/2008)I want to do a 40k larp so damn badly. Yes, I know there are good sci-fi larps out there with a 40k feel. I don't want that: I want an actual 40k larp. It's my favourite imagined universe, I want more ways to interact with it. Yeah, me too. Somebody ran one in Europe last year - expendable guardsmen with laser tag gear or somesuch. Somebody made a rather cracking LARP-safe power fist for it. Space Hulk is easy to do on a budget, provided you can suspend disbelief a little. I'll see if I can dig up some pictures.
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