 November 20, 2012 - 8:03am | Warning there is profanity in the subtitles but somehow having it come from Hitler is even funnier. ROTFLMAO!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbJ-y6BWfUc&feature=relmfu http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z-wAUDK6G8&feature=relmfu And a personal fav- Hitler calling Games Workshop!!!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXVKj0KcbIQ&feature=related And this one was really fun especially when Hitler states what will happen to the person that bought him a codex for his Bday. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDPi3x0uXds&feature=related Hitler decides to sell his 40K collection http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJZ7V-cVFss&feature=related My appologies if you know nothing at all about the ongoing rants against GW and its business practices as you not get why this is so funny. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 November 22, 2012 - 3:15am | I know nothing at all about the ongoing rants against GW and its business practices...can you offer up the Cliffs Notes version? |
November 22, 2012 - 4:44am | On the cost side, for most of their line they dropped metal in favor of plastic and now resin and yet continue to charge premium metal prices. If you are into miniatures and wargaming and shop around and play many different rule sets and genres you begin to get the sense that they charge more for the army points of a model as well so if a model is really bad arsed on the wargaming table then you have to pay more for it when in reality its just a hunk of plastic. Then they embrace the worst forms of power creep. With each new edition of the game and each new army book they change things or create new units that that if you dont go out and spend more money for more overpriced plastic then you will suck wind at the wargaming table. The strength of their business model is constant new twelve year old customers because a parent can drop them at a Games Workshop mall store while shopping and pick them up later. Of course by that time the kid wants to get into the hobby and the sales person will show the parent a starter box and say, "This is all you need to get into the hobby." Not exactly true but a starter box gets the ball rolling. Typically playing warhammer fantasy or 40k means spending $700-900 so by the time the typical warhammer player is in college and discovers the new codex has obsoleted his armies and a snot nosed 12 year old with his starter set will totally own him at the table he usually goes on a rant and leaves the hobby altogether. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 November 22, 2012 - 5:44am | You forgot about the GW police. They have very strick policies about stores that allow people to play in store. For instance if a GW checker drops by and discovers the store is allowing players to use figures that are painted with less than three different colors or (horror) showing primer than the store can lose its official standing with GW. Holding a tournament is worse. Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go? |
 November 22, 2012 - 8:51am | Wow. Glad I never tried it. Sounds like I missed nothing... |
 November 22, 2012 - 8:58am | Wow. Glad I never tried it. Sounds like I missed nothing...
 -iggy |
November 22, 2012 - 11:42am | Dont get me wrong, if you get to sit in on a friendly game with people over thirty who are probably playing an older edition do it. I bet you'll have fun. Or better yet find a regular wargaming club and enjoy the comradery with other men over a genre of gaming you enjoy for six hours on a saturday. Its a blast. And with a club with a history focus you can always just show up and play with out owning any miniatures. Good times and most wives are cool with the fact that they know where you are and what you are doing except for mine. :( I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 November 22, 2012 - 1:33pm | I could never afford to amass an army, plus I never liked the big battle games. On the other hand, I like skirmish-level games like Necromunda and Mordheim better. And even still, I would rather play Necromunda as a RPG (ideally a rule-lit system, then the overly technical systems GW likes to pump out), as its a really kickass techno-goth/cyberpunk/western/post-apocalypses setting! As much as I like the plastic figures over the pewter ones (highly configurable body parts, easier to work with, and never rusts), I hate the idea of paying full-metal value for them! |
November 22, 2012 - 5:00pm | Well when you can go to a company like Old Glory and get medium to good quality figures for $1-2/28mm figure and then go to Reaper and get a one figure for $4 but with super incredible detail and a GW figure that is a boss or leader figure and they want something like $12 or more for a plastic figure; I say screw the extra posability and the extra pieces for the bitz box. Of course you just dont even see this range of price in 15mm which is a better scale for big battle and more ideal for a Civil War battle or napoleanics- Cool thing with my club is that you have guys who collect well painted armies of historic figures and we refight large historic battles usually 4 people to a side but only one or two of them have figures on the table. 7 years War was never really my thing but I love to sit in on those games. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
