new armybook upcoming from GW

[Saladin]

Thought i'd pass it along, known about if for a while but here is somce concrete stuff and eyecandy.
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/ca...tCatGameStyle=

[paradamed]

Those demigryph knights are cool!

[Grand Admiral Thrawn]

I'll be buying only the Army Book for now and the rest is...to much childish for my taste. Besides the prices (metal Grand Masters were for 8,20 pounds and now that they are made in jelly resin (not the same type of better resin Forge World use) they cost 10 pounds more!!!)

[Marcus Tullius Cicero]

I'll be buying only the Army Book for now and the rest is...to much childish for my taste. Besides the prices (metal Grand Masters were for 8,20 pounds and now that they are made in jelly resin (not the same type of better resin Forge World use) they cost 10 pounds more!!!)

I kind of agree, while the quality is excellent the prices are kind of insane for me (a lowly student )

[Ichon]

I'd get that hot pot catapult just for laughs but the time and money required to make a full army these days is beyond what I want to use my time for.

[Grand Admiral Thrawn]

You can get a METAL Hot Pot on eBay very cheap. And yes, I agree with you that starting an army from scratch these days is well very difficult, painful and costly especially if you want to get your hands on old-school models when there wasn't so much emo-skull stuff on every miniature to make it 'dark'.

Demigryphs have nice rules but the models themselves are horrible. I think I'll buy a couple of Thunderwolves and make a nice conversion. The only new models I do like are the Witchhunter (alas in failcast) and the plastic Captain.

[Ichon]

I have a Skaven and High Elf army in storage somewhere and half an Empire army but I lost interest in actually playing TT games years ago. CoW is more fun than trying to find a game, setup, figure the new rules, etc.

[Grand Admiral Thrawn]

What about Warhammer: Invasion from Fantasy Flight Games?

[Saladin]

ill probably get the armybook for new background info, but i havent played a TT game in god knows when.

[Ulysses S. Grant]

I'm getting it. But only so i can continue using my Empire Army i made back in the day. Although those Demigryphs are tempting. They'd go well with Theodore Bruckner.

[Posantio of Umbria]

Looks nice. It baffles me that the Empire gets a Monster Cavalry unit though, but it is awesome anyway!

When I began playing Warhammer in 5th edition I chose Empire. Bad choice at the time because they were made of suck. Barely any special rules (the detachment rule was barely a rule at all at the time), average troops, no magic banners available for any infantry unit- not even for Reiksguard Foot knights (even F-ing GOBLINS got magic banners then)! If you wanted a 5th ed. Empire army to stand a chance on the tabletop you had to forego almost all "imperial" units and go for their auxiliaries instead (Ogres, Dwarves, halflings maybe Kislevites), add a death star of knights and a big battery of artillery and of course the steam tank... Not to mention being limited to the crappy Battle Magic deck (as opposed to High Magic, Necromancy, Dark Magic, etc.) if your opponent wouldn't allow the College Magic from the Magic supplement appendix.

Unfortunately, just as 6th ed. made Empire playable with a mostly human army, my WFB group gradually fell apart and I haven't played the game for years now (my mates probably lost interest because they couldn't beat me so easily any more )

about the Halfling Hot-pot: it was a fun little war machine from 5th ed. Not extremely powerful (s5 in the centre of the small blast template, s3 for the rest, no armour saves)... now I think of it, it was my first piece of artillry for warhammer as it was dirt cheap (in euro's) and it actually won me a battle against a Bretonnian Death Star army . A staple of my pre-6th ed. army, because I often had 50 points left to fill that 0-25% warmachines allowance

BTW: WTF happened to the pricing of GW? 30 euro's for Ludwig Schwarzhelm? True, he looks a bit bulkier than the one I got (5th ed. one), but that's an increase of 600% in 12 years!

[Bregil]

BTW: WTF happened to the pricing of GW? 30 euro's for Ludwig Schwarzhelm? True, he looks a bit bulkier than the one I got (5th ed. one), but that's an increase of 600% in 12 years!

One theory, that is gaining attention from many people these days is that it's part of an attempt to gradually consolidate all retail sales within the company and cut out the middle-men. If prices continue to go up (which has become an annual if not more frequent event) then 3rd party retailers will be much less inclined to stock their merchandise.

Admittedly it is just a theory but it's the only thing that even remotely seems to make sense as costs have certainly not increased at anywhere near the rate of the prices.

(Hopefully this post isn't viewed as problematic by the mods as it does somewhat cast a company in a negative light. If it is a problem, feel free to delete. )

[Grand Admiral Thrawn]

It's RESIN. And we all know that resin is more costly than plastic or metal (at least GW thinks like that).

[Ichon]

Well I am sure GW knows what their sales are at... as long as enough people buy despite the higher price they make more money even if a few less drop out at each price point. The only thing they really have to worry about is pricing enough people out that the gaming groups fall apart with too few people making armies to find matches. I enjoyed TT when computer games weren't that great but now in the much less free time I have compared to those days I'll play a game on the computer which takes me about 30 seconds to start vs the 20 minute drive to a match, 1 hour to setup 1 hour to play 30 minutes to clean up and 20 min drive back. 3 hours of my time where I could have already leveled up or completed a map etc in computer game. I think most of the people who are still playing GW are those who started young and now have the disposable income they don't really notice the price rises that much. I guess GW thinks they are not likely to get much of a new market with younger gamers even if they lowered prices so might as well milk the current generation and hope to make money off marketing the franchise digitally like Marvel is trying to do.