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  • #95832
    Avatar photoDeleted User
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    Hello.

    Short story, didn’t buy anything GW for many years, for many reasons.

    I’m interested in their upcoming Adeptus Titanicus though, purely for the scale they chose, 8mm. Considering back in the days their Epic 40k introduced me to 6mm and after it died, pushed me to explore other avenue for 6mm gaming.

    This time I read that they will be using 8mm and wonder if this will cause the market to shift to 8mm or is it just to keep up with scale creep (most 6mm minis are 7-8mm now). I don’t doubt it’ll be more detailed than 6mm, but at what price? As usual I’m only interested in the infantry so they wouldn’t be getting my money anytime soon.

    What about ya’ll, is GW out of your system? Or are they still influencing you somehow?

    #95845
    Avatar photoThaddeus Blanchette
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    Well, there is this…

    http://leadnobleed.blogspot.com/2018/07/althoughtoday-i-am-scornful-of-games.html

    We get slapped around, but we have a good time!

    #95848
    Avatar photowillz
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    I have not bought any GW figures for many years but I still buy their ink washes and liquid green stuff.

    #95854
    Avatar photoMike
    Keymaster

    I have not bought any GW figures for many years but I still buy their ink washes and liquid green stuff.

    Mostly this. I can be impatient sometimes and rather than wait a few days and pay postage I will sometimes pop into GW to get the things now.

    #95855
    Avatar photoTony Hughes
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    Never bought from GW.

    Not because of any particular prejudice but simply because they don’t make anything that interests me.

     

    #95860
    Avatar photoGuy Farrish
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    Paints, occasionally.

    Otherwise as Tony above.

    My wargaming predates GW, so I have no ‘fuzzy memories’ to bring me ‘back’ to them.

    #95861
    Avatar photoNot Connard Sage
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    Haven’t bought anything from GW in decades. Can’t see that changing.

     

    Obvious contrarian and passive aggressive old prat, who is taken far too seriously by some and not seriously enough by others.

    #95862
    Avatar photodeephorse
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    Not since they ruined everything I enjoyed playing.

    Play is what makes life bearable - Michael Rosen

    #95871
    Avatar photoirishserb
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    They have pretty much lost me as a customer.  They don’t currently make anything that I have a use for, though there are things that they used to make, that I would buy (well, maybe, depending on price), if they were available today.

    #95875
    Avatar photoGone Fishing
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    If they re-released some of the old Warhammer figs from the 80s and early 90s I might seriously consider it. Otherwise their games leave me cold. When WFRP was first released I thought it had a great setting: the whole corrupt, renaissance, German/Empire vibe was quite brilliant, a fresh take from the more shiny American view of things, but it quickly went downhill from there – an overemphasis on Chaos (the horror! the horror!), pus, boils and spilling intestines (not to mention endless skullz and spikes) gets old, quickly. It all ended out sounding extremely juvenile.

    I do use their paints and washes though!

    #95876
    Avatar photoAutodidact-O-Saurus
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    Never. I’ve yet to see them do anything that remotely interests me.

    Self taught, persistently behind the times, never up to date. AKA ~ jeff
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    #95893
    Avatar photoAlan Hamilton
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    Bought nothing (except an occasional paint) for decades directly from them.  Once in a while bought a second hand figure or two until about 3 years ago when I bought “The Hobbit – Escape from Goblin Town” set after my grandson and I played a couple of introductory games and enjoyed them.  We still play the game.

    #95894
    Avatar photokyoteblue
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    Some paint and washes, nothing else I would game with.

    #95899
    Avatar photoOB
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    What KB said.

    OB
    http://withob.blogspot.co.uk/

    #95901

    Never appealed to me.

    #95907
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    Seems GW paint are pretty popular, I also heard good things about their washes, are they that good? One thing that annoyed me about their paint is the names, I think they’ve changed the names of their colors at least 3 times now.

    #95912
    Avatar photoEtranger
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    Occasionally I’ll pick up some of their washes, although I’ve more or given up with all the name changes. I bought a little bit of the Lord of the Rings range for the kids, but they weren’t interested in it.

    I bought quite a bit of stuff back when they carried other game ranges eg for Traveller, but that’s getting on for 40 years ago.

    #95927
    Avatar photoAbwehrschlacht
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    I played Warhammer and 40K when I was a teen because it’s what everyone else was playing. No one else was interested in Napoleonics apart from me, so in order to get a game I had to play. Nowadays I only very occasionally call in to get Nuln Oil Wash, but baulk at the price…

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    #95928
    Avatar photoRuarigh
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    I’ve not bought anything from Games Workshop since they stopped stocking other people’s games. GW products just don’t interest me.

    Never argue with an idiot. They'll only drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

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    #95931
    Avatar photoPhil Dutré
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    I was a GW junkie during the late 80s, early 90s. Didn’t know anything else. GW introduced me to miniature wargamimg.

    I haven’t played a GW game in the last 20 years or so. Simply doesn’t appeal to me anymore. Ugly miniatures, juvenile setting,  a style of gaming that is not my approach to wargaming.

    I still buy paints from them, and buy oldhammer stuff on 2nd hand sites.

    #95936
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    Last time I bought something from them was when they were Citadel … I simply refuse to pay the prices they demand.

    I have 28mm sci-fi & 28mm fantasy, none of it bought new from GW, most of it isn’t GW, but there are some genestealers from bring’n’buys

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    #95944
    Avatar photoDarkest Star Games
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    I played 40k through 2nd ed and a few 3d ed games, but gave up on it.  Rules sucked and the player base became the worst sort of gamers.  And since GW no longer suppors the games that I did enjoy, there is little they have to offer me.  As most above, now I do occasionally buy some paints and inks (though the Reaper paints are far superior) and sundries.  The last figures I bought were for playing the Rogue Trader RPG from Fantasy Flight games, which we approached as though it were a BBC sci-comedy like Red Dwarf, made it good fun.

    Now, 2 years ago I apparently got a little into the drinksies at a convention and bought an Imperial Knight because I had some grand plan that I espoused to a buddy.  Neither of us remember what that plan was, so it sits in a box on my shelf and may one day get built, painted, and sold.

    "I saw this in a cartoon once, but I'm pretty sure I can do it..."

    #95945
    Avatar photoPaul
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    Guess I am in the minority, but I do occasionally buy GW miniatures.

    40K – Never play 40K, occasionally play Shadow Wars: Armageddon, but the rules are rubbish and it is just an excuse to get the models and buildings on the table.

    Fantasy/AOS – Never played and no interest in doing so, but I have small numbers of the miniatures that I use for Frostgrave.

    Bloodbowl – I own three teams, which will see the table one day.

    Dreadfleet – Bought the boxed set a few years ago because the ships are beautiful. I painted about half of them and lost interest, but intend to complete them one day.

    However, most of the above – probably 95% – was bought second hand. Most of the remainder was actually bought by me for my wife for birthdays and Christmas – she has no interest in historical stuff, so prefers to buy me GW stuff.

    I have been threatening to convert Bolt Action rules to 40K and bully some of my mates into playing just so that the toys can get to the table. Yes, the setting is juvenile, but there is something about the bleakness of it that appeals to me, and I really enjoy scratchbuilding gothic buildings.

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    #95960
    Avatar photoMr. Average
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    I like their washes and their basing materials.  The washes dry very flat, in contrast to a lot of others, and gives very good results.  They also seem easier to apply in detail, to me, so that I don’t have to just slosh inks all over the place and hope for the best.  As for miniatures, the Epic stuff was all I ever really liked, and I like Vanguard’s 3mm’s way more than I ever liked GW Epics, so I’m happy to forego the new Adeptus Titanicus game, though the rules alone, if ever available, might be of some interest.

    #95961
    Avatar photoLes Hammond
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    Some daft figure height like 8mm is not going to tempt me into a GW outlet.

    6mm France 1940

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    #95975
    Avatar photoDerek H
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    I regularly use some of their paints and washes.  Their base colours are very good at giving  coverage for reds and yellows in particular.   Have just bought their latest version of Kill Team and some new big style Space Marines in the hope of getting some games with my son.

     

    #96017
    Avatar photoSane Max
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    I infrequently buy paints. I have occasionally bought one of the Big Boxes if I reckon I can make a killing by painting and then selling the contents.

    Last time I bought a GW figure for my own pleasure I still worked for them.

    Pat

    #96021
    Avatar photoA Lot of Gaul
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    The only thing I have ever purchased from GW was one of the old Citadel Battlemats. Absolutely love it, best gaming mat I have ever purchased.
    None of their miniatures, paints or other products have ever interested me.

    "Ventosa viri restabit." ~ Harry Field

    #96025
    Avatar photoMcKinstry
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    Paints and washes for sure. If they ever bring back BFG or Man O’War, I will probably dip a toe back in the pool.

    The tree of Life is self pruning.

    #96044
    Avatar photoThuseld
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    I buy their washes because they work well for me, and have improved the sexiness of my miniatures. I buy their Citadel paints purely because they fit best in my modelling box. If Vallejo paints fit better, I would be buying those more, but right now they are relegated to a secondary box that doesn’t always make it out of the cupboard.

    #96051
    Avatar photohammurabi70
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    Never purchased any products, which appear overpriced compared to the general market.   6mm is a well-established market, 8mm much less so.  Existing 6mm manufacturers will be unmoved and so, I imagine, will their customers.

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    #96052
    Avatar photoDarkest Star Games
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    If they ever bring back BFG

    They’ve made a video game of it.  It’s not bad, and you can level up your ships allowing you too add some nifty things to them.  Can even play head-to-head against a friend.  gets a little click heavy, but I have enjoyed it.

    "I saw this in a cartoon once, but I'm pretty sure I can do it..."

    #96054
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    I have two thoughts about their move to 8mm, first is they are calling 6mm for what it really is and setting it up to creep up to 10mm. Secondly is more sinister, with their move to secure their IP I think they are trying to deny other manufacturers a foot in their pool by making 6mm in compatible (in size or detail) with their new scale.

    Considering the most of the 6mm scifi minis began as replacements for Epic 40k when they discontinued it, I wonder if the market in what-ever-GW-makes might be big enough to kick start 8mm all by itself.

    #96130
    Avatar photojohn farquhar
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    I’v not bought anything from games workshop since the late 80’s . I stopped buying from them when they moved away from actual roleplaying games .

    I do have a GW miniature collection but it’s all vintage and bought second hand .

    The range that they have now does’nt interest me plus it’s pretty much mass produced plastic . Not to mention very fagile and expensive but thats what it’s all about getting kids to spend as much money as possible .

    #96143
    Avatar photoMr. Average
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    I’ll say this about GW paints though – they’re very spilly. I frequently lose more inks and washes due to upended pots than any other reason. Especially with the hinged lids – super annoying.

    #96145
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    I’ll say this about GW paints though – they’re very spilly. I frequently lose more inks and washes due to upended pots than any other reason. Especially with the hinged lids – super annoying.

    That happened to me several years ago I now have a pot glued to a square base and I decant my ink wash into that.

    #96149
    Avatar photoPatrice
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    I’ve lots of the old Citadel Goblins – those who looked naturally stupid but also good-humoured, before GW made whole units who were all the same and looked stupid for commercial reasons. I also have some old second-hand WH40K guards, etc, which I intended to use with some other sci-fi rules.

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    #96156

    When it fiirst came out, I invested heavily in Space Marine.  The plastic infantry boxes (starter forces really) were well worth it at only $10 at the time.  I think their were 3-4 sprues of stuff in each box which gave you several platoons of this and several platoons of that.  Lighter forces to be sure but that was that.  Then, with the 2nd edition came more detail and a quarter of the forces for the same price.  You got 1 sprue for $10.  The blisters seemed to increase in price as well.  With the end of that product came the end of Epic for me.

    Back in the 90s, I bought some paints at half price from GW because a friend worked at a store and he was able to use his discount for me.  I liked them so well that I continued to use their paints for many years after.  When the line changed to its current iteration, I slowly backed away and started using Vallejo paints.  At one point, I was desperate for some primer.  I was looking for Armoury Black primer but the hobby shop did not have it.  So I was going to bite the bullet and buy GW primer, a pretty good product.  But at $18 a can, I just couldn’t do it.

    GW has been gone from my system as a gaming company for many years now.  The paint line left my system  about 5 years ago (I think) and I’ve never looked back.

    John

    "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

    --Abraham Lincoln

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