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Well, I'd never give money direct to GW, not when I can get it cheaper from Wayland, Darksphere or Element.

However, the things that would get me to buy a bunch of GW products (as opposed to splitting limited funds between GW, Malifaux, Infinity, Deadzone and misc stuff). All of this is assuming that the kits are quality and the prices post-discount aren't insane:

30K plastic kits. Just a Tactical Squad or two, to bulk out my Anvil HH minis.

The Harlies did rather spectacularly leapfrog my to-buy queue. I only bought one box, but that's still more than I was planning on spending on GW over others.

Possibly some Ad Mech, depending on style and how much I'd need for a decent force.

Most of all, although least likely given the precendent: plastic, varied and reasonably priced The Hobbit minis. From the last film, we're still missing Iron Hills Dwarves, Mirkwood Elves, Gundabad Orcs and a handful of other stuff.

Kroot Mercenaries!

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

Deathwatch.

It's not fair...

This. This has my vote.

Additionally: Thousand Sons (both GW and Forgeworld)

A new starter/2 player set without featuring anything related to the IMPERIUM OF MAN at all

A full on Adepta Sororitas update with a new proper codex and new plastic models. A squad which can be made into battle sisters,dominions etc and new Seraphim. New Cannoness maybe even a new model for Saint Celestine i think they could make her look amazing now befitting her status as a saint.

Also would love a campaign supplement involving Asdrubael Vect with a new model for him and updated rules. Also including rule tweaks for other Dark Eldar units like Wyches to make them more useful again. Some tweaks to Vect partner in crime Lelith Hesperax would be good too in the fluff she's such a badass but her rules give her a lack of options and influence on the table. She's supposed to be this character everyone loves and fights over having her in their raid so maybe they could add some buffs to nearby units who can fight near her. Mostly I'd just like Vect back but they could pull off a really cool campaign too. Actually make the campaign opposites Adepta Sororitas and i will never have money again XD.

A working ruleset.

They can live up in their ivory tower for all I care, but give me a ruleset which isn't hot gak, or boxed cancer and I would be willing to buy GW product again.

Granted, that will likely only happen if they come down from their ivory tower, thus it will never happen with the current management.

As for models?

Truth be told there is little in the current GW model range which I really want, but some resculpted Cadians would be very nice. Sontarans are better proportioned.

1: Bring back other games in the universe. I already have seven 40k armies, I have no interest buying anything other than the occasional single purchase of a squad or vehicle. But I would love to be able to buy Epic or BFG again, or something similar that allows me to enjoy the universe.

2: A better business model when it comes to prices. This practice of ever increasing prices is absolutely ludicrous. 30 dollar monopose characters, Finecast costing more than other companies metal models, when the change to Finecast was supposed to be driven by high metal prices. More and more giant 70 dollar kits. Halving squad boxes but keeping the prices the same is a 100% price hike? What the hell is up with this company?

3: Stop giving me a patched-together dinosaur of a ruleset, bloated with tons of tacked on special rules for everything, if you want me to play with the 'best models on Earth'.

I want to feel like GW wants my business, but right now it feels like they think they deserve my business and I should be happy with what they throw at me.

I am a 20 year customer of GW, and right now they just make me sad and nostalgic for years past.

And yeah. Let me play my Kroot Mercs and 13th Company again. When I spend hundreds of dollars on an army, I don't want to hear that later I can't play with them any more. Yes, I will feel for the Warhammer players this summer. Sorry, guys....

As far as classic games I'd love for them to bring back Necromunda and Warhammer Quest. Necromunda especially was a cool idea and i liked the cyberpunk aesthetic collecting all the gangs. It was released with a bunch of gang squad boxes then an expansion and supplement came and it just vanished shortly after. I liked some of their skirmish and board game releases they were fun to play on a night where you didn't want to set up a huge game that takes forever just to get started. They did Space Hulk so i have hope they might do some special release of other games.

If I felt like warhammer was more supported with events, tournaments, and greater care in game balance similar to say, magic the gathering, I'd be a lot more in it as far as the wallet goes.

Give me back my beloved Battlefleet Gothic you heartless swines and Epic (Space Marine)...wait, Mordheim as well!

multi-kits and Horus heresy My wife would hate.
Sisters, Squats and deathwatch I'll Take 8!

 Hive City Dweller wrote:
Plastic Sisters: That most desired and sought after dream of many a wargamer, it seems to me a no-brainer that this release would make GW a whole lot of money. With a few troop boxes and a few characters these are high on my list of wants.

I couldn't agree more. :-)

Ork plastic kits.

Plastic sisters of battle.

A Black Templars supplement.

Re-done crisis suits would be great, the current models are really showing there age. I wouldn't mind them re-doing FWs as well.

Re-Release and keep supporting Epic and Gothic.

I would probably jump on a 6mm fantasy battle game. Warmaster with plastics would be okay.

The only money that I've dropped on models in the past year has been on Revell aircraft that I tried to convert for 40k and about $70 on Dreamforge/Wargames Factory.

There's no reason to shell out $35 for 10 guardsmen when I can get 30 Russian soldiers or 20 Eisenkern Stormtroopers for the same price and quality. No one in my gaming group has any problem with those stand-ins and I have more than enough bits to add some 40k flavor.

Same is true for paints, I'm getting 8x as much paint for the price buying store-brand acrylics. If I were hardcore I could still get a deal on model paints at 2x, but I'm fine with the stuff I've got.

As for books, they'd have to end the crazy rules bloat, get some decent internal balance, and slash the price by 30%. I've got some old 3rd edition codices and every page is interesting, exciting, or has paint/modelling tips. All in about 60 pages. Trying to read through the new codices, they're bloated with arcane rules and fluff that is really scraping the bottom of the barrel. They just kept cramming in more and more and no one bothered to edit out the trash.

I honestly think a lot of the new models look fantastic. The new Tyranids and Dark Eldar look amazing. The new Space Wolves look goofy, but whatever. A new look on some of the IG tanks would be welcome, but I've got enough tanks for now. So what would it take to make me say "shut up and take my money"? It would take an across the board 30% price cut. More than once I've convinced myself to buy something, gone to the store, held the box in my hand, looked at the price, and just couldn't bring myself to buy it. I've found great deals from stand-ins and old models, no amount of new releases could get me to shell out until their prices are competitive.

TLDR: 30% price cut.

/rant

Addendum: or a new Mordheim/Necromunda/BFG release.

Reboot of Necromunda or Warhammer Quest would have me throwing money at them.

A 28mm inquisitor style game would too.

Plastic Sisters would probably see me start 40K again.

Odds and ends miniatures:
Hab complex buildings.
General citizens miniatures.
Administration menial.
Arbites vehicles, troops.
An equivalent of a bus... hehe...
To flesh out engagements, innocent bystander stats and rules.
It would round out many possible scenarios people would want to play.

A good, solid, CSM book in the vein of the current Space Marine codex, with solid Legion traits and less of the "random because CHAOS" and WHFB importations would be one.

I second a Templars Supplement. That would kick start some other purchases too, no doubt.

I also second non-imperial terrain. There's so much of the 40k universe that hasn't been represented yet (ork war camps, eldar craft worlds, death worlds). A good battle mat would be great too. I'm not going to pay hundreds of pounds for that realm if battle stuff.

 BlaxicanX wrote:
1500 points of a combined-arms detachment legal army for under 300 bucks.

Anything more costly and I'll just stick to Dawn of War and playing the TT online.

Like I'm doing now.

Step 1: Buy Dark Vengeance box.

Step 2: Mix and match bitz so that the Dark Angels become "Fallen Angels".

Step 3: Add a few units to taste. You'll still be under $300.

Step 4: ???

Step 5: PROFIT.

There's several GW kits that I'd love to get my hands on. I have my hands in 9 armies (variant of Ultramarines, Grey Knights, Imperial Guard, Tyranids, Necrons, Eldar, Tau, Orks and Chaos Marines for my son). I've been collecting Space Marines since Rogue Trader, started picking the Tau up in 4th ed and the rest in 5th. The last thing I picked up was an Imperial Knight. But until they drop their prices 50-60% of the ludicrous hike they've sent them to, I won't be buying anything ever again.

The new Necron codex has already done that.


A Silent King Supplement and model would also have the same outcome.

#1. Lower prices, maybe have a high (current) price release period centered on paying for the molds, then lower it once they pay for the mold - maybe number each kit and give the customer a nice thankyou note for supporting the new range, that way the collectors get what they want, and the rest of us get a break.

#2. New plastic IG, seriously we (IG players) all thought we would get a new line of infantry this edition, not the Tonka special and a nerfed Hydra

#3. Plastic sisters - with allied detachments they go from being a cool army to a cool army most of us could afford to tack on for big games.

New DKoK Grenadiers? No reason to reboot the kit, but I'd get it in a heartbeat.

Black Templars Space Marine supplement. Bive me back my Holy Hand Grenade!

 kronk wrote:
Black Templars Space Marine supplement. Bive me back my Holy Hand Grenade!

Obviously you used it up. There is only 1 remember.

Terrain sets that are not imperial

Plastic Sslyth, and Grotesques. Which doesn't seem so outlandish, the Sslyth have been out of stock for months and an email to Geedubs has revealed they have no restock date. Maybe a sign of things to come whenever DE get a random model drop.

Yeah Imperial terrain is way overdone, and one of the reasons it should be outlawed to take things like the Aegis. Having other factions get terrain choices that fit their army would be big.

1. Hurd/ Space Skaven for 40K

2. Sisters getting an official dex and new kits

3. Chaos Space Marines getting a book that didn't suck.(Also drop the name Helbrute. It's a Chaos Dreadnought. Seriously.) But yeah, that 3.5 dex? And I have it with the cool chaos dinobots added in too?

4. Unlikely as the Browns winning a Super Bowl, but a furry/cat race a la Kilrathi or Kzinti for 40K. That I'd plop down every model I have in my GW collection to get.