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What types of stores are near you?

Well, let's see.

I have the Games Workshop at Mountain Village nearby, and the Realm Games and Comics as well.

Here's ours.

http://www.gajominis.com/

Craig and Chris are great hosts. Lots of locals and a huge variety of games played. WHFB, WH40K, FOW, Warhammer Ancients, LOTR, Warmaster Ancients, Babylon 5, ATwhatever, FOW, Wings of War, and a huge variety of historicals.

There are a lot of hobby stores in my area that sell GW stuff. None of them are stupid enough to not be friendly. Some are certainly more receptive to the hobby, though.

by "near a non-GW games store" I mean half a dozen blocks away, even on the same street. Best part is, I moved into this particular residence before I even started wargaming! *hides from readers pelting him and his luck with garbage*

My non-gw FLGS closed down a few years back which pretty much coincided with my departure from the hobby. Then one day I had to get bored and peruse dakka only to find myself sucked back in. Unfortunately now the nearest LGS (hour drive) is the gw in glendale, which is apparently closing. I still get my modeling fix thanks to the warstore and maelstrom but I don't see myself learning the new ruleset anytime soon as there is apparently no local player base haha.

i live about 5 miles from a really good game store, and 10 miles from a terrible game store.
this is the good game store: http://empiregamesaz.com/

What do you mean by friendly and non-friendly?
Anyway, I have a gaming store about 13 kilometres from my house. Only a toy store with small amount of Warhammer there but hey, they got one copy of Space Hulk!

i would actually like a non GW store nearby, we do have a Hobbycraft which sells my other vice (flames of war) but its not really a gaming store.

No non GW stores for miles, unless anyone can point me towards any in Bucks/Berks UK? Getting kinda sick of answering never ending bombardment of questions from polite and well meaning but never the less slightly annoying GW staff at my local store!

The closest GW store to me is half a day's worth of driving away and I live in a city with over a million people.

However there are about a handful of indie stores one of which has about 10-15 tables.

The local game store by me is Gamers Haven at http://www.screamingdragon.com/

Friendly store with a fairly strong local following. You can find all of the various GW games played up there plus many historical miniature games such as DBA, Warhammer Historical, French & Indian war, ACW, FOW, WW2 in a variety of other rule sets. They also carry a huge selection of board games and allow the tables to be used for any board games that you have picked up there and usually it is possible to sit in on a game if you are curious about it and want to try it out before buying it.

I try to make sure I make all my purchases there as we have already lost one local store due to lack of sales and do not want to see this one go away. Remember to support your local game stores or you could end up in the basement with a lot of dusty models and no games.

I live in Nottingham 3 miles from Warhammer World and about 10 miles from Malestrom. I am blessed by the dark gods of gaming.

Closest "gaming store" may be 60 km away....

There are 2.5 gaming stores near me (I say .5 because one of them does not actively sell 'warhammer' models, hasn't held many tournaments for the miniatures games they do sell, but they do have a bunch of old codexes, which were fun to look at)

All three of these stores are ten miles away from me however, but that's not as bad as some areas. And no GW stores....I think the closest "Official" gw store around here is very far south of me.

Nearest offical GW store is in Chicago. We have a few gw retailer here in Kansas City Metro Area.

The Philadelphia area has a cornucopia of hobby shops, the closest being a pretty decent GW store in Voorhees (formerly the equally-decent Cherry Hill Mall store).

I'm in London, so there's Oxford St and Covent Gdn in the centre. The only other gaming store in central London is The Orc's Nest, and as well as not stocking GW, they definitely fall into the 'non-friendly' category....

I have one non-GW store (Tabletop Hobby and Game) 15 miles away from me. I've been a regular customer ever since they first opened in 1994, and they are a really great store. They have much more than just GW stuff, and I have a good relationship with them. They have a massive games room next to the shop and on Monday night it's crowded with people playing 40K. There is only one other gaming store in the KC metro area that sells GW stuff, and it's twice as far away. Last time I went there was to get the starter box for 4th edition WFB.
If a GW store opened up in the KC area, I would probably go in there once just to see how long it would take to get thrown out.

I live a ten minutes walk away from GW Bedford, the only problem is walking through town, as it is 2 minutes from my school, and so loads of my mates are there.

About a 20 minute drive to the local GW and a 5 minute drive to a FLGS that a friend and I help set up for gamers.

put down a friendly and an unfriendly.

They are a bunch of cool guys

But no one wants to play me because i play "cheese" XD

For some reason, armored company is frowned upon by the warhammer populous =/

The other guard players are always up for a fight, tho. they are the best lol

5-7 mins from my house.
http://changinghandsjoplin.com/home.html

1 hour (well worth the drive), Springfield, MO
http://www.mguinc.com

1 hour-ish (also worth the drive), Sprindale, AR
http://www.sooiehammer.com

Bout' 15 minutes away.
http://www.highoctanecomics.com/

Ryan (Owner) is a great guy and a buddy of mine for about 15 years or so. Runs a pretty good store, lots of good boxes in there all the time, and always has lots of non-GW 28mm stuff to use for bitz/counts-as/conversions

i am very happy to be a mile away from a GW store as well as a short drive to the battle bunker. great guys, great service. call me a crazy but forge world products 20 minutes away!!! Love it

i live like a 8 minute drive from a not gw store. That is strongly supports gw and privateer press. And a lot of good old fashion comics,
even better is that its in the same place as a no frills so i can shop for food and hobby supply.

I don't even want to discuss this....

Story of the nearest gaming store:

"Got any Warhammer 40k stuff?'

"Yah, I think we have some of that." *Leads me off into a dusty corner of the store*

I look at it, its mostly 2nd edition codexes and no miniatures.

"Here's some of the newer stuff I think." *Shows me.. 3rd edition stuff!*


Its scary there.

On top of that, all the paints in the store are dry... yeah...


No gamer should ever have to go through that horrible expierence!!!

I can walk to my gamesworkshop in10 min bike there in 5 min or driver there in 3min.

By "near a GW store," I mean about twenty minutes to half an hour away.

The closest thing is the not so friendly Toyworld in Armadale. Sure it is OK, but the owners could be more customer friendly.