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Miguelsan wrote:my FLGS decided to lose the F

I couldn´t play 40K with my proxy eldar army as the army was "very confusing" (sic) as I use Infinity and warzone minis (along with some heavily converted GW minis and tanks).

"lose the F"?

Actually, your proxy "Eldar" army *does* sound confusing.

I guessing it became a less than Friendly place for Lord Proxy, for whatever reason.

I mean, if you're buying Infinity and Warzone miniatures from them, why would they care?

Oh, wait a minute...

It´s simple they are trading the other lines in favor of GW so I´m not longer welcomed there unless I turn everything GW, as I hate the eldar look (except for the scorpions-predator-wannabes they are really cool and the tanks) and the point was about using my minis with a codex that fitted my play style I guess that I´m not going to change armies until something interesting like the DKK comes in plastic.

If you want to be anal about proxing it be my guest but I was answering to the suggestion of playing MINIATURES, not playing GW MINIS only.

M.

Okay, I'm back. Sorry for the lag, but Burning Man tends to cook your noodle quite a bit. I totally forgot I was going to come back and share this.

Since I haven't heard any OH GOD NO DON'T from the site admins, here's a RS of the Excel Spreadsheet:
http://rapidshare.com/files/145635153/USA_Trade_Info_09-08.xls.html

I don't know when the hike is effective, I might be too late with this info to be really "rumoured", but whatever. There it is.

In other news, I bought my first GW product in years recently - the Black Reach Box Set. Nice enough Orks, the SMs are disappointing, and OMGKOPTERS!! My current gf wants to put them together and play. Oh god, please don't let me get sucked into this game again...

grickherder wrote:

Kilkrazy wrote:

Squig_herder wrote:
Why are they still making matal models?

It's also partly due to economies of scale. A typical 5ed. army needs something like 40-80 basic troops, and only one commander, so GW can't sell a lot of commanders. Plastic is only cheap for mass production, because of the cost of the moulds.

They have made plastic commanders for a wide variety of armies now. Atleast the most popular ones. There's a plastic marines one. Chaos. On the fantasy side you'll find a couple as well. I also thought that the way to go would be to integrate them into existing sprues like they did with ripper swarms. A parter here and there where if you buy two troops choices worth of stuff, you'll be able to cobble together atleast a legal commander. For some armies, you can pretty much do this already.

Depends on the army. If you judge things by the latest releases you have plastic
High Elf leaders but metal Dark Elf and Vampire Count leaders. I have no clue
what Daemons of Chaos were made out of, nor what the Hordes of Chaos leaders
are made out of.

Although I don't like the price raises, I am happy that they aren't raising the prices on most of the Inquisition models. The Daemonhunter Inquisitor is already $15 for a human sized model.

I'm in the process of starting a sisters army and I was worried that I would have to get all my models within the next week or so to avoid the price raise. It turns out that I don't need to do that.

With the price increase hitting today, the price of the Space Marine Spearhead has shot up to $273. Normally I don't rant against GWs prices, but that is just insane.

double post

£15 for a codex.....

Scarecr0w14 wrote:£15 for a codex.....

Is the price they were when i first got into the hobby 10+ years ago...

My old ork codex still has the price label on it

Miguelsan wrote:It´s simple they are trading the other lines in favor of GW so I´m not longer welcomed there unless I turn everything GW, as I hate the eldar look (except for the scorpions-predator-wannabes they are really cool and the tanks) and the point was about using my minis with a codex that fitted my play style I guess that I´m not going to change armies until something interesting like the DKK comes in plastic.

If you want to be anal about proxing it be my guest but I was answering to the suggestion of playing MINIATURES, not playing GW MINIS only.

M.

So invite someone over, or go play at their house. If you're not at your local store you can play however you want.

On the other hand, if you're playing at your local store, then you abide by their rules. Your army does sound very confusing to play.

i never thought they were cheap. specially now. when i bought my first battle box set at 16 i paid like 70 bucks and got a TON of stuff for chaos. 2 squads of marines, a bike squad a berzerker squad a rhino and a lord. now id crap my pants if i saw then that cheap. i think its crazy i have to pay 30-35 bucks for a tactical squad. BUT i suck it up because i like playing and i REALLLY like modding

I stopped playing when I was 15 because it got too expensive and sucked up whatever cash I had at the time, but I wanted every model for whatever army I was putting together at any given time. Now I'm 27, have just took the plunge back into GW for the purpose of having a hobby other than getting pished and find that if I pace myself and buy one unit, by the time I've painted it up I can afford another one.

No denying that it's an expensive hobby, but I could spend £40 on a single Xbox game, £100 on a single night out, £60 on dinner and a movie or £45 for a weeks petrol so in perspective it isn't that bad unless you want a new army every month? 2nd Edition 40K was about £30-£35 quid and the plastic marines and orks in that were nothing compared to the plastic models I saw on my first foray for a decade in a GW store! (and I remember paying £6 for some blister packs back then!)