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The Best 3 consistent white dwarfs were the release of the Imperial Assassins for 2nd edition. Now that was a magazine to wait on.

Boy, y'all are going to go off the deep end when you see Issue #350 is $9.00 American!
14th Cadian

The 'Stompa' UK issue was in my LGS today, that was £4.50. I may pick up the Imperial Guard release issue in May. It will be my first White Dwarf purchace since WD#303.

yeah,
Issue 351 is amazing for 40k fans...
biggest ever battle report with Four battlefields.. featuring 13 different stompas!

Panic...

NO WAY

Anything there for those 40K fans that don't particularly care for Apocalypse?

Bite your tongue!

How can anybody *not* appreciate the Orks getting a Titan or more Superheavy tanks for the Guard?

I bought #347 -#350 and just today got around to reading them.

Epic Fail.

Besides Stompa Battle Report and one tutorial on how to paint heads. Complete waste.

I will put my money towards figures.

JohnHwangDD wrote:Bite your tongue!

How can anybody *not* appreciate the Orks getting a Titan or more Superheavy tanks for the Guard?

Don't get me wrong, Superheavies are cool and everything, I just prefer regular 40K to it's Apocalyptic Brethren. If I want Titans & Baneblades, I'd rather dig out Epic.

Yeah, but Epic doesn't cover a board as viscerally as 40k.

Perhaps, but the scale makes (very slightly) more sense.

Oh, unquestionably so!

I like how Flames splits the difference at 15mm.

If I knew any local FoW players, I'd have an airlanding company all ready and waiting. Instead, I just finally ordered AoBR from the WarStore and am going all the way back to full 40Ker

I have collected every issue since #200, even buying duplicates of some.

Not wanting to break a 12-year run of continuity kept me buying the rag.

I gave up on it with the rediculous price increase ...

Now my blood pressure doesn't spike every month when it arrives and I wonder why I keep throwing good money away !!

So, to recap, "DON'T DO DWARF" ... avoiding it saves you money and is good for your health

$9.00 is far too much to spend on what has become more or less light bathroom reading. Sorry for the mental image but thats really all its good for.

Just think of all the other things you could purchase with that money.

Yeah, for 3 WDs, I can get me a Fire Warrior box or similar from an on-line retailer.

I was thinking more along the lines of a nice beer and a cheeseburger, but yeah, minis are good too .

So, lemme get this straight. It was $5 USD back in the early 2000's, then went to $6 USD by 2005(?). Now it jumped to $8 USD a year or so ago, then to $9 USD because of a poster in an issue or two ago and now a regular issue is stuck at $9 USD now? Nice stealth increase. Par for the course, again.

Sounds about right. Every time GW raises the price, fewer people buy. So to cover the fixed printing cost, GW needs to raise the price...

When i started buying white dwarf, a subscription (12 issues) was $50 and then $60 US dollars, and it came with a free box set up to $30 value. And the magazine was actually something worth owning/reading back then too!

Goon3423 wrote:$9.00 is far too much to spend on what has become more or less light bathroom reading. Sorry for the mental image but thats really all its good for.

Lol, there's a stack of WDs in my bathroom.

I haven't bought any new issues in awhile and have no plans too. There's just not enough good info in it. I also don't like the over enthusiastic cheerleading that goes on in the bat reps for whatever is new that month. It makes me feel like they are condescending me. In a hobby like this all they need to do is put some pretty pictures of finished models in there and I'm chomping at the bit to buy them anyway. When they have to tell me ad nausium how great everything is it kind of turns me off.

augustus5 wrote:

Goon3423 wrote:$9.00 is far too much to spend on what has become more or less light bathroom reading. Sorry for the mental image but thats really all its good for.

Lol, there's a stack of WDs in my bathroom.

I haven't bought any new issues in awhile and have no plans too. There's just not enough good info in it. I also don't like the over enthusiastic cheerleading that goes on in the bat reps for whatever is new that month. It makes me feel like they are condescending me. In a hobby like this all they need to do is put some pretty pictures of finished models in there and I'm chomping at the bit to buy them anyway. When they have to tell me ad nausium how great everything is it kind of turns me off.

Couldn't have put it better myself.

White Dwarf really isn't for people like us anymore- GW expects us to get our fix of hobby related reading and pretty pictures from websites like this, or their own one.

imho, the last 3 months have been a significant improvement on the last few years. They are still not as good as when I was young and everything was new and exciting, but there have been some good things recently and things like the stompa battle report, very in depth eavy metal stuff and slightly improved format have gone a long way towards helping me enjoy WD again.

That seems to happen a lot though. The issues start to get better for a few months then tank again. Then get better for a few months and...

I'd really like to see more hobby and painting content. I like the Masterclasses and I'd like to see some real battle reports with non-studio armies or cool campaigns.

When I can get through the magazine over my lunch break on the day that I get it, something is wrong.

There are people who actually buy WD?

I would make a joke that it sells faster than Sonic at my flgs, but unfortunately it doesn't sell at all. Surprised the guy running the store doesn't just stop trying to sell it.

It's not easy to generate a lot of good content for a magazine of WD's size unless you devote the proper amount of staff to it. So I'm not going to throw the editorial staff under the bus. They almost certainly have constraints they're dealing with. Given the size of the development team these days, I have to think the amount of time they have to contribute cool stuff for WD is much more limited than in years past.

On the price/strategy front, I think even GW has to know that something's broken with WD if it costs $9. I wonder what the strategy even is? I know they're targeting more of a beginner audience with it, but I'm not sure they'll get many subs from newbies at that price level.

Maybe they consider the mag as sort of an advertising buy at the newsstands, because otherwise they'd almost certainly kill the printed mag and take the thing online. Still, it's not like everyone is going to pick it up even if they see it on the rack. I'd guess that if you consider it advertising, it doesn't do terribly favorable CPM numbers compared to other forms.

Or maybe I'm wrong, I dunno. Or maybe WD doesn't make any financial or strategic sense but the mag sticks around due to nostalgia among the higher-ups. *shrug*

Ive been reading it for many many many years, ive always enjoyed it and still do. There is always something interesting to read and some great pics to drool over.

Yes its a GW advert but it is made by GW for the promotion of GW so its to be expected.

Its £4.50 which if you look at the cost of games mags etc is about the same.

I know im paddling against the tide but i just wanted to voice a positive view from a person who still gets excited when it arrives.

Da Boss wrote:White Dwarf really isn't for people like us anymore- GW expects us to get our fix of hobby related reading and pretty pictures from websites like this, or their own one.

Well, I'll throw this out. There are a lot of Indy GT's out there, aren't there some Indy Online Mags out there on this Interweb thing? There's blogs galore from former GW staffers that got their walking papers as well as ardent hobbyists. Pity we can't pool them all together and come up with an Indy Mag. Pretty sure it would get shut down by the suits at GW Legal, but it's kinda nice to think of what could be.