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I usually just buy it when theres something in it that interests me.. Way to overpriced to buy regularly IMHO.

I think if you pic up a white dwarf from 3rd edition 40k or even fantasy. Then you will see a decline in quality. Sometimes they push something good out put in the last year I haven't bought a white dwarf.

So... much.. advertising!

I used to buy them but now their is not much mention of my armies and Im getting sick of the GW propaganda

I'll start buying them again if they start putting masterclasses back in them.

I have bought exactly 4 issues. The first two were when they did the BA codex, which irked me to no end and ended up costing as much as a codex. The last two were for SoB, which irked me to no end and ended up costing as much as a codex. That being said it did get me to pay $40 dollars for their advertising and really bad advice, so I supposed that makes GW happy. I really think that it is a terrible deal since you are paying $10 to be advertised to, and the gameplay articles are worse than no advice, and the fluff articles are usually sub-par. Since the armies I play are BA (since the 3rd ed codex), SoB, and IG; I doubt that I will have to suffer through another WDcodex.


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Put a mini in every issue, just one random dude on his own sprue. The whole rag is pure profit anyhow.

At one time, bought every issue.

Then it became every other issue, every third/fourth/sixth month.

Now it's one every now and then. I think I'm up to one for this year so far.

I would love to put them in my bathroom, but White Dwarf is just to pricey for my taste. If they were just a few pounds/dollars cheaper i would buy for sure.

Deathshead420 wrote:I would love to put them in my bathroom, but White Dwarf is just to pricey for my taste. If they were just a few pounds/dollars cheaper i would buy for sure.

I'm not usually on the throne long enough to bother reading a WD.

Not that it takes me that long to read through it these days (my club has a subscription to it for some reason. Why buy it myself when some other schlub gets it and you can read theirs?)

You borrow your WD from him...cool Also I wouldnt take too long in the outhouse either with your funnel web spiders .

A friend of mine gave me a heap from about 1986 onwards and i love them i read them all the time

It ceases to be a GW moddelling magazine and has become a GW £4 advertisement.

I used to enjoy it, but now I hate it.

Read it off the store shelf. If it's an especially good month, I'll buy it for reading on the toilet.

When there are Tyranid articles.

I used to read it for the Call of Cthulhu articles. But that was a long time ago.

There doesn't seem to be a "I don't buy it, it doesn't interest me"/"Meh" option. I don't hate it. Do I consider it worth buying? No.

Used to have a subscription a while back. I dropped it when the price went up and the quality went down. I would pick one up every now and then when there was a decent 40K article. At one point I was even considering subscribing again when they changed the format. I decided to wait a few months to see if it was actually worth buing again. Thank God I did. They quickly proceeded to jack up the price ($9 an issue?!?!) and turn it into a 100+ page add for their overpriced models (with no prices BTW), a battle report with more typos than an illiterate monkey's book report and next to no coverage of their own events. Plus in their batreps, they routinely disregarded rules to make them more interesting. A Valkirye flies directly over a battlewagon to get a rear armor shot? They threw out the must remain more than 1" from an enemy unti rule.

Nozeminer wrote:Used to have a subscription a while back. I dropped it when the price went up and the quality went down. I would pick one up every now and then when there was a decent 40K article. At one point I was even considering subscribing again when they changed the format. I decided to wait a few months to see if it was actually worth buing again. Thank God I did. They quickly proceeded to jack up the price ($9 an issue?!?!) and turn it into a 100+ page add for their overpriced models (with no prices BTW), a battle report with more typos than an illiterate monkey's book report and next to no coverage of their own events. Plus in their batreps, they routinely disregarded rules to make them more interesting. A Valkirye flies directly over a battlewagon to get a rear armor shot? They threw out the must remain more than 1" from an enemy unti rule.

Flying vehicles are allowed to move directly over other units. (5th Ed Rulebook, page 71)

The missus got me a 12 month sub last Christmas, so ive read the last 12 issues, and it sucks hairy balls.

50% adverts, too much fantasy and Jervis writes absolute nonsense that is about as funny as a kick to the knackers.

I left them next to the toilet, but when I go to the bathroom I sit and read the shampoo bottles instead.

I don't think i have ever bought a WD, Most times the only thing good is a codex that gets thrown in, SOB/BA, Or the battle reports. Problem is though the battle reports are there just to show off the new models and doesn't do much in the way of helping people with anything other than seeing the new models. But this poll didn't have the choice of putting "I read free copies and never buy"

Wargames Illustrated still Dwarfs White Dwarf.

I have copies back to the 80s, with the odd gap, but my sub ended with the Necron catalogue and there's no way I'll ever renew it. I may be the only one, I've never seen the point of battle reports, they're so boring. Std Bearer is two pages of inane drivel which could be expressed in two lines and still wouldn't be interesting. I forget how many pages the directory got up to but I don't really need to give shelf space to a list of every GW shop everywhere every single month. Most of the photos of new miniatures are the same as those printed in the codices so you're paying twice. You never see any independent painting any more like Paul Benson's in the 80s. Conversions have died the death. That said, I've had my surfeit of GW now between the high prices and decreases in quality, so I've given up buying the miniatures as well as the magazine, I want something subtle and interesting, not something crass and commercial. Plus there's tonnes more on the internet which is better written, more informative and free.

I have a sub to it, but it's really not that great sometimes... I guess I'm a bit bias towards it.
When it's all fantasy (which it has been lately it seems) it pisses me off, because it's like WHERE THE FAWTY KAY?

But when it's all 40k, I have no complaint. I guess what I'm getting at is it's imbalanced the majority of the time.
I remember recently I went into GW and asked "I thought Lotr was making a come back, but there wasn't really anything in the latest WD?

To which the employee replied "Yeah there is!! There was that ... erm... Battle on er..."

To which I stepped into help and finish his sentence with "... Weathertop?"

"YEAH THAT!!" which made me laugh because it was like 3 pages of Lotr with nothing important... Infact the same thing that was in that WD had been published several times before in the past LOL.

Used to love White Dwarf and eagerly anticipate every issue. I liked the narrative battle reports, the equal treatment of all the games systems, extra rules and ideas, card buildings, counters, wargear cards, campaigns, well-written tactics articles, Index Astartes, the list goes on...

In fact, that made me think: Every now and again we used to get 'book' versions of 'White Dwarf Presents' or 'Index Astartes' or 'Chapter Approved'. Nothing recently. Why? No content.

The recent push on 'find out first in WD' (unless you're a subscriber aka con victim) feels like an artificial attempt to increase sales of a pointless product. Now it's nothing more than a badly-edited, irrelevant, glorified advertising pamphlet that appears to be aimed at 8-year olds... well... In all honestly there's cheaper ways to obtain toilet roll. The Sun, for instance.

What would make me change my mind? A few things:

1) frontal lobotomy
2) a reason to buy the magazine: some well-written articles not available on the internet
3) some actual depth and substance - not 'flavour of the month'
4) subscribers actually getting it early. subscription gifts (limited edition model that you DON'T have to pay extra for)
5) hell, just put card versions of the WFB magic decks in there, vehicle datacards... objective markers, spell effect markers... the odd free model even

Unfortunately, in the age of the internet, magazines have had their day unless they offer a truly compelling reason to read them. IMHO, WD does not.

too much of an ad. I mean if you're going to pay $9 you shouldn't get an ad.

two words: too expensive

for several years i bought every issue - then i realised, how much money i've spent - it would have been enough to buy myself a forgeworld thunderhawk....
Now i'm saving my money for minis (and larger models...)

Sadly it's just become one giant advert, interspersed with the odd article that I'm just not interested in at all. Now it's just BUY THIS NOW!, and don't forget to BUY THIS TOO!

Oh, and don't forget that LoTR still exists will you?



What happened to those epic 10 man Bat Reps and ATO4G's? Or proper, fleshed out articles with short stories and complete rule sets? Or awesome freebies like the Bugmans Brawl cut out card game? Or even the metal Necron? WTF happened!?.......

Haven't bought a copy since 2009ish. My bro buys the odd copy and if I'm feeling particularly masochistic, I'll flick through it whilst I'm on the throne...mostly cos I'm always running out of toilet paper.

Theres no fluff, mostly advertising. Ouch.

(Though 'eavy Metal is awesome! )

I'm lucky, in a way. I work in a store that gets White Dwarf every month, so I get to read them on shift, if it's worth buying I'll use my 20% off

I have 1 issue: 119. I may pick up the issue that had spearhead if I was convinced the article on modelling for the expansion was worth it.