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H.B.M.C. wrote:I don't think points costs = $$$.

And nor should it ever.

I completely agree.

What if GW suddenly made a rules change and made gretchin the most powerful unit in the ork army? Would those tiny models with no options really be worth 50$+ a box?

I see plastic in a box. More plastic, more money. Thats the way it should be.






...course, I still buy the junk.

nyyman wrote:Has there been typo and been fixed of Epic Bunkers, or why I see only 5.85 as the price...

Awwww! Forge World has removed my winning entry! (anyone from dakka try to order it? )

However the truth shall live in through my sig! We must never forget!

Space Marine bikes are rather disproportionately priced. £6 for a model that's only a bit tougher than a normal marine and can move a bit further. A "Space Marine Bike Squad" is a staggering £25 for three tiny bikes! Actually they are coming into line with normal marines only because the normal marines have shot up in price. I remember when bikes were £5 each and a box of 10 Marines was £10. No wonder there were so few Ravenwing armies. Bikes have sucked since they lost their datafaxes in 3rd edition. Reduced to infantry that move a bit further. The kit is as old as the hills and could do with a new release. Worse still was the way they bulk out the original Space Marine Battle force with a load of expensive bikes when what you really needed was lots of Marines.

FreekyE wrote:

H.B.M.C. wrote:I don't think points costs = $$$.

And nor should it ever.

I completely agree.

What if GW suddenly made a rules change and made gretchin the most powerful unit in the ork army? Would those tiny models with no options really be worth 50$+ a box?

I see plastic in a box. More plastic, more money. Thats the way it should be.





...course, I still buy the junk.

That's the way it SHOULD be... it isn't though. Or, rather, not entirely.

Epidemius

Azhag, terminators and War Hydra.

Trick question -


Everyhting is the most overpriced lol.

RogueMarket wrote:Trick question -

Everyhting is the most overpriced lol.

Everything IS overpriced, but only one can claim the title of MOST overpriced.

Azhag is pretty bad.

Howard A Treesong wrote:Space Marine bikes are rather disproportionately priced. £6 for a model that's only a bit tougher than a normal marine and can move a bit further. A "Space Marine Bike Squad" is a staggering £25 for three tiny bikes! Actually they are coming into line with normal marines only because the normal marines have shot up in price. I remember when bikes were £5 each and a box of 10 Marines was £10. No wonder there were so few Ravenwing armies. Bikes have sucked since they lost their datafaxes in 3rd edition. Reduced to infantry that move a bit further. The kit is as old as the hills and could do with a new release. Worse still was the way they bulk out the original Space Marine Battle force with a load of expensive bikes when what you really needed was lots of Marines.

The price of normal marines haven't shot up. I was looking over a retailer's catalog from back when the third edition Tyranids codex came out - they were advertising their "new" plastic warriors! Tactical marines were still $35, just as they are now. The rulebook was actually more expensive then too. I'll see if my FLGS will let me take that catalog for the sake of it.

To your point though, I really don't like how bikes are $15 for a model with literally no options, and not much plastic. Someone mentioned that the Space Marine Commander was a rip off for the same price, and I sincerely disagree given the crazy amount of bits in there. That's a kit I don't mind dropping 15 buckeroos for.

Brother SRM wrote:

Howard A Treesong wrote:

The price of normal marines haven't shot up. I was looking over a retailer's catalog from back when the third edition Tyranids codex came out - they were advertising their "new" plastic warriors! Tactical marines were still $35, just as they are now. The rulebook was actually more expensive then too. I'll see if my FLGS will let me take that catalog for the sake of it.

Dude -- that is just plain wrong. I moved to this country about 7 or 8 years ago and they were $25 per box of 10. That was 3rd ed rules.

Hmm well my 'most overpriced' award goes to the Kroot Warsphere.
At $110 Australian (which with the current Exchange rate is 100 US dollars, even though someone else here says it only costs them 66 dollars us) its DAMN EXPENSIVE

Also the Blood Knights - at $150 AUS for 5 compared the DE or Chaos Heavy cavalry at $40

Brother SRM wrote:The price of normal marines haven't shot up. I was looking over a retailer's catalog from back when the third edition Tyranids codex came out - they were advertising their "new" plastic warriors! Tactical marines were still $35, just as they are now. The rulebook was actually more expensive then too. I'll see if my FLGS will let me take that catalog for the sake of it.

To your point though, I really don't like how bikes are $15 for a model with literally no options, and not much plastic. Someone mentioned that the Space Marine Commander was a rip off for the same price, and I sincerely disagree given the crazy amount of bits in there. That's a kit I don't mind dropping 15 buckeroos for.

Don't know much about American pricing. But when they released the new multipart plastic Marines that came with the 3rd ed release, they were £10 for a box of 10. Bikes were £5 then. All the regiment boxes were £10, such as the 20 man skeleton regiment, and so were the multi-part empire regiments, choice of halberds or swords. I think they have been discontinued now, but with metal parts they also released empire handgunners and crossbow regiments too. It was a pretty good time to be buying stuff because you could build up a large number of troops for a reasonable amount of money, this was when I was at my height of buying GW stuff. Warhammer Siege and Dogs of War had been released and Gorkamorka was our game of choice.

Quite quickly those £10 boxes went up to £12, and then eventually £15, and then £18. I know 3rd edition was a few years ago, but that's some inflation.