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Here are some relevant facts...

Tom Kirby GW C.E,O and chairman stated GW '..is in the buisness of selling toy soldiers to children...'

The release schedule is set by GW sales department .NOT the studio.

The GW game development team is told to write rules to 'inspire sales of new models.'

The fact the 40k rule set is such a mess, over complicated and counter intuitive.(Despite the game play being comparatively simple.)
Means the development team is at a massive disavantage at trying to arrive at any sort of balance.(Not aided by minimal play testing.)
And so often fail to make the rules 'inspiring' enough for competetive players to take.(Do not judge the level of power needed accurately enough.)

However, they do seem to believe enough 'cool sounding special rules' will inspire the rest of the customers!

Maybe I misunderstood the steam roller 2013 rules but I think that now you are limited from having the common models in both of your tournament lists. If this is a case then it is a huge requirement to buy more models in order to comply with the rules.

JWhex wrote:
Maybe I misunderstood the steam roller 2013 rules but I think that now you are limited from having the common models in both of your tournament lists. If this is a case then it is a huge requirement to buy more models in order to comply with the rules.

Only FA:C models. Which basically just means the occasional solo and unit can't be repeated. You're also not required to actually bring two lists in most tournaments (rather, you're not required to play both, which amounts to the same thing).

GW have outright said they only make rules to sell models.

Other games (where wargear is fixed) require actual tactics and strategy.

40k, spend enough money in the right places and very little actual tactical knowledge of the game is needed.

Haha that is so true of MTG. I've been clean for 2 years now.

Vermillion wrote:

Saldiven wrote:
Well, it isn't a miniatures game, but Magic: the Gathering will eat up your money if you're wanting to stay competitive. It's even worse if you decide you want to get into the Modern or Legacy formats, or if you're the "flavor of the month" type player.

Here's an example of a hypothetical deck that would cost over $7,000 to build with average condition cards:

http://magic.tcgplayer.com/db/deck.asp?deck_id=732125

Oh yeah MTG, it's like warhammer 40k, only more expensive and a lot more addictive . Been clean for years now, but have fond memories of playing with friends around 15 years back

With 40k I suppose the reasoning is that in order to sell more kits they encourage the kitbashing option, or only have certain options as expensive kits eg: land raider.

Yeah I find it really annoying how there are some really competitive options in the game and I can think of them easily, its just absolutley ridiculoous the amount of money you would need to spend to field them sometimes. It would be one thing if it was all just due to manufacturing costs that are out of their control but GW blatantly sells things for more just because they're new or effective or because they know you need them to play. For example: Land raiders cost 60$ Stormravens cost 100$ even though theres barely any more material or processing involved. I still love the game and I don't really want to stop playing it but it would be nice if GW wasn't so obviously disrespectful towards their customers and if they actually made an effort to support people who want to play the game. 80$ core rule book, 40-60$ codex is ridiculous, most best selling 600 page novels cost 20$ at the most.