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I spy a monopoly board.

Yeah,

two_heads_talking wrote:...you have everything you need... (except the trees and the buildings.. and the ...... ok, I'll stop.. )

but GW wants to sell you every thing you need. Like i said the hills all stack and are easy to transport.
IF I had their modular table i could put the other stuff in a second bag and take everything where ever I'm going...

except I mostly play at home...

ShumaGorath wrote:I spy a monopoly board.

Girlie says all my gaming has to fit onto those shelfs...

Panic...

Edited: for quotes...

To reiterate what I said in another thread, and to show GW its just as easy for a consumer to cancel an order as it is for GW to continually raise the price of that order several times before it is even released...

I just cancelled my preorder.

$200 was too expensive, but this.... There is no way in hell I can abide that. No Way In Hell.

Panic wrote:

Girlie says all my gaming has to fit onto those shelfs...

You got the wrong girlie then...

the US GW site is finally back up. and it's got this board on there for $290!!!

Yep. Completely ridiculous.

Not to mention that you dont even get free shipping.

Nope. Add another $15 chumps.

They are now officially 150 quid on the UK site.

175 was awesome, 200 was decent, but what in the world causes a +$90 price jump?

I'm fairly new to this hobby, and I'm getting shocked day by day by Games Workshop's business methods.

And their excuse is it was a misprint in the White Dwarf and an early Xmas catalogue (which must mean the one they gave out at Games Day about the boards...).
Could it be that pre-orders were below 50% expected in the UK and even less in the US so the price is increased to make up the shortfall?
Mick

Well they have one less preorder now, so they can continue to jack up the prices for all I care.

I think they were reading this post when they changed the price, and all the complaints convinced them to make it $290 instead of $300. it's actually quite a bargain now!

Necros wrote:I think they were reading this post when they changed the price, and all the complaints convinced them to make it $290 instead of $300. it's actually quite a bargain now!

Hahahaha!

BrookM wrote:Well crap, I'll have to look at the girl really sad for the coming months if I want one of these

Are you married? You must do what all married men do in such circumstances.

1. Buy a nice present for her.
2. Obfuscate. (http://mw1.m-w.com/dictionary/obfuscate)

Kilkrazy wrote:

BrookM wrote:Well crap, I'll have to look at the girl really sad for the coming months if I want one of these

Are you married? You must do what all married men do in such circumstances.

1. Buy a nice present for her.
2. Obfuscate. (http://mw1.m-w.com/dictionary/obfuscate)

Oh no, not married. Too early for that. She's been in the hobby herself, so the "dumb bint" card can't be played on her. I'm used to making sacrifices for the better half.

Hah. I said this thing was stupidly overpriced before the first price increase. Now they've gone and doubled the price.

*shakes head*

I really hope they watch their pre-orders sink to the ground and think to themselves "Hmm... maybe some of our stuff is over priced".

I cannot wait to see the Australian price for this thing. $400-$500 each. I can go to Bunnings and get an 6X4 piece of wood, cut it into 1X1 or 2X2 pieces, flock it myself, then use the left over money to buy some GW modual hills, and I'll've probably spent $200 by the end. Friend of mine even has a buscuiting tool so we can make the boards go together and stay together when we need to.

Christ... GW never learns...

BYE

Instead of a 6x4 board for the table, why not try a thick sheet of pink foam? They had that for the tables at the store I went to for the Ard Boyz, and it really seemed to work very well, the tables were much easier to move around. Some of em had baseboards around the edges for increased durability without adding much weight.

two_heads_talking wrote:

Da Boss wrote:Urgh.
It's modular aswell. I hate modular boards. It's better to have a completely blank board that you can arrange scenery pieces on.
You could nearly buy an army for that price.

It's modular to allow for ease of transport.. you just stuff it in the bag and you have everything you need.. (except the trees and the buildings.. and the ...... ok, I'll stop.. )

You could cut a basic flat board into sections too, and just put your hills and stuff on later. That way you have far more flexibility in your terrain set ups. Modular boards make it much more boring and cut down on the potential arrangements. Though they do look awesome.
For example, if I wanted to use this board for necromunda, it wouldn't work very well, whereas a flat board can be used for any tabletop game from BFG to Warmachine. (I like to follow the terrain placement rules in the Warmachine and Hordes rule books as well, which is pretty much impossible with a modular board.)
Basically, given my limited storage space and gaming preferences I cannot see myself even making a modular board, and shelling out 200+ euro for one is never going to happen.

As for mammy shelling out for her little boy, when I started I was eleven. I got a sheet of wood from the DIY shop, made some hills out of cardboard glued together, and some rivers and roads out of cheap felt. My biggest terrain expense was a bunch of model railway trees that I was really proud of. I used to stack those polystyrene tub thingies that metal models came in on top of each other to make huts too. Simple and effective terrain set up, well within the scope of a kid to do (As in, it involved no complicated techniques at all) that would cost well under 30 euro these days. If mammy can't come up with a similar plan she deserves to be ripped off.

Redbeard wrote:

Panic wrote:

Girlie says all my gaming has to fit onto those shelfs...

You got the wrong girlie then...

H.B.M.C. wrote:Hah. I said this thing was stupidly overpriced before the first price increase. Now they've gone and doubled the price.

*shakes head*

I really hope they watch their pre-orders sink to the ground and think to themselves "Hmm... maybe some of our stuff is over priced".

I cannot wait to see the Australian price for this thing. $400-$500 each. I can go to Bunnings and get an 6X4 piece of wood, cut it into 1X1 or 2X2 pieces, flock it myself, then use the left over money to buy some GW modual hills, and I'll've probably spent $200 by the end. Friend of mine even has a buscuiting tool so we can make the boards go together and stay together when we need to.

Christ... GW never learns...

BYE

Heh heh. I got the right girlie right here. My partner works at Bunnings, and I get a 20% discount. Her parents run a paint factory.

never knew GW sold a board XD
but at that price i doubt they sell many.
rather spend that money and make a decent looking board with some nice terrain rather than that crap.

$200 -> $300 seems like it's a big change... It crosses a lot of people's ideas of what this kind of thing is worth.

If I ever get a house I'd like to have a real table but I'll want something multifunctional so I'll probably haunt yard sales and such to look for a used dinner table or similar I can use as a 'hobby table' when not actually playing, if I have room. $300, even $200, is way too much for me, but then again I thought the CoD terrain as way too expensive.

All I know is that $300 buys me my choice of:
- 4 Guard tank variants
- 1 Stormblade & 1 Shadowsword
- 1 Valkyrie & 1 Vulture
- 1 Eldar Revenant Titan
- 2 Malenthorpes & 1 Trygon

So for me, that table just isn't worth $300 USD

You can honestly build a table with hills for less than $100 bucks if you are crafty about it, why anyone would waste money on this....

mattyboy22 wrote:You can honestly build a table with hills for less than $100 bucks if you are crafty about it, why anyone would waste money on this....

And hours and hours of time.

Many seemed willing to pay 200.

Two hundred is generally on the edge of reasonable, between the $100 dollars on materials and the cost of time to make something like this on your own you'd end up with something worth in the realm of $200. Its the seemingly arbitrary price hike on something that was already only marginally reasonable.

At $200 I seriously thought about getting one, but ultimately decided it wasn't worth it. At that price they at least had me interested at $100 more, no way in heck.

I was prepared to buy 2 of these @ $150 each. I can and like to buy pretty much anything if it makes a game of 40k a better experience, BUT GW is completely

I can't justify it @ $300. I could get 6-9 Land Raiders for that.

I will talk to my people and see what this thing is really going for.

Stay tuned

Yea, I was fairly interested when it popped at 150$. I can make one for less, but having one made for me and ready to use while I fumble around at making better ones (or say "Good enough" and go back to painting) was probably worth it. 200$... that was pushing it, since that's 5 boxes of terminators etc.

300$ though, I really can't justify that. I can mess up a lot of pink foam for that kind of scratch. Hell, I can get another box of COD sector cities or two, and still have enough left over for a big stack of foam for that much.

Personally being of a good with tools bent, I thought this was a pretty crappy rip-off product to begin with... now it's almost hysterically overpriced junk... if I see anyone buying one I will point and laugh out loud and shout something like "SUCKER!!!" I mean come on... it's six bits of plastic. It's not flocked, it's not painted, it's just SIX BITS OF PLASTIC each set costs GW pennies to make in terms of materials.

Oh, and the whole "transportable" argument just doesn't wash. How often do you NEED to take your table round your buddies' place? If he's got an army worth fielding, odds are he'll have a table or at least a big green mat to go on the kitchen table. If you want a table at home, build one. If you want to play somewhere that's not your home, play somewhere where there are tables, like your local gaming club. I can play at my local gaming club every week for two years and still be in profit compared to buying this thing. My main bugbear about the "transportable" thing though, is that if you put six painted and flocked plastic tiles in one bag, even if you don't move the bag and just take them straight out again, they're going to get chipped, scraped, knocked and damaged. If you sling it over your shoulder and jump on a bus or train, or even jump in the car, it's going to be a big scratchy mess at the other end of the journey. Do that once or twice a week for a month or two and suddenly your lovingly painted and flocked £150 bits of plastic are junk.

Just my opinion, but hey...

malfred wrote:

mattyboy22 wrote:You can honestly build a table with hills for less than $100 bucks if you are crafty about it, why anyone would waste money on this....

And hours and hours of time.

Many seemed willing to pay 200.

Are you serious? It takes a little more than an hour of actual work.

Get your 4x6 cut into whatever manageable pieces you need at the hardware store, pick up a gallon of black, a gallon of scorched brown, a gallon of bleached bone ( the store should be able to match them for you) Get a large bottle of white glue, the biggest brush you can find (5" wide, 2 (or 3 if you've got someone helping you) paint rollers, a bag of play sand, 2 sheets of 1" thick pink foam, a wire cutter, and a tarp if you don't have one. <$100 depending on what you have.

1. set up your plywood, dump glue on it, and spread it with the paint roller. Dump the sand all over the glue. - 15 min
2. the next day dump the excess sand off, dump some black paint on the sand and spread it with the roller - 15 min
3. after the black paint dries, do the same thing with the scorched brown (the black keeps it dark) - 5 min
4. using your 5" brushes, drybrush the whole table with scorched/ bleached and then again with bleached. Drybrush some sections heavier or darker, make it look nice! - 20 min
5. If you really want to, get a tub of static grass, spread some glue around, and apply the grass - 30 min

Cut hills from the foam while the paint is drying, make them stackable it's easier that way. Apply sand, paint, and grass the same way as you did the table.

I've made plenty of tables like this and it really takes only 1 1/2 hours of total work time to do it plus it costs less than 100 depending on what you have and things like the big bag of play sand and the gallons of colored paint will last a long time (4 6x4 tables and still have plenty left). The most time consuming part of it is waiting for paint and glue to dry. Buy some terrain sets and you are good to go! It's not the most "fancy" of tables, but you could easily add a frame to it, etc.

@Matty:

That's awesome - make it into an article.

Guys,
I'm pretty sure the 290.00 on the website is messed up. I was quoted 200.00 by my sales rep. The new white dwarf came in today. The catalog for the table that was polybagged with the WD says 175.00, but also has a small slip that was added, indicating the price has had to be changed to 200.00

First shipment of these is going to be 200.00, but after that, it will probably be going up in price.

Wehrkind - Send me a Pm if you want one, You'll have to run down from Allentowne to Philly to pick it up, but there won't be any shipping and I'll get you one for the 175.00 price.

Disclaimer: If it actually turns out to be 290.00, then expect me to be ranting along side all of you. I can make one hell of a table for 290.00