An economic experiment with GW

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**Karon**

Laughing at those putting a Beastmen Gor Herd over $20 for a box of 10.

**AlexHolker**

Battleforce/Battalion (any): 25% below RRP

40K
Dark Eldar Kabalite Warriors: 2 pounds per female soldier
Witch Hunters Battle Sisters: 2 pounds per soldier

**Stormrider**

nkelsch wrote:I find lots of the sprues 'wasteful' with so many options. I would rather they maximize models on the core box and then make the other sprues 'upgrades'.

I feel the loota/burna box is garbage. Why not optimize those sprues so lootas were a single plastic sprue, and burnas were a single plastic sprue?

Nob boxed set has so many wasted bitz. They could have optimized the placement of the parts for a core model on one sprue and then stuck the weapons on other smaller sprues. I remember the 'space marine weapon sprue'. Why clutter up the sprue with crap? Who needs half a sprue of shoota arms and Big Choppas they will never use? Make minisprues. one for Pks, one for BCs, one for Kombishootas.

The ork Trukk sprues are full of bloat too. A core trukk could have been 2 sprues with an optional upgrader sprue. Much how imperial and marine rhinos are.

Personally, I find myself buying bitz for a lot of ork models when I find the box is wasteful. I don't mind buying a box when most of the plastic is used in some way. I felt the Killer Kanz were a good boxed set.

I think GW should return to smaller Mail order direct add-on sprues instead of making the boxes have 100 weapon options and 3 models each. I kinda miss meetal bitz for this reason alone. The plastics were multiple and lean and any special parts I could buy a metal bit directly instead of a whole sprue.

Doing this would require new dies, which in turn would require more monies for GW's operating budget.

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Black Reach: $75

WH40K Rulebook: $40

Battleforce/Battalion (any): $50

40K
Space Marine Tactical Squad (any): $15
Dark Eldar Kabalite Warriors: $15
Eldar Dire Avengers: $15
Imperial Guard Guardsmen: $10
Necron Warriors: $18
Ork Boyz: $10
Tau Firewarriors: $10
Tyranid Warriors: $10
Witch Hunters Battle Sisters: $15

These are prices at the current increments. If they boosted the size of the box sizes (like they used to do with Guard), the prices should rise accordingly.

There is no reason that a box of Imperial Guard infantry should only come in a box of 10!

**Ouze**

Surtur wrote:
Ouze wrote:
Surtur wrote:Because I believe in being my own guinea pig.

Black Reach: $75 significantly lower quality miniatures than the standard line. I would only be willing to pay the $75 the first purchase, but not after.
Island of Blood: $80 good quality models
Mines of Moria: $50 Low quality miniatures

Why are you inserting these hypothetical, non existent model sets into what - up until this - appeared to be a controlled experiment into crowdsourcing pricing data? Isn't this a whole other post, really?

Speaking for myself, I wouldn't pay a dime for the current boxes with "lower quality" models - for what, so I can replace them all with models that don't look bad later? That's just like taking money and flushing it (or contenting myself to play with Yugo models at Ferrari prices).

They aren't a hypothetical, it's how I see them. If you wouldn't pay for them at all, you would price them at 0. These are the highest prices I would pay for these miniatures.

Oh, you're saying you consider the miniatures in the starter sets to be of significantly lower quality currently, not some proposed set that doesn't currently exist. I understand.