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You know, I'm a little conflicted on this issue. I have a pile of old White Dwarf mags from the early 90s, and quite frankly, they're crap, aside from the great old school cover artwork, which I really do enjoy. But, it's oddly-lovable crap, to me at least. Mainly because of nostalgia.

The articles are cheesy, the miniatures are absolutely atrocious compared to the nice plastic kits we enjoy these days, and the rest of it is even in those days, is an advertisement for their products, and little else. They even include order forms for their miniatures and products at the back of every single issue! But of course, early 90s, scant internet, how are you going to get this stuff? The battle reports these days I find to be much more enjoyable because of the immersive tabletops the build and decent photography, and not a photoshop-2 diagram of the events.

Occasionally you would see an article that explained how to build a fantasy barn out of cereal boxes or a grav-tank out of exhausted deoderant tubes. Or how to paint Space Marines or Orks, or some fluff, which is admittedly missing from the newer White Dwarf issues. I guess they expect everyone knows the fluff by now, because you bought the Codex advertized in the last issue, right?

And quite frankly, does anyone want to make a tank out of an exhausted deoderant tube?

But, I do have a soft spot for those early issues, mainly because of the immersive artwork and fluff. And that's missing from the newer issues. It is mainly a catalogue of products now, with a very thin veil of enthusiasm and fluff.

All-in-all, the latest issues are nicer, because, 2013, and not 1993. But that doesn't make me want to drop 10 bucks for one.

And I don't want to see them issue army updates via WD. The Codex we buy should stand on its own and that's it! No requirement on our part to buy a $10 addition to the $50 codex we bought, that's fracking ridiculous, and I'm not down with that.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Ouze wrote:
I took the exact opposite of what you meant, my mistake.

Ditto.

It's 'cause we're all paranoid Ouze. We're always seeing the shiny glint of a white knight's armour in the corner of our eyes, even when they're not really there.

I was kind of vague, sorry lads

As for WD I have stopped getting it many years ago because I could not justify paying so much for so little.
And contrary to what some say just because today I do not buy WD does not mean I'm not informed and not have read some of the new ones... Still to much for so little IMO

 daddyorchips wrote:
i don't see what the issue is with White Dwarf.

Haha! Excellent pun.

I like how everybody says that White Dwarf isn't worth reading, yet then buy every issue saying it's because they want to see how bad it is. Yet the idea of having a magazine with codices in it, I'm not so sure about it. It will clearly never happen at the moment, as the current owners only ever think of money and stopping people using the term 'space marine'. It sounds quite cool, but I still want to keep White Dwarf. It's the only decent hobbying magazine dedicated to Warhammer, and I don't even want to think of buying a model trains magazine...

 Cave_Dweller wrote:


And quite frankly, does anyone want to make a tank out of an exhausted deoderant tube?

Well not so much now, but back in the day, yes! Besides the IG had a grav tank but no model in the first RT list, and I dont mean a land speeder, a tank! Also with the internet and proliferation of "adult" stores now there are so many options besides a deoderant dispenser!

 Tappers wrote:

I like how everybody says that White Dwarf isn't worth reading, yet then buy every issue saying it's because they want to see how bad it is..

Really? Who said that again?

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
It's 'cause we're all paranoid Ouze. We're always seeing the shiny glint of a white knight's armour in the corner of our eyes, even when they're not really there.

As an aside, I used to play a Troll Shadowknight in Everquest, so White Knights were an actual, real problem for me. The looking for one out of the corner of my eye was a real thing

 Tappers wrote:
I like how everybody says that White Dwarf isn't worth reading, yet then buy every issue saying it's because they want to see how bad it is.

We're doing that? I'm not doing that. Are you doing that?

People are doing that? Huh, I guess that's what we've meant to be doing all this time. And here I am just tracking down old issues and simply not buying the new ones at all like an idiot.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Tappers wrote:
I like how everybody says that White Dwarf isn't worth reading, yet then buy every issue saying it's because they want to see how bad it is.

We're doing that? I'm not doing that. Are you doing that?

Probably. I'm not pointing fingers, but in various threads about White Dwarf people think its 'cool' to say that they haven't read White Dwarf in x amount of time. They then buy the latest issue and try to find as many errors and bad things about the magazine as they can. Not saying everybody does it, but some. And I find it quite funny.

I think I need to clarify what I meant in my original post; Completely do away with White Dwarf, and replace it with a magazine which would be entirely Codex/fantasy army rules, nothing else in it except adverts showing new mini ranges. This format would do away with the half-assed bridging codexes like Sisters got.