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Hi Peeps

Well, it's been a fair few weeks since the Great GW Heresy. Amid all the teeth neashing, hair pulling, and general "nerd" rage, certain Dakka members swore to walk away and never look back. I was one of them. Since deciding that I wasn't going to invest in GW anymore as a source for my gaming hobby (in any way shape or form!) I feel myself getting less and less embroiled in GW chat, and generally don't even think about or follow their, somewhat shrouded, product releases.....in short, it's great!

I was wondering what has become of the other "ragers" , what are you guys doing now? Have you turned back to the dark side, or have you, like me, found solace in other products?

So come on, tell us the truth.....where are you now?

I've been true to my word. The investment in the Dark Eldar Army has not happened. Instead I've looked into different games systems.

I've now bought a Core Rulebook, Templates and Cards for Spartan Games Firestorm Armarda along with 2 different starter fleets, additional ship classes and some scenary. 4 of my gaming buddies have followed suit and bought their own fleets.

Another mate is looking into a starfield felt mat to play on. Once we've done collecting our fleets, we are looking into something completely different, Sodapops Super Dungeon Explore or Infinity.

True to my word, I'm done buying new armies from GW. I bought my Entire Ork Army 2 years ago which I'm still putting together now. I'll keep them up to date along with my 3 other armies, but I won't be starting a new Army.

I'd say my 1,500 GBP spend a year on GW (average) will now be down to around 250 GBP. All my friends are following my lead.

Cancelled plans for new dark eldar army.

Gaming budget and painting time is instead being spent on on mantic orcs and more mantic undead, their two best-looking model ranges.

Will buy the new GW necromancer and sorceress as they are plastic and the price is okay if I pick it up from a 25% off webstore.

Will still play fantasy using hordes and hordes of mantic models. Eagerly awaiting their goblin army, I want 500 of the little buggers.

I'm quite a positive person, so for me it's been less a case of being driven away from GW and more a case of "omg mantic are awesome". The GW price rises and things only cemented the feeling that I made the right choice.

For instance, £25 buys you either 10 GW grave guard or 40 mantic grave guard.. this makes me very very happy with my mantic ones.

Am painting some BoSP dwarves
Had considered getting some more dwarves possibly using GW units but that it not gonna happen

Will continue to complete the Fantasy stuff over time
my Space Wolves will probably never get finished though. May just keep some for converting.

There are just too many really good sculpts out there that will get my pennies. GW won't tempt me until the current management bugger off and someone sensible is in charge.

50 points of Blindwater
80ish points of Cygnar
Working on a theme board for my gators

Malifaux. I have a couple guild crews, a Ramos crew, a large Som'er/Ophelia crew, and a huge Leviticus crew.
I'm loving the game and the models! Thank you GW for providing the impetus to pick up this game!

Delephont wrote:Amid all the teeth neashing, hair pulling, and general "nerd" rage... I was wondering what has become of the other "ragers" ...

Wow. Such respect for those with differing opinions.

Guess all of us who decided to walk away from buying GW products are just filled with "nerd rage" and don't have legitimate complaints, right? Or am I missing your meaning?



But in answer to your question:

Still on target. Not bought a GW thing since the embargo hit, just as I said I would. Have bought a number of products from other companies though - even got back into BattleTech.

I've stayed right where I was, playing Warhammer and Warhammer 40k.

I wasn't that ragey, just ticked off..

I'm still playing 40k, as i never said i'd quit, but have cancelled plans for me new Dark Eldar amy.

I'm finishing out my Orks and Necrons, collecting-wise, and then painting all of them That'll keep me busy enough.

I'm also getting into Warmachine, and digging out my old Necromunda books..

Havent bougth a singel model since they raised their price, I intend to never give GW another penny either, I will be uning other moddels for my Beastmen army. There plenty of other firms that will be getting my money instead

Me to i stayed right here, the time when i start playing another game is when warpath is officially realesed. otherwise i still need more rhinos, i have 30+ guys 1 hq choice and 1 rhino, though i do have deffy and 2 havoc squads which i have found quite effective

Bought one GW item since the last wave of problems started - a Citadel Battlemat (I was suprised, since the last time I saw it in the back of my local FLGS, it was $30. I expected it to be $40-$60, but lo and behold, it hadn't increased in price!).

Basically have put my GW stuff away, focusing more now on Flames of War. Also picked up some more Khador.

I'm even considering going fully historic. Polemos Napoleonic rules look nice, and so does Warmaster Ancients/Field of Glory. I'm having trouble deciding on what scale I'll want to play, though - 15mm and Field of Glory, or 6mm and Warmaster Ancients.

Sorry for being off-topic, but I've been away for a few weeks. What is this great exodus about? Prices? Finecast? A combination?

micahaphone wrote:Sorry for being off-topic, but I've been away for a few weeks. What is this great exodus about? Prices? Finecast? A combination?

A combination.

H.B.M.C. wrote:

Delephont wrote:Amid all the teeth neashing, hair pulling, and general "nerd" rage... I was wondering what has become of the other "ragers" ...

Wow. Such respect for those with differing opinions.

Guess all of us who decided to walk away from buying GW products are just filled with "nerd rage" and don't have legitimate complaints, right? Or am I missing your meaning?

Yep, you're missing the meaning, which should have been clear from reading my whole post......anyways.....I clumped myself in with the "nerd-ragers" as I was certainly one of them. I was curious what my FELLOW ragers have gone on to enjoy.....hence this thread.

I was trying to inject a little humour into the situation by using the term "nerd-rager". I'm fully aware of the whole story and reasons why WE all moved on.

Waiting on the new house, painting Cutlass guys.

Playing Pulp City, Malfaux, Secrets of the Third Reich, finishing off a couple of other projects.


!@$$ off GW.


Could care less about them now. I'd like to see them self destruct in a great big train wreck like NewsCorps, or something equally more sinister.


Thanks for nothing GW.

I haven't had time for anything recently GW or not

Doing exactly what I said I would do, completing my Praetorians via 2nd hand purchases and seeking out various zombie mini's ( been looking at hassle free) for use in various games.

While I can't include myself with the nerd raging exodus I have however started looking at other games since the price hike. I've always had a soft sport for M:TG and they're getting ready to release a new core set and start a new cycle. It would be very easy for me to sell off all but one army and jump back in.

Bought some Hasslefree models and am painting using my vallejo paints (and using up some of the GW paints I had).

Sold off a large amount of my GW stuff (~30-40%?), and plan to sell off about 60% of my GW stuff in total once I have painted some of it up a bit more.

No plans to buy any more GW stuff.

Basically stopped following GW and its happenings. Despite loving their IP for many years I've just suddenly become disinterested.

Instead I've turned to PP and warmachine/hordes. Great company, great models, great fluff. Also have my eye on Inifinity. Looks good plus the rules are great and free too!

Gone away from GW almost entirely. Haven't set foot in my local (with the exeception of a swift extraction mission for my Necron army) in about a month, not bought anything since the price rise and I do not intend to at all. I'm now playing games round my friend's house and planning to build my own board.

With all this i've decided to pick up Warmachine again, I forgot how nice a company PP is compared to GW...

I'm right where I always was. I'll keep playing as long as my friends are too and I know I can get to play with em anytime. they show no signs of quitting, and it's not like I buy all that much new stuff anymore anyway, so .. meh.

Completely removed myself from the GW newsletter and website. I've rekindled my interest in BattleTech and purchased the new Introductory Starter set to go along w/ my 60+ metal mechs. Currently looking at pre-ordering Super Dungeon Explorer, hoping to start it w/ my little girl. Been going through my GW models and organizing them to sell by lots on Ebay.

Still keeping the three complete armies I have from GW in case any of the guys I played 40k here want to get a game going. Will not be buying a new edition of 40k. Ultimately, it's been par for the course the past 5 or 6 years.

I don't buy much(and I haven't bought much for awhile), unless I actually see something I want for my existing armies or it's something I want to paint as a one-off project.

All the price raise has done is just reinforced my normal spending habits. I've never been one to buy the newest shiny thing, and having to be conscious of how much money I have available for college classes, etc means it's not difficult to restrict my spending easily.

Last thing I bought was Theodore Bruckner on Reaper from Forge World last week, as a centerpiece for my Empire army and birthday present to myself for my 24th this coming Friday.

Before that it was some paints at my LGS in May.

I've gone from spending all my spare money on impulse buys from GW to just getting the occasional paint. Dropped from over £100 a month on GW to about £5. Moved on to song of blades and heroes, kings of war, Firestorm armada and soon warpath. I've now got the chance to finish my secrets of the third reich brits.

Heys guys.

I still play warhammer 40k, but canceled Dark Eldars army plan, and decided to not buy anything GW related.

Im planing a demiurg army in future, using space marines codexes, just waiting for Mantic.

Its strange how you can keep playing warhammer 40k, even without buying nothing from GW...

Meanwhyle, im goying for a dwarf army for Kings of War (and WHFB, to play with lovers).

I still continue to buy second hand and only the odd purchase from the local stores that are not to blame for the evil GW empire.

I've invested too much time and money into 40k. To be honest, I've spent very little directly to GW. I've acquired majority of my armies through Bazaar Bazaar, Ebay, and thewarstore. The only time where I do spend through GW is metal blisters (now replaced by finecast and paints.

I'm fortunate to live in the U.S., which isn't drastically affected like Australia, countries in the southern hemisphere, and Japan. The GW store I frequent to boasts being one of the top 10 stores in the U.S. that has sold most core sets. I find it hard to believe seeing there aren't many gamers on week days and weekends. There are however, a lot of hobbyist who just come in to model and paint. There are other non-GW gaming stores in my area that attracts competitive gamers.

Haven't bought a thing (though I hadn't for a long time before either really, paint aside). Still painting my Ogre Kingdom army though - almost done!

I don't plan on branching out until the Super Dungeon Explore set comes out - really looking forward to that. And the Freebooter Amazons, looking forward to those too.

I'm holding off on PP until their awesome starter set comes out too (and I get my Super Dungeon Explore set painted).

And as always following Mantic closely. Still waiting to pull the trigger though.