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 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
At Least It Is Not Den Of Geek Who Insist On Using A Capital Letter For Every Word Of A Headline.

Which I'm sure is some kind of accepted journalistic style. Title Case?

Anyway, I'm hoping GW are going to show off a couple of really good exclusive minis before my renewal date in a couple of weeks. A voucher for the online store like previous years would help seal the deal. This year has been quite poor imo and I'm less than enthused to resubscribe.

From Valrak - one of the Warhammer+ models is a Ratling sniper team cooking some food (which would fit a few rumour engine images).

 Gimgamgoo wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
At Least It Is Not Den Of Geek Who Insist On Using A Capital Letter For Every Word Of A Headline.

Which I'm sure is some kind of accepted journalistic style. Title Case?

Yeah, not sure why that would irritate anybody

It just screams clickbait, especially given Denofgeek has sadly devolved into pure clickbait.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
It just screams clickbait, especially given Denofgeek has sadly devolved into pure clickbait.

I thought that was the entire nature of the Internet these days. Which is why some of us old folk hang onto using forums. RIP old Usenet.

It's what our Lord and Master Google Algorithm wants - even Google must bow to what the code defines as desirable and desire is the most clickbait! The more clickbait the better!

 The Phazer wrote:
From Valrak - one of the Warhammer+ models is a Ratling sniper team cooking some food (which would fit a few rumour engine images).

That sounds pretty fun actually.

Anyone know off hand how many new animations were added in the last 12 months?

It feels like not many and im personally not getting good value out the £70+ ive been charged for the last 12 months, a "free" £25 mini aint cutting it no more for me, i was only a subber for the animation and "free" collectors mini, but il prob be better off trying to get the mini i like through Mad Docs Loot group (A quick plug for you https://www.facebook.com/groups/1710575492567307 ) and the animation was hit and miss anyway which is a shame and has been so sparse over the last 18+ months. At the mo i feel like using the £5.99 i pay monthly for W+ on a STL or music Patreon where at least i get some half decent value each month.

Got to admit I've missed them doing things like Bolter and Chainsword - it does feel like this year we didn't really get many. Also we've had several trailers for animations that haven't yet appeared.

They also stopped updating the backissues which I think is cause the person handling that left and GW just never replaced them. Plus as they wanted to remove all game content from them it was likely more work sifting through than its worth; esp when people likely complained about it too.

It has been a very, very gakky year content wise, they'll have to go hard if they want to see me resubscribe. Hammer and Bolter was janky at times in terms of animation, but there were some real gems in there story-wise. I'd also love to see more along the lines of Interrogator, that was surprisingly good.

Yeah can only echo the concerns on lack of content.

I’ll likely be ending my sub when it expires, ditto for White Dwarf which is completely soulless these days.

It's entirely dependent on the minis for me-I've stopped buying WD over a year ago (after reading since the early 80's) as there's just notning in it for me anymore. Warhammer + just doesn't have enough on offer but if the minis are ones I want I *may* just keep the sub going.

Yeah I don't want to see WD go but at the same time their print quality is a lot cheaper than it was before (no more glossy pages) and it just feels like its missing the mark

I believe Pariah Nexus and Broken Lance were the only animations since September 2023.

The rest is Masterclass, Battle Reports, and Loremasters.
None of which I have watched this year.

Masterclass & Battle Reports, I can find free and of equal or better quality.

Loremasters is a waste of time to me.
It needlessly keeps cutting back to show the host speaking. I don't want to see their faces and watch them talk about the lore.
I want to see as much art as possible, if they insist on doing these lore dumps as video.
They could be text articles & I could read them twice as fast as the drawn out video.
Sadly, 95% of the lore is already available in Lexicanum or the 40k wiki for free, and in a format I like.
I was optimistic at first that Loremasters would be better done, with new insights.

I am still likely holding onto my sub for the 40k & AoS army builder apps.
Of course, at this time I have no idea what is available without the WH+ sub, and frequent Codex code entries.

I am definitely cancelling my sub this year unless the models are incredible (and a Ratling sniper team and maybe a mini Skaven doomwheel which is one of the others I've seen suggested are fun sounding but not enough).

The vault has gone backwards. There are barely any animations and I just don't care about the other stuff.

 Overread wrote:
Yeah I don't want to see WD go but at the same time their print quality is a lot cheaper than it was before (no more glossy pages) and it just feels like its missing the mark

Yeah the recent significant drop off in the quality of paper is what’s made me decide to call it a day, I’d been wavering for a while as it’s pretty soulless now, though the bunker stuff is decent. But I’m not paying a premium price for something that feels like it’s printed on recycled bog roll.

Yeah I feel sorry for their photography people cause they are clearly still putting in loads of effort ;but the current print quality is just not up to it at all. The photos all seem kind of over-exposed and washed out - which likely means that somewhere the calibration is wonky on what the printers are importing and using.

Who knows but yeah its taken a distinct downturn

Ah its not just me that has had enough of the lack of content this last year. Shame as W+ started of fairly well and looked promising.

The new W+ minis do sound interesting and i look forward to their reveal, but i very much doubt they will be enough to keep me subbing. Id need to see a road map of a years worth of animation being added to get me to re-sub. ie 3 or 4 series each made of 4-6 20 odd min episodes.

Slightly sideways on the discussion, but this is the exact sort of https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/08/16/garfy-and-dunk-create-a-stunning-snapshot-of-an-incursion-team-descending-into-hive-secundus/ that used to be in white dwarf and made it worthwhile.

I was surprised an article was on the main website that mentioned 3D printing.

Anyway, Warhammer+ may or may not be resubscribed, I'd like to see a road map for animations of the next 12 months (which they usually do right?) before making any decision.

Thing I really dislike about WD is the bunker nonsense. I get nothing useful out of it and it takes up so many pages.
Cut bunker bunkum and use the space to give us something useful. It's really gone downhill since Lyle became editor. Bring back decent editors like Fat Bloke. I know we won't get him as he's part owner of Warlord Games.

Something I am really missing is both voxcast and stormcast, they were great podcasts and it's a shame that Wade moved over to the studio, as I felt he was a great host who nudged his guests into the right direction with minimal intervention.

Jaxmeister wrote:
Thing I really dislike about WD is the bunker nonsense. I get nothing useful out of it and it takes up so many pages.
Cut bunker bunkum and use the space to give us something useful. It's really gone downhill since Lyle became editor. Bring back decent editors like Fat Bloke. I know we won't get him as he's part owner of Warlord Games.

I had really high hopes for the Bunker, but I am disappointed in the execution myself. The missions are okay... but they're just missions. I feel like a few of the other, less valuable pages in the bunker could be used to make more of the missions- the 9th ed Flashpoint stuff was pretty good, and while there may not be enough pages in the section to take it that far, you could nudge it in that direction with even one extra page to contextualize the mission.

The AoS Path of Glory campaign they ran looked half way decent to me, but I don't play AoS. It seemed simple, but there were a few rules to go along with it, a couple of maps, I think a themed mission. It wasn't over the top, but there was enough content that I was looking forward to the 40k version. When it finally came, I found it to be a huge disappointment. It was long enough ago that I don't remember enough of the details, but the only thing that stood out to me at all was a couple of Crusade Relics.

I think that if you are a part of a gaming club, it might have more appeal- the little meta-gamey trackers and things might be useful? I think that Flashpoints were superior to the bunker stuff.

From Reddit next set of minis - A Marshal for AoS and and Inquisitor for 40K.

Neither is enough to make me sub for another year, the animations certainly don't justify the cost.

Possibly the new Warhammer plus models.
Releasing a rubbish scuplt of an inquisitor, while locking a good one behind Warhammer plus is certainly a choice. Edit- Ninjad!

oh, so are these both two models, then?

Squire Udo is awesome!

They could both work as Inquisitor + henchman. Well, far better than the last models (IF these are the models, of course).

Not crazy about any of them tbh

It took me way too long to realize the Cullexus looking models arm is not directly connected into his leg lol

I was thinking of not resubscribing this year, but the Inquisitor is a must-have, so they've got me for another 12 months!

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