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 UnstableDominus wrote:
I attempted to play WHFB during 7th, then again during 8th. Both times I quit early on because I couldn't find opponents who would play less than 2500 points. They weren't even really that interested in playing 2,000. This from a dwindling group of players who complained constantly that they wanted new blood (and that I never saw buying anything). The fantasy section of the store literally collected dust.

It is anecdotal, but that was my experience. I started playing AoS after the release of the GHB 2017 with 500 point games. I now regularly play games at 1,000 and 1,500 point levels, but have a pool of almost 3,000 points to draw from. AoS stock flies off the shelf and we have over a dozen regular players.

That was largely the same issue I had experienced. It also didn't help that two of the armies I wanted to play (Bretonnians and Tomb Kings) only really started to be fieldable at the higher point levels, too, due to their basic requirements. I started collecting books to figure out what I wanted to field in 6th Edition, but it was still difficult to make a decision. When one considers just how much more numerous WHFB games usually were, and I was also looking at 40K as well, WHFB tends to loose out for working up a collection. 40K players tended to also allow for smaller games as well.

Oddly enough, this is a similar issue with WarmaHordes as well. Far too often most people are only playing SR games at full point list unless a JML is going on at the same time.