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Traditionally GTs were GW's event and GW wanted to promote all aspects of Teh HHHobby, which obviously includes painting. Thus a fully painted requirement was standard at GTs.

Why is painting a standard aspect of war games? The fact is that the majority of people who are interested in war games are interested in nice looking painted armies because nice looking painted armies have been a key attraction point of war games since ancient Egypt, as shown by these model soldiers from an ancient tomb.



It never mattered whether you painted the figures yourself, or bought ready painted figures. The point is that painted figures look nicer and that is what attracts people to play with them.

People who only want to play the rules, and aren't interested in painted armies, and play with unpainted armies, are a minority. They cannot reasonably expect the majority, who don't want to play with unpainted armies, to want to play with them.

 timetowaste85 wrote:

LoadToad wrote:
It takes 5 minutes to paint a small based model. Just do it.

Only if it's an awful paint job. Even assembly lining it, my basic Bloodletters take me at least 3 hours to do a squad of ten.

Whatever. Fully converted Blood Letter squad in 4 minutes.

Bases aren't finished yet.

Don't weigh me down with your pedantic painting expectations.

I saw the bloodletters at work and I laughed so hard I might be fired.