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Promised myself I had "completed" my 5 armies pre Xmas.
Since then, 2 ImpKnights, some Jetbikes, a Leman Russ and some upgrade sprues.

Time to set a new date.....

Well so far I have never bought anything off gw except some paint in my local game store. Everything I got whole army I build is second hand or comes from job lots . Sure it's damn hard build exactly what you want, but sooner or later I mange to get what I wished for anyway.

I am, Not so much as usual as I have been quite ill.
I have friends that try to get me into other games, but apart from a quick game of x-wing and a few other systems here and there, nothing really excites me as much as 40k.
None of the other games really spur me into modelling or painting action like a space marine does !

Haven't bought a GW model in 2 years and not about to start now. Feels great! All those other games I missed out on, I'm catching up on....thanks to the money I've saved.

I have always found looking at the RRP of GW products.
Just to halve the price on the sticker, to find what the product would be priced at if GW plc had competent management.

And then say I am not paying 'GWs incompetent management tax' , and walk away.

 Smacks wrote:

 winterwind85 wrote:
There Are still People around with such low income they Cant afford gw Minis?
Spend your Time gettin a better job rather than whining in the Internet.
Sorry but so Done with mimimi i have no Money... Gw should give away Minis for free mimimi

 PrehistoricUFO wrote:
Hell yeah. Not all of us are flipping burgers in life or are bogged down with children and 150 bills to pay each month. Circumstances vary.

I buy what I feel is worth the money, and get plenty of enjoyment out of the kits. Lots of stuff these days with the dual builds offered, many bits left over for bashing and whatnot.

Yeah, I wish they'd just cut to the chase and make a squad of Space Marines cost £1000, so as to be good and sure that poor people can't afford to play. Why prolong the torture for these poor losers. £1000 for five Space Marines would still be great value when you think of all the hours of enjoyment you can get from painting them. Even though drawing and painting is something you can probably do for free without ever giving a penny to GW... but I personally would be willing to pay £1000 just for the privilege of painting on worthless polystyrene that has been shaped by Games Workshop. It would still be cheaper than my other hobbies: yachting, collecting super cars, and throwing wild cocaine + hooker parties. So it must be good value, and that totally makes sense. I don't know what everyone is complaining about. So what if a box of marines costs £50? It's not like money has any actual value, right? I only use fifties for wiping my ass, and lining bin bags. GW are practically giving stuff away at that price.

Pffftttt... pathetic losers with their "families" and "adult priorities" and "perspective" and "lives". I bet they drive Scions instead of Ferrari's, and spend more money on books then they do on male enhancement pills.
What a bunch of suckers!

What's actually the problem with 9th ed Warhammer? Are the new rules crap, or are people upset about having to buy new rules, which is understandable by the way. I can still load Fallout 3 on my 360 after all these years without having to send Bethesda another forty quid. Why do I have to pay the GW to re-buy all the same stuff every few years?

As for actually starting a new army, I'll be honest, I might buy a Honda NSX type-R instead, it's slightly more expensive than a GW army deal but let's face it, it generates more envy than owning five Imperial Knights.

 NoPoet wrote:
What's actually the problem with 9th ed Warhammer? Are the new rules crap, or are people upset about having to buy new rules, which is understandable by the way.

I can still load Fallout 3 on my 360 after all these years without having to send Bethesda another forty quid. Why do I have to pay the GW to re-buy all the same stuff every few years?

As for actually starting a new army, I'll be honest, I might buy a Honda NSX type-R instead, it's slightly more expensive than a GW army deal but let's face it, it generates more envy than owning five Imperial Knights.

I don't believe the new rules are out, so there's not assessment on whether they're crap or not. People are upset about buying new rules, but that's a given. There will be whining, though.

You call out Fallout 3 - how many versions of Fallout are there, and assuming you buy all of the content, how much money would one have spent to stay current? Or what about Monster Hunter? Or (shudder) Skylanders (including the DLC toys)? Fantasy isn't that expensive compared to a digital franchise. And it's not like you couldn't still play WFB 6E.

Where are you buying a NSX for <$1k? And how much are you going to have to spend to maintain it?

 NoPoet wrote:
What's actually the problem with 9th ed Warhammer? Are the new rules crap, or are people upset about having to buy new rules, which is understandable by the way. I can still load Fallout 3 on my 360 after all these years without having to send Bethesda another forty quid. Why do I have to pay the GW to re-buy all the same stuff every few years?

As for actually starting a new army, I'll be honest, I might buy a Honda NSX type-R instead, it's slightly more expensive than a GW army deal but let's face it, it generates more envy than owning five Imperial Knights.

Rumors based on peoples gak getting cut and just a bunch of new stuff people would "need" to get to play this new addition.

also general GW money grab stuff and things.

 Desubot wrote:

 NoPoet wrote:
What's actually the problem with 9th ed Warhammer? Are the new rules crap, or are people upset about having to buy new rules, which is understandable by the way. I can still load Fallout 3 on my 360 after all these years without having to send Bethesda another forty quid. Why do I have to pay the GW to re-buy all the same stuff every few years?

As for actually starting a new army, I'll be honest, I might buy a Honda NSX type-R instead, it's slightly more expensive than a GW army deal but let's face it, it generates more envy than owning five Imperial Knights.

Rumors based on peoples gak getting cut and just a bunch of new stuff people would "need" to get to play this new addition.

also general GW money grab stuff and things.

Don't forget the entire world literally blowing up. That tends to peeve people off too.

Haven't bought anything in 3-4 years now? I've been giving money to Corvus Belli and Perry, though.

 jonolikespie wrote:

 Desubot wrote:

 NoPoet wrote:
What's actually the problem with 9th ed Warhammer? Are the new rules crap, or are people upset about having to buy new rules, which is understandable by the way. I can still load Fallout 3 on my 360 after all these years without having to send Bethesda another forty quid. Why do I have to pay the GW to re-buy all the same stuff every few years?

As for actually starting a new army, I'll be honest, I might buy a Honda NSX type-R instead, it's slightly more expensive than a GW army deal but let's face it, it generates more envy than owning five Imperial Knights.

Rumors based on peoples gak getting cut and just a bunch of new stuff people would "need" to get to play this new addition.

also general GW money grab stuff and things.

Don't forget the entire world literally blowing up. That tends to peeve people off too.

I feel like that point can't be emphasized enough. The final End Times book ended with the planet exploding and almost every faction and character you ever cared about dying. The Lizardmen are the only confirmed survivors thus far.

It's been... maybe 3 years since I last bought a GW product. Can't give a specific number because my interest in playing their games faded a while ago. And after all of the new fluff they've put out lately, my interest in their background has pretty much died, too. There are just so many other companies creating better models and better fiction that actually care about their fans. I won't waste my time and money on a company that doesn't care about their customers or their own products.

I sometimes buy paint from GW, or maybe a brush. Won't go out of my way to buy paint from GW but there is a GW in town so if I am there anyway and need some paint I will buy some from them. It helps that local gw store manger dosen't try to upsell to me and try to get me to buy the local x or y. If he did I wouldn't buy anything from there. Still prefer to purchase from my FLGS though and will wait to buy from them most of the time.

Other than that I think I bought Dark Vegence shortly after release and picked up some snap fit Imperial guard shortly after that. Since then I haven't purchases any GW products and have sold off most of my old stuff.

Two major things made me pretty much ditch most of my GW stuff. Not only are the prices higher than I would like to play but the number of models needed to play is extremely high. When I realized I had spent x amount and needed to invest y amount more before I could play at the points values most players do.

Add that to the requirement of having to buy the rules and codex's to play and the rules being very complex with so many special rules that you have to reference the rule book constantly I decided it wasn't for me.

Thus for WHFB I went down the Kings of War route.

Yes it requires a lot of models but I feel less tied in to using a single miniatures range. I can unit base and the game encourages the use of historical miniatures or other model ranges. Meaning I can make the armies I want and can do so for considerably cheaper than a WHFB army. Couple that with the rules being far simpler than the WHFB rules yet still very tactical.

Also got into a host of smaller historical games as well as Infinity. Infinity is very expensive on a per model basis thats true but the over all cost to play is considerably lower. Also got into X-Wing. Once again expensive per model but lower total cost to play. I have spent about £100 on the game and have everything I need for me and my girlfriend to play and can expand a tenner at at time.

The most recent thing I bought was an Empire Handgunners box a couple of months ago for ~$25. I've spent countless hours fiddling with all of its parts, lovingly converting and painting every model. The way I look at it, I'm not forking over my dough to add a piece of plastic (or ten) to my collection, but for the hours of enjoyment that I get out of it.

I haven't bought anything GW in almost 3 years because the game system is a mess. I buy 40k books, and I love the Dawn of War and Space Marine video games. The tabletop game just takes too long to play due to all the random rolls and all the dead time for the inactive player, not to mention the obvious power creep. I have an army that I customized and painted, and I enjoyed making it, but I don't see any point in expanding it.

I played 40k exclusively from 1997 to early 6th edition but the creeping prices made me more and more hesitant to invest in new armies. It reached the point where one squad was the same price as whole starter sets for other systems (including rule books) so I took the chance on some of them and haven't looked back. Now I see 82 dollars for a 10 man squad and am completely disgusted.

My last purchase was an Imperial Knight back in January. Haven't bought a single bit since. My enthusiasm for GW in general is severely on the wane, I've been thinking about switching to Infinity.

Last thing I bought from GW was the 6th Ed BRB. I got it the day it was launched (admittedly as giddy as a proverbial school girl). Since then I have sold all of my GW stuff and haven't looked back. I personally did not see the point of continuing after 5th Ed, between the rules and the pricing I had enough.

I do what to emphasis something though. This is my personal choice. I have seen a lot of people in these threads get jumped on for saying that they enjoy the models and don't care what the price is. I say to them "it's all good" life is to short to not do what you love.

 darefsky (Flight Medic Paints) wrote:
Last thing I bought from GW was the 6th Ed BRB. I got it the day it was launched (admittedly as giddy as a proverbial school girl). Since then I have sold all of my GW stuff and haven't looked back. I personally did not see the point of continuing after 5th Ed, between the rules and the pricing I had enough.

I do what to emphasis something though. This is my personal choice. I have seen a lot of people in these threads get jumped on for saying that they enjoy the models and don't care what the price is. I say to them "it's all good" life is to short to not do what you love.

Yeah to some people £50 a box might be a bargain. To others the value just isn't there.

 youidiotkid wrote:
The most recent thing I bought was an Empire Handgunners box a couple of months ago for ~$25. I've spent countless hours fiddling with all of its parts, lovingly converting and painting every model. The way I look at it, I'm not forking over my dough to add a piece of plastic (or ten) to my collection, but for the hours of enjoyment that I get out of it.

Amen. I love assembling and painting the models, so I have no problem dropping $50.00 on a box of GW models that I will spend a couple of weeks enjoying. No worse than a cheap bar tab or an afternoon with a six pack on the golf course.

 Third_Age_of_Baggz wrote:
Haven't bought a GW model in 2 years and not about to start now. Feels great! All those other games I missed out on, I'm catching up on....thanks to the money I've saved.

Ditto, but only 1 year for me.

grumpy_newenglander wrote:

 youidiotkid wrote:
The most recent thing I bought was an Empire Handgunners box a couple of months ago for ~$25. I've spent countless hours fiddling with all of its parts, lovingly converting and painting every model. The way I look at it, I'm not forking over my dough to add a piece of plastic (or ten) to my collection, but for the hours of enjoyment that I get out of it.

Amen. I love assembling and painting the models, so I have no problem dropping $50.00 on a box of GW models that I will spend a couple of weeks enjoying. No worse than a cheap bar tab or an afternoon with a six pack on the golf course.

And taken from that perspective, I can totally appreciate buying individual squads or characters. I've considered buying a lone box here or there just for the art of it, but I keep finding better value in gunpla or other miniatures companies without an associated game.

I still buy stuff but I am super picky and have started to utilize the second hand market and discounters more. I mostly have added a small thing or two to my current armies. I've only started a new army for the first time since 4ed because I finally got my clown book that I have wanted since 3rd.

Even then I bought almost my entire Harlequin army second hand super cheap with a few good buys and a couple of conversions thumbsup:

 DarkHound wrote:

grumpy_newenglander wrote:

 youidiotkid wrote:
The most recent thing I bought was an Empire Handgunners box a couple of months ago for ~$25. I've spent countless hours fiddling with all of its parts, lovingly converting and painting every model. The way I look at it, I'm not forking over my dough to add a piece of plastic (or ten) to my collection, but for the hours of enjoyment that I get out of it.

Amen. I love assembling and painting the models, so I have no problem dropping $50.00 on a box of GW models that I will spend a couple of weeks enjoying. No worse than a cheap bar tab or an afternoon with a six pack on the golf course.

And taken from that perspective, I can totally appreciate buying individual squads or characters. I've considered buying a lone box here or there just for the art of it, but I keep finding better value in gunpla or other miniatures companies without an associated game.

Agreed, Gundam models, for the money are so far above what GW could ever hope to produce.
And there's lots of "fluff" for them too.

I just bought/preordered two boxes of Assault Marines and an Ultramarines Chapter upgrade kit. >.>

I expect any PA Ultramarines I buy will have me buying one of those upgrade kits in the future.

Yup and a whole lot it is. Probably 3 visits this year to the gw store and probably 1000 euro on:
Buildings and scenery nurgle units, paint, bloodthirster new mech units etc.

It is even more money because i bought the valejo model air box, new primers, water effects, glue, wood styrofoam, cork, plaster etc

It is a decision you make is this your hobby or not?

GW produces a quality product. I don't think that its too expensive. Not only are you getting ten assault marines that have a nigh limitless possibility that no two ever look alike, but you're getting much better detail than the old runs on a better plastic that is more durable and works better with paint. On top of that you're getting a ton of extra bitz that will find their way to customizing more of my collection. So short answer YES I AM BUYING GW MINIATURES AND I WILL CONTINUE TO BUY THEM.

i bought the knew imperial knight this year, and more than 1 of most of the mechanicus stuffs. only 1 robot and 1 dominus.

actually I think GW models this year were really nice, i dont know why a lot of people here dont think the new GW models are good or that they are slipping. all of the skitarii and cult mechanicus other than the robot model were realy different.

all together i think about 800$ on GW in 2015 or maybe little bit more.

Marmax wrote:
GW produces a quality product. I don't think that its too expensive. Not only are you getting ten assault marines that have a nigh limitless possibility that no two ever look alike, but you're getting much better detail than the old runs on a better plastic that is more durable and works better with paint. On top of that you're getting a ton of extra bitz that will find their way to customizing more of my collection. So short answer YES I AM BUYING GW MINIATURES AND I WILL CONTINUE TO BUY THEM.

have an exalt chap. my thoughts exactly

Yeah, I'll give Marmax an exalt for that one too

Pretty much how I feel. I love the posable legs, nicer bits, more bits, and scenic bases. Looks like the devastator marines have 2-part legs too!

The short answer for me, as well, is Yes. Things get overcomplicated around these parts -- I like them, so I buy them! Not much more to it than that.