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Yup and balance is easily achieved with using one of gw's tournament rule sets:

8 max warscrolls (includes units you can summon... can't summon a unit you don't have a scroll for out of the eight)

No more than 2 of the same warscrolls

Only one of a named character

Only one monster keyword

Three max hero keywords

Have to stick to one of the four armies (order, chaos, death, destruction).


That's from gw and I've never had an unbalanced game with those rules.

 usernamesareannoying wrote:
For a company that doesn't know what they're doing they sure have been in business for awhile and it seems that you can grab a game almost anywhere you go.
Yeah, they're definitely idiots

Hey, it might still be easy to get a GW game in America but the same ain't true for the whole world.

*edit* read it wrong again.

 jonolikespie wrote:

 usernamesareannoying wrote:
For a company that doesn't know what they're doing they sure have been in business for awhile and it seems that you can grab a game almost anywhere you go.
Yeah, they're definitely idiots

Hey, it might still be easy to get a GW game in America but the same ain't true for the whole world.

Australia actually has a disproportionately huge volume of GW sales, if you compare their sales and their population, to North American/European sales to their respective populations.

And that doesn't even include 30k, which seems to be pretty popular there.

 Talys wrote:

 jonolikespie wrote:

 usernamesareannoying wrote:
For a company that doesn't know what they're doing they sure have been in business for awhile and it seems that you can grab a game almost anywhere you go.
Yeah, they're definitely idiots

Hey, it might still be easy to get a GW game in America but the same ain't true for the whole world.

Australia actually has a disproportionately huge volume of GW sales, if you compare their sales and their population, to North American/European sales to their respective populations.

And that doesn't even include 30k, which seems to be pretty popular there.

And yet our FLGSs seem to have for the most part stopped caring about GW if not stopped stocking them entirely. GW gaming seems to be mostly restricted to GW stores while FLGSs and clubs seem to do little in the way of it. Anecdotal sure but from what I've seen of our 3rd and 6th biggest cities is that x wing, warmachine, and infinity games are easy to come by, but outside of a GW store there isn't much at all for 40k and I've yet to see anyone outside a GW store express any interest in AoS at all.

Slightly less anecdotal but out largest FLGS stopped stocking them entirely. I think the reason the figures on the last financial report look as good as they do is that GW's plan to divert as many sales as possible to their direct channels has worked. Those who by GW here do it from GW, netting them the full retail price instead of the 60-70% they would have sold it to a FLGS for. The problem is they have lost a lot of market share doing that.