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Wondering who is in an area where the hobby is flourishing.

I know I am extremely happy with the 40K scene in my area. We havea few local leagues and 6 big tournaments every year.
We have friendly leauge and narrative events. People are going crazy for our game stores that have gaming tables.

the new and used market is just crazy. Mind you. I do wish I could get more value out of my used minis I get rid of to start new armies.

Our store is going nuts with 40k, and actually since I started the hobby 3 years ago, it seems to have attracted more people.

We are having a great time with it, and are keeping up with not only the GW 40k stuff, but also 30k and forgeworld (thanks Chinese recasters)

So if you happen to be in central Illinois, come check out a game.

My store has actually seen an increase in 40k activity in the last few days. I don't know if it'll last, but if it does I'm happy.

There's now a monthly tournament at one game store nearby and the local wargaming pages on Facebook have been pretty active. There's definitely more activity than during 6th edition. I'm finding that I'm having more fun too and planning out new armies in 40k and expanding into 30k with my Iron Warriors.

There's more 40k activity here in Baltimore than there was in Cleveland, despite there being roughly the same density of gaming stores. Compared to Ohio, I almost always see 40k being played when I pop into a FLGS.

Yep. Going strong here.

The ITC is flourishing, 40K is not.

The one store in my city of 250,000 people that sells anything WH sold a fair amount of miniatures when Kauyon and Tau came out. So that was neat. No tournaments though.

Yeppers doing well here. Very well, but as I've said time and again the prices of video games are getting stupid insane and quality is going down. Traditional games are on the rise in the entire city and 40k is a part of that boom in thanks to some excellent discounts which helps with our poor CAD.

40k is doing pretty well here, I think. Some shops have started up with extra 40k nights and that kind of thing, and I see a lot of peeps walking off with armfuls of models when it comes to sales days like Boxing Week. There has been an uptick in 2015 of people who have asked me if I'm interested in their group.

 Gamgee wrote:
Yeppers doing well here. Very well, but as I've said time and again the prices of video games are getting stupid insane and quality is going down. Traditional games are on the rise in the entire city and 40k is a part of that boom in thanks to some excellent discounts which helps with our poor CAD.

The problem with video games isn't that their quality is sucky (though some really are sucky), it's that even the good ones end up being so same-y. It's like, they took my favorite 5 games, and made 250 different versions of them, each priced at $60. Woohoo... cheers, but I'm not going to buy them ALL, lol

Still, video games here sell really well. I'm just a little tired of them ATM, though I did pick up Dragon Age Inquisition (knock-off of prior DA games), Divinity: Original Sin (knock-off of Diablo), and Halo 5 (knock-off of Halo games) during boxing week. God knows when I'll play them -- for Inquisition and Halo... literally, the only reason I bought them was to follow the story.

 Polonius wrote:
There's more 40k activity here in Baltimore than there was in Cleveland, despite there being roughly the same density of gaming stores. Compared to Ohio, I almost always see 40k being played when I pop into a FLGS.

Recess misses you! Hope to see you again at Adepticon.

-Josh

The problem with video games isn't that their quality is sucky (though some really are sucky), it's that even the good ones end up being so same-y. It's like, they took my favorite 5 games, and made 250 different versions of them, each priced at $60. Woohoo... cheers, but I'm not going to buy them ALL, lol

Remind me again how many Space Marine kits you own?

To the nearest hundred?

It's pretty much dead, or really really good at hiding, where I am and pretty much limited to the local GW store (which I'm mildly surprised still exists)

That's mostly because of all the cheesy Eldar players, with their metal jet bikes and teeny tiny Avatars.

 Azreal13 wrote:
That's mostly because of all the cheesy Eldar players, with their metal jet bikes and teeny tiny Avatars.

Hush, and anyway that's mid-sized Avatar, I have another Avatar from I'd guess the early 90's that's even smaller, about Wraithguard size !

40k is dead at our club, heresy rains supreme, then infinity, then.... REALhammer

40k is pretty strong here in mid-Missouri. We have a dedicated open play night at my local FLGS and a tournament about every month. We have a pretty solid group of regulars and we regularly attract people from out of town to come play, so I would have to say the game is thriving around here.

40k goes through phases out here (NE Ohio). There are 3 game stores by me that sell 40k. One store is really trying to breathe life into the game with organized league play, but it has not grown larger than 8 folks.

Overall, it is really hit and miss. Other games like X-Wing, Super Dungeon Explore, and some others seem to be dominating the game scene right now.

In the Vancouver, BC area [as well as Vancouver Island], at least in my experience, there hasn't been any real surge in 40k, but it's still going strong.

I'm a LITTLE biased, because a majority of my gaming time is at the city's Games Workshop store, which is one of the best I know of, with five gaming tables, several staff and several tournaments a month [okay, some are just fun events or campaigns].

But don't get me wrong, I HAVE been to several FLGS, clubs, and independent tournaments over the last two years, and it seems like it's still going as strong as it was in 2009-2012, the last period where I was actively into the game and had money to expand armies.

Foodhammer, the last 40k tournament I went to, was a fairly big one, and it filled up fast. There was a waitlist in the week leading up to the event.

 Icculus wrote:
We are having a great time with it, and are keeping up with not only the GW 40k stuff, but also 30k and forgeworld (thanks Chinese recasters)
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The F? That is terrible! How the hell can people be okay with that? Chinese recasting should literally be destroyed. Counterfeiting is against the law, as is shipping counterfeit goods. It is not a crime to buy counterfeit goods, but if you know they are counterfeit they are evidence of a crime and should be taken from you. Knowingly possessing or purchasing counterfeit goods can be criminal depending on the case and it is DEFINITELY criminal to EVER resell them.

How the hell people can "thank" counterfeiters when it is so clearly against the law and immoral is beyond me. Many stores will not allow counterfeited goods to be used and some of these stores will confiscate them if they believe the person in possession knows they are counterfeit and will usually ban the person from the store.

How has nobody in this thread addressed this?

 Ryan_A wrote:

 Icculus wrote:
We are having a great time with it, and are keeping up with not only the GW 40k stuff, but also 30k and forgeworld (thanks Chinese recasters)
.

The F? That is terrible! How the hell can people be okay with that? Chinese recasting should literally be destroyed. Counterfeiting is against the law, as is shipping counterfeit goods. It is not a crime to buy counterfeit goods, but if you know they are counterfeit they are evidence of a crime and should be taken from you. Knowingly possessing or purchasing counterfeit goods can be criminal depending on the case and it is DEFINITELY criminal to EVER resell them.

How the hell people can "thank" counterfeiters when it is so clearly against the law and immoral is beyond me. Many stores will not allow counterfeited goods to be used and some of these stores will confiscate them if they believe the person in possession knows they are counterfeit and will usually ban the person from the store.

How has nobody in this thread addressed this?

Because some people don't care. Because some people think they can justify things like that. It hasn't been addressed because it has been before, with both sides thinking they are either right or unwilling to change. So instead of derailing the topic we just smile and carry on.

 Ignatius wrote:

Because some people don't care. Because some people think they can justify things like that. It hasn't been addressed because it has been before, with both sides thinking they are either right or unwilling to change. So instead of derailing the topic we just smile and carry on.

So when you see somebody talking about how great it is to save $40 by stealing from their local game store, you just shrug your shoulders and say "people do it all the time, saying something probably won't change anybodies mind"?

Classy.

Well I played my first real game in a few years last week.

Since my arrival the number of 40k players in New Delhi has tripled (to three)!

What I found was it was fun but my concerns about the sheer volume and insanity of the rules are well founded. Too many special rules, too many charts, too many formations, too much @#$%.

And the models seem to be less convertible and less characterful these days. It seems like nothing since Ogre Kingdoms has had any whimsy to it.

 Ryan_A wrote:

 Ignatius wrote:

Because some people don't care. Because some people think they can justify things like that. It hasn't been addressed because it has been before, with both sides thinking they are either right or unwilling to change. So instead of derailing the topic we just smile and carry on.

So when you see somebody talking about how great it is to save $40 by stealing from their local game store, you just shrug your shoulders and say "people do it all the time, saying something probably won't change anybodies mind"?

Classy.

Local game stores don't sell FW, in fact thanks to GW policy of sending stuff to FLGS, they offten don't have more then 1 item of normal w40k or WFB stuff either. If the stores doesn't sell it, then it can't be stealing.

Wondering who is in an area where the hobby is flourishing.

I know I am extremely happy with the 40K scene in my area. We havea few local leagues and 6 big tournaments every year.
We have friendly leauge and narrative events. People are going crazy for our game stores that have gaming tables.

How do you guys do it?

While I agree with Kid_Kyoto about silly rules and formations, I have recently arrived in Paris to find a nice FLGS where the 40k scene is tightly controlled by an "admin". The power level of the lists is always evaluated before being validated for play and we use some rule tweaks that make the game really enjoyable.

For example, our main scenario is the following:
- 650pts
- One (or more for bigger games) central objective and two auxiliary objectives. You have to start and finish your turn at 3'' of any objective to win 1 VP. Each auxiliary objective can only give you 2 VP before disappearing.
- Each player deploys and then sets one auxiliary objective in his opponent deployment zone. The player who goes second automatically win 1 VP and can move the central objectif 3'' toward his side.


This is very good to attenuate the proeminence of alpha strikes while forcing people to play offensively. No power builds, no freaking GW OP stuff, no WAAC and TFG since each match is reported so the group can share its feelings on a particular list or player's attitude.

These housemade rules have attracted roughly 20 players so far and we try to bring more if we can. We have a friendly league and episodic big 6v6 battles so 40k is far from dead in our area. But I have to recognize the store itself lives thanks to WMH, X Wing, Infinity and Magic. 40K cost is just to heavy to bear for them while selling fewer and fewer.

But won't such scenarion just get dominated by jetbikes and skimers zippying around the table and claiming objectives every turn, where a slow moving army like IG won't even be able to take basic stuff, because GW forgot to give them cheap msu options.

My Warhammer 40k group is expanding, both in players and armies. GW has us sold on 7th.

 Havok210 wrote:
40k goes through phases out here (NE Ohio). There are 3 game stores by me that sell 40k. One store is really trying to breathe life into the game with organized league play, but it has not grown larger than 8 folks.

Overall, it is really hit and miss. Other games like X-Wing, Super Dungeon Explore, and some others seem to be dominating the game scene right now.

You would be surprised of how many 40k players in the Youngstown area don't play at the shops. Most of us old boys get together at a buddies house on Fridays and Sunday's to play,there is about 15 of us who play in our group. There are about 4 or 5 basement groups that I know of in the Youngstown area who don't visit the shops to play. Some of the different members of these basements groups stop by on Friday nights to visit our group to see what's going on.

The orginnized league at that one shop your talking about is a total mess and won't attract to many. Guys are bringing IK in 750 pt games so it's more of a free for all then an escalation league. Unbound armies, play rules as written, no balance aspect what so ever in that league are major problems. Plus it involves money for a prize at the end and anytime you involve money it brings the worst out of people.

I don't play in the store really, only at friend's homes. I'm not in the age group of most of the regulars there. But there's plenty of plastic on the tables whenever I visit. Store Owner says 40k is doing well, but he makes most of his money still on MtG. He told me he can't sell AoS, everybody continues to play the last version of WHFB even if they buy the newer AoS models.

Iffy. It's definitely doing well at my store, but in my state it's a bit of a stall