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The Tyranid Broodlord also seems to have been moved to the 'last chance to buy' section.

Men at Arms
High Elf Archers
Empire Free Company



All my favorite 40k conversion kits.

Guess it's time to get more Frostgrave Cultists and Soldiers huh?

Looks like a hell of a lot more. The entire Brettonian and Empire Ranges? All the High, Wood and Dark Elves?Dwarves?

WHFB is getting house cleaned.

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-AU/Warhammer?Nao=0&Nu=product.repositoryId&N=102253+4294965240&qty=12&sorting=rec&view=table&categoryId=cat440002a-flat

The whole brettonians range yes, but only bits and pieces from the others. A few nice character models going away and a couple of nice plastic kits but it is mostly the older and uglier stuff that is going. The empire still has 15 plastic kits left. That is twice as many as the Stormcast.

Anyone want to place bets on when the SoB move to the last chance section? It'll probably be soon.

When they do, it'll be the herald of the plastic kit. Just like everything else concerning SoB.

I think it's fairly obvious that if they haven't done it yet, they're content to just go through their current stock until it needs to be recast/just let it slowly fade away.

I fell I'm going to cry... so many memories... high elfs... empire... they are disappearing....

Chikout wrote:
The whole brettonians range yes, but only bits and pieces from the others. A few nice character models going away and a couple of nice plastic kits but it is mostly the older and uglier stuff that is going. The empire still has 15 plastic kits left. That is twice as many as the Stormcast.

Yep, this is not that big of a deal honestly. Mostly expected stuff (metals and Finecast) and ugly old plastic kits. Empire, Dark Elves, High Elves, Wood Elves and Dwarfs srill have most of their best kits available, with a few exceptions.

Yeah, but with GW, the worst is usually yet to come. I will be shocked if many of the Old World races don't go the way of Dwarves->Fyreslayers.

You kidding me?

In the last couple of months 2 entire armies have been dumped and now a big chunk of some other ranges has been "trimmed".

I mean, okay, in the grand scheme of things in the world, it's meaningless. But in the context of people who are interested in Games Workshop's games, it's a pretty big deal from where I'm sitting!

God, I love watching something I have loved for 15+years being slowly choked to death.

 AegisGrimm wrote:
God, I love watching something I have loved for 15+years being slowly choked to death.

You need to rip that proverbial bandaid off. It is already dead. There is something new now but it is not the thing you loved.

Chikout wrote:

 AegisGrimm wrote:
God, I love watching something I have loved for 15+years being slowly choked to death.

You need to rip that proverbial bandaid off. It is already dead. There is something new now but it is not the thing you loved.

..because it's not as good (sentence finished off for u)

 Da Boss wrote:
You kidding me?

In the last couple of months 2 entire armies have been dumped and now a big chunk of some other ranges has been "trimmed".

I mean, okay, in the grand scheme of things in the world, it's meaningless. But in the context of people who are interested in Games Workshop's games, it's a pretty big deal from where I'm sitting!

Sure, but the shock was AoS itself, not the trimming of the ranges. We all knew Brettonia was going away, and the culling of Finecast and Metal was nothing new, it had already begun in 40k. It's just that Fantasy had a lot more of these and a lot more armies being updated in a much shorter time. I will give you Tomb Kings, that was both entirely unexpected and quite regrettable... I loved that army.

I'd like to say seeing the elves lost doesn't bother me but it does. I hope I have enough stockpiled that the inability to get more does not become an issue.

Chikout wrote:

 AegisGrimm wrote:
God, I love watching something I have loved for 15+years being slowly choked to death.

You need to rip that proverbial bandaid off. It is already dead. There is something new now but it is not the thing you loved.

Luckily there's Kings of War to continue the Old World with. And even at 15mm, which is going to be my choice of scale, I can still keep most of the WHFB races alive in my house. Ral Partha's Demonworld line will make me some beautiful Brettonians and Empire, plus other races in a great old-school GW aesthetic.

It's a little sad to see so many models - some great sculpts among them - disappear from the shelves.

But you know what I'll miss the most? The Empire cavalry's horses; they were the last miniatures still in production that had been available when I first started encountered GW's games. They were actually properly-scaled to their riders back then...

From memory, that makes Ragnar Blackmane the oldest sculpt still extant.

Chikout wrote:
The whole brettonians range yes, but only bits and pieces from the others. A few nice character models going away and a couple of nice plastic kits but it is mostly the older and uglier stuff that is going. The empire still has 15 plastic kits left. That is twice as many as the Stormcast.

I've officially completely lost track now; wasn't "getting rid of the unprotectable history-adjacent bits of the range" supposed to have been one of the reasons for AoS? Renaming your obviously-Renaissance-HRE-inspired plastic kits as "Freeguilders" instead of "Empire" isn't going to make that anti-pig-law moat any wider or deeper GW...

You're all missing the big picture here: getting rid of old stuff is the first step to getting new stuff. You can't have the thing that inspired 40K next to the thing that was inspired by 40K. You'll just confuse your new customers... confuse new customers... new customers... customers...

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Men at Arms
High Elf Archers
Empire Free Company



All my favorite 40k conversion kits.

Guess it's time to get more Frostgrave Cultists and Soldiers huh?

Yeah, Frostgrave couldn't have done anything to help their sales half as effectively as this. The free company had the same number of miniatures for the same price, with better sculpts. Now Frostgrave has the "bunch of ugly, vaguely fantasy plastic mercenaries" market locked down.

 the_Armyman wrote:
You're all missing the big picture here: getting rid of old stuff is the first step to getting new stuff. You can't have the thing that inspired 40K next to the thing that was inspired by 40K. You'll just confuse your new customers... confuse new customers... new customers... customers...

What new customers? Here are none. Killing of WFB and replaceing it with a bad joke. Making a gigantic mess out of 40k. Crushing the fantasy-range.
Well done, GW!

Well this is just sad. I knew it was coming for Bretonnians but that doesn't make it any less painful, especially since a chunk of the Wood Elves are going and I also had a Bret themed VC army too, all 3 armies that I have had "in progress" status for several years.

I can definitely understand why some people just want to pour petrol over it and set it on fire. It's just sad to see it finally go after a slow and painful death.

 Lord Fishface wrote:
From memory, that makes Ragnar Blackmane the oldest sculpt still extant.

The Goblin wolves?

 Ankhalagon wrote:
What new customers? Here are none. Killing of WFB and replaceing it with a bad joke. Making a gigantic mess out of 40k. Crushing the fantasy-range.
Well done, GW!

False. I'm a new customer because of AoS. (Yay anecdata!). I'm excited that GW is cleaning house and I can't wait to see what come's next. Although I can certainly understand the sadness in seeing one's favorite stuff get retired. But I come from video games, where everything is retired within months or a few years.

 Lord Fishface wrote:
It's a little sad to see so many models - some great sculpts among them - disappear from the shelves.

But you what I'll miss the most? The Empire cavalry's horses; they were the last miniatures still in production that had been available when I first started encountered GW's games. They were actually properly-scaled to their riders back then...

From memory, that makes Ragnar Blackmane the oldest sculpt still extant.

Snotlings still have models from the 80s
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Snotlings?_requestid=3209774

Though almost certainly they will be culled when Destruction gets updated.

Clanan wrote:

 Ankhalagon wrote:
What new customers? Here are none. Killing of WFB and replaceing it with a bad joke. Making a gigantic mess out of 40k. Crushing the fantasy-range.
Well done, GW!

False. I'm a new customer because of AoS. (Yay anecdata!). I'm excited that GW is cleaning house and I can't wait to see what come's next. Although I can certainly understand the sadness in seeing one's favorite stuff get retired. But I come from video games, where everything is retired within months or a few years.

When somebody says "everyone", "none", "nobody" etc in this context it is quite clear it is not meant to be taken literally.


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Chad Warden wrote:

 Lord Fishface wrote:
It's a little sad to see so many models - some great sculpts among them - disappear from the shelves.

But you what I'll miss the most? The Empire cavalry's horses; they were the last miniatures still in production that had been available when I first started encountered GW's games. They were actually properly-scaled to their riders back then...

From memory, that makes Ragnar Blackmane the oldest sculpt still extant.

Snotlings still have models from the 80s
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Snotlings?_requestid=3209774



Though almost certainly they will be culled when Destruction gets updated.

They'll be repackaged as "Orruk Bogey swarms" or something.

Haha, I know, Grim. As a newbie/fan of AoS, the constant wailing and gnashing of teeth can grate.

Clanan wrote:
Haha, I know, Grim. As a newbie/fan of AoS, the constant wailing and gnashing of teeth can grate.

Don't worry, with the huge success of Age of Sigmar... that will be going into the Last Chance bin soon enough.

The Auld Grump

 TheAuldGrump wrote:

Clanan wrote:
Haha, I know, Grim. As a newbie/fan of AoS, the constant wailing and gnashing of teeth can grate.

Don't worry, with the huge success of Age of Sigmar... that will be going into the Last Chance bin soon enough.

The Auld Grump

Hope so, you're one of the last holdouts.

What's going on? All of my favorite sculpts are going away forever, and being replaced by this ?



It's like every single time I check in to see what's going on with Age of Sigmar and GW lately it gets me pissed off. I'm very thankful that I can just stick with good old Warhammer Fantasy that I'm used to and pretend that the last year never happened.

 Mysterious Pants wrote:
What's going on? All of my favorite sculpts are going away forever, and being replaced by this ?



It's like every single time I check in to see what's going on with Age of Sigmar and GW lately it gets me pissed off. I'm very thankful that I can just stick with good old Warhammer Fantasy that I'm used to and pretend that the last year never happened.

What the hell happened to his torso?!