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 Nevelon wrote:
Pre-ordered a box over amazon from my FLGS. Torn on “vote with your wallet” Want plastic aspects, but that price point is madness...

Little plastic ladies won out in the end though. So when the next box of aspects comes out, you can thank me for telling GW we wanted them and they were worth producing. And then curse me as you break out your wallet.

But I will be less likely to pick up the next marine kit they make, due to blowing my hobby budget on tiny screaming blenders. So that will send a message as well.

You were supposed to destroy the Sith - NOT JOIN THEM!

How much was it to make a ten man squad with the Finecast box sets? I don't remember. Would like to see a comparison.

Not that it's going to justify the price one way or another.

Aspect warrior finecasts sets are £25 each pretty much for all the aspect warriors at present. In several of them you also get 6 not 5 models (5 warriors, 1 exarch)

 Carnikang wrote:
How much was it to make a ten man squad with the Finecast box sets? I don't remember. Would like to see a comparison.

Not that it's going to justify the price one way or another.

I think it would have come to about £50 and you'd have enough parts for 10 Banshees and another two models that could be an exarch or something. Now it's £65 and you get just the 10 models.

I’m usually pretty easy going with GW prices as they are what they are, but these?

Expected the characters at £25 anyway, that was no shock.
£32.50 for 5 banshees though? Definitely a bad joke.
At that price they are competing with FW models and units.

Only reasons I’d ever buy them would be for cheap on eBay.
Or possibly if I needed them for a conversion and had no other options.

pm713 wrote:

 Carnikang wrote:
How much was it to make a ten man squad with the Finecast box sets? I don't remember. Would like to see a comparison.

Not that it's going to justify the price one way or another.

I think it would have come to about £50 and you'd have enough parts for 10 Banshees and another two models that could be an exarch or something. Now it's £65 and you get just the 10 models.

And the spare parts for the exarch or banshee 1 plus spare exarch weapons. About the only things you're missing for a 6 the warrior is a central head segment and backpack plate.

Jackal90 wrote:
I’m usually pretty easy going with GW prices as they are what they are, but these?

Expected the characters at £25 anyway, that was no shock.

Going by the Age of Stupidity characters released recently - or the GSC characters - I was expecting £17.50 or £20.

I can't see a reasonable reason for them costing more than the Biophagus or Abominant, let alone the Jackal Alphus,

Hell, these two are down at the same price as the two big WarCry beasties that just came out? That's insane!

Why would you think they'd be the same price as mostly unnamed characters(Ossiarch guy is an exception, as he was named) that AoS just got released from battleboxes?

They're the same price as the Marine special characters that came out with those books. All are 40mm with "scenic bases".

FYI You can get new banshees for £26 (20% off) for anyone who is interested. Its better than £32.50....

https://lvlupgaming.co.uk/collections/craftworlds/products/craftworlds-eldar-howling-banshees-pre-order

Apparently the despatch date for this is 03/07/2020 I assume that's the 7th of march and not the third of July lol...

Not sure if this will last long term as a discount but worth considering if anyone wanted to get these ladies so thought I'd share to save you some £££ .

I kinda feel like the new Banshees/Incubi kits are even too expensive for kitbashing due to how few bits you get in there. At least with the SoB Retributors I get so many extra bits that I can make 5 Retributors, 2 Cherubs, and then have a ton of left over bits for other crazy projects.

Even at the discounted price I ended up ordering a Lizardmen start collecting box(because new one is coming out so getting a cheap caronsaur is on last orders) and a skyrunner farseer/warlock.

This would have cost me the same as two boxes of the ladies. And I could certainly use another 10-20 in my army but just cant justify not getting carnosaur/dino conversion fodder and a jetbike space wizard for the same price.

Sure, it's nice that the set can be found at discounted prices in some stores/countries.
But as always, if the set had been 20% cheaper, so too would the discounted price have been. Regardless of whether you are accustomed to paying full RRP or X% off, you are paying much more for this set than for comparable sets released just a few years ago.

Did anyone noticed that the normal Infantry Banshees and Incubi are having new Base sizes (28,5cm) ?

It was noticed a good while back, but as GW doesn't actually sell those bases outside of kits at present I think its a detail many are overlooking until they do. Since right now you can't easily rebase your older models (I believe its not a commonly sold base size in general)

Yeah, and they still don't sell the new ork buggy base size (150mm oval). Those guys dropped in november 2018 so there's no real guarantee GW will accommodate anytime soon

It might also be that not enough people are bugging GW to release the bases

Oh sure, maybe. Maybe they're just cautious about Orks since their vehicles are very easily kitbashable and simply putting the conversion on a correct base size would alleviate many peoples fears in regards to modelling for advantage, thus losing out on sales on a quite expensive kit.

My point is simply that GW also might not release 28mm bases for a long while, we really don't know..

 ShortyPreds wrote:
Did anyone noticed that the normal Infantry Banshees and Incubi are having new Base sizes (28,5cm) ?

The same ones as in warcry and repentia sisters then.

Annoying size. I almost lost 1 from my repentia. Was already thinking I have to greenstuff myself copy once repentia box. not even 3rd parties have those yet

I will happily stick with my old 2nd edition Banshees, when it's cheaper to buy a Necromunda gang box with twice the models and twice the parts as the new ones.

 Argive wrote:
FYI You can get new banshees for £26 (20% off) for anyone who is interested. Its better than £32.50....

https://lvlupgaming.co.uk/collections/craftworlds/products/craftworlds-eldar-howling-banshees-pre-order

Apparently the despatch date for this is 03/07/2020 I assume that's the 7th of march and not the third of July lol...

Not sure if this will last long term as a discount but worth considering if anyone wanted to get these ladies so thought I'd share to save you some £££ .

Everyone is different regarding their situation, but I do wonder how many of us in the tabletop community actually buys directly from GW, without discount.

SamusDrake wrote:


Everyone is different regarding their situation, but I do wonder how many of us in the tabletop community actually buys directly from GW, without discount.

I'd wager as this is an internet forum, that most of us are buying at discount from legitimate stores where possible, with many also buying secondhand.
I'd say many aren't buying direct from GW unless that's the only place a product is sold. Simply put why get it from the GW store if you know other legitimate stores which offer discount for the same product.


That said more might buy direct from GW if they are gaming/hobbying at a local GW store to them. IT might be all their buying, or only some of it, but in general wargamers are fairly good at understanding the concept of supporting the income of their local stores when that store also provides for a hub for community and club and gaming activities.

also as a lot of GWs income is from young, new players and collectors a decent chunk of that will come from parents buying them stuff, and they may well have no real idea of specialist places to buy wargaming stuff so go to game workshops site (especially as Amazon, a lot of folks go to for generic online shopping doesn't have a great range and is often more expensive)

I'm always surprised at how poor Amazon UK's offering of Warhammer products is. Considering its such a huge platform for selling almost everything, Warhammer is a really odd enigma.

Because of GW terms and conditions it is not Amazon selling it but 3rd parties using the website

and there are a lot selling table top stuff in general for more in hope people don't check the real price.

but yes, you get every other TT game easier via Amazon than GW's core games

 Overread wrote:
It was noticed a good while back, but as GW doesn't actually sell those bases outside of kits at present I think its a detail many are overlooking until they do. Since right now you can't easily rebase your older models (I believe its not a commonly sold base size in general)

It is super annoying, it is a good base size and I'd like to use them more.


Also, does anyone have a good picture of the alternative heads the Banshees come with?

I don't have one but the hair remains the same. In fact the hair itself is made of three parts, two hair sides and a central core which has some hair, the neck and also a series of hair knots that raises the hair up into that tall plume.

The heads then fit in front. If you go for a regular then the cone of the head covers the hair knots, whilst the alternative head is an exposed scalp with the mouth section for the screaming amplifiers. A bit like when Darth Vader has his head helmet taken off. Of course with no cone the hair knots remain exposed on the top of the exposed head.

 Crimson wrote:

 Overread wrote:
It was noticed a good while back, but as GW doesn't actually sell those bases outside of kits at present I think its a detail many are overlooking until they do. Since right now you can't easily rebase your older models (I believe its not a commonly sold base size in general)

It is super annoying, it is a good base size and I'd like to use them more.


Also, does anyone have a good picture of the alternative heads the Banshees come with?

Here you go bud.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/09/09/psychic-awakening-the-first-prophecygw-homepage-post-4/

 Argive wrote:

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/09/09/psychic-awakening-the-first-prophecygw-homepage-post-4/

That's the Exarch, I meant the alternate normal Banshee head.

~They are mostly the same, only the mouth is covered with the mask. The mask is basically the same as the one with the cone helm. So three segments

 Crimson wrote:

 Argive wrote:

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/09/09/psychic-awakening-the-first-prophecygw-homepage-post-4/

That's the Exarch, I meant the alternate normal Banshee head.

It should be on the war com PA section for PR somewhere.