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 Eipi10 wrote:
To be honest, I am not very confident in the company's future.


If printing can kill GW then the hobby itself is dead (because it will certainly kill smaller companies). You might get small parts of the community that manage to not squabble to make their own rules based on inconsistent models, but you'd never regain the global appeal of Warhammer.

All that said people still pay $15 for a hamburger from top tier fast food joints.



   
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All that said people still pay $15 for a hamburger from top tier fast food joints.

So the world is already dead.

If you have to kill, then kill in the best manner. If you slaughter, then slaughter in the best manner. Let one of you sharpen his knife so his animal feels no pain. 
   
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Karol wrote:
All that said people still pay $15 for a hamburger from top tier fast food joints.

So the world is already dead.


In the 41st millennium there is only overpriced hamberders.
   
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 Daedalus81 wrote:
Karol wrote:
All that said people still pay $15 for a hamburger from top tier fast food joints.

So the world is already dead.


In the 41st millennium there is only overpriced hamberders.



i^'ll , well, just going to steal this for my 9th ed sig like the filthy renegade i am

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GW:"Space marines got too many options to balance, therefore we decided to legends HH units."
Players: "why?!? Now we finally got decent plastic kits and you cut them?"
Chaos marines players: "Since when are Daemonengines 30k models and why do i have NO droppods now?"
GW" MONEY.... erm i meant TOO MANY OPTIONS (to resell your army to you again by disalowing former units)! Do you want specific tyranid fighiting Primaris? Even a new sabotage lieutnant!"
Chaos players: Guess i stop playing or go to HH.  
   
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 Gadzilla666 wrote:
Cute. But if you're going to combine chaos into one grouping shouldn't you do the same for Imperials? So 119. If you expect me to consider a Nurgle daemon to be a release that pertains to my Night Lords then it seems only fair to do the same by considering a new Tech Priest as a release that pertains to Space Wolves.

And I don't know how you think those pitiful numbers for Xenos factions helps your argument.


Sounds like your real argument is that GW did not release enough models for your chosen subfaction's playstyle. Which is different from what you were writing before. And yes, please go ahead and put all Imperials into one list. I'm totally fine with that. 119 to 77 is still a good ratio even not considering that one side includes the most pushed and most sold faction in the game.
If 77 - for the most part interusable and/or easily soupable - models for one combined faction still means "no focus on anything apart from Marines", then we simply have a different point of view.

If Eldar (or any Xenos race) had 77 releases distributed between Harlequins, Dark Eldar, Craftworlds and Corsairs they would have had the time of their lives.

My argument was not that all factions get equal attention. Mine was that GW does not focus attention on Marines only. The models on the site I cited don't have a release date with them, else I would have added that non-Marines get their releases usually not as often, but then in a bulk while Marines get single releases all the time. But I don't have numbers for that an thus it is only my personal feeling.


Not Online!!! wrote:

Chaos is now one faction supposedly and has 77 Releases whilest sm alone have 75 and Chaos should stop?
Not to mention Tau,orks etc?!?


Just to be clear, my bracketed sentence about Chaos was meant as a joke, hence the emoticons.
If you want to hear my opinion about it: Everybody should get more releases. I'm not arguing for Chaos or Marines to get less. I was only showing numbers to counter the implied statement that only Marines get attention.
Chaos isn't one faction, but in the context of 8th edition rules in which these models were released, you can easily soup them together or use them in your army as "count as". Thousand Sons HQ for your psyker, Poxwalker for your Cultists and so on. You can even soup them now, admittedly at a higher cost than before.
I don't want to go down that discussion path, as one could argue old marines did not get anything for the whole edition outside of one made to order scriptor, a GW store opening captain and some random tac marines in single random chance booster packs.

Would still be more than Tau, though

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Stop taking orks an example!

The number of releases we are getting is just perfect, and we don't have any real holes in our codex that need to be stuffed, unlike many of the newer factions do.

If they keep releasing stuff at the same pace they did in 8th and update some of our ancient models while doing so, I'll be a happy warboss for years to come.

7 Ork facts people always get wrong:
Ragnar did not win against Thrakka, but suffered two crushing defeats within a few days of each other.
A lasgun is powerful enough to sever an ork's appendage or head in a single, well aimed shot.
Orks meks have a better understanding of electrics and mechanics than most Tech Priests.
Orks do not think that purple makes them harder to see. They do think that camouflage does however, without knowing why.
Gharkull Blackfang did not even come close to killing the emperor.
Orks can be corrupted by chaos, but few of them have any interest in what chaos offers.
Orks do not have the power of believe. 
   
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 Jidmah wrote:
Stop taking orks an example!

The number of releases we are getting is just perfect, and we don't have any real holes in our codex that need to be stuffed, unlike many of the newer factions do.

If they keep releasing stuff at the same pace they did in 8th and update some of our ancient models while doing so, I'll be a happy warboss for years to come.


Yeah a new combined boyz+kommandos kit to spice up the many copies of the old boyz kit I own and id be basically set for orks for the year.

I have many more armies I feel are in more dire need for new stuff.

"Got you, Yugi! Your Rubric Marines can't fall back because I have declared the tertiary kaptaris ka'tah stance two, after the secondary dacatarai ka'tah last turn!"

"So you think, Kaiba! I declared my Thousand Sons the cult of Duplicity, which means all my psykers have access to the Sorcerous Facade power! Furthermore I will spend 8 Cabal Points to invoke Cabbalistic Focus, causing the rubrics to appear behind your custodes! The Vengeance for the Wronged and Sorcerous Fullisade stratagems along with the Malefic Maelstrom infernal pact evoked earlier in the command phase allows me to double their firepower, letting me wound on 2s and 3s!"

"you think it is you who has gotten me, yugi, but it is I who have gotten you! I declare the ever-vigilant stratagem to attack your rubrics with my custodes' ranged weapons, which with the new codex are now DAMAGE 2!!"

"...which leads you straight into my trap, Kaiba, you see I now declare the stratagem Implacable Automata, reducing all damage from your attacks by 1 and triggering my All is Dust special rule!"  
   
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a_typical_hero wrote:
 Gadzilla666 wrote:
Cute. But if you're going to combine chaos into one grouping shouldn't you do the same for Imperials? So 119. If you expect me to consider a Nurgle daemon to be a release that pertains to my Night Lords then it seems only fair to do the same by considering a new Tech Priest as a release that pertains to Space Wolves.

And I don't know how you think those pitiful numbers for Xenos factions helps your argument.


Sounds like your real argument is that GW did not release enough models for your chosen subfaction's playstyle. Which is different from what you were writing before. And yes, please go ahead and put all Imperials into one list. I'm totally fine with that. 119 to 77 is still a good ratio even not considering that one side includes the most pushed and most sold faction in the game.
If 77 - for the most part interusable and/or easily soupable - models for one combined faction still means "no focus on anything apart from Marines", then we simply have a different point of view.

If Eldar (or any Xenos race) had 77 releases distributed between Harlequins, Dark Eldar, Craftworlds and Corsairs they would have had the time of their lives.

My argument was not that all factions get equal attention. Mine was that GW does not focus attention on Marines only. The models on the site I cited don't have a release date with them, else I would have added that non-Marines get their releases usually not as often, but then in a bulk while Marines get single releases all the time. But I don't have numbers for that an thus it is only my personal feeling.


Not Online!!! wrote:

Chaos is now one faction supposedly and has 77 Releases whilest sm alone have 75 and Chaos should stop?
Not to mention Tau,orks etc?!?


Just to be clear, my bracketed sentence about Chaos was meant as a joke, hence the emoticons.
If you want to hear my opinion about it: Everybody should get more releases. I'm not arguing for Chaos or Marines to get less. I was only showing numbers to counter the implied statement that only Marines get attention.
Chaos isn't one faction, but in the context of 8th edition rules in which these models were released, you can easily soup them together or use them in your army as "count as". Thousand Sons HQ for your psyker, Poxwalker for your Cultists and so on. You can even soup them now, admittedly at a higher cost than before.
I don't want to go down that discussion path, as one could argue old marines did not get anything for the whole edition outside of one made to order scriptor, a GW store opening captain and some random tac marines in single random chance booster packs.

Would still be more than Tau, though


Also if one looks at the chaos releases on the whole across 8th edition it's a pretty damn solid release pattern.

8th edition saw the compleition of basicly a total refresh of the chaos deamons line (something that had begun in 7th edition with Khrone) a refresh of the core CSM units, the launch of two new armies (technicly 3 but the models side of things for 1k sons was 100% done by late 7E) over all 8th edition was the release of a entire new range fo space marines, and a "near complete chaos reboot"

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 Daedalus81 wrote:
3D printing would have to be in vogue for more than just wargaming to be cheap like ink printers are now. But given the required technical ability it will remain a niche industry. Sure, wargamers will tend to own them more frequently than the general population, but the effort it'd take to print a squad will still be much more than the instant gratification of driving to the store and having something ready to go.

If 3D printers became so good and easy to use I could see GW selling them and licensing out model files, but that's a really good long time from now.


There is absolutely no way that doesn't happen with 3D printing technology, compare what you could buy for home use a decade ago to what you can buy now and the track it's on is obvious. There's just way too much potential there.

[Edit] Sorry, got entirely off-topic there. I own both Marines and Custodes, and honestly the base plastic Custodes line didn't really work even before Marines started getting a significant roster of Gravis units that could more directly compete with them.

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a_typical_hero wrote:
Spoiler:
 Gadzilla666 wrote:
Cute. But if you're going to combine chaos into one grouping shouldn't you do the same for Imperials? So 119. If you expect me to consider a Nurgle daemon to be a release that pertains to my Night Lords then it seems only fair to do the same by considering a new Tech Priest as a release that pertains to Space Wolves.

And I don't know how you think those pitiful numbers for Xenos factions helps your argument.


Sounds like your real argument is that GW did not release enough models for your chosen subfaction's playstyle. Which is different from what you were writing before. And yes, please go ahead and put all Imperials into one list. I'm totally fine with that. 119 to 77 is still a good ratio even not considering that one side includes the most pushed and most sold faction in the game.
If 77 - for the most part interusable and/or easily soupable - models for one combined faction still means "no focus on anything apart from Marines", then we simply have a different point of view.

If Eldar (or any Xenos race) had 77 releases distributed between Harlequins, Dark Eldar, Craftworlds and Corsairs they would have had the time of their lives.

My argument was not that all factions get equal attention. Mine was that GW does not focus attention on Marines only. The models on the site I cited don't have a release date with them, else I would have added that non-Marines get their releases usually not as often, but then in a bulk while Marines get single releases all the time. But I don't have numbers for that an thus it is only my personal feeling.


Not Online!!! wrote:

Chaos is now one faction supposedly and has 77 Releases whilest sm alone have 75 and Chaos should stop?
Not to mention Tau,orks etc?!?


Just to be clear, my bracketed sentence about Chaos was meant as a joke, hence the emoticons.
If you want to hear my opinion about it: Everybody should get more releases. I'm not arguing for Chaos or Marines to get less. I was only showing numbers to counter the implied statement that only Marines get attention.
Chaos isn't one faction, but in the context of 8th edition rules in which these models were released, you can easily soup them together or use them in your army as "count as". Thousand Sons HQ for your psyker, Poxwalker for your Cultists and so on. You can even soup them now, admittedly at a higher cost than before.
I don't want to go down that discussion path, as one could argue old marines did not get anything for the whole edition outside of one made to order scriptor, a GW store opening captain and some random tac marines in single random chance booster packs.

Would still be more than Tau, though

Nope, I was just pointing out the disingenuous way you're method of counting skewed the numbers. As I've said before in other threads: I don't want new models, I want new rules for the models I already have. Unfortunately gw seems either unwilling or unable to change older units stat lines and abilities except in a few fringe cases. That's one of the things that leads to the problem being discussed here, as loyalists have been getting a massive amount of new units, all with stat lines and abilities to work in the new rules and metas created by those rules, while older units are left to languish with stats that are less relevant in a game dominated by the PEQ stat line. Even when gw releases a new model for an older unit it almost always continues to use the same data sheet.

Loyalists can have all the ugly new models they want, I just want rules to make my old ones work against them. Enjoy your Repulives, Astreus, and Intercessors. I just want good rules for my Land Raiders, Fellblade, and Chosen.
   
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Totto wrote:
a_typical_hero wrote:
 Gadzilla666 wrote:
Thanks for the honest answer. Here's hoping that gw shares that opinion and starts paying attention to someone else. Hopefully the update for Necrons is a sign of things to come.

I would say GW is paying attention to other factions.

Model/Unit releases that I cared to look up for 8th edition which are NOT Space Marines:
Orks: 12
Custodes: 5
Mechanicus: 12
Eldar: 4
GSC: 17
Tau: 1
Sororitas: 27
Chaos combined: 77 - (Maybe GW should tone down the Chaos related releases to make room for less supported factions )

Space Marines combined: 75

Source: https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Category:Miniatures

Some are the same unit with different weapons, some are single troop leaders, some are from these "Heroes booster packs" or whatever.

Necrons overhaul is right around the corner with a bucketload of new miniatures.
New "lieutenant" style heroes for several factions have been teased officially.

I think people are more biased than they should be - given the numbers - against Marines because they seem to get something every other month




I just had to check this, whilst also going back a bit in time:

Miniatures released so far during 6th, 7th, 8th Ed (so since June 2012)

Space Marines: 170 +16 so far in 9th
Chaos Space Marines: 67
Chaos Demons: 42
Genestealer Cult:34
Orks:30
Necron:7 + 15 so far in 9th
Adeptus Mechanicus:21
Eldar:20
Tau:20
Tyranids:18
Astra Militarum:18
Chaos Knights/Imperial Knights:10
Adeptus Custodes:8
Harlequins:8
Drukhari:7
Grey Knights:1
Adepta Sororitas:?

I rest my case I mean Grey Knights getting one new model in 8 years and Space Marines getting 186...

Also I found this funny cause it's true (it's from https://www.reddit.com/r/Warhammer40k/comments/i4ttx9/ive_watched_a_dozen_battle_reports_of_necrons_vs/) Check it out



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 Daedalus81 wrote:
 Eipi10 wrote:
To be honest, I am not very confident in the company's future.


If printing can kill GW then the hobby itself is dead (because it will certainly kill smaller companies). You might get small parts of the community that manage to not squabble to make their own rules based on inconsistent models, but you'd never regain the global appeal of Warhammer.

All that said people still pay $15 for a hamburger from top tier fast food joints.
A hamburger is not a near-zero marginal cost good, an STL file is. It takes some very fancy business strategies to make zero marginal cost goods appeal to consumers at a profit-maximizing price. Not that it can't be done, but I am not confident in GW's ability to do it. Especially, when almost all successful ZMC goods very dependant on the first-mover advantage, while miniatures are much less so.

More importantly, GW =/= the hobby. A lot of old GW specialist games are shockingly well supported by the community considering their age and lack of initial support to begin with. And even then, GW isn't the reason most people enter the hobby. I don't know of anyone who plays warhammer because they stumbled into a GW one day, but I do know people who stopped/reduced their playing after a price rise, especially heresy players after FW went to "international pricing". That, and not the death of Alan Blight and the poor rules released after his death, killed the heresy in my area. Back on topic, I am not saying GW will go away, but I am staying GW might be reduced to BL and their specialist games section in the future since those are much more FMA dependent product lines.

The Newman wrote:
There is absolutely no way that doesn't happen with 3D printing technology, compare what you could buy for home use a decade ago to what you can buy now and the track it's on is obvious. There's just way too much potential there.

[Edit] Sorry, got entirely off-topic there. I own both Marines and Custodes, and honestly the base plastic Custodes line didn't really work even before Marines started getting a significant roster of Gravis units that could more directly compete with them.
I have a non-FW custodes-only army at 1000 points, and not bike spam to boot. It would say they worked about as well as necrons did in 8th; a really swingy, surprisingly durable, uncomfortably slow, bad at board control, and over-costed by about 10%. Larger, full-size games tend to amplify their problems and diminish their positives. 9th core rules fixed a lot of the custodes fundamental issues, and their very light point changes have helped them even more. They would have been a mid-tier army at worst, but marines can do everything they can do, just for so much less.
   
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 Daedalus81 wrote:
...If printing can kill GW then the hobby itself is dead (because it will certainly kill smaller companies)...


I don't know if the 3d printing apocalypse is really going to overrun GW. They've been pushing their minis design towards the fiddly and hard to 3d print for a while now; a desktop FDM printer can do a great Rhino, sure, but the kind of tiny fiddly bits involved in stuff like Szeras isn't really doable. STL printing might threaten them at some point but I don't know if STL printers are ever going to be the kind of cheap desktop toys FDM printers are given the problem of fumes, and commercial STL printing is still more expensive than just buying stuff from GW.

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