Games Workshop/Warhammer

I use to many years ago. It's certainly an expensive hobby, and a time consuming one. I didn't really have the patience for it. Painting the same model 20 times gets old. I painted single figures for a while, then boxed it all and threw it all up into the loft.

The complete paint set including carrying case retails for £100+ these days.
 
At one point i was very intested in warhammer, and nearly started it, but as soon as i saw that its not realy viable to use any of the more fun stuff i thought it was a bit stupid and luckily i didnt spend any money on it.

If the more cost was dependent on the actual value of the cost to make, and not based on the value of the unit in the game, then it would have been a fun game as more people could field the more unique and powerfull stuff. Also since you have to have a huge army to use the most powerfull stuff, chances are most battles will just end up as small things where you only use a couple dozen units, maybe a few vehicles, but nothing big or special.
 
I love the idea that the worlds changed so warhammer isnt an option for kids today!

I used to have a set of about 9 or 10 mates who all played warhammer (we were into fantisy more) then all play n64 and playstation (we all had one or the other so 4 player games was generally a given) and that was most of our weekends and friday nights till we were about 13 or 14.

I think GW shoots it self in the foot in so many ways that it almost makes me want to play again out of pity. Prices have risen (fact) and it doesnt feel like you get anything new (like good old night goblin spinny thing guys are now £7, from £6, for 3 and they still break and lose the balls :(). I think the staff in the shops (my 2 local ones are belfast n MK) and, even though they are a few hundred miles apart, the same (crap) death metal band is on in the background coupled with some crazy 20 year old taking it all far too seriously. To prove a point me and a mate (both english as it gets) go into the belfast store as its the most odvious place to find someone who knows about magic the gathering cards. The guy was fine telling us where the shop we needed was once we listened to his rant at why we should play! We then noticed how secluded his world was by not being able to tell us in relation pubs or clubs (which would have save 10 mins...).

Anyway my point is GW puts out an image of sad people that just stay inside all the time coz their mummy wont let them out late (depressing). Im not saying Warhammer of for these people at all, im tempted to find mine again oneday and play..., but i does give that impression though the people it mans stores with and the atmosphere.

/end rant
 
Makes me feel old reading this... started playing 15-16 years ago or so, haven't played regularly for the past 10. Never was much into painting and collecting, spent more money on rulebooks which I still take down and read again occasionally. Was a fantastic hobby which I felt was going downhill a bit while I was still playing it - rules becoming simplified, miniatures becoming more cartoony and obviously being targetted at younger and younger audiences as the years went past, so it was a fantastic surprised when I popped into a store a few months ago and found that it was almost back to its old standard, rules becoming more in-depth without being cluttered and models returning to that grittier dark fantasy look they used to have. Having said that, I don't like the current WH40k rules. They seem to be based on 3rd edition - I started playing with 2nd edition and thought that 3rd was a massive oversimplification. However, a friend bought the latest Fantasy Battle rulebook and it was fantastic - it seems to have taken nothing away in terms of complexity and tactical options but clarified practically every single grey area that we have ever argued over back when we were playing! :D I was also astonished at the amount of stuff they've put on their website, not just extensive rules clarifications but all the mods and scenarios which I think in my day they would've made into an expensive boxed set and sold separately rather than making them available over the net for free!

Me and said friend actually played a couple of games in the last few months. One was a 750 points game of WFB 4th ed (the one we started on), which only served to make us realise how broken that game was, and the other a similarly small game of 7th edition, which went much more smoothly - surprisingly so considering how long it had been since either of us had played and the fact that we'd never played using that rulebook before. I'd love to play more, but I'm never gonna have the space and time to collect models again (we actually used slottabases for that last game since our models are all back in Cyprus), and tbh it's only appealing to play against the friends I played with back then because we get all our old rivalries going again and there's this sort of rock-paper-scissors metagame between us which was immense fun! ;)

I actually got into it with Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, thought it was one of the best RPGs out there despite the rules being so easy to exploit - no other fantasy setting ever really did it for me to quite the same degree. It was one of my greatest sorrows as a gamer that the original Warhammer Online got canned, it would have been the best MMO ever made in my opinion. The way it was canned also epitomised the reasons I left the hobby, it was just too disheartening to watch the increasing monetisation of the game and the degree to which corporate culture was encroaching upon it. I had emailed Rick Priestly at the time to express my condolences and I was astounded that he actually replied, even though he was GW's board of directors and was involved in 2 other companies at the same time, and I wish there were more people like him among the GW executives - people who'll talk on equal terms to a fellow hobbyist even if he's a snotty adolescent and doesn't act as if he "owns" the hobby (in either a monetary or a creative sense).
 
Used to play when I was 14/15, about 6 years ago. Had a circa 700 point Eldar army. I never really palyed the game enough to actually commit everything to memory, but I did enjoy it when I played. My favourite bit was the building and painting of the models.
If I had the money, I would like to get back into it, perhaps just for the modelling aspect, but would like a well rounded army all the same in case a game pops up again. I did buy a basilisk not long ago just to have on display because it looks awesome. Though it's sat in my room half painted >_<
 
When i was at secondary school in the 2nd and 3rd year, i had hundreds of space marines and no end of tanks and the like.

Never played war games with them, just used to build them up and do scenes with them.

They were mostly desperate last stands as per the magazines and the majority of the GW art work, but what can i say, i was thirteen and that kind of heroic rubbish appeals when you are that age.
 
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