No kidding. Space Marine was a great game concept and somehow people were "worn out on chainswords."Xan Krieger said:Want money? Make Space Marine 2, many of us would love it. Yes THQ is gone but still surely someone can pick up where they left off.
You could buy them online up til they updated their site a few months ago...though what was available had steadily dropped off.Jamieson 90 said:Of all GW's games Necromunda was the cheapest and by far the best. Unlike Warhammer or 40k all you needed was a gang of 10-14 men, possibly up to 20 if you wanted a fully converted gang so you didn't have to worry about weapon restrictions. Unfortunately, like a lot of GW's specialist games, Necromunda was phased out years ago and you can't even buy the models on their special mail order service since they don't even make them anymore.
You can still buy the old lead models off eBay though; you can get yourself a gang of 8-12 men for around £50 which is still way cheaper then what you'll pay for Warhammer or 40k models. I've not played it for years but I'm currently in the process of doing up a Goliath gang. My latest project has been to work on the heavies.
Yes. This. Also with a more interesting chapter. If you want to still avoid any risks, do it with space wolves, because nobody, NOT ONE PERSON, could possible hate viking werewolves IN SPACE.Xan Krieger said:Want money? Make Space Marine 2, many of us would love it. Yes THQ is gone but still surely someone can pick up where they left off.
Since when did the Escapist sink to British tabloid level of deceptive reporting? -10 respect from me, I'm afraid.Games Workshop CEO is happy with cutting their staff dramatically.
Actually mate, it is quite expensive. Little Timmy probably doesn't have £65 burning a hole in his pocket and even if he did he'd have to buy glue, paints, brushes and a craft knife (provided he doesn't have one of those already) unless he wanted to spend all day staring at the models on the sprue and wondering what might be. That's going to cost him at the very least another £10. More like £15 since they've bumped the prices up again. Then once he's done that Timmy has sunk almost £80 into having 2 small armies, of which he can only play one side at a time and hasn't got the codex to access either army's special rules or unit lists.Zykon TheLich said:It's not actually that expensive to get into for little Timmy in off the street. Starter set is £65, comes with the rules, scenario booklet, dice, Templates and 2 armies (48 models). Initially it looks pretty reasonable, compared to say Warmachine which is £75 and only gives you 17 models (+ the rules etc). It's the add ons that get expensive. First they get you hooked on cheap samples, then they jack up the price. That's how they work, they aren't completely stupid.
Er...years ago?Verlander said:Since when did the Escapist sink to British tabloid level of deceptive reporting? -10 respect from me, I'm afraid.
Well...in fairness, they are the best to start off with, being cheap and easy to use. And almost everyone plays them. And this ed you can have marines in your guard army anyway.The Harkinator said:*Just out of interest did any of you have this problem at GW? I collected Imperial Guard myself and asked the staff what was the best thing to start them off with, the man told me, "A Space Marine Tacticsl Squad." and wouldn't budge from his conviction that an Imperial Guard army should start off with some Space Marines. Just wondering if it's happened to you lot too becaus a couple of my friends (Ork and Necron players) said they had the same problem.
This is nothing new for Games Workshop. complete unfathomable business insanity is their standard operating model and has been for over a decade.Alexei F. Karamazov said:This saddens me. I've gotten really interested in the Warhammer 40K universe, and to see it's future in jeopardy... sigh.
In fact, I'm one of the young, new fans GW should be attracting. I've got a solid background of tabletops and RPGs, and I'd love to try learning Warhammer, but I haven't even looked at prices because why bother? The CURRENT players of Warhammer are talking about how the prices are insane; if people in the market are pointing out how prices are double, triple what they used to be, it instantly repels me. I'm going to be going to college; I have no income. I can only hope that GW survives to produce more cool videogames, which are at least affordable, until I reach an age where my credit is good enough to buy a starter pack, because by then prices should probably be double or triple what they are now!
You can (could with previous editions too, they got put under the banner of the inquisition) but why would you want to? Get them Mary Sue smurfs out of my army, battle cannons will sort them out *grumble*grumble*grumble*thaluikhain said:Well...in fairness, they are the best to start off with, being cheap and easy to use. And almost everyone plays them. And this ed you can have marines in your guard army anyway.
You could use Grey Knights in guard, or Deathwatch, not regular marines in regular guard armies.The Harkinator said:You can (could with previous editions too, they got put under the banner of the inquisition) but why would you want to? Get them Mary Sue smurfs out of my army, battle cannons will sort them out *grumble*grumble*grumble*thaluikhain said:Well...in fairness, they are the best to start off with, being cheap and easy to use. And almost everyone plays them. And this ed you can have marines in your guard army anyway.
EA stays profitable thanks to the yearly "same game with updated roster" EA Sports games, everything else could stop selling and they'd still make a profit just from the sports games (at least according to what I've read).Ieyke said:Soooooo, Games Workshops profits are DOWN by 24%...
.....despite cutting out a whole mess of management jobs, nerfing every last store down to a one-man operation, and "streamlining" distribution...
And the CEO acknowledges that GW wastes tons of money fighting idiotic IP protection battles that they actually CAN'T win.
He acknowledges that losing THQ and not having been able to replace them has lost them a MASSIVE chunk of their profits (which apparently used to come from royalty payments generated from licensing their IP's to THQ...).
And the CEO is......happy?
He thinks everything is going well.
Oh, and he's stepping down as CEO without having anyone ready to replace him.
What the hell-spawned kind of warp-logic does this company run on??
I'm pretty sure GW is EA-level crazy-stupid, except that GW actually makes cool stuff.
I can't figure out how either company stays in business. It's an enduring mystery.