All the folks banging on about how 3D printing going to kill the miniatures business, at the moment the professional standard printers that companies like Raging Heroes use to print the masters that they make the moulds from still need to be touched up with greenstuff to get them up to standard. It's like inkjet printers didn't replace books or photographs, they aren't a mass production technology.
Miniatures are expensive, get over it, go on ebay and buy second hand. Warmahordes is cheaper and more balanced but the minis and fluff are rubbish. Malifaux and Infinity are set in interesting worlds with lovely mini's but they're skirmish games, they're different things. Malifaux doesn't even use dice.
How many of you going on about how the quality has dropped have actually went out and got the new tactical marine squad when it came out and put them together? I mean actually got your hands on them?
GW is going through a massive restructuring and is pumping out new releases at an unprecedented rate, it dosent suprise me that they haven't made as much last year because they have been investing in their products.
Those lazy fucktards at ChapterHouse haven't helped, in fact they have taken a lot of the fun out the hobby because now every Codex entry must have a model. The new Nid codex ended up getting smaller, the whole gaming in gaps, make your own stuff has been squeezed out so a company that makes crap miniatures (by anyone's standard) but can afford good lawyers couldn't be bothered to do what every other bits company in the industry does and use slightly different names. It's the gamers and quality third party suppliers, the good ones who have suffered.
And looking at those profit margins is it any surprise they protect their IP, I mean FFS Fallout 3...
Miniatures are expensive, get over it, go on ebay and buy second hand. Warmahordes is cheaper and more balanced but the minis and fluff are rubbish. Malifaux and Infinity are set in interesting worlds with lovely mini's but they're skirmish games, they're different things. Malifaux doesn't even use dice.
How many of you going on about how the quality has dropped have actually went out and got the new tactical marine squad when it came out and put them together? I mean actually got your hands on them?
GW is going through a massive restructuring and is pumping out new releases at an unprecedented rate, it dosent suprise me that they haven't made as much last year because they have been investing in their products.
Those lazy fucktards at ChapterHouse haven't helped, in fact they have taken a lot of the fun out the hobby because now every Codex entry must have a model. The new Nid codex ended up getting smaller, the whole gaming in gaps, make your own stuff has been squeezed out so a company that makes crap miniatures (by anyone's standard) but can afford good lawyers couldn't be bothered to do what every other bits company in the industry does and use slightly different names. It's the gamers and quality third party suppliers, the good ones who have suffered.
And looking at those profit margins is it any surprise they protect their IP, I mean FFS Fallout 3...