My gut instinct given the new psychic power deck is that I'll be unshelving my Eldar and shelving my Tau. If anyone has any miscellaneous Eldar they are looking to get rid of, I'd be willing to take them off your hands.
I've got a ton of Warmachine Cygnar stuff to trade, but I can do cash.
...and if anyone has any 15mm 8th Army Brits, I want them as well.
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Can't wait to pay my $82 new edition tax
Really GW? 70 bucks for the rule book? You're making Fantasy Flight books look like bargain bin prices. Then there's the 12 bucks for the psycher cards. I guess you don't technically need them, but still. It's GW's way of tacking on some hidden costs to the new edition.
If I didn't already own three armies...
The Sunk Cost Fallacy - keeping people playing 40K for 25 years and counting.
If I didn't already own three armies...
The Sunk Cost Fallacy - keeping people playing 40K for 25 years and counting.
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
6th edition is Doom! DOOM! DOooOOooOOM!
I'm in full 6th edition panic mode. I don't want to quit 40K. Yeah, my xenos armies suck. Yeah, the prices are outrageous. But 40K will always be the miniatures game for me.
The problem is: I can't trust Games Workshop to release a good rules product. You can trust GW to release a cool model kit, but you can't trust them to release fun balanced rules. Sure occasionally they accidentally back into something resembling good (5th edition and a lot of the specialist games), but I don't think they know how to do it on purpose.
I haven't heard anything about 6th to get me exited. Then again, all I really want out of 6th is 5th with fixed wound allocation and with the standard cover save reset to 5+. Some slight revisions to make light vehicles less survivable.and heavy vehicles more so would not be unwelcome either. The core of 40K isn't broke. It's always been the extraneous details that have been the problem. Codexes have never quite interacted with the rules in a consistent manner across all the rule books. Mucking with the core rules in a big way while leaving the codexes in disarray as they are will not fix 40K. That's why I say doom.
If I trusted GW, I would be more apologetic. I'd have more relaxed wait and see disposition. As it is now, I feel like I should be hedging my bets. I should be getting ready to shelve my 40K stuff for the edition cycle.
It's irrational behavior because I haven't seen the new rules yet. But I can't be an observer in this. I've got time and money invested in this game. I want to continue to get a return on that investment by playing fun games. 6th edition feels like a sword dangling over my head. When it comes down, I might end up with a couple of worthless miniature armies. The local community could die out because no one else likes the new edition. Even if the new edition is good, I might still have to buy hundreds of dollars worth of models to get my armies playable and competitive in the new rules.
I really wish GW would mitigate this stuff. They should be previewing the new rules. Building hype. Managing expectations. Making me excited about the change. Letting me know I'm getting what I want, or at least make me think what I want is what I'm getting That's what marketing departments are for. Battlefront let people officially know 3rd edition for Flames was coming months in advance. They let people know what was changing before the book was out. They put the rules in the hands of their veteran players first! I don't expect a free copy of the new rules, but an official heads up would be better than incessant rumor-mongering in the blogsphere. Better on a galactic scale.
But maybe this is GW being smarter than we give them credit for. They know most of us will buy the new rulebook no matter what. They don't have to do anything, because they already got the core audience by the nose due to our already mentioned commitment of time and money.
That strategy seems to be working for them so far, and companies are loathe to change a working strategy(non-working ones a lot of the time too). You have to wonder how many times they can raise prices without raising value, how many times they can ignore the competition, and how many times they can patronize their customers before it's one time too many.
The problem is: I can't trust Games Workshop to release a good rules product. You can trust GW to release a cool model kit, but you can't trust them to release fun balanced rules. Sure occasionally they accidentally back into something resembling good (5th edition and a lot of the specialist games), but I don't think they know how to do it on purpose.
I haven't heard anything about 6th to get me exited. Then again, all I really want out of 6th is 5th with fixed wound allocation and with the standard cover save reset to 5+. Some slight revisions to make light vehicles less survivable.and heavy vehicles more so would not be unwelcome either. The core of 40K isn't broke. It's always been the extraneous details that have been the problem. Codexes have never quite interacted with the rules in a consistent manner across all the rule books. Mucking with the core rules in a big way while leaving the codexes in disarray as they are will not fix 40K. That's why I say doom.
If I trusted GW, I would be more apologetic. I'd have more relaxed wait and see disposition. As it is now, I feel like I should be hedging my bets. I should be getting ready to shelve my 40K stuff for the edition cycle.
It's irrational behavior because I haven't seen the new rules yet. But I can't be an observer in this. I've got time and money invested in this game. I want to continue to get a return on that investment by playing fun games. 6th edition feels like a sword dangling over my head. When it comes down, I might end up with a couple of worthless miniature armies. The local community could die out because no one else likes the new edition. Even if the new edition is good, I might still have to buy hundreds of dollars worth of models to get my armies playable and competitive in the new rules.
I really wish GW would mitigate this stuff. They should be previewing the new rules. Building hype. Managing expectations. Making me excited about the change. Letting me know I'm getting what I want, or at least make me think what I want is what I'm getting That's what marketing departments are for. Battlefront let people officially know 3rd edition for Flames was coming months in advance. They let people know what was changing before the book was out. They put the rules in the hands of their veteran players first! I don't expect a free copy of the new rules, but an official heads up would be better than incessant rumor-mongering in the blogsphere. Better on a galactic scale.
But maybe this is GW being smarter than we give them credit for. They know most of us will buy the new rulebook no matter what. They don't have to do anything, because they already got the core audience by the nose due to our already mentioned commitment of time and money.
That strategy seems to be working for them so far, and companies are loathe to change a working strategy(non-working ones a lot of the time too). You have to wonder how many times they can raise prices without raising value, how many times they can ignore the competition, and how many times they can patronize their customers before it's one time too many.
Monday, May 28, 2012
The winner is me
I took second/best general at G2D4's 1850 point tournament with my tau. Spag beat me out for top spot by .4 points, but we both went undefeated. There where only 16 people at the tournament this time.
The tournament was OK. The store owner talked the TO into using the Flames of War tournament software for bettor or worse. So, I don't know by what rubric pairings and scorings where determined by. The missions where all right except for the last one. It was king of the hill where winner was the person with the most victory points on the hill in the center of the table. Did I mention I was playing Tau? It didn't help that my opponent was playing Demons. I got lucky in that game. My opponent stayed on the hill, and I got the full 7 turns to shoot him off. I just barely tabled him with only one unit left to shoot.
I wish we would get back to doing the W/L style tournaments Hivefleet Indy was doing last year. The club's been a bit disorganized since a lot of time was being devoted by a few of the club's members to run the Indy Open. Hopefully we can get everything together and get our quarterly 36 man tournaments going again. GW could help by making sure 6th edition doesn't suck.
I used all my tournament store credit to by some Dust Warfare models. I got the Axis heavy walker, some recon grenadiers, and a Allies light walker. Now I can run 200 pt demo games more comfortably.
The tournament was OK. The store owner talked the TO into using the Flames of War tournament software for bettor or worse. So, I don't know by what rubric pairings and scorings where determined by. The missions where all right except for the last one. It was king of the hill where winner was the person with the most victory points on the hill in the center of the table. Did I mention I was playing Tau? It didn't help that my opponent was playing Demons. I got lucky in that game. My opponent stayed on the hill, and I got the full 7 turns to shoot him off. I just barely tabled him with only one unit left to shoot.
I wish we would get back to doing the W/L style tournaments Hivefleet Indy was doing last year. The club's been a bit disorganized since a lot of time was being devoted by a few of the club's members to run the Indy Open. Hopefully we can get everything together and get our quarterly 36 man tournaments going again. GW could help by making sure 6th edition doesn't suck.
I used all my tournament store credit to by some Dust Warfare models. I got the Axis heavy walker, some recon grenadiers, and a Allies light walker. Now I can run 200 pt demo games more comfortably.
Thursday, May 24, 2012
I'm keeping an eye on Dropzone Commander
The sculpts for Dropzone Commander are catching my eye. Haven't heard much about the rules except that everything starts off the table and must enter play by means of a dropship. Sounds a little quirky.
It would be nice to play a game at that scale that didn't include Spartan's stupid exploding dice mechanic.
It would be nice to play a game at that scale that didn't include Spartan's stupid exploding dice mechanic.
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
No, I Will Not Pay 75 Dollars for a Land Raider
You know what you can get for $75? You can get 11 orders of Chili Cheese Etoufe with Craw-fish from Yats for that. Hell, for two land raiders I could get Yats to cater a party of 30 people. Drunken Chicken for everybody!
Can't they keep the price increases to once every other year maybe? Are they not allowed to release a annual financial statement without marking off the, "Alienate your client base" option on the checklist?
I've apologized for GW profusely on this blog, and I can forgive a lot of the stuff they do as just being a big dumb corporation. I think Privateer's pricing is getting(has been) pretty stupid too.
I'm not going to say I feel entitled to lower prices from GW. I'm not saying that I'm going to quit the game in childish protest. What I am saying is that GW hit that magic number that's priced me out of buying anything from them at MSRP. No new armies for me. Maybe, just maybe, when the Eldar Codex lands I might buy a few things(online at 20% discount, sorry Jerry, blame GW).
I'm a young professional with a good job and no kids. I have some discretionary income. There's a problem when someone like me looks at the prices and goes gearghhhagagaga.
I'm just saying.
Can't they keep the price increases to once every other year maybe? Are they not allowed to release a annual financial statement without marking off the, "Alienate your client base" option on the checklist?
I've apologized for GW profusely on this blog, and I can forgive a lot of the stuff they do as just being a big dumb corporation. I think Privateer's pricing is getting(has been) pretty stupid too.
I'm not going to say I feel entitled to lower prices from GW. I'm not saying that I'm going to quit the game in childish protest. What I am saying is that GW hit that magic number that's priced me out of buying anything from them at MSRP. No new armies for me. Maybe, just maybe, when the Eldar Codex lands I might buy a few things(online at 20% discount, sorry Jerry, blame GW).
I'm a young professional with a good job and no kids. I have some discretionary income. There's a problem when someone like me looks at the prices and goes gearghhhagagaga.
I'm just saying.
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
How about some painted Dust Warfare models?
Just got finished with a few test models for my allies. What do you think?
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