Reply To: 40K: Attitudes towards Non-GW models and mods at organised play events

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Thanks for the reply, @crazyredcoat

So it varies wildly from event to event and the only way to be safe is to have official GW products.  I was watching their twitch channel the other day and I’m pretty sure I heard them mention something about models needing to be 55% GW (By volume, mass, visible surface area, or parts cut from sprue???), but I wasn’t completely listening.  Something was definitely 55%.  I think I’ll be using my Khorne Daemons instead for my casual Crusade thing, and I appear to have 80 power level of them in official models anyway.  Enough to get started and make some decisions.  We are happy to play non GW between us so long as everything is clear.  Its just always good to future proof.  I’d hate to spend hundred and months of time painting only to have to do it all again for official models.  i’d rather do it right firs time, or at least know what I’m signing on for.

Having seen some of the wording on events for the local GW store on FB I’m not really keen on going there.  They have event requirements like “You can field anything you like so long as it fits on one standard size GW case” forcing you to buy a GW case and allowing for massive skews in points level between armies while encouraging you to damage your models.  I hated their intro event: “Want to learn to play?  Bring along your fully built and painted starter army along with every rule book that mentions your models.  Now you have spent £150+ we will actually give you a demo game so you can find out if the game actually interests you or if you’ve just wasted all that time and money”.  This is the kind of thing that makes me really dislike GW as a company.  Never been to the store, but I have this fear that anyone at anything in there will be around 14 and I am 41.  They also seem to time most of their stuff to run for kids coming out of school so its over before I’m home from work.