Reply To: A Multitude of Horus Heresy Starter Boxes sent to YouTube creators

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@redscope Beg to differ, but I DO have LOADS of the current edition of Necromunda. I’ve also got LOADS of Mordheim, Bloodbowl and used to have some big 40K armies back in the day (so I have been what most people would term a fanboi). But I have seen how GW has lead the market over the years and all the while the games have become more bloated (rulewise), and plastic minis even more expensive. The “buy in” for most of their mainstream games have become ever more expensive, yet look at the contents of these boxes and what does it cost to produce? Frankly Warlord have also become rather expensive as well (not as nice sculpts and I’ve never been a fan of Bolt Action). Yet look at what’s going in to produce the Power Washer mentioned before and you begin to see the profit margins involved. GW are a market leader and sells more minis than anyone, but where is the economy of scale?

 

£200 would probably get you a SAGA ruleset, a bag of Victrix Vikings and a bag of Anglo Saxons (120 figures for less than £80). Add terrain (and possible a mat) and you’ll not see much change from your £200. But the difference is that’s all you need, it’s “contained” and there’s going to be no ever constant FOMO releases and rulebooks added every time GW releases a new box of minis (as they did with the release of Necromunda Specialists, and the need to buy a £35 rulebook if you wanted to use them in the game). Make no mistake HH is going to be the same. And I’d argue the Victrix Vikings and Anglo Saxons (as well as the Normans) are just as good as a lot of GW’s releases. “Historicals” may not grab you in the same way, but at the end of the day it’s all about how much fun the game delivers. The SAGA example I’ve just used isn’t going to be a constant grind of keeping up with new releases and rules, instead you can read the rules and play. And a year later you can still play the same game (and perhaps spend more time refining your tactics on the table rather than working out that “Alpha Strike” army list). And trying to run a Necromunda game these days and delving into a dozen books means we spend more time reading rules at the table than pushing the minis around (which is the fun bit).

….and it’s a lucky kid that gets a £1000 phone (if I’d a had such a thing when I was a kid (although my folks wouldn’t DREAM of spending that much on a school age youngster) my dad would have stapled it to my hand so I couldn’t lose it and then made me wear a boxing glove inside a plastic bag sealed with duct tape so I couldn’t damage it 😀 )