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

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Well it’s rather telling how Victrix and the Perry twins can release plastics for under £1 a fig (and you can bet they pay more per sprue as they will not have the massive production run that GW has (which is what I meant by “economy of scale”), and GW’s efforts run between £4 and £30 per 28mm figure. They aren’t four times (or thirty times) better, although I do agree they are the best plastics out there (just ridiculously priced).

 

Put it this way if GW said that the rules in the HH box is going to be a self contained ruleset, that they have added not only the rules for the minis you get in the box, but also any “foreseeable” future releases for HH as well (they are indeed thick tomes, but I wonder how many pages are actually rules) then I’d be all over this box set in a raving manner trying to relive my days of youth and the RB01 box of Beakies and Rogue Trader. But I just don’t see GW doing that, instead it’s going to be special rules on cards (they’ve worked out they can sell those as well), releases AFTER the HH box (possibly individual chapters, leading to HH Space Marine Codexes). The same stuff that’s in the main codex in the HH box but with added rules for any boxes they release later, plus a bit more fluff to try and make you feel better that you’ve bought a big book for about 12 pages of rules. And on and on the GW rollercoaster goes (as they’ve found this form of releases to the fans just will scoop up the money).

 

I just wish GW could go back to doing the great figures (which is what they do best), but cease and desist with their version of  “Living Rulebooks” (where you have to buy a £30 rulebook every couple of months as they change things up). If they went back to doing the rules as they did in the 90s, with just a rulebook and then a “brief” army book for the Xenos races (where it was one book per army, for example ALL chapters of Space Marines had the same units and rules), and ACTUALLY playtested them perhaps before releasing them (to curb out that nasty habit they have of adding powercreep to the latest book/army to garner the avarice of the frothing tourney crowd). But alas I just see GW carrying on as they have done with 40K, but this time reselling the game to you under a HH banner 🙁

You know like most of the other gaming systems/rules do.