Reply To: Overpriced GW

[onlyonepinman 18062xp 1]

@wurzzel I would disagree quite strongly with the cost comparisons you are putting forward there:

• GW: 10 Cadian Shock Troops – RRP £30
• Mantic: 20 GCPS Troopers – RRP £22.50
• Wargames Atlantic: 24 Death Fields Trooper – RRP £25
• Northstar: 20 Stargrave Plastic Troops – RRP £20

Games Workshop are about 3 times more expensive than other similar products on the market.  You can argue about quality of the models if you like (although I would argue the Wargames Atlantic models are superior in quality to the GW ones) but as @waywarddarkwolf has highlighted, you don’t need super quality Miniatures to build an army with.  You want something of reasonable quality that’s going to look OK from about 3 feet away in large numbers.  All of the above ranges will achieve that for a fraction of the cost of the GW equivalent.  That is, in fact, one of the reasons I started to drift away from GW in the first place.  First I was looking to put my own stamp on my army, so I started looking for non-standard parts.  Then you find companies making full alternative model ranges.  Then you see the price difference and finally you see that they make their own rules or that other rules systems exist.  Before I knew it I had all but stopped buying GW models altogether and more recently I also stopped buying paints reducing my GW spend per annum to about £20 (I still like the washes).  Getting out of the GW hobby is really, really easy.