Reply To: My 40k Story (and why I loathe GW.)

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Thanks for sharing @amachan and others.

I’ve been recently reorganising my hobby storage and unavoidably ran into bunch of my old 40k and WHFB armies. And man, does nostalgia hit hard at times. It’s the fond memories of the gaming and the gaming groups years (welp, decades!) ago. The time of my life when I would fall as sleep thinking about Warhammer and when all of my friends were wargamers or if they weren’t we would make them.

And I would actually have the option to back to gaming with the old miniatures and rules. There’s people at my club who do play 5th and 6th edition Warhammer and if I called my old friends they would probably be happy to come over for some games of 2nd edition 40k.

But I won’t. As I know the games would be disappointing. It won’t be like driving a classic car or listening to an old record. It will be just kind of shite. The modern games are just so much more fun and easier to play, and there’s many that work fine with those old models.

Speaking of old models, what I should do, is get painting some of them in old hammer style. And better yet, phone some of those old gaming pals and invite them over for some beverages and painting. That would be epic!

 

On the topic of loathing GW… While I’m not interested in their current games and if it was me, I would have taken them to different direction, I cannot say I loathe them.  Companies have to change and reinvent themselves or they will die. The competition for the time of the GW customer gets tighter every year, with people spending more time online, various forms of content and digital games. They’ve been in fact doing surprisingly well under all this change, despite holding on to the core tenets of building, painting and gaming which all take comparatively lot of time for a hobby. And hey, if the new direction isn’t for me, then I’m out, no hard feelings.