Reply To: Complexity for Complexity's Sake

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You’re exactly right. I don’t know why but it seems to be the norm for GW now. Maybe it’s CAD design issues, maybe it’s GW believing it’s own propaganda that it’s a boutique model company not a rules based gaming company, maybe GW has a “no space on the sprue” policy so their sculptors are breaking models up to fill sprues so they look good. If I had to bet it would be a little of 2 and 3.

I built a lot of Perry War of the Roses stuff lately, the sprues are clearly designed to build the unit and there’s space for other stuff but they left it blank. That’s the old school method, the box builds the minis and uses as much room as it needs today sprues are jam packed, which is great, but I wonder if filling the sprue has become so important that they’re artificially making minis more complex to fill the space.