Warhammer World

[grailkeeper]

Some of my friends are travelling to England to play in Warhammer world.

 

Has anyone here been there recently? What are the requirements for armies- are they looser about paint levels /3d printed parts than at events? What are the staff like about that kind of thing?

 

Any recommendations for things to do ?

[TheArtilleryman]

5 hours ago, grailkeeper said:

Some of my friends are travelling to England to play in Warhammer world.

 

Has anyone here been there recently? What are the requirements for armies- are they looser about paint levels /3d printed parts than at events? What are the staff like about that kind of thing?

 

Any recommendations for things to do ?

If you’re just booking a table for a casual game then I don’t think anyone is going to care. I played a game there a few months ago and nobody came to check on us. I had two very obviously printed Leman Russes on the table as well.

[N1SB]

16 hours ago, grailkeeper said:

Any recommendations for things to do ?

 

My friend Timperial Guard went and he bought this me:

 

 

A Bugman's whiskey flask, because true friends know his friend's drinking habits...unfortunately.  So things to do:

 

- LOTS of Warhammer World exclusive souvenirs

- Beyond the exclusive, lots of limited time items, like those reprints of 1st ed 40k: Rogue Trader
- Quite a few Forgeworld things you might've forgotten about

 

And this one Timperial Guard did at my request, and I share it with your friends as a suggestion:

 

- Walk around the 3 Factories.  They're very small, but create more than half a billion £ in Revenue

 

You've heard me go on about the 3 Factories, production capacities/costs for a long time.  Your friends can see it for themselves.  You can see their reaction when the come back and tell you all about their pilgrimage.

 

I'll see Timperial Guard later today, will ask him if there's anything else, but the above was what he mentioned when he went last time.

 

Update, Timperial Guard did suggest another thing:

- there's a "Warhammer Museum", basically all the Heavy Metal miniatures, and these huge diorama projects

Edited Sunday at 11:15 AM by N1SB

[TheArtilleryman]

6 hours ago, N1SB said:

Walk around the 3 Factories. 

I didn’t even know this was a thing you could do, and I grew up down the road from WHW… 

[Firedrake Cordova]

1 hour ago, TheArtilleryman said:

I didn’t even know this was a thing you could do, and I grew up down the road from WHW… 

One of my relatives was working away in the area years ago, and dropped by to pick up an order for my birthday - they were led on a tour of the factory, and GW added a birthday card (the old EPIC box art with the Gargants).  

[N1SB]

18 minutes ago, Firedrake Cordova said:

One of my relatives was working away in the area years ago, and dropped by to pick up an order for my birthday - they were led on a tour of the factory, and GW added a birthday card (the old EPIC box art with the Gargants).  

 

Oh that is so good, I know that art, it was a cover of a white dwarf i ruined.  That's beautiful, what a wonderful family you have.  Like they were just buying you a thing, but they actually spent time on the tour, and even got a card.

 

Brother Grailkeeper, your friends might not be able to get the tour inside anymore, because they need to focus on producing more.  [Temporarily Not Available] is real.  But just seeing the size of it, these 3 Factories make basically the entirety of GW's Core business.  This is a FTSE 100 company now.  Those Techpriests inside those 3 Factories do NOT get enough credit for keeping them running day and night to supply the whole world.

[MARK0SIAN]

In terms of army requirements they do have an official policy but it’s not really enforced. I’ve played there with several 3rd party bits and models before, however they’ve always been within an army that is 90% GW models.

 

The staff don’t check your armies when you go in but they are around in the hall every so often. I wouldn’t advise anyone to use a fully 3d printed or third party army there, I think they’d probably draw the line at that if they saw it but they don’t care about a few pieces here and there. 
 

In terms of paint, I’ve seen people playing with a sea of grey plastic there before. They only enforce painting requirements for official events.
 

The exhibition space is awesome and well worth visiting whilst you’re there. There’s loads of cool dioramas and displays and they sometimes run a contest where if you can find the hidden assassin model in the huge diorama then they give you a free model of it. I’ve never managed to find it myself though.

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

Sort of related, but did GW close down the battle bunker stores or whatever they were called here in the US?