Squidmar does Archon Studios Factory Tour

[Grotsmasha]

 

 

There's a great bit at the end showing the future of terrain, with from the factory, fully painted on the sprue terrain.

[Joe]

Calling Archon "Games Workshop's biggest rival" is remarkably disingenuous. Then again, we've had multiple videos from Squidmar recently where he just presents flat out incorrect information as fact, or completely makes things up.

 

The man is a certified idiot.

[phandaal]

11 minutes ago, Joe said:

Calling Archon "Games Workshop's biggest rival" is remarkably disingenuous. Then again, we've had multiple videos from Squidmar recently where he just presents flat out incorrect information as fact, or completely makes things up.

 

The man is a certified idiot.

 

Games Workshop's C-suite is shaking in their boots. Wait, by "shaking in their boots" I mean "swimming in their gold vault like Scrooge McDuck." 

[Alby the Slayer]

Yeah, he's not my cup of tea either.

It was better when he was not "famous".

Interesting to see something from inside the factory, though.

[DemonGSides]

I love the clickbait titles. I guess I should say, I love how upset people get about creators being forced to deal with mega corporations bull:cuss: algorithm to make enough to continue making art as their full time job.

 

The videos are usually good production value and no one here can complain about either person's ability to create art.

[skylerboodie]

It's an interesting look from the inside that we'll almost certainly never get to see from GW.

[Grotsmasha]

19 hours ago, Joe said:

Calling Archon "Games Workshop's biggest rival" is remarkably disingenuous. Then again, we've had multiple videos from Squidmar recently where he just presents flat out incorrect information as fact, or completely makes things up.

 

The man is a certified idiot.

 

Idiot? no. Playing the game? Certainly.

 

In the context of Heroic scale, mass-produced wargaming plastic injection models and terrain, who is GW's biggest competitor?

No snark, genuine question.

 

EDIT:

In terms of;

1- Scale of production,

2- Quality

Edited April 16 by Grotsmasha

[phandaal]

8 hours ago, Grotsmasha said:

 

Idiot? no. Playing the game? Certainly.

 

In the context of Heroic scale, mass-produced wargaming plastic injection models and terrain, who is GW's biggest competitor?

No snark, genuine question.

 

EDIT:

In terms of;

1- Scale of production,

2- Quality

 

As far as actual competition for the whole company, GW does not have competitors that cover as broad a range of heroic scale tabletop wargame systems as GW does (i.e., all the way from fantasy to sci-fi). You have to look at it by genre.

 

For Heroic scale sci-fi it is Star Wars Legion + Shatterpoint or Mantic's Halo Flashpoint. BattleTech is right up there with GW too but it is not a heroic scale game.

 

On the "fantasy" side, it is Cmon's A Song of Ice and Fire game. D&D minis sell bigly but they are not a tabletop game in and of themselves.

 

One interesting thing is the biggest competitors all have a big IP of their own to compete with.

 

Edited April 16 by phandaal

[SvenIronhand]

7 hours ago, Grotsmasha said:

In the context of Heroic scale, mass-produced wargaming plastic injection models and terrain, who is GW's biggest competitor?

 

Wargames Atlantic. Next question.

[sarabando]

5 minutes ago, SvenIronhand said:

Wargames Atlantic. Next question.

id say its a tie between Wagames atlantic or Warlord games. Warlord are a UK brand, lots of big names in wargaming working for them and lots of big boxed games.

[phandaal]

9 minutes ago, sarabando said:

id say its a tie between Wagames atlantic or Warlord games. Warlord are a UK brand, lots of big names in wargaming working for them and lots of big boxed games.

 

Wargames Atlantic is awesome, I have plenty of their stuff. In terms of sales though they do not make the top lists.

 

For example, here is the latest one from ICV2 (they just released Q4 2024 results a couple of weeks ago): https://icv2.com/articles/markets/view/59244/top-miniatures-lines-fall-2024

[Rain]

I'm pretty sure GW is in a league of their own in this space. It's not even a duopoly like Boeing and Airbus; or Nvidia and AMD; it's GW and a pool of comparably tiny also-rans that probably sell less of their entire ranges than GW sells their 39 different kinds of Primaris Lieutenant by revenue in any given year. 

 

Comparing the relative size of GW's competitors to GW is like comparing the relative distances of various people's heads to the sun.