Horus Heresy New Edition, or Just Horus Hearsay?

[BitsHammer]

This year I went from being able to buy a Vindicator with a couple hours of work tops, to needing nearly 5 hours just to buy a single tank without me taking a pay cut at any point along the way. So I get the price issue, and things can be different for different people.

 

Honestly that price rise thanks to import taxes paired with the fumble with the lack of Zone Mortalis rules for this edition I feel really hobbled the edition out of the gate even if you're really into the edition as a whole.

[ThaneOfTas]

6 minutes ago, TheTrans said:

So for my group of 6-12 guys (depending on what game we're playing) we're lucky enough to all have garages where we can store terrain, and when we want a big catch up, we hire an Airbnb, take our terrain and go smash out games for a weekend, or just have tables set up at someones house, so our group (only speaking from this perspective) is not really reliant upon a FLGS for gaming, nor do any of us have particuarlarly close ties with any one FLGS.. so we generally, not don't care, but I'm not going to go spend an extra $300 more of my ever dwindling hobby funds for legit gear, at a FLGS that doesn't really do much for me, as opposed to get cheaper stuff for an army that I'll probably just use at home/airbnb or an event. 

Just chiming in as a fellow Australian voice, I genuinely don't believe that any of the (very few) FLGS' near me have any space to play and wargames anyway. The Warhammer store that's about an hour aways certainly doesn't. The only tables that I ever see are clearly sized and intended for MTG or other tcgs. Table space tends to be more the purview of local clubs in my area at least. And I also fully agree that the extra 10-12% off that we can get from a couple of online retailers really is the only way to go, I'll buy paints from a local store, but not much else.

[BitsHammer]

4 minutes ago, ThaneOfTas said:

Just chiming in as a fellow Australian voice, I genuinely don't believe that any of the (very few) FLGS' near me have any space to play and wargames anyway. The Warhammer store that's about an hour aways certainly doesn't. The only tables that I ever see are clearly sized and intended for MTG or other tcgs. Table space tends to be more the purview of local clubs in my area at least. And I also fully agree that the extra 10-12% off that we can get from a couple of online retailers really is the only way to go, I'll buy paints from a local store, but not much else.

After the '08 economic crash GW stores downsized to being shopping spaces that get people started but can't support actual games or events beyond small scale demos so no shock that it's not a real gaming space.

[TheTrans]

6 minutes ago, BitsHammer said:

After the '08 economic crash GW stores downsized to being shopping spaces that get people started but can't support actual games or events beyond small scale demos so no shock that it's not a real gaming space.

Oh the 08' economic crash was the only time Aussies had a good trot at GW pricing, before GW whent and killed the European exporters and our dollar was pretty strong, we ate well. 

Hell back in 08 when our dollar was going well, and how rediculous local GW store prices were(still are) I did the maths and it was almost the same cost to make a basic DKOK army buying directly from FW, including say Vraks Part 1, as it was to make that same guard army, with just a basic codex and plastic cadians, madness! 

[BitsHammer]

29 minutes ago, TheTrans said:

Oh the 08' economic crash was the only time Aussies had a good trot at GW pricing, before GW whent and killed the European exporters and our dollar was pretty strong, we ate well. 

Hell back in 08 when our dollar was going well, and how rediculous local GW store prices were(still are) I did the maths and it was almost the same cost to make a basic DKOK army buying directly from FW, including say Vraks Part 1, as it was to make that same guard army, with just a basic codex and plastic cadians, madness! 

Yeah I remember hearing about FW being the same cost at GW plastics and frankly that is both a blessing and a curse to think about.

 

If it wasn't for trying to buy plastics through my FLGS I'd probably order from a Canadian online store to save money and have them ship it over the border to me. The FLGS doesn't make money on the resin so I don't feel bad not going through them on that but I do rely on them for plastics in general.