And having bought most of what I require/want/need/desire of that range (thankfully before all this Finecast and big price hike malarky started), I am not now a very good GW Customer – and am certainly not their hoped for target market! :)īut then again, I do wonder who their target market actually is these days. During the last ten years the only thing that has kept me coming back for more at all was the LOTR range. But over the years I have purchased less and less. In my youth I was an avid purchaser of all things GW, peaking perhaps in the very early nineties. Basically, my collections are now (mostly) complete. But even then, I mostly now just use that which I already have, and no longer collect many of the figures – the prices have just got too ridiculous. Basically, I only now indulge in those GW games that have a consistent rule/book and figure range, that I can trust not to be changed in a year or three. The only GW games I do still play are Space Hulk amd LOTR/WOTR (although I do play Blood Bowl and Dawn of War on the computer). I just don't have the finances to throw away money like that. On the other hand, I do not enjoy said hardbacks being made obsolete in just a handful of years – especially when it can take a year or two after release before I actually get them.īut then, I don't play Warhammer or 40k anymore for the precise reason of the lack of longevity in GW books/figures. More and more companies are providing hardback supplements. On the one hand, I far prefer my supplements to be hardback. If you don't want to collect all the army books then fine but if you do, that extra is probably not an amount you'll miss. So sure it's gone up by $20 per book but that's still only $60 more a year. And most hobbies still cost more than this.Īlso GW only releases 3 army books a year basically. We're talking about a hobby where new unit boxes cost as much as the army books. The thing to do is have a little perspective. Personally I think it's because her boyfriend proposed to her but whichever, she has taken to exclaiming about how nice the new Warhammer books look when I bring one home, and that's the first time in 11 years. My wife hasn't touched her Warhammer stuff in years she claims it's because they changed editions on her.
New warhammer books full#
Most customers consider the price fair when they realize it's a full color book with hardback binding. Their books are very impressive now, and really stand out on the game store shelf.
It's not just the army books, it's all 8th edition products have gone to this full color hardback binding format. All because they raised the book price another 25%. So GW is limiting my access to other army books and thus the chance that I will want another army, and spend thousands on minis. Having the book led to thousands in sales for minis. I got into Skaven not because I ever saw them on a table (never have), but because I really enjoyed reading their background, and seeing all the cool painted minis. GW went from getting $300 to only $84 of my hard earned bucks from WFB book sales.Īnd lets face it, other army books are gateways to getting other armies. I don't know if it was a sound business plan on their part, but from my point of view, once I couldn't justify paying for all books, I started falling back to incomplete sets, to the point where now I only get the two that work for armies I have. Back to the math, at best they get $84 bucks from me for books during the 8th edition rule set reign. But they passed my price-point for collecting all books some time back.Īt nearly $42 each now for hardbacks, I got the one book for the army I actually field (Orcs), and if they come out with a Skaven hardback (my second army, still under construction) I will get it. The cheaper they are, the more inclined I am to "get the full set". Back to the math, they only get from about $70 USD-14 of my hard earned.
Let's see, call it 8 at $25 and they got $200 of my hard earned.īooks at $33 a pop? I buy only those books for my armies, and maybe one or two others. But armies I don't see being played, I pass. Let's see, 15 books at $20 and they got $300 of my hard earned.īooks go to $25 a pop, and I find myself getting my two books, and maybe half the remaining armies, because guys at the store field those armies, and again, background, intel, etc. I have two armies, so buying 14-15 army books was quite the sales pitch. Bad Move (and I really like a LOT of GW stuff too).Īt $20 a pop, I would buy all army books for all armies, just for the background and maps and for the intel in case I ever played against them.
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