Re: New boxed set.

Posted by BobbieTheDamned on Oct 25, 2012; 1:52am
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/New-boxed-set-tp7578552p7578959.html

MortiS-the-Lost wrote

Ah yes GW and their fans talk about points value like it's a currency - it's really sad, all to often I hear things like “I don't mind paying £20 for it because it's a 200 point model” (and they're talking about a human sized figure on foot) or “That's a great model to have in your army because it's only 35 points”. Recently I even saw an advert for a Necron army which listed the points value of the models rather than the prices! The points value of a model seems to take president over quality of sculpt for a lot of GW fans. I don't know, maybe in future GW stores will have some kind of exchange rate between money and game points, and their customers will pay for things in points with a special card. Until then justifying a high price a for high points value model or a model having a low points value for how powerful it is in the rules being a selling point is pathetic behaviour. These people need to get their priorities strait and GW as company is exploiting this no-end.

I couldn't agree more, GW has always had a bit of a funny policy with special characters costing more for the same amount of metal. I seem to remember asking about that at some point and being fed the line 'because they're special characters we make less so have to charge more to get the money for the mould' which even to my teen self seemed a crock.

Thousand and One Sons wrote

The loyalist space marines are ok if you suspend disbelief. Not too hard to do with the basic marines, but of course when a terminator with shoulder joints 6 foot apart and a head located somewhere in the middle of its chest is supposed to be piloted by a human, it requires some blind faith.

Termies arn't actually all that bad they're just badly scaled against regular marines, as I recall there was actually a top half of terminator armour that was made for an add for spacehulk (I think...) that used to be displayed at GW Lenton that obviously had to at one point have had a guy in it for filming and had the same proportions as the minis of the time.

MortiS-the-Lost wrote

Some much nicer Chaos Cultist were produced in the late 90's

I do actually like the new cultists, in fact all of the chaos minis in the new set apart from the dreadnought aren't terrible, they're just overpriced. I love the old cultist minis...think you could probably get something vaugely similar with flagellant torsos, thinned down catachan arms and maybe some heads from somewhere else...

MortiS-the-Lost wrote

GW have really lost their touch when it comes to sculpting anatomy (not to mention texture) - and the culprit to blame is the the computer modelling and 3D printing process they use to make the masters for most of their miniatures these days - that and sheer laziness. There's always been inconsistencies of scale and proportion amongst GW's ranges but it's worse than even these days - again I blame the detachment of a computer generated model from the real thing.

Yeah the digital sculpting has made them very lazy it would seem. To many sets have 4 or so actual poses each with a few detail changes to save on design time. Which would be fine for incredibly regimented troops (would love to see some empire soldiers that actually look trained!) only they seem not to do it for them and only for less regimented armies like skaven and suchlike..