Good old Games workshop, peddlers of fine 32mm (snigger) miniatures at hugely inflated prices who at one point we're a hub of great original ideas and fun games. I think someone at g.w. hq needs to hand round the smelling salts because they have done the impossible, they have released something that could be considered to be...wait for it....a bargain!!!!!.
For the princely sum of £2.99 you get the above bits as an intro to the Age of Smeg...err Sigmar setting. Now I'm no huge fan of the setting, it's high fantasy styling goes a bit too far for my taste, I like my fantasy with a cheek stuffed full of tongue (you may have noticed) for me Age of Doodah goes through parody and into bloated chin stroking bollocks that seems to actually take itself seriously but that's just my personal opinion you understand. So why is this loss leading little bundle of interest on this wee bloggington?. Well the magazine and poster can be filed in the bin, the ruler is surplus to requirements, the dice could be handy I 'spose but it's the minis that caught my limited attention span. I know, I know, above rantings may make this sound a bit odd but £3 for 13 32mm (I don't care what they say they sell 32mm!!) Minis is pretty good and the ghost type bobbins (of which you get 10) are bloody nice and could be quite useful to a fantasy gamer, working in several scales. Expect to see them on these pages soon. Even the Smeg marines could be used for something (status or huge titanic types in 2-10mm?). You can pick a copy up in newsagents and supermarkets in the uk (god I've been reduced to shilling G.W!) But be quick, they did the same with a 40k set last year leading to the fanboy crowd hoovering them up for cheep space marines (and so did the online traders meaning eBay was rammed full of the same sprue no one wanted!).
Anyway enough of this G.W stuff, normal service will be resumed shortly.......
.....'till next time.....
Whatever one thinks of GW (cough.. Corporate Controlfreakery) they are immensely successful. Usually its nice figures shame about the price but that is truly a bargain / loss leader.
ReplyDeleteThat's the thing, they make very nice miniatures it's just the price of them and the insistence of not allowing proxies to be used (at least in their stores and events). I normally would thumb my nose in their direction at something like a new release but this is actually a good deal!.
DeleteSo, Madame Le Duc went out and bought one for me...and turned out it was the last one in the shop (she said...), I'll use the dice and rule; maybe even the figures for something random I thought?
ReplyDeleteThen, I thought.. Wait. I could re-sell this in a year on ebay for like ...£7.50 or something if I keep the bag sealed!?!?
Yep big resale market for the g.w fanboy!. I reckon your looking at at least £8.50 guv. Why not use the ghosty types as some kind of representation for the nuclear threat in a ww3 scenario?....or something?.
DeleteI must admit that I picked up one too!
ReplyDeleteThe price was just too tempting for a pile of figures and dice that may come in handy in future. Saying that, I am not sure if I'd pick up the rest of the issues...
I know what you mean the price rises sharply from here on in and the returns get smaller, still a good source of ghostly types for generic gaming.
DeleteThis s just the start offer, Next week It Will costo a little more, but anyway I agree, this is very inusual for GW ...
ReplyDeleteI think next week it's £4.99 with 4 miniatures included and it rises the following week....so no more for me then!😁
DeleteIt's a great marketing strategy as you get barely enough for a few games. You're going to need more (a lot more) expensive models sooner rather than later if you want to keep on playing. Shame the kit isn't available here in Australia.
ReplyDeleteThey certainly know what they're doing it's not a bad introduction to gaming if you buy the first few issues, you will get everything you need to paint and play some games which is not a bad thing I suppose it's just the price for the whole run is eye watering....thats before you encounter g.w's normal pricing!!.
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