Warhammer 40k

[Inquisitor_BadAss]

In other news, those Battleforce boxes STILL aren't selling out, other than the three (40k Dark Angels, AoS Orks and Nurgle) that already sold out. I really thought they would.

I draw two conclusions from this. The boxes on offer this year aren't very good or despite the three that have sold out we may have finally reached the price ceiling and people don't want to pay that kind of money. It may be a different situation from 3rd party sellers but this could actually be it.
The Necron box would have been so much better if it had the Silent King and not the void dragon since the other contents are basically set up for the Obeisance Phalanx.

 

[p1138]

His career is in plastics manufacturing. Him having a 3d print farm at home is probably more extensive than just "wanna print some cheap Mk3 armor in bulk."

I'm not questioning his career in plastics. But his "hobby space" which is a small 3d print farm(commercial print farms are massive, he's definitely not doing much with the scale he's working with in any commercial capacity) is absolutely enough to just move on. One of the primary problems with 3d printing, other than just learning the ins and outs, is dealing with the resin which he's more than capable of doing especially since he's not doing it in the guest bedroom and having fumes leak past the door into the house or something dumb like that. But if you're at that point... just move on. Haven't touched 40k in a decade, complain about literally everything GW does regarding the games he does play, there's no reason to keep buying GW plastic/resin.

In other news, those Battleforce boxes STILL aren't selling out, other than the three (40k Dark Angels, AoS Orks and Nurgle) that already sold out. I really thought they would.

It's actually a bit funny. People bitched for years about GW never producing enough of anything, and encouraging FOMO(which they did do), but then when GW presumably makes more they don't sell out. It's probably more than the contents compared to the price just aren't interesting enough, but that's not the lesson GW is going to take away from this.

 

[iceteayo]

Any opinions on outer circle?
Is this guy worth watching?

I don’t like him he’s pretty much right on his GW opinions but the issue he’s very “you need to agree with everything or else I’ll unleash my hounds on you” I have seen people link him to being the utter opposite of valrak. I am more shocked the boomer Aussie grogs on his Facebook group say the shit they do with their full names and faces without fear or repercussion.

He didn’t really start off as a chud but he’s been slowly morphed into one because his stuff appealed to them. Other than that he’s pretty much a closet WAAC faggot who will ban you if you criticize this.

 

[Judge Dredd]

It's actually a bit funny. People bitched for years about GW never producing enough of anything, and encouraging FOMO(which they did do), but then when GW presumably makes more they don't sell out. It's probably more than the contents compared to the price just aren't interesting enough, but that's not the lesson GW is going to take away from this.

This is something I don't understand about AOS, specifically Stormcast. If you believe the internet they are simultaneously the basic bitch option everybody plays, but also the army everybody hates and GW can't sell for love nor money. I don't get this mindset that every GW kit needs to always be sold out or it's shit. I'm all for hating GW, but at least hate them for reasons that make sense.

 

[p1138]

This is something I don't understand about AOS, specifically Stormcast. If you believe the internet they are simultaneously the basic bitch option everybody plays, but also the army everybody hates and GW can't sell for love nor money. I don't get this mindset that every GW kit needs to always be sold out or it's shit. I'm all for hating GW, but at least hate them for reasons that make sense.

That's honestly one of the reasons a lot of the GW hate channels get so tiresome. There are plenty of legit reasons to hate GW, no need to make crap up or just be pedantic about things.

As far as stormcast, my opinions on AoS as a whole aren't great and I honestly don't pay too much attention to it other than when it comes up or something is weird at the store. But with stormcast there's a few specifics. It's a basic faction that people can't throw a metallic paint on, pick a color for some robes and the weapons, add a wash, and be done with it. It's the same reason space marines are GW's poster boy faction, they're easy to point, aren't spindly, and little Timmy can get a decent paintjob with a little effort. With stormcast though at least initially they were just space marines without the backpacks, which is why everyone called them sigmarines, people didn't want that. You've also got people who hate what happened to WHFB(even though the game was dead) and stormcast is what they can point at for being the cause.

As far as stormcast not selling, that's just also not true. The AoS dominion boxes(the 3.0 launch box) are still collecting dust here and there, but that's not because of the stormcast. It's mostly due to GW vastly overproducing it and wanting the same rate of sell through they saw with Indomitus(40k 9th edition launch box) except Indomitus launched during the pandemic when people were sitting around bored. Dominion also had the unfortunate issue of having the "kruelboyz" in it, aka weirdly ugly swamp orks that most people weren't interested in. Stormcast are readily available cheap on ebay via launch boxes as well, but that's not because they don't sell, it's because GW produces so many of the damned things. If these random GW hate channels actually used some sense or applied the same logic to space marines as they do stormcast, they'd have to come to the conclusion that space marines don't sell either... which is obviously bullshit.

Something else a lot of people don't necessarily know due to either not paying attention, or simply being new to things, is that before the stupid pandemic, GW boxes didn't exactly always immediately sell out either. I've seen the 2018 apocalypse boxes sitting on sale at stores without absurd markups as recently as 2022. I even specifically remember seeing some of the 2018 and 2019 christmas boxes(blood angels and space wolves come to mind) after the pandemic sitting on shelves as well. But instead it's "lol, GW dumb, things aren't sold out in 48 hours", when as said in this thread it doesn't necessarily mean the product is shit, it's just not as interesting due to the cost or the contents, or GW actually produced enough that they didn't sell out in 30 seconds(which happened in 2020, and most of them in 2021 and 2022).

Getting back around to what the internet says... just don't believe everything the internet says because some people are just entirely full of shit. Like yesterday you mentioned that you had seen people claiming that dark angels were meta... when the reality is they aren't even close to being meta and that's observable via stat-check and metamonday. Just because some has an army that is a horrible match up into DA, or is just a shitter at the game and repeatedly gets their ass kicked by a local DA player, doesn't mean anything when we can observe the results of hundreds of games played around the world every weekend.

 

[Humble Architect]

I bought some of the old, squatted Stormcasts, the XBOX-HUEG ones. To support my hobby shop (who I’ve informed if they want money next year to get EC kits).

These fuckers are huge and you got a lot of shit in those boxes and they were very customizable. I’m gonna be using those swords for a long time to come, the heads are fucking tiny though and I used those for cultists.

From a hobby perspective, those were good kits, utterly soulless design-wise but there was a suprising amount in the box and they utilized the old Space Marine torso construction with a ball-joint, rather than being monopose. I wish marines were built with this philosophy. Dynamic, though monopose legs with posable upper torsos. I pilfered the ab section for upscaling some HH termies.

I know there’s raging autists who foam at the mouth with “Stormcast to Marine” conversions but the older Stormcasts were chonky and good for HQs, those new ones are hideous.

 

[Mr Clark]

In other news, those Battleforce boxes STILL aren't selling out, other than the three (40k Dark Angels, AoS Orks and Nurgle) that already sold out. I really thought they would.

None of them appeal to me to try an army.

GW need to sell boxes that are a good base to start with, with clear pathways to filling out an army. Custodes Combat Patrol is the best example of it. Buy 2 and you almost have a 2k army. Not super meta, but good.

Its so simple which is the frustrating part. Core infantry units, 2-3 small detachments of auxiliary units, big unit (tank or other vehicle) and character. Boom. You made a great box.

If they did that with Sisters I would finally build a battle nun army. But instead their boxes have been a mess and my cash stays with me.

 

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Still haven't sold out any more than those first few. This is embarrassing.


Meanwhile I'm printing plate 2 of 5 to do a Questoris and got the STLs to do Cerastus too.

Also, got Leagues of Voltann. Like, the entire range. So that's next. Of course, I have the intro box with the fancy LE Codex already from when it came out, so I think I'll do those first, maybe. ... Also apparently I got bored and got the entire T'au battlesuit range. Not sold on quality.

 

[Miriam Margoyles]

Youtube channel acts incompetently regarding their content creation, blames GW for their stupidity.

Oh look, it's midwinter minis again. This time he wanted to paint some shit up for "orktober" videos, doesn't bother to order his $500 forgeworld model until September 30th. So of course because it's a FW model it requires fixing a bunch of warped parts, bubbles, gaps, etc. (and he's built FW models before so he was already aware of this). Now GW did show their incompetence by taking 3 weeks to ship a supposedly in stock model, however he could have also planned this shit a month in advance instead of a day in advance if it was going to be the entirety of his content for the month of October.

But that doesn't explain why the other shit that didn't take 3 weeks to arrive doesn't appear to be painted and he didn't use that for content either. Of course he could have also bought the models sooner, had them painted, and then just posted the videos during October like anyone with a brain might do.

He continued to be a huge fucking Karen about it in his latest video, and it was entirely his own fault. He bought the squiggoth (which was in stock) and then, at the same time, tried to redeem his Warhammer+ (>paying for Warhammer+) limited edition subscription model (which WASN'T in stock).

Now, any normal person in this situation would've thought, "I need this enormous, very expensive Forge World model for a time-sensitive project I am doing for my YouTube channel, which is my main source of income. I do not need the limited edition Warhammer+ subscription model. Fuck off the limited edition model, just send the squiggoth."

But no, because Guy insisted on both, he had to wait, and he basically scuppered his chances of having his Orktober video out on time, just because he had to have a freebie 'limited edition' model that's going to be all over eBay in a few months anyway. But this is somehow not his fault.

The most bizarre part of the video, though, in my mind, was the bit at the end, where he gave away one of the models to one of his Patreon subscribers, and gave the lucky winner the chance to choose which of the three squiggoths he wanted.

Do I choose?

A) A third-party knockoff model which I won't be able to play with in official Games Workshop stores and which, if I really want it, Guy has mentioned several times in this video I can pick up for fairly cheap anyway.
B) A child's toy woolly mammoth covered in shit.
C) The biggest and most expensive Ork model currently made by Games Workshop, which retails for over $500.

Now, maybe I'm just a cold-hearted cynical old cow, but if I was in that dude's position, given the available prizes, I think there'd only be one that I'd pick.

 

[p1138]

He continued to be a huge fucking Karen about it in his latest video, and it was entirely his own fault. He bought the squiggoth (which was in stock) and then, at the same time, tried to redeem his Warhammer+ (>paying for Warhammer+) limited edition subscription model (which WASN'T in stock).

Now, any normal person in this situation would've thought, "I need this enormous, very expensive Forge World model for a time-sensitive project I am doing for my YouTube channel, which is my main source of income. I do not need the limited edition Warhammer+ subscription model. Fuck off the limited edition model, just send the squiggoth."

But no, because Guy insisted on both, he had to wait, and he basically scuppered his chances of having his Orktober video out on time, just because he had to have a freebie 'limited edition' model that's going to be all over eBay in a few months anyway. But this is somehow not his fault.

Wait... so he ordered extra shit, that GW said was also in stock but wasn't, and then proceeded to complicate things by asking them to screw with the order. I still stand by the fact that he should have ordered this shit months ago since it isn't as if the month of October was going to sneak up on him like a surprise.

A) A third-party knockoff model which I won't be able to play with in official Games Workshop stores and which, if I really want it, Guy has mentioned several times in this video I can pick up for fairly cheap anyway.
B) A child's toy woolly mammoth covered in shit.
C) The biggest and most expensive Ork model currently made by Games Workshop, which retails for over $500.

A isn't even a proxy for the same fucking model. As far as playing in a GW... no one plays in GW so whatever. The fucking head of the gargantuan one is the size of the body for the proxy of the smaller model.
B that looks fucking disgusting and retarded. He couldn't find a similar toy at the store and needed to buy it off of ebay for 15 pounds? Also still not the right size.
C Honestly I wouldn't want this hunk of shit either.

Using his kids in the video... again, while talking about putting shit up for sale to make money. There are other people who have had their kids in their videos, and it's usually fine. But this fuck does it when he's e-begging, and that's disgusting. Also, now his girlfriend has a channel where she produces garbage

 

[Spilled Spaghett]

The most bizarre part of the video, though, in my mind, was the bit at the end, where he gave away one of the models to one of his Patreon subscribers, and gave the lucky winner the chance to choose which of the three squiggoths he wanted.

Is that not illegal in the UK? In the US that would be considered a lottery to require purchase of a Patreon subscription in order to enter a chance to win a prize.

 

[p1138]

Is that not illegal in the UK? In the US that would be considered a lottery to require purchase of a Patreon subscription in order to enter a chance to win a prize.

I don't know about the UK, but he did previously use some scammy looking raffle site where people could buy tickets, but the raffle wouldn't happen till enough were bought. It looked like it operated kinda like those obvious scam penny auction websites where your "bid" is just gone even if you didn't "win" so they rely on getting thousands of people "bidding" on shit to recoup the cost and still profit after giving the winner their prize. And everything on the scammy raffle site he used was UK based with about half of it being 40k shit.

 

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Knights Box finally sold out. Pity, as I had almost talked myself into it.

 

[Inquisitor_BadAss]

Midwinter Mini's: Hey everyone, times are tough please donate to my patron.
Also Midwinter Mini's: Hey everyone, I went to Paris to film the sponsored segment for this video. Giant Squiggoths sure are expensive aren't they!

And the grift just goes on and on and on.

 

[The tired cat]

Midwinter Mini's: Hey everyone, times are tough please donate to my patron.
Also Midwinter Mini's: Hey everyone, I went to Paris to film the sponsored segment for this video. Giant Squiggoths sure are expensive aren't they!

And the grift just goes on and on and on.

Is it possible to punch someone in the dick, even when they dont have it?

 

[Miriam Margoyles]

Is it possible to punch someone in the dick, even when they dont have it?

Sadly, Guy does, in fact, have a dick. Ask Hatty, she was the one bouncing on it behind his poor wife's back.

Also, now his girlfriend has a channel where she produces garbage

I really dislike her smarmy, cutesy, slightly patronising presenting style. She addresses the audience like she's babysitting someone else's kids... Something I imagine she's used to.

Some interesting comments on that video, too...




Um, can faggots NOT, please?

 

[Otis Mallebrok]

Sadly, Guy does, in fact, have a dick. Ask Hatty, she was the one bouncing on it behind his poor wife's back.

What a fucking spineless cheating prick

 

[Miriam Margoyles]

What a fucking spineless cheating prick

Absolutely no disagreement here. Penny's Reddit posts, under the name 'ozzborne' make for very interesting reading.

It's been mentioned, by myself and others, how Guy uses his kids in his videos to try and endear himself to his audience and make himself look like some kind of wholesome 'Warhammer dad', and it's interesting to know that this behaviour apparently isn't solely limited to when he's in front of the camera...



Ooh, and you guys remember a couple of years ago, when this happened?

Midwinter Minis just had to pull out of a charity livestream due to being sad about "family issues"
I wonder if it's because his family doesn't want to see him and his new 23 year old girlfriend, after his now ex-wife took their twins and left because he was sleeping with said 23 year old.
Reminder that he moved the new girl into his house within days of his wife leaving.

 

[Otis Mallebrok]

Absolutely no disagreement here.

That ungrateful, two faced whorecarl deserves to die lonely and bitter, his children never coming round his empty house. Maybe then he will appreciate what he tossed away, and beg forgiveness not in a self-serving youtube video.

I know

 

[Edward "Caesar" Sallow]

I'm actually glad that Eldar and Krieg got some really good models this time. Even with the shitty ways they run their business, I think Geedubs finally got the memo that spamming shitty marine units is getting them nowhere, and they need to update old models/flesh other armies out. I also am enjoying the autists shitting themselves because once again Deldar get nothing.