Warhammer 40k

[Mr Clark]

https://themagnetbaron.com/

I finally got tired of getting the best magnets $0.01 worth of shitty Chinese iron can provide off Amazon and went with the good shit for my latest purchases. It's like night and day. Yeah, expensive, but, they actually work. I still use the cheap ones in the bases (and some of them are only technically magnetic) while the ones from the Baron are significantly tougher.

Do you buy those bases with magnet slots or just super glue a 5x2mm under the model and call it a day?

 

[daniel day]

https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/505blk2u/sunday-preview-the-death-korps-march-for-krieg/

>new death korps box
>only 1 artillery unit
>only 1 squad of combat engineers
>no normal battleline
>box is 50% cavalry
What the FUCK. I was really excited for the DKoK stuff, until I saw that they basically ignored Krieg's entire claim to fame. I have no idea why they even made cavalry sculpts for Krieg when theres already the Attilan Riders that couldve been fleshed out further. It shouldve been another artillery unit and a cheaper, new battleline Kriegsmen box than just the KT stuff.

 

[East_Clintwood]

I have no idea why they even made cavalry sculpts for Krieg when theres already the Attilan Riders that couldve been fleshed out further. It shouldve been another artillery unit and a cheaper, new battleline Kriegsmen box than just the KT stuff.

>Make 50% of box useless
>Players now have to buy twice as many to get what they actually want

Truly it is a mystery why they did this.

 

[daniel day]

>Make 50% of box useless
>Players now have to buy twice as many to get what they actually want

Truly it is a mystery why they did this.

Yeah my questions were rhetorical, I know why GW would do this, but I dont know how they get away with it besides "people stupid". This is honestly more egregious than any femstodes or "woke" accusations theyve had pointed at them recently.

It reminds me of when Wizards hired an actual onlyfans whore to the commander rules comittee just recently, but they were facing backlash for something else that was pretty inconsequential so nobody talked about it.

 

[Sunflower Samurai]

https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/505blk2u/sunday-preview-the-death-korps-march-for-krieg/

>new death korps box
>only 1 artillery unit
>only 1 squad of combat engineers
>no normal battleline
>box is 50% cavalry
What the FUCK. I was really excited for the DKoK stuff, until I saw that they basically ignored Krieg's entire claim to fame. I have no idea why they even made cavalry sculpts for Krieg when theres already the Attilan Riders that couldve been fleshed out further. It shouldve been another artillery unit and a cheaper, new battleline Kriegsmen box than just the KT stuff.

Krieg is my favorite fast strike and cavalry regiment

They could've just stuffed two kill team boxes and an extra field gun but lmao they did the jew thing and included the useless cavalry

 

[Salt_Merchant]

https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/505blk2u/sunday-preview-the-death-korps-march-for-krieg/

>new death korps box
>only 1 artillery unit
>only 1 squad of combat engineers
>no normal battleline
>box is 50% cavalry
What the FUCK. I was really excited for the DKoK stuff, until I saw that they basically ignored Krieg's entire claim to fame. I have no idea why they even made cavalry sculpts for Krieg when theres already the Attilan Riders that couldve been fleshed out further. It shouldve been another artillery unit and a cheaper, new battleline Kriegsmen box than just the KT stuff.

its not an army box

its a fomo new models box where you can get the new models and codex early.

 

[p1138]

Every article I've read mentions this being a 40K competitor when it really competes with thing like battle tech and other smaller skirmish games. Availability will be the biggest factor in how successful the game is especially when you consider the Gundam card game has its world wide release on the 25th of this month. Don't screw up distribution and bandaid will be onto a real winner with this.
I am curious on the price when you compare how much gunpla kits cost and the insane value / detail and articulation that even the most basic kit has.

The primary game is 2 inch tall non articulated kits on hex bases, with a rumor floating around that there's a bundle pack including some packs for their TCG with 3 models and some cards for 3300 yen. After conversion rates(and bandai doesn't add too much of a "fuck you overseas people markup" on things) if you ignore the cards it comes up to $7 and change for a model. Which if you see battletech has 4 packs for $30 is about the same price. Of course I guess there's also nothing stopping people from using the $10-$30 1/144 kits and just playing at a larger scale except for some of the things like ships that they're including for the 2 inch version.

The idea though that this will have some impact on GW is absurd. Yeah there's going to be a little crossover but not much. Like Inquisitor_BadAss said, this would be a competitor for battletech more than anything and maybe warhammer underworlds at the most.

 

[Mr Clark]

https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/505blk2u/sunday-preview-the-death-korps-march-for-krieg/

>new death korps box
>only 1 artillery unit
>only 1 squad of combat engineers
>no normal battleline
>box is 50% cavalry
What the FUCK. I was really excited for the DKoK stuff, until I saw that they basically ignored Krieg's entire claim to fame. I have no idea why they even made cavalry sculpts for Krieg when theres already the Attilan Riders that couldve been fleshed out further. It shouldve been another artillery unit and a cheaper, new battleline Kriegsmen box than just the KT stuff.

GW legit retarded to not sell a Krieg box with 30 infantry, 10 horses, 2 artillery and maybe a tank. Run the numbers on buying separately, reduce by 20% and sell in a box.

Would outsell literally any other of their products.

 

[Revelator]

GW legit retarded to not sell a Krieg box with 30 infantry, 10 horses, 2 artillery and maybe a tank. Run the numbers on buying separately, reduce by 20% and sell in a box.

Would outsell literally any other of their products.

They like money, but not making smart business decisions that would definitely make the line go up. Gaming companies should never go public.

 

[augment]

After conversion rates(and bandai doesn't add too much of a "fuck you overseas people markup" on things)

Ahahaha, let me tell you a story about a thing called Premium Bandai.

 

[Tri-Tachyon'sClown]

Nice to see the retarded tourist got filtered out the thread and the good posts started to come in. Which reminds me, what's the most fun army you've played/wanted to play (because let's be real I doubt most people have more than 1 army, if even one)? And if you had the opportunity would you rather play Apocalypse or Cities of Death with them?

Ahahaha, let me tell you a story about a thing called Premium Bandai.

Gunpla, not even once.

 

[AncientPhosphur]

GW legit retarded to not sell a Krieg box with 30 infantry, 10 horses, 2 artillery and maybe a tank. Run the numbers on buying separately, reduce by 20% and sell in a box.

Would outsell literally any other of their products.

My opinion is that this is just going to be a new Astra militarum combat patrol box. They did the same thing for the Cadia Stands box iirc

 

[Humble Architect]

Nice to see the retarded tourist got filtered out the thread and the good posts started to come in. Which reminds me, what's the most fun army you've played/wanted to play (because let's be real I doubt most people have more than 1 army, if even one)? And if you had the opportunity would you rather play Apocalypse or Cities of Death with them?

Gunpla, not even once.

I have dreamed of unleashing a “Chaos Horde” like that described in the Siege of Terra, all cohesion has broken down, all battle lines have congealed and there’s just a bloodthirsty mob, fully given to the warp and they want blood. Legion differences are gone.

Just fielding my EC and the scant bits of other Chaos forces I’ve got in an Apocalyse game. Fluff would be “BLACK CRUSADE IS ON! STOP KILLING EACH OTHER AND KILL THEM!”

 

[Salt_Merchant]

GW legit retarded to not sell a Krieg box with 30 infantry, 10 horses, 2 artillery and maybe a tank. Run the numbers on buying separately, reduce by 20% and sell in a box.

Would outsell literally any other of their products.

they want you to buy this box and 4 boxes of their existing krieg veteran guardsman box.

why bundle them up for a discount when this box is going to sell out and everyone who wants to use it is going to also need to buy the existing infantry box?

 

[Mr Clark]

they want you to buy this box and 4 boxes of their existing krieg veteran guardsman box.

why bundle them up for a discount when this box is going to sell out and everyone who wants to use it is going to also need to buy the existing infantry box?

GW can make the 'scam customer' decision but the 'give the people what they want' decision every so often helps keep their plastic addicts onside, just barely. Customers will take abuse, but not too much and not too often.

Its basically applying domestic violence relationship cycles to capitalism and if you have a product people want, you can do that.

Krieg is that product.

 

[ZMOT]

I am curious on the price when you compare how much gunpla kits cost and the insane value / detail and articulation that even the most basic kit has.

the smart play would probably be cheaper mono-molds to get the game out there at a lower pricepoint with premium/collector stuff for people into it. think 80's space hulk marines vs proper kits, but people using one of the other is part of the business this time.

however the logistical aspect (availability, languages) will be the biggest aspect like every other new tabletop. joe casual won't browse some moonrune website to order stuff via proxy.

 

[MG-34]

Wow that box sucks. Crazy to think the old forgeworld bundles would turn out to be better deals than future plastic releases.

 

[Male Idiot]

https://themagnetbaron.com/

I finally got tired of getting the best magnets $0.01 worth of shitty Chinese iron can provide off Amazon and went with the good shit for my latest purchases. It's like night and day. Yeah, expensive, but, they actually work. I still use the cheap ones in the bases (and some of them are only technically magnetic) while the ones from the Baron are significantly tougher.

Beware of magnets getting too much fatigue and disintegrating. If you magnetise your models, make sure the magnetised parts are taken off when not in use and resting on some soft and non scratching surface.

 

[p1138]

the smart play would probably be cheaper mono-molds to get the game out there at a lower pricepoint with premium/collector stuff for people into it. think 80's space hulk marines vs proper kits, but people using one of the other is part of the business this time.

however the logistical aspect (availability, languages) will be the biggest aspect like every other new tabletop. joe casual won't browse some moonrune website to order stuff via proxy.

That's exactly what they're doing. The main range for the game is going to be a line of 2 inch tall single sprue monopose kits with bases, and outside of promo bundles likely priced similar to battletech.

Not that it's going to stop existing nerds with models from the 1/144, 1/100, or even 1/60 lines from playing the game just using those on a bigger table, and they even showed off as much with some dioramas they had on display. You can see the new "normal" sized kits on the left and right, with what looks like the 1/60 kits in the display in the center.


As far as Bandai and distribution, they've actually spent the past year or so boosting the hell out of their distribution in the UK/EU(that's why there's a bunch of warhammer painters on youtube that had been posting videos on them for the past year or so due to the increased availability), and in North America they've already got dedicated online retailers, and even kits in some LGS stores as it is from the past couple of years so introducing a product line to those stores that actually fits better with what they normally sell should be a cakewalk for them. Outside of whatever goofy shit they might do with the pbandai page and limited releases there(a large part are just re-colors anyway), the modern buyer doesn't need to deal with proxy sites, overseas retailers, importers, etc. like they used to for the stuff other than some random store exclusives.

edit: Also, apparently the event with those dioramas was in Orlando, Florida of all places, not some random shit in Tokyo.

 

[LillWeeb]

"Is chess a Warhammer type game?"



(a chance you read that in Patrick Star voice)

It is the only balanced war game. but the lore is meh