AOS Spearhead as its own seems to have far higher engagement, as far as i can tell ( least at every store i play at.) AOS spearhead seems to get way more GW support too. I forgot combat patrol is technically a game, and not just the name of the starter box.
From everything ive ever heard, those employees put up with way too much stress and shit for their pay. They do it for love but unlike the LGS, they dont own shit.
30k is for people who like Marines obviously but it also has a unique ruleset that is built off the bones of I think 4th edition? It's been awhile since I read it, but if you like/tolerate Marines and enjoy older 40k systems it might be for you.
Last time I was in one, I mentioned I was an EC adherent, we talked about the then upcoming range and I casually mentioned that “I hope they don’t pull a World Eaters and gimp the army” which that bootlicker immediately took offence that I considered the WE incomplete and half-assed.
Remember, we can’t call it vapes no more. It’s fűm. That vape alternative sounds like a millennial restaurant that tries to sell an experience not food.
I didn't know the models were resin. I assumed plastic.
And/or who consider Varg Vikernes their e-daddy.
Most of them are plastic, it's generally just the characters(but not all) that tend to end up as resin. Before HH "2.0" the line was mostly resin(and more expensive).
Kind of but also no at the same time. The discount boxes are decent, like the astartes box, the mechanicus box, etc(and those boxes are also only limited runs) but the problem is that you need a shitload more to have a full list and once you get to the point of needing to buy additional stuff that isn't in those boxes if you actually want do some list building rather than just running what you've got from the base boxes, the prices goes through the roof. And it's either because of stuff like only getting 4 tanks in a box, or needing to buy the infantry variety pack 4 times because you wanted to run a bunch of terminators, want some dreadnaughts ok you're also buying a bunch of stationary artillery, or wanting a handful of rhinos and needing to buy them 10 at a time.
Space Wolf players smell bad and are just as annoying as hard core xeno fans.
to add on- a quick way to tell is if looking at models on their website even on the search results is it's labelled as an "expert kit." further in the description it'll mention being resin and for ages 15+. however like others have said most of the standard units are plastic in HH, it's just more of the specialty models that fall under the ForgeWorld stuff (it's not differentiated the same.... i feel it used to be easier to tell on the website but maybe i'm just dumb)
You're not crazy, forgeworld used to be it's own website. When they merged the crap last year they decided to not properly label shit and assumed people would just know "15+ = forgeworld resin".
There was always an interest in making 30k armies since I got started in 3rd. Before Forgeworld started making rulebooks and models there were fan made rulebooks to cover the era and fans would convert 40k models into 30k ones using anything from RT01 era models and vehicles to filing down metal models and chaos marine bits. Personally I like the spectacle of seeing hordes of Marines and extinct vehicles like Sicaran, Fellblade tanks and Landspeeder Javelins as well the the opportunity to make loyalist defectors from traitor legions.
I feel like GW is missing out on not having larger scale minis available. RPG's are seeing somewhat of a resurgence thanks to things like critical role so something like Inquisitor would be in a prime position to make a come back. I remember when they released the lastest edition of blood bowl and they had conversion video after conversion video released showing you how to make teams from the existing range.
I think they need to work on their core games more than roll out more specialist games. The Death Korps of Krieg rollout showed there's an appetite for things that aren't Primaris Space Marines. There's also the issue where for some reason 30k plastic models aren't allowed in standard 40k games which would make the game more interesting and also increase the overall profit margin for corporate.
Resurgence? Critical Role? Critical Role introduced hordes of idiots with completely unreasonable expectations to the TTRPG hobby, a lot of them who otherwise would have just been doing the equivalent of posting their "creative writing" prompt slop to tumbr while contributing nothing but headaches. These are the same people who every time when Hasbro fucks something up hear about other TTRPG systems and says they're going to try something else because this is the last straw, but never last more than a couple of sessions assuming they even bother to try another system in the first place before being scared off by anything more than basic arithmetic. It's led to artificially propping up D&D 5th edition to the point where the new 2024 edition is out and they're throwing tantrums because it's different(it's shit but that isn't why they dislike it) to the point of seeming like an industry-wide downturn.