>haven't been to the store for a couple of months
>check prices of a box of CSMs
>105 AUD
prices have crossed the 10 AUD per miniature barrier for core troops
>haven't been to the store for a couple of months. >check prices of a box of CSMs. >105 AUD
mperor has it for 78, my LGS has it for 85
not caping for GW, they are c**ts but who buys from them directly
RRP hung at 98 for ages, breaking through that psychological barrier probably means they'll start creeping up again every price rise or two
plus 20% off "frick off c**t" is still "frick off cu"
You mean you didn't know that prices in the prison commissary are always high?
For shame.
Why are you australian?
You live in Australia, you probably have a chinese neighbour that can link you to Zhan.
I'm sick of trannies complaining that this hobby is too expensive. Go play KoW or some historical shit with the other peasants.
>play
>implying anyone actually plays nonGW wargames
if you aren't playing 40k or AOS, you basically have minis purely for making dioramas lmao
What's the most expensive wargames item you own?
Only true if you're lazy, and expect to rock up to a store with some books and a case full of models with no prior organisation and get a pick-up game; or if you're so thoroughly repulsive even other nerds can't stand the thought of putting up with you. What's your cope for dealing with all those other model ranges and rules publishers?
Have some self respect, you slop eating mongoloid.
Nobody asked you to be in this hobby. Don't speak for anyone else Black personhomosexual.
glossed over this before as just a shitpost but honestly the efficiency of cramming so much npc shit into a short post is impressive
Hello fellow ausgay
Remember when a box of Ogre bulls was $50(now $78)? Remember when a tactical squad of Space marines was $50(now $76)?
Fricking intercessor squads are $103 so basically the new tac marines but double the price
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you kangaroonoggers should all pool your money and pay some dude from USA or UK to ship you a crate of like $50k of used ebay minis once a year and then resell them at a reasonable price
Used to much worse. I had an English aunt ship me army boxes and I sold the sprues on eBay.
Probably not as viable as it used to be because Brexit/COVID destroyed Royal Mail's cheap postage.
ntayrt - it's a bit shit, still, caliver books have still got reasonable shipping so I'm not totally in the cold
I'm honestly not sure why some enterprising individual hasn't made that happen yet, the arbitrage is there and commercial shipping would cut down on the per-unit cost of postage. And a fly-by-night ebay operation has nothing to fear from being cut off from the GW distributor.
There are people that do it. It's also why whenever I go to Europe I always travel light and bring back a bunch of stuff
wasnt a box of tac squad in 3rd edition 22 bucks or something?
I started playing 4th ed with the Battle of Macragge box and I remember them being around $48 to $50AUD although my memory isn't that great considering it was 19 years ago
Jesus it was 19 years ago that box came out
when I started in 3rd 40k/6th fantasy prices were $35 for core boxes, went to $40 for a long time
starter set was change from $100
not sure macragge was quite that cheap
I bought assault on black reach for $115. Tactical squads used to be $40. Guard squad used to be $40 for 20.
I was technically richer when I was teen and worked a minimum wage job. I have a professional job now and can buy less now.
That’s not GWs fault. But it is fixable
When AoBR was 115 a tactical squad was closer to 60. IIRC the 3rd ed starter box was closer to 150. I remember it was more than a battle force and they were like 120-140
>and youll STILL buy it
idk what GW expects to happen. because all i see is them unironically pricing out everyone short of whales. When only 1 guy is the only one that shows up to play on game nights, sooner or later even he gets bored of playing against only the store manager and stop coming, and soon after that GW will shut down another in person store.
For longest time the most important customer for GW wasn't the 40 year old nerd or the 12 year old kid. But the 30-40 year old mom, who has to be convinced this hobby isn't a complete waste of money. With these prices it's gonna be hard to convince them.
At least back in the blister days, it was pretty easy for the kid to get into the hobby. Every week with your pocket money buy one new blister and paint that while you wait until next week, when you buy an another blister. And for bithdays and christmases you get some vehicles and box sets. And this continued post blister day with the cheap easy to build sets.
And after those days they still had the start collecting sets which lowered the barrier. Now they have overpriced Combat Patrols and very overpriced figures, which is a very tough sell for the mother.
Eat up, goy.
the colony tax is pretty fricking absurd
40 gbp item sold for 105 aus/65 usd
Surprised there doesn't seem to be much of a grey market shipping out of the UK, I know they cut out overseas orders but surely there's some creative spivs out there that are doing dodgy shit to ship from cheaper markets
It was at one point cheaper to fly to the UK, buy a titan in person, buy two plane tickets (one for the titan), and fly back to Australia than to buy it online from forgeworld and have it shipped to you.
an extra seat, not extra luggage allowance?
Wouldn't want to trust peons with your titan.
this is why I am a Kill Team Advocate through and through
>photocopied black and white rulebook downloaded off the web printed at the local library
>3D printed minis from STLs found on telegram
>homemade terrain
yep, it's gaming time
I went into a store two days ago and thought of picking up a brush while I was there, kind of just support them and needed that size anyway. In typical GW fashion, there's no prices on anything until you get to the counter.
17 fricking dollars for a paint brush. It used to be 8. At that point just put shitty Chinese brushes in your store as that really soured me and if I were a newbie, I'd have fricked off quick. GW needs to learn what a loss lead item is.
buy from ebay or some shit
wait until you realize that box doesn't have enough bolters or chainswords to equip the entire squad uniformly
so does that mean under the current autistic rules I can't simply mix two boxes for specialist squads? I have to have some fricking moronic weapon mix that's no good for anything?
It has enough for either, given you have a champion, special weapon, and heavy weapon, which costs zero points to do now.
What specialist squads? Chosen have their own fricked up weapons and devastators are different sizes now.