Bilbo wrote:
Apparently we have a battle report in WD as well.
Don't get your hopes us, it's 4 pages all in, it'll make a nice read but it's not like a Battle Report of old. Still, it's certainly more SBG content than we've had for over a year.
Bilbo wrote:
A year ago I would literally be counting down the days to such releases, but now I am simply not buying anything. They have abused the customers with little tricks like selling Beorn separately, so that you have to buy him several times
Abuse? Hardly. They're a business trying to make money. I do think it's frustrating that they released them this way around. If you release the twin pack first then you give the players the option of buying the alternate man pose, this way if you've bought him on foot you have to buy both. BUT, as someone who has already bought and painted the other foot pose I really don't mind, SBG has always been a collecting hobby for me, I've got plenty of poses of Leggy, Gandalf, Aragorn etc. so why not 2 of Beorn? As DMS said, in the early days of Fellowship you had to constantly buy duplicated characters to get new poses and people didn't complain then, it was a cool hobby aimed at passionate LOTR collectors, exciting new Gandalf/Aragorn poses were greeted with whoops pf delight - now, 10 years, on, GW are being torn apart for doing exactly the same ting with the Hobbit. I personally really like the new Man pose so would be happy to add it to my collection.
Bilbo wrote:
and is anyone out there going to be buying basic troops at £5 each. If they were £15-£20 for 10-20 of them i'd be buying an army of them!
Of course, as would we all but that's completely unrealistic. Even if they were plastic they would be 10 for £25 under their current pricing. In answer to your question, yes, a lot of people will be buying them, just like a lot of people bought the Laketowners. I think they have decent, if not spectacular rules and I think the models are cool. You won't be able to buy them in a few years and I don't want o look back thinking: "Man, I don't have any of those OOP models that I really want but thank God I saved this £60 three years ago"
Zirak-Zigil wrote:
If you saved even a small amount or got even one mini free for buying in bulk like this it would encourage me to buy, but as it stands I'll just hold off and buy them separately as funds become available. I would certainly get the barrels out of bond collection if there was any kind of incentive to the bundle.
You're right of course and the GW from years ago certainly would have offered a tasty bundle discount. Alas, those days are long gone and this is their current strategy, they don't offer any discount on their 'deals', it's company wide, not something that just afflicts SBG. I remember a while back that had a scenery bundle for £1300 that didn't save you a penny - who's the market for that? Finally, surely the biggest head-scratcher moment is their entire Chapter of Ultramarines:
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catal ... od2160196a
£7000 and you don't save a penny on the models!
At least you get some unique artwork though...
