K, I don\'t post in forums often, but this got me interested enough to register. I\'ve always played GW games, back to when I simply didn\'t know there was anything else, I\'ve gone theough at least a half dozen different 40k armies, as well as having various stints of playing other games from them, primarily inquisitor.
-Games workshop is expensive, but hell, so is everything, how much did you spend on your last pointless pc upgrade?
-metal models are awkward, and less fun to convert, yeah they feel nicer, but they don\'t have the same level of detail, and they chip.
-In even a small city, without your own table, and a decent network of geek friends, there really isn\'t anywhere else that you can play games.
-I recently bought a 2000pt imperial guard army, one of the more expensive 40k forces, it is almost all plastic, and cost me under £150. i used some of my old parts, but to buy from scratch. it would still have cost me about £150. That\'s over 120 infantry, and 4 vehicles, and on minimum wage, it\'s 3 weekends, hardly a huge outlay.
-Find me somewhere that\'ll provide an equivilant number of warmachine or reaper minis, and provide me with a warm room, 4 boards, and plenty of opponants to play i\'ve never met before for the same cost, and i\'ll be very impressed.
-games workshop, despite pissing me off with killing the mail order service, still provide excellent back up for all their specialist games, with all the rulebooks free online, and new, useful articles each week.
Finally, yeah, GW is expensive, but it\'s still cheaper and more fun than an XBox 360, and how many of you have one of them in your house, i\'d bet more than one. Oh, and i first heard of Heresy miniatures through a games workshop magazine [Exterminatus].
-Rant over, thankyou.
