So, I had a spare minute and as I was taking a look at this month's White Dwarf, I noticed just how big the sample armies dotted throughout the magazine are. I thought, 'hmm, I wonder how much they'd cost to buy', so for those interested:
The Prophetess' Guard on p.48 (2k Wood Elves) costs £397; The Kul on p.49 (3k pts of WoC) costs £315 and finally the all plastic, 3.5k Empire army in the showcase battle report costs a whopping £493.50!
This is before you take into account the cost of rule-books, dice, templates, etc. Oh, and then paint and scenery on top of that.
Isn't that insane?!
You have too much time on your hands!!
BTW is that GW price or 15% off lol
Haha! In fairness, it only took a few minutes and I did it whilst I was printing some stuff, so it's not like it was the only thing I was doing - but yeah, that's based on prices from the GW website.
'kin 'ell.
Expensive!
You'd think they might make stuff a bit cheaper to encourage more people to play. I make no wonder people get priced out of the market.
remember to take of your 20% discount from darksphere discount. I sat down and worked out the 50pt Warmachine army out which I took to ETC and this came in at £199.50. One thing to remember is you do not buy all of this in one month, you are probably going to space a 2000pt army over a year, which comes out at around £35 per month.
Yeah, there are certainly less costly ways of making up armies, definitely: I was just going at store prices.
I might tally up how much my Fantasy army costs me when it's all done.
Yeah, in fairness to GW's once-upon-a-time policy of not price gouging at every opportunity, the point of the orginal To4G was to space out the expense. They always had around £25 a month to build up the army with, buying and painting it as they went until they had enough for a game.
Obv it's less practical in terms of getting games in as you go to keep the enthusiasm up, but it helps manage the cost. Maybe it was easier in those days when you were held back by the lack of fleabay enticing you in to buy more pretties (or is that just me?
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It's not just you.
I remember one ot the tale of x gamers, one bought a sausage roll and put a picture up of it. Those were the days.
Now i have to buy my sausage rolls in a 6 pack (cheaper price), freeze them and thaw one out a month.
Yeah, that was the original one with Fat Bloke RIP (rest in pies).
I can see now why GW posit themselves as being in competition with the video-games market; a game per month costs anything from £10-£50, so if spread out over the whole year, an army per year is a good comparison, if you include the initial outlay of the console vs. the initial outlay of the rulebook, armybook and possibly a box set.
The only difference with that, though, really, is that the console works immediately, whereas the army takes time to develop and build. It would take how many months before you could reasonably play a game of Fantasy? 3-4?
It goes to show what comparatively good value the starter boxes are, really, doesn't it?
(07-07-2010 03:22 PM)Tim Wrote: [ -> ]It goes to show what comparatively good value the starter boxes are, really, doesn't it?
I stopped consoles at the N64, with Goldeneye and perfect dark.
It doesn't really, only good value compared to the rest of their products.
Whatever happened to playing with a ball, or stick and hoop in the road. I miss days of flat cap shenannigans.
(07-07-2010 04:54 PM)TheamazingPete Wrote: [ -> ] (07-07-2010 03:22 PM)Tim Wrote: [ -> ]It goes to show what comparatively good value the starter boxes are, really, doesn't it?
It doesn't really, only good value compared to the rest of their products.
Yeah, that's what I meant.