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Well, can't say much for the new version out; Version 8; and most of us still have version 7 army lists; so wondering what is up for my army next; Warriors of Choas.; but with the new rules and without a new army; still some big changes in building an army so I have like 9 excell pages of 1.5k and 2k army lists; trying to put together the most awesome army to lay some smack down on Skaven.

now Skaven have a lot of troop types; which means you have to be pretty wealthy to play that army; requires a lot of miniatures to be purchases; painted; moved in fighting.

I just cant decide what to do; big blocks of infantry; ie a horde of 55 chaos warriors as central with packs of mauraders to not get flanked; go heavy wizzy and lay down all kinds of magic mayhem using the new rules; go all fast movement with maurader horsemen and knights - granted with he new rules and point limits on a 2k army that is like 8 or 9 knights and with horde rules of units of over 50 miniatures; am wondering how effective they would be. Granted; if you give them Rage Banner and Nurgle mark; that makes them really nasty. But units of 50; sheesh; +4 bonus to combat just for rank bonus most likely and unmodified leadership tests.; with tiny units of 8 or 9 minis; loose two and you gotta make a test; still; each knight gets 3 attacks; four for the champion at strength 5; WS 5 and the nurgle mark helps a lot as well; and they are 1+ armor save; still; what to do; what to do. Hence; I have eight different 2000 pt armies; with all kinds of ideas on strengths and weaknesses; from 50 models to 120 models on the field.

hehe crazy eh? and sheesh; the price of minis is going through the roof; Just for fun am thinking to add two giants to my army; that is some serious cash and wonder how stable the mini is; will it stand up and how durable is it. Also, I am thinking to take some bits and build my own Disks of Tzeeentch, they take 50mm bases though; and that is pretty big.


Games Workshop = World's biggest Rip Off

The lastest WD announces the issue of Citadel Finecast..Plastic Reditions of figures previously only available in metal...at 16% more than the metal ones..yes thats right £9.50 or $15.68 for a single 28mm Plastic figure.

I have finally had it with these crooks and suspect a lot more will have to.


While no one is happy for price increases. GW's price is still comparable with those of other elite miniature companies. ie: Avatars of War, Raging Hero's, Scibor, Freebooter, Gamezone, etc. Granted Gamezone being the cheapest of the bunch.

While the 28mm models have mostly gone up between $.40-$.70, models of 40mm and larger have mostly gone down. Like the Ushhabti use to be $25 a blister for 1 model, to getting 3 for $49.50. Thats a huge savings.

Again not saying GW is perfect. Far from it. But overall there prices are in line. Finecast models are suppose to be for the center pieces of your army. Not the army itself, hence why GW keeps releasing so many plastic kits at a reasonable rate.

As far as a response to Val's question. Just build a balanced list to minimize your weakness's and utilize your strengths. Stop worrying about what your opponent will do, and focus on what you can do to your opponent.

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Mantic? They seem to be able to produce quality plastic and resin miniatures for far less than GW. Reaper, Otherworld and Darksword are all able to produce great metal characters for far less than GW.

The plastic kits aren't reasonably priced either. I recently tried to get back into 40k, then had to stop. Too rich for my blood, even when buying heavily discounted on ebay or through maelstrom or wayland. And now GW in its infinite wisdom is forcing maelstrom and wayland to stop selling to me?

Gah.

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