Well here we go again
http://www.tabletopgamingnews.com/2010/04/18/35385
I'm so glad I jumped ship a good few years ago :).
What are you complaining about it will only cost you £35 for the rulebook, £8 for your new army book and £40 for a years worth of white dwarf to patch the broken initial release and maybe another £40 on the must have new releases. 10 plastic figures (which you'll need 12 of) for £15 anyone? Bargain! Your army is guaranteed better in this version, until we update the rest then it will be the worst one but it's ok, we have a new version coming out anyway.
Glad I jumped ship on that one too. The rules are dreadful anyway.
It's "the corrupting power of dark magic." obviously.
Hell's teeth :o
Although I do still (kind of,in a nostalgic way - not played it for years though) like 6th edition...was the 'stayer' for me I think...
I remember reviewing the original first edition of WHFB for Miniature Wargames all those years ago when it first came out.
I am still the proud owner ofthe original 3 black warhammer books though the box went sometime ago ( must have only been toughness A), and have my ' I bathed in blood at Orcs drift badge' and the terror of the Lichmaster set ..I think I have all the cardboard counters that came with them to
Good old days but I cant believe its now taken them 8 goes to try and get it right! :D
I think the problem is that we see this as our hobby, those who produce these books see it as a business. Businesses exist to make profits. :o
I presume that the true fans of the system like the periodic re-shuffle of relative unit capabilities; it is probably the only thing keeping "optimizers" on their toes.
You are of course correct Martyn with the target age ( well it used to be this when my friend was a manager) is 13 then they have to keep updating it for that new target group
In fairness, after having a rant about it, it was the game that got me into gaming and it's the game that's getting my young nephew into it too so it and 40k are good in that way. The prices are shocking though and I couldn't get into a game that's going to be trashed and released again that often.
I love the Warhammer world and i like most of Games Workshop's rules books and army lists - they do them well. I'm not so keen on their figures. Citadel's figures were getting really good from 1982 to early 1984, but then GW bought Citadel and made figures designed to be easy to paint for teenagers and the quality of most of them went downhill and became more like crude cartoons, with over-sized hands, heads and weapons.
They've improved a bit from their LOTR range on, but still don't like most of them.
I stopped buying new rules editions after the 3rd edition and stopped buying new army lists after they moved from the "Warhammer Armies" volume that gave you all army lists, plus mercenaries and allies lists in one book, to selling one army book for every army at about £20 each.
Can't be bothered buying their new rules editions as they just put them out for business reasons, to make money, the same way football clubs put out a new strip every year, but i suspect they'll be very playable.
@Dunnad: Have you tried warmaster fantasy? I would recommend it (pendraken figures also fit very well)
I hate GW with a passion
jchaos - no , though i do have the rulesbook and a lot of 10mm fantasy figures. I didn't like the Warmaster combat system. Me and my brothers have been working on our own fantasy battle and campaign rules, though we've only done a few playtest battles so far and one campaign which went too slowly because we had rules all over the place rather than having them together in one campaign rules book.
Sandinista - GW certainly over-charge for everything and the majority of their figures aren't that great either (though they still have a few nice ones - particularly their LOTR 30mm ones and their Warmaster and Battle of the Five Armies ones), but i've played several of their games and i like their game rules and the warhammer and warhammer 40k worlds