GW- Darkelves

[wait, what?]

Ignoring the money (which is obviously ludicrous) I dislike all of these on grounds of technical merit, aesthetics, practicality, and originality. The stupid broken statuary that teleports around the battlefield, the ever increasing vertical, the total lack of visual cohesion when every member of the unit is in full on hero mode.

I really, really dislike Fitz elves and every other bugger has yet to get near Jes's work. As great as Jes is, it beggars belief nobody else has worked it out.

[Vermis]

Price price price...

IMO the rest of the figs are a bit rubbish, but it doesn't matter because if this is GWs new pricing policy I wont ever be buying anything new from them again, i'll be building my army out of the Avatars of war dwarves I guess, even though I like them less, still better than mantics toy dwarves.

Something's gone rotten in the great fantasy plastic dream. (er...) Ridonkulous prices for the good stuff (or what passes for it) and eyeball-melting sculpting and design for the rest.

It's just a bit sad and tragic.

That's all.

[Gomez]

I like everything. Its just a shame the prices arent remotely reasonable.

I mean, for the price of those with elves I bought 30 perry samurai. I also picked up a set of WGF zombie hunters for 14 quid... I dont see how or why GW charge as much as they do.

[Skipp]

I'm still scouring eBay for the Night Elf Patrol....

[Doremi Fasol Latido]

I like everything. Its just a shame the prices arent remotely reasonable.

I mean, for the price of those with elves I bought 30 perry samurai. I also picked up a set of WGF zombie hunters for 14 quid... I dont see how or why GW charge as much as they do.

£3.50 per witch elf. It would cost about the same (possibly more) to put together a 10 piece zombie hunting/post apoc survival gang from Hasslefree

And because someone is going to say it so let's get it out of the way:

But they're not plastic and Kev made them and I hate Games Workshop post 1987 urh huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurgh.

[Axebreaker]

I like everything. Its just a shame the prices arent remotely reasonable.

I mean, for the price of those with elves I bought 30 perry samurai. I also picked up a set of WGF zombie hunters for 14 quid... I dont see how or why GW charge as much as they do.

£3.50 per witch elf. It would cost about the same (possibly more) to put together a 10 piece zombie hunting/post apoc survival gang from Hasslefree

And because someone is going to say it so let's get it out of the way:

But they're not plastic and Kev made them and I hate Games Workshop post 1987 urh huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurgh.

Not just the fact that one is metal and the other plastic it also has to do with the purpose. 10 zombie hunters is more then enough to play a game with. 10 witch elves barely makes a fraction of what you need to play. The whole purpose GW originally introduced plastics to fantasy battle was to make it affordable. I think I can reasonably say that is no longer the case. Not only did they make plastics far more expensive they also increased the figure count to play the game. So when folks complain of cost this is completely justifiable as there is no excuse other then greed.

Christopher

[mcfonz]

Spot on Christopher.

The argument in support of this is clearly seen with the stealth price bump where rather than put the prices up again they reduced a lot of boxes down to only containing ten miniatures where as in some cases they were 16/18 before. That equates to quite a hefty price rise.

Plastic WHFB Orcs used to be £18 for around 16 models. Now It will cost you £36 to have four more than that.

[White Knight]

I like everything. Its just a shame the prices arent remotely reasonable.

I mean, for the price of those with elves I bought 30 perry samurai. I also picked up a set of WGF zombie hunters for 14 quid... I dont see how or why GW charge as much as they do.

Perry miniatures doesn't have to rent top locations for a gazillion stores and pay people to populate them with.

[Vermis]

Perry miniatures don't have ~£10 million profit a year (I'd assume) and aren't downsizing staff and closing a lot of shops to cut B&M costs.

On another note, GW Belfast didn't have the new minis in, but a flick through WD showed a few more pics of the hydra. I think I'd still like different heads, but the extra views made the ones it has look better. And I do kinda like the Helicoprion jaw on the charybdis thingy.

I... nn... feckit, I'm giving Trish Carden credit. It feels too strange. I need to go look at Roginshirozz pics to maintain my rage.

(On that, caption from WD: "All of the Dark Elf Witch Elves have long flowing hair; Hellebron's is the grandest and most flamboyant of them all." They definitely give the Roginshirroz knockoffs a run for their money. )

[area23]

Prob is Jez Goodwin never did dark elves until those dino-riders the last time (and bloody marvellous they are).
Dark Elves have always been an interesting concept with crap miniatures. Apart maybe from the 1980's Mengil's Manhides some of which I cut in pieces in my adolescent ignorance.