Gamesworkshop Reviews 54

Prices are quite steep, but my nephew just loves them! wouldn't mind, but he gets the paint everywhere! oh well, a bit of hot soap for his smile any day!

Excellent models although they are far too expensive. Also, if you play the tabletop game the ephemerality of models, in light of rule changes and ceasing support, means lots of potentially wasted time and money. It does not help that I am a perfectionist - taking months to complete army lists. By the time i finish my lists they are no longer legal.

Tangent - i loved my Inquisition list, most of my models cannot be used together anymore. And, space marines are now ruined. I hate the look of the new Primaris space marines. Also, why do they hate the Black Templars and Sisters of Battle so much? - they are the coolest by far.

As a long time tabletop gamer, it's hard to review GW without remembering the community that Games Workshop has seemingly systematicly destroyed over the years.

Despite that, the site does work well, but not as well as it used to following recent updates that make navigation difficult.

Yes the prices are... not great. But shipping was fast although had no packing peanuts or anything leaving paint etc rattling around... so yeah... but yeah got the items quick just wished they would not let things fly around the box.. specially paint.

Easier just to list pros and cons for GW, all coming from a long time fantasy player.
Pros:
Models are stunning and good quality
Fantasy (blacklibary) lore has been exhilarating and my #1 choice of reading for 15+ years
8th ED was the right balance between competitive and fun catering well to both audiences.
Staff are always very friendly

Cons:
Killed warhammer fantasy and replaced it with age of sigmarines
Killed all the amazing lore that came with it.
VERY expensive
AoS is very kid focused leaving tournament players to go to mantics kings of war
Staff are too pushy and sometimes unrelated products as well. (oh you love chaos warriors, maybe these space elves would be good?)
Zero business sense (total war:warhammer drops a few months after you kill the game, that would have pushed a dramatic amount of sales)
Shady business practise (firing people by handing them a pot of skull white as its order code is P45)

this chain of high street shops not only sell the best models in the world they also host compitions where you can win free stuff, they host gaming days where you bring along your army and battle it out on the tabletop - staff are hand picked for their role in running the store so you know you are always talking to someone with great know how about everything they sell - games workshop don't hire idiots to run their shops they are always welcoming and very well spoken when dealing with customers, I remember when I was around 12 or 13 the manger saw I didn't have much money and gave me a free elder jetbike model. and said its on the house. my local stores are Wolverhampton and the merry hill shopping centre both are a pleasure to go too.