SouthernDunedain wrote:
Abrakan guard do not need 1h weapons. Out of curiosity, why are you planning/ playing with an army you don't have the relevant sourcebook for?
Simply put, because I have already spent my money on all the OR era Journeybooks, Sourcebooks and LoME (not to mention the OR hardback, MoM set, WotR and Battlehosts), see the Warband books as far too much duplication of information (both duplication between the warband books themselves as well as the fact that the overwhelming majority of points and profiles are reprint from material I already paid for) and am already trying to save up my limited "hobby money" for an insultingly over priced new rule book that introduces only enough new rules that could have been summarized on a 3 page handout. The number of new profiles in the updated Fallen Realms book that carry any interest to me can be counted on one hand with enough fingers left over to hold an over priced GW-official paint brush.
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None of that directed at you personally, SouthernDunedain. Like many I have little enough time and money to put to a hobby to begin with to have much patience for GWs efforts to get me to spend it on information I have already paid for. If they wanted to charge a small subscription fee ( $25/year for example) to receive new profiles and warband updates as they are released then I would agree. Or maybe $25 for a LoME style book that would have pulled all the already published profiles into a single consolidated book listing all the warband compositions.
I have GW models from Mordor, Moria, Harad, Mirkwood and Lothlorien Elves, Dwarves, Rohan, and Gray Company. And I have official GW books covering each of them from SBG. It would take five Warband books to cover those forces officially and I'm simply not going to waste that money. I picked up one Warband book to give me the official rules for building and the generic scenarios as well as one set of lists (Free Peoples). It would cost me $100 to buy the others. I need to spend nearly that much on a new rule book that is about 80% waste from my perspective but they have us over a barrel on that one. I would much rather be buying their new models but as long as they press us to spend money on duplication of print I can't spend it somewhere else and THAT has me bitter. I want the new eagles. I would like to get the Grimhammers and Rivendell Knights. I'm already choking on the prices of these things but would be a lot more willing to save up and buy them if the company wasn't also putting out their other hand asking for $100 so I can play my current armies.
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