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Reply To: Why do all our wargames rules have to cost the bomb?

June 17, 2021 at 8:01 pm #1656856

darkvoivod

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What’s expensive is very subjective to me. I noticed I really have an ‘Edition’-fatigue.
Infinity, for instance, is, in my eyes, a very boutique range. The models are gorgeous, but when I play, I want everything to look cool. So I buy acrylic templates, instead of using card print outs and, while Corvus Belli offers the rules for free on their website, I haven’t played it since 4th edition came out. I’ve heard great things about it, but I’ve already spend about 150 euro on both 2nd and 3rd edition and now, If I give them money, I’d rather expand my armies. I’m sure I’ll get the new book at some point, but I just don’t like playing with some ugly printed stack of paper next to all that shiney stuff.

On the other hand I love buying books for new systems. Some are well priced (Gaslands, Last Days, Bushido) and I enjoy the art and fluff, but it’s all new. Not something I’ve been reading on repeat basicly for several editions. In fact I think it’s a darn shame the Bushido book is all rules and no fluff and I really hope their expansion tells me more about the setting and I’d happily pay good money for that. I spend a good ammount on a deluxe edition of rangers of shadowdeep and love flipping though it.

So that’s what makes it worth the price for me, or not. I think it’s mostly about a persons percieved worth of the product and that’ll vary from person to person.