Cult Of Games XLBS: Why Are Games Workshop So Damn Sexy?!
May 30, 2021 by brennon
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It’s the XLBS Show………Happy Sunday Fellow CoGs! I have to say, when the opening video first started….I thought that was @avernos 🙂 The Stormcast Eternals with “grungy paint” are interesting. But I don’t think I can make myself do that to my Stormcast. Cool videos of Gerry’s Grand-DaD catching footage of Pixies. Nice! Congrats to the Golden Button Winners! Well DONE. On more than one occasion, Games Workshop has managed to drag me back into their realms. But, I will admit that the models are pretty nice and there are lots of other folks modding and painting them as well.… Read more »
Same Templar I thought it was @avernos as well 🙂
On a side note.
Black Library has received more money from me since I dove into Age of Sigmar. I have bought 40k novels in the past but most are too Grim-Dark for me. The Age of Sigmar novels have been enjoyable. The latest rumbling might be pointing to AoS going Grim-Dark as well. I hope not. Too much darkness and depression is not good for ones soul. IMHO
I have really enjoyed the Age Of Sigmar novels of late. Just finished Cursed City but also gone through the new Slayer books and a few more too. Enjoying them in an audio form more than anything actually.
Me too @templar007! My first thought was,” How did they talk Gerry into this?”
Happy Sunday!
Whatever turns you on I suppose. Then there’s always therapy!
Then for weathering I’m just about to give AK Interactive’s weathering pencils a try,.
Would be interesting to hear what they’re like!
I am still hovering on the edge of GW. I have stuff to build and paint but haven’t played it in years. I am returning to Man O War due to a friend wanting to play. I have been playing non GW games such as Blood Red Skies and Flames of War for years now and only really find a want to return to 40k for club events and when I want to go to a weekend event with friends but I will likely always want to play it and thats mainly due to the memory of playing it in… Read more »
I think that’s pretty key. I’ve always played Warhammer games so I am always drawn back to Warhammer games haha
I listen to a lot of modern bands, but I’ll always dance to The Beetles.
Back in 2009 I just stopped mini wargaming entirely – I wasn’t even building or painting. Black Library kept my interest in that side of the hobby going
There’s nothing wrong with being a fan of something that others love to hate. There’s nothing wrong with having fun at something that other people despise. You do you. If you and the people you play with have fun then it’s all good. GW is that 5000 pound gorilla in the room. It is hard to ignore anything it does completely, because it will have an effect on everything else. I like some of the stuff they do. I don’t like how they sell some of their stuff and especially the fact that you can’t complete your collection or buy… Read more »
Happy Sunday all. Love them or hate them the GW hobby is very well supported and is a gateway for many hobbyists through a wide range of flashy products in stores that remain open at prime city centre locations while smaller hobby store go under. The literature and media products are also a great draw for many while nostalgia draws many back to a well promoted range. I also agree with the lads that if there aren’t that many people in your area playing anything different than GW it’s either change your game to get a game or simply become… Read more »
That opening video is terrifying. I was painting and heard the singing for a good 45 seconds before I looked up to see some ‘Gerry wannabe’ in his undies dealing with intestinal worms like a kelpie. In regards to GW games, the ex-lover analogy is perfect. An ex who had model-looks and was great in bed, but left you with Stockholm syndrome (or as Ben said, nostalgia). There are a few things that keep bringing gamers back- the IPs, great new-product promotion and the likelihood of a game. GW has some great IPs, 30K, 40K, the Old World, Necromunda and… Read more »
Surely that pixie guy must be related to Bob Fleming, sans the cough.
Games workshop does indeed have very beautiful models and they are easy to get around where I live, even the locale movie/music store sells it. But I am with Gerry, my brother I stopped playing GW for several years now. After the end of the old world we tried age of sigmar when our locale store did a sale on the starter sets and we played a couple of games and stopped after those games. Wh40k we stopped even before that, because with the update of army books we had models that weren’t usable anymore or you had to re-kit… Read more »
Just 38 seconds in, and trying to work out which brand of hairdye @avernos used before shooting that video….
I watched mostly BoW and Tabletop Minions videos as I started into the hobby as an adult. There appeared to be a frustration at GW lack of community engagement, high and unbalanced pricing and a general negative leaning to most of the hobby related videos, at least the ones I saw, set opposed to GW in various ways. I found this trend against GW odd because I had enjoyed Hero Quest, Space Crusade and Man’OWar in my youth. Over time I saw the ugly pricing, the regular changing of essential army books and rules to even start in their games… Read more »
Lol is that Gerry Bro in the intro?
Hi CoGz
love the pic of Ben with his magazine guy’s
Who would have thought Justin giving paint advise Nice one Guy’s.
I stepped away from Games Workshop some years ago.
Still love the fluff and the fiction, but I found the profit-before-hobby approach being pursued back then just too much.
As a result I became immersed in the incredibly diverse and exciting scene outside ‘the hobby’.
Now, I now there has a bit of a sea change in the Citadel, but I am now too far gone to return.
The “formerly GW” point mentioned is an interesting one, like it has been said above GW really dont have any rivals on an equal footing, but if you look at other “big” companies like Mantic and Warlord they’ve all have had experience of the GW system and you can see that to greater and lesser extents in the way they do things, look at bolt action for example when it was released, on forums and social media it was touted as WW2 version of 40K second edition. They have seen first hand what has worked and are applying it.
Are you sure the guy in the intro was Quentin, and not John in a wig?
Just watch Justin the Irish fary folks are badass in your country look at the folk that got hexed moving a fary tree.
A warning for Justin?
https://www.bbc.co.uk-northern-ireland-40863737
On GW being sexy…..spent the last 2 days looking at KoW let’s plays as there seems to be interest at my FLGS. Was tempted by orca, and then today GW announce new AoS orc sculpts that look great.
Classic example of me trying to stay away from filling GW coffers but likely to crack!
Go rogue @dignity book your tickets then grab a camera disappear an come back with some great video’s?
I think I’m become more and more like Gerry. The only workshop stuff I’m actively buying is the Middle Earth range, with the exception of cursed city, but that was more of a project to stop myself spiralling into depression after my mum passed away. These days I tend to buy miniatures that I can use in a variety of games, SAGA for example, but others would include Frostgrave and Stargrave. I’ve converted a few of my old Warhammer Fantasy armies over to Kings of War, I just love that ruleset. I know a lot of people say that workshop’s… Read more »
The joys of the lockdown year folks nice looking projects figures guy’s.
You can’t corrupt the Druid Gerry?
It’s too early to destabilise my reality with that intro Lloyd
A great nutty show guy’s. ?