Matakishi's Tea House

On my way home last week from work i noticed the games workshop was closed all week,becoming suspicious and being a nosey git.I enquired at the Wargames emporium,asking john what was happening,then i was told they are going to be run by one manager who will do all the work in the shop and open only 3 days a week.Also they are not doing any demo games or any painting miniatures,just selling stock.So are they suffering as their prices make me suffer!!.

Well its not surprising,last time i went into a games workshop i bought a marine and an orc and promptly rubber moulded them and starting selling them for a £5 for ten figures but then the metal became to expensive so i gave it up,giving the moulds away!! ha ha ha ha ha..best part is when i went in sometime after the company had been told someone was doing this and they were interested to find out who ha ha ha ha ha....and i was stood in front of them ha ha ha ha.......

Anyway i digress,what are other peoples impression of the company,have you bought any of their figures and are you really bothered ha ha ha ha.......

I always thought of them as the "Mircosoft" of the wargamming world ha ha ha.....To be fair to them i bought all their "How to paint marines/tanks and the terrian books" i thought they were really nice.

Plus i have their "Warhammer Rouge trader wargamming book" the original one from the 1980s,i really love that book!!.

So is the end of the warhammer world/universe or just restructuring ??

Cheers all your mate tony:)

Personally I haven't had a real problem with GW per se.  Some of their business practices as they grew larger disappointed me, but I do like the background to their games and their miniatures.

Their rules send me demented though. So bloated, and deliberately designed to sell more miniatures. However, at the end of the day, they are a business. They have families and mortgages and futures that must be secured through sales, just like every one else.

I do wonder where the hobby would be without them though?  Who would have had the money to experiment with so many innovations such as multipart 28mm hard plastic miniatures?  They have acted as a haven and a nursery for a lot of rules designers, authors, painters and sculptors across the industry.

A bit of a ramble there but I think that, like Microsoft, its easy to bash the big guy in the playground while forgetting what they did to get us where we are now.

I do agree with you Craig,maybe i am to quick to to give them a bashing.Also i do like the background to the Warhammer 40,000 universe.and their figures are still good.

And yes the multi-part plastics are good,the fact they have been going so long is impressive as well.

Cheers tony:)