Death of GW Australia

Or how I found new game systems.

In a rather sudden move, GW has locked down it's regions and is preventing independent retailers from selling GW products outside of their regions.  What does this mean for me?  Well GW Australian RRP is currently running at almost 100% markup vs the UK or US RRP's.  Why is this so? Well GW hasn't bothered to pay any attention to Australia and NZ, and kept on hiking up our prices along with everyone elses despite our stronger dollar.  This was okay since we just went and bought our goods overseas for a reasonable price.  This avenue is now closed to us, so I either have to stuff around with mail forwarders, or stop buying from GW.  I'm leaning toward the later as I just can't be f#@ked dealing with GW's crap anymore.

My gut reaction is to start selling off some of my armies to fund purchases into new gaming systems, so what should I invest in?  I'm looking for something to replace my current Warhammer 40k addiction so it will need to be a bit bigger than your average skirmish game.  Any suggestions?

Eltnot.

COWCON 2010 Player Packs

Below are the Player Packs for Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer Fantasy respectively:

Warhammer 40,000 Player Pack

Warhammer Fantasy Player Pack

Eltnot

Warriors of Chaos

Well it's been quite a few busy months since my last update. I've barely had time to scratch myself. However I've finished my Christmas shopping, wrapped the presents and put them under the tree. Tonight I decided to finally catch up on all those photos that I'd been meaning to take.

They were taken on my crappy camera so they're not the best quality but I played around with the settings a bit to try and make them a little better. First cab off the rank is my Slaanesh chaos from the To4G.

Chaos Hounds

Chaos Knights

Warriors of Chaos

Chaos Sorcerer

Greater Deamon of Slaanesh (counted as Aspiring Hero riding a steed of Slaanesh)

Warriors of Chaos

Chaos Marauders

Shaggoth

The entire 1500 point army.

To4G Completion

Well I had intended to take photos of my progress along the way but always seemed to be a little to busy painting all of that purple. Today though the competition came to a close thankfully. I now have 1500 points of Slaanesh themed Warriors of Chaos and have played my first games with an entire army actually painted by me, which is a first in my 14 years or wargaming! I took some photos on my dodgy camera of the armies but will take some close ups of some of my models with the gf's better camera and some proper lighting. Enough of me blabbing, pics:

Wonna's Bretonnians line up Damo's Lizardmen

Damo feeling confident

Wonna concerned about "Exploding Magical Dinosaurs"

Damo's Terradons sweeping around a flank

Damo's Lizardmen

My Slaanesh Warriors of Chaos

Wonna's crusader themed Bretonnians

A game of Space Crusade going on at the club at the same time

Some of the players getting in some practice games for COWCON

James playing hide and seek with his Necrons

Eltnot.

It's been a while since I updated this, but you should see some regular posting coming soon.

First bit of news is that COWCON 2009 is booked in for the 17-18th of October. The player pack is mostly complete and should be out soon for some beta testing. The tournament will once again be 1750 points Warhammer 40,000 and run out of the YWCA Hall.

Secondly my Sisters of Battle have had a bit more work done to them and now meet the minimum three colours. Unfortunately I won't be able to do much with them for the next few months though as a short project has come up. Which leads me to the third point:

I've just joined in a Tale of Four Gamers for Warhammer Fantasy. Player will be required to paint 500 points each month for three months and play a couple of games. I've dusted off my Warriors of Chaos for this so will be posting some updates and pics soonish. So far I've only done undercoating but I'm hoping to get a unit of Chaos Knights finished by next weekend.

Recently I purchased a friend's Iyanden Eldar army, and should be taking delivery of it by the end of the month. This will go nicely with my Iyanden pirate army that I'm slowly accumulating models for. As a result of this, I'm now looking to sell my Tau army, all 3500 points of it. If anyone is interested, please let me know.

Lastly, I've really started to lose faith in GW. The slowness at which codices/army books are released and their lack of errata has led me to look for another game system. I still intend to play GW games, but will be spending very little on new stuff apart from finishing off my current armies. As a result of this, I picked up a copy of the Flames of War 2.0 Rulebook off Ebay which should I get my grubby hands on in the coming week. At this point I won't yet be collecting any FoW but will have a look through the rules and chat with a couple of other club member to decide on an army and time period to collect.

So expect to hear more from me soon.

Eltnot.