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My son loves it here I cannot get him out of the shop.

a great shop for warhammer sigma and 40k the prices are a bit *steep* but the cost is sometimes worth the quality you get ... ... ... ... ... ... ... For you the music man rox den's approval :3

I once loved the hobby and the game, now Games Workshop has killed my love for the hobby. Their desire to copyright every single thing they create despite taking many of their inspirations and products from other sources was the first nail in the coffin. The ridiculous price hikes where the second and the final nail was the taking down of amazing fan created shows to profit from them themselves from and exclusive service using others creativity. I will never ever go back to this company due to it's greedy, money grubbing practises and can't decide whether to sell what I have or simply burn it to prevent others having to pay anymore for these products.

I've mixed feelings about the GW product line. The "oldhammer" metal minis where in my opinion stellar - full of character & overall well sculpted, no flash at all, just a few sprue leftovers that where easily removed. Then on to the 2006 and onward type of design with finecast... I had a box of 16 quarrelers/thunderers + a dwarf cannon. Of the regiment, I made 4 quarrelers & 12 thunderers to build upon current regiments. The pros with the sprues is that they provide lots of opportunities for kitbashing. The cons of the sprues is that they're often designed in a way that some of the details of the models risk being damaged while removing them from the sprue. Many of the model parts are poorly cast, with lots of bubbles, warping, sprue lines, all of it. This makes assembly very time consuming, as you not only have to clean up the miniatures, you have to throw away some completely unusable parts & pick & choose among the leftovers which parts are the least damaged, and so on. It's a letdown and not at all a fun experience. Furthermore, the models do not fit well at all when assembled, putting pressure on the buyer to use green stuff to cover up huge gaps. The design where models are split into front/back/arms instead of legs/torso/arms/head makes kitbashing and general cleanup much, much harder than it should be. Many of the dwarf miniatures are also so poorly sculpted and lacking in detail that it becomes guesswork to see which is which among the parts. It also puts more strain on the ability of the painter, as they have to create much of the detail that the models themselves lack. I've never received a dwarf miniature from any other manufacturer where the beard looks like it is part of the clothing. Looking at some of the newer models (not AoS, still talking WF) like the later Dark elf editions, many of the issues with older finecast models are resolved, but the front/back split of models still cause misalignment issues, and the placement of the parts within the sprues still risk damaging the detail of the models when the parts are removed. Another downside is that the majority of regiment boxes contain parts to build one or another type of unit. This saves GW some production money, but it means collectors pay money for a lot of parts that they will never use, and it results in many different units having the same bodies or the same faces, which removes a lot of character from the army as a whole. They're kind of bland looking if you don't kitbash. I've never seen this with any other miniatures manufacturer, yet GW is supposed to be the biggest and the most successful. It's the reason why my WF armies are about 75% oldhammer, 20% third party proxies, and 5% finecast models.

Staff at games workshop 5/5, billing team have helped me 5/5. I don’t want to write a negative review given my love of GW however... my issue is this. Covid pandemic 2 years on, GW are making it harder for me to bring people into this hobby and now their purchase queue system is a real issue. The idea to queue up online for a product is just plane wrong, I am 100% against this as it makes me miss out on the boxset and I can’t browse the website.GW had issues with the indomnitus box set and to be fair during the pandemic they did a make to order for their box sets. However the beast snags boxset was sold out, pretty much unobtainable and look that’s it, it can never be got again. The new kill team 2 box sets will also be limited edition and the new HH is rumoured to be the same. I already know that with this queue system I won’t be able to get a box of this, GW for some reason don’t want to made to order versions As their business strategy they don’t want to produce more box sets. I believe their market strategy is driven by their share price like with Lego so they want to produce less to keep the hyper inflated demand going. I am giving you a negative review as you don’t want my money, you make your box sets unobtainable and you won’t listen to reason. I want new people to the hobby to read this review and understand the issues before investing in the hobby. I have good income and I spend a lot of money on your products, from GW to forge world however I am starting to feel somewhat betrayed. Your products are amazing but your business strategy is capping your player base, and not giving the consumer what they want. What you now have is a system where we fight each other for a boxset you choose to produce less of, with no way for people to obtain this. You made it shear luck to buy your boxsets using a broken system likes bricks and mortar shopping market queue and forcing people on a system where just by chance you can get your product. Shame on you.

High demand item - sold out instantly on initial release and was clearing out quickly in independent retailers. Games Workshop then announced they had additional stock that could be pre-ordered - adding the product to their store once again. It was at this point that I made my order, two weeks later they sent out an e-mail apologising for the delay but assuring that it would be sent out in good time. A month after ordering they sent out another e-mail saying sorry, they'd made up the fact they had stock and that they'd be refunding my order, by this point all stock with independent retails has naturally depleted. Games Workshop sell all of the stock within this box separately and could have made customers making the orders right by offering them the combined products at the original price of the Piety and Pain box set but they don't care for customer service, they just want to turn as much profit as possible. Their customer service teams just say there's nothing they can do.

After a month of waiting for my order, as it was postponed week after week, their customer service has the nerve to decline my request for a refund and tell me "it's on its way now, it will arrive next week". They blame the delay on Brexit, but other UK-based retailers have somehow managed to deliver my parcels within a week, while Games Workshop apparently believes FIVE weeks is completely acceptable, as long as they give a weak apology and a vague promise. Absolute disgrace of a company that treats their fans like dirt. I highly suggest you use third-party retailers such as Element Games instead of their garbage service.

Wenn ich zwischen GW und einem freiem Unternehmen, zwecks einer Bestellung, wählen kann, würde ich das freie Unternehmen bevorzugen. Ein Einkauf in einer Filiale von GW kommt nicht in Frage. Auch bei momentaner Covid19 Pandemie ist der Mail-Service inakzeptabel.