Games Workshop Needs To stop adding Terrain

I've been playing 40k for a long time now. Long enough to remember when gw first released scenary, and when they woould print plans for scenary in white dwarf and their rule books.

It's gotten to a point now, when games workshop announces a new box. If I see a type of model in it, I will know it will be over priced. Guaranteed, this works across all their systems too.

The warhammer 40,000 starters come in three sizes, you have recruit at £32.50, elite at £65, and command at £110. With the elite you get outriders and destroyers priced at £72.50, so spending the extra £32.50 saves you £40. Where as the difference between elite and command is terrain, the terrain on it, own costs £60, spending the extra £45 saves you a grand total of £15. Less than half teh saving between recruit and elite.

Killteam, this one is the most egregious of all of them. The octarius starter is £65, the scenary from the original octarius starter set £67.50. Total £132.50. The price of the original killteam octarius? £125 saving a total of £7.50. It gets worse, krieg veterans £35, ork kommandos £37.50. With the terrain £140. So in the first big box, you got the rule book and part of a box knocked off.

So if I see terrain in a box from games workshop, i know for a fact the awesome saving is not going to be worth it in the end. The savings are going to be minimal at best.

What is the best course? Well if you see a starter box with terrain. You think that looks good I want those minis and you really want the scenery. Wait until they are sold separately. You are going to save money in the long run, or if they do a smaller box with out the terrain get that and make your own scenary. There is plenty of videos out there showing you how.

The new killteam box will probably be near the £180 mark again as the nachmund scenary is £130 on its own and with games workshop not being great at marking down scenery in boxes. £180 will be on the low end, of estimates.