The terrain is even new and improved!
>>97170400>Would you pay $100 to play 40kNo.
>>97170400you'd have to pay me $100 to play 40k in general
>>97170400I would pay $100 to take home everything in the picture including the models.
this LGS where I live does this shit. luckily, they're in a dying mall and on borrowed time.
>>97170400I threw up a little in my mouth.First of all >>97170510 is the only correct answer.Secondly I bought a new Ender 3 V3 SE for 150 shekels last year. Terrain STLs are free. Filament, paint and flock don't add up to 50 bucks. (You) can make a few better tables for less than two times the admission and also get to keep the printer.Lastly this is 4chan so I'll assume you left out 90% of details. How many rounds do I get for that price? What's the price for winning first place? Drinks included? Etc.
Is there more to this?My local games store charges £3 for the whole day per person.The big local club charges like 50p for the day, but you have to buy a drink from the bar.£75 i'm going to be disappointed if a Thai girl(?) doesn't start sucking me off from under the table. What are we getting for our 100 fucking deer skins?
>>97170400tournaments used to be $20 and they still weren't worth it
>>97170400>Press photos have unpainted modelsDog what the fuck are you thinking?>$100This had better be a 3 day event with heavy prize support and a guaranteed goodie bag.
>>97171654You also get a complimentary blowjob from the fat sweaty neckbeard who squats under each table.
In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only wall.
>>97170400>Paying money to play gamesSorry, I've got both friends and just fellow players to play with, can't relate with your misery
>>97171654>>Press photos have unpainted modelsthey probably couldn't find 2 fully painted armies in the entire event. Shit's grim. Catering to the mtg audience was a mistake.
>>97171065If the mall is dying, then the LGS itself is safe - they won't hike up their rent or try anything with them, because at least they are providing SOME money, rather than leaving the place entirely. Of course if it's a proper, huge mall, there is always the risk of the whole structure going down, but hey, large malls are dying since the '08 financial crisis and it's a wonder they are still operating at all.Consider this:The only LGS in my city is in a 90s strip-mall, but because they are the main provider despite only taking 1/6th of the whole place and stick there for past 21 years, they are in no danger. The only other more stable one is an old flowery shop, but the lady running it is in her 60s and considers retiring, so that leaves the LGS the main earner. Every other 4 slots change their operation every 2-3 years, but there is a good chance that the current pizza place will stuck there, given their main operation is delivery and they turned their part of the mall into just huge oven, with a single four-seat table crammed by the counter (the bare minimum needed by law to operate as a restaurant). They opened in the middle of covid and survived that, so either they are making enough money, or it's a good laundry operation.Anyway, because the LGS is treated favourably, they can actually afford their space, having two large tables for minis and three sound-proofed "table with 6 seats" gaming rooms. All of this is for rent, but the rent is cheap and they also run a voucher system of their own, where you basically buy a pass and fill the schedule if you want to. It's probably earning them more than their sales, and I know only one GM that actually gets the value of his voucher fee back in terms of games run vs. the actual pricetag. But it's still pocket change in the long run, so all the randoms that need a gaming place just go there, get locked in a sound-proofed room and are ignored until their time is over.Thanks for reading my blog, I guess
>>97170400>>97172144I've got a spare room where I can play with myself>If the mall is dying, then the LGS itself is safe - they won't hike up their rent or try anything with themWhy so naïve?
>>97171101>>97171117>>97171654OP here, for additional context, this was an ad I got for an event a few towns over. I checked out their website, it's $100 ($130 after the "early bird" special is over) to enter their 40k, AOS, or Kings of War event, and apparently there's a $50 Warmachine event too. There's also a $5-per-entry painting competition. Looks like it's a 2-day weekend event. The site says they have 4 sponsorships from a few LGS's and a dice company so I assume there must be at least some decent prize support, but all of those details + the actual event packet with info on the number of games and such is still to be announced.I was just absolutely shocked by that asking price and the quality of the table they were showing off and figured /tg/ would get a kick out of it. I'm not a 40kfag myself but I attended a gaming convention run by a historical gaming club earlier this year in another nearby town that was much larger, and the obligatory 40k tournament they ran didn't have amazing tables by any stretch, but they were at least painted and themed (pic rel), seemed to have good prize support from the stacks of boxes they had set aside from various sponsors, and the admittance was just an extra $10 on top of the $35 3-day weekend pass for the wider convention.
>you want to promote your miniatures tournament event with a flyer>You set up your nicest looking models and terrain as a promo image>It still has unpainted minis and flat spray painted L shaped ruinsOh no 40k sisters .. are we just slop consoomers?
>>97174104>timbits >frozen north table
Yet again there's two reasons why 40k tournaments look so ugly these days is because of two reasons: GW's insistence on shitty TLoS rules which reduce the cover provided by a bunch of the terrain they make themselves (modelled objective markers disappearing is also down to GW ruling that objectives can be stood upon directly), and the jangly keys of international rankings provided by Frontline Gaming's International Tournament Circuit.A lot of what's wrong with current 40k can be levelled at Frontline Gaming, 2000 point games as standard because they wanted to make fewer hard decisions with listbuilding, they were swayed by (or are themselves) autists complaining about terrain not being simply fair but completely mirrored. Up until ITC dominated most events had houserules to keep their nice looking legacy terrain usable, which FLG could have done because they weren't averse to houserules, but the guys 'just happened' to own a laser cutter. Smaller tables too, because they just happened to also make terrain mats and the smaller size is more commercially convenient. It's easy to read a very believable conspiracy behind it.Of course no matter what people try and say otherwise the casual scene is downstream from the tournament scene. Near enough to everyone goes along with the tournament scene because that's what they've always done for casual games. GW are in a period where they seem more aware of what people are doing, and they look and see this general ugliness. People malding at tournaments and tournament players refuse to both acknowledge their complicity and accept they have agency to drive cultural change.The tournament remains the big mass social gathering for 40k players, there are very few narrative weekenders out there where I can take an army that's been LEGENDSED and play with legacy terrain that isn't fuck ugly. The few I know of locally have actually been put together by ex-tournament players wanting an alternative. 4chan spammers don't step up.
