I did the math. If headcount didn't change in the last 12 months then the bonus each employee will receive will be ~$9152.54.

I don't play board games like warhammer but if I did I would happily pay the premium I see on those figurines if it means this happens.

The article disagrees, but idk what staffing numbers are right

It said in the article that it’s 18 grand American per employee I thought

The stat I found was 2950 employees world wide as of June 2024.

I used the numbers from their financial disclosure. I have no idea where the article got its information.

I got my information from the article so who knows lol

There are cheaper miniature games out there. Gaslands is Mad Max/ Death Race inspired and you use standard toy cars to play. There's also Turnip28 that's pretty much post apocalyptic Napoleonic Wars. There are cheap Napoleon era miniatures people modify for it, but I've also seen some goofier builds, like using toys and actual vegetables. I will say I haven't really played either, but they are the two miniature games I often consider getting into.

10k is just fine. 18k is better, but no one complains about 10k

It's definitely pricey, a couple of reasons:

I believe the kits are still entirely made in the UK rather than Asia like so many things.

The quality and designs are arguably the best in the world with techniques far more advanced than most rivals can compete with.

This doesn't mean they don't get greedy and stick on a huge profit, I believe they heavily rely on staff who love the hobby to run their stores too and pay very poorly.

On the one hand, fuck GW, their plastic is too damn expensive for what it is.

On the other hand, respect for paying out profits to the employees. Mad respect, 100%. Wish more companies did that.

While that's great, it also speaks volumes when taken in context with their customer-hostile business practices.

They sell metric fucktons of $50+ boxes of $0.15 worth of plastic. And $20 bottles of paint. They should be able to throw their employees a generous bone.

If I were to play again, I'd find some drawn units, print them, laminate them, and stick them in the little circular stands with the slot. No way I'd spend that much money again, I barely broke even selling my old stuff.

Is it customer hostile? I thought it was just licencing-hostile, fucking over others with their IPS left and right.

I don't know much about them.

In the sense that you're going to overpay for editions and minis that they're constantly updating to squeeze more money out of you while having a genuinely good but expensive paint catalogue ruined by paint pots designed to waste paint, yes.

In the sense that it's pure entertainment and no one and nothing is making you buy them despite all that, no.

Now, if we want to talk about how they're essentially monetizing fascist rhetoric and the "satire" died decades ago that's a whole new ballgame.

I dunno if there is a subculture of printing the models at home. I would think resin printers would have more than enough resolution to make good miniatures. Is that frowned upon? There is no reason to buy overpriced licensed shit.

It is like risk but cooler! And honestly you don’t need a 2k point meta army to start with. For the price of two or three $60 video games (guess I have to preface that now) you can have enough models for you and a friend to have an absolute blast.

Oh there is absolutely a group that prints their own, and before that there were re-molds that were made based on the real ones.

From what I understand, (friends play) they aren't allowed in "official" sponsored matches, so if you really want to compete big you have to have real armies. But also they have printed one of those $800 models because most people don't have the cash to throw at stuff like that.

So I'm sure there are some diehard people that only think official models should be used but it doesn't seem common.