So a little background:
I buy minis for roleplaying. I would say 90%+ of my collection (6-700 range) is from Reaper. I have stayed away from Games Workshop minis because the odd time I looked at them, my jaw dropped at the prices. The last time I perused a store that sold GW product was about three years ago.
So I was getting together a Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay game for a convention, and needed some good mutant/demon minis. I swung by our local GW shop, and was able to find some Nurgle demons for a decent price (I think the pack of five came to somewhere around $5 a piece). Even looking at a lot of the plastic army kits, they fell in under $1 a mini, which if I need the volume, would be a great buy.
So my question to everyone out there (if it didn\'t start out that way, yes, I do have one!) is this - Was this just me, or has the recent (and fairly drastic) price increases of Reaper minis \'leveled\' the playing field, or did I just have an unreasonable preconception of GW to begin with? It seemed there was a time that I looked at GW metal going for 2/$12 while you could grab your standard Reaper mini for $3-4 a pop.
(sorry if I have excluded other brands that might be worth mentioning... this is all I have to work with at the local stores)
I buy minis for roleplaying. I would say 90%+ of my collection (6-700 range) is from Reaper. I have stayed away from Games Workshop minis because the odd time I looked at them, my jaw dropped at the prices. The last time I perused a store that sold GW product was about three years ago.
So I was getting together a Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay game for a convention, and needed some good mutant/demon minis. I swung by our local GW shop, and was able to find some Nurgle demons for a decent price (I think the pack of five came to somewhere around $5 a piece). Even looking at a lot of the plastic army kits, they fell in under $1 a mini, which if I need the volume, would be a great buy.
So my question to everyone out there (if it didn\'t start out that way, yes, I do have one!) is this - Was this just me, or has the recent (and fairly drastic) price increases of Reaper minis \'leveled\' the playing field, or did I just have an unreasonable preconception of GW to begin with? It seemed there was a time that I looked at GW metal going for 2/$12 while you could grab your standard Reaper mini for $3-4 a pop.
(sorry if I have excluded other brands that might be worth mentioning... this is all I have to work with at the local stores)
