Wandered in for the first time when we saw one of my son’s friends who we know is well addicted to Warhammer playing a game.
My first thought was how do these guys keep going, it was a pleasant enough atmosphere, with kids playing various games and a few sitting around painting figures, now I’m assuming there just hanging out and not paying for the privilege.
We were accosted by a kid wearing a staff shirt who offered my lad a 10 minute demo, Out came the box of dice, a tape measure and what I now know are range rulers. 10 minutes later my lad had won the battle, surprise surprise and taking advantage of my boys excitement at having been handed the victory we were led over to the shelf where we were shown the starter kit, I must admit I wasn’t really that enthusiastic but my boy had a bit of birthday money left so who was I to deny him if he wanted to spend his own cash.
We were shown a box with a bunch of plastic snap together figures, dice, range rulers and a rule book, This box cost over £60, the kid with the shirt obviously saw my shock and quickly pointed out that the rule book alone was worth £30, so I asked does that include paint, “oh no we have a paint starter kit for that” and he showed me a small box of paint and brushes that had a £30 + price tag….. We left fast.
My first thought was how do these guys keep going, it was a pleasant enough atmosphere, with kids playing various games and a few sitting around painting figures, now I’m assuming there just hanging out and not paying for the privilege.
We were accosted by a kid wearing a staff shirt who offered my lad a 10 minute demo, Out came the box of dice, a tape measure and what I now know are range rulers. 10 minutes later my lad had won the battle, surprise surprise and taking advantage of my boys excitement at having been handed the victory we were led over to the shelf where we were shown the starter kit, I must admit I wasn’t really that enthusiastic but my boy had a bit of birthday money left so who was I to deny him if he wanted to spend his own cash.
We were shown a box with a bunch of plastic snap together figures, dice, range rulers and a rule book, This box cost over £60, the kid with the shirt obviously saw my shock and quickly pointed out that the rule book alone was worth £30, so I asked does that include paint, “oh no we have a paint starter kit for that” and he showed me a small box of paint and brushes that had a £30 + price tag….. We left fast.