So I was in my local store (I'll leave it anonymous unless people want to know it) and asked for a 1500 points game. Guy says sure and begins puling out models to begin. I pull out my remora drones and the store owner says no FW. He gets mad saying if someone enters and sees it they won't be able to buy it, since he'll have to direct them to another store. So I ask him if I could take a converted XV84 crisis suit (FW variant with markerlight + target lock) and he says no. I then ask him why, as he has remora drones on display on the tau section of the store and why he has primarchs on display as well. He says that they're not being used in game so they don't count. After playing a 1000 point game since I didn't have enough usable units to play a 1500 points game, I called up GW NSW (ausfag here) and they told me they were allowed to do that. However wherever else I check, it seems that they aren't allowed to ban FW that it's generally up to the discretion of the other player to allow forgeworld units (experimental ones only, ie: barracuda ax-5-2). So that does tg think about this? Is this allowed? Should I call GW london or some other higher up hq? Is there another number I should call and if so, can someone post it please (with area code). Also, general thread for shitty GW staff and players (no anti-taufags please, my largest suit is an xv95).
GW banning FW
Forgeworld is all OP BS.
It should all be banned from play.
But then again, the winning 40k army is whoever has the newest release, since power creep is killing this game.
They have sales quotas.
They need people to buy from them, or they get fired, even if the competition in this case forgeworld makes the same company money.
Every dollar little timmy spends on a cool forgeworld item instead of whats in the shop is one dollar closer to him losing his job.
Basically its shit for you and him. You would think they would authorize them to order forgeworld, but nope.
Basically shit policies fuck you in the ass.
If he's going to have that policy about FW it's totally fine but he really shouldn't be having FW models on display. Unavailable models on display and being played with in the store have the same fucking effect, probably display models even moreso. If a new player walks in and sees someone playing in the store, he might not always be using stuff that you can buy in the store, but if the store HAS A FUCKING PRODUCT FOR DISPLAY it should be available for sale.
Yeah user those Imperial Agents are really the ones to beat right now.
This doesn't make any sense as a story.
>Have Forgeworld on Display
>You can't play it because people will want to buy it
>I can't sell Forgeworld
This sounds like total BS. What, does GW not allow store managers to place orders from FW or something?
It sounds like he just has too many players who don't have FW losing to people who use FW models and so they stop playing and stop buying.
He is allowed to do this. You, however, are allowed to call and leave a black mark on his record, bad customer service &c &c &c.
FLGS all-comers untermenchen, basement board invite-only master race.
My local GW can't order from Forgeworld either, they have to direct people to the FW webstore.
But him banning forgeworld models is pretty fucking retarded, especially given he has them on display.
Well, I'm not making this up, I can tell you the location of the store (open for another hour) if you want to ring it up and ask questions. He has 2 remora drones, used to have a supremacy armour and when I mentioned the remora drones, he even mentioned that there were primarchs on display, which I didn't know since I've never seen the model before. When I pointed it out, he claimed that they were on display, so people would pay attention to them. He even has an entire converted necron army on display which you can't buy with a little note saying that they were converted to have chains on some sort f daggers to represent some sort of unit (Idk what it is). I asked around and apparently they were banned because people were "sick of reading up on FW rules for some OP dreadnoughts" that were AV13 all round. AV 13 isn't even that bad, take a fucking melta, take a lascannon, take a railgun and get the fuck over it. OP here btw so yeah.