Our experiences with GW

Had a thread yesterday that was about GW stores being shit. Turned into positive stuff about them. so here's a thread for all the stuff we've done at GW stores.

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Good thread, OP.

Haven't entered one in years. Feels good, man.

Not been to one.

because there are none nearby. I really want to go to one tho. Hopefully get a job there because GW employees get a 50% discount. One day.

>go to gw
>"hey there, how are you today?"
>"hmmhm"
>"can i help you find anything?"
>*mumbles inaudibly*
>"okay, i'll be over here if you need any help."
>"y-you too"

Fucking GW vultures.

Likewise. Recently came back into the hobby and the second-hand market makes life much easier for expanding existing collections, and my LGS offers 20% off GW's RRP. I'm an Ausfag so it's still hideously expensive but it makes paints and random little things more reasonable.

when LoTR was super big, I went to a GW in a mall that wasn't my usual LGS. the guy who runs my home shop was always super nice and never pushed product, just game night and such. Hot damn the GW redshirt was a pushy bastard.

Two guys in the shop, which in hind site was a red flag, counter guy was cool, floor guy keep trying to talk to me about what I'm buying. I was looking at the isengaurd troll, and he was pushing easternlings for some reason. I was like 14 and he wanted me to buy that fuck huge full army box. everything I picked up to look at he was there trying to sell me on it. walking to the counter he stopped me and practically put a box in my hands.

Ultimately he pushed me over the the counter and I said "you know, I'll get a single box, but you really have to chill out dude. I play urk-hai man"

The counter guy giggled and the floor guy rolled his head and shoulders back like I said some that killed him. At the time I thought it was weird, but now I understand that those guys really have to fight for their jobs, the quotas are crazy. they have to sell new product.

Years latter, same GW, the guy was much nicer, he talked about list building and had a store copy of the codex for me to look at. then he talked color scheme, and had this big book of all sorts of pics. Walked out with quite a few boxes.

went back a few years latter, shop was gone, but they left the giant space marine statue in its place.

today the whole mall sold, and is now a target.

>RIP Sony Metreon, I stood in line for my PSP and god of war 2 there. still have my door prize t-shirt.

>first time in a GW
>Blackshirt comes up to me
>hey, looking for anything in particular
>I'm looking at getting into 40k, so I'm just having a look
>shows me the Start Collecting! Boxes, I like the look of the skitarii one.
>tell me it's their store birthday the next week, and there'll be events on
>tell them I'll think about it for as bit.
>go back the next week, buy the skitarii kit, and a tool kit to start, get a free Aquila pin

At some point I'll actually get to play a game, but for now I'm just enjoying assembling and painting my little martian cyborgs

No you're doing it wrong, you can't enjoy yourself, why aren't you already bitter and twisted !!!

Nah I'm the same, rarely get games but I love getting armies upto the 1500pt level, because then any new units can't be just swapped and changed.

Only time I've been to a GamesWorkshop was to vote for Armies on Parade.

>Go to GW for first time
>Expect to be met by friendly people trying to help me meet the hobby and the people
>Enter shop
>There are snacks and drinks all over the floor, everything is dirty.
>One of the employees closes the door behind me and stays infront of it
>Employee at the counter pulls out a baseball bat and asks me "How can I help you sir?"
>Another employee starts putting several expensive boxes at the counter for me to buy
>Hear children crying in the basement and grown men singing "OLD ENOUGH TO BLEED, OLD ENOUGH TO BREED"
>Buy everything and run away crying

Literally the only thing wrong with most GW shops are the fucking customers. Normally I go during the week so it's pretty quiet, but the last time I went on a weekend, holy fuck.
>ancient grognard bitching about how 0.5th edition was better while I'm trying to play
>fedoron, king of euphoria sipping a open topped large m'dew over my shit like the corn syrup of damocles
>WAACfag guy with three empty riptide bases arguing they couldn't be shot over terrain
>hungry fat dude eating the world's greasiest garlic bread and making the entire store smell

I feel bad for the poor redshirt who has to deal with it all the time.

Since I started painting again around 4 or 5 months ago I go to my local GW store every time I need something (paint, models, sometimes tools). The blueshirts (that's how they all are here) are friendly enough and always ask me what I'm doing, trying to push the latest sales (of course) when I talk about conversion projects. I only paint for fun and didn't seriously consider playing the game.
The guy at the counter always insists that I should bring some of the stuff I paint next time, and that they have free tables for people to come and paint at the store.

Last saturday I finally gave in and went there to paint, initially only for 2 hours, just to compare myself to the locals and see what I can learn from them. I ended up spending 6 hours there, met cool people, some of which probably lurk here too and learned some tips about painting skin and energy weapons from a blueshirt and a shop regular.

I'm going back next saturday, this was one of the best days I've had in a long time.

>Hear children crying in the basement and grown men singing "OLD ENOUGH TO BLEED, OLD ENOUGH TO BREED"

I keep reading that GW only has a single redshirt working in a Shop. Is it really that common? Been to two stores and they were always packed with several employees. I live in Germany if it matters

I'm in France and there's never less than two of them at one time in a store unless it's getting real close to the end of the day.

Most of them don't close on the lunch break so there's one guy then.

Some of the satellite stores in the states are single-man. Bigger ones tend to be a manager and 2-4 dudes.

I went into my local GW for the first time today
>Owner and dude playing Bloodbowl
>Tell them it's all good, no need to stop
>Wander around, grab a few paints, watch their game
>Talk about painting up some kickstarters to get back into the swing of painting
>Explain I miss Mordheim
>He's a huge mordheim fan
>We chat about past games
>watch them finish up their bloodbowl game
>Tells me to come back with some models and have a mordheim paint session

Seems like a nice enough guy

>*dingeling*
>Worker: Hi, how can I help you?
>Me: Dude, I j-just walked into the sstore.
>Worker: Ah, so you are looking for new miniatures?
>Me: Wh-what? No, I...
>Worker: Ah, you are looking for rulebooks, magazines, codexes?
>Me: No, I -
>Worker: Of course, you are here to paint. The painting table is over there.
>Me: CAN I JUST GET SOME FUCKING ROOM
>Me: REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>Worker: ...
>Worker: Slaneesh minis are over there, Sir.
>Me: T-thanks *brrraaaaap*

>*dingeling*
>Worker: Hello, how may I help you?
>Me: Uhm... Just looking I guess, not sure.
>Worker: I'm sorry this store is for ultramarines only.
>Me: huh?
>Worker: They get shit done, unlike you. OUT

>*dingeling*
>Worker: Good day, how may I be of service?
>Other Worker: Hi, how may I help you?
>Worker: Are you looking for the new miniatures?
>Other Worker: Are you looking for the new codex?
>*bbzzzaaap*
>Tech Support: No, it's a tech loop. You have to end the call now!

>be a Paladin
>go to Games Workshop
>fall

>Me: REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
I dont get this meme.

>>Hear children crying in the basement and grown men singing "OLD ENOUGH TO BLEED, OLD ENOUGH TO BREED"
I understood this reference.

normie here
what is it?

Some tumblrina totally true account of how she got invested in wargaming and how everyone else is a nazi.

thx

GW seem to be past their worst.... They're not as pushy as they used to be... possibly because they no longer have to pay the wages of the large number of staffers they had in the 90's and 2000's.

Some of the staff are even happy to talk about old GW games and lead mountains.

The last time I went into a Games Workshop (which are now rebranded as 'Warhammer')
There were 3 guys standing around and a neckbeard sat in the corner of the store, his body was very unnaturally bent out of shape, his spine was deformed in ths smeagle ring loving pose. He then sat upright and as if his back was a finger knuckle it snapped straight, it was quite a disturbing sight, and one I can never forget, plus he was painting the Ultramarines chapter master with very detailed heraldry. Still, the way his spine was so odd like that. Creepy...

>first time in a GW
>Blackshirt comes up to me
>immediately enlist in Mussolini's youth

that was a very good day actually

>Nurgle

With how many zits and red pustules on the fat guy's face more than likely.


>Anyway
I've only ever been in general game stores that also happen to sell GW. As a gamer who got caught up in MTG then moved into DnD towards miniatures and board games.

Honestly, in my city 2 places have closed down due to poor sales, which is sad. One obscure internet cafe for gamers with gaming PC's and the like and a load of tables. Which ran out of money and closed, then to a tiny shop that couldn't fit all it's players in and just decided to drop having a store to going on the market, which caused the place to fold in a week.
Onto a third venue now and it's an even smaller shop profile now.

Though the Warhammer store persists through all this.

>be me
>working at a GW
>love my job
>love the hobby
>just happy to be there
>guy walks into the store
>greet him, ask what I can help him with today
>he looks down, talks into his chest, doesn't make eye contact
>used to play, doesn't anymore but still has some old models
>someone with that much social anxiety probably isn't the best candidate for a demo game, work another angle
>ask what he used to play
>Space Hulk, Necromunda; specialist games we don't sell, anymore
>okay, I can work with this
>have a great talk about old games and new models
>tell him about our beginner activities as a way to get back into the hobby
>another customer needs to be rung up
>give social anxiety guy a card, invite him back for a learn-to-play
>feeling pretty good
>get reprimanded the next day
>social anxiety guy was a redshirt from another store on a secret shop
>I was supposed to sell him a starter set, hobby kit, can of primer and White Dwarf
>got a written disciplinary notice for insubordination, since I'd disobeyed sales procedure

This is the reason why you get the hard sell from redshirts.

What the fuck? You act like a human being and that piece of shit wants to exploit fucking autists.

Retail is fucking horrible. Done it for 8 years now I have anxiety issues...

link please!

Top kek, though a shit community is shit anywhere, not just GW stores

Our shop rightfully bans open drinks and greasy foods

Though an older manager did go kind of too far with the anti-neckbeard stance and insist on spraying deodorant and turning the fan on all the time, even though the regulars are mostly clean and good people

>"OLD ENOUGH TO BLEED, OLD ENOUGH TO BREED"
>How do you handle it?

Any Britfags here been to the GW in Shrewsbury?
Store manager is an absolute legend and every time I go in he's running it by himself.

Last time I went into a GW was with my high school bud. We went in, were greeted by the three redshirts. I bought an Empire general, my friend got an Ogre maneater and my brother got a warrior priest (this was like 2008 back when they still sold blister packs for like $12 at most).

We sat down, and chatted with the redshirts while gluing and painting. One of the redshirts was going on a rant saying that "White Lions are stubborn," every other minute and my friend stopped painting to turn and ask the guy "Hey dude, are white lions stubborn?" and the dude just lit up like "YEAH!!"

After we finished painting, we had a small game with em on one of the cool tables. I remember it being just a rolly hilly grassy table with some trees and there was another covered in big crystals carved from foam. Back when they had a huge hobby side to the hobby.

Pic related is the General I had modeled and painted that day. Never really went back to touch him up, because Idk, I like it. I'm fond of it. Was one of the better times I had visited a GW.

Every one had slowly just closed down after a while. One just opened up in West Hartford and I may visit it someday. It's actually set up in the exact location an ancient hobby shop was (read hobby shop, not FLGS), called War and Pieces in West Hartford.and I got my very first models there in 2001 or 2002.

Am rambling now kinda lol.

>every time I go in he's running it by himself.
Sounds cool but stores not open on Mon/Tues and single man operated are common, every London gw is one dude and they all seem good.

Honestly in my 10 years I've only ever had one 'bad' experience with GW staff and it was just some rude Italian dickhead who worked at my old lgs when i was very new, but he wasn't like a grognard if anything he seemed like a normie who didn't belong with a shit attitude

>Be me, 15-16y old
>I'm playing W40k for 2 years but i dont have that much money to spend so my army are going very slowly and i have no friend to really play with
> Find one, we go together to play at the local GW, pretty big one.
> From time to time, we are snatching one or two codex and small box
> We realize quickly that every young men in the store does that
> We stole worth 400e of figs and books
> At the end of the summer, the black shirt of the store come to us at the end of the day, and ask us some question, he know that we know that he know.
> He is just chilling with us and telling us "yeah that a shame this is so expensive, cuz we are happy to have many players in the store"
>Next time we go he got expelled
>Never goes to play again, everytime i have been there for 2 years someone is watching over my back.
>The store is pretty much empty


We ended up trading 250e worth of eldar against a snapcaster mage.

>Be me, 15-16y old
>I'm playing W40k for 2 years but i dont have that much money to spend so my army are going very slowly and i have no friend to really play with
> Find one, we go together to play at the local GW, pretty big one.
> From time to time, we are snatching one or two codex and small box
> We realize quickly that every young men in the store does that
> We stole worth 400e of figs and books
> At the end of the summer, the black shirt of the store come to us at the end of the day, and ask us some question, he know that we know that he know.
> He is just chilling with us and telling us "yeah that a shame this is so expensive, cuz we are happy to have many players in the store"
>Next time we go he got expelled
>Never goes to play again, everytime i have been there for 2 years someone is watching over my back.
>The store is pretty much empty


We ended up trading 250e worth of eldar against a snapcaster mage.

>Back when they had a huge hobby side to the hobby.
I feel you on this one. I came back to the hobby and GW after a 8 to 10 years hiatus and even in that time I see the change in the tables they have in the stores. They used to all have custom made tables with a lot of personality, but now every GW I go to has the same stale and ugly tables they sell and the pieces of terrain from the kits they currently sell.

It's a bit sad, but there are exceptions to this rule. The GW next to work has a gigantic city themed table with a train and a crane all made from GW parts. It's still made from kit parts but there's at least some creativity involved.

My local store is pretty great. Manager is really nice and helped my brother with his paint scheme and other little tips and shit.
Just wish I had money to spend and that my brother didn't fuck up his meds and never want to go back because he can't deal with all the people.

Been to two recently. Always friendly, but one is pretty chill while the other went for the hard sell the first time I was in there.

sound a distressed frog makes.

No fucking lie. I fucking hate when retail does this shit.

I used to bag at a grocery store. One night I had a six hour shift and was kinda tired at this point. A customer comes through, smiles at me

>"Hey how're you doing?"
>"Oh I'm good, tired. Just got off work."
"Yeah I'm alright. I'm jealous," I laugh, "I've got about a half hour left and I can go relax."
>Woman's face turns stone cold.
>"You better watch yourself. I'm from HQ in Massachusetts."

Like, fuck retail. The worst fucking industry. Forgive me for wanting to be a human and treat humans like humans.

Sheffield GW is a two man store taking it in turns to run. Manager is a cool guy though, helps the gf when I make her go buy something (so I don't end up spending more than I intended, poor impulse control)

Agreed

>wife into Zombicide
>go into geedubs to get some paints because we apparently shit money
>this was actually before we really knew anything about painting etc so we just assumed GW paints were the best
>i'm browsing the spess mahreens but i'm still in earshot
>blackshirt giving her some painting advice for zombies, mentions a painting day once a week where they tutor people and whatnot
>"Oh cool, can i bring my zombicide stuff?"
>pic related, blackshirt's face when he hears that
>"oh uh sorry its sort of for GW stuff only" major backpeddling
>stare at the back of a dreadnaught box to try and avoid the awkwardness
I'll have to give them some credit however as they had one last copy of Space Hulk last christmas.

Better try the Alpini. The Bersaglieri would be a bit of a stretch, right?

The existence of other companies stuff must make their lives so hard. Your FLGS doesn't have to deal with that problem.

She was evidently no human. That was your mistake.

>tfw got to know some of the GW employees and regular customers so well that we piled into a blackshirt's car one day and drove to a McDonalds during the lunchbreak
This was in 2011 or 2012. I went back there last year and didn't recognize any of the faces. Feelsbadman.

Blackshirt hopefully got promoted to a better job.

>m'dew
Lmao

Im sure the only reason GW even pays its employees is so they dont live in the store or starve to death...

ok so this just happened a few weeks ago I live in Canada so it may be different in other countries.

>Frequent to Local GW as all my friends play there

>usually paint or play some small AOS games

>every time i'm there i buy a paint or something small to support the store

>I use vellajo paints and non-citadel tools and glue but have a major collection of citadel paints and washes

>GW black shirt talks to me one day

>"user you can't paint in here with vellajo paints or anything non citadel"

>ask why

>"we don't have any MSDS on those paints and when people come in and see you painting with those we can't sell them those paints"

>people have asked me about my Vallejo paints

> tell them to buy the citadel equivalent


>feelsbadman.jpg


>stop going there ever since

To be fair the Blackshirt was only doing what corporate told him, he even said that if it was up to him he would just turn a blind eye, honestly he is a good guy.


i find though the way GW treats their customers they really are trying to run all the more advanced modelers and painters out of their stores in favor of newer customers.

Yeah, retail work is bullshit, all retail chains are mismanaged by middle management midget dicked cunts that are insanely shortsighted.

'No non-GW models in store' always confused me

Like when the fuck was the last time some new player walked up and loudly announced

>"DAMN NICE MODEL BRO. [Points at GW plastic Carnifex] WHERE'D YOU GET THAT?"

That never happens. Either you're new and can't tell non-gw from gw, or you're experienced and can obviously tell.

>YO MAN SWEET VAMPIRE CHICK, WHERE CAN I GET ONE?
>Oh it's Non-GW, sorry got it from Kromlech, i can give you the website
>WHAT YOU MEAN I CAN'T BUY THIS LITERALLY RIGHT FUCKING NOW? WHAT KIND OF BULLSHIT IS THAT RRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>[Dude demolishes store in front of terrified manager]

Where has this Blackshirt nightmare scenario ever taken place?

>>[Dude demolishes store in front of terrified manager]
That's not what they're afraid of, it's
>dude leaves and buys product somewhere else

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What Google gave me

I mean i kinda understand that but i don't see the problem with one or two models in someone's army being non-GW

The average brain-washed manager acts like the entire store will be shut down if your Orkz have some Kromlech heads or whatever

I think my favorite was that 'crons army made entirely from cut up sprues. It's GW plastic, legal to use in-store.

Went to my LGS for the first time yesterday
>huge space
>tons of board games and various minis
>aisle divider full of pathfinder books
>ask if they have any de bellis antiquitatis army packs
>they don't know what that is
>left
Seemed like nice people, maybe I'll go to one of their events one day

>mfw GW employers try to push new products at me
>"I play Sisters, what have you got?"

i do get the policy on non-gw models meaning I can't walk into a gw and start painting infinity, warmachine and hordes or similar models, but I think that if i want to paint with my own paints, brushes, tools i should, it's really pushing me away from giving any money to GW at all which ironically is what they don't want to happen.

>Play Templars
>Manager grins and opens up Gathering Storm
>Tries to shill me on that shit formation of Celestine + some guardsmen + a couple Black Templar squads
>'I don't want Celestine and can't even buy her separately if i did'
>'But dude! BT finally gets a formation isn't that awesome?'
>Mfw

Holy SHIT. What're the responses you get?

I don't really try to fuck them with it, they're nice guys and we had a long chat when I went to collect my Veridyan, but most of what they sell is pretty much useless to me aside from the occasional cool Imperial unit to use as allies.

Meanwhile you could just buy Celestine separately on ebay even if you did want her. I wonder if GW thought through how many sales they're losing because of the three packs.

We have a GW here in Stockholm. The staff are all nice duders, but jesus christ you can tell that they're getting pressure to increase sales nowadays. It wasn't like this ten years ago.

what the FUCK

I hope she gets help, because that fear is another level of unhealthy

Everyone at my FLGS is chill as hell and is kind. There may be like one pastey pale kid in a fedora, but even though he's a bit annoying like, jesus, why do people think all people are like that lol

what the fuck

SJW fuck

Dude my local gw has an amazing manager. Here are a few stories:
>Let me just use the stores minis to play 40k games against other people for fun before I had bought my own
>Came in 1 day too early to buy tzeentch dice and they would be sold out by the next time I got there, and he set some aside for a full week after they sold out
>Had 2 outdated copies of white dwarf from different months, gave them both to me for free.
>Gave me a free copy of the mini-rulebook for the current edition of 40k
>Refuses to recommend shit like citadel tweezers.

Totally

I'd love Cyhper's model and probably buy a box of DA and build his Fallen for fun

I like the Visiarch so much i'd be tempted to get him and start a Dark eldar force for Kill teams

But i have to trawl ebay for them, and since they are all minor vanity projects I'll probably never bother. GW fucked up not making them all separate kits

What really would it take to make GW turn around entirely?

Go private again.

public companies exist to give shareholders a nice pension.

This.

>Be Dark Angel and Thousand son player
>Always build elaborate models
>Have marines with various small decoeations as well as an imperial knight built like pic related
>mid-way through a game some fat autistic neckbeard waddles over, picks up my knight
>It slips from his mountain dew stained hands
>Lands on my models, breaks off their arms, details, flags etc and snaps the building part of my knight clear in half, not even at the glue line.

Never went back

This couldn't be in the US.

There is a push to sell starter sets, that's true enough. However, due to staff meetings, a secret shopper fellow redshirt isn't likely.

thanks

god thats awful, im so sorry for you

My God, seriously?

>Don't play warhammer
>use reaper paints
>need paint for new minis
>too impatient to order online, want to paint now
>decide to go see what GW has
>Creepy employee and customers trying way to hard to convince me to get into warhammer and play at the store
>buy my paint and never return

ok, I read the article now, and I must say, that I didn't find it that funny
even tough this user has a point too
(and yeah, just start to call me a whiteknight/SJW/whatever)

My GW has a pretty neat rule for eating and drinking near the gaming area:
Roll a d6.
1: Nothing happens...you lucky bastard
2: One random model is rmoved from the battlefield as a casualty (determined through dice role, or by the shopkeepers choice, if your being an insufferabl fag)
3: The opponent chooses one of your units. They may reroll all to-hit rolls against that unit for the rst of the game.
4: The opponent chooses one unit. It is unable to take any actions until the start of the next turn.
5: You must assemble a model for the shop.
6: You must PAINT a model for the shop...make duncan proud.

You're not a whiteknight or SJW. I'm the user you linked and I didn't find it very funny either. I just found it kind of creepy and insane that someone would be that unhealthily terrified of men.

well, according to her backstory, it makes sense to me (still needs help tough)

I don't understand why anyone would choose to buy from these stores with so many cheaper options available.

This warms my cold heart, user

how badly does one have to be raised to think they can just pick up other people's very expensive stuff without asking?

>he steals from the store
>complains that they were "watching over his back"

Kill yourself.

Prob thinks it's a white supremacist state too.

Mid game too, the knight wasn't defeated or not in use, it was literally on the board in play.

It most certainly was and, added bonus, the redshirt who posed as social anxiety guy got fast tracked into his own hobby center.

He was subsequently sacked for failing to make goal and his store was closed.

And that's not even my best secret shopper story; the best had to have been when the regional manager sent his fourteen year old daughter into the store, she spent the entire time on her phone, actively avoided any attempt to engage her, and finally walked out after calling us a bunch of nerds; but since we didn't sell her a starter set, hobby kit, primer and White Dwarf, it's a failed secret shop.

>play TW: Warhammer
>notice a GW shop open just a few minutes away
>go in for the Grombrindal code and look around
>blackshirt hounds me the whole time, asking me what I played, what I needed
>tell him I only know TW: Warhammer and that I already have my money sinked into MTG so can't afford a second expensive hobby
>still tries to sell me intro boxes, books, CDs, White Dwarf,etc etc
>"Hey, how about Age of Sigmar! Its like Warhammer Fantasy but way cooler! Like Marvel universe!"
>yeah okay,even I heard about Age of Shitmar
>get my code and get out

the next time,

>interested in reading about return of Robot Guilliman in Gathering Storm
>went in seeing if the lore was in the magazine or a book
>immediately hounded again
>"Oh hey! It's you again! You're here for Gathering Storm III? Sure! We got pre-orders available now! Let me just pull it up on our webpage here, and you can start filling it out."
>Is already pushing me in front of the computer to fill it out
>calls out to another player so I could look at Gathering Storm book II
>looks cool, but has a bunch of rules and shit in it; and I don't play Warhammer, I just like the lore
>"Er, How much is this?"
>"Its 50$, but if you pre-order now, you can save on shipping, and your guaranteed to get it, cause this stuff is going to go fast, let me tell you!"
>get the fuck out of there again

Its like they pulled this guy out of a used car dealership or something.

My store is really good. The manager of the GW from Bordeaux is an absolute bro all around, and I'm going tomorrow to help him paint the Shadow War terrains.

It's a small place, but him and the other, part-time, dude are stellar dudes, the clients are your average cringy, sometimes smelly dudes, a lot of them are perfectly normal, social people.

Great music as well, loads of events, I remember when I came in for the very first time, Sam told me about 4 different events, in one week, an absolute blast.

Holy fuck you nigger, I didn't ask for the feels from it being the Metreon GW you were referring to.

I remember not even knowing what 40k was the first and only time I ever went in there. I'd just gotten out of a movie or something, and I went inside because I saw you tanks on the store window. I remember walking in and being awesome by a display table in the center of the room showing what I didn't know at the time was an apocalypse level fight between Guard and Nids, with the nids having a bio-titan as their center-piece.

My parents wouldn't buy me anything and we left. Wasn't until 5 or 6 years later that I got into 40k. The store had long since been turned into a target, as you said, by then though.

I wish I'd been old enough to have gotten into 40k on it's relative hayday.

I FUCKING DESPISE AUTO-CORRECT AAAHHHH

That's good to hear, and what a hobby should be about. Meeting new people, having fun, making friends, learning.

At some point a few minths ago I went to my shop to buy the mandatory WD, ended up talking to the guy here about the new GW, Rountree, the upcoming stuff, and everything that was going on.

We spent maybe an hour or two, just two fans having a chat and goddamn it felt good to actually enjoy having a nice conversation where you don't have to skim through tons of complaints and whining.