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I'll just say this. I choose Games Workshop purely on the fact I love the worlds of Warhammer and Warhammer 40K, the awesome models, and when they had a store in Charlotte it was like my second home, with friendly and helpful staff.

Yes in recent years they have had some inane dexs, 4,5,and 6th editions have been progressively worse core rules wise. Doing away with Troll magazine, a true bitz ordering service, price hikes, doing away with metal minis, and finecast, have all been sins, but they are the hobby for ME.

Forge World is great but while I'd LOVE to get ANYTHING from them, they are way to far out of the ballpark on price, and that speaks volumes when you look at just GW's prices alone.

While I've heard of Warmachine and Flames of War to me Warmachine just 'feels' like 40k knock off (It might not be don't flame me I'm going on MY opinion of the models I've seen.) and FoW to me is just WW2 which has been done to death already.

The rest I know nothing about, and really haven't seen the minis, rules, or any fluff about them in any hobby store, or games shop I've been to, so even if I WANTED to try them, I know I couldn't find anyone to play against regularly.

I was tempted to write in Wizkids, but I'm assuming this is for non pre-painted minis. If not I like Wizkids. I like thier mechwarrior figs, even if I don't know the rules, nor can I find anybody that plays it. Thier D&D figures have always rocked, and thier Pathfinder figs look great so far.

So yeah Games Workshop and Wizkids are my favs.


Oh and Ral PArtha and Chainmail.

Reaper and GW

Forgeworld, for me. Horrendously expensive, but if you've got the money, it's so worth it. Their miniatures look just amazing, so good infact that they make me wanna start collecting armies that I otherwise don't care about.

In many ways, my love for Forgeword's miniatures can be expressed in three simple words: Chaos Warhound Titan. 'nuff said.

I went with GW and Forgeworld, as a tie. While I love Forgeworld models, I'm not willing to pay their hideously expensive prices. And truth be told, there are very few models in GW's collection that I dislike.

i love the reaper range and warlord minis too

I like Scribor Miniatures. some great variations on historical themes with power armour!

+1 for Reaper

Id vote reaper or black scorpian

Ridiculous prices that make you turn to go straight to resellers, but alas, GW's quality is yet to be reached. Stuff like Mantic does not even come CLOSE to what GW minis are like.

I love GW's quality (not price though. Oh god.). I also love PSC, they make some of my favorite looking 15mm models.

Reaper i probably my favorite all around (they have a very wide range of fine figures for reasonable prices).

GW would definitely rate in the lower tiers. Exorbitant prices, mediocre quality of materials, and a tendency towards horrific anatomy and scale issues. While they have some nice pieces, I definitely would not say that their overall quality is beyond anybody else. They have made great progress in multipart plastics, which is a good thing.

Forge World is another mixed bag. Some great sculpts, but a lot of quality control issues and certainly premium priced. At least they avoid the hands/head gigantism that is so common in GW's base lines.

PP is comparable to GW in terms of cost and quality, though they do markedly better with female sculpts. Still do the way oversized weapon and often goofy proportions thing, though.

Corvus Belli are an example of what premium price sculpts *should* look like.

Gw, Warlord Hail Ceaser and FW in that order

I would have voted for Reaper. Most of their minis are pretty solid (maybe a few scant duds here and there), and cover a great range of stuff for all gaming. Cipher Studios (makers of Anima Tactics) is fast climbing my Likes column, and whoever is behind Dust Tactics (forgetting at the moment) deserves kudos for their vehicles and some of their infantry models (the upcoming British Commando Kill Squad/Foreign Legion unit is soooo boss!).

GW is the only one I know

I went Privateer Press.

And GW because I absolutely LOVE some of the older metal Fantasy/Mordheim stuff.

Privateer Press, the model scuplts are beautiful and they work out the gaming and rule systems really well

Other: Red Box Games

Reaper. I like GW too, but Reaper is the best.

Wyrd (write in) and Forge World (despite their ridiculous cost)