Our experiences with GW

>>52540296
Good thread, OP.

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

>>52540296
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.

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>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.

>>52548030
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.

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>>52540296
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.

>>52540296
>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

>>52549902
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

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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.

>>52540296
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.

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>>52550301
>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

>>52550674
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.

>>52550674
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

>>52540296
>*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*

>>52540296
>*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

>>52551313
>>52551326
>*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

>>52551313
>Me: REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
I dont get this meme.

>>52550301
>>Hear children crying in the basement and grown men singing "OLD ENOUGH TO BLEED, OLD ENOUGH TO BREED"
I understood this reference.

>>52551476
normie here
what is it?

>>52551490
Some tumblrina totally true account of how she got invested in wargaming and how everyone else is a nazi.

>>52551504
thx

>>52551157
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...

>>52549902
>first time in a GW
>Blackshirt comes up to me
>immediately enlist in Mussolini's youth

that was a very good day actually

>>52551609
>Nurgle

>>52551708
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.

>>52551933
What the fuck? You act like a human being and that piece of shit wants to exploit fucking autists.

>>52551933
Retail is fucking horrible. Done it for 8 years now I have anxiety issues...

>>52551504
link please!

>>52550583
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

>>52551933
>>52552094
>"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.

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>>52540296

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.

>>52552171
>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

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>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.

>>52540296
>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.

>>52552202
>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.

>>52540296
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.

>>52551428
sound a distressed frog makes.

>>52551933

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.

>>52552171
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)

>>52552343
Agreed

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>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.

>>52551688
Better try the Alpini. The Bersaglieri would be a bit of a stretch, right?

>>52552485
The existence of other companies stuff must make their lives so hard. Your FLGS doesn't have to deal with that problem.

>>52552343
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.

>>52552581
Blackshirt hopefully got promoted to a better job.

>>52550583
>m'dew
Lmao

>>52548420
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

>"anon 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.

>>52553651

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

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>>52553651
'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?

>>52553915
>>[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

>>52552021
https://www.reddit.com/r/CringeAnarchy/comments/4kdf6o/tabletop_gaming_has_a_white_male_terrorism_problem/

What Google gave me

>>52553967
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

>>52554106
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

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

>>52553915
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.

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>>52554362

>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

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>>52554362

Holy SHIT. What're the responses you get?

>>52554472

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.

>>52554469

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.

>>52554037

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.

>>52554538
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?

>>52555376

Go private again.

public companies exist to give shareholders a nice pension.

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>>52550583
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

>>52551933

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.

>>52554037
thanks

>>52555576
god thats awful, im so sorry for you

>>52552229
>>52552245
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

>>52554037
>>52555889
ok, I read the article now, and I must say, that I didn't find it that funny
even tough this anon>>52554653 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.

>>52556381

You're not a whiteknight or SJW. I'm the anon 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.

>>52556818
well, according to her backstory, it makes sense to me (still needs help tough)

>>52540296
I don't understand why anyone would choose to buy from these stores with so many cheaper options available.

>>52550626
This warms my cold heart, anon

>>52555576
how badly does one have to be raised to think they can just pick up other people's very expensive stuff without asking?

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>>52552229
>>52552245
>he steals from the store
>complains that they were "watching over his back"

Kill yourself.

>>52557398
Prob thinks it's a white supremacist state too.

>>52557044
Mid game too, the knight wasn't defeated or not in use, it was literally on the board in play.

>>52555879
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.

>>52540296
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.

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>>52549318

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.

>>52557570

I FUCKING DESPISE AUTO-CORRECT AAAHHHH

>>52550626
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.

>>52552229
>>52552245

Fuck me this is disgusting, thieves deserve to get caught an punished by the law.
I worked hard for everything I own and take pride in the fact I worked to get it. Even now when I have next to no income I can still manage to buy paints and models, because I either work to get them or by saving money. Thieves take out of the economy without putting anything back. Truly the worst parasites in society.


>>52557513

You gotta believe me when I say this but all staff are dictated to, to sell a product, you 'must approach them with a smile on you face'.

'You must ask how there day is'.

'You must try to push the sale'.

If you do not do these things or more you are desciplined, if you are desciplined you cannot work up the ladder. Catch 22. Sales teams things this shit works, I worked in retail for 9 odd years and I was always honest and candid with the customer, I had so many charges against me by management I was known throughout the store as having an 'attitude', they sacked me because I got Numonia then 9 years of work was counted for nothing. No joke FUCK RETAIL, and the scum who steal and makes all our lives harder!

>>52557513
If he cant sell you an entire Ultramarines army, 7 separate codices, and a GW store franchise every time you come into the store they'll start sending him his daughter's fingers in the mail.

>>52556909
Since the hobby is a triple threat (paint,collect,play) it is a great way to be introduced to others that also do the same for the same games. At a lgs you never know what is going to be played, Makes pick up games harder to get. Then while there may be tons of space at the store, its usually taken up by magic players. I honestly dont mind paying full price if it keeps away magic. My local gw has a great community, there are no horror stories about players or staff (except those about the previous manager and guys that quit playing before i started)

>>52551504
My friends and I have been saying it long before tumblr was a thing, my personal favourite was 'I like when they're 12, because then they're old enough to know what's happening, but too young to stop it.'

>>52557507
Man the manager here is the representative of all French managers, used to be regional manager, yet asked to go back into the fray. That alone tells a lot about how much of a gem he is. He'd never do something like that. He doesn't even try to push sales. He just wants the stores to be friendly and welcoming. litteraly the only time I saw him get interested in a bad way about another shop is when he heard thay some manager in Paris was a jackass.

>>52554208
You don't sound like a prick at all

>>52558049
Did you reply to the right post?

I decided to get back into painting a couple of days ago and was debating on picking up some minis and paints at my local GW (I was in the area) yesterday but just could not get myself to go because I know I can get everything I want cheaper online from non-GW retailers. I'm usually not that jewy but when it comes to GW I don't spend any cent more than I have to.

I usually go to the GW in Frisco, Texas. Texas Toy Soldier is of course the popular FLGS in the Dallas area, but it's farther away for me, so I don't go there much except on the rare occasion that I need to buy something other than Citadel paint, and it's not available on eBay.

In August 2016 I had just started 40k, and went to the Frisco GW for the first time. The old manager (Moses, who was well loved) had just left. Until they found a new manager there was an alternating schedule of two on-call guys filling in. During this time the gaming scene at the store was completely dead. I ended up getting to know the Friday-Saturday on-call guy really well, and went to the store just to talk with him.

Fast forward to the end of Nov. 2016 and they found a new manager, and the call guy is gone. I exchanged phone numbers with him, but haven't seen him since November because we've both been busy. Haven't gone to the GW near as much since he left.

The new manager is a nice guy, but he's much more of a manager than a conversationalist. He's done a lot to revive the gaming scene at the store, but I miss talking to the on-call guy.

>>52558318
On call guys are almost always bros. One of them at my gw is so laid back, he just paints all day or even plays games, then somehow makes tons of big sale

>>52558138
That not being said shrewd merchant, that's just smart.

There are 2 GWs near me.

The first one I went to was fucking gross. The dude that was there had long greazy hair; long, uncut and dirty finger nails, and was just generally everything I hate about the hobby. 2/10 shop.

Luckily, a newer store just opened up a little closer to me and the guy who runs it is a total bro. He's also building a community at his shop so people can come in and game and have fun. My only real complaint is he always tries to up-sell me when I'm in there, but he is trying to run a business so I get it. 9/10 shop.

>>52559211

>The dude that was there had long greazy hair; long, uncut and dirty finger nails, and was just generally everything I hate about the hobby. 2/10 shop.

Place I gamed and played DnD had classic lesbianic women who dressed as a man and drank MOUNTAINDEW like tap water, was generally a revolting fat pig with no manners that belched all the time.
>Made my character walk off a cliff and left the campaign. Shop closes its doors for good a few months later.

>>52554037
wew

>>52559574

Gross, dude. I don't think that store will close down, as it is closer to the downtown core whereas the new one is a lot further out.

It does look like our hobby is starting to weed out the gross people a bit though, which is pretty uplifting.

>>52559738
She had a kid apparently...

Yeah, neckbeards need mirrors!

>>52555576
That's funny, I'm the dummy who breaks his own stuff all the time, I was in a big real deal tournament and I dropped both of my Valkyries. fucking exploded.

I managed to re assemble them with quick dry super glue in like 2 minutes. People actually complemented my ability to fix my fuck ups so fast. I even helped another guy put an arm back on, I got a kit and everything.

>An exacto blade with the handle cut down, zappa gap + and accelrant, tiny bulldog clips rubber bands and very thin copper wire to hold the guy together during play.

>>52540296
>have a apocolypse game
>about 15 players
>2 asked to leave for talking about other hobby

>go to GW
>playing a game with chill employee
>kid looking at black library books
>opens for blurb
>manager forces him to buy book for 'Ruining it'
>kid cries as he cant afford it

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Any NYC peeps remember Neutral Ground?

the fuck is a redshirt? The guy at my local GW is some hippy dude with a tie dyed shirt.

>>52552257
>>52552202
they had to get rid of them, company policy was not to have anything in stores that they don't sell
>mfw local ex redshirt tells me they had to throw out the store dogs of war army
this was when they where oop for a while and worth quite a lot mind you

>>52550301
>There are snacks and drinks all over the floor, everything is dirty.

This is an accurate description of my local gw.

>>52550301

Fuck you for reminding me of that shitty shit-that-never-happened clickbait.

>>52552343
My dad works for a GM dealership and corporate has people call the place pretending to be extremely irate customers to try and bait the employees into reacting so they can fire them for not sucking the dick of some guy literally screaming and cursing you out over the phone for something you didn't even do. Retail is fucking insane and I'm so glad I don't work it.

>GW is a 30 min drive away
>can only go in on the weekends because of my work hours
>Blackshirts are pretty cool, except one is a tau WAAC
All in all, I've only had good experiences

Anyone else feel aliented walking into a gw or any flgs because you have normie bordering on chad-like looks? I always get blown off by other players coz they think im just some jock coming to make fun of them. Plz i just wanna use my ogors to crush u

>>52562375
I have felt alienated because i've been at an LGS and known for sure i'm the least autistic person there and can actually keep my shit together when like a hot mother or someone's sister walks in.

Maybe grow your beard out, wear some generic metal shirts/hoodie look more like a typical GW player so they know you're one of them

>>52562453
>I have felt alienated because i've been at an LGS and known for sure i'm the least autistic person there and can actually keep my shit together when like a hot mother or someone's sister walks in.
I know this feel. You wear a decent shirt, take a shower and shave that morning and you already look better than 50% of the people in most LGSs.

>>52557540
Cant stand that guy on youtube, what a fucking dork

>>52561500
wait the kid removed the plastic seal on it? what a tool

>>52561719
unrelated, but where the fuck do you go for tabletop shit in NYC? it seems so strange a major city would be lacking in FLGS

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>>52540296
>Walk into GW store a year ago
>Look around
>Try to hold back laughter at all the retarded space marine crap that covers 90% of store
>Ask GW cashier guy if they know when they'll get some Howling Banshees in
>Says they don't carry aspect warriors in the store but I can order it and come back in a week
>Suddenly change my mind since I'd have to ride the bus for 2 hours to come back and get the stuff, also don't want to pay for shipping
>Leave without buying anything

Closest I've come to buying something from a GW store in 15 years.

I basically go into games workshop to ask if they have Carapace armor Cadians with shotguns.

>>52549902
>skitarii

It's good to see people enjoying an army that's not widely played.

>>ok

This thread was a really fantastic read.

The store in Scottsdale AZ is pretty ace. The Manager is firendly and knowledgeable and remembers everyone for the most part. Its lead his store to being quite succesful from what I understand.

Have only had positive experiences in the store.

>>52540296
I've never actually had a bad experience with an official GW store. The staff have always been really chilled out, and never pressured me into buying anything, they've just offered to help and answered any questions I had. The guys who ran the store I used to go to 15 years back actually let me buy stuff that hadn't hit the shelves yet.

I've obviously had good luck with stores though, since I've heard loads of stories of GW stores with pushy staff.

>>52553915
I had an employee tell me I couldn't use my modified leman russ because the base was a tiger chassis.


I actually met an ex-employee from the same GW store a few years at a warmahordes league, super cool guy.

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>>52562453
oh geez, the autism is a real problem. my LGS has a 'free' role-play night, with any sorta game you personally wanna run kinda deal. hugely popular, which is nice, but it really calls out some real weird cats. There is a secret high sign for more normal people, its called making causal conversation. Not trying to be a dick, but you know, try to look someone in the eye and smile as you walk by.

Now this is a odd one, there are a few weird girls that are super... flirty? but like terrible at it. you make a joke warhammer or whatever they are fucking doing there in the first place and they are like super into it and then walk away to another guy and jump on his back anime style.

It's really weird and makes me feel like a creep because god knows how old they are. your like oh Jesus Christ that was a teenager. don't worry though, you just have to use the secret Jim Halpert face move to the owner and he gets it that your not in it for THE BREEDING.

Who remembers the days of Redshirts trying to get you to buy shit by claiming it takes ten years to make a profit on a mold?

I swear at least 3 different stores told me this back in the early 2000's.

>>52565931
Sounds like retarded weeaboo skanks. You see them at cons sometimes.

>>52565992
yeah that and the baneblade cost million dollars. mine is still siting in my closest unbuilt.

>>52550626
I just started painting and went into the local GW store because some friends had said they had painting classes. Guy was super friendly, I asked if it was a problem if I didn't bring in GW minis to pain and his response was along the lines of "you buy paints from me and I'll teach you to paint anything you want". A fair enough trade. Went in for the class with a bunch of The Others minis and then went back the next day. The guy is always really helpful, and tries to push paints, but never really models which I like. It's strongly made me consider getting back into 40k, desu.

I was a redshirt ten years ago and I still remember the old 10 Commandments of Customer Service:

1) Acknowledge all customers who enter the shop.

2) Be aware of customers and their behaviour

3) Show enthusiasm and be cheerful

4) Be attentive and listen carefully to customer needs

5) Promote the Hobby

6) Establish a rapport with the customer.

7) Display an in-depth knowledge of company products

8) Maintain a high standard of personal appearance and hygiene.

9) Ask questions which best obtain information concerning customer needs.

10) Show Courtesy

still waiting for the call back to action...

>>52565931
Some of these gamer girls are more awkward than the dudes. The flirting can be cringy, especially when they play dumb. I got introduced to a girl at one of these events, she twirled her hair around her finger and said in the most ditsy cutesy voice "I'm a Halfling!" I forced a smile that probably looked more like a pained grimace and said "That's nice." like you would to a child. She dropped the act and ignored me for the rest of the night.

There's a little gem that runs around and organizes players who I admire from a distance, but the others I feel like I can smell when I look at them. It's like my mind prepares me for what they probably stink like before I get close to them, just so there's no surprises.

>>52566167
Holy shit I thought my LGS was the only one. There's a girl that comes in with her boyfriend/husband, She plays a mono white angel deck and acts super ditzy with that fake high pitched voice. Weirdly enough I ran into the couple at a different store when I was first getting into magic they were the first ones to tell me about EDH.

>2005
>want to get into warhammer with my brother and a friend
>go to the local GW store downtown
>start collecting and playing empire
>staff shows me how to assemble minis and we do this all the afternoon
>we play our first game with the content of our battalion boxes
>plays every saturday there, feels like an adult for taking the tramway and the subway alone with my minis
>expands my army
>Storm of Chaos is announced
>events are organized at the store to prepare the scenery, etc
>if you help you can dip in the bitz box for free
>also win a painting contest for beginners
>builds up my army
>during the whole Storm of Chaos huge battles are organized
>always take the field with my friend
>some months pass
>Storm of Chaos gets retcon
>staff changes
>10 years later
>the store is dead
I passed in front of the store a few months ago on a saturday afternoon and there was 2 customers, nobody playing. It was sad as fuck.

The former manager opened a liniature shop in another city and apparently it's a big hit.

>>52565931
>not in it for THE BREEDING.

9784378462879423/10
That was golden.

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Used to be a regular back in the day and overall the store was good. Wasn't the biggest store but there was usually a 6x4 to play on if you booked it.

I eventually got a job and stopped the hobby for a while, I've since got back to painting. I heard some stories from my friends about they manager at the time stopped people from using forge world models since they weren't sold in the store. He also got rid of the 6x4 and just had tutorial boards but I feel this was a move from higher up.

I've been in a few since then and I feel out of place, I may watch a game for a few minutes or look around but I can feel the looks the regulars their give me. Sales wise it's the usual sales pitch of getting asked what I want etc.. Since I know what I want I don't fall for tricks.
Often get given a card or invited to an event, I say I might pop in but never do.

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>>52566435
Too early for spelling and proper grammar, sorry lads

>>52550583
>>fedoron, king of euphoria sipping a open topped large m'dew over my shit like the corn syrup of damocles

"m'dew" <-- Fucking lost it.

>>hungry fat dude eating the world's greasiest garlic bread and making the entire store smell

Apologies. That was me. I lurv the garlic bread.

>>52566325
>and there was 2 customers, nobody playing.
Well yeah nobody plays fantasy now, but what about other games?

But do you know a GW employee that hooked you up with a employee shirt?

If yes, post pics.

>>52540296
>walk into games workshop
>just like my lgs the majority of players are ex military and ex marines
Is this something everywhere or just a Minnesota thing?
Almost every miniature war gamer I've met was in the military at one point.

>>52566533
I mean 2 customers in the entire store

>>52563315
>also don't want to pay for shipping
you don't pay for shipping if you have it shipped to a store

Only one negative springs to mind when I was a kid and arsehole teen messing up a GW store that wasn't either my own fault or a misunderstanding.

One holiday we got a bunch of the regular slightly younger kids into playing Mordheim. They loved it, some even bought models specifically to play different warbands.

Problem was, the company was running a country wide campaign and every day they had to report back to HQ with game results.

As a half dozen kids were busy playing Mordheim the store's numbers were down and questions were asked.

And so Mordheim got restricted to 1 day a week, I believe this rule continued after the holiday ended and the 1 day was a day when younger kids weren't allowed in the games room.

No fault of the staff at all but fuck the company.

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>>52554037
>all that white male privilege

Feels good to be a gamer

Anyone got any tales of receiving free shit that they were supposed to throw out. I got a bunch of fantasy codexes as well as a novel. Managers a pretty chill dude, a bit too into trump and redpilling.

>>52554538
Same, I want a primaris psyker for my IG army but I hate how the GW model looks. I really like the look of the GSC magos but it only comes in a 50 euro box together with a primus and broodlord I have no interest in

>>52567519
not quite that, but I got a pewter dark angels model along with a patch to sew onto an article of clothing, at an event held over a decade ago to celebrate the release of the Daemonhunters book.

That store closed down now and the nearest GW is some four hours away. The nearest FLGS that carries GW products is still 2 hours away for me.

>regular at my local GW
>oldschool player, love necromunda
>recently became crippled, can't work, no cash
>hobble to local GW on my crutches
>manager greets me, "hey anon, have you seen shadow wars? Necromunda rules", we're starting a new campaign, just need to buy a gang for entry
>no money
>manager writes off box of ork boyz and hands them me in a GW bag when i leave, "don't forget these, anon"

Fuckin' GW.

>Go to Local GW about 2 years ago (before it moved)
>Redshirt was fairly chill.
>Not a lot of pressure - probably because his English was passable at best.
>Always wore really tight orange or pink jeans with bell-bottom like ends.
>Store soundtrack varied between Conan the Barbarian/LotR and 90's American pop.

>>52557398
>>52557642

Not really proud of myself, was young, no money no work, and i wanted to play this game.
We had like a "thief code", to never sell what we took for "real money", it was really supposed to only allow us to play.

And you know, this allowed a lot of kid like me to play and have a wonderful summer campaign in the store so meh

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>>52559025
>Not being jewed is being considered too jewish

How many levels of jew are we on?

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>Walk into store
>Manager named Matt walks up to me
>"Sup little nigga wanna play a game? It is like chess but a little more complicated and even more epic!"
>12 year old me goes fuckyeah.jpg
>Ask me if I want to play fantasy or 40k
>Just saw aliens the other day and notice genestealers from the battle of macragge so I wanted to play SMs
>"These guys are super human space marines with chainswords and bolt guns which explode inside their targets and rip them to shreds inside!"
>All throughout the battle every time something dies he tells me how they died and is extremely graphic and vivid about it
>Only had 12 dollars so I picked up my first model grandmaster ezekiel


Now I walk into my local GW and the manager does not even play the game.

He is a face to sell shit and that is it.

He closes at before 7 on Saturdays and is closed most of the week.

It is so sad to see how this company has ended up.

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>>52553651
My store manager is a fucking faggot like that also.

He does not even play the game. He just sells and is a huge normie faggot.

One day I bought a DA Deathwing command and built that in store.
After I had nothing else to do I notice I had parts to a T-34 model tank I was building and decided to work on that.

He walked up to me and told me to stop building that because I did not get it from the store.

I was so upset I decided never to go back to that GW or give him my money ever again.

I go to a GW 30 minutes south every other weekend out of spite just because he was a huge faggot about it.

>>52567973
>hurr I had no money but wanted to play so it's cool

Kill yourself scum.

>>52568199
You should've told him it was a limited edition rhino, he'd propably buy it.

>>52550688
>>52550674
In Paris maybe, but many stores are sigle-man stores...
I've been to a few in France and in Spain and most of them were one guy or soon became one man store.

This sucks though. I work as a cover for a blackshirt friend from time to time, and some days having two people is almost mandatory, especially for demos...
I also kind of thread related : I have a lot of stories about retards entering the store I'll post them eventually

>>52568341
>I have a lot of stories about retards entering the store I'll post them eventually
Please do

>painting lesson with a couple of friends
>beside us there is another person paintjng his miniatures with his colours
>friend is using abaddon black
>man asks for abaddon black
>friend answers in a pretty abrupt way" no i am using it now"
>o-ok
>while man is packing up we notice he takes abaddon black with him and understand that was his paint
>tfw bullied a poor guy out of using his own paints

>>52568367
One of the best cause I have to go open the store soon

This one stars long before I became cover

> Huge fat neckbeard comes into store, probably 40-50yo
> Paedo glasses and everything scares the fuck out of me
> Comes for a game of 40k
> starts taking out his minis out of his box
> Skaven everywhere converted mostly with Tau bits
> Ugliest models in terms of conversion i've seen in my whole life
> Pirhana/landspeeder/sentinel vehicle with a skavent on top
> Blackshirts says something like "great, it's your universe, man, you do what you want" in order not to offend him
> Enventually puts a converted Land Raider on the table.
> The things as so many fucking whirlwind missile launchers (the older ones)
> Probably like 40 missiles
> niggawentfullretard.png
> Says he wants to plays his homebrew rules
> Including of course a land raider which can fire 40 missiles/turn
> Managers says it's not possible because they're absolutely retarded, but that he can cout-as with regular rules
> Skavenfag starts sweating
> Packs up in a hurry
> Runs out of the store throwing tantrum

> God I hate skaven players

He came back a few months later, I have still a lot of stories about him. I'll try to post them

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>>52548539
What's your local, Anonymate? Black Cultist is apparently getting out of GW, and I haven't found a good deal in Brisbane. Yet.

>>52568495
Irresistible Force in Logan across from the Hyperdome does GW a small discount. Got Shadow War for $198.

Ace Comics does GW as well but not sure of the prices, probably retail because they're going broke but might be worth a look

>be me, 12 years old
>my sister painted orcs from LOTR and I totally fell in love with the hobby when I saw them
>my mum took me to a GW store a fucking hour away from home in car
>redshirt guys are total bros, don't force me to buy anything and play with me some 40k and fantasy games
>that attitude encouraged me to buy some chaos space marines and daemons which looked awesome to me
>redshirt bros tell me that I can come back whenever I want and they would teach me to paint and play with the stuff they had at the store
>come back next week and one redshirt bro was talking with the manager, a neckbeard who was always drinking and eating at some bar next to the store
>I tell redshirt guy if he can teach me to play as he said
>manager looks at him super angry and tells me in a very rude way that I have to buy the 50€ rulebook and then they could answer me if I had any doubts
>redshirt bro keeps looking to the floor and doesn't say a thing
>I go out of the store and don't come again until months later a friend tells me that they changed the manager

They have changed workers quite a few times since then (I'm 21 now) and everyone has been a total bro. I hope that asshole got fired because he ruined everything the rest of the workers had been doing creating a community

>>52550688
GW Lyon 2 and GW Grenoble are one-man stores, GW Lyon 1 has 2 or 3 dudes IIRC

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I don't want to get preachy here guys. Everyone to their own beliefs and such but I had a lousy one at GW Stoke On Trent about 4-5 years ago.

>go into GW with my friend
>friend's dad had died 6 months prior
>he's been going to church to try and get over it
>I play GW games, he doesn't
>I walk in to buy the new Vampire Counts army book
>Manager, complete cunt with a high staff turnover, asks what we've been up to.
>Buddy says "just popped in from church to do some shopping in town"
>Manager cuts him down "you don't believe in that fairy imaginary friend in the sky crap do you?"
>proceeds to go athiest fedora on us for 10 mins whilst I just want a VC book
>dont go back until he's left a year later. Collect heroclix, infinity, flames of war, pathfinder instead.

>>52567682
I'm impressed. Hope you gave him a blowjob afterwards.

>>52568757
I'm sorry that happened to you, what an asshole. How do they expect to sell anything talking like that to the customer?

>>52568688
>>52568341
Yeah sorry I meant Paris. Typical Parisian behaviour, thinking that France = Paris.

>>52568803
its all good. I don't blame the company. When I phoned to complain they were very firm with the man responsible. The current bloke running Stoke is a fantastic lad and the vibe's good again. Just a shame about the hygine of some of the regulars.

>>52550674
I'm in London, and most stores I go to are one person operations. Pretty sure the flagship store on Tottenham Court Road has more than one staff member, but standard procedure seems to be a single person running a store Wed-Sun.

>>52569028
Really bums me that the store isn't open on sunday here, it only does Tuesday-Saturday, but working on Sunday in Haram in France after all.

>>52569022
Yes I don't blame the company for my bad experience either >>52568677
, there's just some people that seem to not understand how to run a business and I think they loose lots of sells because of those assholes

>>52569122
Do they also close shop on Wednesday afternoon too? Or is that a oldschool British rather than Christian thing?

>>52569122
It's a shame they don't open on Sunday indeed. But it's alright, I know I'd spend all my Sundays there.

>>52569138
Well no Wednesday afternoon there's no school for french kids either, so they are open.

>>52569177
>>52569138
what is this wednesday thing? i had to go to school on wed afternoon, why didn't you?

>>52569212
I did, but I remember that all the local shops used to shut for Wednesday afternoon. Nobody's done that for over a decade, probably two. UK, for reference. I assumed it was some religious thing, though thinking about it a bit it may have been to give people a chance to get down to the bank.

>>52550583
Fucking this
Our GW down here has some really cool guys but it has a small group of people that fucking ruin it
>Grognard "no fun allowed" guy who watches people's games and judges the rules
>cheating bastard who will actake friendly to people just to join their game on the table they'very set up on
>guy who tries to sell old broken models
>raging fanboy who almost got a guy kicked out because he put his magic cards on the table while he was getting his army out of his bag, only to look over and yell "YOU CAN'T HAVE THAT HERE IT'S NOT GW"

>>52552229
>I'm not the only one
MY friends and I used to snatch stuff from our GW when we were young
One day they held an auction downstairs and all the redshirts went down to see it.
We took the opportunity and grabbed ad much as we could before leaving, made it off with a total of 1200 quids worth of models and codexes

>>52569419
They don't have cameras?

>>52569212
I've never had class on Wednesday afternoon until I got into engineering school. Even in high school there were no classes that afternoon.

>>52557513
>"Like Marvel universe!"
Will fantasycucks still be butthurt for the years to come? At least they have /v/irgins treating the franchise like Warcraft 2.0.

>>52554653
She's not saying everybody is like that, just that the gaming community harbors a lot of people like that, Her article is perfectly reasonable and pretty much a dead on representation of the problems faced by a lot of girls within the community.

>>52550688
>closing on the lunch break

As a northern europoor I'll never get used to that. How is that still a thing in the age of airconditioning?

>>52569589
>not having a good honest meal for lunch
>eating a shitty sandwich or some shit
Disgusting

>>52540296
the second day of starting the hobby head to the store to start putting together the start space marines and ork kit.

Apparently, it's the anniversary of when the shop opened up. They hold a raffle and I win the "big box of doom" a literal cardboard box full of random 40k models.

enter the store with a 500 pt army leave with a 2.5k point army.

>>52550301
>Go to GW
>Hear children crying in the basement
But you're already in the basement.

>>52565602
>OLD ENOUGH TO READ, OLD ENOUGH TO BREED

>>52565931
>he gets it that your not in it for THE BREEDING.
5/7
Cya sides

>>52565931
>you just have to use the secret Jim Halpert face move to the owner and he gets it that your not in it for THE BREEDING.
>not being in for THE BREEDING

>be a PoC female
>walk to see the GW in my area
>rotund old white GW employee is sitting in a rocking chair outside, bushy white beard and smoking a pipe
>he won't stop staring at me and his right hand begins to itch
>wow that was weird, walk into the store
>there's a display of the old fantasy pygmies being impaled by empire spearmen painted confederate colours
>johnny rebel is playing on speaker
>every white male in the store, the only people there, turn and glare at me
>the cashier points at the sign on the door, an antique bought from old apartheid south africa
>'For White Men of Good Character'
>run out the door crying
>old white gw employee gets up from his rocker and chases me down the street with a cat o nine tails

wtf gw??

>>52569935
You forgot THE BREEDING.

>>52570050
>be a PoC female
>BREEDING blacks

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>>52566544

>>52556381
You encounter enough of this type of insanity and you get numb to it, it's always the same shit.

>>52568199
Its a fucking bussiness, what did you expect? Not like anyone over there misses you Jon

>>52556866
>implying 99% of the shit in that story ever happened
You fail to appreciate how detached from reality some people are, I think that's what the other anon was referring to.

>>52562375
>Anyone else feel aliented walking into a gw or any flgs because you have normie bordering on chad-like looks?
>because you have normie bordering on chad-like looks?
No :,(

>>52562531
>shave
Looks like somebody fell for big razors lies

jk my dad never taught me how to shave

>>52562375
No because most of the players at my LFGS are normal people.

>>52570308
I run a gaming store and pretty much everyone is straight up
We have a few awkward guys but they seem to soak up behavioural game from the more well adjusted guys
It's a good situation, healthy amount of variation, and everyone is good to each other

>>52569586
>pretty much a dead on representation of the problems faced by a lot of girls within the community.
>dead on
0/10, poor quality trolling.

>>52570367
That's nice, I think the worst thing about social isolation is the fact that you're on longer influenced by anyone in any way, either negative or positive. The only influence on you is your own thoughts, which can easily get into a negative feedback loop.

t. someone who probably hasn't left the house in a week.

>>52570447
Get a shower, put on some nice french perfume (lightly, don't overspray) and get to the shop you lazy shit. I'm on my way to help paint terrains at mine.

>>52540296
> Play 40K at local store for ages, lapse because I lost interest in the hobby
> Go back to store after a gap of a few years, intending to take a crack at the pile of unbuilt crap
> The guy at the till is someone who used to work there way back in the day
> Something like 15 years ago
> He's the manager now
> He looks the exact same
> 'Hey anon, haven't seen you here in a while'
> "I'm surprised you still work here."
> Awkwardness
> Never going back to that store again
> Doesn't help that I can't park nearby and it's tiny anyway

>>52566706
Armyfag here, I find military/ex-military to be mostly historical wargamers, though 40k is the game of choice for those that go the sci-fi route.

>>52554673
And that's how you get permanent paying customers. Why are the balding heebs and barren cunts that run retail too stupid to realize this? Making money seems to be the only thing that gets them wet, you'd think they'd sacrifice some bureaucratic rigidity if it means they can actually turn a profit.

>>52565670
Is luke still working there? Back when i firsr got into 40k i didnt realize that there wasn't an actual chaos lord kit

>Hey you guys have a chaos lord? I cant seem to find any
>"Right over here"
>But... Isnt that terminator armor? Is there one with regular power armor?
>"It counts as power armor"
>Oh okay, neat. Does the kit have all the chaos lord options? (Im thinking like murder sword, black mace, etc)
>"Sure does!"

And thats how i got suckered into buying the terminator lord

>>52572906
>Why are the balding heebs and barren cunts that run retail too stupid to realize this?
Because retail changed a lot in the last 10 years. 10 years ago, "customer is always right" and "push sales as much as possible" were actually good tactics to increase sales.

With the rise of online shopping, brick and mortar stores need to have some value added, the first value they can bring is a spot for the community to gather (and thus not being insufferable cunts pushing sales at every turn), and second the staff has to understand that sometimes the customer isn't right, and most of the time the customer barely knows what he is doing and is here because he needs advices.

Being a dumb salesbot doesn't cut it anymore when it comes to retail.

>>52573154
>kit is clearly a Terminator
>No, dude, it totally counts as Power Armor
You really have nobody to blame but yourself.

>>52566706
My lgs is 90% marines

>>52562531
Yeah man, me too. Not a Chad, just not an autist. My wife stopped playing at our local GW - those dudes were way too weird around chicks. We would walk in there and there would just be utter silence.

>tfw local battle bunker by me about 15 years ago
>learn to play warhams with high school buddies there
>go of the college
>come back, see they've expanded the battle bunker, loads more tables, it's full of people playing, it's awesome, get into the hobby again
>three months later they convert it to a one man shop
>year after that they shutter
>no gw within 45 minute drive

feels bad man.

>>52566520
Is it summer already?

>>52568602
Cheers - Logan is too much of a hike though. The Magic Vault in Alderly is my closest LGS, I think. Not much of a discount, but it's a pretty cool space, tonnes of tables.

>>52566706
>>52572331
I can only speak from a French side but I suppose it's valid in all regular armies. Loads of them pick up the hobby to have something to do in foreign operations. It's that, or lifting, not much else to do other than wait around at base I suppose.

Last time I went to a Gamesday, which was admittedly more than a decade ago, there was massive table made like Space Hulk, handcrafted, with corridors, asteroid parts, vacuum and space parts, fantastic work, made by military engineers.
Their grunt counterparts were all dressed like Cadians, and apparently they were authorised to come here inly if they would give away fliers to enlist. It was kinda hilarious to see cosplayers give enlisting flyers to everyone, neckbeards included.

>>52566167
>go to AnimeBoston for first time
>First ever con
>Mom helps make a cheap grey cloak
>rope for a belt
>foamboard to make a caution stripe chainsword
>XBAWKS HUEG leather book from some thrift shop
>wax and some stamps on calico cloth with Sharpie writing for purity seals
>Preacher mode go
>get tackled by some girl
>SHE STARTS FUCKING BITING ME
>"I play tyranids! I'm ripper-chan!"
>literally break all the teeth off my Chainsword trying to get this fucking crazy bitch off me

Girls are odd creatures.

>later have fight with a Gendo who said "Death to the False Emperor!" in passing
>Chainsword vs cane
>security confiscated both our toys
>sadly eat pizza together

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>>52552485
See heres how we know you're lying
>"oh uh sorry its sort of for GW stuff only" major backpeddling
>not "Blackshirt lifts arm and sprays me with toxic body odour like some kind of Tyranid acid spit and chokes me out with flabby headlock"

>>52573938
tg mamadou

>>52574079
>Girl jumps on you and bites you
>A-OK
>In-character cosplay "fight"
>Security gets involved
Gotta love cons. I remember last time I went to Denver Comic-Con there were big signs everywhere that may as well have said "DONT RAPE GIRL GAMER COSPLAYERS YOU WHITE CIS MALE GAMERGATE SHITLORDS." I'm sure they still wouldn't have done anything if a fujoshi starting giving a guy dressed as her favorite bishie a toothy hicky.

>>52574765
>tfw 14 year olds wanting it and asking them to leave

I fucking hate kids who don't look like kids. 5'6" is too tall.

Or being a 5'9" manlet makes perspective fuck with me

>>52573200
Pretty much this. I need a reason not to click a buy button.

>>52573333
No fuck off that GW worker was a massive cunt to lie to the dude when he was new

You can count a T-lord as a generic power armoured one it only puts you at a disadvantage with his large base but that's still scummy as fuck to lie for a cheap sale

They still sell the power-armoured Iron warrior / Nightlord on the website he should have offered those

>>52549318
>Ultimately he pushed me over the counter
The story of how anon was literally RAPED by GW

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>>52540296
>bought warlord and gripping beast saxons
>need mid/neutral colours for the saxons clothes
>head to GW
>blackshirt approaches and asks how my day was, making small talk, asks what I'm in for
>looking for beige and light browns and a dull green
>asks what for
>tell him orks
>everythings good, make purchase, with him a good day
>head back for more paints
>different blackshirt
>rancid BO smell emanating from him
>asks what I'm there for
>paints
>talks about all kinds of paints and brushes, talks over me again and again
>asks what kind
>talks over me again
>asks what its for
>"Saxons"
>"Great well for that....Saxons?"
>Yeah Saxons from Gripping beast
>can see he doesnt wanna talk but can still make a sale on paints
>"Well I uh dont know about them"
>"start spewing all this stuff about saxons and vikings, irish and celts and SAGA along with Bolt Action
>For the first time in his life hes speechless
>"j-just those paints then? I'll serve you now"
>mfw

My local GW has had them all from chill guys to turbosperg blackshirts. For a while the store had Super, sorta and non spergs employed at the same time. One of the chillest employees was a big beardy redshirt who'd chat about heavy metal and the old school art and we'd play gorkamorka if it was quiet

>>52574961
>5'6" is too tall.

My local GW is Cardiff UK. Actually pretty big, 2 staff every day, 3 staff on game nights and weekends
Pretty cool way of handling newbies, actually leave people alone when they say they are looking around. Only issue is that the store is used as a feeder store to provide competant store managers for other stores around.
Senior redshirt gets promoted to run a shop in Swansea.
>TFW no one works out custom scenarios or runs stupid big games anymore....
Why do some staff not like making custom scenarios to get people with low model counts into the game?

>>52560200
Well not really mirrors. But manners and hygiene are necessary because our hobbies is more social then people think

>>52574079
When was this?

>>52574961
Shit, I was 6'0" when I was 14.

>>52568464
Hahaha, saved!

My mate plays Skaven and Tau, I'll have to show this to him.

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>>52540296

My first time in a Games Workshop store was in 2002 when the LA Battle Bunker was still a thing, like right before the Witch Hunters codex released. Not familiar at all with Games Workshop, but was directed their by a Wizards of the Coast store (back when those existed) employee as I had asked about learning to paint miniatures, since I wanted to start doing so for my RPG group at the time. I'm hardcore into Shadowrun, and since I had recently purchased a collection of pewter miniatures for it, I decided I'd give this GW place a look.

I get the same answer as >>52552485 did in regards to painting non-GW models in store. Bummed, but it makes sense. I tell them my plan regarding painting them for a roleplay group, the ask me which game, and I tell them it's for Shadowrun, and another employee starts talking to me about how he played Shadowrun with a group of his own before moving to California. We talk at length, but as I did not bring money with me since I thought I'd get to learn to paint my own miniatures, I thank them, and go on my way.

I eventually come back to get a painting lesson and purchase a single Space Marine Scout blister to learn to paint as it was the closest thing they had at the time to anything I would be using for Shadowrun, and they were always super cool and never pressured me to buy anything, but actively took an interest in my Shadowrun group.

After getting into painting hardcore, I eventually started purchasing armies and learning the games, but that was my own fault. Every employee I've met at that store (save one, whose name I can't recall) has been cool, and I've been friends with two of them outside of the store for years now.

>>52568782
Is that what i should have done?

Fuck.

>>52551933
Can comfirm from our GW store, GW has some of the worst marketing policies

For example, your are expected to always make more then you did last year or else you are considered to be doing bad.

Case in point if you make x for one year, your expected to make X+Y the next year, then the year after that X+Y+z ect ect

On top of that, GW does not understand how to establish customer basis and loyalty, guy at our shop told us they are told to push sales and games rather then let people hobby in the shop, failing to understand that if you create a place were people want to hang out, they end up spending more time and money there. Because if you allow your customers a place to build they get their models done, and if they like hanging out there they most likely will end up buying another model to work on while they hang.

Our GW owner is really chill always let people use his paints and keeps a hobby area. Only down side is the store is super small, like 2 standard tables and a 4x4 hobby area

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>>52578065
RIP bunker.

I miss you so much.

>>52573154
>got terminator lord instead of ref chaos lord
>complains about it

The dude wanted to help you have a not shit chaos army I see nothing wrong with this.

>Several weeks ago
>Go into GW in Austin Tx because I happened to randomly overhear someone talking about it while I was eating lunch several days prior
>Go in trying to decide between Harlequins and Admech
>Quiet day so after talking with the guy running the shop for a bit decided to just browse for a moment
>two guys come in and Blackshirt runs them through Sigmar demo while I look at boxes.
>Decide that I want to try Skitarii
>Blackshirt asks me why I made the decision I did just out of curiosity
>Tell him that Ive never played before and had no real disposition towards any army in particular to start with and those two stuck out to me
>explains to me that they are both complicated and difficult to play, citing examples of rules and situations that commonly occur to people playing the factions
>suggests that I get the Dark Vengeance box because it is the best bang for your buck as a person starting the hobby.
>Thought about it but just wasnt really feeling Dank Angles
>One of the guys demoing the Sigmar table bumps into the codex rack and knocks off a Necron codex.
>Be the nice guy I am and help Blackshirt pick up things that fell but held on to the Necron codex
>Made a decision then to play Necrons instead
>Bought start collecting Necrons, box of Immortals I made into Deathmarks, various paints and brushes, dice, tape measure Mouldline remover and clippers.
>Spent an inordinant amount of money
>Incredibly satisfied with my experience and go on saturday after morning college to spend the day playing with the other guys and having a good time.

>>52579245

Another story comes from last weekend at the Grand Opening of another store close to Austin. I will have to divide my time between both of them because its an hour there regardless of where I go...

>Grand Opening, brought my models expecting to play
>Tons of people there, cake, store manager guy and like 3 corporate trainer people
>Each and every one of them is a great person
>Spot Monolith box and think "What?? They dont ever sell these on location.
>Impulse buy monolith because unique and fun model
>use the sweet little painting station to do some work on my Triarch stalker
>little girl maybe 6 years old tells me it looks like a spider and asks how im not scared of it
>Tell her spiders have eight legs, and this one only has six so really its just a yucky bug
>she sits next to me and asks me all kinds of lore questions
>her dad is buying Sigmar stuff and tells her to leave me alone
>Say its chill and let her paint one of my unfinished warriors
>If she fucks up I can just respray it anyway
>It turns out really well, I was surprised, thank her for helping when she left
>Start putting monolith together and get about half way done before realizing something is wrong
>Front door and back side sprue are not in the box, instead its another sprue of the side panels.
>Tell corporate trainer people
>Get manager guy they were training to go through the process of helping me resolve the issue
>Get my info down and phone number
>calls the customer support right then and there and orders me the pieces I needed
>Corporate guy gets on line and tells them to throw in a second monolith on the house since it was such an odd fuckup
>Helps me stabilize what I had already glued on with a bunch of rubber bands so the edges stay while glue dries and I wait for the pieces to come in the mail
>Had already glued a third side so instead of prying it off, I nigger-rigged it to look somewhat neat with a base and some sections of the leftover sprue pic related
10/10 experience

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Seeing so many positive stories makes me want to see if there's a good Games Workshop in Toronto but I'm worried I'll run into tons of weird SJW degenerates. Not trying to /pol/ here, I'm just worried people here might be extra spergy.

Is Toronto good for games stores/tabletop gaming in general?

>>52579420
i did'nt see one of those in a long time. nice one anon, or should i say two. they handled that mistake nicely

i don't have any bad experiences with gw personally, there was a store 30mins from here wich had a nice manager, she was totaly new to the hobby though, before she signed on to she never painted a singel miniature. but very good attitude and enthuesiasm for the hobby, maybe a bit on the gw sales training train but i'm imune to that. we talked painting technics old vs. new models, blood bowl and the hobby in general. the call in grl on the other hand was a total social awkward person, never got more then ten words out of her. never played there but go there at least once a month and always buy some paint or plastic crack, manager reserved limited edition models and goodies wich i could not get on the release date becuase of work. all was good. but GW hq decided the store wasn't making enough money so it closed this february, the manager was really sad because she liked her job, gave her my snotling bb zebra as reminder of good times

there's another store 40 mins away, nothing really wrong with it, the crowd is avarege if you can ignore the 'airbrush is everything, 50 shades of green on my desk, necron waacfag neckbeard' and some other creep wo always hangs arround and is somehow the call in guy. the manager is a decent enough guy with knowledge of the hobby and reasonable painting skills, but somehow i don't like the guy, way to smooth and he has something snakelike about him,. i don't really like that store i only visit it a few times a year it's next to a smartshop, so when i buy magic truffles i will pop in there to restock some paints

>>52566152
>the old 10 Commandments of Customer Service

ohmy, this takes me back to my outrider training when that was still a thing. i did'nt make it trough the program. i was to much fucused on the hobby and not enough on sales. aah my innocent naiv young me when i aplied to that job

>>52580616
GW at your and Lawrence is supposed to be good, never been there. Meeplemart is awesome! Literally every single miniature game you can think of l, even kromlech bits and stuff. Toronto has some pretty sure that you won't get any trouble

>>52580616
Every GW that hosts regulars will have cunts in it. There will always be that little group of 4 dudes that sit facing the door so they can whisper about and snarl at everybody who walks in, will judge paint jobs harshly and bitch and moan when kids come into the shop and ask kid questions and say kid things because they never really grew up themselves.

As long as you avoid them, you will generally meet good people of various social skills, but sportsmanship is everything.

>>52540296
Went to a Games Workshop once.

I was on vacation, there's no GW nearby me. I play at a regular FLGS, but thought it'd be interesting to see.

I had a chat with the manager. Store was empty, I was first getting into Warhammer Fantasy. Gave me some advice about the game, showed me how to pin metal models.
I bought an Alarielle the Everqueen mini and the High Elf Heraldry book.

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>>52550583
>>fedoron, king of euphoria sipping a open topped large m'dew over my shit like the corn syrup of damocles

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>>52570223
Its okay to be mad :^)

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>>52568199
He is a massive fgt. New store is based af, stuff gets done besides mandatory events and escalation leagues.

No fat mathhammer fgts, or crippled twig.

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>>52583509

>>52549318
>>52557570

Holy shit. Never thought I'd see the Metreon on /tg/

>>52551428
>>52552331
I always though it was a reference to pod people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEStsLJZhzo

>>52557763
It's a fucking old ass phrase, dipshit. They're talking about the specific reference of it to wargaming in that fashion.

Always awesome exp at Las Vegas store. cant stress this enough

But in terms of GW...sometimes man they really screw their own people.
was super hyped for silver tower went to physical in SoCal and preordered the whole thang. then like a week later GW releases the extra characters as a kit and charged less. so i drive my outta da way to return the one in the box set and i had to tell the guy look i know its not you, its corporate. I just want my money back i dont want to preorder the same characters i'm returning. So i havent really been back since instead got characters from webs. If they had told the guy ahead of time he could have been a hero instead they just kinda let him deal with the flack.

>>52540296
>Spend a few hours gaming and a few hundred pounds

>Cunts won't even let you use the toilet

This just goes to show they only give a shot about taking your money and not giving you any form of customer service.

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>>52570223
And there are no cringey ass shitlord space wolf players either

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>>52584144
Laughs in D weapon

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>>52540296
Last time I set foot in a proper GW store was when I was twelve. They were doing a raffle to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of White Dwarf magazine, and I won a gold-plated, granite-based metal model of Grombrindal and two shield-bearers.

The scene in my local store has really depended on the manager. It's had 3 in the last 3 years.

>First Manager
>Tough as balls
>No swearing, no riff raff, no bullshit
>Still quite a nice guy
>Kind of muted atmostphere, but everyone still had a good time

>Second Manager
>Anything goes
>Everyone chatting shit about the old manager
>Racist jokes whenever a black guy leaves the store
>Fucking mountain dew and doritos everywhere
>Hardly went in during this period

Luckily the new guy isn't as much of a twat but some of these neckbeardy little runts are still there

>>52584512

Are you from Hull? We had a kid do similar

>>52564129
It's one of the four best selling armies.

>>52567682
This week on shit that didn't happen.

>>52584564
No, but I imagine a fair few shops did something similar.

>run a gaming club
>mostly 40k
>Infinity gets popular
>starts to overshadow 40k
>40k players start to get booty blasted because they aren't top dog anymore
>most of the committee plays infinity but makes the decision to not run infinity campaigns and instead run 40k ones since infinity doesn't need the help and the 40k players shouldn't feel left out
>run 3 40k campaigns
>attendance is low
>ask the 40k players why
>"all you do is run infinity games"
>" but 40kid, we haven't run any infinity events, only 40k ones, which you signed up for and then didn't attend."
>"all you do is run infinity games"
>" ... whatever"
>Later find out that the local GW manager was telling regulars not to attend

Scumbag.

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>>52584718

Ah fair, we had a guy that turned up a couple of times, won the gold-plated one and we never really saw him again. Probably in a shoebox under his bed on a council estate or someting.

I spent plenty of Saturdays there for years, mostly played 3rd/4th ed 40k. Used to have like 3 full-time staff and about 5 part-timers, all sorts of events and Specialist Games stuff. There was a mob of about a dozen teenagers who were all regulars, whilst Thursday late night opening was reserved for the more mature ones and adults. They could squeeze about 3 6'x4's, 1 4'x4' and a painting table into the small store if they tried.

There was the odd pubescent scuffle and a couple of kids using it as an excuse to drop their bags off then spend the day elsewhere smoking, but mostly we were all dedicated hobbyists and it was really fun, though towards the end I was playing a 3.5ed Iron Warriors list with 9 Obliterators and in hindsight I should have been less of a cunt, played in a few national tournaments but then realised that I didnt wan't to be an arsehole anymore. Now I play genteel skirmish games like Song of Blades and Heroes and Heroquest.

I walk past occasionally and it's just dead when it's open, one manager sat at the painting table with maybe one or two people in, all on boring Citadel™ Realm of Battle® tables. There is a big club though and a really decent FLGS with three floors and all sorts of ranges. Feel bad for the younger kids, clubs are better environments but you don't get the casual access of walking into a high street shop.

Man I would love to run a fucking hobby shop. Even with just one employee. Its just so fucking difficult though.

>>52584818
>Citadel™ Realm of Battle® tables
This pains me so much every time I see one.

>>52584921
2 former Golden demon winners have opened a shop with 2 friends of them right next to my place, it's absolutely incredible.

However, it's one thing to be passionate about it, but you gotta know your shit.

>>52584939
I'm pretty sure I could run a right hobby shop, the problem is getting customers in in a town with zero public transport and huge tracts of suburbia. Like how many randoms actually buy shit from hobby shops?

>>52584935
Mine is a small ass shop, and the 40k sector imperialis floors have been used for the DV demo table, which is never used.

So we end up playing any and all games on the AoS table with 40k terrains. I'm actually going back there in half an hour to help paint some stuff for Shadow War.

>>52584969
Well the shop I'm talking about is in the center of the city, close to public transports so there's that. Keeping niche retails open is probably harder in the US than in Europe.

>>52566152
I think most stores I've been in still follow that.

>>52582525
>Every GW that hosts regulars will have cunts in it
Oh yeah. Back when I was learning, the jokes were about my painting. A lot, because I knew I couldn't do fine detail well, and thus didn't. Simple block paintjobs while I was still hashing out a scheme and a system of getting it done.
The jokes slowed after I bought a couple of squads and had them painted in a week. Literally the only difference was a bit of detail and a blue ink wash over the Ultramarines blue. Then they stopped after I ink-washed all my other models as well. Suddenly, shading.

>>52585007
>Back when I was learning, the jokes were about my painting.
That's a dick move to joke about that but I'm glad you carried on and improved as a result of that.

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>>52584818

One little memory that just came to mind. Like most GW's, we had a shop coach to Games Day.

In 2005 UK shops had to paint up at least half a company of a new chapter, Steel Confessors, or enemy Tyranids to contribute to the mega-battle. GW even produced a cobalt paint to help. At Hull we actually bothered to name every marine after a regular or staff. Being the apothecary in the command squad, I was one of the last to be wiped out on the day. They still had the squad in one of the cases until AoS/even bigger plastic kit 40k completely took over.

>>52585112
What happened to the steel confessors? Never heard of them

>>52580616

I would like to know this too, for an Ottawafag. The only GW I know of is near the coliseum cineplex. Don't know if the comicbookshoppe on merivale sells minis anymore either.

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>>52585216

Founded by the AdMech using Iron Hands geneseed in the 19th Founding. Inquisition/High Lords forced them into becoming independent and swearing fealty to the Emperor directly. Defended their homeworld, the Forge World of Kalevala, from Hive Fleet Leviathan, in the massive Games Day battle featuring their entire chapter.

GW depicted them as silvery steel in the Index Astartes art, but then painted them all cobalt, like I say they even sent the shops a specially made batch of paints.

>>52570382
Just because you don't want to believe it doesn't make it fake, a lot of the board and video games audience is made up of autistic screeching manchildren who act almost exactly like she describes.

>>52554037
>“Old enough to bleed, old enough to breed! Old enough to bleed, old enough to breed!”
Every time

>>52568069
Where are you located? Literally never heard of a GW employee not playing the game.

>>52585845
"Do you have any models that look like me?"
"No, we just have normal ones."

Great!

>>52568757
Reminder that if this shit happens to you call head office and complain about it. I'm fairly tight with a lot of dudes in nottingham and they would go apeshit on his ass. I lot of the pushy staff memes are because of a huge push under kirby to up sales to a rediculous level while not giving a shit about customer repeat purchases. HR and CS have always been more interested in the person buying and they have a zero tolerance attitude to this kind of shit.

>>52568495
Irresistible Force is becoming my LGS like >>52568602 suggested, surprised there's at least 3 Brisbane fags here. Pubhammer are another fun mob that do gaming nights on Sundays at The Junction pub in Annerley. Beer and warhams is as much fun as you'd expect.

>>52555576
This makes me so fucking angry, what is the matter with these fuckers and their personal space issues? So many of them are so fucking rude 90% of the people in this thread must be guilty of it.

>>52586611
Didn't know about Pubhammer, thanks. I'm weary of Annerley because I parked my car at the Muddy Farmer, left for 15mins tops, came back and my window was smashed in.

>>52566520
Back to reedit thanks m8

>>52578590
Just because you're a beta-cuck who can be bullied into buying minis you don't want doesn't mean the rest of us are.

I'd have told the manager to fuck off right there if he's going to try and lie to my face over plastic models

Posted in the other thread but whatever. Run by single dude who's quite bro, from time to time you feel the sales push taking over but he's not pushy about it. Came back from more than ten years and I'm enjoying it quite a bit thanks to the store, I can't paint there as I use Vallejo and I'm not buying citacrap paints as my main hobby are scale models and have enough expensive shit related to that to now buy shittier versions of it. Shame as it would be a perfect place to chill after work before going home if i could bring my forbidden stuff. But I get that it's a business and yada yada.
The regulars are a bit weird but nothing too bad and when you get to talk a bit with them they are pretty entertaining hobby related, but they form circles and stutter when approached by others and hurry to talk with their friend again or fall in silence for a while. I'm not an extrovert but lads it ain't that hard not to keep a bit of small talk about a hobby (I can't talk about warhammer with my friends as they either left it for good or are normie scum, I just want someone to talk about it irl ;_;)

>Walk into my GW after a 10 year absence and a complete transition from childhood to adulthood
>Within seconds "Hey man, I havent seen you around for a while! How've you been?"
>My own family doesnt recognize me after a few years to the point they thought I was some imposter/identity thief
Very strange feel but the guy is a saint so I guess its to be expected

>>52586879
>Implying I don't ask politely to grab them, with clean fingers at any time
>Implying I don't ask before even LOOKING closer at a model on the table

Takes 5 seconds and I avoid any problems.

>>52585023
All I did was learn to do finer details and ink wash things.

The staff were fucking based, though. On seeing that I'd produced decent-looking models, I was then called on to help with a big game they were running the next week. My models were deemed worthy enough to be used alongside the store army.

once an unattended ten year old grabbed one of my jump pack models while I was setting up for a game and started running around the store making airplane noises. I was mortified and had literally no idea what to say or do in this case.

>>52540296
For it used to be the case they would not leave me alone...the last few times when I walk in they seem to ignore me.