Quote Originally Posted by Kirsten View Post
the multipart characters aren't always ideal. the space marine captain has always been very expensive and also a pretty boring model to be honest. the single pose characters look far and away better, much more dynamic. as the plastic ranges get ever bigger, you can make more and more characters yourself anyway.
The Captain's $30... that's the same price as the guys who have no options or anything. Sure, the pose could be better, but it's not terrible.

The problem with single-pose really pops up once you have multiples, like Ork Meks or Painboys, stuff like that. Having to convert a bunch of models is much less ideal than having options, because a lot of people frankly aren't good at it, and don't want to risk messing up a model. Sure, some of us can go nuts (like when I decided to just make all my Ogre characters from a box of standard Ogres), but I think the majority of players aren't really keen on whipping out the knife, saw, files, and green stuff.

Named characters? No problem. No need for options and stuff.

Characters that have options or multiples? They should have the ability to swap out stuff. If they don't want to do that, then they need to be willing to spend more on creating more models and producing the molds. Sure, that'd probably cost them more, but do they really want to make the laughable claim of "the best miniatures in the world" while someone's army looks horribly generic with supposedly different characters who look the same? (I guess if you're an executive who literally forgot they're game pieces and thinks a person would only want one to put on a shelf, that's not a problem.) Back ye olden days, the models were often monopose, sure, but you still had multiple Librarians, Techmarines, Chaplains, etc. to choose from, so it wasn't that big of a problem. Somehow, the company grows and gets better at everything and thus has to charge more for its products, but it actually has less ability to produce stuff? Eh?

That's to say nothing of units... Still unhappy with how the Stormfiends turned out. (And if you think of suggesting "just modify them," I'd first tell you to go drop the equivalent of $200 on them and try to figure out how to modify them without very significant reworking of the model.) Thankfully that's a pretty rare occurrence (and more of a problem with the models are covered in detail with "dynamic" poses, not as much with something like Tactical Marines).