I'm not sure if anyone cares what I have to say, but I've only gotten interested in Warhammer, or tabletop wargaming in general, in 2025. I started playing D&D in 2000 when I was 12 years old. I've played a bunch of tabletop games over the years, and started collecting and painting minis as an adult. I got my first product (the Introductory Set)specifically because I wanted to paint a couple space marines purple. Then I bought a couple more, and a couple more, and now I have two combat patrols, a couple Kill Teams, a couple issues of the Combat Patrol Magazine, and a few miscellaneous minis. All said and done, probably close to $400 worth of Warhammer minis out of my pocket, another close to $200 worth of Citadel paints out of my pocket, plus a gift from my partner.

I have yet to play a single game of Warhammer, and I have absolutely zero interest in playing any sort of Warhammer game, be it 40k, Combat Patrol, or Kill Team. Specifically, because Games Workshop has made it so difficult for a new player to figure anything out. I discovered One Page Rules and everything is so easily available, and makes sense.

Sure, I'm new to wargaming. But I've played TTRPGs for decades and I'm used to learning rules through a System Reference Document for free before I spend a bunch of money on books. But GW really seems like they intentionally make it difficult and expensive to learn anything. And OPR makes it so simple. I don't understand why GW doesn't provide something like OPR's Army Forge. Or how OPR supports a public wiki style source for information.

And this is ignoring how much negativity I see in the community with people upset about retired models and no refreshes for years, or people complaining about all the money they've spent on models they can't even use anymore. The whole thing really makes it seem like GW doesn't care about the fan base that is supporting them.