Editing Games Workshop Start Collecting! (section)

====Historical Background====

The tabletop gaming hobby was on his historical pick back in the 80s/90s, [[Boomer|with the lack of things like internet and lots of more accesible entertainment compared to the modern world]]. [[Dungeons & Dragons]], [[Magic: The Gathering]] and [[Games Workshop]] being The Three Kings of The Tabletop, their kingdom would be hit by an accelerating world, and would start to struggle over time. True be told, wargaming in general had brigther times and were more common. Kids wanting to get a box of orcs after passing by a hobby shop started to get less and less common with new videogames and action figures. Maybe a few wanted a set of miniatures after watching Peter Jackson's, but they didn't had the time or patience to build them so they just forget about them. Making things worst, the entry cost became more and more expensive over time due to different reasons. Certain companies started to close, and certain others started to increase the price in order to milk their costumers.

Arguably, Magic and many other TCG would be the ones who better survived, and they are still popular to this day, but his two other brethren would not get so lucky; D&D would live one with books and expansions, and the miniature wargaming would start an even sharper decline by the dawn of the new millenium. Nobody wanted to buy stoopid pieces of resin and pewter at stupid high pieces when they had their awesome Nintendoes and fancy internet that didn't let you use you phone. Noooo, we where the nerds back then, and we are the nerds now.

Until nerd was the new cool.

[[Noblebright|Why did this happend? Who was responsible of this? Not sure, but at least nowadays people are starting to get interest in the ways of the past, while living with the fruits of thier time.]]

Yes, there are still pricing discrepancies in Games Workshop's catalogue, but one of the first moves under Rountree's run as CEO of GW was the release of brand new kits, properly named "Start Collecting!", with an exclamation point!

Starting from a humble pool of factions, today a healthy portion of factions from both [[Age of Sigmar]] and [[40K]] have at least one, or in select cases,  multiple, kits with savings, with the standard prices at $90 USD ($5± in some cases), trying to help out those new possible collectionist to make the jump with a sizable force. And this article, 5 years later of their initial introduction, has been made to help you figuring out where to start.

And, with the help of you, [[This guy|fellow nerds]], we can make this article be as helpful as possible.