In this video I take the usual “GW are the great Satan” price-rage bait, put it in the bin, and actually run the numbers. I anchor everything around late 1998 (3rd edition era) and compare old UK prices to today’s post–October 2025 price rise, then I drag inflation into the shower with a whiskey and coke because apparently that’s what educational content is now. Using CPI (about +95.7% since 1998) and RPI (about +150.3%), I break kits into categories—multi-part plastic squads, metal/semi-elite infantry, characters, vehicles, monsters, and battleforces—because “Warhammer prices” isn’t one thing. The headline: basic multi-part squads went from £10 to about £38 (a 280% jump), but that £10 in 1998 was a freakishly good deal that couldn’t last, and modern kits come with far more options. The real pain is characters: a lot of them have effectively quintupled, massively outpacing inflation, even if they’re bigger and now plastic. Meanwhile, big monsters/vehicles often look surprisingly reasonable versus inflation (old metal dreadnoughts at £25 vs £40 today, Land Raiders up ~93%), and discount boxes (combat patrols, starters, Christmas boxes) still do a lot of heavy lifting at roughly ~30% off. The takeaways are messy, but useful: some things got worse, some got better, and your lived experience (wages, rent, life) is the real final boss.