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kastellan wrote:How much in Australia?

About a hundred Australian dollars.

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You *are* going to buy it from Maelstrom/Wayland, right?

Up on website for pre order, £60 as rumoured.

Up on the site now, pretty happy to see the set is £60. Could have seen it being a bit higher, and if it was i may have had a re-think about splashing the cash.
No rush but i will be snapping this up.

You can say ....What The Feth now after seeing that GW Australia have posted the cost as being $165 .

Just did a quick jump over to the exchange rate , and that converts to GBP 95.37 or US$ 150 .

Maelstrom link from HBMC in 5...4...

Lork Skystompa wrote:You can say ....What The Feth now after seeing that GW Australia have posted the cost as being $165 .

Ouch!

How many places do GW have to manufactur all their products, oviously in the UK we have a factory producing these products, i asume america proberley has a couple, does Oz have to import it all from the states? if so it would explaine why you have to pay so much for your models.

$165 is absolutely ridiculous. Like what the hell why is it so damn expensive? I was dead set keen on getting this box, but after seeing the price I'm no longer going to buy. GW really shot themselves in the foot by putting it that high, coz I know of a few gamers that will NEVER pay that much for it, its just insane.

Almost worth ordering it from England and getting it shipped over, would work out cheaper.

kastellan wrote:Almost worth ordering it from England and getting it shipped over, would work out cheaper.

"Almost"? 100 AUD from the UK is a pretty good deal. If I wanted to collect High Elves or Skaven I'd be buying it.

UltraPrime wrote:Maelstrom link from HBMC in 5...4...

I was going to post both the wayland and maelstrom link but neither of them have it on their site yet....

Yeah but then I have to go to all the trouble in ordering and what not. And I'm trying to support local businesses in my hometown. But I don't know if I will anymore with it being $65 more expensive.

MasterSlowPoke wrote:At the very least, statlines are in the rulebook. You can play with what's in the box.

So Skaven weapon teams have 2 strengh 3 attacks and nothing else? Impressive!

I won't go into detail, but the "unpack, glue together, read 200 pages (plus the army books) and you can play at once" approach is not what I would call a starter set. It is a nice alternative batallion, but not for beginners. Compare what the 7th edition starter booklet included!

£35 to ship to Aussie?

Hmmm
are they sending them one at a time by airmail?

is the exchange rate bad for Australian Dollars against Sterling?

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:

is the exchange rate bad for Australian Dollars against Sterling?

No, currently buying 0.60c per pound. Which is as good as its been in a while. So quite disappointing but oh well.

Well, at least they've finally figured out that six dice isn't enough for a starter set, so now we've got ten.

these models look really kool def going to get a set

I will try and update this as often as possible....

Below are the webstores that are offering Island of blood at discount.

As I post I will rank them in order of cost and will include details on shipping with links to shipping policies

Firestorm Games
http://www.firestormgames.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&keyword=island%20of%20blood&category_id=0&product_id=10145
£54.99
Free shipping worldwide with orders over £30


Sites yet to include IOB on site
Wayland Games
Maelstrom Games
OG Games

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Bitz services currently showing IOB content
Bitz & Kitz [UK]
http://www.bitsandkits.co.uk/island-of-blood-c-667.html?sesid=csqa7p1u1969bmsfup4qt5nqi3

Great idea, Munkey. Already I've learnt about a UK discount retailer I hadn't heard of before.

AlexHolker wrote:Great idea, Munkey. Already I've learnt about a UK discount retailer I hadn't heard of before.

Glad it could be of use. Firestorm are quite good actually. I learnt about them through Warhammer.org.uk They are a brick and Morter retailer and run a load of tournaments out of there through various Cardiff Wargaming clubs.

OK, now someone do the US stores!

Please?

Congrats GW and good luck, my run with WFB is now over. BfSP was an awesome set with a metric crapton of figs at a great price. $75 rulebood and a far inferior (to the previous edition) $99 Starter Set just does not sit well with me and I'm done with you adjusting the rules to sell more models.

Bring on Kings of War! I'm sure all my old figs I have lying around will work just fine.

Despite my earlier enthusiasm, I am falling somewhat into the same camp. The new models are amazing, but I don't actually want to start a new army (I've just sold off three of my armies to cut down on the amount of crap I have lying around here). Thank god for time to reflect, eh?
At the moment, the big rulebook does not seem like good value for money for me- I know the WFB fluff backwards, and don't expect more than perhaps two pages worth of new material in this book. The book is too unwieldy to make it useful for the sort of gaming I do (travelling to a club or tournament on public transport) and the price is just way too high when I compare it to other systems. I want the mini-rulebook, but absolutely hate messing around with ebay and the like. I'm sure I'll get one, but I'm not bothered buying the starter for it.
Lo and behold, Mantic are giving rules away for free, and their new starter has more models than the GW one at a much reduced cost. This is much more attractive to me as a product.
I've noticed this happening to me with several new GW releases- I was really excited by the boar boyz, river trolls, bloodcrushers and plastic fell beast. Then every time, I looked at the price and my enthusiasm dropped. I think GW make an excellent product, but it might be that they've hit my price cieling. Heh. Not saying I'll never buy GW again, but with all the other options out there...

Wayland & Dark Sphere should be about £45-48 + postage if their usual discount is applied.

Yep, Dark Sphere has it for £45 web price + postage (£52.77 is cheapest option for the UK) or if you live in London you can go to their shop in Waterloo and get it for £48 off the shelf.
http://darksphere.co.uk/pgsearch.php?P=19216

Guh. $99? Wonder if/when The Warstore's gonna post ordering details for the boxes.

We already know what The Warstore will be - $80 + $4.95 shipping, right?

kastellan wrote:$165 is absolutely ridiculous. Like what the hell why is it so damn expensive?

Because that's the way our pricing works over here. Yes, it's ridiculous... but it's also in line with the mark-up on everything else here, so shouldn't really have come as a surprise to anyone.


It's a shame, but they seem to have gone back to the 'boxed game' idea (ala 5th edition WHFB or 3rd Edition 40K) rather than the more recent 'cheap starter set' which appeared to have been doing so well for them.

Urgh, if it's $165AU then it'll be nigh-on $200NZD, that's a 100% price increase from their last WFB starter kit.

**** off GW, I'm not paying that.

It's bad enough I got gouged for the big book (I assumed it would be the same price as the last one, or similar, and it wasn't labeled yet at the store - being release night. When I checked my bank statement I went ) but I'm not paying 200 bucks for what was only worth 95 the the last time around.

WOW. 99.00. Piss on that. Hell, I just wanted it for the rulebook and was going to ebay the rest anyway, but feth that.


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Nope, not on ebay yet. Soon, precious.

grizgrin wrote:WOW. 99.00. Piss on that. Hell, I just wanted it for the rulebook and was going to ebay the rest anyway, but feth that.


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Nope, not on ebay yet. Soon, precious.

Also... ya know... not OUT yet.

@Alph - Yeah, it'll be the standard 20% off + $5.95 (+ NY Sales Tax for me :().

Correct, it's $5.95 now. Neal had to raise it a few years ago a whole $1 with all the increases in shipping rates.

The War Store is a fantastic place to order GW and other game stuff and the flat shipping fee makes it an especially good deal when purchasing gets near or beyond the $100 mark. I just bought a pile of stuff from there a couple weeks ago and it saved a lot of money. On top of that the service was fantastic and incredibly fast.