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There are some really good deals going on Ebay lately. I would guess alot of people are wondering if granny will be re releasing their older BB figures, so are tring to get what they can.

Its hard for me to resist buying more teams/figures.

2,000+ BB/FF figures and counting...

New pitches from Lady Atia...

$32 US dollars for a cardboard field? The field made up 1/3rd of the total price of the game?

How to paint Reikland Reavers video is up:

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Nice little tutorial here today:

Chopxsticks wrote:
$32 US dollars for a cardboard field? The field made up 1/3rd of the total price of the game?

That was pretty obvious when you compare the price of the skaven team to the box set price (the dice, templates and rules are also in there, but starter sets tend to be deals).

Having gotten custom pitches printed before, the snow pitch is a really competitive price, even ignoring that it's double sided.

If the rules really haven't changed, then buying this pitch separately is a bonus to me as I have block dice and everything else needed. I'm in the minority of people who dislike the newer models because of the scale creep. I am happy however that the pitch has grown to larger squares.

 Theophony wrote:
If the rules really haven't changed, then buying this pitch separately is a bonus to me as I have block dice and everything else needed. I'm in the minority of people who dislike the newer models because of the scale creep. I am happy however that the pitch has grown to larger squares.

Ditto here. I have the 3rd Edition Orks (which were already on the small side) compared to the Norse and Dark Eldar I've converted. This is a really reasonable price for a nice pitch.

Yes! I am so happy they are selling the pitch seperate. Me and a colleague are trying to start a small league and get two non-wargamer colleagues involved. I didn't want to spend £65 on the box just to get a second pitch, but now I don't have to!

The White Dwarf mentions they have future pitches planned for each of teams.

I'm hoping the nurgle team turns out to be plastic and more interesting than the current teams. The Skaven team is cool but i'm not too keen on the tails...those are going to break off for sure. So long as they keep pestigors in and make the team look cool then i'll be happy. I have some spare nurglings waiting to decorate the bases of some nurgle warriors. The fact that they at least had some concept work done for them gives me some hope.

 Bottle wrote:
Yes! I am so happy they are selling the pitch seperate. Me and a colleague are trying to start a small league and get two non-wargamer colleagues involved. I didn't want to spend £65 on the box just to get a second pitch, but now I don't have to!

The White Dwarf mentions they have future pitches planned for each of teams.

No, you'll probably want the second box game for the full squad of positional players. Ork teams almost always start with 4 Black Orks and 4 Blitzers... Human Teams also want the full 4 Blitzers.

 Anpu-adom wrote:
No, you'll probably want the second box game for the full squad of positional players. Ork teams almost always start with 4 Black Orks and 4 Blitzers... Human Teams also want the full 4 Blitzers.

Human teams may even consider loading up on catchers at 60k each.

 Anpu-adom wrote:

 Bottle wrote:
Yes! I am so happy they are selling the pitch seperate. Me and a colleague are trying to start a small league and get two non-wargamer colleagues involved. I didn't want to spend £65 on the box just to get a second pitch, but now I don't have to!

The White Dwarf mentions they have future pitches planned for each of teams.

No, you'll probably want the second box game for the full squad of positional players. Ork teams almost always start with 4 Black Orks and 4 Blitzers... Human Teams also want the full 4 Blitzers.

Lol, no we're not going to spend £65 just to get 4 additional players for each team. We will likely play teams of 12 to begin with without the extra league rules and in that case a box of dwarfs and a second pitch gives us everything we need.

Down the road, if it takes off with the non-wargamer colleagues, I would rather bulk out the teams with extra options, for example a Troll, 2 Goblins and a Star Player for the Orcs and something similar for the Humans.

What is the actual day that independents will be able to sell these in the US? My FGS is a 90 minute round trip and I was hoping to buy and quick build for a possible demo round on Sunday (i.e., buy it on Friday if available).


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 angelofvengeance wrote:
How to paint Reikland Reavers video is up:

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Nice little tutorial here today:

Another great Duncan video. I didn't even know Calendor existed as a color.

 privateer4hire wrote:
What is the actual day that independents will be able to sell these in the US? My FGS is a 90 minute round trip and I was hoping to buy and quick build for a possible demo round on Sunday (i.e., buy it on Friday if available).


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 angelofvengeance wrote:
How to paint Reikland Reavers video is up:

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Nice little tutorial here today:

Another great Duncan video. I didn't even know Calendor existed as a color.

I'd recommend contacting your FLGS on that. They would know what day and time the shipment is scheduled for.

Local gw also said today that they will only be stocking it till end of Jan at the latest then its direct only

 CURNOW wrote:
Local gw also said today that they will only be stocking it till end of Jan at the latest then its direct only

"it" being the new pitch, the base game, the skaven expansion, the nurgle team or...?

The whole line .

 CURNOW wrote:
The whole line .

Wow, that's shocking. This looked like it was heralding a series of new releases. I was expecting it to become a permanent fixture on game shop shelves.

I'd like to see confirmation on that before I will believe it (though it wouldn't surprise me TBH). This will not help the game if it's true.

I was planning on waiting to pick it up later with a discount, but figured there would be no hurry. Might have to change my plans (either buy earlier or forget it altogether).

I'm hoping direct only is not true. Hard enough to get/keep players when stuff is readily available.

I don't know the correct nomenclature in English but if I were to translate from French the game availability is "depending on demand".

It is not supposed to have a permanent place in the range but seeing it disappear as fast as January sounds quite drastic.

Now, it's not a question of the release being limited, unlike SH. Actually GW had to print additional boxes as demand surpassed what they had available. Hell, we actually have more boxes at the store than the local GW, so I suspect GW may have done a gesture toward Independents by reducing the amount of boxes sent to their own stores and redirecting them toward some of us.

I wonder if GW didn't massively underestimate the demand for the game. I hope it could make them reconsider the availability of the game and producing some future teams in plastic instead of letting Forgeworld handle it.

Yeah I was surprised I was suggesting a league but he said he's not going to get any releases past dwarves and won't even have anything in past Jan so wasn't keen on pushing a game that doesn't do anything for his in store targets .

My local GW is the same. No league because after Jan it won't be on the shelves. It was mentioned that it will be sold through independents though, so it's not a true "direct only" item. It's just that if you want to buy it from a GW you'll have to order it in from January onwards.

Crap. I was hoping to get a local league going based on the fact that the game would have on-going availablity and reasonably priced to buy into (comparably speaking).

I've already got Dreadball sitting on a shelf. I guess I'll decide when/if I see it on the FGS's shelves this weekend.

(1) Release campaign-based game.

(2) Do not support league play.

(3) ???

(4) Profit

I hope this does well and GW realizes they should give the game full support. That way they get the ball rolling with more models and team sets. I mean not stocking the game at all in their stores is a bit lame. They can't even find space for a minimum of five boxes in the corner somewhere? I find that a bit absurd they can't even find space for a few starter boxes at the least.

The winter blood bowl board is awesome, so many little cool details on it.

The fact that the skaven/other team dice are limited IMO is lame as hell. Seeing as how the starter dice are themed for those teams. I wouldn't feel right playing skaven or nurgle with baby blue dice. If GW doesn't want to produce a consistent amount of dice for teams then maybe they should let forgeworld do it.

1.) Have book labeled "Season One"
2.) Plan to stop sales after just two months


Something doesn't seem quite right here...

That's kind of weird. I was in GW Denver and the manager said that when he sold out of his BB stock it was gone and he wouldn't stock it anymore. At first I chalked that up to a sales tactic. Now I'm not so sure...

Thats pretty horrible to be honest.

Our GW manager lets the community manage itself. Thats probably why he has sales plaques on the store wall showing his sales are always on top in North America.

We're starting our league in January.

He's smart enough to know that a league running will still drive people to order models through the store and thus giving him credit for sales.

Is it just me or are the humans arms not long enough?