Holiday Sales 2014

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**ced1106**

Beasts of War Christmas Sales - Thanks Orlando
http://www.beastsofwar.com/featured/big-black-friday-deals-watch/

Tabletop Gaming News posts sales during the year and announces KS projects.
No info yet on DickBlick's "Low Shipping Threshold" day in December.

Amazon already has its Holiday sales event, but hobby games are pretty infrequent.
See BFAds forums ( http://bfads.net/forums/ ) for non-gaming US hoiday sales.
If you live in Ireland, remember to get your Frozen Bastard Turkey: http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/no-fowl-play-as-supervalu-sends-out-unfortunate-turkey-text-30669834.html

**Ahtman**

Hopefully the Only War core book will still be there tomorrow night. *crosses fingers*

**cincydooley**

Ahtman wrote:
Hopefully the Only War core book will still be there tomorrow night. *crosses fingers*

Is there anything "wrong" with any of those RPG books? Is anything being phased out? Like Deathwatch or RT?

**Ahtman**

They did the same holiday sale last year, so I think it is just a seasonal event and probably a chance to clear inventory up a bit.

**Kid_Kyoto**

The War Store has put up a note but no details.

http://www.thewarstore.com/index.html?p=2696

In the past it's been an extra 5% off GW (comes out to 24% off) and I think an extra 10% off the rest of the store.

**H.B.M.C.**

cincydooley wrote:
Is there anything "wrong" with any of those RPG books? Is anything being phased out? Like Deathwatch or RT?

Nope. It's probably only the DH1.0 stuff that's going to become harder to find, so get The Lathe Worlds before it's gone for good!

(/obvious bias)

**Ghrik**

I'm really thinking about getting some of the Dust stuff. Even with the shipping of approx. 60$ to Germany it is still a bargain.
As good as I find the packaging I would like to ask the FFG-guys to remove the big models from the boxes as otherwise mostly air would be shipped

**Yodhrin**

H.B.M.C. wrote:
cincydooley wrote:
Is there anything "wrong" with any of those RPG books? Is anything being phased out? Like Deathwatch or RT?

Nope. It's probably only the DH1.0 stuff that's going to become harder to find, so get The Lathe Worlds before it's gone for good!

(/obvious bias)

Are they not planning to reissue the 1.0 sourcebooks with updated rules? I got Lathe Worlds a while back, but I'm still short a couple of the others.

**Siygess**

Ghrik wrote:
I'm really thinking about getting some of the Dust stuff. Even with the shipping of approx. 60$ to Germany it is still a bargain.
As good as I find the packaging I would like to ask the FFG-guys to remove the big models from the boxes as otherwise mostly air would be shipped

Ouch! I see what you mean! You can buy a ton of stuff for $100 with some really good savings versus UK prices but the shipping for said goodies is in excess of $100. Curse you, oversized DUST boxes!

**ted1138**

I couldn't resist, Dust tactics campaign packs for $9.00, heavy Mech for $9.00 and infantry for $4.00. Even with P&P to UK it's still only 1/4 of what I'd pay here...

**Ghrik**

Me too

**Triple9**

FFG had a decent sale last year on Dust, but wow, those are some rock bottom prices. I'm not sure what this says about the popularity of the system that 18 months after changing rights, they still have this much stock on hand and need to practically give it away. Regardless, wish I needed some of those units.

**judgedoug**

Triple9 wrote:
FFG had a decent sale last year on Dust, but wow, those are some rock bottom prices. I'm not sure what this says about the popularity of the system that 18 months after changing rights, they still have this much stock on hand and need to practically give it away. Regardless, wish I needed some of those units.

TBF it's mainly units that a) came in starter sets and b) have limited battlefield application or c) were brand new when FFG transferred Dust to Battlefront (SSU). It's like when Miniature Market dumped GW at 50% off and they had like 30 plastic Space Marine captain kits and no one was buying them.

**mjl7atlas**

So is the FFG 40k RPG system being dumped or revamped? Those prices have me tempted to buy a lot, just not sure if its the end of the line for the rpg or not.

**Co'tor Shas**

I hope we some of DH 2 on the list.

**willb2064**

Miniature Market sales used to be great, but now they are so much bigger and widely known their site falls over every time they have a sale, to the point where everything is gone by the time you can checkout. Hope they fix that this year but not holding out much hope.

**highlord tamburlaine**

After reading Miniature Market's FAQ about black friday, I guess I'll remain cautiously optimistic.

I'm hoping they can match FFG's Dust prices. They've done it in the past, so we'll see.

I've sadly been able to hit that free shipping threshold within the span of a few moments every year.

**judgedoug**

Supposedly they've upgraded so the server can handle 4x the load. Which means it'll just take 12 minutes to check out instead of 48 minutes!

**judgedoug**

Warlord Games starting with Holiday deals - free tank kit (Panzer IV or Sherman, your choice) when you buy the D-Day Firefight Bolt Action Starter Set. http://store.warlordgames.com/collections/bolt-action-starter-sets/products/bolt-action-starter-game-d-day-firefight

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

Borrowed from Beasts of War's sales thread

Megacon Games have a sale on till 25th Dec

http://store.megacongames.com/

Wild West Exodus are supposed to have one soon

http://www.wildwestexodus.com/

Dropzone Commander Xmas sale

http://www.hawkwargames.com/collections/christmas-offers

**Mymearan**

No European Sales?

Edit: oh I see Hawks are British. Maybe you guys could label the links US/EU?

**partisan_nick**

OMG! Those are some insane prices from FFG! I have never seen a game-sale coming near it in Sweden. Sadly the shipping costs here are as insane as the prices. I could easily spend 60-100 $ there but the P&P would double that.... sigh...

**Ahtman**

I went in for Black Crusade and Only War even though I've heard the writing is...sub-par.

Spoiler:

Seriously though great deals on stuff. I just was looking around at the site for fun and the holiday page was giving errors and stuff that was available earlier is gone now so I think they are getting slammed.

**Co'tor Shas**

I'm hesitant to pick up any more of the rouge trader stuff. I'm still waiting for them to update it.

**BairdEC**

The Rouge Trader? Is he red in the face, or does he just wear a lot of makeup?

**BrookM**

Well, the game is part costume porn, so probably the latter.

**BobtheInquisitor**

Why does everyone assume a Rouge Trader must be sampling his wares?

**BrookM**

When you have a big ass ship, a private army and the finest clothes decorated with lace, braiding and epaulettes, why stop there?

**H.B.M.C.**

Ahtman wrote:
I went in for Black Crusade and Only War even though I've heard the writing is...sub-par.

Obvious bait is obvious.

**RobertsMinis**

judgedoug wrote:
Warlord Games starting with Holiday deals - free tank kit (Panzer IV or Sherman, your choice) when you buy the D-Day Firefight Bolt Action Starter Set. http://store.warlordgames.com/collections/bolt-action-starter-sets/products/bolt-action-starter-game-d-day-firefight

Yup, couldn't resist that especially as there is no additional shipping cost.