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2018/08/20 14:51:49
Subject: Warhammer 40,000 Conquest, that'll be why they were advertising for part work staff then.
Got my Email saying I'll have 3 free issues starting 29th. I'm unreasonably pleased by this good news, i don't often get free stuff (that I actually want) I can't wait!
Does anyone know if the "Starter" brush is indicative of GW brush quality these days? I haven't used a GW brush in decades and I'm looking forward to testing this, but the "Starter" brand leads me to believe it's not a great brush (for reference I use W&N Cirrus, for anyone familiar with those, though I doubt there will be as they seem increasingly rare these days).
Thanks. I've tried R&Co, I found their brushes to be a lot less springy than I like. I use these https://www.revell.de/en/products/colors-accessories/accessories/painta-luxus.html as cheapies. Marten hair, very good (as good as Kolinsky imo). And it seems that Cirrus are still around, so I suppose I'll be continuing with that as my primary brush.
JWBS wrote: +1 for got mine today. Great value, very pleased.
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ElvisJuice wrote: I didn't seem to get a mould line tool, just a pair of clippers and some glue.
The little metal tool included won't be much use as a mold line remover imo. I use one of these
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, and even then I have to regularly switch blades. So don't worry, you aren't missing much there.
I just use my normal hobby blade for all mould line work, but each blade lasts ages, howcome you have to switch them so often?
Mine did ping out but I saw it as I’d been reading on here that people had dropped theirs.
I dunno I suppose I'm a bit OCD when it comes to cleaning mold. You can tell when a blade loses its edge, same with a razor. I just prefer them to be ultra sharp. They're really cheap so it's not a big deal. I've just built two 40K knights, got through I think three blades (one to cut all the sprues and the other two for the lines). I go over pretty much every edge and join even if there's no immediately visible mold.
Danny76 wrote: I find a blunter blade easier for removing them It doesn’t just cut in to the detail that way.
Do you face the blade away from the model when you are removing?
Err, now that I think about it, I suppose my usual pattern is to hold the blade at a 45% angle to the plastic surface, and scrape away from me. But sometimes I "cut" instead of scrape (so the cut position would be roughly the mirror of the scrape position), depending on what I'm removing and what I'm removing it from.
Want to get more from your Warhammer 40,000: Conquest playing experience? We've got the offer for you. For an extra £1.50 per issue, you'll receive 4 premium kits that each include:
- Conquest Storage Box
- Data Cards
- Conquest Dice
- Punch Tokens
- Heavy Duty Play Mat
nobody's got a straight answer to exactly what's in the first one above other than that pic/text, and no info on what's going to be in the other 3
Oh ok. I went and looked and then thought that they were the 4 premium bits (Dice, tokens, cards, and mats), but if all that is just one of the four extras it seems good value so far for newbies.
I was lucky enough to get issues 1-4 for free, since I signed up early. If they're sending 3-6 in one go, I think I'm stopping there, full value extracted, with a unique character in issue 5.
So set 3-6 will be £24.
With it not being straight into DI for 7-10, I think that pack may be worth having too.
Already £31.60 of RRP in two of the four issues. Then some extra goodies that will be a ‘true surprise’
(Unless anyone here is buying individual issues and gets that Librarian, they can tell us what 9/10 have)
Reavsie wrote: In addition to subscribing, I ordered 4 more copies of Issue1 as posted previously.
Subscription and one extra copy arrived - 3 copies outstanding.
A week later one more copy arrived - 2 copies outstanding.
Today a larger package containing 4 copies arrived.
I now have 21 Intercessors (will need to convert most of these to avoid too many duplicates).
Also have 7x Macragge Blue, Abaddon Black and Retributor armour - looks like I am basing everything by brush (rather than rattle can) for the forseeable future.
Oh damn. You've got quite some value there. I looked at the hachette website in order to get me some more £1.99 marines, but unfortunately I can't so this now. As for brush basing, I don't recommend it. I live in a flat - I used to live with my parents, nice garden and garage, I could spray freely. I decided to try brush basing in my flat. It's not optimal, even with paint that's apparently designed for exactly this. I'd say give them a light spray at least, then brush on top.
TwilightSparkles wrote: Be aware if you subscribe of the small print which is in the letter they mail you.
They mail out binders at intervals, at extra cost , and there will be 'special issues' with no specified price in addition to regular issues, so the cost saving may not be accurate.
Yes you can return unwanted mailings, but this was enough for me to decide I really cannot be bothered as the company does not have a great reputation dealing with returns and billing.
Stuff I don't want is going back, this is on DD not a credit card so push comes to shove I control it, not them
I'm pretty sure when push comes to shove on a credit card you still control it too. Even if there are "misunderstandings" from their billing department, you can complain to Visa (or more likely the bank that's issuing your Visa) that you're being defrauded. I had to resort to this with a small company once. I had my money back in less than 24hrs. It might be a lot more difficult if you're disputing a charge with a big guy like Amazon or someone like that. Hachette, IDK, logically it should be easy, but in practice might be a bit of a bitc*.
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Blooddragon1981 wrote: Thanks for the info. I'll get in touch with the and clarify what options do I have
What bothers me is that it seems that there are the same units included in different issues and some issues just include paints. I thought that all issues will include different minis and a paint as well. Seems that GW is not that generous after all
A few pages back some people were saying that this is long term value only, not short term. I'm of the opposite view. I don't really want most of the stuff on offer, a few DG minis is ok, but if you don't specifically want Marines + DG, and you aren't planning to re-sell your unwanted stuff, I think there's little value overall, and personally I'm dropping out after the Librarian (as an early sub I got 4 free issues, so unsubbing at issue 7 gives me a lot more value than seeing this thing out until the end).
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A few pages back some people were saying that this is long term value only, not short term. I'm of the opposite view. I don't really want most of the stuff on offer, a few DG minis is ok, but if you don't specifically want Marines + DG, and you aren't planning to re-sell your unwanted stuff, I think there's little value overall, and personally I'm dropping out after the Librarian (as an early sub I got 4 free issues, so unsubbing at issue 7 gives me a lot more value than seeing this thing out until the end).
Id say that’s precisely why they said it’s long term value, as you’d get two armies over the course of it etc etc.
But only good value IF you want it, there is if course no value if you’re buying things you don’t want (I also think resale at that point won’t be a viable option, as saturation may make a lot of the stuff in this worth less than £8.. except characters and clam shells and big stuff and such.
Bear in mind if you unsubscribe when you receive 7-10, their clause of 28 day cancelling may mean you’d be on track for receiving 11-14 too..
(Though perhaps that’s when the control of your DD comes in and prevents it, I’m not sure what Hachette are like in this regard).
Yep fair point. The only value is in the plastic, and only then if you want all the plastic (I don't. I'll use some of the paint, but even then, I'm still getting dupes of stuff that I already have, for the most part). The "Magazine" such as it is is of very limited value to anyone. Even total beginners can get a lot more, for free, just by logging onto Dakka or a similar site. I didn't know that they planned to send out binders, at additional expense to me, to store this almost valueless pile of cardboard. "Here, buy some boxes, to store stuff you don't need or want" . Thanks for letting me know about the cancellation period. Looks like I'll have to get onto them sooner rather than later (And definitely before they send me any binders
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As some of the readers in this thread are unaware of the 28 days notice to cancel a sub and Hachette's policy on returns, please see below for some of the details from the Hachette FAQ section, located at https://www.warhammer40000conquest.com/contact/
REPLACEMENTS, RETURNS AND CANCELLATION
How do I cancel my subscription?
You can cancel at any time giving 28 days notice - please contact our Customer Service Team via telephone, post or email. If you contact the team by writing, please include your name and subscription reference. Please note that it can take up to 28 days to deliver your back copies from receiving your request.
How do I return an issue?
If you subscribe and decide for whatever reason not to keep a received issue, you must send it back unopened within 14 days following the receipt of your despatch to the following address:
Warhammer 40,000: Conquest
PO Box 77
Jarrow
NE32 3YJ
Please include your subscription number with your parcel. A parcel kept more than 14 days means acceptance and the invoice should be paid promptly.
At present, there seems to be no mention of further binders being sent out additional to the one with the 3rd delivery. Will 80 issues fit inside one binder? I'll make an estimate when I receive it and fit in 11 issues in the relevant sections.
As part of the questionnaire when the trial sub was run earlier in the year, Hachette did ask if subbers would be interested in additional special issues for an extra cost but, as far as I'm aware, there has been no mention yet of this happening since the full release. As above, if you receive anything you don't want, return it unopened.
TY. Since I live in NE30, I suppose it might even be possible to return / unsub in person (not that there should be any need, but having never been subbed to a weekly publication before, I'm slightly wary of the comments in this thread relating to bad experiences trying to cancel subs from Hachette / other publishers).
AndrewGPaul wrote: It's just fiddly and annoying; perhaps some people prefer assembling and painting to drilling a million holes.
There's also a visual aspect - it's quite often obvious that a part is magnetised, which may be a problem. Or perhaps the position of the magnetised parts makes picking up the model awkward.
Reasons to not magnetise a model (some apply to me, some don't)
Need to buy magnets
Need to convert models
Need to store extra weapons (if you have a cabinet to display your models, what do you do with the weapons? Stick them in a drawer? Place them lamely on the shelf next to the parent model?)
Models with moving parts are inherently more unstable
Wear and tear around the parts that you're attaching / detaching
Instead of having two glorious Warlords, one with volcanoes, one with sunfurys, you instead have one Warlord alone.
For the UK test run, I never received any issues when I subscribed.
I received an email telling me that it was a trial and no issues would be sent until the main launch at a later date. As a thank you for being an attempted subscriber, my first three issues should I continue with the main launch would be free.
Short version, no one who subbed at the UK trial received any issues or were charged any money.
In the UK we got the first two (I think) free and the next two for half price iirc.
Yeah that looks pretty dull, like 10 yrs out of date or something, the transfer sheets I've seen from them in the last few years generally look much better.
Does anyone know what the sprue contents for the final two issues are? It says Magnavent walkways, but that's three sprues spread over two issues right?
(anyone that bought the whole series has enough to make the Galvanic Magnavent, which is four sprues, but so far they've only had one sprue, the Alchomite pipes).
The final issue does have two terrain sprues. It's the support columns and the octagonal platforms. Very good value at £4 per frame, but unfortunately they've not got them available at FP online, slightly annoying as I probably would have picked up a few spares at some point if they had.
Yeah, but we don't get the chunky machinery part. So it's not actually the full kit like everyone was hoping.
I'm fairly certain that anyone that bought all issues got the whole thing, as far as I remember the one in Knight Renegade was 4 sprues, which is what the full sub provides.
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deano2099 wrote: If we get something else it could be Warcry or Kill Team focused. Give people a bunch of smaller forces over the course of the subscription rather than two big ones.
It could also be a viable distribution model for Underworlds? Every warband is two ETB sprues plus cards and sells for about £16. Easy to split over two issues. Only issue is you'd need a lot more different paints- but that could be viable as the minis themselves wouldn't be at much of a discount. Average month could be sprue one, sprue two, three paints, cards. With the occasional extra board, dice, tokens, terrain pieces etc.
That would be £32 for a warband plus 3 paints, which is paying quite steeply over the odds compared to just buying them from GW.
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How long to Hachette take to deliver? I ordered on 8th May and got a confirmation email, but nothing since then, no shipped notice after 8 days waiting.
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