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On Christmas Day, a new wave of Made to Order miniatures will appear – and they’re dressed in red and wearing big hats. What could be more appropriate for the day? They are, of course, the classic Vostroyan Firstborn Astra Militarum miniatures, and a whole range of them will be available for one week only.





(I know this is mentioned in the Xmas WD thread but I fear people who may want these really badly may not notice them without the title

Nice. For all your Cossack needs. Beware the Bolshies...

I'd forgotten how terrible some of them were with the laughably oversized guns that they can barely hold, and the giant shortswords being used as bayonets.

I also hope those images aren't they way they're being sold.

Pic 1: (2 squads + 1 command squad?)
12 lasguns
3 sergeants/officers
1 flamer
1 grenade launcher
2 plasma guns
1 vox
1 medic
1 mortar
1 lascannon
3 deaders/casualties


Pic 2 (full squad, no HWT)
8 lasguns
1 sergeant
1 flamer

I'm curious did they get to be made in finecast in the Old days or they are glorious metal still?

P.S: the article says the made to order will be for all the Vostroyan Range models ever made.

Voss wrote:
I'd forgotten how terrible some of them were with the laughably oversized guns that they can barely hold, and the giant shortswords being used as bayonets.

I also hope those images aren't they way they're being sold.

Pic 1: (2 squads + 1 command squad?)
12 lasguns
3 sergeants/officers
1 flamer
1 grenade launcher
2 plasma guns
1 vox
1 medic
1 mortar
1 lascannon
3 deaders/casualties


Pic 2 (full squad, no HWT)
8 lasguns
1 sergeant
1 flamer

Isnt the 1st pic the old battlefore box they were sold in many years ago and wasnt that the only way to get the dead troops!?

Yes, the first pic is the platoon deal they did back when they were first released.

 BrookM wrote:
Yes, the first pic is the platoon deal they did back when they were first released.

Cool i thought it was as i remember seeing a couple of them on Ebay over the years, id certainly be interested in getting a platoon but, i doubt il be able to afford it this close to Xmas :(

Curious myself whether or not the heavy bolter team, snipers and third officer will also be available. They say entire range, but we shall see.

Brilliant time of year to do a limited-time offer designed primarily to appeal to nostalgic(ie, adult) customers GW. I'm sure none of us are completely tapped out thanks to the festivities and can totally just yank a few hundred quid out of our diamond-encrusted third wallet

That might happen. If the prices are decent I might pick up an infantry army.

Well...

I’m buying these. Especially that Platoon box. I missed out when they first came out and now I’ve actually got disposable income with which to purchase! Huzzah!

Kicking myself over not getting any Kasrkin back then. If those are costed as they were before GW nuked them, sold.

With luck these were removed from sale long enough ago that the last price they were offered for (which usually seems to be what these reissues go for) will be fairly cheap

Weren't they only removed this year? Or was that last year? Time flies

What a genius time to pick to sell them to guarantee lower sales..........

ValentineGames wrote:
What a genius time to pick to sell them to guarantee lower sales..........

How so?
This isn't exactly a time of year when people spend less.

 BrookM wrote:
Curious myself whether or not the heavy bolter team, snipers and third officer will also be available. They say entire range, but we shall see.

Same thoughts here. I still have my original platoon pack, but its those you mentioned (plus the command squad for me) that I would like.

Lord Perversor wrote:I'm curious did they get to be made in finecast in the Old days or they are glorious metal still?

P.S: the article says the made to order will be for all the Vostroyan Range models ever made.

As far as I am aware, the Vostroyan range is entirely metal.

OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:With luck these were removed from sale long enough ago that the last price they were offered for (which usually seems to be what these reissues go for) will be fairly cheap

The basic infantry box of Vostroyans just left sale 6 months ago, and was 35$ for the box (as were all the metal guard, save Tallarn which was 40$ I believe).

Yodhrin wrote:Brilliant time of year to do a limited-time offer designed primarily to appeal to nostalgic(ie, adult) customers GW. I'm sure none of us are completely tapped out thanks to the festivities and can totally just yank a few hundred quid out of our diamond-encrusted third wallet

Yeah, doing a made to order right now seems a bit...bad. If the price is right I might grab some, but otherwise I'll just have to settle with the too many unpainted guardsmen I already have (I still have a bunch of Valhallan and Kasrkin sitting in their boxes...)

Voss wrote:

ValentineGames wrote:
What a genius time to pick to sell them to guarantee lower sales..........

How so?
This isn't exactly a time of year when people spend less.

No, but they're usually spending it on specific things, most of them already accounted for. Assuming someone is an adult and not a kid with well-off parents, spending is typically pre-Christmas and post-New Year(prep, then sales), and this is dropping right between the two. I guarantee if this was starting around payday at the end of January it would bring in a lot more than it will the week after Christmas day. Same if it had been at the start of December, when people could have bought it as festive treats for themselves, or directed family to buy it as a present.

Voss wrote:

ValentineGames wrote:
What a genius time to pick to sell them to guarantee lower sales..........

How so?
This isn't exactly a time of year when people spend less.

Actually it is, big spending time was 2-4 weeks ago. The only way this gets any traction is people who were gifted money (or have too much change anyway) deciding to splurge, which would give a lot of people second thoughts given what they just spent making it harder to justify...

Nice of them to do but I'll pass.

But if you're on the fence, IMHO the Vostroyan Colonel is the best IG officer ever made.

His cyborg eagle foot alone is worth the price.

I loved those figures. I doubt I can justify ordering them though. Pity. I always thought the mix of elements made them the best of the guard range.


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The guns are over sized I'll admit - and I didn't realize the flamer was wooden. : )

kurhanik wrote:

Lord Perversor wrote:I'm curious did they get to be made in finecast in the Old days or they are glorious metal still?

P.S: the article says the made to order will be for all the Vostroyan Range models ever made.

As far as I am aware, the Vostroyan range is entirely metal.

GW has confirmed on Facebook that they will be metal.

If they're doing the entire range, does anyone have any idea where I can find a list of what the range consists of? No luck on solo legends or google from what I can see.

Christmas Day is a huge shopping day. This is GW tapping into that. Saying it's a bad day to launch on just demonstrates a lack of knowledge about retail (not an insult btw). People spend looooaaaads online on Christmas Day itself.

 godswildcard wrote:
If they're doing the entire range, does anyone have any idea where I can find a list of what the range consists of? No luck on solo legends or google from what I can see.

From the top of my head:

Senior officer with bionic leg
Medic
Vox caster
Standard bearer

Officer with laspistol and power fist
Officer with bolt pistol and chainsword
Officer with plasma pistol and power sword

Sergeant with laspistol
6 troopers with lasgun
2 troopers with sniper rifle
Flamer
Plasma gun
Grenade launcher

Heavy bolter heavy weapons team
Mortar team heavy weapons
Lascannon heavy weapons team

3 casualties

This may be the complete list

http://www.collecting-citadel-miniatures.com/wiki/index.php/Vostroyans

Chrsitmas day is probably the busiest day of the year in regards to online sales, I think they know what they are doing here, I will have to pick up a set, I never managed to ge them all.

 Rayvon wrote:
Chrsitmas day is probably the busiest day of the year in regards to online sales, I think they know what they are doing here, I will have to pick up a set, I never managed to ge them all.

I highly doubt someone from the typical family at Christmas has time to do some online shopping when cooking a full Xmas dinner. Giving the kids attention with the latest cheap toy they'll sell 1 month later. While hiding the booze from grandpa and the remote from grandma who keeps trying to tune the TV in to the home service channel and cleaning up the dog puke from Rex eating a mixture of Christmas paper and raw sprouts.

Since when?

I'm not joking, when did Christmas Day become the biggest day of the year for online sales? Because I do not exaggerate when I say I've literally never known anyone who was buying stuff on Christmas Day. Also; bigger than the January sales? Bigger than Black Friday? Bigger than the start of December when folk are buying loads of presents? Yeah I want to see actual hard data before I buy that one.