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chaos0xomega wrote:
IMO looks weird if only some of your dudes have sculpted shpulders and the rest dont

+1

I agree completely.

If I could get sculpted emblems on Knights, I would be ecstatic.

Nah, I mix sculpted shoulder pads and decals plenty. It's a great way to add variety and fanciness to Your Dudes. Some guys get a couple decals with honor markings, some guys did something so cool they got a sculpted pad.

I thought the lack of standard chapters was a little odd, but they make dedicated sprues for those so they are certainly available. I've been meaning to pick up a bunch of them and really update a good chunk of my DW shoulders in general. This kit if nothing else is incredible for upgrading my Gravis collection.

Dudeface wrote:


The scorpions and scouts both came out in boxes of 10, surprising people who were all saying similar.

That might be because they're still in Kill Team boxes, not 40k boxes (I think). In Kill Team, if you're playing Scouts, you NEED nine models, so selling a KT box with five would be a bad look. In Kill Team, if you're playing the Aspect Team, you might need as many as eight Scorpions- you CAN get away with a mere five, but if you did, you'd need at least 3 models from either a box of Avengers or a box of Banshees, which would still be a bad look. There is a chance that once these models come out of KT rotation, they go into 40k boxes of five models each; when that happens, GW MIGHT shave a bit off the price to reflect the lesser value... But they also might not.

For the Deathwatch though, you're only allowed to play with five models at a time. Having 10 is nice, because you can build one of every option (except for the Gravis guy who has three builds- you'll have to pick which two you want), but if you have a mere five, you're still guaranteed to be able to make a team.

Still, you have eroded my certainty. I hope you are right, and there's a decent chance you will be.

 Prometheum5 wrote:
Nah, I mix sculpted shoulder pads and decals plenty. It's a great way to add variety and fanciness to Your Dudes. Some guys get a couple decals with honor markings, some guys did something so cool they got a sculpted pad.

Thats fine, doesn't mean other people like it or agree.

 LunarSol wrote:
I thought the lack of standard chapters was a little odd, but they make dedicated sprues for those so they are certainly available. I've been meaning to pick up a bunch of them and really update a good chunk of my DW shoulders in general. This kit if nothing else is incredible for upgrading my Gravis collection.

I think its stealth market research. See which chapters come up the most on social media posts and which ones have the highest price on the secondary bits market, then produce sets of them for sale.

chaos0xomega wrote:

I think its stealth market research. See which chapters come up the most on social media posts and which ones have the highest price on the secondary bits market, then produce sets of them for sale.

If that were true, Charcharodons would be an option.

 PenitentJake wrote:

That might be because they're still in Kill Team boxes, not 40k boxes (I think). In Kill Team, if you're playing Scouts, you NEED nine models, so selling a KT box with five would be a bad look. In Kill Team, if you're playing the Aspect Team, you might need as many as eight Scorpions- you CAN get away with a mere five, but if you did, you'd need at least 3 models from either a box of Avengers or a box of Banshees, which would still be a bad look. There is a chance that once these models come out of KT rotation, they go into 40k boxes of five models each; when that happens, GW MIGHT shave a bit off the price to reflect the lesser value... But they also might not.

This is absolutely what I expect GW to do with those kits. Scorpions in particular are setup in the same way as the other aspect warrior kits with 5 models and a token, and unlike more recent teams they were clearly designed as a 40k release then repurposed to fill a KT release slot instead.

Instead of £47.50 for ten models, expect something like £40 for five models in a 40k-branded box.

Killzone Tomb World article.

Basically it’s the same rules as Gallowdark (so enclosed, impenetrable walls etc) but with a bonus twist of teleporter pads and occasional zombie robots popping out of the walls in single player mode.

 Platuan4th wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:

I think its stealth market research. See which chapters come up the most on social media posts and which ones have the highest price on the secondary bits market, then produce sets of them for sale.

If that were true, Charcharodons would be an option.

Fair. I was so enthralled by it having a Lamenters pad I didnt notice.

 modelhunter wrote:
What's the chances GWS muck this pre-order up like they did for Typhon KT and not have enough for genuine player and the scalpers?

They have, 100%. One FLGS I know of ordered 300 from GW. They are getting 24

Ugh.

Darksphere’s register of interest has failed me this time.

Not their fault, they say, “Unfortunately, due to very harsh allocations from Games Workshop, we will not be able to fulfil your request on this occasion.”

Looks like I’ll be tapping F5 furiously at 09:45 GMT…

Have to eat my words, deathwatch are indeed going to be sold in 5s, the box states that there are 2 sets of 5 minis included.

Being the super cool and trendy guy that I am I woke up this morning and decided to see how the preorders go, specifically the Tomb World boxed set. I have no interest in buying it but am interested to see how long it takes to sell out.

One thing of note is that on the UK website at least the preorders actually came up at 10am. Not 9:55, 10 on the dot. The last time I bought something on preorder (Ashes of Faith) it was up for sale at 9:55 and sold out by 10. Seeing as GW advertise it being available from 10 it's good to see them actually sticking to that time.

It's now 10:06 and it hasn't sold out yet. Hopefully it's available for a couple of hours so that whoever actually wants to buy it can.

El Torro wrote:
Being the super cool and trendy guy that I am I woke up this morning and decided to see how the preorders go, specifically the Tomb World boxed set. I have no interest in buying it but am interested to see how long it takes to sell out.

One thing of note is that on the UK website at least the preorders actually came up at 10am. Not 9:55, 10 on the dot. The last time I bought something on preorder (Ashes of Faith) it was up for sale at 9:55 and sold out by 10. Seeing as GW advertise it being available from 10 it's good to see them actually sticking to that time.

It's now 10:06 and it hasn't sold out yet. Hopefully it's available for a couple of hours so that whoever actually wants to buy it can.

It was available at 9:55 but you had to go into the Killteam page rather than the preorders - I ordered the Tyranid terrain at 9:55 and it was all there.Still available now anyway and only 1 of the 3 main stores here have sold out.

 DaveC wrote:

El Torro wrote:
Being the super cool and trendy guy that I am I woke up this morning and decided to see how the preorders go, specifically the Tomb World boxed set. I have no interest in buying it but am interested to see how long it takes to sell out.

One thing of note is that on the UK website at least the preorders actually came up at 10am. Not 9:55, 10 on the dot. The last time I bought something on preorder (Ashes of Faith) it was up for sale at 9:55 and sold out by 10. Seeing as GW advertise it being available from 10 it's good to see them actually sticking to that time.

It's now 10:06 and it hasn't sold out yet. Hopefully it's available for a couple of hours so that whoever actually wants to buy it can.

It was available at 9:55 but you had to go into the Killteam page rather than the preorders - I ordered the Tyranid terrain at 9:55 and it was all there.

Ah, ok. I was just looking at all preorders, not for a specific game system.

Silly me for thinking that the website would work as it's supposed to.

Most of the popular uk webstores sold out within seconds.

Yeah, I had it taken out of my cart at like three different places. Had to pay GW's full price in the end.

Plenty of Ebay sellers already offering the full box (mostly at prices higher than GW's website of course), as well as components. Just the Necrons, just the Deathwatch, just the terrain, etc...

 The Phazer wrote:
Yeah, I had it taken out of my cart at like three different places. Had to pay GW's full price in the end.

Same, this is the first time I've had to pay full price in a while.

At time of writing Boards and Swords Hobbies in the UK still have 6 copies left at £131.75: https://www.boardsandswords.co.uk/products/kill-team-tomb-world?_pos=1&_sid=53786d0d3&_ss=r

Edit: And they're gone

Element games said they'd got so few they weren't even offering it online

Important Information Regarding Kill Team: Tomb World Availability

Due to extremely limited stock, this product will only be available in our physical stores. If you are near London, Birmingham, Stockport, Sheffield, Nottingham, or Newcastle, a small quantity will be available at those locations. Should additional stock become available in the future, we will make the product available online, though at this time that does not appear likely.

I didn't check the GW website that regularly but by 11:15 it was sold out in the UK. So probably took about an hour to sell out. People were prioritising buying it elsewhere at a lower price of course.