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Crusade of Fire was particularly disheartening as the store where I work was not going to be allocated any, as told by our GW rep (even asked about getting a few copies just for employees to purchase and still told no).
The rep suggested that any interested employees head on over to GW's site and buy the book direct, as it was going fast.
In fact it went so fast that as the call was ending I was on GW's website and it was already sold out, so that sucked.
I will try some other local stores and see if they will have any available but I am not holding my breath.

First world problems, le sigh.

 osore wrote:
The rep suggested that any interested employees head on over to GW's site and buy the book direct, as it was going fast.

I hope you told the party line-spouting idiot that it had already sold out and that this release was botched from the start.

yeah,

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 osore wrote:
The rep suggested that any interested employees head on over to GW's site and buy the book direct, as it was going fast.

I hope you told the party line-spouting idiot that it had already sold out and that this release was botched from the start.

Exactly! Amen...

Panic....

 Bloodfrenzy187 wrote:
Why make a Campaign book Limited edition? Wouldn't you want more people to actually be able to take part in the fun.

If you make it LE instead of non-LE format then that means pretty much that less people will ever get to take part in something unique to their hobby and that is sort of annoying seeing as I have all of these figures to use and would love to take part in a new campaign.

Oh well just one more punt to the nuts from GW.

Becouse it is a Campaign book like Badlands. Meaning a bunch of guys from GW, writing about what they did to play a campaign. Now pick and choose the ideas you like from all the ways we played the campaign, and make up your own.

Noir wrote:

 Bloodfrenzy187 wrote:
Why make a Campaign book Limited edition? Wouldn't you want more people to actually be able to take part in the fun.

If you make it LE instead of non-LE format then that means pretty much that less people will ever get to take part in something unique to their hobby and that is sort of annoying seeing as I have all of these figures to use and would love to take part in a new campaign.

Oh well just one more punt to the nuts from GW.

Becouse it is a Campaign book like Badlands. Meaning a bunch of guys from GW, writing about what they did to play a campaign. Now pick and choose the ideas you like from all the ways we played the campaign, and make up your own.

Except...The 40k market is much bigger than that of the warhammer market. More people would buy a 40k campaign than a warhammer one, heck, They still have blood in the badlands copies in the GW I go to. If they where going to make it LE at least make sure some people can actually get it. Seeing how it lasted what sounds like less than half a day, that could be considered a success and also a failure for them.

I never heard about Blood in the Badlands. Was it even released outside of English speaking countries?

H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Bloodfrenzy187 wrote:
Why make a Campaign book Limited edition? Wouldn't you want more people to actually be able to take part in the fun.

That would involve thinking in the long term. GW is all about the short term.

That's why they destroyed all the boardgames people didn't want to buy, right?

I'm not normally one to get worked up about GW's business decisions, and in many occasions have defended their actions in the past. However, as someone who has played GW games for nearly 20 years, this kind of thing really makes me reconsider supporting them. I am not a competitive gamer, and following the latest army trend doesn't appeal to me much. But narrative campaign books do, and I was really looking forward to this. Unfortunately, even though I saw it the day it was released, I waited until after the holidays to worry about picking it up, since you know, I was too busy visiting family and things like that.

Unfortunately, since GW decided to spring this release with no prior announcement, I've missed out on what might be the only release I'm extremely interested in purchasing from them for the foreseeable future. So now I'm basically forced to pirate it if they don't release and non-iOS digital version. Which is besides the point that I want a hard copy, not a digital copy, even if it were free. I think I would write a letter if I thought it would do a bit of good.

Oh well, I guess I just saved a lot of money by not having to support a company that makes it impossible to purchase their products. Back to paying Necromunda for free.

I'm looking forward to getting a copy of this book. I ordered mine at my local GW Battle Bunker and will be getting it this coming Saturday.

I find my self a little curious as to whether or not you actually get it. Let us know...

When/if*** mine shows up I'll tell you all about it.


***In Reecius we trust!

Supposedly, the GW down the street from me has unspoken for copies. I'm debating whether I want to get it or some more Infinity stuff.

Get one and then put up a Youtube clip of you slowly tearing the pages out whilst you read the Infinity rules out loud.

No way.

I'm broke enough as is, and the only place hiring within a decent distance is the GW shop.

I wouldn't worry too much about quantities. Crusade of Fire is marked 'While Stocks Last' not 'Limited Edition'. It just means that it was a relatively small print run, not that they will never release it again. If there's enough demand I'm sure they will do another print run, as I believe they did with Blood in the Badlands.

 Anung Un Rama wrote:
I never heard about Blood in the Badlands. Was it even released outside of English speaking countries?

It is still available in German (as a reprint, sold out again in English):
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440006a&prodId=prod1390114a

I asked my local store and he still had one. Had.

 Anung Un Rama wrote:
I asked my local store and he still had one. Had.

My local GW, which is decently sized, has 3 in the stockroom. A pity, since it was pretty decent.

I'd much rather make my own campaign than buy a book for one.

 MetalOxide wrote:
I'd much rather make my own campaign than buy a book for one.

Why must it be one or the other?

Its a limited edition....once its gone its gone. Also contains 3 expansions for 40k, burning skies, deamon worlds and arena of death.

Yeah,

 MetalOxide wrote:
I'd much rather make my own campaign than buy a book for one.

you should sell yours... It seems that there will be a market for it soon.


Panic...

gobbledog wrote:
Its a limited edition....once its gone its gone. Also contains 3 expansions for 40k, burning skies, deamon worlds and arena of death.

It's not. It's just a short production run and may reprint if there's demand.

Oooh! Oooh! I know:

Let's all argue over something none of us know for certain! That's a great use of our time!

I got my email yesterday from GW saying that mine shipped.

I did too Kronk. What I didnt get though was a tracking number. So Im pretty sure its just an email that means we have your book and we put it in a box and will be sending it out at some point. Just like what they did for my Chaos marines codex.

Got my picking & despatch notification on 16th November! Nothing yet though, so I'm guessing Nicorex is bang on.

Hope so anyway, would rather that it didn't go missing!

I didn't see any notice of it being available digitally. Anyone know if they're releasing it on iTunes?

My local shop is unsure if theyre getting any copies, but I just reserved one if they do =)

Herzlos wrote:

gobbledog wrote:
Its a limited edition....once its gone its gone. Also contains 3 expansions for 40k, burning skies, deamon worlds and arena of death.

It's not. It's just a short production run and may reprint if there's demand.

To quote directly from Dec WD, page 38,
"Don't wait to pick up your copy though - Crusade of Fire is only available in limited numbers and when it's gone, it's gone."

Anything else you would care to quibble about?

 reds8n wrote:
Crusade of Fire also features the story of nine hobbyists as they play through the campaign, including detailed battle reports, fantastic army showcases and turn-by-turn accounts of their conquest.

Sounds just like Blood in the Badlands which came out for fantasy... a year ago?

That book was a terrible buy. The seige rules took up a few pages... the campaign rules were OK, but only helpful to add onto an existing campaign...

Do NOT lose any sleep over not getting this book, folks. Knowing GW, it is probably done to the same format, and most of the book chronicles what I quoted above- 9 hobbyists playing games. I.e, a long white dwarf, that you're paying a lot more for...

NOT worth it... again, if it's anything like Blood in the Badlands, which it sounds like it is.