Most US FLGS's will not be getting any Tau. Please go easy on your local store, not their fault.

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**Kroothawk**

Posted in wrong thread, sorry.

**hotsauceman1**

My argument is moot for me, My store is getting everything they ordered.
And im getting mine next wednesday. Oh well I needed to study this weekend.

**Makumba**

gorgon wrote:
I'm not even sure what this thread is about anymore, or if anything new can be said here.

My take is that customers are the least affected party. Both FLGS and GW will lose sales over this. Any customer that wants the merchandise will still get it, they'll just have to wait an extra week or two. So I get mikhaila's frustration. I don't get all the evil empire talk from people who probably wouldn't have rushed to get the shiny new boxed sets at release anyway.

But carry on with the ranting and conspiracies.

but if GW shops both the online and the brick and mortar ones gets resupplied faster then the FLGS , then people will just buy from them and FLGS may get the stuff in the end , but it lots of it will stay on the shelfs , because people will have already bought it from GW. No one is going to wait 3 weeks and then another 2-3 weeks when spring is near too many tournaments , too much free time .

**JWhex**

Well one take home message for GW is.. ......

WOW they buy this stuff like mad at current prices there must be room for a price increase for sure!

**Dark Apostle 666**

Shhhh! You shouldn't joke about things like that!

**Wolfnid420**

All i have to say is watch the SAME thing happen to eldar because they dont learn.....silly GW

**Indarys**

Sorry, but after my "F"LGS decided to ban Death From The Skies because they were mad, I've been left with a 80 dollar SM Stormraven I can't use.

They don't get my business, they're just as bad as GW in screwing their own customers. I'll be buying from Amazon or GW Direct.

**motyak**

Sergeant Horse wrote:
kronk wrote:
Sergeant Horse wrote:
one of my walls has fresh dents in it from the news I got today

My company makes a number of product that will help you fix that wall, depending on the size of the dents. You can use the remainder on terrain projects.

hahaha nice, now does your company make gauze because this morning my knuckles regret it

Why use that when you could use this to cover up the holes. It'd help, right?

**Capamaru**

Shotgun wrote:
Hulksmash wrote:
You guys act like GW is the only company to not have enough of a product at launch. This happens. And it's the first time I can remember it happening with a launch product since I've been collecting for the last 15+ years (granted only been paying attention for the last 10 or so). Chill out, support your local store. At least the book is available in proper numbers (which really makes me think that the production run numbers weren't properly set-up for this many large releases in a row). Codexes are easy to ensure proper numbers, new kits not so much.

Your post has the core of my skeptisim about this "failure to launch". GW has been doing this for -years- without a hickup. New race, new codex, new editions...all have launched without major supply issues.

Now comes a major relaunch and somehow we are to believe that they so blatently failed at production or knowing how much to produce that not only can they not ship to FLGs, they can't fill thier own preorders?

And thier response isn't to push back the release it is to "be patient. we don't know how long you need to be patient, just be patient." All the while their corporate brick and mortar shops have the new releases in stock and will be selling?

Sorry. It's tooooo neat and tidy for them in my opinion. If this truely is a production issue, then push the release date back and hold sales from the corporate shops. They won't because they know they can steal sales from the FLGS where they have corporate shops in the area.

This is a very convenient inconvenience for GW. Guess which army exceed all expectations... Tau...

They got to screw over all stores in the US twice in two months?? For a company that has been running like a Swiss clock 15 years now it is hard to believe that this wasn't done with a little purpose thrown into the mix

. All I can say guys is support your local shops cause when they go out of business hobby will die too.

**Watchersinthedark**

Kinda seems messed up. My FLGS got pretty much pretty much all the new stuff except for the new pathfinders kit. Managed to pick up a codex, flyer, riptide, and a broadside on my midnight run there. Would have gotten more but my poor wallet is suffering from that expenditure

**Hereticdave**

My local GW store got no tau at all. None.

**Backfire**

I went to buy Codex from my FLGS (gotta read it so I can whine about it more), but they were all gone. Bleh.

**-Loki-**

My FLGS had plentiful new Tau. Multiples of each new box and multiples of the codex.

I assume Australia wasn't affected?

**Alfndrate**

Indarys wrote:
Sorry, but after my "F"LGS decided to ban Death From The Skies because they were mad, I've been left with a 80 dollar SM Stormraven I can't use.

They don't get my business, they're just as bad as GW in screwing their own customers. I'll be buying from Amazon or GW Direct.

If I remember correctly, the Stormraven wasn't affected by Death from the Skies... It's in 2 legal codices... why can't you use it?

My FLGS only got in some of the new character/single sprue models and the codex, everything else was on back order. Which is a shame for him because all of my Malifaux players were drooling over it. And then they pulled out the codex. They still like it, but our Tau player doesn't like the changes. He said he'd get over it and would have to play with it.

**AlmightyWalrus**

Alfndrate wrote:
Indarys wrote:
Sorry, but after my "F"LGS decided to ban Death From The Skies because they were mad, I've been left with a 80 dollar SM Stormraven I can't use.

They don't get my business, they're just as bad as GW in screwing their own customers. I'll be buying from Amazon or GW Direct.

If I remember correctly, the Stormraven wasn't affected by Death from the Skies... It's in 2 legal codices... why can't you use it?

Templars and Vanilla got access to it in DFTS.

**warboss**

Alfndrate wrote:

If I remember correctly, the Stormraven wasn't affected by Death from the Skies... It's in 2 legal codices... why can't you use it?

I believe they updated the rules in Death from the Skies (and possibly in the digital products) to a different legal standard. It may not be significantly different but IIRC it is different according to the previous long thread about the book and it's release shenanigans.

**ausYenLoWang**

-Loki- wrote:
My FLGS had plentiful new Tau. Multiples of each new box and multiples of the codex.

I assume Australia wasn't affected?

Because our local price scared people off HAHA!

**Backspacehacker**

this is just more of GW trying to phase out the local store owners

**pretre**

Backspacehacker wrote:
this is just more of GW trying to phase out the local store owners

Did you read the thread? Because both FLGS and GW stores were hit by the shortage.

**shade1313**

1 small data point. Both of my regular stores, here in Las Vegas, got all the Tau they ordered. No GW stores in town, and we're a long way from GWUS HQ and shipping.

**skrulnik**

My eBay supplier contacted me.
I had ordered the Riptide, Pathfinders, and codex.
The codex is on its way.
He said his distributor will not have anything more for 3 weeks.