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2021/10/22 10:34:42
Subject: What are your most recent game purchases?
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Ridin' on a Snotling Pump Wagon
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lord_blackfang wrote:I panic bought a Gang Stronghold too, along with a box of walls. This is my first zone mortalis stuff.
Welcome to the rabbit hole.
Poop wherever you like
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2021/10/22 11:27:41
Subject: What are your most recent game purchases?
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Shadowy Grot Kommittee Memba
The Great State of New Jersey
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The GWUS site indicates the Gang Stranghold is just temporarily out of stock? Am I missing something?
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2021/10/22 11:45:55
Subject: What are your most recent game purchases?
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Foxy Wildborne
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chaos0xomega wrote:The GWUS site indicates the Gang Stranghold is just temporarily out of stock? Am I missing something?
A UK mail order troll said it was discontinued and we panic bought. Today it was restocked. GW gonna GW
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2021/10/22 11:54:12
Subject: What are your most recent game purchases?
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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lord_blackfang wrote:chaos0xomega wrote:The GWUS site indicates the Gang Stranghold is just temporarily out of stock? Am I missing something?
A UK mail order troll said it was discontinued and we panic bought. Today it was restocked. GW gonna GW
My impression is that these days the mail order and phone staff are little more than the same as GW store managers. Which means most of the time the information they have is the same information that is on the GW webstore. Ergo they don't go and ask the web-store manager or the production staff for updates. They just tell you what the webstore tells them. Which IN THEORY should work because its tied to the Warehouse inventory system.
However in practice it doesn't work. GW makes changes sometimes appearing to change on the fly which throws up confusion; furthermore GW has an error on the webstore (The FW side has it appearing a LOT) where for some reason out of stock items get shown as discontinued. IT also doesn't help that any product change results in a new product code which means the old product has to be replaced in the system - which means the old gets discontinued. Sometimes you can catch the transfer when one is discontinued and the new is there; but often as not the discontinued is removed and its some tim before its returned.
Basically there's a communication breakdown between actual production staff and front-end support staff.
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2021/10/22 11:58:26
Subject: What are your most recent game purchases?
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Foxy Wildborne
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Yep, precisely that. Then add some employees just straight up making things up to cover their ignorance for maximum chaos.
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2021/10/22 12:04:17
Subject: What are your most recent game purchases?
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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It might not be them making stuff up, but trying to work within a system to provide an answer to a customer based on the company's general position whilst not being allowed/able to contact the relevant staff.
Part of this is likely just GW growing in scale and size. It's easy to ask production when there's only a dozen emails a day; but when you deal with hundreds suddenly it becomes a problem and someone higher up says "ok stop asking production you're interrupting their work".
Again in theory as GW has most of its company in-house they should really be on top of this - but they aren't. I think part of it is the hyper compartmentalising that GW does to protect its production secrets on what is coming and what is changing. Which has kind of always been there and got worse over the years - esp under Kirby and perhaps also as a result of dealings with WB and Lord of the Rings.
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2021/10/22 13:37:27
Subject: What are your most recent game purchases?
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Ridin' on a Snotling Pump Wagon
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Blimey! Today’s order has already shipped.
Guess I’m getting busy with the clippers and glue tomorrow afternoon. Yay!
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2021/10/22 14:24:22
Subject: What are your most recent game purchases?
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Foxy Wildborne
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And now I snagged 2 boxes of Zone Mortalis tiles as Kutami.de got 5 in (didn't take all as I'm just gonna use them for raised areas and a second floor, I have a great underhive mat for the ground floor)
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2021/10/22 14:25:02
Subject: What are your most recent game purchases?
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Owns Whole Set of Skullz Techpriests
Versteckt in den Schatten deines Geistes.
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lord_blackfang wrote:Then add some employees just straight up making things up to cover their ignorance for maximum chaos.
Then add that GW does discontinue terrain sets at random and without warning or explanation, and is it any wonder that people panic bought them?
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2021/10/22 14:25:49
Subject: What are your most recent game purchases?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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lord_blackfang wrote:And now I snagged 2 boxes of Zone Mortalis tiles as Kutami. de got 5 in (didn't take all as I'm just gonna use them for raised areas and a second floor, I have a great underhive mat for the ground floor)
Just bought a Mowang there as well. I have to say they are quickly shaping up to be my favourite online retailer.
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2021/10/22 14:45:11
Subject: What are your most recent game purchases?
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Ladies Love the Vibro-Cannon Operator
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Codex Blood Angels and new WD, today.
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Former moderator 40kOnline
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2021/10/24 10:03:52
Subject: Re:What are your most recent game purchases?
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Fixture of Dakka
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Big day today. Really big day. Got my grubby mitts on all 91 issues of Battle Games in Middle-earth. I've wanted these for a dogs age and now I've got em. Had to drive an hour and a half to pick them up, but it was worth it for what I paid.
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2021/10/24 18:05:39
Subject: Re:What are your most recent game purchases?
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Fixture of Dakka
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The Drukhari Medusae (x4) I ordered at my local shop finally arrived. As did another Talos.
2 more Talos to go....
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2021/10/28 05:14:51
Subject: What are your most recent game purchases?
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Blood Angel Terminator with Lightning Claws
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Ordered a box of Custodes Custodian Wardens to make a team for Kill Team 2: Electric Boogaloo. Might use them to practice NMM well, perhaps I'll use other models to practice it before the Custodes arrive...
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2021/10/28 09:11:56
Subject: What are your most recent game purchases?
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Owns Whole Set of Skullz Techpriests
Versteckt in den Schatten deines Geistes.
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It is done. I have secured 4 sets of Zone Mortalis tiles.
Comin' at'cha Grotsnik!
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2021/10/28 10:43:27
Subject: What are your most recent game purchases?
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Boom! Leman Russ Commander
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H.B.M.C. wrote:It is done. I have secured 4 sets of Zone Mortalis tiles.
Comin' at'cha Grotsnik!
Is a 'Zone Mortalis Off' a thing now?
Will there be smack talk and boasting of how big one's plastic clippers are?
The Public have a right to know.
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2021/10/28 10:59:46
Subject: What are your most recent game purchases?
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[MOD]
Otiose in a Niche
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Who sells Rhino sides without the tracks? I mean OK it was clear from the picture and description that tracks are not included and I should have noticed but still...
I mean who buys a trackless Rhino side? Who buys Rhino-less tracks?
An easy fix with thin plastic card but c'mon!
Uh anyway I got 3 bare bones rhinos, coming in around $20 a pop, no hatches or extras which is fine since they'll be chaosed to hell and back. Fingers crossed this ends up looking good and not just a Rhino with random bits stuck to it...
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2021/10/28 13:23:53
Subject: What are your most recent game purchases?
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Fixture of Dakka
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Raises hand....
Why? Because sometimes you need to refurbish something.
EX:
Last year a local shop took in a sorry ass SoB collection.
It was a dirty, poorly painted, & poorly assembled mess. All the vehicles were missing bitz - including their tracks.
This player had slapped enough together to get playing, played a # of games, and then decided against 40k.
Then they left it sit in an open box on a garrage shelf for a year+ collecting dirt, never finishing the models & losing bitz. Including all the tracks apparently.
Then last year they needed some $.
The shop paid them pennies on the dollar.
I paid the shop dimes on the dollar for the force, invested around another $50 or so + some time (time was plentiful summer 2020....) and flipped it for a decent profit.
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2021/10/28 13:34:03
Subject: What are your most recent game purchases?
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Foxy Wildborne
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H.B.M.C. wrote:It is done. I have secured 4 sets of Zone Mortalis tiles. Comin' at'cha Grotsnik! I just got my 2 boxes and they're all banana bent. Trying hot water now. EDIT: Fixed 2, destroyed 2, not touching the rest. Turns out there's maybe a 2 degree window just below boiling at which the plastic is pliable, go over and it's going to warp like mad and get stuck that way.
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2021/10/29 00:30:32
Subject: What are your most recent game purchases?
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Grumpy Longbeard
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A small flock of sheep, a small herd of cows, a few civilians (to mind them) and some generic looking "supplies" in 6mm.
To be baggage for DBA and similar games.
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Nightstalkers Dwarfs
GASLANDS!
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2021/10/29 03:47:37
Subject: Re:What are your most recent game purchases?
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Fixture of Dakka
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Just ordered enough of the 40k Steel Legion squads to be sure of never needing any more SL Sgts/troops/grenade launchers/missile teams.
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2021/10/29 14:36:45
Subject: What are your most recent game purchases?
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Ladies Love the Vibro-Cannon Operator
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Today, I've bought the last (fifth) NDK for my 2000 pts GK army.
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2021/10/29 17:09:21
Subject: What are your most recent game purchases?
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Ultramarine Chaplain with Hate to Spare
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More Seraphim Sepia, and secondhand Tyranid Gargoyles
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2021/10/29 17:18:59
Subject: What are your most recent game purchases?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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I'm in Germany for work and stopped in a local store. They had a copy of Five Parsecs From Home so I picked it up to check out.
Maybe a solo game is something I can get on the table.
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2021/10/29 22:44:50
Subject: Re:What are your most recent game purchases?
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Fixture of Dakka
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Five Parsecs From Home.
Gorgeous book but...omg where do I start? Glad to finally have a copy all the same and enjoying just flicking through it for now....
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Casual gaming, mostly solo-coop these days.
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2021/10/31 12:17:26
Subject: What are your most recent game purchases?
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Thinking of Joining a Davinite Loge
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I just bought the new vampire and a chaos sorcerer on manticore. Just need Archaon to finish my army.
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2021/10/31 13:14:53
Subject: What are your most recent game purchases?
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Fixture of Dakka
CL VI Store in at the Cyber Center of Excellence
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Got the Camp Northwood buildings and mat along with the new Gourd Reaper from Black Site Games. I'm hoping to get stuff assembled and painted to run Don't Look Back at a local gaming con this January.
https://blacksitestudio.com/dlb/
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2021/10/31 17:10:20
Subject: What are your most recent game purchases?
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Fixture of Dakka
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Finally gave in and purchased the Sisters Codex.
Cheers,
CB
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2021/11/01 14:05:58
Subject: What are your most recent game purchases?
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Horrific Hive Tyrant
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GW Rockgut Trolls for my solo/co-op bestiary.
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2021/11/01 20:05:20
Subject: Re:What are your most recent game purchases?
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Fixture of Dakka
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It's gotta be some lacquer thinner.
Thought I had some, but nope.
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