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I would like to see a future White Dwarf include additional encounter and enemy cards like dire wolves and some of the Underworlds warbands.

 Albertorius wrote:

I actually meant the "separately sold minis" part. It clearly works out for them. So I expect we will be seeing more of it.

Considering how hard it was to find certain "separately sold minis" for Descent 1st Ed, I'd say it's just a case of Dakka not knowing how fanatical board gamers get.


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 Albertorius wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Surely that entirely varies person to person.

I mean, my 2nd Ed Eldar Project is ultimately an impulse buy. Started as an idea, hyped by the new Eldar releases, and turned into a few hundred quid dropped, because at that precise time my disposable income allowed for such.

..Ok. By "impulse buy", in a store, one usually means "article cheap enough that it's pocket money for most of the store's traffic".

Not in any economics text I've ever seen it hasn't. "Impulse buy" just means "bought without a plan or on a whim". There isn't a price tag tied to it.

There might be no fixed price range in general, but I'd wager most stores consider them to be on the cheaper end for the target market of a select product range.

Eg MTG might consider boosters an impulse purchase product. Sure its also one of the main product lines, but its also pretty cheap within the hobby itself to be affordable and tempting to a purchase without much thought or on a whim.

A booster box on the other hand would be a much more serious purchase for the average fan.



It's much easier to entice someone to a "bought without plan or on a whim" if the item is cheap/affordable. Because as soon as you start dealing in more serious costs (based on target demographic) the brain kicks in and goes "hey maybe we should think about this"



OF course if your target market is rich oil barons then the costs are vastly higher than if they are teenagers of average middleclass families

 Platuan4th wrote:
Not in any economics text I've ever seen it hasn't. "Impulse buy" just means "bought without a plan or on a whim". There isn't a price tag tied to it.

By GW's redshirt training documents it's exactly that, specifically the cheap stuff that people that comes in the store didn't plan to buy but can end up doing so. Or was, back when I had to go through them. Even had a monthly store target.

According to those, if you as a store worker manage to entice a customer to buy a, say, Land Raider they were not planning to buy, that's not impulse buy. That's a good sales pitch from the worker. You were still supposed to ask the customers if they wanted any of the impulse buy stuff ("need any paint, glue, etc?" and all), but they were clearly defined as different for them.

Yeah the impulse buy is "Oh and you need some more paint to go with that new Land Raider right"

Or a brush, glue - I'd almost put tools in there but GW's prices on tools are very steep now and honestly you shouldn't need to be buying clippers regularly (that's a welcome new customer product)

Walking into a GW store always reminds me of Stan's Emporium from The Secret of Monkey Island.

Wait, is the expansion sold out forever?

 Togusa wrote:
Wait, is the expansion sold out forever?

This print run has sold out, and there's no indication of them doing another one yet (retailers have been told it's gone now).

Unfortunately you cannot pick the Cursed City miniature of the month. I got... a Skeleton.

You could have gotten a zombie with a tactical rock on its back

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Unfortunately you cannot pick the Cursed City miniature of the month. I got... a Skeleton.

Was your store manager not letting you choose, or did you just only have a choice of skeletons?
According to my store manager each store only got sent 1 box and were they told it was a first in best dressed situation as far as picking a mini went. I got there as my store opened but was still 4th in line. Missed out on my preferred choice which was the big bat monster, which the lady in front of me nabbed, but I was able to pick the Ogre.

Can't help but think this was a touch ill-conceived. Certainly would have been better if they'd been more open about it being 1st come 1st serve in the WarCom article that announced it.

The store I went to had de-sprued everything and put them into the little boxes that come with this promotion.

I was told to pick one from the tray. No way of knowing what was inside until I opened it.

 privateer4hire wrote:
You could have gotten a zombie with a tactical rock on its back

Me. I got that.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
The store I went to had de-sprued everything and put them into the little boxes that come with this promotion.

I was told to pick one from the tray. No way of knowing what was inside until I opened it.

Well honestly that seems like a fairer, if somewhat potentially disappointment inducing, way of doing it. I didn't see hide nor hair of little promotional boxes though.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
The store I went to had de-sprued everything and put them into the little boxes that come with this promotion.

I was told to pick one from the tray. No way of knowing what was inside until I opened it.

Spill the beans, man, what did you get?

lord_blackfang wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
The store I went to had de-sprued everything and put them into the little boxes that come with this promotion.

I was told to pick one from the tray. No way of knowing what was inside until I opened it.

Spill the beans, man, what did you get?

H.B.M.C. wrote:Unfortunately you cannot pick the Cursed City miniature of the month. I got... a Skeleton.

I did tell people Quest expansions always sell out, and given they don't seem to ever get reprinted this was inevitable.

I don't scalp, but if you did it was as obvious, easy money as SOT Limited Editions.

So, as it turns out, my store isn't just putting random Cursed City minaitures in there. They're also putting accessory pieces in there. Friend of mine got the little gargoyle with the chest.

This means that you could randomly pull a Raven with a key or a gravestone as your mini.

Suddenly Mr. Skellington doesn't seem so bad.

Oh no the thing I got for free isn’t the best thing I could have got for free

 JohnnyHell wrote:
Oh no the thing I got for free isn’t the best thing I could have got for free

Do you practice being disingenuous?

 JohnnyHell wrote:
Oh no the thing I got for free isn’t the best thing I could have got for free

Yeah but when people hear "Cursed City mini" they're not thinking of gibbet skeleton or gargoyle on a treasure chest, they're thinking one of the Heroes or one of the Bosses/Monsters.

Again, as I said above, this was a bit ill-conceived given that GW only supplied 1 box per store and didn't tell people how the minis were being distributed to punters.

I brought my girlfriend with me to increase my chances of getting a good free mini.

It paid off, because instead of getting just a skeleton, we also got a Vargaskyr. Definitely a cool promotion

Personally I would rather get a fancy signpost than skeleton, but that's me.

I can see being pretty annoyed if all you get is a stupid gravestone. The other tokens are alright, though the imp would have a lot more uses if there wasn't a treasure chest molded to him

GaroRobe wrote:I brought my girlfriend with me to increase my chances of getting a good free mini

That's cheating!
I'd thought about asking my brother along for the same reasons, but that would have run the risk of him keeping whatever he chose instead of giving it to me.

lord_blackfang wrote:Personally I would rather get a fancy signpost than skeleton, but that's me.

Oh me too. There's a lot you can do with a fun little piece like that, but still smacks of "losing out" when you might have been expecting, or at least hoping for, something "better".

 JohnnyHell wrote:
Oh no the thing I got for free isn’t the best thing I could have got for free

You do realize that GW is using this as a promotion for their products/shops, right?

Doing it in a way that‘s bound to leave half their shoppers disappointed isn‘t the smartest move.

Half? It's a free model, most of the shoppers going into the store are likely buying something else at the same time or they are going to play and a model is a bonus. Asides the real target market isn't people going to the store as shoppers, its people totally new or very new where any free model is already temptation for them to stick around, build, paint and get involved.

When you split a box of 60 models you can't all get the Varghulf.

On the subject of getting more Vargskyr -- is there any reason/bonus to holding onto the game contents of two sets of CC?


Or any market at all for spare parts from it? Cause some of us do have two Vargskyr

 lord_blackfang wrote:
When you split a box of 60 models you can't all get the Varghulf.

Yeah but I doubt any of us thought they'd be handing out the accessories. That'd be like if they got copies of the first major Kill Team box and rather than a Kriegsman or a Kommando you got one of the measuring devices as your free "miniature" of the month.