Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you:
No adverts like this in the forums anymore.
Times and dates in your local timezone.
Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance.
Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely.
Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net.
If you are already a member then feel free to login now.
This week we looked into the current shipping situation and where that leaves our friends in Europe. As of this report, we do not have an update as to where the remaining items are for European and UK fulfillment. We are working to get more information for our next, regularly scheduled update that will be coming next week. We apologize for the delay and hope to have some good news for you soon.
Still is such a large unknown for months now is just worrying.
I suspect that a lot of what is happening in the world is making it all more complex rapidly.
With books, I find a lot of the stores here continue to under order as well. One I talk too just wasn’t prepared for how big a boost it’s got the last year. And even items they have had sitting for years before hand have now sold out rapidly.
Probably a lot of trying to expand slowly and seeing that all taken up by demand.
There is more YouTube presence I think as well, so it does seem to be growing so I wonder if people are even watching for restocking much more as well.
At least it’s not Pokemon cards!
Lets not forget, for the longest time Battletech was basically big in name, but tiny in market in the model world. Barring a few niche areas it was basically on life support.
The recent boxed sets, plastic and so forth have catapulted it from superniche to mainstream (within scifi wargaming) in a very short span of time. So I can well see local stores under-estimating demand because its just something that never really existed as demand before and now suddenly everyone is wanting to have a go. Plus throw on your caution that it could be a flashfire that dies fast and stores really cannot afford to hold stock for long*
*heck we've seen stores sell GW brand products (AoS launch sets) at wholesale price just to free up cash for faster selling inventory and GW products typically sell at a very healthy rate for the most part.
This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2026/04/12 08:21:56
Battletech News:
- Salvage Box Legends 4/29,
- C-Scale Timberwolf 4/29,
- BFM Volcanic Glacier 4/29,
- Hot Spots Draconis Reach 5/13,
- Map Pack Volcanic and Glacier pushed to 5/27,
- Unknown Item 6/1 (Possible Clan Battle Star),
- Map Pack Magma Fjords 6/24,
- Aces Snowblind 7/1
- Battlefield Support Gothic (Aboms) 7/1 (Maybe)
- New Dropships (Union and Leopard) 6/24,
- Map Pack Umber Station 7/22,
- Battletech Core Box and Core Book 8/5,
- House Steiner Squadron Aerospace Force Pack (8/15) <---maybe,
- Force Manual Marik 8/15 (Suspicious)
- Map Pack Caldera Lake 8/19,
- Map Pack #5 9/30,
- Map Pack Burning Station 10/28,
- Map Pack #7 11/11,
- Mapack #8 11/28
'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'
- Nemesor Zahndrekh of the Sautekh Dynasty Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
Will be keeping an eye out for Draconis Reach, Aces and the Leopard myself.
Curious to see how the Abominations will turn out, they might see use in a future scenario or two much like the job Ace Darwin did in that four-parter, only our crew would be hired for a monster movie.
Fatum Iustum Stultorum 
