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Boxing Day sales start online on Christmas Day.

Sounds more like a UK thing.

Cheers for the lists guys! Very much appreciated!

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Sounds more like a UK thing.

It's really not, IME.

Christmas day, perhaps not - but these run through the boxing day sales.

I will have to look up what I need to get to fill out my Vostroyans for a decent kill team

 Yodhrin wrote:
Since when?

I'm not joking, when did Christmas Day become the biggest day of the year for online sales? Because I do not exaggerate when I say I've literally never known anyone who was buying stuff on Christmas Day. Also; bigger than the January sales? Bigger than Black Friday? Bigger than the start of December when folk are buying loads of presents? Yeah I want to see actual hard data before I buy that one.

Since boxing day sales started a day early online.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Sounds more like a UK thing.

It really isn't.
Everyone is stone broke this time of year.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/8012888/christmas-day-spending-record-1billion-online/

I know that the Sun isn’t a great paper to be quoting but Boxing Day sales so start on Christmas Days and a lot of people do spend. A lot of money with online shopping on Christmas Day. For the last few years Amazon has held a Christmas Day sale. Rise of mobile phones and tablets has made online shopping on the sofa in front of Christmas TV possible.

Did we get an approximate cost for the battalion set?

Aeneades wrote:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/8012888/christmas-day-spending-record-1billion-online/

I know that the Sun isn’t a great paper to be quoting but Boxing Day sales so start on Christmas Days and a lot of people do spend. A lot of money with online shopping on Christmas Day. For the last few years Amazon has held a Christmas Day sale. Rise of mobile phones and tablets has made online shopping on the sofa in front of Christmas TV possible.

To be fair, that article specifically notes Britain, not world wide. So it might be a Brit thing.

And ok, time to flaunt my ignorance, what IS Boxing Day actually? I had always heard of it as essentially Canadian Black Friday, but apparently its a thing in the British Isles too?

Boxing Day is the name of the national holiday held on the day after Christmas Day in the UK and a number of other ex-British Empire and Commonwealth countries.

The UK traditionally does hold some sales on this day although not all shops open. Recently this has become more of a web focused sale although some high street retailers such as Next do still have high profile in store sales as well.

That's so tempting. Too bad I abhor the current 8th, as it is. Maybe, buy and wait for better times

Black Friday is still a lot more in the UK.
So just so people know, last year Christmas Day spending was about £900 million, they project this year to be more, so still a major day.

Black Friday online at certain points in the day had 2000 transactions processing a second.

All businesses I have worked in a way more focused about Black Friday and Jan Sales, and depending on the business their end of season amounts, most of which all top XMAS day totals.


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2017
Christmas: £895 million
Black Friday: £1.39 Billion.

Though this years final stats aren’t out yet, I think Black Friday was a drop overall. And Christmas is projected to rise.

And that’s just UK, could vary elsewhere..

 CragHack wrote:
That's so tempting. Too bad I abhor the current 8th, as it is. Maybe, buy and wait for better times

I second that.
I for one miss the times where an army list with point values was THE way to go...
among other things. I liked 7th a lot. A more now 8th require almost as much as
books as 7th needed, which was a lot.

Anyway nice to see them coming back, even for a short period of time,
the range was nice.

Id have to imagine that when things like this come back, it is something they’d look at when deciding whether to do new versions of things.
A tricky one with IG as there’s lots of uniques, but if we get to a point that they are bringing back or making more regiments, then it may put them on the list..

Glad to see this as an option for those running Guard - probably the most aesthetically "Guard" models ever done (if you go by the fluff).

I was very close on several occasions to starting a Vostroyan force - very glad I didn't, as I would have been caught mid-army when they canceled the line. I don't have funds enough to dive in and buy the army in one-go of course.

Pre orders are up on NZ site. 50 dolleroos for a mini with grenade launcher. Jesus fething... that's nearly 30 euros via direct conversion

In Japanese prices at least, special weapons (one guy) cost exactly the same
as an heavy weapon team!
What price tag is that?!!

Yeah Oz$40 for a dude with a grenade launcher...

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Yeah Oz$40 for a dude with a grenade launcher...

Oh wow I just saw that.

Yeah... I can get these elsewhere. GW can go jump with their prices.

The squad pricing is not bad (guesstimating US prices ). The single figure prices, however, are crazy.

Tempting to pick up to support my knights.

Seriously that sucks, I saw some on ebay a week or so ago, so before this was announced. A fraction compared to this for "ZOMG rare OOP metal limited" etc. items. Hopefully this won't make second hand stuff more expensive now that the official base price is higher.

Individual models are indeed disappointingly expensive. An officer or weapons specialist costs as much as a heavy weapons team.

At least the command squad is cheap, only €5,- more for five models as opposed to €20,- for a single model..!

Just getting a squad (with flamer and heavy bolter team) and command squad for the officer, rest is a bit too expensive for my tastes.

This is indeed highly disappointing because I was mostly in need of single Officers. 100% price hike is not cool.

Anyone able to clarify what exactly is included in the platoon? There should be 26 miniatures + 3 casualties based on the description (and base count), but there are 23 miniatures + 3 casualties in the picture.

The description specifies medic, vox-caster, 3 Sergeants (plus one unique to this set? not pictured?), 4 special weapons Guardsmen, and 2 heavy weapons teams. I guess based on this, the mystery two minis remaining are unlikely to be the rest of the command squad as they would have also been mentioned :(

The platoon deal has:

1 officer with bolt pistol and chainsword
2 sergeants with laspistol
1 medic
1 vox caster
2 plasma guns
1 flamer
1 grenade launcher
1 mortar team
1 lascannon team
12 models with lasgun
3 casualties

Due to wording sometimes a heavy weapons team can be described as one / two models.

Damn, after all that its cheaper to pick them up on ebay for silly money !

Odd that the Platoon pack claims it has one officer / sergeant unique to that set when both of the officers / sergeants it has are available in the small unit packs.

Metal models suck, single model prices really suck, platoon prices also sucketh, but damnit! I want some of these models because reasons..

So I'mma go ahead and order some alright guys?

Are you emailing them about this? It's absurd