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Was tempted to pick up an Imperium one but decided against it. I fear it will mostly contain ETB and other stock they want to clear.

Really think they should be a bit more transparent with them if it's stock that is due to be discontinued or replaced in the near future just say so.

Jackal90 wrote:
I’d avoid an AoS one like the plague if you plan on selling it on.
Conquest has nuked the price of a large chunk of stormcasts and nighthaunt line.
I wouldn’t risk the chances of getting something like a box of chainwrasps valued at £25 when they are £8 on eBay.

What's Conquest?

Plunged for an Underworlds box.

Some sort of words.

Saw the article, had my card ready, hit the end of the article.

"fans in the US and Canada won’t be able to take advantage of this offer".

NEVER FETHING MIND.

Nurglitch wrote:
What's Conquest?

The partworks magazine for Age of Sigmar.

I took a punt on the Underworlds one. I never played Underworlds, and the odds seem reasonable it'll be a decent starter. It seems like most of the items don't tend to deprecate too much in pricing either.

The Imperial one just felt like it'd be stacks of old marines.

Nurglitch wrote:

Jackal90 wrote:
I’d avoid an AoS one like the plague if you plan on selling it on.
Conquest has nuked the price of a large chunk of stormcasts and nighthaunt line.
I wouldn’t risk the chances of getting something like a box of chainwrasps valued at £25 when they are £8 on eBay.

What's Conquest?

Warhammer partwork (although the AoS on is actually called Mortal Realms).

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Plunged for an Underworlds box.

If I hadn't burned my wallet in the fires of Indomitus last month I'd have likely gone for that. If they do other army specific ones I might well plug for them.

"Wow! I've always wanted 15 Castellan Creeds!"

Say no to lootboxes kids.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
"Wow! I've always wanted 15 Castellan Creeds!"

So no to lootboxes kids.

They're not all bad. The general "random items with tangential theme" ones are because you tend to get 1 maybe 2 items you'd actually want/find usefuland thus they don't make their values, but the actual focused ones are worth it for fans of that focus. I've gotten a lot of value out of the Halo series Loot Boxes they did.

Was already out of stock when I noticed this in my mailbox.

I would have ordered one just to see whats inside. Even if nothing of interest is in there, selling it at 50% will find it's buyers quickly.

Those of you who went for the Underworlds box, can you please help out a curious Yank and post what you ended up with?

-P

with 100€ and all boxes being the same and Imperium a such wide theme I have no interest, even as a kitbasher

For what it is, I like Mantics way of doing that kind of thing better

 Undead_Love-Machine wrote:

 Orlanth wrote:
Sold out same day. Likely straight to the pockets of resellers.

They really ought to limit runs like these to one per pre-existing account for the first two days, then allow the free for all.

Again, it was one box per customer

Perhaps these things have reached the stage where it needs to be 1 per account, delivery address, billing address, credit card or paypal account.

1 per account, when its not exactly hard to have more than 1, seems like it wouldn't pose a problem to those used to buying up stock.

a_typical_hero wrote:
Was already out of stock when I noticed this in my mailbox.

I would have ordered one just to see whats inside. Even if nothing of interest is in there, selling it at 50% will find it's buyers quickly.

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Though I think I have all models for Underworlds besides the Tzeentch warband available to me if I take my brother's stuff into account. Cards, no, but getting them slightly cheaper would not be that enticing.

The ad says both models and products are included. They wouldn't stick an 8th edition codex in there would they?

 Oaka wrote:
The ad says both models and products are included. They wouldn't stick an 8th edition codex in there would they?

I’d feel a bit cheated if they did, TBH

Blind buy boxes ?

Next theyll be renaming Crusade

 Platuan4th wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
So no to lootboxes kids.

They're not all bad.

Yes. They are. They should be outlawed, or at least, regulated - and in some parts of the world, they are. This is a problem which has plagued video games to the point where game ratings boards have stepped in, and actual legislation is being drawn up. They are a serious blight on gaming, and Games Workshop should be the last company you want to see doing them.

If GW also posted what could potentially be in each box along with an accurate chance of getting it, I'd begrudgingly be okay with it, but as it is, you might as well pick a random Kickstarter product and back it for the highest amount. Your gamble (and it is a gamble) will probably be just as expensive, and just as likely to be marginally better than a coffee table book about cats in silly hats.

They probably gave you a bunch of slow selling dice and card pack....This is pretty much a clearance sell except that you don't get to choose.

Let's hope the 40k box you don't get a bunch of overpriced citadel finecast and metal model, that would be hillarious.

This way closer to Loot Crate than it is to EA's "surprise mechanics". The value of the items in the box is 100% set.

Privateer Press did this when they needed to clear out their warehouse prior to moving HQ and when they needed to shift a lot of old stock to make way for new. I suspect that GW is looking to clear out models and sprues that they want to get rid of

For PP it totally devalued the 2nd hand market for WM/H stuff and undercut stores to a point where it destroyed the last vestiges of goodwill many stores had toward the company as people were just trading bits from the mystery boxes rather than shopping in their FLGS.

 Oaka wrote:
The ad says both models and products are included. They wouldn't stick an 8th edition codex in there would they?

value of 200€:
4 Marine Codizes (SW, BA, DA, SM), SW, BA and DA specific frames (one frame each)
done

perfect value for 100 and no old stock left that won't sell the next months anyway

Well this is unexpected.

Will be a lot of stock they simply can't shift that is likely to be going out soon. As people have already said. 50% of is pretty good. But 50% off junk is really not worth it.

Just not to screw people over they will probably throw something good/new (maybe sisters/admech/primaris) into each of the boxes just to please people and make the rest of the contents seem more palatable.

If there was a zenos version I would consider it but still very unlikely.

 Undead_Love-Machine wrote:

 Oaka wrote:
The ad says both models and products are included. They wouldn't stick an 8th edition codex in there would they?

I’d feel a bit cheated if they did, TBH

Why? They're current valid product, one that'll they'll want to shift stock of. i assumed the Imperial box would have 1 or 2 codex's in, plus some random gak like combat gauges. It certainly won't be 100% models.

Cant wait for the Ynnari one, all the Hellions you could never need

Really wonder what the U/W box could contain, the terrain pack and some sleeves and dice seem certain but that leaves plenty of room for some warbands. Cant imagine it would be a starter set and it doesnt seem likely they would part out bits of previous boxes. if it wasnt for the Antipodes tax I would take a punt.

This looks...a wee bit shady, and it's interesting they don't appear available on the US web store, any links for the US get 404'd.

Paying ~$100 for a box where one has no idea of the contents doesn't fill me with warm fuzzies personally, even if the price off MSRP is huge. I hope those who do take the plunge find the boxes worthwhile.

I don't see why it is "shady." I think it is like a warehouse clearing exercise, which means it is only "necessary" in places where there might be stock that they want to move. The US warehouse likely, since it hasn't seen thing thing offered, is not overstocked to the same degree as the UK one.

I fail to see the "nefarious" aspect here.

Tantalizing mystery? They might as well post a 640x480 out of focus pic of the bits and sprues dumped onto a bedspread and you have a drunken late night ebay nightmare purchase at that price.