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Khorne Veteran Marine with Chain-Axe




Mississippi

My flgs has recently started stocking GW products, though just 40k since that's all we play. The owner was just ordering stuff for my friends and myself, but lately alot of new players are starting armies. He was asking me today what products he should stock. So what would be some kits that would be a good idea to keep on stock? I'm guessing generic marine kits like rhinos and tacticals, but what about other armies?
   
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Sniping Reverend Moira





Cincinnati, Ohio

I'd go mostly with troop choices and dedicated transports, so ill go through the armies I know:

Blood angels -- assault squads, tac squads, rhinos, razorbacks
Space wolves -- grey hunters, tac squads, rhinos, razorbacks, drop pods
Necrons - warriors, immortals, arks, barges, scythes
Tau - fire warriors, kroot, devil fish
GK -- strike squads, terminator squads, rhinos, land raiders
IG - infantry, command squad, chimeras, Valkyries

That's really a basic starting place, but between all those kits you should have good starters for those armies. Hopefully someone else can chime in on the others.

 
   
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Decrepit Dakkanaut





The Golden Throne

Some battle force boxes, the different codexes, troop choices, fliers, some HQ choices. Marines will always be safe. Don't underestimate the spontaneous buy opportunity. 6th edition allies have opened up lots of opportunity for retailers.
   
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Master Tormentor





St. Louis

The stockist level SKUs are honestly the best place to start. Covers the basics for each army, and gets the store free product as well. His rep should be able to let him know what the full requirements for being a stockist store are.
   
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Tough-as-Nails Ork Boy





USA

He should also have maybe 1 named character and one generic character for each army.

Ex: Typhus and Chaos Lord for CSM

Another idea is to have a small amount of terrain in stock.

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Pulsating Possessed Space Marine of Slaanesh






He should stock Dark Vengeance.


 Gentleman_Jellyfish wrote:
Cue all the people saying "This is the last straw! Now I'm only going to buy a little bit every now and then!"
 
   
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Ian Pickstock




Nottingham

 cincydooley wrote:

IG - infantry, command squad, chimeras, Valkyries

I don't think a flgs should stock a £40 model that requires another £20 kit to be usable. Russ varients, of either flavour, would be of more use than a Valkyrie.

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Birmingham, UK

 BryllCream wrote:
 cincydooley wrote:

IG - infantry, command squad, chimeras, Valkyries

I don't think a flgs should stock a £40 model that requires another £20 kit to be usable. Russ varients, of either flavour, would be of more use than a Valkyrie.


Cause making extra money is bad?

Valks/vendettas are the fotm - rape and pillage peoples pockets.
   
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Fixture of Dakka






Dorset, Southern England

Yeah, but then again, it isn't worth stocking FW in store...

I would say Codexes, a few troops, one or two Elites or FA, a small selection of vehicles and a few characters.

Plus Dark Vengeance.

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Birmingham, UK

Battle forces+ codexes.

Stock the basic boxes for growth.

Characters and blisters for add ons.

Oh, some third party bits and kits for extra goodness.

   
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Ian Pickstock




Nottingham

 Mr. Burning wrote:
 BryllCream wrote:
 cincydooley wrote:

IG - infantry, command squad, chimeras, Valkyries

I don't think a flgs should stock a £40 model that requires another £20 kit to be usable. Russ varients, of either flavour, would be of more use than a Valkyrie.


Cause making extra money is bad?

Valks/vendettas are the fotm - rape and pillage peoples pockets.

...Power gamer WAAC types are the exception, not the norm. I think most people would rather spend £30 on a Russ, that they can make any of six varients of (if you had both boxes), than £40 on a flyer, then order a kit from Forgeworld for £20 more, all for a unit that they can only have one or two of before their friends start hating them.

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Ork-Hunting Inquisitorial Xenokiller





The Death From The Skies supplement?


All Politikal jokes aside,
I'd say army books battleforces and some character packs. Perhaps have them next to the other wargames you may stock for shelf attraction

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Decrepit Dakkanaut





The Golden Throne

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 Mr. Burning wrote:
 BryllCream wrote:
 cincydooley wrote:

IG - infantry, command squad, chimeras, Valkyries

I don't think a flgs should stock a £40 model that requires another £20 kit to be usable. Russ varients, of either flavour, would be of more use than a Valkyrie.


Valks/vendettas are the fotm - rape and pillage peoples pockets.


Thats been the flavor since 5th edition.

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Crushing Black Templar Crusader Pilot





Minnesota

From the newer store in my area (no longer new I suppose now), he found the best thing to stock is everything except blisters. You never know what people are going to buy and not having it will discourage sales.

It really depends though on the amount of people you have. If there is enough new people to sustain the wall start getting more product and keep the wall full.

The only thing he doesn't stock is blisters. He will order them, and put the others on the wall when he gets them, but he doesn't go out of his way to sell them. Terrain is always nice too, but it doesn't sell often. Maybe get him to buy a few boxes to invest in store buildings.

   
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 cincydooley wrote:
Tau - fire warriors, kroot, devil fish


For Tau I'd just stock FW and Crisis suits, and of course the Broadside conversion kit. Devilfish and Kroot don't see much table time anymore.

Also I'd suggest the ADL and Bastion sets.

Probably want to stay away from battleforce sets.

I'm expecting an Imperial Knights supplement dedicated to GW's loyalist apologetics. Codex: White Knights "In the grim dark future, everything is fine."

"The argument is that we have to do this or we will, bit by bit,
lose everything that we hold dear, everything that keeps the business going. Our crops will wither, our children will die piteous
deaths and the sun will be swept from the sky."
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Minnesota

 Savageconvoy wrote:
 cincydooley wrote:
Tau - fire warriors, kroot, devil fish


For Tau I'd just stock FW and Crisis suits, and of course the Broadside conversion kit. Devilfish and Kroot don't see much table time anymore.

Also I'd suggest the ADL and Bastion sets.

Probably want to stay away from battleforce sets.


I think a big mistake a FLGS can make is to not have something available because it doesn't see table time anymore. If someone were to ask if something is worth it, you can say it doesn't have much time, but you would be shooting yourself in the foot if you don't stock things that aren't used regularly. Also don't call someone's purchase stupid because it doesn't fit your meta. Pushing away customers because something isn't tournament worthy makes you a horrible customer (or store owner).

I still don't think you should stock blisters though (unless they are something used often. If every tau army needed something in that blister, maybe stock one or two).

What they should stock comes down to how close is another store and how far are the customers coming from. My flgs stocks a ton of stuff because he often has customers driving an hour to 2 hours to get a kit. He only has one chance to have what they want, they won't be making a second trip in a week just to get a few kits. Also have a policy in place for people to order. The owner used to just write it down without writing who it was for. Now everyone gets a restraunt ticket with what they ordered and he keeps a name and number, plus posts on the 40k groups facebook page to tell people when items are in.

   
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Fixture of Dakka







Plus, you never know what will happen with future releases... Especially if say, Tau are just a few months away. You don't want to get stuck with stock you have to send back.

In all honesty, and thinking realistically, not just competitive environments.

Dark Vengeance
Battleforces
Codexes
Paint Set
5 man troop boxes. (the wee packs)

Then start expanding into some of the 'show off' boxes, like the flyers (though stay away from the storm raven / storm talon and the ork flyers)) or the land raiders.
   
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Longtime Dakkanaut





Battle Forces + a mix of HQ/Elite/FA/Heavy Support/Transports for the rest of the armies. They don't need to have everything, but at least need variety.

Also any new models. Which is a problem at my FLGS recently because many of the new GW models are so overpriced/bad that nobody is buying them and they're dusting on the shelves.

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Fireknife Shas'el






sparkywtf wrote:
I think a big mistake a FLGS can make is to not have something available because it doesn't see table time anymore. If someone were to ask if something is worth it, you can say it doesn't have much time, but you would be shooting yourself in the foot if you don't stock things that aren't used regularly. Also don't call someone's purchase stupid because it doesn't fit your meta. Pushing away customers because something isn't tournament worthy makes you a horrible customer (or store owner).


Except that I've seen the same ethereal, sniper drone team, vespid, and devilfish boxes stocked up at my FLGS for the last 2 years. When people came in wanting to buy Tau the local players or shop workers directed them to what people played and what was good instead of what should be sold.

I'm trying to find out where I called something stupid, but somebody must have gone in and erased that part of my post because it's not there.

And it's not my meta, it's the Tau meta. The army is old and only has a few viable units in one decent build. I'm not cherry picking units, it's what actually sees table time because everything else can't stand on it's own. I'm just suggesting what people are going to be looking to buy because it's what they're going to want to play. There will always be the occasional player that wants to get one of each for the full set or just wants to paint something, in that case go ahead and buy one of each for everything available and let it collect dust on the shelves.

I also suggested units that won't sit on the shelf because of the "impending" Tau update. Which isn't really a good way to go with the GW super secret release dates. When the new books hit, expand a bit. When Tau get revamped go ahead and order the vespid kits, because somebody might want them. Just don't go overboard and order 18 Mutilator kits. Somehow the local store managed to sell 5, which is 3 more than I would have expected.

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I'm expecting an Imperial Knights supplement dedicated to GW's loyalist apologetics. Codex: White Knights "In the grim dark future, everything is fine."

"The argument is that we have to do this or we will, bit by bit,
lose everything that we hold dear, everything that keeps the business going. Our crops will wither, our children will die piteous
deaths and the sun will be swept from the sky."
-Tom Kirby 
   
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Minnesota

Sorry I should have made it somewhat more clear. You didn't call something stupid.

   
 
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