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No for a couple of reasons.

First, I won't have built my bank up enough by that point to even consider buying it.

Second, even if I did have the bank built up enough to justify buying models the cost is more than my allowance for play money for over a full month. I'd rather go out and get coffee with friends a few times tbh.

filbert wrote:Nope - far too expensive for a one-off game that most likely won't get played much.

Hit nail on head.

It will be a failure, so I'm not going to buy it.

Red_Starrise wrote:Probably NOT. I'm tired of how much GW charges for their plastic, it's ridiculous. I mean c'mon, economic downturn? Average consumer has LESS money? We'll RAISE prices! $115 is out of line for what you get, MAYBE if I got 10-15 ships PER side & all the terrain & they'd actually planned on releasing more ships at a reasonable price, MAYBE.

A sea mat from Monday Knight (which is a little bigger but not near as nice: $37.
Islands from GF9, smaller and not as detailed though they are prepainted: 30 a set
Add in 10 big ships and several smaller ones, rules, cards, dice, wind indicator and ruler thingy and I can see where the price is really not that bad for what you get. You may not be happy with it, but they are putting a lot into the box and looking at islands and a game mat from other sources in this case GW does not seem too far from the norm.

I am. Like a boss!

RandomSauce19 wrote:I find Dreadfleet overprice (what a surprise!),especially for the size of the miniatures. Only 25x50mm Bases! What about you guys?

This has probably already been pointed out (perhaps multiple times) but the largest ships are 100mm long... not 50mm. There is a scale shot on the GW blog / "What's new" page.

Edit: Also, to answer the original question: Yes, I pre-ordered it last night. This game seems to be right up my alley and I've been looking forward to it very much.

The pre-order cost for Dreadfleet in the United Kingdom is $70 GBP. This converts to 133.34 NZD.

The pre-order cost for Dreadfleet in the USA is $115 USD. This converts to $138.75 NZD.

The pre-order cost for Dreadfleet in New Zealand is $220 NZD. This converts to $155.45 GBP.

I live in New Zealand.

Will I be playing this game? No... No I will not...

Less weird naval one offs, more BFG support.

> GW limited release
> Waiting for a price drop

I'll be purchasing it. And possibly 2 more, if its decent, one for my nephews to use and one for me to butcher and convert. Just like I did for Space Hulk.

Las wrote:Less weird naval one offs, more BFG support.

Well, the books are free online....and you can always convert you own ships up if you really need that model that they don't make/can't find second hand.

vent wrote:The pre-order cost for Dreadfleet in the United Kingdom is $70 GBP. This converts to 133.34 NZD.

The pre-order cost for Dreadfleet in the USA is $115 USD. This converts to $138.75 NZD.

The pre-order cost for Dreadfleet in New Zealand is $220 NZD. This converts to $155.45 GBP.

I live in New Zealand.

Will I be playing this game? No... No I will not...

This ^ .... I live in Canada, so we get the screw you Canada Tax also. This has been going on for about 10-15 years, so it's nothing new.


Neither Will I. If and thats a big IF, I like the looks of some of the ships and want to paint them. I might buy them singly online.

Space Hulk had scenarios, expandability, and dynamic models. When I got bored of Space Hulk, I converted the models to be used in 40k. Those Blood Angels became my first Space Marine models outside of a boxed set.

Dreadfleet doesn't have that luxury. It's a really expensive and untested board game.

I'd rather buy Twilight Imperium with it's expansions. I'd rather buy Settlers/Carcasonne/Dominion and all their dozens of expansions. It'd be the same price.

vent wrote:The pre-order cost for Dreadfleet in the United Kingdom is $70 GBP. This converts to 133.34 NZD.

The pre-order cost for Dreadfleet in the USA is $115 USD. This converts to $138.75 NZD.

The pre-order cost for Dreadfleet in New Zealand is $220 NZD. This converts to $155.45 GBP.

I live in New Zealand.

Will I be playing this game? No... No I will not...

Wow. Are they actually pushing it there? I make it £115 or $180, but for a single game??

Absolutionis wrote:Space Hulk had scenarios, expandability, and dynamic models. When I got bored of Space Hulk, I converted the models to be used in 40k. Those Blood Angels became my first Space Marine models outside of a boxed set.

Dreadfleet doesn't have that luxury. It's a really expensive and untested board game.

I'd rather buy Twilight Imperium with it's expansions. I'd rather buy Settlers/Carcasonne/Dominion and all their dozens of expansions. It'd be the same price.

Just out of curiosity, what was the expansion for Space Hulk 3rd edition? I seem to have missed that.

As for scenarios, since I haven't seen the rule book for this I can't be sure, but I suspect it too has scenarios.

Dread Fleet may fit your definition of a board game, but it is one on a 5 x3.5 ft mat without spaces/zones/hexes/squares, requires measured movement, and that makes it more similar to a table top game vice aboard game in my mind.

Wait for a price drop??? This isn't a video game folks. This thing doesn't get a 50% price cut when it goes platinum.



Anyway, no, not buying it. No interest (the Ghost and Arabay ships are pretty though).

I thought pretty long about it, and decided to forgo getting Dark Souls and Skyrim(which I was iffy about anyways) and got Dread Fleet instead.

At worst, I end up with a game I get a few plays out of and don't enjoy that I can sell on ebay and recoup some of my expenditure depending on how good of condition I keep everything in.

At best, I end up with a game I get regular play out of with some friends who enjoy Warhammer's universe and imagery, but don't have the time or funds to start an army.

Go ahead and open fire if you want to HBMC.

Why would I open fire Kan? All you said was that you were going to buy it, and then you gave some well reasoned and valid points for doing so.

If you had done what you normally do though, which would be to not only tell us that you're buying it but also find anyone who said anything bad about the game and multi-quote them into exhaustion over how 'wrong' they were, then I might say something. But you didn't, so I won't.

No interest here!

H.B.M.C. wrote:Why would I open fire Kan?

It's been that kind of day.

All you said was that you were going to buy it, and then you gave some well reasoned and valid points for doing so.

This actually makes me feel a lot better about the decision to purchase. They felt like justifications or reasonings when I was writing out the list last night, but it does work out better.

If you had done what you normally do though, which would be to not only tell us that you're buying it but also find anyone who said anything bad about the game and multi-quote them into exhaustion over how 'wrong' they were, then I might say something. But you didn't, so I won't.

Do I really do it that often?

Damn. I need to keep myself from multiquoting.

No, tight month with Skyrim, and needing to get Necrons for the elsest lad at Christmas. So At £70 I'll be skipping it.

It also doesn't quite interest me enough, hell I picked up a complete £1000 Man O War collection about six years ago, which I owned for a year and bit before realising I'd played with it twice and broke it up and sold it for £2500.

If that lot didn't hold my interest, I can't see this doing so. Mainly as Aurelia has zero interest in this kind of naval game, and its no fun playig it on your lonesome.

vent wrote:The pre-order cost for Dreadfleet in the United Kingdom is £70 GBP. This converts to 133.34 NZD.

The pre-order cost for Dreadfleet in the USA is $115 USD. This converts to $138.75 NZD.

The pre-order cost for Dreadfleet in New Zealand is $220 NZD. This converts to £155.45 GBP.

But if you bosh us at rugger too heavily I will rescind my support for NZ gamers and lobby GW to increase your prices further!

Not at that price. Paying that kind of price is just boosting GW's ego. It looks like it should be a $60.00 game.

No won't buy it. if i want to play a ship game i'll go with dystopia as it's fething cheaper. also do not like the models one at all :-(

I was genuinely interested in it, but not at $115. And by the time I can get enough cash to buy it there won't be any more left anyway, because it's "limited edition". So I guess I won't be buying it, but only because GW apparently don't want me to.

canute wrote:It looks like it should be a $60.00 game.

I probably would have paid up to $80 for it. That's still huge for an impulse buy but I could do it and then kick myself for it later.

CptJake wrote:

Norsehawk wrote:no. A one off, game like this doesn't interest me. It looks like it has a whopping 1 ship per force in there, and as such, has limited gameplay. The fact that it is a fire and forget release means that there will be no future releases or expansions to the game. Which means that it's pretty much dead on release.

Man, I know what you mean. Lord forbid anyone ever release a Game In A Box! I got burned on Chess. Only six different pieces! Limited terrain! And NO EXPANSIONS!!!!!

Chess isn't a "limited edition" release, if you ever want to play chess you could go to fething Wal-Mart and get a chess set, and it would also be priced appropriately (I'd be surprised if a plain-old chess set cost more than $20+).

That's how you sell a one-off game in the box with no expansions, make it cheap and available. Don't try to tell me it's a board game and then sell it like a high-priced "limited time only" collectible.

That's what annoys me the most about these releases, what the hell are GW selling? Is it a board game or a collectible? Because most of the time board games are available for longer than a god-damned month, because the people who make them want people to keep buying and playing them. GW says "Nah, feth that brah, just make like 300 boxes and call it good. We'll pay the molds off and then whatever profit we make can go to pay dividends."

96 page rulebook? Even if half of that is fluff, that's still a lot of rules for a casual game, which seems to be what this is marked as.

Not a chance.

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:

vent wrote:The pre-order cost for Dreadfleet in the United Kingdom is £70 GBP. This converts to 133.34 NZD.

The pre-order cost for Dreadfleet in the USA is $115 USD. This converts to $138.75 NZD.

The pre-order cost for Dreadfleet in New Zealand is $220 NZD. This converts to £155.45 GBP.

But if you bosh us at rugger too heavily I will rescind my support for NZ gamers and lobby GW to increase your prices further!

HA! I'll give my friends the All Blacks a call and let them know their role in the situation...

If it were cheaper - maybe. But as it is - ships don't have much draw for me - and the Unchartered Seas stuff will be around if that ever changes.

Had it been in the $75-85 range I might have been tempted. But it's too pricey for impulse buy range - and I don't like being pressured to "buy buy buy it now now now" with the limited edition stuff.

And considering the Super Dungeon Explore box comes out soon with 50+ minis, boards, scenery, etc for $25 cheaper retail, and will be expanded upon, etc. I'll just wait for that

I don't have the money and it does not really interest me.

Trondheim wrote:No, this is not something I intend to wast my money on. It seems like Gw has deveopled a trend of releasing half assed add ons for WHFB lately

Pretty sure GW made it known this year was going to be a year for Fantasy rather than 40k, which is why you're noticing a lot of Fantasy stuff this year. Also, it's as much an add on for Fantasy as Space Hulk was for 40k. Like, it's not an add on.

There's no need to make stuff up to justify not buying something.