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 pities2004 wrote:
Ok so I got a reply from the AoW Dwarf indiegogo stuff,


Avatars of War , SLNE said 2 days ago

Hi rpitts1986,
Yes, the standard bearer is ready to ship.

Cheers!

Thanks for the information, pities... let us know when you (or any other Dakkanaut who is waiting on one) receive it!

Or there will be...



..Trouble.

Scantily-clad female cosplayers? Tell me more...

These seem to be released soon, found them on Warseer:



AoW said that Doomcrushers will also be ready to ship in March.

Both are very nice.

Oh hell yes, I am so converting a Rogue Trader out of that Conquistador-style general. I wish this bloke would sort out some decent support on the production/fulfillment side of his business, the models are stunning but it's a pain waiting around for the small number of online UK retailers that stock AoW to get the new stuff in.

I'm loving both of those models, the Dark Elf is just a massive step up over that horrible Vestal exclusive model. Speaking of the Vestals does anyone know if AoW actually manage to sell out of the sets with the exclusive model? the offer appears to have been removed from their store and every link i find just leads me back to the storefront.

I also finally received both sets of PVC Corruptors a few days ago and they're just fantastic models, they're way more multi-part than AoW's past few PVC dwarf releases with almost every model being completely modular. (The musician torso is the only one that has a pre-attached head.) One thing i did notice though is that the models are roughly 2-3mm smaller that the original Warcast unit, but unless you actually own the original set and put them side by side you really can't tell the difference.

Wasn't there a big complaint about the original Warcast ones being too large to properly rank up? If he shrunk the Corrupters by a little bit then that would make sense.

Would you recommend buying them? I'm considering grabbing them next paycheck to use as evil bad guy allies in some of my evil bad guy armies.

Status report:

AoW on Indiegogo campaign wrote:The different regiments and heroes will be released from August 2012 until January 2013.

 judgedoug wrote:
I skimmed the forums and it appears that he's been shipping out the Standard Bearers a few per day, but there's like 300 of them he needs to do.

Still, a month later, noone with internet access seems to have received one.
On the other hand, AoW is looking for a sales manager
http://www.avatars-of-war.com/esp/foro/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1308
Juanape on Warseer freely translates this as follows:

We seek to incorporate a strongly commercially Sales Manager, to plan, coordinate and execute the business plan of the company.
Reporting to Management, he/she will be responsible for finding and contacting new clients and managing existing clients.
he/she will manage the sales process, from prospecting to closing deals and sales analysis, reporting and achieving business plan and marketing set by the company.
he/she will execute the promotion of the products listed on the basis of the strategy and marketing of the established plan.

Also, the two Dark Elf assassins have arrived at retailers.

That is good news - they BADLY need a business manager of some sort to run things. In fact I think I posted something to that affect before in this thread even.

I skimmed the AoW forums, there are a few people on there that have posted about receiving their BSB. Maybe they are doing the more local ones first?

Also - still no sign/word on the Doomcrushers (not-hammerers IIRC) that were supposed to be previewed in February/released this month.

So I don't recall ever tellings AoW where I lived to receive my BSB.... did I miss a deadline for that or something?

sparkywtf wrote:
So I don't recall ever tellings AoW where I lived to receive my BSB.

I think your indiegogo account provided that address. Otherwise you still have a few years ...

I am also not sure if a single sales manager can get the company on track again. It is not just some PR and communication with customers, it is also a fundamental production issue, be it a lack of motivation, money or infrastructure.

I'll have to check, the only IndieGoGo I've backed was for the chaos dwarf blood bowl pitch recently... but I think it asks for your address as soon as you back, since you also have to pay then, as well. So, there's not a survey like with Kickstarter to get it, iirc...

That would make sense. I wasn't sure if it did that or not... saying that the campaign was forever ago.

So any updates on whether anyone has actually received any of their BSB figures?

Anybody noticed this one?



Now these are hammerers!
They llok great!

Those do look great! But it's mid-April... has no one received their standard bearer yet?

The waist look very odd on the "champion". I hope it's just the angle of the shot. Not too fond either of how the beard is pushed in by the hilt of the weapon, as it would make any kind of conversion harder to complete. But other than that, yeah, these look good.

Nice looking troops. Still no fething sign of my standard bearers.

Just be patient and wait until January 2013

That said, I haven't received my witch elves either

January 2013? You mean I have to wait until it all cycles around again?

 Azazelx wrote:
January 2013? You mean I have to wait until it all cycles around again?

Someone once told me, 'Time is a flat circle.' Everything we've ever done or will do, we're gonna do over and over and over again. And that dwarf standard bearer, you're gonna be waiting for it again and again and again forever.

Waiting for an AoW order is like a Zen meditation.
I heard Godot is also still waiting for his standard bearer

 corgan wrote:
Anybody noticed this one?



Now these are hammerers!
They llok great!

Those look amazing. If AoW ever got their act together, they'd make a lot of money. But there's such significant production bottlenecks that they won't be taken seriously. To be honest, I feel like Felix needs to take on a partner for funding and to manage production and sales, and let Felix focus on making his great looking dwarfs and other models. If they can get the models produced and into the hands of distributors, they'll sell.

Il be ready for whenever they update dwarves in warhammer fantasy. Maybe slightly later.

Erm, they just did ... kind of.

 Kroothawk wrote:
Erm, they just did ... kind of.

Maybe he means the next update in 5 or 6 years? Felix should have most of the Indiegogo Dwarves out by then ...

Schmapdi wrote:

 Kroothawk wrote:
Erm, they just did ... kind of.

Maybe he means the next update in 5 or 6 years? Felix should have most of the Indiegogo Dwarves out by then ...

Probably still be waiting for the BSB.

What happened to that guy who was apparently going to talk to Felix on backers' behalf, and then (apparently) convinced Felix to actually produce the BSB?

I emailed them a couple of days ago and apparently my standard bearer is being shipped out next week. If/when it arrives I'll make sure to get some pictures.