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In an unexpected turn of events, I just walked away from a LGS with the LI cards in my pocket! LGS had plenty of the cards, whereas GW Helsinki had none and no ETA on when they would be getting more..

GW logistics is a giant mess RN

Got my new stuff bright & early this morning.

The marine support units come with a ridiculous number of components for models of this size. Just the Deredeo missile launchers alone are four bits each, and each box makes four of them. These dreads & weapon platforms have consumed most of my free time today, with some still left to do tomorrow.

Spartans are definitely my favourite part of this release. Big and chunky tanks with plenty of detail, fun to assemble and a nice successor to the old 1-piece epic land raiders. Looking forward to opening up the valdor/infernus box next.

Spartans also come with Multi-Melta Pintel weapons. Enough to equip the entire box.

More importantly, they seem to be the same fitting as the Rhino kit, neatly part solving a scarcity issue.

Sprues of the Spartan and the Malcador have 2024 Time Marks.

Also, having built my first box of them, careful clipping the Sponsons. I knocked the end off one of each.

Not a deal breaker as we have options within the box. But if you’re wanting four with Laser Destroyer or four with Quad Lascannons, go easy and take care. They are fragile, but nothing a bit of care can’t handle.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Also, having built my first box of them, careful clipping the Sponsons. I knocked the end off one of each.

Not a deal breaker as we have options within the box. But if you’re wanting four with Laser Destroyer or four with Quad Lascannons, go easy and take care. They are fragile, but nothing a bit of care can’t handle.

Thanks for the heads up! I received some of my stuff, but didn't start assembling anything yet.

I’d probably recommend using a hobby knife on those parts, as I think it’s the forward pressure created by my clippers that ruined it.

Certainly in future I’ll use my hobby knife to free up the barrel ends.

Apparently LI preorders went up in Oz today. I didn't know they were going up and didn't check until the evening, most of it seems to be still available but the cards are gone. Astartes Supports and the book are still available from GW themselves for people who want to burn money, but most of the independents have sold out of them.

Oh well, I think I'm done with LI for now, see where it goes and come back to it if things improve, going back to old editions.

Still waiting for my order. Oh well hopefully Monday. Royal mail is not too reliable here. Just got a letter first class today posted near me and delivery time from postmark is 11 days.

Oof!

I’m expecting my book Monday or Tuesday. I’m expecting my two additional Legion Support…who knows!

I ordered from Element, who sent me a courtesy email to advise there’s been a delay. Whilst vague (understandably so, just in case) it suggests their overall shipment is due next week. But it could be GW stiffed them on the order.

Seems like GW frequently does that to independent stores. If I'm really desperate and excited about something I get it delivered to my nearest GW store. Case in point the new HH SA box.

Got my LI Stuff 4 Days earlier...

Mostly wanting the books now. I nabbed a set of the cards so I can pass them on to someone who’s keen.

But for now I’ve used them to get an idea of how I wanted to assemble my Spartans. Which I’ve done.

The cards for me don’t work as well as seeing a Detachment’s options on the page. So with the book arriving tomorrow, I should be able to plan the ongoing shape of my army.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Mostly wanting the books now. I nabbed a set of the cards so I can pass them on to someone who’s keen.

But for now I’ve used them to get an idea of how I wanted to assemble my Spartans. Which I’ve done.

The cards for me don’t work as well as seeing a Detachment’s options on the page. So with the book arriving tomorrow, I should be able to plan the ongoing shape of my army.

For me spartans was easy. 2 of each sponson I like variety. Laser destroyers got heavy bolters on principle of some point defence good on short range while quad las got lascannon hull weapon to maximize range.

For malcadors went with lascannon sponson on neutron blaster and autocannon on flamers. Again variety.

I figured the infantry I’ll be filling them with will be the point defence I need.

Well, that was a pleasant surprise.
I got everything I ordered at 1 shop except 1 box of Spartans & my pack of cards.
(Overall the shop was only shorted 3 boxes of Spartans & my cards)

So I just called up the next local shop, confirmed they had both Spartans & cards and had them held for me.
I had my entire order, now spread between 2 shops, by dinner time.

And then it was on to building many tiny tiny support weapons.

Got most of my order from GW today. Oddly 1 box of Spartans marked as coming separately.

Element have an expected dispatch date of tomorrow for my Legion Support.

Not gonna hold them to it, as I appreciate it’s largely out of their hands.

Had a longer telephone call with my best friend....

We speculated if GW maybe bring the Stormhammer as a Resin-Hybrid Kit with the Plastic Baneblade Sprue as basic modell, that they maybe bring (after those "bad" plastic Marines) other Mk Types and Tartaros in Resin and if the next release wave brings Artillery for the Solar Auxilia and missing Warplanes and Titans.

Another Topic was the introduction of Characters and how they could work.

RazorEdge wrote:

We speculated if GW maybe bring the Stormhammer as a Resin-Hybrid Kit with the Plastic Baneblade Sprue as basic modell,

Games Workshop wrote:
They’ll be available soon in plastic!

Why speculate about resin-plastic hybrid kits when GW already said what the material will be?

tneva82 wrote:

Games Workshop wrote:
They’ll be available soon in plastic!

Why speculate about resin-plastic hybrid kits when GW already said what the material will be?

To be fair, that part about plastic was edited into the article a day or two afterwards. We spent a while discussing it (and social media responses) in this thread.

I guess WarCom got sick of those questions because not long later they started to include "FW resin" or "plastic" in every new model announcement.

besides, its the internet, pointless speculation is part of the point, that a memes featuring cats

ccs wrote:
Well, that was a pleasant surprise.
I got everything I ordered at 1 shop except 1 box of Spartans & my pack of cards.
(Overall the shop was only shorted 3 boxes of Spartans & my cards)

So I just called up the next local shop, confirmed they had both Spartans & cards and had them held for me.
I had my entire order, now spread between 2 shops, by dinner time.

And then it was on to building many tiny tiny support weapons.

My pre-order has not shipped from GW yet. Still shows in process. Anyone else in the US received their pre-order of cards and book from GW?

Just got the tracking this morning, to be here by the end of the week; jives the "we're going to be slow in shipping" announcement as they try to update their warehouse.

 Krinsath wrote:
Just got the tracking this morning, to be here by the end of the week; jives the "we're going to be slow in shipping" announcement as they try to update their warehouse.

GW site is bananas at the moment. A huge chunk of items are Temporarily Out Of Stock on their site and that's not just LI but other areas as well.

Gw has had stock issues since 2020. Not site related,

Happens when demand outstrips supply.

It’s definitely worse recently.

I don’t think it’s their website though. All that really has to do with it is accurately reflecting availability. Not just “yes it’s in stock”, but ideally no more “no longer available” when it’s a case of “sold out but more coming”.


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Element has now shifted to expected 8 March.

Again for clarity this isn’t a criticism of Element, as it’s out their hands.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
It’s definitely worse recently.

I don’t think it’s their website though. All that really has to do with it is accurately reflecting availability. Not just “yes it’s in stock”, but ideally no more “no longer available” when it’s a case of “sold out but more coming”.


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Element has now shifted to expected 8 March.

Again for clarity this isn’t a criticism of Element, as it’s out their hands.

Definitely their new warehousing/stock controlling system. There's been a steady flow of rumblings over the last year or so over the problems it's causing them...

Orders at both FLGS not delivered due to GW not supplying. One (two dread boxes) no news, other (one box spartans) saying they've been told their $2k order was canceled completely, one time item, no restock, maybe in 6-9 months. Kinda kicking my enthusiasm in the knees.

somewhat sad really, its hard to see the game surviving this utter fiasco of a launch