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Conquest is coming to Germany these days.
It was released in UK in Sept. 2018. The release is obviously the same as in Germany (overall pic).
There is a fantastic thread about the UK release from Orlanth, but ended after releasing box 22 or so:
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/763369.page

Some experience with the UK release you could share for the German release?

I wish they'd bring this to north America already

The first magazine is fantastic value, you get stuff worth 25€ for 1.99€.

have the subscription here (UK), overall..

well the magazine is split into four sections, the first is fluff/background, its actually pretty decent with some nice artwork, mileage depends how much you care about fluff

the build instructions are exactly what you would expect really

paint guides are interesting though, the schemes shown are for Ultramarines and Deathguard, but not the way they usually do it as its limited to the paints you have, the overall effect looks decent though

scenarios/rules, slightly different to the core of 40k, e.g. being obscured being scatter terrain gives cover, typically very small games though, actually surprisingly good, takes a while fo them to get into 40k profiles as you would recognised them though

as for the models, well neither side are what you coould call an effective army, but its a nice collection with lots of choices within it

I was happy, have got the Sigmar subscription running now off the back of this

Another happy UK subscriber here. I've also bought extras of some issues. Leopard has pretty much summed up the mag. If you want the foundations of a Space Marine or Death Guard army you can't really go wrong with it, especially if you can get extra issues of the good ones locally.

phillv85 wrote:
Another happy UK subscriber here. I've also bought extras of some issues. Leopard has pretty much summed up the mag. If you want the foundations of a Space Marine or Death Guard army you can't really go wrong with it, especially if you can get extra issues of the good ones locally.

But you need a long breath since there are about 80 issues which one needs to keep track of.
With limited time resources this is hardly managable isn't it?

It was good for those of us in the UK as Forbidden Planet put them up for pre-order in batches, and often had photos of the contents long before release. I just checked in every few weeks and pre-ordered a stack of them in batches.

Well, I thought its probably worth to subscribe non-premium from the outset,
and cancel later if I get bored or the stuff gets uninteresting in some way.
But the way Orlanth described the procedure for cancellation is a bit odd.
So I'm hesitating. The 2nd issue will be due at the end of January.

As a pretty happy subscriber, I'd recommend against a Premium subscription unless they've changed it up a bit for release in your country. The UK version amounted to some cards, dice and boxes. The game boards are not bad, but hardly worth it, and especially after seeing the Premium offerings for the Mortal Realms (AOS) equivalent of this, the Conquest ones seem very poor value for money.

Fair warning, they'll stick on some add-ons throughout the subscription as well. Couple of books, binders for the magazine and upcoming a paint set and some more models. The books have been good quality but largely unremarkable (aside from the Art Book actually crediting the artists again) but it's been nice enough to get the branded binders and the impending models/paints looks ok. You can theoretically cancel these additional items in advance, or return them, but I haven't even tried. Some who have, or who have had issues with subscriptions have reported dissatisfaction with Hachette's customer service. I've had one problem, which was quickly and easily solved.

From a hobbying point of view, it might be worthwhile either saving stuff up if you're working on other projects, or holding off doing other stuff and focussing on this lot as they come in. I've been quite lazy, as well as easily distracted, and am looking at a lot of unbuilt models now we're nearing the end of the run.

How do you order individual issues in the UK?

I think it's a pretty good deal, the only reason I'm not splitting it with a marine player is that I'd spend roughly 210€ on Death Guard models (worth ~350€ at GW) that are just the rank&file stuff, like plague marines, cultists, spawns and pox walkers, while I could just get fun units for the same money instead. In addition, I already have many of the characters and few of them are worth fielding more than once.

 wuestenfux wrote:

phillv85 wrote:
Another happy UK subscriber here. I've also bought extras of some issues. Leopard has pretty much summed up the mag. If you want the foundations of a Space Marine or Death Guard army you can't really go wrong with it, especially if you can get extra issues of the good ones locally.

But you need a long breath since there are about 80 issues which one needs to keep track of.
With limited time resources this is hardly managable isn't it?

its certainly a slow build process, if this is all you are getting. What I did was see what was coming and get some other bits quickly to get myself to a small usable force, specifically I got the 'infection node' set, but really a plague marine squad box, possibly two and you are set quickly enough.

actually found the slow burn useful as short of a somewhat prolonged house move I was just about able to build and paint one lot before the next lot arrived.

its definitely better if you want both armies and the terrain, or are splitting it - can imagine its useful for say someone with two sons interested, or collecting and building with a son.. not excluding daughters but experience has shown the don't share well..

you do get a lot of character types and support stuff without much of a core army, what would have been nicer is for a box of plague marines and a box of intercessors (the multi-part ones) to have been part of this, perhaps in place of some of the easy build models or older stuff generally just to give you more of an actual army.

some of the ordering is a bit odd too, but they have written scenarios specifically around what you have, there doesn't seem to be a focus on actually playing anything other than that narrative, e.g. you never get point values, or the actual codex - expected the two codexes to be as a 'pre-subscribed, opt out if you don't want it, extra'