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 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
Maybe it was a leak test? Trying to figure out where leaked info was coming from? Or to see if there was lots of interest in bundles from us unwashed masses.

That suggests that GW does market research, which history has shown they don't do.

True, the latter was really my attempt to not seem like a tin foil hat wearing conspiracy theorist suggesting that GW is engaging in full on counter intelligence operations

 Aerethan wrote:
GW Belgium can no longer be trusted.

The only way they can make this up to us is to send us all a Belgian chocolate Land Raider.

MMMmmmmm belgian chocolate Land Raider... what a way to die!

Minx wrote:
From warseer:
"[Niezck] There's a reply on their facebook page saying it's been delayed."

"[The bearded one] Yes, it's been delayed. My local GW manager and the regional manager (he happened to pop in) said there was some internal miscommunication/chaos, so it will be delayed, possibly 'till christmas."

So in other words, the Christmas bundles aren't coming til Christmas.

What. A. Shocker.

A little birdie tells me there's actual info on GW bundles coming soon...

I think we'll have that news any second now, in this thread.

Right?

Faeit 212 inbox wrote:Hello Natfka,
I have received an update from a source within Games Workshop, an email was sent out to all store managers informing them to advertise these bundles, however this was promptly followed by an update model to abandon this message (It may be noticed that the facebook pages have disappeared), due to a shortage of stock to fulfill these bundles.

It has been stated that we can expect these before the end of Nov 2012.

Regards,
Unforgiven...

Bundles seem to be covered in the new November WD:

Kurl Veranek over at Warseer wrote:New Bundles are:

SM

2X tactical squad
1X command squad
1X Commander
1X scouts
1X LandraiderCrusader
1X Ironclad
1X Razorback
1X Droppod

Necrons
1X Walker
1X Bark
1X Glider
6X Jetbikes
1X Spider
2X Worriors (24)
1X Extinctors
6X Scarabs

Vamps
1X Dragon
1X Shrine
1X Corpscart
1X Vargheists/Crypt (3)
1X Zombies (20)
1X Skeletons 20
1X Ghules 10
1X Knights 5
1X Necromancer

Empire
1X Karl Franz
1X Hellfire
1X Shrine
1X Knights 10
1X Commander/BSB
1X Spearmen 20
1X Greatswords 10
1X Technicus

Ah forgot the prices:

Empire: 195€
Vamps: 200€
SM: 200€
Necrons 200€

Oh, and Kroothawks are indeed birdies

Thanks Kroot!

For Empire, what's a "Technicus"?

And Engineer?

And necron "extinctors" should be immortals, I suppose?

Oh my, that 'Cron bundle is quite tempting indeed!

Pity they aren't doing bundles for all the armies. But I could get sold on Necrons price point depending. Add a standard battle force to that and you have lots of death robots to throw at anything with a pulse.

 Kroothawk wrote:

Faeit 212 inbox wrote:Hello Natfka,
I have received an update from a source within Games Workshop, an email was sent out to all store managers informing them to advertise these bundles, however this was promptly followed by an update model to abandon this message (It may be noticed that the facebook pages have disappeared), due to a shortage of stock to fulfill these bundles.

It has been stated that we can expect these before the end of Nov 2012.

Regards,
Unforgiven...

Bundles seem to be covered in the new November WD:

Kurl Veranek over at Warseer wrote:New Bundles are:

SM

2X tactical squad
1X command squad
1X Commander
1X scouts
1X LandraiderCrusader
1X Ironclad
1X Razorback
1X Droppod

Empire: 195€
Vamps: 200€
SM: 200€
Necrons 200€

Oh, and Kroothawks are indeed birdies

By my calculations the SM bundle would cost 284.5 Euros if buying them seperately. A saving of about £60-£70? I'm rather impressed.

Eh, I think I am good on SM kits for while. And these being direct only kind of kills it for me. Last time with the FLGS discount on top of the built in GW savings, it was like 45% off the individual prices. That was too good to pass up. This, I can pass on.

The source is a german WD, so the hand made transations by the poster can be off sometimes.
Technicus is Engineer, Extinctors are Immortals.

$260 isn't terrible though some quick adding comes to 1137 points with a little guess work on my part. My guesses after the "-" mark.

Necrons
1X Walker - Triarch Stalker
1X Bark - Doomsday Barge
1X Glider - Doom Scythe
6X Jetbikes - Tomb Blades
1X Spider - Canoptech Spyder
2X Worriors (24)
1X Immortals
6X Scarabs - 2x 3 scarab bases.

And it's worth noting the bundle doesn't come with a HQ if you're like me and enjoy being able to pick up a set and play.

Meanwhile the SM force a legal list out of the box clocking in at a nicely expandable 1090 points without any upgrades

For Necrons it's approximately $353 retail assuming Bark is a barge and not an Ark. $365 if it's an ark instead of a barge. That's a savings of over $100. Almost 30%. That's not to bad for GW. Even better if they don't direct only them but either way, it's not to shabby. Better than their normal "bundles".

hmm. contents of the necron bundle are GBP 169,40 incl. shipping from wayland - that's €210. (this is all assuming an ark, not a barge)
€10 savings, but you don't get to choose which kits you want. remember, it's direct only, so you don't get the discounts.
not sure how it'll break down for ROW buyers, but I can't see there being much of a savings over discounters.

Kind of disappointed that it's only for a couple of armies, unless there are more that haven't been announced yet.
The thing about bundle deals like this is that it doesn't take much effort on GW's part to create them (take existing boxes of stuff, place in larger box to hold all of them, profit). So why only a few armies?

 Tannhauser42 wrote:
Kind of disappointed that it's only for a couple of armies, unless there are more that haven't been announced yet.

To be fair, it's the same number of sets they did last year.

 Tannhauser42 wrote:
Kind of disappointed that it's only for a couple of armies, unless there are more that haven't been announced yet.
The thing about bundle deals like this is that it doesn't take much effort on GW's part to create them (take existing boxes of stuff, place in larger box to hold all of them, profit). So why only a few armies?

I'll see you and raise you.

Why not do this for all the armies, all the time?!
While it would devalue the starter sets a bit, it would lower the barrier to entry just a little bit, and would make an awesome Xmas or birthday present for younger players.

Oh, right, it's because GW minis are so awesome they don't DO sales. *facepalm*

If only they had done a chaos one.

And here I was hoping for a SoB bundle...

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
And here I was hoping for a SoB bundle...

don't mock us and our metal minis! Despised by the GW overlords, cast away into shadow to never take table top in a modern update again

I'm confused about the term bundles. These seem to be like the boxed armies they had last year around Christmas, albiet with different kit. Is that what this is or are these separate things?

Not sure what a "Shrine" is for the vampires.



Everything else adds up to $291.5 if you bought it individually as opposed to the budle price of $318. So I'm guessing one of the following is true.

The "Knights" are blood knights as opposed to black knights (which is what I originally figured) then the cost of everything seperately would be $357.50, so you would save $40.

If the shrine ends up being the coven throne/mortis engine then the cost of everything seperate would be 419.5, which would be just over $100 in saveings.

Seeing that $100 in savings is what Hulk got with his maths I'm guessing it's the right one.

 Kroothawk wrote:
The source is a german WD, so the hand made transations by the poster can be off sometimes.
Technicus is Engineer, Extinctors are Immortals.

What's a "Necron Bark"? I assume a barge?


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 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
Maybe it was a leak test? Trying to figure out where leaked info was coming from? Or to see if there was lots of interest in bundles from us unwashed masses.

Depending on price here in NZ, might pick up the necron one, with what we assume is the CCB/annihalation barge kit, would make a nice legal army straight out the box.

Although would never really use the stalker, and one spyder? Would also prefer more immortals, jetbikes are cool. Again would depend on the price here.

Although, in NZ you can still buy the dark eldar and marine ones from last time, so dark eldar or necrons for my second army...

Just to play devil's advocate...

It would not be the first time that GW has fed misinformation to what they consider suspects and see what happens.

In fact the marine one is almost identical to last years megaforce, just a razorback instead of a speeder storm.

tuiman wrote:
In fact the marine one is almost identical to last years megaforce, just a razorback instead of a speeder storm.

Thats what I'm thinking, That this just might be this years Megaforce.

 Kanluwen wrote:
Just to play devil's advocate...
It would not be the first time that GW has fed misinformation to what they consider suspects and see what happens.

But they don't distribute fake WDs containing the bundle description

 Kroothawk wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
Just to play devil's advocate...
It would not be the first time that GW has fed misinformation to what they consider suspects and see what happens.

But they don't distribute fake WDs containing the bundle description

Really Kan - no need to break all the pills in half!