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It sounds like most of your issues emminate from a crap FLGs and enay scalpers rather than any idea of the actual games.

Space hulk was/is a good game and must have exceeded all GWs expectations on sales or they wouldn't have bothered with dreadfleet.

I suspect they only did dreadfleet to spread out the classics. WHQ next I'll wager.

 notprop wrote:
It sounds like most of your issues emminate from a crap FLGs and enay scalpers rather than any idea of the actual games.

Space hulk was/is a good game and must have exceeded all GWs expectations on sales or they wouldn't have bothered with dreadfleet.

I suspect they only did dreadfleet to spread out the classics. WHQ next I'll wager.

The new SpaceHulk is an ok game and a good game with a few house rules, however it was crap releasing it as a ltd edition and then screwing up the allocation of stock. My local GW had stacks of copies piled up in the window while people in other areas had none also as a ltd edition there was bound to be a problem with resellers(Hopefully most of them got burned by Dreadfleet instant karma).
In regards to exceeding expectations that was not hard they made a small ltd run and sold them all which I guess was exactly what they planned.

I would not bet on the next game if there is one being WHQ it will most likely be Blood Bowl partly because it's a no brainer for them since it's easy to box up and also out of spite due to Mantic releasing a new sports game.

If the regular Blood Bowl league going strong for 5 years straight at my local GW Bunker is anything to go by, its probably a safe bet. We all know they only sell stuff they expect to be super popular, right?

 notprop wrote:

Space hulk was/is a good game and must have exceeded all GWs expectations on sales or they wouldn't have bothered with dreadfleet.

I suspect they only did dreadfleet to spread out the classics. WHQ next I'll wager.

Dreadfleet must have been very much advanced (most, if not all the minis done) before Space Hulk was released.

 Micky wrote:
We all know they only sell stuff they expect to be super popular, right?

Doesn't explain Dreadfleet though.

People make mistakes?