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 conker249 wrote:
 Shandara wrote:
Well if they don't allow purchases they won't have to cast any up.

I don't like it...

That's very disheartening. Stunned about seeing the missing models starting to dwindle.


Ooooh, it better be because they are gonna announce a fantastic and absolutely amazing new SoB line filled with new plastic casts!

... and then I wake up from that dream...

Damn it Raging-Heroes, show us your "SoB" kickstarter already, all hope seems to be lost when it comes to GW

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 Furyou Miko wrote:
They probably finally sold out of stock on that one.
Weird, it doesn't say unavailable in the US site...

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 Melissia wrote:
 Furyou Miko wrote:
They probably finally sold out of stock on that one.
Weird, it doesn't say unavailable in the US site...

Obviously you guys still have them in stock, then.

You lucky gaks.

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How could it be in stock in the US and not in the UK? I thought all orders came from the UK?

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I have no clue, but the site says:

Availability:
This product is expected to despatch within four weeks.
Part Code: 99060108093

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 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
How could it be in stock in the US and not in the UK? I thought all orders came from the UK?

No idea. I'm switching between the UK and US site, and the US site has all the Seraphim Superiors avaliable for order.

Interestingly, I tried the Netherlands site, and all Superiors are visible, but one of them is out of stock.

K, I've tried a different versions of the GW site, and this seems to be isolated to the Seraphim Superiors, Kyrinov and that Preacher with a sword. Weird.

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 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
How could it be in stock in the US and not in the UK? I thought all orders came from the UK?


They have a separately stocked warehouse in Memphis, TN they ship from. Based on the fact most of my orders from there ship same day or next day, they must have a large stock there.

I heard (but have not confirmed) all production is done in the UK. I assume it is then disseminated to its shipping warehouses in other countries and the sites list their stocks separately.

You may be able to still order from their other sites. I know amazon allows this, but GW shipping system seems somewhat archaic.

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Your best bet is to make friends with someone in a country that still has them (what a coincidence... hey, Melissia? You know you love me... j/k) and have them buy the models for you, then send them the money for the kit and the cost of postage from their residence to the UK... because I guarantee you they can get it sent over for cheaper than GW, if GW even allow this sort of thing.



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In such a theoretical exchange, I'm sending you a present in the form of minis, and you're sending me a cash present. We're just exchanging gifts. GW can bite it

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I cant believe how fast the RH kickstarter got up off the ground, we have been saying it for ages, but seriously.. GW must just hate money, because a new line of sisters would make a fething killing.

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 mattyrm wrote:
I cant believe how fast the RH kickstarter got up off the ground, we have been saying it for ages, but seriously.. GW must just hate money, because a new line of sisters would make a fething killing.


They do hate money.
They give it to legal teams and fight (and practically lose) IP court cases instead.

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 ascended_mike wrote:
 mattyrm wrote:
I cant believe how fast the RH kickstarter got up off the ground, we have been saying it for ages, but seriously.. GW must just hate money, because a new line of sisters would make a fething killing.


They do hate money.
They give it to legal teams and fight (and practically lose) IP court cases instead.



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 ascended_mike wrote:
 mattyrm wrote:
I cant believe how fast the RH kickstarter got up off the ground, we have been saying it for ages, but seriously.. GW must just hate money, because a new line of sisters would make a fething killing.


They do hate money.
They give it to legal teams and fight (and practically lose) IP court cases instead.


They don't hate money; they just love paying their lawyers. The fact that money is lost is merely an unintentional consequence.

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RH is hard to compare as well. If GW launched plastic sob and only sold 400k worth, they'd probably consider it a failure.

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400k is just their KS funding, and the backers aren't getting a full army of models, just a handful of whatever sculpts they choose out of the list.

I think, sometime next year, when the actual sculpts are in production, there's going to be a lot of the TGG sculpts showing up on wargaming tables, either as custom ICs or perhaps, especially, as specific specialist units for IG/IG-like units.

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It bears mentioning that none of RH's kickstarter models are Sisters of Battle. They're all Lady IGuard. IGuard being anarmy that has sold substantially more armies and has a significantly higher market share than Sisters.

There's a lot of false supposition going on here.

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A letter from Game Workshop to fans of Sisters of Battle: (not really, but might as well be.)

Dear Sisters of Battle Fans. We will not be revamping, updating, expanding or looking at this particular army. We hate sisters and don't care that you like them. We made a grotesquely expensive army that's hard to collect, convert and play, and yet you still buy them...which is proof that we don't need to make them.
So, in short, we don't care.

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 Veteran Sergeant wrote:
It bears mentioning that none of RH's kickstarter models are Sisters of Battle. They're all Lady IGuard. IGuard being anarmy that has sold substantially more armies and has a significantly higher market share than Sisters.

There's a lot of false supposition going on here.


They are however due to do a Space Nuns Kick Starter at some stage.


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 MWHistorian wrote:
A letter from Game Workshop to fans of Sisters of Battle: (not really, but might as well be.)

Dear Sisters of Battle Fans. We will not be revamping, updating, expanding or looking at this particular army. We hate sisters and don't care that you like them. We made a grotesquely expensive army that's hard to collect, convert and play, and yet you still buy them...which is proof that we don't need to make them.
So, in short, we don't care.

Games Workshop.
"Because you suck and we hate you."


Seems Legit.

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 Veteran Sergeant wrote:
It bears mentioning that none of RH's kickstarter models are Sisters of Battle. They're all Lady IGuard. IGuard being anarmy that has sold substantially more armies and has a significantly higher market share than Sisters.

There's a lot of false supposition going on here.


RH has announced a "Space Nuns" model line to follow TGG and their Victorian/Steampunk series, which might, depending on appearance, be suitable stand-ins.

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They don't seem to be converting them to finecast so are just using up metal stocks. They have made them so expensive that they can't sell very many at all. The most basic sisters are 3 for £11 on the UK site and you get a random selection, which is a crappy way to sell figures. It's exactly the fethed up approach they took with specialist games meaning you can't choose the variants you want, thus making the product even less appealing because every purchase is a lucky dip.

I think they'll just run the stocks down and let them go OOP, no announcement, just let them disappear, like they did with Specialist Games.

The issue isn't that they think they won't make money (sisters will sell), it's probably that they think they won't make *enough* money. They look at this range and ask, how much will it make compared to another Space Marine release. If they don't see guaranteed big money they won't do it. Of course, that they're currently selling a range of old figures at stupid prices makes this easy to justify due to their poor performance.

They're a lovely army but GW just don't take risks with their game or do things that aim at the less popular parts of the game particularly that largely supported by veterans. They'd rather do another obviously popular army with a few big price plastic kits.
   
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 Howard A Treesong wrote:
They don't seem to be converting them to finecast so are just using up metal stocks. They have made them so expensive that they can't sell very many at all. The most basic sisters are 3 for £11 on the UK site and you get a random selection, which is a crappy way to sell figures. It's exactly the fethed up approach they took with specialist games meaning you can't choose the variants you want, thus making the product even less appealing because every purchase is a lucky dip.

I think they'll just run the stocks down and let them go OOP, no announcement, just let them disappear, like they did with Specialist Games.

The issue isn't that they think they won't make money (sisters will sell), it's probably that they think they won't make *enough* money. They look at this range and ask, how much will it make compared to another Space Marine release. If they don't see guaranteed big money they won't do it. Of course, that they're currently selling a range of old figures at stupid prices makes this easy to justify due to their poor performance.

They're a lovely army but GW just don't take risks with their game or do things that aim at the less popular parts of the game particularly that largely supported by veterans. They'd rather do another obviously popular army with a few big price plastic kits.


Your post makes too much sense.
Get out.

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 Psienesis wrote:
 Veteran Sergeant wrote:
It bears mentioning that none of RH's kickstarter models are Sisters of Battle. They're all Lady IGuard. IGuard being anarmy that has sold substantially more armies and has a significantly higher market share than Sisters.

There's a lot of false supposition going on here.


RH has announced a "Space Nuns" model line to follow TGG and their Victorian/Steampunk series, which might, depending on appearance, be suitable stand-ins.
Yeah. but they aren't part of the kickstarter, nor is the "success" of the Kickstarter an indication that people care about Space Nuns. Maybe people just want Little Sexy IGuards(wo)men. After all, that's also a large gap in the market because almost all the options for those either A: Look awful, or B: aren't easily available. More of the "A" than the "B" because they don't have arms in many of the kits and without scaled down arms, they look like Lady Gorillas, lol.


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The issue isn't that they think they won't make money (sisters will sell), it's probably that they think they won't make *enough* money. They look at this range and ask, how much will it make compared to another Space Marine release. If they don't see guaranteed big money they won't do it. Of course, that they're currently selling a range of old figures at stupid prices makes this easy to justify due to their poor performance.

They're a lovely army but GW just don't take risks with their game or do things that aim at the less popular parts of the game particularly that largely supported by veterans. They'd rather do another obviously popular army with a few big price plastic kits.
Well put, and nothing I haven't said a hundred times before.

Don't expect anyone to listen to you.

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Marneus Calgar is referred to as "one of the Imperium's greatest tacticians" and he treats the Codex like it's the War Bible. If the Codex is garbage, then how bad is everyone else?

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 Veteran Sergeant wrote:

Don't expect anyone to listen to you.


It's not that we don't listen - its just that the children of Thatcher look on the world with more hopeful eyes than the children of Callaghan

In all seriousness, as the years roll by, I consider it less and less likely that GW will ever consider SoB a worthwhile, profitable concern. I continue to hope, though, and if the day ever comes that they prove me wrong and give the Sisters a proper refresh, I'll wander into my local GW store and drop a couple of grand on new models.
   
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I hear GW plans a new expansion of this

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I noticed some models were labeled," product unavailable" like the seraphim with bolt pistol and power sword and Kiryanov off the UK site a few days ago. Today they are just gone off the site, USA included. Not a good sign.

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 conker249 wrote:
I noticed some models were labeled," product unavailable" like the seraphim with bolt pistol and power sword and Kiryanov off the UK site a few days ago. Today they are just gone off the site, USA included. Not a good sign.

I emailed customer services a few days ago asking what was up, but got no reply...

Also, I find it strange how all three Seraphim Superior models "went out of stock" at once. It's unlikely that were all bought at the same rate. You'd think that just one (the most popular) would have vanished.

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 conker249 wrote:
I noticed some models were labeled," product unavailable" like the seraphim with bolt pistol and power sword and Kiryanov off the UK site a few days ago. Today they are just gone off the site, USA included. Not a good sign.


Or IS it?
Maybe they have a whole new model line waiting to be unveiled and we'll all live happily ever after.

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 ascended_mike wrote:
 conker249 wrote:
I noticed some models were labeled," product unavailable" like the seraphim with bolt pistol and power sword and Kiryanov off the UK site a few days ago. Today they are just gone off the site, USA included. Not a good sign.


Or IS it?
Maybe they have a whole new model line waiting to be unveiled and we'll all live happily ever after.


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I emailed about it today, doubt ill get a response. Now to check back on the website and see what disappears. Only way to know if something did is pure model memorization. I'm up to the task

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