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 H.B.M.C. wrote:
How can bundles of standard products "run out"?

Maybe just an inventory/casting issue?

They spend a few days casting up bundles and have them sitting on the shelves ready to mail out. Assembly lining the casting for a bundle might just be more efficient and lets them pass on some savings. This would probably be something they could do when they get a fresh new set of molds of all the pieces involved.

As time goes on and they start casting other stuff, as well as casting individual orders of things included in the bundles, it gets less efficient to mail out these bundles. You don't have anymore sitting on the shelves, so now you have to stop what you are working on to cast all the pieces of the bundle. And then you find out that a few of the casts needed for the entire bundle needs to be replaced, which is going to take time.

It's probably not a case of a bundle "running out" or getting more expensive to cast, you are getting the items at the same individual prices you always got them at once the bundle runs out. There is probably just a certain efficiency to casting up X number of bundles all at once and sticking them on a shelf to be mailed out as ordered. Once that's done the efficiently cast bundles only last so long.

That's my guess at least.

yeah,
It's a promotion with savings and a dead line - Buy them now!

Panic...

It's hardly out of the question for bundles to change, and at least they're giving warning. When you go to the supermarket every week, do they have the same offers on? No. FW changing these is just replacing old special offers with new ones, something almost every company does.*

*apart from GW, who never offer any in the first place. And no, the codex bundle does not count, it's an entirely different product.

I rather like that Chaos Dwarf Bundle!

I would totally buy the Legion invasion force if I had the money.

Sadly £390 isn't something I can drop on something at once.

Vrak's books are dirt cheap. I might pick up the bundle. Currently don't have it and love all the FW books. And 3 books for the cost of 1 is insane.

IA4 is now out of stock, probably an update on the horizon. Suspect the Vraks books will undergo something similar as will the Badab War ones as they're pretty much 2 for 1 as well. Cheap because they want them sold. Probably...

 Panic wrote:
yeah,
It's a promotion with savings and a dead line - Buy them now!

Panic...

I think that's pretty much it.

A way to...'encourage' sales!

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.. so general release of the IA book can't be much after July then.

Hopefully.

 Hulksmash wrote:
Vrak's books are dirt cheap. I might pick up the bundle. Currently don't have it and love all the FW books. And 3 books for the cost of 1 is insane.

I wonder if the discount on the Vraks books is due to a planned 2nd edition treatment like the Taros IA3 book got.

I think I'd be ok having the 1st edition. I get the IA books for the scenarios and story. The actual units aren't a huge deal to me since people rarely use them here locally or at larger GT's and if I need the current ones I've got people for that

 warboss wrote:

 Hulksmash wrote:
Vrak's books are dirt cheap. I might pick up the bundle. Currently don't have it and love all the FW books. And 3 books for the cost of 1 is insane.

I wonder if the discount on the Vraks books is due to a planned 2nd edition treatment like the Taros IA3 book got.

Vraks getting a 2nd edition isn't planned for awhile. They still have to do the Anphelion Project revamp.

They don't necessarily have to do them in order and I could easily see them skipping a less popular one for a multibook series that has more marines and lots of chaos.

Hopefully this new IA book is for Chaos, there was a rumor about Chaos getting one. Although Tyranids might be more in need of one since their codex release. Are there anymore details about the new book?

I thought the SM statue in front of the HQ was bigger?

Maybe I'm thinking of a different location?

Wasn't their a rumor of a chaos themed IA book like what the IG and SM got with a lost and the damned style list for 7th ed? I also recall the rumor saying it wasn't going to be a campaign spefic list like the valks one, so options for all 4 gods.

My bet would probly be on the nid one getting updated 1st thow.

 warboss wrote:
They don't necessarily have to do them in order and I could easily see them skipping a less popular one for a multibook series that has more marines and lots of chaos.

Well considering that the new Anphelion Project book has been underway for around a year and we saw sculpts not too long ago, I think they feel that yeah they do have to do them in order.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 warboss wrote:
They don't necessarily have to do them in order and I could easily see them skipping a less popular one for a multibook series that has more marines and lots of chaos.

Well considering that the new Anphelion Project book has been underway for around a year and we saw sculpts not too long ago, I think they feel that yeah they do have to do them in order.

Do you have a link to the announcement or mention of the Anphelion Project redo? I don't recall seeing that. I remember seeing a while back a large nid being worked on maybe back in 2013 but nothing more.

That was basically all that it was. They mentioned that the nid was being made for IA4, which was already underway.

 Alpharius wrote:

 TalonZahn wrote:
Those Fist helmets look like something I could use for IW stand ins.

Not sure if trolling (Imperial Fist players)...

KRONK - get in here!

Kronk is also not sure if serious...


I like the Imperial Fists torsos, though. Drop the MKIII IF shoulder pads already! I have moneys! Give me things to throw it at!

I looked eagerly through the new bundles. Sadly disappointed to see that sons of horus still are the only traitor legion with bundles.

Iron Hands have one too.

It would be nice if the others had some though.

World Eaters with rampagers and perhaps despoilers, Word Bearers with their jump unit and the new parts etc.

Hopefully when the Imperial Fist stuff arrives they add more bundles.

I am very happy the Legion Invasion Force is still available. When I first saw the email about last chance bundles, I nearly panicked, as I plan to buy that bundle next month.

 Tannhauser42 wrote:
I am very happy the Legion Invasion Force is still available. When I first saw the email about last chance bundles, I nearly panicked, as I plan to buy that bundle next month.

I dearly, dearly want that bundle, but it saddens me to find that, although it's still going to be available, it probably won't be for long enough for me to get the money together. :(

It's a darn good savings, and I will likely miss it.

The Tyranid book is one book I'd buy again. Anphelion is my fav FW book, so an updated one with new units would be very nice.

Zuul wrote:I looked eagerly through the new bundles. Sadly disappointed to see that sons of horus still are the only traitor legion with bundles.

Medium of Death wrote:Iron Hands have one too.

It would be nice if the others had some though.

World Eaters with rampagers and perhaps despoilers, Word Bearers with their jump unit and the new parts etc.

Hopefully when the Imperial Fist stuff arrives they add more bundles.

These are the only legions with legion specific HQs that aren't special characters though, so that may be why they are the only 2 with bundles. When/if they release some generic HQs for the other legions, I would expect a bundle for them then.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
How can bundles of standard products "run out"?

More like they will be re organized into new bundles.

Huh. I just noticed they've added a Mechanicum bundle.

New Salamanders stuff is up ... Torsos, helmets and the very nice Contemptor Dreadnought

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/New_Stuff

Or:





Nice!

The helmets continue to be on the disappointing side though...