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New GW website is now online.
GW officially announced a gift upon reopening the website, showing a sprue of this miniature.


If you get this one, you are offered to buy the following one for 30$:


Also on FAQs missing:

Hello,

Thanks for writing in to us! We are aware that the new web store launched without the Errata/ FAQ articles. This is only temporary and these FAQ's will be made available again in the very near future. However, at this time I don’t have a time or date available. Should you have any other questions, then please give us a call at 1-800-394-4263.

Sorry for the confusion, but I hope this helps.

David Monroe
Games Workshop
North America Customer Services

Original post:
Last GW annual report said that relaunch of a bigger and improved GW webstore was planned for April.
Here some rumours from this week:

Tim on Faeit 212 wrote:GW Website
Launch day will be the 7th April!

anonymous source on Faeit 212 wrote:the new GW web store will have it's final testing phase from 17th to 20th of march. Guess we can expect the new webstore in early april!

Older rumours say that FW products will be sold on it as well.
We will see what this relaunch means for remaining metal and finecast products.

Very interesting. If FW products will be available via the new website, thenmy flgs should able to order FW products with a discount as well. If such a thing is true then perhaps it might finally bring an end to the argument of whether or not FW is allowed in regular games. Regardless, color me interested.

Agreed if Forge world was easier to come by and the books were available for my regular LGS I would be much more open to them.

I don't think anyone takes that argument seriously anymore, they are, anything else is a house rule.

I'll be very interested if my local shop could get forge world. I'm tempted but am not very stoaked about having to spend almost $500 before I get free shipping from FW direct. The local store option will open up getting one unit/model/book at a time and building the collection of FW stuff instead of having to go all at once to get the best deal and not get reamed by shipping.

Assuming Forgeworld will be integrated into the new site, then they will presumably follow regional pricing in line with other GW products. No change for the UK, maybe good news for the US, bad news for everyone else, especially Canada and Australiia.

 Kroothawk wrote:

Tim on Faeit 212 wrote:GW Website
Launch day will be the 7th April!

On my birthday ! Maybe they will remove every Sister models from it as a birthday gift…

willb2064 wrote:
Assuming Forgeworld will be integrated into the new site, then they will presumably follow regional pricing in line with other GW products. No change for the UK, maybe good news for the US, bad news for everyone else, especially Canada and Australiia.

As someone with a Death Korps army to finish, this is my concern.

Now, considering I currently get dinged with duties and UPS fees for duties whenever I order something over $100 or so (it's kind of random when customs will assay something), alongside integrated VAT, I'm hopeful I'll come out slightly ahead, or at least, at no worse.

What'd make my day is if my FLGS will be able to order FW with some kind of wholesale discount; currently direct order stuff is only like 15%, less, whereas "main" products are the usual much higher percentage (I think it's about 40%), but even if the "You don't live in 'murica" tax is the usualy 20%, I'll still come out slightly ahead.

The real perk'll be living close to the US border; I'm willing to be my group of friends will happily order a bunch of FW stuff, have it shipped to a store in Seattle or something and all cram into a car and collect some shiny resin at a decent discount, even from a GW store.

Consider me cautiously optimistic, but aware at how mercenary and petty GW can be.

Orkhead wrote:
Agreed if Forge world was easier to come by and the books were available for my regular LGS I would be much more open to them.

I really don't get the "FW is so hard to come by" argument. You buy it online, just like you buy anything else online. Having the ability to order it through a local store doesn't help because, like most of what GW sells, it's not going to be on the shelf when you come in to buy it. So why drive out to a store, place an order, and then drive back to pick it up when you can just buy online from home and let UPS do all of the delivery work? The only thing adding FW to the "main" GW store will do is add the ability to give charity donations to your local independent store with more products.


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 slk28850 wrote:
I'll be very interested if my local shop could get forge world. I'm tempted but am not very stoaked about having to spend almost $500 before I get free shipping from FW direct. The local store option will open up getting one unit/model/book at a time and building the collection of FW stuff instead of having to go all at once to get the best deal and not get reamed by shipping.

Only if you completely ignore the cost of driving to and from the GW store. If you aren't going there already on a schedule that's convenient then it's easy for the cost of gas to be as much as the shipping cost. Let's say I want to buy a $100 tank from FW: I can pay $15, order it from home, and have UPS deliver it right to my door, or I could spend $10 in gas and a couple hours of time to get it from a store. I'll gladly pay the $5 for convenience. And, unlike driving costs and times, shipping costs aren't constant. If I order $50 worth of FW stuff I only pay $7.50 in shipping. If I buy $500 worth of FW stuff I pay nothing in shipping.

(This also applies to anything else GW sells. Unless you're just picking up a couple pots of paint while you're there to play a game the only reason to buy in person instead of online is to make a charity donation to a store that you like.)

 Peregrine wrote:

Orkhead wrote:
Agreed if Forge world was easier to come by and the books were available for my regular LGS I would be much more open to them.

I really don't get the "FW is so hard to come by" argument. You buy it online, just like you buy anything else online. Having the ability to order it through a local store doesn't help because, like most of what GW sells, it's not going to be on the shelf when you come in to buy it. So why drive out to a store, place an order, and then drive back to pick it up when you can just buy online from home and let UPS do all of the delivery work? The only thing adding FW to the "main" GW store will do is add the ability to give charity donations to your local independent store with more products.

I think what people are hoping for is the possibility of ordering on the online GW webpage and having it delivered free to your local GW store thus only really needing one trip to pick it up, but living 10 minutes walk from the local store I don't really care

 l0k1 wrote:
Very interesting. If FW products will be available via the new website, thenmy flgs should able to order FW products with a discount as well. .

That doesn't actually follow.

I would expect that if FW is integrated into the main website, it will be as direct only product. Forgeworld doesn't have the production capacity to supply wholesale accounts.

 PotentiallyLethal wrote:
I think what people are hoping for is the possibility of ordering on the online GW webpage and having it delivered free to your local GW store thus only really needing one trip to pick it up, but living 10 minutes walk from the local store I don't really care

That's what I'm talking about. Maybe that's more appealing in the UK where GW stores are everywhere, but my "local" GW store is still 25 miles away (and until a couple years ago there wasn't even one in the same state). So "free" shipping costs ~$7 worth of gas and an hour of driving, even if I can place the order online. I can't imagine how people are willing to pay $100 for a tank kit, but find the extra $7 for much more convenient delivery to be such a financial burden.

 insaniak wrote:

 l0k1 wrote:
Very interesting. If FW products will be available via the new website, thenmy flgs should able to order FW products with a discount as well. .

That doesn't actually follow.

I would expect that if FW is integrated into the main website, it will be as direct only product. Forgeworld doesn't have the production capacity to supply wholesale accounts.

The point is that most GW stockists can order anything on the (current) GW website, albeit at a lesser profit marge.
If FW products are sold via GW website AND this policy doesn't change, then most GW stockists can finally order FW products. As all are send from the Nottingham warehouse anyway, this is mostly a policy thing, not a big infrastructure thing.
BTW FW books were sold on the GW website for quite a while.

I still think the idea of FW being sold at a GW store or ordered with free delivery to a GW store is a pipe dream, a very large pipe dream.

Why would GW all of a sudden eat the shipping cost? Even if FW were to be carried in a GW stores, don't expect the full range, more like 'The 10 most popular items' kind of thing.

 Kroothawk wrote:

 insaniak wrote:

 l0k1 wrote:
Very interesting. If FW products will be available via the new website, thenmy flgs should able to order FW products with a discount as well. .

That doesn't actually follow.

I would expect that if FW is integrated into the main website, it will be as direct only product. Forgeworld doesn't have the production capacity to supply wholesale accounts.

The point is that most GW stockists can order anything on the (current) GW website, albeit at a lesser profit marge.

Unless the FW stuff is put up as "direct only."

 Matt1785 wrote:
Why would GW all of a sudden eat the shipping cost? Even if FW were to be carried in a GW stores, don't expect the full range, more like 'The 10 most popular items' kind of thing.

GW already ships stuff free to their stores. Adding FW kits changes nothing.

Kroothawk wrote:
The point is that most GW stockists can order anything on the (current) GW website, albeit at a lesser profit...

Not quite that simple. According to comments from a couple of retailers in the past, there are two 'grades' of Direct Only merchandise. One can be ordered by independents at a reduced discount. The other can not, and is only available through GW directly.

I would fully expect Forgeworld to go into the latter category.

I am not aware of any "direct only" product that my FLGS can't order. It can get even limited editions and could get the old Imperial Armour books while on the website. Of course, with GW's retracting from the market, they might easily decide that selling GW products should be reduced even more.

That said, this thread is more about the launch date. The FW rumour could be just wishlisting.

i think FLGS being able to order FW at any sort of price reduction is wishlisting at best. I cant see GW ever offering FW at a discount

 Kroothawk wrote:
We will see what this relaunch means for remaining metal and finecast products.

Why would it mean something for those? Have there been other rumours saying that the new site will effect them somehow?

Personally, I expect it'll all just stay the same, pending individual updates for said models.

 Kroothawk wrote:
I am not aware of any "direct only" product that my FLGS can't order. It can get even limited editions and could get the old Imperial Armour books while on the website. Of course, with GW's retracting from the market, they might easily decide that selling GW products should be reduced even more.

It could vary by location.

I may burst with excitement...

...though I admit I'm curious to see how they can make it anymore bland.

 Troike wrote:

 Kroothawk wrote:
We will see what this relaunch means for remaining metal and finecast products.

Why would it mean something for those? Have there been other rumours saying that the new site will effect them somehow?

A bit speculative, but why should they invest a lot of work hours into listing e.g. 50+ Space Marine HQ units, when metal and finecast are discontinued soon?

BTW GW website currently under maintenance.

Orkhead wrote:
Agreed if Forge world was easier to come by and the books were available for my regular LGS I would be much more open to them.

Forgeworld is no more difficult to order than any of the direct order items. You don't hear gaming groups getting in a twist over people fielding Eldar Grav Tanks which aren't available on general sale.

Living in Australia, I can only hope if FW becomes available through GW that it doesn't become more expensive. At the moment, FW infantry isn't actually too bad price wise, I really don't want to see it jump like everything else does.

It would be nice to be able to order stuff from the FLGS or GW store if it means I don't have to pay shipping, though. I rarely buy enough in one go to reach the free shipping threshold.

If they are remaking the site, maybe they will start to add FAQs again afterwards.

Afterall, what's the point of uploading PDFs, if the site is going to be remade anyway?

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
If they are remaking the site, maybe they will start to add FAQs again afterwards.

Afterall, what's the point of uploading PDFs, if the site is going to be remade anyway?

Or they'll axe them completely, and keep selling them as dataslates, save for, perhaps FW's experimental rules.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
Afterall, what's the point of uploading PDFs, if the site is going to be remade anyway?

I'm not seeing the connection there.

 Peregrine wrote:

Orkhead wrote:
Agreed if Forge world was easier to come by and the books were available for my regular LGS I would be much more open to them.

I really don't get the "FW is so hard to come by" argument. You buy it online, just like you buy anything else online. Having the ability to order it through a local store doesn't help because, like most of what GW sells, it's not going to be on the shelf when you come in to buy it. So why drive out to a store, place an order, and then drive back to pick it up when you can just buy online from home and let UPS do all of the delivery work? The only thing adding FW to the "main" GW store will do is add the ability to give charity donations to your local independent store with more products.


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 slk28850 wrote:
I'll be very interested if my local shop could get forge world. I'm tempted but am not very stoaked about having to spend almost $500 before I get free shipping from FW direct. The local store option will open up getting one unit/model/book at a time and building the collection of FW stuff instead of having to go all at once to get the best deal and not get reamed by shipping.

Only if you completely ignore the cost of driving to and from the GW store. If you aren't going there already on a schedule that's convenient then it's easy for the cost of gas to be as much as the shipping cost. Let's say I want to buy a $100 tank from FW: I can pay $15, order it from home, and have UPS deliver it right to my door, or I could spend $10 in gas and a couple hours of time to get it from a store. I'll gladly pay the $5 for convenience. And, unlike driving costs and times, shipping costs aren't constant. If I order $50 worth of FW stuff I only pay $7.50 in shipping. If I buy $500 worth of FW stuff I pay nothing in shipping.

(This also applies to anything else GW sells. Unless you're just picking up a couple pots of paint while you're there to play a game the only reason to buy in person instead of online is to make a charity donation to a store that you like.)

I understand what you're saying. If I don't go to my store it would cost about the same. Thing is I go to my local store anyway so there is no extra gas fee.

 Peregrine wrote:

 PotentiallyLethal wrote:
I think what people are hoping for is the possibility of ordering on the online GW webpage and having it delivered free to your local GW store thus only really needing one trip to pick it up, but living 10 minutes walk from the local store I don't really care

That's what I'm talking about. Maybe that's more appealing in the UK where GW stores are everywhere, but my "local" GW store is still 25 miles away (and until a couple years ago there wasn't even one in the same state). So "free" shipping costs ~$7 worth of gas and an hour of driving, even if I can place the order online. I can't imagine how people are willing to pay $100 for a tank kit, but find the extra $7 for much more convenient delivery to be such a financial burden.

Welcome to my world when it comes to Infinity and Atomic Empire, Peregrine...

The presence of FW on GW's website continues to worry me.