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Basically:

Chaotic Red = Very Dark Red.
Dragon Red (didn't know about that) = Dark Red
Pure Red = Normal Red (probably should match the GW spray decently)

I am drunk but this is a serious saving from buying individual kits right?

http://www.games-workshop.com/en-IE/Hammer-of-Cadia

 Ratius wrote:
I am drunk but this is a serious saving from buying individual kits right?

http://www.games-workshop.com/en-IE/Hammer-of-Cadia

Yeah, $107 cheaper. I'm really considering it.

 Ratius wrote:
I am drunk but this is a serious saving from buying individual kits right?

http://www.games-workshop.com/en-IE/Hammer-of-Cadia

Yes, actually. About 66 pounds.

Looks like the defense forces save a bit as well - about 23.5 pounds.

Via € its effectively the Hellhammer for free

And

http://www.games-workshop.com/en-IE/Cadian-Defence-Force

 Redbeard wrote:
It's like a giant example of how no one at GW understands what things are for.

Case-in-point, the new update on my local GW store's Facebook page,

Come by the shop today and place your pre-order! You can also get yourself a FREE Space Marine Captain for placing orders on the new web store at the shop!

Right, obviously the reason we were all looking forward to the new web store was for the thrill of going into the tiny one-man store to use it on their computer...

You get the awesome experience of supporting your FLGW and talking to your local red shirt about the HHHobby, and you also get to experience the awesome web shopping experience.

You should be happy that you only have to pay once for both experiences!

 Ratius wrote:
I am drunk but this is a serious saving from buying individual kits right?

http://www.games-workshop.com/en-IE/Hammer-of-Cadia

You are correct. About $110.

I almost always buy from my local FLG, its FTW Games of Spikey Bits fame. But when it comes to SOB, I have to go straight to the source. E-bay's prices are sometimes higher than GW's.

 ClockworkZion wrote:
NA hasn't had international shipping options like that for a while. I'm guessing that they're just bringing things into a standardized format.

Plus it makes no sense for GW to let it's own stores cannibalize each other's sales like that.

No, they had the option. As Azrael said, they just put in an insane shipping charge to discourage people from actually doing it.


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 Lockark wrote:
Incase no one has thought to Email customer service about were the FAQ's went. This is what I was told:

Spoiler:

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.

Yeah, you received the exact same form response that has been posted several times in this thread now.

 Ratius wrote:
I am drunk but this is a serious saving from buying individual kits right?

http://www.games-workshop.com/en-IE/Hammer-of-Cadia

Well, this is daft. If you follow that EXACT link, it takes you to the prices in Euros. You reset it to UK and it takes you back to the homepage. Previously you could just reset the country and remain on the same page or it would retain in your cookies whatever currency you had been on previously.


This will make for some fun with more people from the US following an Aussie link....

 insaniak wrote:

 ClockworkZion wrote:
NA hasn't had international shipping options like that for a while. I'm guessing that they're just bringing things into a standardized format.

Plus it makes no sense for GW to let it's own stores cannibalize each other's sales like that.

No, they had the option. As Azrael said, they just put in an insane shipping charge to discourage people from actually doing it.

I stand corrected then. Well the GW's are now stuck with the same trade policies as the FLGSes then.

 Ratius wrote:
I am drunk but this is a serious saving from buying individual kits right?

http://www.games-workshop.com/en-IE/Hammer-of-Cadia

It's about 25% off - or what you'd save shopping elsewhere.

If they let 3rd parties have it - then yeah it's a steal.

Schmapdi wrote:

 Ratius wrote:
I am drunk but this is a serious saving from buying individual kits right?

http://www.games-workshop.com/en-IE/Hammer-of-Cadia

It's about 25% off - or what you'd save shopping elsewhere.

If they let 3rd parties have it - then yeah it's a steal.

They do.

Total Wargamer is offering the deal at 30% off for around 140 pounds. Pretty hilarious, eh?

I know I'm late to the party here, but this new website sucks. It's just a storefront and nothing more. If I wanted to talk someone into getting into 40K, I would not direct them to the official site as they won't be able to learn a damn thing about the game other than how much it costs.

And that "free" model that basically costs $20-$25 (since I would have to give up that much in discounts with any other seller)? Why would I do that when, for a few dollars more, I could get any of these amazing models that are far superior?

R.I.P. the old site.

Not much left worth looking at on the site. It turned into a outright online store, and that's all she wrote.

 Grot 6 wrote:
R.I.P. the old site.

Not much left worth looking at on the site. It turned into a outright online store, and that's all she wrote.

Exactly what was worth looking at before?

 Breotan wrote:

 Grot 6 wrote:
R.I.P. the old site.

Not much left worth looking at on the site. It turned into a outright online store, and that's all she wrote.

Exactly what was worth looking at before?

FAQs and the specialist games.

If you want to go further back, they had painting and modelling articles as well as tactica.

You know...quality.

As rumoured, the terrain section took a big hit, with lots of plastic kits discontinued, a.o. the crater field with the Rhino, the Chaos hill etc.

Also for me the page is loading slower than before. Add to this the need to uncheck the army you just watched to go to the next, the performance even for just buying is much slower.

Also noticed some glitches: New IG Codex only shown in tiny pic. German mandrake page describes them as resin miniatures, then describes them as metal miniatures.

 Sir Arun wrote:

Schmapdi wrote:

 Ratius wrote:
I am drunk but this is a serious saving from buying individual kits right?

http://www.games-workshop.com/en-IE/Hammer-of-Cadia

It's about 25% off - or what you'd save shopping elsewhere.

If they let 3rd parties have it - then yeah it's a steal.

They do.

Total Wargamer is offering the deal at 30% off for around 140 pounds. Pretty hilarious, eh?

Although, admittedly, the sprues would be dust by the time TWG actually shipped it in all likelihood!

Gah that Cadian Defence Force is dropping at £75 on giftsforgeeks...

I promised the wife I wouldn't buy any more minis for a while....

fursphere wrote:

 SickSix wrote:
Why are variations of combo kits now listed as separate unique products?

I am wondering the same thing?

I was looking at all the Baneblade variants - seems like they're selling just the sprues to make that model?

That is exactly what I am afraid of.

*edit*

Nope same kits but sales trickery? It doesn't make sense.

http://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Catachan-Defence-Force?_requestid=2756864

anyone noticed this one?

They list 3 Astra Militarum Catachan Heavy Weapon Squads, But clearly meant 'teams' as they actually sell a set named Squad, its 3 bases, and they sell a 'team' its one base.

I know full well they meant 3 teams, or one squad... if anyones bought one of these, complain and demand your other two heavy weapons SQUAD boxes

Ok, there is something I actually don't like about the new website - how everything is split up.

Say I want to look at the new Ogryn kit. I can't. I have to look at the "Ogryn", "Bullgryn" and "Nork" kits in separate things. I have to switch between them. That's just adding more steps to the process.

 ClockworkZion wrote:
Plus it makes no sense for GW to let it's own stores cannibalize each other's sales like that.

No, what doesn't make sense is the entire concept of GW's stores cannibalizing each other's sales. They aren't independent stores with their own profits and losses, they're different cash registers in the same store. It doesn't matter where you buy an item, all the money goes to the exact same place.

Yeah, when you start thinking of your own retail outlets as competition then you have a serious problem.

 Peregrine wrote:

No, what doesn't make sense is the entire concept of GW's stores cannibalizing each other's sales. They aren't independent stores with their own profits and losses, they're different cash registers in the same store. It doesn't matter where you buy an item, all the money goes to the exact same place.

While thats true... GW also give bonuses to stores who make high sales and turn the staff over of ones who cannot meet targets.Which does kind of pit them against each other for job security and perks. Even though all the pennies only flow towards GW Plc lol.

Edit; they mghtve done well with a franchise kind of setup instead. Like what McDonalds do; each McD's place is owned by different people who give McD hq a set amount to be part of the franchise in return get to be paid better when their own branch does well or suffers when it suffers.

HairySticks wrote:

 Peregrine wrote:

No, what doesn't make sense is the entire concept of GW's stores cannibalizing each other's sales. They aren't independent stores with their own profits and losses, they're different cash registers in the same store. It doesn't matter where you buy an item, all the money goes to the exact same place.

While thats true... GW also give bonuses to stores who make high sales and turn the staff over of ones who cannot meet targets.Which does kind of pit them against each other for job security and perks. Even though all the pennies only flow towards GW Plc lol.

This isn't unusual though, it causes frustration at the front line sometimes, but this is just retail sales in general. I've had to tell customers to buy from the website, because we were unable to offer what they wanted in store on multiple occasions. Ultimately, if you're on performance related pay working for a multi site retailer, this will happen at some point. God knows, I nearly got disciplined once because my store had a difficult to source item in stock, and another branch were trying to claim it for a "confirmed sale" (I had it on good authority they just wanted it so they could sell it and profit from it) and they involved my line manager's manager who then tried to overrule me. I had to cash in several favours to emerge from that situation unscathed!

These sorts of political wranglings will occur, it is down to internal management to strike the balance and keep things fair, and that, I suspect, is where GW may struggle.

Eesh! that sounds like a massive headache that they I dont imagine you get paid well enough to deal with hehe.

Anyone here actually ordered one of these cadian or catachan defence forces?
When you get it and find it to contain (kind of as expected) 3 bases worth of heavy weapons team, I dare you to call GW on their poorly described products and claims your 6 extra bases of heavy weapons at their expense

 Redbeard wrote:
It's like a giant example of how no one at GW understands what things are for.

Yeah, the idea of limited run paints (and primers in particular) is so dumb I don't even know what to say. I guess you can always go back to black primer + red base coat?

Or alternatively, use a paint supplier that understands painters.

 azreal13 wrote:

HairySticks wrote:

 Peregrine wrote:

No, what doesn't make sense is the entire concept of GW's stores cannibalizing each other's sales. They aren't independent stores with their own profits and losses, they're different cash registers in the same store. It doesn't matter where you buy an item, all the money goes to the exact same place.

While thats true... GW also give bonuses to stores who make high sales and turn the staff over of ones who cannot meet targets.Which does kind of pit them against each other for job security and perks. Even though all the pennies only flow towards GW Plc lol.

This isn't unusual though, it causes frustration at the front line sometimes, but this is just retail sales in general. I've had to tell customers to buy from the website, because we were unable to offer what they wanted in store on multiple occasions. Ultimately, if you're on performance related pay working for a multi site retailer, this will happen at some point. God knows, I nearly got disciplined once because my store had a difficult to source item in stock, and another branch were trying to claim it for a "confirmed sale" (I had it on good authority they just wanted it so they could sell it and profit from it) and they involved my line manager's manager who then tried to overrule me. I had to cash in several favours to emerge from that situation unscathed!

These sorts of political wranglings will occur, it is down to internal management to strike the balance and keep things fair, and that, I suspect, is where GW may struggle.

Yep "retail-sales", a concept invented by blood-sucking middle managers to force the uncertainty and stress of a sales job onto minimum-wage shelf-stackers and till operators. No matter how often it's shown that well-paid staff with a strong sense of job security will be more productive, more innovative, and result in better outcomes for your business in the long-run, many companies(and GW are a prime offender) are still stuck in this mentality that sees staff as an expense to be minimised rather than a resource to be cultivated.