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Preordered my copy. Now for the waiting(and hopefully the spouse won't open it up).

I am hoping the hard copy remains available for at least a few months - I can't afford all these new releases.

I'm sure Ebay will have a few at least.

Wow.

Is that 6 new formations for Tyranids or 6 new formations in the book, including the imperial forces?

did anyone notice that they changed the magnifying glass when you look at pics on the website.

Before, it would magnify a big part of the pic, now it's only a ridiculous small part.

I wonder what kind of simpleton tought it was a good idea

You can expand it with your mouse wheel. Still far inferior to just a simple larger picture lol.

 streetsamurai wrote:
did anyone notice that they changed the magnifying glass when you look at pics on the website.

Before, it would magnify a big part of the pic, now it's only a ridiculous small part.

I wonder what kind of simpleton tought it was a good idea

I actually thought it was better than the previous zoom. That wasn't worth a damn. It'd only zoom in a teeny tiny bit.

 Opeth30 wrote:
You can expand it with your mouse wheel. Still far inferior to just a simple larger picture lol.

indeed, it seems that I'm the simpleton in this situation

no, it is worse. because the previous version allowed you to right click and get the original larger resolution image.

Now you only can save the small one

 Lord Scythican wrote:

 Wilson wrote:

 Lord Scythican wrote:

 Wilson wrote:

 Sir Arun wrote:
So what I hate about this release is that you cant buy 1 zoanthrope or venomthrope anymore. No. Longer. Possible.

Nope, you gotta have 3 now. And the sad part is all of them are monobuild monopose. So youre literally spending 3x as much to get 3 same looking models instead of one. Great for people who wanted to field a brood, but sucks for players who just wanted one.

I suppose people will soon start selling off surplus on ebay, also allowing others to just buy one, though if you add shipping to that youre still worse off than before.

so buy it cheaper from eBay or [MOD EDIT - Please don't suggest that. Dakka Dakka in no way condones such things. Thanks! - Alpharius]. You can have mine if you like!

I really wish people wouldn't do this so much. My local flgs isn't doing so good because people buy there stuff cheap off the internet (or even cheaper from China). If my local flgs shuts down, I might as well sell all of my miniatures.

For sure that would suck and I hope that it doesn't happen.

Sorry If I sounded like an ass. Just depressed about it. I got a lot of people that go to my shop and they buy online. I got probably 40,000 points worth of minis because I like to support the shop. I can't do it on my own though :(

As for being on topic...I am still buying 4 Nidpods from my flgs. I should be able to get them today!

No, you're right and I agree - and I'm a big fan of not supporting GW's terrible half assed releases, and making cheap conversions / using other means to acquire their model, because I fully do not like putting my dollar next to the decision to release poorly written, lazily balanced, money grabbing releases.



BUT - this isn't one of those releases! GW has finally pulled it's head in, they've released something that is not unbalanced (neither positively nor negatively), which catered exactly to what the customers were begging for, and turned one of the most linear codexes in the game into one of the most versatile. If you want to see more like this - SUPPORT IT WITH YOUR DOLLAR. Otherwise you never have any right to complain about poor writing or balancing in rules if you choose to pirate or proxy.


That being said, if you are one of the people that knew how badly written the original release was, and though you thought the new FMC model was ugly, you still went out and bought a hardback copy of the codex day 1 and ended up buying the FMC kit 5 times for your Skyblight airforce, just because you have the money - then you are the worst type of person in 40k, you are knowingly and directly contributing to the game getting worse! Unless of course you see it as your duty to your FLGS, and now that your armies release rolled around its your turn to spend some dough at the local, makes sense. But otherwise - don't support the poorly written crap, I know you can't suggest piracy here so I won't do that, but I will say how easy it is to make a cool conversion, or at least purchase from eBay (not day one resellers) or Dakka Swap Shop, to likely keep some money out of GW's pockets and make them see they have to put in a bit of effort to make a bit of money.

 Wilson wrote:
Wow.

Well...I guess I'll be getting the digital edition. At least until it's back in print.

Dammit... this was supposed to go up tomorrow. I told my wife to be prepared for a Saturday sale-date for the US, and the book seems to have sold out in a few hours.... crap. :-( I was excited for that to be my birthday gift.

Edit: Not sure if they will have this many/honor the sales, but an Ebay seller with 99.9% positive feedback on 52k+ sales has 18 copies of the book up, and at a discount. I just ordered one, so fingers crossed. I was REALLY excited about this book so i'm hoping this works.

These things ALWAYS go up for preorder on Fridays. Anywhere from 2:05 to 2:30pm EST.

 Wilson wrote:
Wow.

Yeah, right? I get back from class and immediately check GW, but POOF it's already gone. What the heck? I'm hoping this is just one of those "sold out early to make people want it when it comes back in a day or two" things, because this would be the fastest sell out for GW in a long, long time, considering they didn't even advertise it as limited edition!

So, why does the paint guide have the new Broodlord on it, if he's not up for pre-order?? Will we see more nids next week?

Perhaps Tyranids are a very popular line. Maybe more popular than Space Wolves and Orks?

 Sinful Hero wrote:
Perhaps Tyranids are a very popular line. Maybe more popular than Space Wolves and Orks?

They do get an update every single edition.


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 madmitch411 wrote:
So, why does the paint guide have the new Broodlord on it, if he's not up for pre-order?? Will we see more nids next week?

New sculpt for the rumored Nids/BA Stormclaw style boxed set?

Hasn't sold out in Oz yet.

 Kanluwen wrote:
These things ALWAYS go up for preorder on Fridays. Anywhere from 2:05 to 2:30pm EST.

"You shoudaa known bettah!"

That's right Kan. Blame the customer.

I am quite pleased about all of this. I'm not a fan of this almost cartoonish "Zerg/Everblight" design direction, though, or the continuing trend of awful faux-biological names. The Maleceptor in particular looks like a kitbash between a Legion of Everblight Warbeast and a Carnifex or Haruspex. I am also irrationally annoyed by how it walks on its claws instead of having front hooves or "knuckles" to walk on (or just walking on its palm with the claws pulled back).

While the return of the Tyranid drop pod is very much a good thing, the kit looks too much like a Zerg building. It's chunky and cartoony in the wrong sort of way. It also doesn't look at all equipped for atmospheric entry, and there's not even a way to represent it post-rupturing as it is described to do (so it is, visually, in a perpetual state of never having landed). Why does a drop pod have a mouth on top? It's like they looked at the design of the Space Marine drop pod and tried to figure out how to make it look each element more gribbly independent of its other traits and supposed function; the downward thruster has become a pointless mouth, the fins and doors have become generic Tyranid carapace pieces topped by pointless tiny arms, the thickly reinforced base has become a bloated bag of flesh (in ignorance of its function, much like the mouth) and they stuck tentacles all over everything because tentacles are gribbly. It is quite a pity. I only hope that it will encourage a third party to put out something that actually looks good.

Zoanthropes have been redesigned for no actual reason, and not at all for the better. I do like the new Venomthropes, though.

Overall, I'm just happy that Tyranids are getting this much attention, even if I am disappointed with the look of the new models.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
These things ALWAYS go up for preorder on Fridays. Anywhere from 2:05 to 2:30pm EST.

"You shoudaa known bettah!"

That's right Kan. Blame the customer.

That's right HB. Pretend that it's not been this way for almost a year now...

Frankly, I'm still going to buy an old 3rd Edition Zoanthrope. The Neuthrope is a nice bit, and I might add one in for giggles because I missed the Doom being a thing, but I'm still not a fan of these types of Zoas.

 streetsamurai wrote:

 Opeth30 wrote:
You can expand it with your mouse wheel. Still far inferior to just a simple larger picture lol.

indeed, it seems that I'm the simpleton in this situation

Actually, before you could right click on an image and select "open link in new tab" and it would open the full enlarged image. You can't do that any more.

ugh. why would they make a book like this limited edition when every tyranid player NEEDS to buy it? how can they be so bad at business they literally disallow us to give them our money if we're not the first 1000 or whatever

 TyCorny wrote:
ugh. why would they make a book like this limited edition when every tyranid player NEEDS to buy it? how can they be so bad at business they literally disallow us to give them our money if we're not the first 1000 or whatever

As has been said multiple times, this was just the preorder stock. You can still get it from stores and quite possibly the web store in a week or so.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
These things ALWAYS go up for preorder on Fridays. Anywhere from 2:05 to 2:30pm EST.

"You shoudaa known bettah!"

That's right Kan. Blame the customer.

That's right HB. Pretend that it's not been this way for almost a year now...

So it's our fault that we're not hip to the groove of GW's inept product schemes?

 Kanluwen wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
These things ALWAYS go up for preorder on Fridays. Anywhere from 2:05 to 2:30pm EST.

"You shoudaa known bettah!"

That's right Kan. Blame the customer.

That's right HB. Pretend that it's not been this way for almost a year now...

Hm, I would think there is no good excuse to not letting your customer give you money for a product. If GW sold out too early then they're inept, regardless of if it's been going on for a year.. that just means they've been inept for a year.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
These things ALWAYS go up for preorder on Fridays. Anywhere from 2:05 to 2:30pm EST.

"You shoudaa known bettah!"

That's right Kan. Blame the customer.

That's right HB. Pretend that it's not been this way for almost a year now...

So it's our fault that we're not hip to the groove of GW's inept product schemes?

If you're not hip to the groove, you aren't paying attention. This preorder went up exactly when I expected it to go up. They've been following the same pattern for some time now. Preorders always go up Friday. If you wait until day 2 to preorder a limited release item, you can't be mad if the company has already sold out. Be first in line next time, i.e., hit refresh around 2pm gst-5 until you see new product and order. Or just buy the regular version... Or buy an book version and print a copy if you have to have paper. There is no scenario where you can't own this content.

And sold out in Oz.

 Kriswall wrote:
They've been following the same pattern for some time now.

And we're meant to accept this, or consider it a good thing?

 Kriswall wrote:
There is no scenario where you can't own this content.

If I hadn't've stayed up all night to order the Void Shield generator it would've been sold out by the time I got up, so yeah, there are plenty of scenarios.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Kriswall wrote:
They've been following the same pattern for some time now.

And we're meant to accept this, or consider it a good thing?

Only if you realize this is how most businesses operate. Didn't know yesterday was the release of the new apple device and they sold out? TOO BAD!

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Kriswall wrote:
There is no scenario where you can't own this content.

If I hadn't've stayed up all night to order the Void Shield generator it would've been sold out by the time I got up, so yeah, there are plenty of scenarios.

Cool. When a company does a limited run thing, it's limited. You stayed up all night knowing that if you didn't you probably wouldn't get one.
THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS IN ANY WAY. So their online stock, (which think about, is probably less than a 1/3rd the total) ran out. You have two options: 1, buy it 3rd party. 2, Acknowledge the world does not resolve around you Mr. Special Snowflake, and that when a company runs out of stock, they cannot mystically summon more copies. Be more patient and less selfish.
After all, if you had been able to buy one, but the guy next to you in line couldn't what would you say? "Sorry man, first come first serve."

Neronoxx wrote:
Only if you realize this is how most businesses operate. Didn't know yesterday was the release of the new apple device and they sold out? TOO BAD!

It really isn't how most business operate, that and the difference being the Apple device goes back in stock.

Neronoxx wrote:
THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS IN ANY WAY. So their online stock, (which think about, is probably less than a 1/3rd the total) ran out. You have two options: 1, buy it 3rd party. 2, Acknowledge the world does not resolve around you Mr. Special Snowflake, and that when a company runs out of stock, they cannot mystically summon more copies. Be more patient and less selfish.
After all, if you had been able to buy one, but the guy next to you in line couldn't what would you say? "Sorry man, first come first serve."

You just called me Mr. Special Snowflake. First time for everything I guess.

Anyway, I question why these things are limited in the fething first place. If they can keep stock of all their other books, why are these recent books (like the End Times books) so limited? It's unnecessary, it doesn't help GW, serves the customers in no practical way and in the end benefits no one.