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New site looks fine for me to be honest and glad that older stuff is popping back up on there for sale again.
Just please put the god damn toad dragon and war mammoth back on there for sale :(


On a side not though, do people really consider £100 to be a large order from FW?
It just tickled me a bit as alot of the products on there cover this alone.

Hell, i ordered a Harridan 2 weeks ago and randomly grabbed a set of rhino doors just to push the price over £250. (bloody £242, why not round it off?)


Jut hoping FW throw the AOS rules on there for the rest of the stuff.

*head-desk* *Thump!*

*head-desk* *Thump!*

Learn! *thump!*

To! *thump*

Design! *thump*

Webpages! *thump*


What have they done?

Where is my account?

What kind of acid-addled shrew decided on this frakking lay-out?

FILTERS?! what the @$[{€[}]{5#¤&%+0!!!!!!!!!


I am giving them a call tomorrow, respectful to the workers ofc, it's not their fault after all, but lodging a bitter complaint about the ineptitude of the IT-management and the direction their main customer relations platform is taking ...

*sigh*

*cries in a corner*

 kronk wrote:

 Yodhrin wrote:
Amazing. They delete everyone's existing accounts, migrate over to the fething awful GW website layout, yet they're still doing the totally unjustifiable 12% flat-rate shipping cost?!

feth 'em, time to go east.

This? This is what is pushing you over the edge to recasting?

OK, then.

That they've decided to yet again display their utter contempt for people who buy from them by shifting their site to the objectively worse to use GW software/layout, and didn't even use the opportunity to finally stop fleecing people with a fixed percentage shipping charge that bears no relationship whatsoever to the actual cost of shipping the package? Yeah, sure, on top of everything else that's enough.

 Yodhrin wrote:

 kronk wrote:

 Yodhrin wrote:
Amazing. They delete everyone's existing accounts, migrate over to the fething awful GW website layout, yet they're still doing the totally unjustifiable 12% flat-rate shipping cost?!

feth 'em, time to go east.

This? This is what is pushing you over the edge to recasting?

OK, then.

That they've decided to yet again display their utter contempt for people who buy from them by shifting their site to the objectively worse to use GW software/layout, and didn't even use the opportunity to finally stop fleecing people with a fixed percentage shipping charge that bears no relationship whatsoever to the actual cost of shipping the package? Yeah, sure, on top of everything else that's enough.

I highly doubt that it was the FW studio that made the decision to change over to the new website, but a directive from GW proper.

Filters are the Devil's work.

At least it only cost one million to make the FW website worse, compared to the 4 million (?) of the GW one. That's money well spent compared to some recent ventures of this company.

Considering a lot of GW stuff must be shipped to Stores from Nottingham I will never understand why they still after all these years have never instated some form of free FW shipping if picked up in a GW store. Considering the stuff would more or less be shipped to stores from the same place!

It would get people to visit GW stores and possibly impulsebuy something while theyre there to pick up their stuff. Not to mention all the impulsebuys FW misses out on since the shipping costs are not fixed.

I am very happy that Australians continue to pay the same as everybody else. The (quite large) Australian 30k community breathes a collective sigh of relief!

 crazyK wrote:
I didn't see if this was posted here already, but someone who worked on the new website is answering questions.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Warhammer40k/comments/3gpe2j/iama_graphic_designer_who_worked_on_the_new_forge/

My biggest gripe with the new FW website, isn't the layout, the missing bundles or the removal of everything "out of stock".

What I personally find the most sad about the new site, is that they've removed all the names of the designers. They're not credited any more in the descriptions, and they've removed the "meet the designers" page.

Not that it actually mattered to me who designed what, since they're all basically brilliant, but it just made the FW site feel more personable and less faceless and sterile.

Wow what a load of rubbish. GW aren't content to destroy themselves they gotta bring down FW and BL with them

Is there any indication of when we can expect the Mechanicum red book and if so, will it also include the Questoris Knight list, or just those wacky Martians?

Also, what HH book has the rules on Machinator Arrays? I know what it does, but for the sake of completion, which book actually contains the rules for this kit?

 BrookM wrote:
Is there any indication of when we can expect the Mechanicum red book and if so, will it also include the Questoris Knight list, or just those wacky Martians?

Also, what HH book has the rules on Machinator Arrays? I know what it does, but for the sake of completion, which book actually contains the rules for this kit?

When book 3 came out, they came out with the 2 red books (General Legion Units + Legion Specific Summary) for Books 1-3, along with an LE Slip case for all of them! I :heart: slipcases!

Anyway, I'm am hopeful that after book 6 we'll get Legion Specific Summary for books 4-6 and Mechanicum Combined Book.

And a slip case!

I :heart: Slipcases!

I'll be very upset if we don't get UM as the next book because I want the slipcase for UM to be books 5 & 6, not 5 & 7 (or something) with book 5 sitting by itself out of order.

We might not see the mechanicum red book until Mars, but I'm sick of carrying round two or three of the big books so I hope its sooner.

Only thing I'll say about the GW & FW site is on the navigation filters, very poor that they hide once you select one of them. Many times I want to select multiple sections not look at one, kind of defeats the entire purpose of the site structure, might as well have stuck with "folders".

 Looky Likey wrote:

Only thing I'll say about the GW & FW site is on the navigation filters, very poor that they hide once you select one of them. Many times I want to select multiple sections not look at one, kind of defeats the entire purpose of the site structure, might as well have stuck with "folders".

Weird, I can select as many as I want to.

 ImAGeek wrote:

 Looky Likey wrote:

Only thing I'll say about the GW & FW site is on the navigation filters, very poor that they hide once you select one of them. Many times I want to select multiple sections not look at one, kind of defeats the entire purpose of the site structure, might as well have stuck with "folders".

Weird, I can select as many as I want to.

In the same section? For example, if I click new releases, pre orders disappear. If I'm very very quick with the mouse I can select both before it hides them. It only seems to apply to that top filter now I've tested it, I can select multiple legions for example.

 Looky Likey wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:

 Looky Likey wrote:

Only thing I'll say about the GW & FW site is on the navigation filters, very poor that they hide once you select one of them. Many times I want to select multiple sections not look at one, kind of defeats the entire purpose of the site structure, might as well have stuck with "folders".

Weird, I can select as many as I want to.

In the same section? For example, if I click new releases, pre orders disappear. If I'm very very quick with the mouse I can select both before it hides them. It only seems to apply to that top filter now I've tested it, I can select multiple legions for example.

Huh you're right, but it only does it for the What's New section, the others work fine.

 Looky Likey wrote:
I'll be very upset if we don't get UM as the next book because I want the slipcase for UM to be books 5 & 6, not 5 & 7 (or something) with book 5 sitting by itself out of order.

We might not see the mechanicum red book until Mars, but I'm sick of carrying round two or three of the big books so I hope its sooner.

Only thing I'll say about the GW & FW site is on the navigation filters, very poor that they hide once you select one of them. Many times I want to select multiple sections not look at one, kind of defeats the entire purpose of the site structure, might as well have stuck with "folders".

Screw that. Mix it up a bit

That new website cost £1M? They want to be asking for their money back, its fething awful and that's on my tablet...I thought it was designed with mobile technology in mind?

And they stealth increased a lot of the prices as well.

To China!

exsanguis wrote:
And they stealth increased a lot of the prices as well.

To China!

Before buying counterfeits you could always just buy used.

Just as a f'rinstance.

There are currently 3 results if you search 'Sicaran' on eBay UK.

Only one of which is new and unassembled. With almost 3 days to run. Including postage, it is already up to £67, a brand new one is £74+ P&P.

Buying FW that isn't horribly miscast or has been butchered second hand is not any real saving.

On the other hand, my Sicaran cost a little over £30.

This isn't the thread to discuss the rights and wrongs of recasts, but they're invariably just as cheap in comparison to second hand.

That Reddit AMA was shameful.

There were so many hostile posters who managed to embody every horrible 40k player and geek stereotype in a few garbled sentences.

I feel bad for that FW designer.

 Bronzefists42 wrote:
That Reddit AMA was shameful.

There were so many hostile posters who managed to embody every horrible 40k player and geek stereotype in a few garbled sentences.

I feel bad for that FW designer.

It's honestly embarrassing. It's okay to criticize, especially if it's constructive, but I honestly do not understand what prompts people to act in such a hostile and entitled way to people they don't know or understand. Some people just seem to have no self control; as soon as you hide a person behind the internet, they become nothing more than a faceless storm trooper to some people...

So the company kirbys wife works for got the contracts for the new websites, isn't that a bit dodgey? Especially since the general view is GW paid way too much for their new websites (and how crappy alot of people think they are)

nudibranch wrote:

 Bronzefists42 wrote:
That Reddit AMA was shameful.

There were so many hostile posters who managed to embody every horrible 40k player and geek stereotype in a few garbled sentences.

I feel bad for that FW designer.

It's honestly embarrassing. It's okay to criticize, especially if it's constructive, but I honestly do not understand what prompts people to act in such a hostile and entitled way to people they don't know or understand. Some people just seem to have no self control; as soon as you hide a person behind the internet, they become nothing more than a faceless storm trooper to some people...

I'm just embarrassed by the questions being asked:

"Hi, I'm one of the graphic designers on the new FW Site"

*Flood of questions about rules and models and prices in no way related to a Graphic Designer's role*

I'd put money on that being a big part of why GW has retreated from all forms of social media and forums. The signal to noise ratio is just too low to be useful.

 Looky Likey wrote:
I'd put money on that being a big part of why GW has retreated from all forms of social media and forums. The signal to noise ratio is just too low to be useful.

Meanwhile, everyone else is embracing new media and not trying to pretend it's the mid 90's.

New stuff:



http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-NL/Lord-Commander-Eidolon-of-the-Emperor-s-Children



http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-NL/Techmarine-in%20Mk-III-Armour



http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-NL/Techmarine-in-Mk-IV-Armour



http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-NL/Imperial-Fists-Mk-VI-Shoulder-Pads


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And Eidolon comes with an optional helmet as well!

 Looky Likey wrote:
I'd put money on that being a big part of why GW has retreated from all forms of social media and forums. The signal to noise ratio is just too low to be useful.

Yes. Even though this was unofficial, it gives GW something to point to as a reason to keep off social media.

Charax wrote:

nudibranch wrote:

 Bronzefists42 wrote:
That Reddit AMA was shameful.

There were so many hostile posters who managed to embody every horrible 40k player and geek stereotype in a few garbled sentences.

I feel bad for that FW designer.

It's honestly embarrassing. It's okay to criticize, especially if it's constructive, but I honestly do not understand what prompts people to act in such a hostile and entitled way to people they don't know or understand. Some people just seem to have no self control; as soon as you hide a person behind the internet, they become nothing more than a faceless storm trooper to some people...

I'm just embarrassed by the questions being asked:

"Hi, I'm one of the graphic designers on the new FW Site"

*Flood of questions about rules and models and prices in no way related to a Graphic Designer's role*

Particularly when she was a photographer, no longer with Games Workshop , had nothing to do with rules, and was just on Reddit just coz, without being paid to do so, or acting in an official capacity or anything else. As with many Reddit AMA's I simply subconsciously skip all the stupid questions. She actually answered a lot of the pointless ones very politely though. At least nobody asked her when there would be a plastic Thunderhawk kit. Or Sisters.

There were some cool, interesting tidbits about GW and FW. And she has some mad painting skills. And she likes tea!