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 ronin_cse wrote:

 Davylove21 wrote:

 mikhaila wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:
This is just making me wish I'd bought Space Hulk.

I wish you and 20 other guys would buy it too!

There's a bit of a glut of them f or some retailers. I brought in a couple dozen of the second wave but still had the bulk of them after a year. Put them on sale at the store and dumped a few online. It's not hard to get a copy right now.
I think the original number by GW was probably 98% market saturation based on the slowness of the next wave a couple of years later.

That's also making me a bit leery about bringing in a lot of this game. Limited and one time only don't help if it doesnt sell. But the game does look good after reading the WD preview.

I'm shocked at that! I still don't own SH due to GW timing and unwillingness to pay £200 on ebay :(

MAYBE prices are way more in the UK (which would shock me for a GW product) but here on eBay I can pick it up for around $105 shipped (http://www.ebay.com/itm/Games-Workshop-Space-Hulk-A-/371309853934?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5673cabcee), and actually that listing ships internationally too
If you really want it you should check again.

I was oblivious to Space Hulk's apparent ubiquity. Next on my list for sure!

Try Marques Models in Harlow, they had a few when I was last there (3 months or so ago).

 Bull0 wrote:

 SJM wrote:
Clip that ponytail off and the Callidus is much better.

I plan to replace it with a Dark Eldar wych's topknot/plait

Yea I had the same plan only using the long scourge ponytail.

From an earlier post with a WD pic in English: "There are 12 special room tiles which are shuffled and placed onto the main game board as they are discovered." Perhaps they mean the small card sized pieces shown on the board and to the right of the board and they are not really "room tiles", but instead are really "room contents" cards? Go GW...

guru wrote:

I wish the Vindicare had some rule giving him Instant Death, like maybe when rolling a 6 to wound. That rule should be called “Boom! Headshot!”

 mikhaila wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:
This is just making me wish I'd bought Space Hulk.

I wish you and 20 other guys would buy it too!

There's a bit of a glut of them f or some retailers. I brought in a couple dozen of the second wave but still had the bulk of them after a year. Put them on sale at the store and dumped a few online. It's not hard to get a copy right now.
I think the original number by GW was probably 98% market saturation based on the slowness of the next wave a couple of years later.

That's also making me a bit leery about bringing in a lot of this game. Limited and one time only don't help if it doesnt sell. But the game does look good after reading the WD preview.

Not surprising at all. My local store also still has copies of SH, a stack of a half dozen that haven't moved in months.

I'm pretty okay with that-- space hulk is one of GW's best products, and it was pretty disappointing when it was impossible for players to get w/o getting gouged.

 Bull0 wrote:
That and the massive pony tail of doom on the callidus are pretty bad.

I think that's where she stores extra body mass after shifting back into assassin form.

FUNCTIONAL!

So it's a big board you put tiles on? Could this get any worse?

It could force you to undress and dance to poorly done stripper music.

 Thairne wrote:
If anyone ever bought GW at retail, complaining about the price with this one... hypocrisy.
The content of the game is appropriate if you deduct the retail cost for the models... Heck, it's FREE if you deduct the cost of the models.

It is marketed as a board game then it should have a board game price
Look
Zombicide around 63$ dollars on amazon
http://zombicide.com/en/zombicide


Yeah we are just being haters.

@Thairne: Space Hulk went for a lower price than this and you get a shed load more bang for your buck!

I wonder if we're best off assuming that GW just doesn't intend to market to boardgamers with this, but is just testing the market (again) for GW-world-themed boardgames among their existing customers.

The problem is that either way, really, you have to start out designing a good boardgame. GW was always a bit hit-and-miss with that side of things, even at the height of their boardgames phase in the 80s and 90s. I suspect they don't have anyone who can do it well any more, and we all know they don't bother playtesting anything ever. :( And you NEED that to make a decent boardgame. Space Hulk is an acknowledged classic, but I am doubtful they can do anything even close to that good again (I still prefer 1st ed rules over 3rd ed, overall, despite a couple of minor improvements in 3rd).

So, while I am probably their perfect target market for this -- I actively want all the minis in the set, and I play boardgames more often than I play 40K -- I am still on the fence about it. I will most likely wait for the first reviews to show up on boardgamegeek and see if they lucked out and accidentally designed a decent boardgame, but I'm not hopeful.

Herzlos wrote:

 monders wrote:

Haljin wrote:

 monders wrote:

Spoiler:

ImAGeek wrote:This is just making me wish I'd bought Space Hulk.

Me too. What's the opposite of buyers remorse?!

Why not just buy it? I saw plenty of them going for close to RRP on eBay.

I myself have a box for sale, since I was so paranoid that I will not manage to get a hold of one, I ended up with two.

The previews of the gameplay from White Dwarf at least intrigue and interest me.

I love cooperative stuff.

My biggest worry right now is re-playability.

Any idea what the hints are for the following week?

migooo wrote:
Any idea what the hints are for the following week?

I'm guessing knights then.

Probably

or possibly the FW warlord titan (does FW get in WD any more)?

Just previews, though the stuff that they show off there has been out for ages by that stage.

 BrookM wrote:
My biggest worry right now is re-playability.

You could always use the models in 40k

I've seen that the Assassinorum Execution Force Formation is included in the White Dwarf, but does anyone know for sure if the Officio Assassinorum Detachment (i.e. the basic, 1 Assassin of any kind Detachment with just the Operation Assassinate rule) is also in the White Dwarf, thus completely replacing the rules portion of the Black Library Dataslate? I am guessing so, as it appears the Dataslate is no longer available on the Black Library site, but confirmation would be nice.

After all, I need to have the rules to field two of the newest members of my fledgling Imperial Agents army. (Formerly my Inquisition Kill Team, but it's growing now.)

Female Eversor, male Culexus. Nice.

Great conversions Ambience. I think I may have finally found a use for those DE models I bought years ago, cheers!

Thanks guys, Check out my Imperial Agents log for more like those. Eventually going to do female Vindicare and Culexus too.

But I still want to know if anyone has seen whether the basic Detachment is included in the White Dwarf, or is it just the full Formation of all 4?

So is this going live at midnight or what?

Nope

It must be going up when the stores open then.

 BrookM wrote:
It could force you to undress and dance to poorly done stripper music.

He said "worse."

And besides, "Goodbye Horses" has a lot going for it.