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Ohman wrote:
Did the Town-house comeback in stock and then sell out again? I had email-notification set but didn't get any mail, was very surprised to hear people on an other forum managed to order a few days ago.

I guess that is what happens when you don't check the site ever day every few hours.

Ohman wrote:
Did the Town-house comeback in stock and then sell out again? I had email-notification set but didn't get any mail, was very surprised to hear people on an other forum managed to order a few days ago.

I'm waiting for an email still in the US. I wonder how different is is per country.

Lake-town houses are back in stock on US webstore.

Still no There and Back Again unfortunately.

Wanted it as a Christmas present, didn't anticipate it would sell out in a couple of days.

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
Still no There and Back Again unfortunately.

Yeah, I was hoping to pick up that book along with one of the lake houses. I only need on of them and the book takes me over the threshold for free shipping. Without I pay 25% shipping on the house, and I can't really justify that.

i think you can have it shipped to the nearest GW for free.

Well, the nearest GW store is over an hour away, so two hours time plus gas for a $40 plastic house don't cut it.

And...


They're already out again.

Ordered a set of the houses... and 2 minutes later they were out of stock again. Wow.
High demand.

Seren Nishiyama wrote:
Ordered a set of the houses... and 2 minutes later they were out of stock again. Wow.
High demand.

High demand or just low produced product to make artificial demand? So therefore when "on sale" again, "impulse buying" is enabled big time.

From War of Sigmar: https://war-of-sigmar.herokuapp.com/bloggings/1555

I like those Gundabad Ogres!

My Gundabad army will like those Gundabad Ogres even more!

From War of Sigmar:

Beautiful models, it's a shame I just can't shake out how terrible the films were.
I check in on this thread for news on a 'One Book to Rule Them All' update for the original SBG, is this still a potential thing to come later in the year?

More nice looking models. I'll be adding them to my collection for sure.

YES!! My dwarfs have rams now. Ugh, gonna be the most expensive year ever.

Thankfully I've been able to disassociate the film from the beautiful designs. My Gundabad army shall grow with Crushin' Club Troll

Loving the support that this game is getting again. Can't wait for them to move back to the original trilogy!

 Freytag93 wrote:
Loving the support that this game is getting again. Can't wait for them to move back to the original trilogy!

Why is that? How come you can't get excited for The Hobbit and need Lord of the Rings? Just curious to know if I am alone on how I feel. Is it because the Lord of the Rings era was so great back then, filled with so much excitement and joy reading articles, painting minis and playing the game you want it back and The Hobbit doesn't do it for you?

or me, The Hobbit leaves such a foul stench in my mouth I can't get excited for anything for The Hobbit because how awesome Lord of the Rings was. I am worried once the Lord of the Rings does come back around it will still have The Hobbit stench that I am going to loose total interest now. While the stuff coming out for The Hobbit is beautiful the excitement I had once for Lord of the Rings is just no there with The Hobbit.

I guess what I mean is Lord of the Rings was lots of minis for a great price. The Hobbit took those great minis, cut the content in half with only a third price reduction so therefore a price increase for half the content. Then we talk about points. How is it GW keeps dropping the ball when it comes to points? Since there was no points in the mini rule book there was no way in hell I was going to pay another $100 for the big rule book just to have points. That is when I quit Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit. My one and only purchase for The Hobbit was the Limited edition starter set. Then when The Hobbit came out ALL support dropped for the game. Prices just increased even more. Now GW has changed or supposedly changed but I see no support for The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings at all. No mention in the "new" White Dwarfs so it's still not really being supported right now.

I guess I am expecting or really hoping the flavour or the love or Lord of the Rings will some how come back but still seeing high prices to low content ratio, I think I am going to be extremely disappointed once Lord of the Rings does come out.

Short of acquiring new licences for things like the Silmarillion or Children of Hurin, all the LOTR range truly needs is updated and rebalanced profiles across the board, and the return of as many old OOP miniatures as possible. The total range (including OOP minis) is pretty much a complete and comprehensive range covering the films and books very well.

 Eiríkr wrote:
Beautiful models, it's a shame I just can't shake out how terrible the films were.
I check in on this thread for news on a 'One Book to Rule Them All' update for the original SBG, is this still a potential thing to come later in the year?

Far as ive read, yea. Later this year the books for the pre hobbit movies will be released again with updates. that's what im looking forward to. Lots of Isenguard and LAst alliance minis

Wow, just wow!

 krazynadechukr wrote:

Spoiler:

 ImAGeek wrote:
From War of Sigmar:

Wow, just wow!

As much as I am pessimistic, I have to agree. Wow.

Davor wrote:


or me, The Hobbit leaves such a foul stench in my mouth I can't get excited for anything for The Hobbit because how awesome Lord of the Rings was. I am worried once the Lord of the Rings does come back around it will still have The Hobbit stench that I am going to loose total interest now. While the stuff coming out for The Hobbit is beautiful the excitement I had once for Lord of the Rings is just no there with The Hobbit.

I used to be that way, but I learned to divorce the sub-par Hobbit films from their beautiful designs. The designs are brilliant and the models are fantastic, so it sucked me in that way. I have large Lake-Town Guard, Lake-Town Militia, Mirkwood, Dale, Erebor, and a HUGE Gundabad army.

 judgedoug wrote:

Davor wrote:


or me, The Hobbit leaves such a foul stench in my mouth I can't get excited for anything for The Hobbit because how awesome Lord of the Rings was. I am worried once the Lord of the Rings does come back around it will still have The Hobbit stench that I am going to loose total interest now. While the stuff coming out for The Hobbit is beautiful the excitement I had once for Lord of the Rings is just no there with The Hobbit.

I used to be that way, but I learned to divorce the sub-par Hobbit films from their beautiful designs. The designs are brilliant and the models are fantastic, so it sucked me in that way. I have large Lake-Town Guard, Lake-Town Militia, Mirkwood, Dale, Erebor, and a HUGE Gundabad army.

Ironically enough, I like the movies a lot. It's the only reason why I came back to the GW website to see what has changed only to see everything is the same or even more expensive sadly.

For me, I live in Canada and I don't do the mail order thing, so if I can't buy it at my friendly local gaming store, then I don't buy the miniatures. I was really hoping for a price reduction to get started back in. Normally I wouldn't complain about money anymore, but I lost my job, so it's hard trying to restart something just with my wifes salary at the moment. I was ready to give up on Age of Sigmar and 40K and other games for Lord of the Rings. thing is, seeing it is still The Hobbit it's very hard to get into. AoS is much cheaper to start and get into now.

Too bad we don't have those great "starter boxes" or "bundle boxes" with great savings in them to start Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit.

Davor wrote:
Ironically enough, I like the movies a lot. It's the only reason why I came back to the GW website to see what has changed only to see everything is the same or even more expensive sadly.

For me, I live in Canada and I don't do the mail order thing, so if I can't buy it at my friendly local gaming store, then I don't buy the miniatures. I was really hoping for a price reduction to get started back in. Normally I wouldn't complain about money anymore, but I lost my job, so it's hard trying to restart something just with my wifes salary at the moment. I was ready to give up on Age of Sigmar and 40K and other games for Lord of the Rings. thing is, seeing it is still The Hobbit it's very hard to get into. AoS is much cheaper to start and get into now.

Too bad we don't have those great "starter boxes" or "bundle boxes" with great savings in them to start Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit.

Well to be fair "it is still The Hobbit" because the Hobbit rulebook is the most current rulebook. Technically the system is Strategy Battle Game and The Hobbit Strategy Battle Game is the most recent incarnation of the rules (ver 5, if you will). However, everything is getting rolled into the single umbrella of Middle-Earth Strategy Battle Game this year, with a generic Middle Earth rulebook with the updated (ver 6) rules. So I'd say snag a cheap rulebook off ebay for the time being and wait til the new ME-SBG drops this year.

Also you don't have to use Hobbit models. And plenty of used models on ebay. And check with your FLGS to see if they'll let you put up a notice for "buying old LOTR armies!". A lot of gamers have them cheap in their closet collecting dust. If your FLGS frowns on you buying from other gamers in the FLGS, offer to have you pay the FLGS the money the person was asking for their army, and they issue store credit to the person selling the army. A lot of game stores do that.

LOTR is still very cheap, considering most armies consist of maybe 30 models. Gondor for example, you can get playing with as little as the Commanders box and a box of Warriors of Minas Tirith or two. Assuming your FLGS has a GW account, they can order anything on the website.

Sadly my Friendly Local Gaming Store doesn't carry much but will order anything I need but with no discount but I do have a gaming place. Thing is nobody plays Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit. Also now with a lot of new product being Forge World, I don't think he can order it now. You do make some great points though Judgedoug, I guess this would all be a moot point if I people actually played.

I tried to get our small gaming group interested but have no takers. Before they balked at Age of Sigmar so but now with the Generals Handbook out, people are interested and a few games have been made. I guess the problem for The Hobbit is, the cost getting started is a huge factor. Hopefully the Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game will have a cheaper getting started cost and have a few of those great "starter" boxes.

To be fair, you could easily start up LotR for the price of a 40k or AoS Start Collecting set. Leaving aside the FW stuff, the £50 for an SC set could easily get you a commander set (not necessarily the box sets, but most forces still have hero blisters of some sort around) and a couple of plastic boxes, which represents a much larger portion of a 'full' army than an SC set would for the other games.

For example, a foot-and-mounted pack of Rohan Captains, a box of Warriors of Rohan and a box of Riders of Rohan comes in at around the price of an SC, as would Gorbag and Shagrat, a pack of Morannon Orcs and 2 sets of Mordor Uruks. Both perfectly adequate forces to get started with. There's not the discount you'd get with an SC set, but the stuff is cheaper in the first place.

I agree the Hobbit stuff isn't as cheap to pick up, but the LotR portion of the range is still a significant majority of it, and the startup cost for that remains very reasonable.



As for the new FW minis... wow! These sculpts are so much more movie-accurate than most of the Hobbit stuff, very nearly as good as the Perry LotR sculpts. Top stuff.

Davor wrote:
Sadly my Friendly Local Gaming Store doesn't carry much but will order anything I need but with no discount but I do have a gaming place. Thing is nobody plays Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit. Also now with a lot of new product being Forge World, I don't think he can order it now. You do make some great points though Judgedoug, I guess this would all be a moot point if I people actually played.

I tried to get our small gaming group interested but have no takers. Before they balked at Age of Sigmar so but now with the Generals Handbook out, people are interested and a few games have been made. I guess the problem for The Hobbit is, the cost getting started is a huge factor. Hopefully the Middle Earth Strategy Battle Game will have a cheaper getting started cost and have a few of those great "starter" boxes.

Trying the rules with AoS models first might be helpful. I find the ruleset far superior to GW's other offerings.

I agree, the Lord of the Rings are the best ruleset that GW ever put out. I guess The Hobbit is the same since not much has changed except for how an army if built. Other than that I think most of the rules are still the same. Far superior rule set. Surprised how many people don't want to use them.