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Could be that it's just too heavy (apparently 3.536kg without any packaging) so some services won't take it

changemod wrote:

 Overread wrote:
Well considering how its selling out I don't think its going to be dead on arrival - remembering that its only the core boxed set that is in limited supply right now - the rest will be made and cast up as required

There’s still an easy chance it will be for me, given I have little to no social skills and the only local store is a GW that only allows specialist games to be played on one day a week.

This is looking to be one of those more obscure play it in your basement with a circle of friends type games.

That sounds like time well spent to me!

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
Could be that it's just too heavy (apparently 3.536kg without any packaging) so some services won't take it

I couldn’t get a discounted grandmaster set, so I just went for 1x warlord/knights/rules.

changemod wrote:

This is looking to be one of those more obscure play it in your basement with a circle of friends type games.

I'd argue playing at a GW is the obscure way to play. Houses and clubs is where most gaming happens

 zedmeister wrote:

changemod wrote:

This is looking to be one of those more obscure play it in your basement with a circle of friends type games.

I'd argue playing at a GW is the obscure way to play. Houses and clubs is where most gaming happens

Well, I’ve been in the hobby maybe 4 years and haven’t really gotten past pickup games at the GW.

Little to no social skills, like I said. Playing with friends requires friends.

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
Could be that it's just too heavy (apparently 3.536kg without any packaging) so some services won't take it

I saw 4.4kg on a website, I don't remember which one.

 Tamereth wrote:
Well this is a bust, was gona pick up a copy if I could get it for £140 or less.
Goblin gaming & darksphere didn't even list it
Wayland and firestorm have it at full price (bloody scalpers)
Element games sold out inside of a minute
and the outpost website died hard.

Guess I'll be waiting six months for the reprint.

Lvlup still have 25% off, and allegedly 19 in stock as of thirty seconds ago?

Me, I’m plumping just for the rules, a Warlord and a Knight Banner. Five or six local lads also buying in, so that should be plenty for me.

These look like they'll scale in with existing epic quite nicely. From TacCmd forums, GlynG:

The original plastic epic space marine.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

Lvlup still have 25% off, and allegedly 19 in stock as of thirty seconds ago?

Me, I’m plumping just for the rules, a Warlord and a Knight Banner. Five or six local lads also buying in, so that should be plenty for me.

They are at £147.5, seems 18 remaining. EDIT: down to 14 since I started writing

UK shipping only it seems. Their shipping policy states "All orders over £75 will receive free shipping, while anything under £75 will just be £4. This is for UK shipping only, unfortunately at this time we are unable to ship overseas."

 Tamereth wrote:
Well this is a bust, was gona pick up a copy if I could get it for £140 or less.
Goblin gaming & darksphere didn't even list it
Wayland and firestorm have it at full price (bloody scalpers)
Element games sold out inside of a minute
and the outpost website died hard.

Guess I'll be waiting six months for the reprint.

Would those at full price have sacrificed discounts for more quantities? By the way, Wayland had 5% discount via summersaver coupon.

I read somewhere 30 copies were available at Element Games, maybe the deal was "you'll get higher allocations if no discounts", I don't know.

Anyway, it seems a successful launch, now let's hope it develops into a successful long-term game

Well despite costing the equivalent of £282 the Japanese version of the grand master edition is already sold out! I wonder how many they made for the Japanese market.

www.kirtongames.co.uk have 7 left at £148.99 they're an awesome FLGS in Devon who ship nationally.

A local store was saying that they had to pre-pay for all their copies of the GME box before pre-orders went up. That means most stores will be limited by how much cash they're willing to risk on stock.

A quick check on GW UK, France, Germany, Japan websites show the GME and Titanicus collection bundle all sold out, there are still some left in Australia and New Zealand

Mendi Warrior wrote:
A quick check on GW UK, France, Germany, Japan websites show the GME and Titanicus collection bundle all sold out, there are still some left in Australia and New Zealand

Not bad. Yet again, I suspect GW underestimated the popularity and appeal of Epic, not to mention the number of older Epic gamers keen to get their hands on this

The Grand Master edition is all sold out here in Ireland, didn't even get a chance to think about ordering it.

Oh well, at least I'll have an extra €230 to save this week.

I guess the "20,000 copies" rumour was bogus then

changemod wrote:

 zedmeister wrote:

changemod wrote:

This is looking to be one of those more obscure play it in your basement with a circle of friends type games.

I'd argue playing at a GW is the obscure way to play. Houses and clubs is where most gaming happens

Well, I’ve been in the hobby maybe 4 years and haven’t really gotten past pickup games at the GW.

Little to no social skills, like I said. Playing with friends requires friends.

I've been in the hobby, on and off, for maybe 25 - 30 years, only games I ever played were at a GW. I had a great desire at one point to join a gaming club or something but I never did. I never played with friends, I had enough of them but no-one was interested. Couldn't blame them really, they're just toy soldiers until they're painted up nicely, then they become somewhat artistic. So I just accepted that I'd be a painter and it was all good, I get quite good at painting and tbh, when I watch a Youtube game report, the games seems kind of boring anyway. Monopoly or Poker or chess all more appealing.

 xttz wrote:
I guess the "20,000 copies" rumour was bogus then

Why?

The first new Space Hulk Edition shipped 74k copies in a similar amount of time.


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Gifts for geeks is still showing 9 copies in stock:

https://www.giftsforgeeks.org.uk/adeptus-titanicus-grand-master-edition---advanced-order

 xttz wrote:
I guess the "20,000 copies" rumour was bogus then

Or it's accurate and it's flying off the shelves

 notprop wrote:

 xttz wrote:
I guess the "20,000 copies" rumour was bogus then

Why?

The first new Space Hulk Edition shipped 74k copies in a similar amount of time.


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Gifts for geeks is still showing 9 copies in stock:

https://www.giftsforgeeks.org.uk/adeptus-titanicus-grand-master-edition---advanced-order

No reason why it would be bogus, this has been marketed and hyped well. Even if people tend to groan about the price, there are many who still buy the thing because they really want it and go "ah what the hell, I'll live" while ordering it anyway. 20 000 is not much.

Interesting vid as the new warlord stands next to the old original one and a couple of paladin knights

 notprop wrote:

 xttz wrote:
I guess the "20,000 copies" rumour was bogus then

Why?

The first new Space Hulk Edition shipped 74k copies in a similar amount of time.

In 2009 they had tons of Space Hulk boxes going to all GW stores (the one I got mine from had at least 30 on display). The Grand Master Edition had nothing in most (all?) stores, and very limited stock going to most independent retailers (most I've seen received between 5 and 30 copies). Plus it went to completely out of stock very shortly after the 'first 1000' coins sold out.

Goblin had it listed still at 10:05 ? At 10:00 they had stock at 157 units. Only know because I was going to orde then saw they'd only let you order one so had to go elsewhere. Firestorm had it up way before 10 though , but full price. If goblin had 157 then not sure why outpost onky had 50.... unless they've been naughty and took preorders prior to launch which a lot of bricks and mortar did.

Or they didn't order as many from gw. Not all stores will sell equally many and boxes sitting around is money costing.

That and apparently some stores didnt know how few they would actually get, our local was going to order in 20, got told they could only have 5 copies, had to beg them to at least let him get 11 copies in.

Mendi Warrior wrote:
Interesting vid as the new warlord stands next to the old original one and a couple of paladin knights

Interestingly, the old knights doesn't seem to be much smaller than the new ones...

 zedmeister wrote:

changemod wrote:

This is looking to be one of those more obscure play it in your basement with a circle of friends type games.

I'd argue playing at a GW is the obscure way to play. Houses and clubs is where most gaming happens

Absolutely the model for the UK, absolutely the reverse in the US, where a factor of distances and so on means that store games, be it indy or GW, are, I would argue, far more popular than going to each other's houses or setting up a club elsewhere.



And looks like the 'dead on arrival' folks were waaaaaaay off with this.

 Albertorius wrote:

Interestingly, the old knights doesn't seem to be much smaller than the new ones...

Yeah, the thing about old school AT was that the Titans were closer to 3mm scale than 6, never mind 8, so the knights, which were in 6mm, ended up almost the same size as the Warhound class…

Rules breakdown, with the usual caveat that Winters tends to miss things here and there:




And some gameplay, with the caveat that players are fast and loose buggers having fun:

Woo, got the last one at my shop where they've been taken by surprise at the large demand.

Guess we can confidently say it's going to survive the sticker shock then