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Sold out in the UK by 10:19 when I checked. I would love see the expression on the face of GW staff who thought specialist games were a waste of time when they find out that a game significantly derived and inspired by Necromunda sells out in around 15 minutes.

Anyway, I only want the rulebook, but for everyone else I hope GW restock soon. It is good to see something Necromunda related getting some substantial support.

dreadedman wrote:
Still available through some online retailers, might be worth a look for people who missed out.

Take that with a pinch of salt, the third parties often don't know exactly how many they will get. I've been burnt before on making a preorder that then couldn't be fulfilled. Got my money back automatically, with no hassle, but missed out on the product.

 zedmeister wrote:

dreadedman wrote:
Still available through some online retailers, might be worth a look for people who missed out.

Who? I can't see any

You could try Wayland Games as it's still available on there, however don't hold your breath as I've been caught out a couple of times in the past (Skaven Blood Bowl dice to name but one) and had pre-orders refunded because they've oversubscribed and don't always seem to be able to get the required volume of stock from GW.

LordShaft.

dreadedman wrote:

 zedmeister wrote:

dreadedman wrote:
Still available through some online retailers, might be worth a look for people who missed out.

Who? I can't see any

Wayland Games

Wayland never stock anything bar misguidance and false hope. AVOID AT ALL COSTS!

So when's this going to show up for preorder in the US?

rtb02 wrote:

dreadedman wrote:

 zedmeister wrote:

dreadedman wrote:
Still available through some online retailers, might be worth a look for people who missed out.

Who? I can't see any

Wayland Games

Wayland never stock anything bar misguidance and false hope. AVOID AT ALL COSTS!

A-men to that!

GW strikes again, I wonder if more will be made available this is getting pretty ridiculous, but not unsurprising tbh. I wonder how many of the units that got sold in the last 15 minutes will end up on ebay for inflated prices.

I would love to know how big the stock of this is compared to Dreadfleet. After that I honestly wondered if we would see any box games like this again.

I just cant believe it they made this a limited run. At least if they released a solo rulebook to go along with it then maybe, MAYBE i could understand this. But i just cant comprehend this.

To raise the hopes of so many players aaaand its gone? Really?

I managed to secure a copy from gw direct but I was hitting refresh every thirty seconds or so from nine o clock much to my wife's frustration. I think gw own their own printing press now so they may be able to get more copies together, or at least make the rules available. Can't wait to use my old necromunda gangs against genestealer cults and tau infiltration teams.

Glumy wrote:
I just cant believe it they made this a limited run. At least if they released a solo rulebook to go along with it then maybe, MAYBE i could understand this. But i just cant comprehend this.

To raise the hopes of so many players aaaand its gone? Really?

Don't worry, they'll print more, they usually do.

I just called my local store and they are reserving a copy for me, so that's an option for some people as well. Had to go in to get some paints anyways so not that big a deal.

 Tamereth wrote:
Want is it with GW releasing things like this that sell out in 10 minutes. It's like they don't want to make money.

More that they don't want to risk overproducing stock IMO. Unsold stock costs them money to sit in there warehouses and it takes up space that could be used by other products. The production and shipping orders for Shadow war would have been placed months ago and it seems that with this box GW decided to err on the side of caution in there predictions. Its frustrating for us as customers but I can understand why GW would make the decision. Hopefully the fast sales will convince GW to do more runs and support the game in the future.

 Mymearan wrote:

Glumy wrote:
I just cant believe it they made this a limited run. At least if they released a solo rulebook to go along with it then maybe, MAYBE i could understand this. But i just cant comprehend this.

To raise the hopes of so many players aaaand its gone? Really?

Don't worry, they'll print more, they usually do.

They'll leave it long enough for everyone to panic order and then put it up on Facebook that they're printing more

(Said after panic buying)

I guess even the new regime hates market research!

Not sure how much slack GW have in there production schedule but they can restock quickly at times. IIRC the Tzeentch battle tome and the Spire of Dawn box were restocked within a few weeks.

Well, I'm not a big purchaser of GW products - although I subscribe to WD.

Since the Space Hulk release a year or two ago that my lad saw in my WD and wanted for Christmas, I've kept tabs on the items I've actually *tried to buy* from GW and failed to get on the day of release. I've saved £475 so far. Not counting any further purchases I would have made if I'd had the item I wanted in the first place and gone on to buy more releated stuff.

I guess I should thank GW's lousy business practices for all that money I've been able to spend elsewhere.

 Gimgamgoo wrote:
Well, I'm not a big purchaser of GW products - although I subscribe to WD.

Since the Space Hulk release a year or two ago that my lad saw in my WD and wanted for Christmas, I've kept tabs on the items I've actually *tried to buy* from GW and failed to get on the day of release. I've saved £475 so far. Not counting any further purchases I would have made if I'd had the item I wanted in the first place and gone on to buy more releated stuff.

I guess I should thank GW's lousy business practices for all that money I've been able to spend elsewhere.

I feel like this is a moan for the sake of moaning.

 Gimgamgoo wrote:
Well, I'm not a big purchaser of GW products - although I subscribe to WD.

Since the Space Hulk release a year or two ago that my lad saw in my WD and wanted for Christmas, I've kept tabs on the items I've actually *tried to buy* from GW and failed to get on the day of release. I've saved £475 so far. Not counting any further purchases I would have made if I'd had the item I wanted in the first place and gone on to buy more releated stuff.

I guess I should thank GW's lousy business practices for all that money I've been able to spend elsewhere.

So... why didn't you wait for restocks if you actually wanted the items in question?

I like the "seeing a thing in White Dwarf and wanting it for Christmas, but it had gone by then, raaa GW bad" story. It reminds me of the movie with the painting of the lady and he finds out it's from 20 years ago so he goes back in time to meet the lady or something - you know the one I mean

GoatboyBeta wrote:

 Tamereth wrote:
Want is it with GW releasing things like this that sell out in 10 minutes. It's like they don't want to make money.

More that they don't want to risk overproducing stock IMO. Unsold stock costs them money to sit in there warehouses and it takes up space that could be used by other products. The production and shipping orders for Shadow war would have been placed months ago and it seems that with this box GW decided to err on the side of caution in there predictions. Its frustrating for us as customers but I can understand why GW would make the decision. Hopefully the fast sales will convince GW to do more runs and support the game in the future.

Also, this box is twice the size of any boxed game released recently - taking double the space in warehouses.

Still, it's quite lame to build up hype for a new game just to have it sold out in 15 minutes. I hope the rulebook and scenery will be available separately sooner rather than later.

I understand not wanting to overstock and sit on product for too long. I'm sure a few of them remember the issues with Gorkamorka.
But selling out in 10 minutes means you've drastically under produced. The fact that they keep doing it consistently shows they don't understand their own customer base. Which screams of a badly run business.

For example if they made 10,000 copies of this, and sold them out in 10 minutes that's a good chunk of change for them. But if they could have sold 100,000 in a week then they are throwing away a lot of easy money. If only they did a bit of market research to understand their customer base they would have a much better idea about what will or won't sell.

Bit of a balls up really to underestimate the massive demand for this game. They did much the same with Gangs of Commoragh and that still hasn't come back into print.

 Tamereth wrote:
I understand not wanting to overstock and sit on product for too long. I'm sure a few of them remember the issues with Gorkamorka.
But selling out in 10 minutes means you've drastically under produced. The fact that they keep doing it consistently shows they don't understand their own customer base. Which screams of a badly run business.

For example if they made 10,000 copies of this, and sold them out in 10 minutes that's a good chunk of change for them. But if they could have sold 100,000 in a week then they are throwing away a lot of easy money. If only they did a bit of market research to understand their customer base they would have a much better idea about what will or won't sell.

Assuming they don't print more of course....

Vorian wrote:
Why aren't X, Y And Z playable?!

Because it takes time to develop the gangs to be at least kind of playable against each other.

Still sucks that it's always the same faction being neglected.

They don't consistently sell out at all. Most of the recent boxed games are still in stock. Lost Patrol is gone for good, Commoragh is temporarily out of stock, DW:OK, Calth and Prospero are all still in stock, Blood Bowl is still in stock, etc. They've underestimated this one but I expect they'll do another version with guardsmen and genestealers or something in due course.

Is it one that doesn't have a plastic box? Since the game seems to be a way to help people buy one or two plastic sets and get playing straight away that would make sense

 Mymearan wrote:

 Gimgamgoo wrote:
Well, I'm not a big purchaser of GW products - although I subscribe to WD.

Since the Space Hulk release a year or two ago that my lad saw in my WD and wanted for Christmas, I've kept tabs on the items I've actually *tried to buy* from GW and failed to get on the day of release. I've saved £475 so far. Not counting any further purchases I would have made if I'd had the item I wanted in the first place and gone on to buy more releated stuff.

I guess I should thank GW's lousy business practices for all that money I've been able to spend elsewhere.

So... why didn't you wait for restocks if you actually wanted the items in question?

Because none of them were ever made/reprinted/sold again.

 Bull0 wrote:
I like the "seeing a thing in White Dwarf and wanting it for Christmas, but it had gone by then, raaa GW bad" story. It reminds me of the movie with the painting of the lady and he finds out it's from 20 years ago so he goes back in time to meet the lady or something - you know the one I mean

Erm.. I got the weekly WD on the Saturday of release. Looked at it with my lad. He asked for Space Hulk for Xmas. I went to the website on the day of release (that day itself) to order, and it was gone. Yeah, they reprinted it a year or so later, but the moment my lad had wanted it had gone.

Back in the late 90's early 2000's. GW produced a giant catalogue of everything they made. You could order anything from it. You could always get it. Nowadays if you don't order some of the stuff within the first 10 minutes of pre-order, the chance has gone.

Spoffle wrote:

I feel like this is a moan for the sake of moaning.

What else is there. A written complaint to GW itself gets you back a letter full of spelling mistakes saying, basically, 'tough luck'.

Here's hoping they reprint the rulebook and sell it separately.

I know it isn't concrete, but their FB rep has been replying to people asking with the line of "It was 'while stocks last' and there is no more info at this time".

Now, it is Saturday, so most people won't be at work in Nottingham HQ, but it does rather concern you when there isn't even the reply of "more will be coming" etc.

But I am pretty sure "while stocks last" and with 1 per order it shouldn't gone in a matter of minutes. These aren't Bieber tickets! :-)

They will be on ebay for £200 next saturday if GW do not announce a future restock beforehand.