Overread wrote:
In the UK not at yet no the highstreet is still mostly on lockdown. What's changed is that many non-essential factory and businesses have been allowed to go back to work in a limited form. Builders are back in force and the supply stores are only open for trade right now (since builders can't build because of a lack of supplies/materials).

I suspect the highstreet should be a latter part of the lockdown awakening. Businesses are "safer" in so much as they are areas where people are required to behave in certain ways, so as long as the boss sets up the right protective measures it should be fairly safe.

The highstreet is another matter as you have to deal with - the public.



Also I'm curious what will happen with the homeless after all this. There was a big drive to get them off the streets earlier in the campaign, but we've not heard much about it since really. Be interesting to see if one of the minor positive outputs from this might be a an increase in homeless support and a reduction in their numbers - though the job market likely being worse for a fairly long while might tip that scale.

Carlovonsexron wrote:
This is a bit of a necro for just a.quesrion, but I read that the UK had a plan for "reopening" as earlier this week.

Anyone know who this might effect GE resuming the release schedule?

 BrookM wrote:
GW is prioritising independent stockists over their own stores, wherever these are open in limited capacity.
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 BrookM wrote:
My local GW store has received its first resupply from Nottingham. No primers, but he did receive paints, brushes and models.

Games Workshop to refund state aid after business charges ahead

A surge in sales has prompted Games Workshop to say that it will refund the government for the support it has received as its profits are expected to beat expectations.

Games Workshop said that the coronavirus outbreak had had an impact on its sales and it had closed all its shops around the world in March but since some have reopened the business has been encouraged by customers flocking back.

As a result the company said that it expected annual sales to be about £270 million and pre-tax profits to be no less than £85 million. Nick Bubb, an independent retail analyst, said that this was “an improvement on the £256 million sales and £81 million pre-tax profit in the previous year, helped by strong licensing income and [by] having sailed through the pandemic over the last 3 months with so little damage”.

The business, which at £2 billion is worth almost as much as Marks & Spencer, was started in 1975 by three friends who made and sold wooden boardgames. After securing the Dungeons & Dragons franchise for Europe the company developed its own role-play gaming series, Warhammer, which it has followed up with Age of Sigmar. Enthusiasts buy paints, backdrop and figurines from the retailer, which now has 532 shops in 20 countries.

Shares in Games Workshop rose by 770p, or 10.9 per cent, to £78.65 in morning trading on the back of the positive update.

Games Workshop said that it had claimed the applicable government subsidies to cover the period of uncertainty since the start of the coronavirus outbreak in March. The company did not say how many staff it had furloughed or whether it had been granted a business interruption loan. It did say, however, that in light of its strong results since reopening its shops “we do not intend to make further claims and we aim to repay any amounts that have already been received, where possible”.

The business said that 306 of its 532 shops had already reopened, before the lifting of lockdown in England for all non-essential retailers.

Games Workshop, which has operated largely under the radar for the majority of its two decades as a listed company, recently received an unexpected publicity boost after the Superman actor Henry Cavill, 37, shared a picture of his own Warhammer collection and revealed that he was spending quarantine painting the figurines. Cavill said in an Instagram post in April that Warhammer was his “lifelong hobby” and referred to: “A company called Games Workshop . . . or ‘plastic crack’, as we call it. Genuinely can’t get enough of the lore they have built over the decades.”

 Overread wrote:
We've not heard anything about Forgeworld, not reopening nor even the new rulebooks for them. We have heard that the aircraft get their keywords on the rules launch day for 40K, but otherwise nothing.

 xttz wrote:

 Overread wrote:
We've not heard anything about Forgeworld, not reopening nor even the new rulebooks for them. We have heard that the aircraft get their keywords on the rules launch day for 40K, but otherwise nothing.

Yesterday's article implies the FW books will release alongside 9E:

"The list of Forge World Flyers receiving the Aircraft keyword will be included in their rules updates on the same day that the new edition is launched."

 Nevelon wrote:


I read that as they will be getting a FAQ/9th update launch day, not new books.