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Could always grab that WarCry gobbo set too.

The what now? No WarCry set on GW’s shop?

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
The what now? No WarCry set on GW’s shop?

Well apparently it's done is why...


This was the set. It was the only way to get a printed card for Sneaky Snufflers initially. Released with the Stormcast Vanguard and Nighthaunt warbands.

Ooooh!

Definitely looking at picking up the CSM box, I have one of the GW vouchers so might as well use it before I lose it. I've got a weird mish-mash of old, very badly painted and assembled CSM that I've slowly accumulated, but I've been meaning to bite the bullet and start afresh with some shiny new Word Bearers for a while now.

Consider grabbing one of the "Start Collecting" sets too.

 Kanluwen wrote:
Consider grabbing one of the "Start Collecting" sets too.

I've managed to pick up the CSM half of Shadowspear and a Lord Discordant along the way, so I'm aiming to mash them together in a demonic, spiky mess as a list and see what happens when we're able to roll dice again,

 Kanluwen wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:
I've heard it suggested that the allocation issue is a US/Canada only thing, possibly due to shipping/logistics delays (i.e there may be additional waves of stock available). Seems the UK/EU might not have the same limitations.

As always, the stock for independent shops is different from the GW webstore stock which is different to the stock for their physical stores. There's a lot of independent stores and as we saw with Indomitus, sometimes these small shops put in ridiculously high order numbers and it seems to be tied to their webstores rather than the actual storefronts.

Right, but thats besides the point because from what I'm seeing and hearing from US retailers is that regardless of the stores size or sales volume they are being limited to qty 1 of each battleforce. This includes my usual store which never has its order quantities for *anything* reduced, as well as another local store which is one of the major online retailers for the game (supposedly top 3 by sales volume in the US). Both of them are saying the same thing - "We can only get one of each of these boxes from GW".

I get that, I'm just stating a fact in advance of something that tends to get conflated whenever we see these limited quantities which is "GW kept all the stock for themselves!". GW shops are supposedly getting 1 of each as well.

And hell, even the new releases for Marines are stated to be 2 per shop for independents per the order sheet we saw. I know that my local GW got a handful of some of the newest releases while a local indie had about six each when I went to grab a Clone AT-RT for Legion doing my monthly sweep of dropping cash at a local indie shop.

We can expect retail madness to be the normal until we get corona under control and GW can work at full output once more. Even then it will likely be a few months lag time before they get on top of things (esp for overseas)

spoke w the big shop some more, supposedly the 1ea cap is for week 1 and everyone will be able to order more week 2 though it will be throttled/subject to further allocation. No idea what the rationale is, just what their sales rep told them.

chaos0xomega wrote:
spoke w the big shop some more, supposedly the 1ea cap is for week 1 and everyone will be able to order more week 2 though it will be throttled/subject to further allocation. No idea what the rationale is, just what their sales rep told them.

No offense, but didn’t we hear the same thing about BloodBowl second season? Yet Miniaturemarket got 200+, sold those and got at least 150 more.

My LGS hasn’t heard anything about max quantity to order, so it could just be your shop saying it because with the pandemic and lower sales they just don’t have the money to tie up in lots of big dollar boxes. I know GW doesn’t have the production abilities due to social distancing their employees, but these seem like pretty standard press the button and walk away products.

Minimarket, I think, uses a 3rd party distributor rather than a GW trade account. Things like "one per shop" might be a GW trade account thing--ensuring that their trade accounts can get stock and maintain it.

When Mini-Market's stock goes? It's gone.

Again - this shop is one of the top three online retailers in the US by sales volume, so - no - it has nothing to do with them not having cash on hand (in fact, they also admitted that because they have multiple physical locations they are actually getting 3 copies of each rather than 1) and everything to do with GW policy. Discount Games Inc has confirmed similar as well (again, another major online retailer).

And no, we didn't hear the same thing about Blood Bowl second season. I help out at one of the smaller local FLGS's (gotta earn my 25% employee discount!), there was no "limit 1" stipulation on the weekly order spreadsheets from GW for that the way there are for the Battleforces. Can't speak for other stores on that one since I dont really care for the game and didn't follow it closely, but my store was able to order a half dozen copies without issue, whereas I have not heard of a single retailer that *didn't* have "limit 1" written into their weekly order sheet. Maybe there might be a couple of stores that have a really good sales rep that can "look the other way" and get them some extra stock on week 1 (lord knows our sales rep at the shop has definitely managed to get us above allocation on some things in the past), but so far based on what I'm hearing thats not going to happen.

3.5 hours in, only one Battlleforce (Necrons) is sold out in NZ.

Prices aren't as bad as I thought they'd be.

But you can get 'em from 20% discounters.

Not sure if it was mentioned but they fixed the squig issue, 15 as it should be.

Well, they didn't hang around long on Element then! Think I bagged a Necron one (depending on how accurate their stock allocation system is).

Snaffled a Squig one from Element. Which is nice.

Tried form GW site for the necron eradicator, I added to my basket, then went to checkout and it says one or more items out of stock in my basket :(


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Got one through firestorm gaming woo

Waylan didn't offer discount for these and indeed bulky. Firestorm games gives discount but shipping and with that price so close to FLGS might just as well support them anyway and bit more than I want considering it has spare tyrant and also dubious use giant so guess I'll pass and get gluttons separately whiich were the biggest temptation with leadbelchers, ironguts and scrap launcher being "nice to have but I can live without those for a while" level.

Somebody else can get decent start for gutbuster army.

Just great, local mailorders have dozens on stock of everything except the Necron one... which was the only one I was looking for...

Think that was destined to be fastest selling out box

Was about to buy two from darksphere when I was foiled towards the end of the checkout process by a large PayPal Captcha that was way too big for my phone screen, rendering checkout impossible.

Oh well, I really didn’t need to add stuff to my pile of shame anyway!

Looks like the Dark Sphere server has overloaded. Checked out a box of IG, Tau and Ogors and got a PayPal receipt email. However their server stopped responding and when I refreshed I’m on the home page with the items in my basket and no order on my account. Just raised a ticket with them to see if they’ve got my order or not. Did try phoning but as there shops are closed it went to answerphone. Not sure whether to try and check out again and cancel the first PayPal or wait for them to come back to me

Managed to order a couple of T'au boxes. Happy with that

Took the leap and got myself two tyranid battleforces as a start of a new army. In Germany right now, only necron and SM are gone.

After about half an hour of frustrating refreshes and darksphere crashing, my order for the fatesworn box finally went through. I have had a couple of "we're really sorry, but" emails over the years, so I won't count my chickens until they are here.

I grabbed a Tyranid one. Perfect to complete my army tbf. In an ideal world I would have picked up a Necron one too but they were (fortunately for my wallet) sold out.

International store: Tzeentch and Necrons flew away in under 4 hours, as did the... Primaris?

Surprised, everyone else and their mothers said it was quite terrible in YouTube or forums.

Maybe they are understocked? Or they might not do as many of this as they used to on the first few years.