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 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Jidmah wrote:
Well, according to the source of that picture, that is Kent Airport which isn't even close to any route to cross the channel

And I don't care how fast they drive, those trucks are never going to be able to take off.

Big mek: "Hold my beer."

My codex arrived today.

And GW is going to send me my replacement PM Hero model with tracked delivery, so fair play to them there. It wasn't their fault the post lost it.

Now to see if my Mortal Realms replacement stuff arrives

Does anyone else feel bad asking for replacement stuff even though it is perfectly valid? I know it's correct thing to do (And tbf I never once had to ask for a replacement, it was always offered.

I Just always think the people on the other side are judging me and wondering if I am lying haha

Doohicky wrote:
Does anyone else feel bad asking for replacement stuff even though it is perfectly valid? I know it's correct thing to do (And tbf I never once had to ask for a replacement, it was always offered.

I once got a batch of Battlefield in a Box terrain that had several broken pieces. I told them about it and they replaced everything twice over.

 Jidmah wrote:


I guess GW should think about re-opeinging their EU warehouses which they closed down some years ago if they want to deliver anything on time in future.

Apparently there's been a huge influx of British companies doing just that in the Netherlands.

 lare2 wrote:

 Jidmah wrote:


I guess GW should think about re-opeinging their EU warehouses which they closed down some years ago if they want to deliver anything on time in future.

Apparently there's been a huge influx of British companies doing just that in the Netherlands.

Seeing that's the recommendation by UK goverment no surprise

Still seems to be a clear shortage of stock in the UK, so would have thought that would have knock ons for the rest of the world, carparks in Kent or otherwise.

Don't expect to see a conventional Plague Marine kit I ordered until at least mid-Feb, if then.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
That's a kitbashed Daemon Prince with the head from a Plague Drone.

Oh ok.

Damn

Doohicky wrote:
Does anyone else feel bad asking for replacement stuff even though it is perfectly valid? I know it's correct thing to do (And tbf I never once had to ask for a replacement, it was always offered.

I Just always think the people on the other side are judging me and wondering if I am lying haha

No, as you have already paid for it, and the loss for them to replace is really just the time and fees to post it (the raw materials for a single model are so cheap as to be essentially free). That fairly small processing cost is worth it to them in your and other's goodwill. We feel safer buying stuff from them (knowing they will sort it out if something goes wrong), so we are happy to keep buying in future.

I assume that they have the ability to check up on individual purchaser's/addresses' number of claims vs. number of purchases, so someone actually trying to rip them off is going to get noticed after a couple of goes. If I order, say, 5 items a year and 3 of them "go missing in the post" or "didn't get packed" I imagine they might get suspicious. If I ordered 500 items a year, then 3 losses/mistakes might be considered a plausible amount. Those numbers are a guess but I'd expect big retail operations to keep an eye on that sort of thing.

I think it might have happened a couple of times over my decades of buying GW (though I never got Finecast). No problem sorting when it happened.

Still no codex. I guess I'm going to buy the digital copy so I can play until my book arrives. Oh wait...

That's a kitbashed Daemon Prince with the head from a Plague Drone.

They aren't allowed to do that. That head doesn't come in the Daemon Prince kit...

 Brutus_Apex wrote:

That's a kitbashed Daemon Prince with the head from a Plague Drone.

They aren't allowed to do that. That head doesn't come in the Daemon Prince kit...

They've been showing off converted outriders a lot. GW doesn't seem to be as strict with showing conversions recently

They've been showing off converted outriders a lot. GW doesn't seem to be as strict with showing conversions recently

Yeah. It was a joke. I was poking fun at the Death Guard options gak storm.

 Jidmah wrote:
Still no codex. I guess I'm going to buy the digital copy so I can play until my book arrives. Oh wait...

Interesting. Wandered into a (somewhat) local game store today since I was out for other business and it was barely a mile out of my way. They had a pile. And 10 copies of Indomitus, 2 of the Lumenith box, Blood of the Phoenix, Aetherwar, and two of the Christmas armies. No idea what they're doing right, but GW apparently sends them loads of stuff.

Well they can joke and show off conversions then smack your knuckles with the ruler for daring to feel you can have 2 plasma guns at less than 10 man strong, that is wicked power gaming.

Well they can joke and show off conversions then smack your knuckles with the ruler for daring to feel you can have 2 plasma guns at less than 10 man strong, that is wicked power gaming

Yep. My relationship with GW is getting borderline abusive at this point.

They do so good to say one thing and do another. Act like they like conversions or after market work yet make rules to directly punish or remove it to " help the new player " it's a bad joke.

That said, glad some people are getting their items in finally.

Conversions? All I see on those outriders are a couple cosmetic bits taken straight from the DA and Ravenwing upgrade sprues. Stock loadout still.

Ok ? Still that isn't just in the one box, that makes players feel bad they'd need to then buy the upgrade sprues, can't have that. I mean, having two plasmas would have just involved buying two troop boxes and that was apparently way too hard and off putting to a new player.

Edit: No, I don't really believe that but that is how silly and inconsistent their ideas are. It's all good to have to track down upgrade sprues to make neat guys, but you can't buy more than one box to make a pairing weapon load out ? It really comes off dumb.

Voss wrote:

 Jidmah wrote:
Still no codex. I guess I'm going to buy the digital copy so I can play until my book arrives. Oh wait...

Interesting. Wandered into a (somewhat) local game store today since I was out for other business and it was barely a mile out of my way. They had a pile. And 10 copies of Indomitus, 2 of the Lumenith box, Blood of the Phoenix, Aetherwar, and two of the Christmas armies. No idea what they're doing right, but GW apparently sends them loads of stuff.

It's not sold out, it just takes 3 weeks to get to the store. I think this is a problem that is not affecting countries outside of Europe. Currently, stuff coming in form the UK is right now is treated exactly the same as stuff coming in from other countries with absolutely no trade agreement, and since GW most likely didn't send their product ahead of time to compensate for this, they now have their release stuck in customs.

Voss wrote:

 Jidmah wrote:
Still no codex. I guess I'm going to buy the digital copy so I can play until my book arrives. Oh wait...

Interesting. Wandered into a (somewhat) local game store today since I was out for other business and it was barely a mile out of my way. They had a pile. And 10 copies of Indomitus, 2 of the Lumenith box, Blood of the Phoenix, Aetherwar, and two of the Christmas armies. No idea what they're doing right, but GW apparently sends them loads of stuff.

Issue is UK decided to make it MUCH harder for business to sell stuff to EU(prime minister is famously having said about this prospect f*** business) and it's starting to show(and worst is not here yet).

It's not that it's sold out. It's paperwork in transportation. Local store here is waiting as well. There's days worth of delays for trucks in UK trucks going to EU. That's with much reduced(at one point 40% less than what they expected around that time) truck traffic and almost half the trucks going from UK to EU going empty without goods(it's cheaper for companies. Indeed some companies are literally paying for truck companies to come back empty so the trucks gets back to use faster).

And this isn't going to be much better in future as papers and checks are permanent. Even if process is smoothed out it's simple math. If you have 10,000 trucks(average daily amount last year) going and each gets delayed by 30 seconds(which is little....) that's 5000 minutes wasted per day.

US has it easier due to own warehouse and production capability. GW might be considering reopening european ones sooner or later. That's the goverment recommendation for UK companies to cope with this anyway.

tneva82 wrote:
Issue is UK decided to make it MUCH harder for business to sell stuff to EU(prime minister is famously having said about this prospect f*** business) and it's starting to show(and worst is not here yet).

It's not that it's sold out. It's paperwork in transportation. Local store here is waiting as well. There's days worth of delays for trucks in UK trucks going to EU. That's with much reduced(at one point 40% less than what they expected around that time) truck traffic and almost half the trucks going from UK to EU going empty without goods(it's cheaper for companies. Indeed some companies are literally paying for truck companies to come back empty so the trucks gets back to use faster).

And this isn't going to be much better in future as papers and checks are permanent. Even if process is smoothed out it's simple math. If you have 10,000 trucks(average daily amount last year) going and each gets delayed by 30 seconds(which is little....) that's 5000 minutes wasted per day.

US has it easier due to own warehouse and production capability. GW might be considering reopening european ones sooner or later. That's the goverment recommendation for UK companies to cope with this anyway.

This is getting incredibly dangerously close to politics - but its not strictly true. First there is seemingly almost no DG stock in the UK - or at least what exists is flying out the door from the various stores. You cannot for instance buy regular Plague Marines for love or money. Codexes are seemingly be scoured from shops.

Also the UK is not responsible for EU bureaucracy. Most of the issues you are seeing right now are because the EU has imposed the full rules from 1st January (as is entirely their right - but problems are inevitable), while the UK has (mostly) given a 6 month grace period, with the new rules applying to various goods only to begin on 1st July. This is why you have the current asymmetric trade issues.

Quit with the Brexit crap. I've listened to comparable unsubstantiated rambling from both sides since 2016 and cannot be chewed with it. I come here for DG info not more inane Brexit waffle.

On the US front, has anyone been experiencing extremely long processing times when ordering direct from GW?

I ordered a lot of stuff about ten days ago which has since gone out of stock, but my order status hasn't changed at all. I know Covid slowed them down, but my last order during Covid didn't feel this delayed.

NewTruthNeomaxim wrote:
On the US front, has anyone been experiencing extremely long processing times when ordering direct from GW?

I ordered a lot of stuff about ten days ago which has since gone out of stock, but my order status hasn't changed at all. I know Covid slowed them down, but my last order during Covid didn't feel this delayed.

My Direchasm order was unusually long. Still waiting for my Death Guard stuff.

My local USA GW store had the Death Guard codex and new terrain yesterday.. wish I had the spousal permission to spend, but hadn't the hobby budget

NewTruthNeomaxim wrote:
On the US front, has anyone been experiencing extremely long processing times when ordering direct from GW?

I ordered a lot of stuff about ten days ago which has since gone out of stock, but my order status hasn't changed at all. I know Covid slowed them down, but my last order during Covid didn't feel this delayed.

Several people locally have had that issue. They said they have finally started getting their orders over the past couple of weeks though.

EDIT: I want to add t hat our LGS has been getting mostly everything before release day, though backfilling that stock once it's gone has taken a long time.

@ tneva82

Just go to warhammer world. May have to self isolate for a while first on arrival first.

There is still stock there on various items that are not online. Plus you can even take your own ham sandwiches when visiting the uk. unlike us that travel the other way.

To be honest seeing how things are playing out with the state of the eu and bureaucracy of the state of their vaccine roll out. It's just inviting grandfather nurgle to take residence there.

Good luck.

 Jidmah wrote:

 lare2 wrote:
Quit with the Brexit crap. I've listened to comparable unsubstantiated rambling from both sides since 2016 and cannot be chewed with it. I come here for DG info not more inane Brexit waffle.

Slow, endless sufferings seems to be totally on topic to me

That tickled me

Codex: Death Guard FAQ is out:

https://www.warhammer-community.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/JO62MoTw7DJ1MzcW.pdf

 Jidmah wrote:
Codex: Death Guard FAQ is out:

https://www.warhammer-community.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/JO62MoTw7DJ1MzcW.pdf

Barely anything.

Either they knocked it out of the park with Death Guard, or there haven't been enough games to find more errors.