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I'm a little surprised the Knights box hasn't sold out yet, given the discount and the "Available while stocks last" label - I walked down to my local GW to order it, so was ordering at 12pm in the UK without an issue, and as I look now at 4:30pm it still appears to be in stock.

 Shadow Walker wrote:
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/07/31/making-the-most-of-the-mechanicum-tactical-tips-from-a-developer/

Hmm......Notice how they mentioned several of the recent plastic kits but also Myrmidons and the Atropos? Maybe, hinting at future plastic kits?

Mmmm... plastic Myrmidons and Atropos. Gimme.........

 Dysartes wrote:
I'm a little surprised the Knights box hasn't sold out yet, given the discount and the "Available while stocks last" label - I walked down to my local GW to order it, so was ordering at 12pm in the UK without an issue, and as I look now at 4:30pm it still appears to be in stock.

The more expensive their big boxes are, the more justifiable buying from a third party is. The RRP of the Knights box is £190 but £150 from most places. I think even if you're somebody who prefers drinking from the tap, a £40 additional saving on an already discounted pair of Knights is probably too good to pass up.

Consequently most third parties sell the Cerastus Knights for around £100-£110 individually, so buying direct from GW and only saving £10 on an extra knight you may not even field together isn't enough to push people to buy it from GW directly even if they missed out buying the discount box from a third party.

 Gadzilla666 wrote:

 Shadow Walker wrote:
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/07/31/making-the-most-of-the-mechanicum-tactical-tips-from-a-developer/

Hmm......Notice how they mentioned several of the recent plastic kits but also Myrmidons and the Atropos? Maybe, hinting at future plastic kits?

Mmmm... plastic Myrmidons and Atropos. Gimme.........

Still available. And they have links to their shop sites. No, you'll get plastic Ursarax and Vultarax and WarCom will explain you why you can't win a battle without lots of them.

Pre-ordered my Mechanicum battle group today. Either it’s a more niche army, or GW have fixed their inventory/production issues. I hope it’s popular enough to get a full plastic range. A plastic Krios would be awesome (and the resin kit is “sold out online”).

Couldn't resist getting a box as well with a 20% discount around here, originally just wanted the Tallarn book, but eh, those zombies really nice and I'm sure we can press that transport thing into use for our future Tallarn games in some capacity.

I promised myself I wouldn't, but I got one too.

Ended up getting two(just as well I did since I wanted two multimelta Castellax for my Praevian and the stingy gits only include one of those and one darkfire in each pair) and hopefully can sell the tanks(mostly play ZM and don't really like the design anyway).

I grabbed 3 and the cerastus battle group.

If any of you gents who get it find yourself not using the circular saws from the castellax kit, I’d love to buy the bits from you for WE dreads. 😅

 Dryaktylus wrote:

 Gadzilla666 wrote:

 Shadow Walker wrote:
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/07/31/making-the-most-of-the-mechanicum-tactical-tips-from-a-developer/

Hmm......Notice how they mentioned several of the recent plastic kits but also Myrmidons and the Atropos? Maybe, hinting at future plastic kits?

Mmmm... plastic Myrmidons and Atropos. Gimme.........

Still available. And they have links to their shop sites. No, you'll get plastic Ursarax and Vultarax and WarCom will explain you why you can't win a battle without lots of them.

Well, you're no fun.

 Snord wrote:
Pre-ordered my Mechanicum battle group today. Either it’s a more niche army, or GW have fixed their inventory/production issues. I hope it’s popular enough to get a full plastic range. A plastic Krios would be awesome (and the resin kit is “sold out online”).

In the USA, at least, GW has kept the Solar Auxilia and Astartes battle groups in production and easily orderable. I assume the Mechanicum will be the same.

 judgedoug wrote:

 Snord wrote:
Pre-ordered my Mechanicum battle group today. Either it’s a more niche army, or GW have fixed their inventory/production issues. I hope it’s popular enough to get a full plastic range. A plastic Krios would be awesome (and the resin kit is “sold out online”).

In the USA, at least, GW has kept the Solar Auxilia and Astartes battle groups in production and easily orderable. I assume the Mechanicum will be the same.

They've been restocked, three different times, here in the US.

I domt think they've been kept in production, I think that's excess stock being transferred between warehouses. The US is being "restocked" from the leftover inventory from the UK and EU etc.

chaos0xomega wrote:
I domt think they've been kept in production, I think that's excess stock being transferred between warehouses. The US is being "restocked" from the leftover inventory from the UK and EU etc.

That would suggest they were significantly overproduced/undersold in the UK and EU, which doesn't seem right.

Not necessarily. If sales in other markets tapered off but sales in the US market remained steady, they could have shifted more inventory to the US to maintain product outflow. The reality is that for at least the SM box it was available on the UK webstore for quite some time (months by my recollection) and the SA box stuck around for quite a few weeks as well. A market can only absorb so much supply of a product so if sales crater somewhere it doesn't really make sense to keep it for sale if another market is consuming more and there's clear demand for it.

Something tells me their logistics are nowhere near flexible enuff to transfer bulk product across the Atlantic in that short time frame.

chaos0xomega wrote:
Not necessarily. If sales in other markets tapered off but sales in the US market remained steady, they could have shifted more inventory to the US to maintain product outflow. The reality is that for at least the SM box it was available on the UK webstore for quite some time (months by my recollection) and the SA box stuck around for quite a few weeks as well. A market can only absorb so much supply of a product so if sales crater somewhere it doesn't really make sense to keep it for sale if another market is consuming more and there's clear demand for it.

On the other hand, if it did remain in production throughout this time you would expect stock levels to be much more reliably maintained in the UK and Europe with short transport links to the factory compared to North America where it has to be transported in bulk on a cargo ship. They are produced in the UK so different distribution patterns are to be expected between markets.

Small bit of news for HH assault weapons:

This was on FB under GW’s post for the new Death Company 40K box coming up on preorder.

Roadmap would be nice....

 Moopy wrote:
Small bit of news for HH assault weapons:

This was on FB under a GW’s 40k post for the new Death Company 40K box coming up on preorder.

Thanks for sharing. About bloody time (nearly)

 Moopy wrote:
Small bit of news for HH assault weapons:

This was on FB under a GW’s 40k post for the new Death Company 40K box coming up on preorder.

At least they are finally telling us. Should have thrown it in at the end of some HH article instead of having to watch facebook comments but oh well

Delayed by what? Did a shipment of cardboard sink?

Unrelated but the Tech Thralls are smaller than anticipated. Also five dudes to a sprue with basically zero options feels kinda crazy but then that have about twelve bits per.

Am currently making my Mechanicum battle group, everything feels like too many bits. At least the Tech Thralls have a sensible sprue layout. The Castellax and Thallax are all over the place sprue wise.

Have you built the Triaros yet? Because I have and there’s like three or four steps I would do in a different order if I was building again. Otherwise it’s a really solid kit though.

 Mr_Rose wrote:
Delayed by what? Did a shipment of cardboard sink?

Unrelated but the Tech Thralls are smaller than anticipated. Also five dudes to a sprue with basically zero options feels kinda crazy but then that have about twelve bits per.

The tech thralls being on the small side is actually nice, means they are more to scale with marines.

 Mr_Rose wrote:
Have you built the Triaros yet? Because I have and there’s like three or four steps I would do in a different order if I was building again. Otherwise it’s a really solid kit though.

Would you care to share exactly what those steps were? I'm planning on building mine at some point this weekend, and wouldn't mind a heads up as to any possible issues...?

 Nicky J wrote:

 Mr_Rose wrote:
Have you built the Triaros yet? Because I have and there’s like three or four steps I would do in a different order if I was building again. Otherwise it’s a really solid kit though.

Would you care to share exactly what those steps were? I'm planning on building mine at some point this weekend, and wouldn't mind a heads up as to any possible issues...?

It’s mostly the roof of the transport bay. They have you assemble it separately then fit it to the hull. If I was doing it again, I’d fit the side pieces and front baseplate to the hull first to get them aligned properly then fit the central top roof bit. (Specifically fit piece C7 to the assembled hull from step 7, fit the connector B20 and 3×A15 to C6, mirrored for C5 with B19, then fit the C5 and C6 subassemblies to the hull before adding C4 on top, replacing step 8 entirely and modifying step 10A.)

Before that though there’s a tiny thing where you’re supposed to add a bunch of bits that support the rear roof section to each main hull side piece but they don’t include part A15 until three or four steps later when it’s much harder to fit so I’d recommend adding them at the initial stage. (This is steps 4 and 5 - just grab the A15 parts they tell you to use in step 7.)

Also I made sure to glue the tracks only to the outermost side of the sponsons (and leave that side plate unglued) to make painting easier.

 Mr_Rose wrote:

 Nicky J wrote:

 Mr_Rose wrote:
Have you built the Triaros yet? Because I have and there’s like three or four steps I would do in a different order if I was building again. Otherwise it’s a really solid kit though.

Would you care to share exactly what those steps were? I'm planning on building mine at some point this weekend, and wouldn't mind a heads up as to any possible issues...?

It’s mostly the roof of the transport bay. They have you assemble it separately then fit it to the hull. If I was doing it again, I’d fit the side pieces and front baseplate to the hull first to get them aligned properly then fit the central top roof bit.

Before that though there’s a tiny thing where you’re supposed to add a bunch of bits that support the rear roof section to each main hull side piece but they don’t include part A15 until three or four steps later when it’s much harder to fit so I’d recommend adding them at the initial stage.

Also I made sure to glue the tracks only to the outermost side of the sponsons (and leave that side plate unglued) to make painting easier.

Awesome. Thanks mate.

Just noticed that the instructions for the tech-thralls say to make two of each one (10 total) instead of four so I suspect the separate kit will be sold as boxes of ten* (two sprues per) which will make the pricing critical.

*because they did something similar with the Epic starter set instructions, using the base kit instructions compiled into a single booklet without modifications. So it told you to make six leman Russ when there’s only three in the box and so on.