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WorldEdgePlayer wrote:
Also is that just a screen capture shot from the total war game?

It's a loading screen illustration.

Well, I finally got in to the US webstore. Nothing left I want. But it looks like some stuff was just straight up never available on the US webstore at all. Comparing a search on the word "Bretonnia" between US and UK, we didn't get the mounted Yeomen (just the command), no Handmaiden, no Questing Knight on foot, no dice, and no combo pack of mounted and foot standard bearer.

Thanks so much for wasting my time, GW.

Holy crap, it's like this website is specifically designed to keep you from finding anything you might want to buy. I can't believe how poorly designed this is - are they trying to drive people away?

 Matt.Kingsley wrote:
They apparently have an (overpriced) map of the Empire, Bret & the Badlands online, but you'd only know about it if you went to the terribly organised "New & Exclusives" tab or if it appeared in the "Related Items" section of something you're looking at.

Spent a while trying to see if I could find it elsewhere out of curiousity when I discovered it - couldn't find it anywhere else on the store

Map sold out in UK but scalpers on Ebay have it for £75.


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 Tannhauser42 wrote:
Well, I finally got in to the US webstore. Nothing left I want. But it looks like some stuff was just straight up never available on the US webstore at all. Comparing a search on the word "Bretonnia" between US and UK, we didn't get the mounted Yeomen (just the command), no Handmaiden, no Questing Knight on foot, no dice, and no combo pack of mounted and foot standard bearer.

Thanks so much for wasting my time, GW.

Never fear, no dice left? You can get them on Ebay already for £60 for Brets. Bit more for Tomb Kings


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Visit bexinwales the Scalper
https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?item=196172965960&rt=nc&_trksid=p4429486.m3561.l161211&_ssn=bexinwales

If you're looking for Tomb King alternates Reaper has some Avatars that are about 150% human sized.

https://www.reapermini.com/search/egypt

 Megalomaniac wrote:
Map sold out in UK but scalpers on Ebay have it for £75.

those are not scalpers, as the website is specially designed to block them
those are sanctioned resellers


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 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
If you're looking for Tomb King alternates Reaper has some Avatars that are about 150% human sized.
https://www.reapermini.com/search/egypt

https://www.manticgames.com/kings-of-war/empire-of-dust/enslaved-guardian-regiment/

 Tannhauser42 wrote:
Well, I finally got in to the US webstore. Nothing left I want. But it looks like some stuff was just straight up never available on the US webstore at all. Comparing a search on the word "Bretonnia" between US and UK, we didn't get the mounted Yeomen (just the command), no Handmaiden, no Questing Knight on foot, no dice, and no combo pack of mounted and foot standard bearer.

Thanks so much for wasting my time, GW.

Well, you could have checked this before.

** These products have been delayed in the USA and Canada. Please note that while the regular Mounted Yeomen are delayed, the Command Squad will be available on schedule – they’re getting the lay of the land early.

 Dryaktylus wrote:

 Tannhauser42 wrote:
Well, I finally got in to the US webstore. Nothing left I want. But it looks like some stuff was just straight up never available on the US webstore at all. Comparing a search on the word "Bretonnia" between US and UK, we didn't get the mounted Yeomen (just the command), no Handmaiden, no Questing Knight on foot, no dice, and no combo pack of mounted and foot standard bearer.

Thanks so much for wasting my time, GW.

Well, you could have checked this before.

** These products have been delayed in the USA and Canada. Please note that while the regular Mounted Yeomen are delayed, the Command Squad will be available on schedule – they’re getting the lay of the land early.

Was that footnote added later? I don't recall seeing that when it first was posted.

Again Element games comes with a statement:

"We are disappointed to report that stock allocations are very low for all products in this release. Therefore we will not be able to offer them for online sale, and will have very limited stock in our physical stores. We have been made aware that most of the products are planned to be restocked in the future, but we haven’t yet been given a firm date.
"

Missing another release yet again. Not sure what to believe now since Christmas army deals ended up online after similar communicate from them back then...

Voss wrote:
Didn't expect the main rulebook to go out of stock (U.S.) but... here we are.

Well, hmm. I think I'll just wait, read up on some army summaries online and do a thorough inventory of my old armies. See how things shake out.

So its a sales success then?

Voss wrote:
Didn't expect the main rulebook to go out of stock (U.S.) but... here we are.

Well, hmm. I think I'll just wait, read up on some army summaries online and do a thorough inventory of my old armies. See how things shake out.

Not surprised. Hardly first rulebook to sold out and GW hates to have huge stocks laying around so they aren't massively overproducing stuff.

And there's about 16 armies worth of players who want that book and only those who want one of 2 armies want the big box.

 kodos wrote:

 Megalomaniac wrote:
Map sold out in UK but scalpers on Ebay have it for £75.

those are not scalpers, as the website is specially designed to block them
those are sanctioned resellers


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 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
If you're looking for Tomb King alternates Reaper has some Avatars that are about 150% human sized.
https://www.reapermini.com/search/egypt

https://www.manticgames.com/kings-of-war/empire-of-dust/enslaved-guardian-regiment/

bexinwales is not a sanctioned reseller. They are registered as a Private Seller and have jacked up the prices of the Old World products they bought today. Its called scalping.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/196172965960?hash=item2dacd1e848:g:J9AAAOSw4DNlmRwS&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA0PlrMuujIXHH8J1lFuHrKhb5q8BJXHyqYkJ4UEsn5fNcTFZsMeXgy3Zbch3H%2BhEB6iIBudbpCsuO%2BMDIUUIcnaYnSXwVJmeXsMF%2FIwUXHeMn%2F7q8w4Spo%2FbEVoAs4xmeTuE9d1XO9ALKFgxzZKWeqTdaKh1R%2FcJ6NpUfgWcVrG0c7O4LJPIqFYpb%2F%2BNuI%2F%2FxLyX35OcMk5g4inQUEp%2Fti0G2RVJ7lNHc%2FKBXx4PWNelRtyKs7vCSQU7dhXWMgkMDt6ZmjA3qTBOhxBRjeskippo%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR5iQmYWcYw

 Prometheum5 wrote:

 Dryaktylus wrote:

 Tannhauser42 wrote:
Well, I finally got in to the US webstore. Nothing left I want. But it looks like some stuff was just straight up never available on the US webstore at all. Comparing a search on the word "Bretonnia" between US and UK, we didn't get the mounted Yeomen (just the command), no Handmaiden, no Questing Knight on foot, no dice, and no combo pack of mounted and foot standard bearer.

Thanks so much for wasting my time, GW.

Well, you could have checked this before.

** These products have been delayed in the USA and Canada. Please note that while the regular Mounted Yeomen are delayed, the Command Squad will be available on schedule – they’re getting the lay of the land early.

Was that footnote added later? I don't recall seeing that when it first was posted.

Don't know. I visited the site shortly after it went online, scrolled down to the Tomb Swarm, saw the too asterisks, scrolled down further to read a comment but it was just the delayed note.


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 Megalomaniac wrote:

 kodos wrote:

 Megalomaniac wrote:
Map sold out in UK but scalpers on Ebay have it for £75.

those are not scalpers, as the website is specially designed to block them
those are sanctioned resellers


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 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
If you're looking for Tomb King alternates Reaper has some Avatars that are about 150% human sized.
https://www.reapermini.com/search/egypt

https://www.manticgames.com/kings-of-war/empire-of-dust/enslaved-guardian-regiment/

bexinwales is not a sanctioned reseller. They are registered as a Private Seller and have jacked up the prices of the Old World products they bought today. Its called scalping.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/196172965960?hash=item2dacd1e848:g:J9AAAOSw4DNlmRwS&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA0PlrMuujIXHH8J1lFuHrKhb5q8BJXHyqYkJ4UEsn5fNcTFZsMeXgy3Zbch3H%2BhEB6iIBudbpCsuO%2BMDIUUIcnaYnSXwVJmeXsMF%2FIwUXHeMn%2F7q8w4Spo%2FbEVoAs4xmeTuE9d1XO9ALKFgxzZKWeqTdaKh1R%2FcJ6NpUfgWcVrG0c7O4LJPIqFYpb%2F%2BNuI%2F%2FxLyX35OcMk5g4inQUEp%2Fti0G2RVJ7lNHc%2FKBXx4PWNelRtyKs7vCSQU7dhXWMgkMDt6ZmjA3qTBOhxBRjeskippo%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR5iQmYWcYw

That was sarcasm.

the website is specially designed to block them

And GW continues with the trend of having such low stock everything sells out immediately on pre-order.

This is beyond ridiculous at this point.

Wayniac wrote:
And GW continues with the trend of having such low stock everything sells out immediately on pre-order.

This is beyond ridiculous at this point.

Well. I'm sure you are willing to pay for new factory for them

tneva82 wrote:

Wayniac wrote:
And GW continues with the trend of having such low stock everything sells out immediately on pre-order.

This is beyond ridiculous at this point.

Well. I'm sure you are willing to pay for new factory for them

GW should have plenty of factories/income to do way more than they do, being as large as they are...

WorldEdgePlayer wrote:
Uff. Get your free hopium here. (Also is that just a screen capture shot from the total war game?)

Impossible! I was told they changed their plans and Cathay were no longer going to be in the game because if GW doesn't mention it every other sentence it means it's canceled!

 Geifer wrote:
I wonder why they can't make new molds for resin casting. They have the master models and molds for metal casting have to be replaced every so often.

I assume it's a bit of work and the initial investment, but it just seems silly to bother people with metal models when GW effectively dropped the material years ago and only really keeps it around for Lord of the Rings and made to order runs.

My guess is that when they did that (with the Finecast models) their sales suffered. The Old World is obviously intended to appeal to the older gaming demographic who came up when metal models were popular. Personally, I dislike resin models and usually avoid them, but would be happy to buy metal castings of old miniatures from GW that I want for my collection. I'd love to finish my collection of Jes Goodwin ogres, for example, but I wouldn't even consider buying resin castings of those figures.

Queue is gone at least here in the US. Instant access

 nathan2004 wrote:
Queue is gone at least here in the US. Instant access

Is there anything left to queue for?

Tomb King stuff...A lot (but not all) Bret stuff is out of stock looks like.

Gota say i am mildly surprised.
Either GW did criminally underproduce or demand for White Metal at high prices is higher than i imagined.

Who knows, maybe the system will actually survive a few years!

FOMO and nostalgia are powerful tools for sellers if leveraged right which might be the case here. Time will of course tell.

For me I don't even know if its FOMO or Nostalgia. I never really wanted a knights in armour army way back when Brets were on sale. If anything they were the army I had some of the least interest in at the time as they didn't have many "fantasy" things in them. Almost no fantasy monsters or mounts and what few they had were taken in small numbers. They were almost the most "realistic" army of all the Old World with their knights, serfs, peasants and soforth.

I've had a chat with my FLGS manager today and he says basically it's all FOMO. People have a "wait and see" attitude until the moment that product shortages are reported, and then everybody needs one right now.

Is that Cathay art actually a reuse of a video game asset?

If we see Cathay minis released in the next year, I’ll admit I was wrong. They were some of the first reveals, and the main reason to care about this game, the bait that was switched for Tomb Kings and Brets. If we don’t see them in 3 years, I’m going to go ahead and assume that’s because they didn’t have any completed minis designed at launch—and apparently no original artwork. I doubt we’ll even see them in five years, though.

Here are some of the returning dwarf range. Note the bases on the artillery, and the returning metal engineers and runesmith (the plastic runesmith is still there, hopefully Burlok D is as well)


The bigger bases on the models looks off. They’ve got so much space between them

I'm not sure my take has changed on seeing a few battle reports and some people talking with the book. (Alas, no scantily clad ladies).

I think two friends playing in the spirit of things will have fun with this edition. Its classic fantasy as that goes.

I do however see no reason why at a more competitive level this isn't going to devolve into 6-7th edition cavalry hammer. Admittedly the worst culprits of previous editions are not in this (well, except HE) - which may help.

Not tempted by Brets/TK. Have an O&G army gathering dust. If some friends are up for it I might eventually go HE or WE. Sort of tempted by Beastmen but it just feels too one dimensional.

 GaroRobe wrote:
Here are some of the returning dwarf range. Note the bases on the artillery, and the returning metal engineers and runesmith (the plastic runesmith is still there, hopefully Burlok D is as well)


The bigger bases on the models looks off. They’ve got so much space between them

What's up with the Slayers. Yes, same old models with heads as large as the torso. But not much red hair.

Oh, wait: At this time, the Dwarves mined not enough ferric oxides, so they had to battle the Wood Elves to steal their dye plants.

Wayniac wrote:

tneva82 wrote:

Wayniac wrote:
And GW continues with the trend of having such low stock everything sells out immediately on pre-order.

This is beyond ridiculous at this point.

Well. I'm sure you are willing to pay for new factory for them

GW should have plenty of factories/income to do way more than they do, being as large as they are...

My understanding is the problem is the real estate and infrastructure. They opened the new factory last year I think? Which took a year or longer of haggling with the local government bodies for the increased power supply to the area.

I remember it was noted somewhere they intended a slow rollout of the increase production, but the demand post pandemic was higher than estimated and they were flat out again despite higher capacity and more space.

There's a lot of risk and uncertainty in terms of property and land prices in the UK alongside the inflation etc. They might have ended up buying overcosted land and paying above the odds for a new factory again, only to have demand drop as the outside world went back to normal.

There's still plenty of "is 40k dying" posts and comments out there to suggest that buying a new factory right now would be seen as questionable.