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I don't think the USA is the most expensive to get stock too (surely that's Australia and that region); but the USA is a vast market and way more spread out. So I think its just that GW has issues suppling sufficient stock.

I know in the past GW tried to setup a factory in the USA but hit issues of no local skill support so they wound up having to fly technicians and machines back and forth from home base to fix problems and it was just more hassle than its worth. Who knows GW might be training people up for a long term view to moving them toward a USA production hub. There could also be other things (tax, costs, etc....) that hold them back and keep them producing in one spot and shipping out - which in theory can wrk if they can get enough machines.


We also don't see hard sales data, the USA could also be more "bumpy" a market with bigger swings in sales and suddenly no sales in regions which could make it harder to forecast.

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 Smokestack wrote:
no US... :( booo

I want the elves or underworlds boxes... would want the order one too, but don't need any more Stormcast.

I mean these would have probably sold out before i could have gotten one anyway... but...

Just like that magazine/ model subscription and everything else. I guess they like just the convenience of making it UK only, even though the majority of sales is in the USA, but GW doesn't really care about its US customers as they have shown for years with the no UK vendors shipping to the USA and the USA 30% tax. Funny thing is all the GW fanboys were commenting when Privateer Press did this... and now their precious GW is doing it.

Hardly UK only as it's also in europe. And UK+Europe outsells US.

Stuff is generally more plentiful and inexpensive in the US.

All depends on where your warehouses are and what they’re overstocked on.

If they’re not overstocked you don’t do a clearance exercise.

Not a conspiracy. Just logistics and commercial nous.

It's also entirely possible that they're just getting low on warehouse space in Europe / Oz, and want to clear some room ready for 10E products later in the year. Meanwhile Memphis may have lots of capacity available.

 xttz wrote:
It's also entirely possible that they're just getting low on warehouse space in Europe / Oz, and want to clear some room ready for 10E products later in the year. Meanwhile Memphis may have lots of capacity available.

AFAIK the US is oftentimes not worth the bother with stuff like prize draws, 'random' boxes and the like because at least some US jurisdictions have a reputation for, deservedly or undeserverdly, extremely strict gambling laws that cover a lot of stuff you'd not expect, so doing anything in that vein needs a lot of legal ass-covering if you want to do it right.

Just got an email that my 40k supply drop order has shipped, hopefully it should arrive some time tomorrow.

Over on TGA a user has reported that their Aelves bundle arrived and contained the Vanguard boxes for Daughters of Khaine and Idoneth Deepkin

EonChao wrote:
Over on TGA a user has reported that their Aelves bundle arrived and contained the Vanguard boxes for Daughters of Khaine and Idoneth Deepkin

If that's the case that was a pretty god deal tbh.

The old Mantic christmas boxes were great. I managed to furnish an entire school club with boardgames for £10 each with loads of stuff left over (made the fantasy dwarf kings hold original games with them).

StraightSilver wrote:

EonChao wrote:
Over on TGA a user has reported that their Aelves bundle arrived and contained the Vanguard boxes for Daughters of Khaine and Idoneth Deepkin

If that's the case that was a pretty god deal tbh.

Yep, sounds like similar value to last year, half-price or better.

I'll be very happy if it turns out to be true, at this point I have no reason to doubt it.

I would have jumped on the AoS boxes, but alas no US :(

According to some users, the Age of Sigmar: Aelves supply drop in the UK region is two vanguard boxes, one for Daughters of Kaine and one for Deepkin

So with that being said, that is extremely cheap, basically what is a kin to a combat patrol, but double up, for ones price.

If the WH40k one is anything like that, it will be a smash hit for those that got them.

Gorion_Rex wrote:
If the WH40k one is anything like that, it will be a smash hit for those that got them.

It's going to be all Reivers and Dark Reapers.

Thinking about it, it would seem that the Vanguard sets haven't been as popular as the Start Collecting sets, at least with some races.

I wonder if this will cause GW to go back to the older style of discount bundle in future (round the £50 mark rather than £80)? The Start Collecting sets were very well received at the time.

Maybe I'm just wishful thinking here

At the same time Daughters of Khaine, whilst featuring really well in the game story and lore, have quite a restricted unit roster in plastics. Many people just don't need the Vanguard set because they've already got those models in buckets.

Idoneth suffer a bit from the same issue; new army, not a huge roster and many have already bought into them.


They are examples of armies that just need the diversity to increase to give existing customers a reason to continue investing and to increase the number of new investors in those armies by diversification.

Same thing that Genestealer Cults had - who at one stage were basically an Imperial Guard army with a few stealers; or which Flesheater Courts suffers from in the extreme (the entire army is pretty much in the getting started set barring 1 leader and 1 small monster)

 Daedalus81 wrote:

Gorion_Rex wrote:
If the WH40k one is anything like that, it will be a smash hit for those that got them.

It's going to be all Reivers and Dark Reapers.

It is just really funny that people keep saying this, because I really think it is unrealistic, even more so with how much heat the UK 40k one got the last time.
That being said, there still potentially could be a meh mixture and maybe a few goodies.. but if you just want to paint and have fun, then it really matters latter.

A lot of people joked with the AoS Aelves drop as well, writing that it would be all cities of sigmar (even if they are not featured in the boxes at all, we could see that at the sigils) but they were also sure about it being extremely akward mixtures of singular units.. they were all wrong ofc.
I don´t particular like mystery boxes btw, I rather they gave us a flat 25-50% off on those specific boxes or would be even more narrowed down to what could be in them, but overall it was a good deal to buy that AoS:A box.


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 Undead_Love-Machine wrote:
Thinking about it, it would seem that the Vanguard sets haven't been as popular as the Start Collecting sets, at least with some races.

I wonder if this will cause GW to go back to the older style of discount bundle in future (round the £50 mark rather than £80)? The Start Collecting sets were very well received at the time.

Maybe I'm just wishful thinking here

It might, but if you look at sales, it does seems like Aelves in general is not very popular (atleast in my region) Lumineth are not even popular here, when I look at sales atm, I see all those big Aelves boxes at sale, with only very few other races.
The starter sets most likely are better at the lower pricepoint for most newcomers, unless they like me, have way to much to spend.. but overall most would go for what they want and as cheap as possible.
It makes sense to clean out those boxes, if they wanna do as you suggest, it will be interesting to see what EU and Japan gets.

 Overread wrote:
At the same time Daughters of Khaine, whilst featuring really well in the game story and lore, have quite a restricted unit roster in plastics. Many people just don't need the Vanguard set because they've already got those models in buckets.

Idoneth suffer a bit from the same issue; new army, not a huge roster and many have already bought into them.


They are examples of armies that just need the diversity to increase to give existing customers a reason to continue investing and to increase the number of new investors in those armies by diversification.

Same thing that Genestealer Cults had - who at one stage were basically an Imperial Guard army with a few stealers; or which Flesheater Courts suffers from in the extreme (the entire army is pretty much in the getting started set barring 1 leader and 1 small monster)

Indeed but they will become more popular, as they grown in lore and units/diversity. I love the look of them, same with Lumi and DoK, they all appeal a lot to me (then again, I am not buying to get a meta build to compete with, I am very casual and painting means just as much for me)


Anyway it will be interesting to see what all boxes contain and if all region are as lucky as with this one we debate here and again with that said, I rather had more discounts than mystery boxes.

My 40k box has arrived, and I'm pretty content. I collect both Orks & GSC, and extra deffkoptas and the saboteur are both models I've nearly bought before.

Hopefully someone at my local club will want Fabius / Darkstrider.

 xttz wrote:
My 40k box has arrived, and I'm pretty content. I collect both Orks & GSC, and extra deffkoptas and the saboteur are both models I've nearly bought before.

Hopefully someone at my local club will want Fabius / Darkstrider.

Spoiler:

That's fairly decent really and a good spread all things considered.

Here is another one from Australia
https://www.reddit.com/r/Warhammer40k/comments/103kfox/40k_supply_drop_australia/

Fabius really didn't sell well eh?

In my very subjective opinion Australia got the better deal. I would have bought that. The UK one is too mixed for my taste and I wouldn't know what to do with the Orks.

Good thing I don't gamble.

Dudeface wrote:
Fabius really didn't sell well eh?

People are boycotting Bill because they remain furious about the absence of his second little helper.

I've just seen somebody claiming that the AOS Order box contains two Vanguard boxes: Fyreslayers & DoK.

Two Vanguard boxes for £75(?), I would describe those savings as... pretty okay

Also, DoK Vanguard boxes really didn't sell well.


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 Geifer wrote:
In my very subjective opinion Australia got the better deal. I would have bought that. The UK one is too mixed for my taste and I wouldn't know what to do with the Orks.

Agreed, I'm glad that I couldn't get the 40k one.

At the same time, if I had I could have got my money back + more via ebay.

Just a note but things in these might not just be things that "didn't sell well", just things that are overstocked.

This might mean some of them were selling and are selling well, but the sale rate is lower than the amount of stock GW produced. Without raw numbers for how much of each thing GW produces, we've no idea if its an overstock because people aren't buying them fast enough; or overstock because GW produced way more than normal of them - anticipating higher sales and then not getting them.


That said I can see the DoK not selling out as fast as some because its the same core models as always in the kit; so all existing fans likely don't need the entire set all over again and might be just picking up individual boxe.s

Yes, I should have said "not selling as well as GW had expected", rather than not selling well.

From Reddit, the UK Underworlds set seems to be a copy of Nethermaze and Rivals of Harrowdeep, which seems really good if you're a new or returning player. No dice/card sleeve chaff or anything like the last one. Wish I'd ordered it now.

https://www.reddit.com/r/WarhammerUnderworlds/comments/103vxta/underworlds_supply_drop_content/

 The Phazer wrote:
From Reddit, the UK Underworlds set seems to be a copy of Nethermaze and Rivals of Harrowdeep, which seems really good if you're a new or returning player. No dice/card sleeve chaff or anything like the last one. Wish I'd ordered it now.

https://www.reddit.com/r/WarhammerUnderworlds/comments/103vxta/underworlds_supply_drop_content/

Agreed, that's great value. I expected a significant part of it to be dice and card related stuff so I didn't get one.

Oh darn wish I'd got one too now as well!

Those are some good boxes, just the 40k one being a bit meh.
At least the Australian box is a great start to kill team.
That’s 3 teams isn’t it?

Edit- Ohh it’s havocs, lol don’t think they make a Kill team from the box.
Still not bad there.
But could be better, overpriced characters minis drag the boxes down.

Not impressed with them padding the boxes with overpriced heroes, but it's better than dice or card sleeves