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I am in Northern Virginia for a blood bowl tourney tomorrow and we stopped by the FLGS here and they had received their full order of LI. My FLGS in Southern Va also received their full order where my box is sitting waiting for me. So maybe its a regional thing? Not sure but its certainly not getting shorted across the board.

it's kinda expected that gw would fu.. themselves with the delivery part of an already failed attempt at reviving an old time classic...it's like the phrase "I expected nothing and I'm still disappointed"...on the other hand, my rhinos will be converted (with a little tinkering) into predators and, if the future allows it razorbacks and whirlwinds with just a swap of turrets so...i hope everything arrives ok from my FLGS by next week or so.

It looks like stores in Australia have stock, so in the end they maybe didn't need to delay the Australian release by a week.

Though these days, stores often don't send out stock until release day, which is a Saturday, so you often don't get it until the middle of the following week anyway. Not like back in the day when you'd get it arriving at your house a few days before release.

I get the frustration of having to wait due to the original delay but some of y'all act like this is the only time you'll be able to get any of this stuff.

There will be restock (likely after the holidays of course) and in lieu of that, just buy it for 3x the price off of scalpers. /s

Besides, the expansion that'll have all the bastion options, stuff like drop pods, etc, likely wont come out any time soon so what's the rush?

I am just waiting for the epub to go online, the toys themselves can wait (Even my Titanicus starter is on backorder, no rush)

The whole point of Games Workshop moving to a two week preorder window was to sort out the delivery issues. Which still aren’t sorted.

It’s not just bad for customers but bad for the FLGS that are randomly affected each release - they disappoint customers and potentially lose them customers , in some cases they’ll have to refund the customer who will go elsewhere and they then may struggle to sell that stock.

Yeah... this is horrible news for the affected FLGSs

drbored wrote:
I get the frustration of having to wait due to the original delay but some of y'all act like this is the only time you'll be able to get any of this stuff.

There will be restock (likely after the holidays of course) and in lieu of that, just buy it for 3x the price off of scalpers. /s

Besides, the expansion that'll have all the bastion options, stuff like drop pods, etc, likely wont come out any time soon so what's the rush?

Well for me the thing is if GW doesn't manage to deliver by next week thursday latest(and wednesday is national holiday) to the FLGS(seeing launch day was today not too much to ask now is it...) I can't get them on my hand this year at all(and store has to keep items I had reserved in place way longer than usually they keep for extra inconvenience...) which in turn I will likely miss planned first game time quite possibly pushing that to february.

So yeah GW still not having got their act together is irritating. Tyranid already was like that delaying me using them in league by month. It's pretty much every release I have wanted past 6 months that DOESN'T come on launch day.

I was hoping to paint them this year. Not next year because GW can't deliver them to FLGS in promised time.

My City Tiles sets from GW are showing as 'processing' rather than despatched.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
If anyone gets hold of the itty bitty Rhino, can they post here exactly how much it weighs?

Just got back from my local GW. The rhino was clipped from sprue in a box, not a specific sprue made to give away free. For the box I got my digital kitchen scale reads 10g, just the bits inside are 4g. As they were clipped in store, and there are options in the kit, YMMV.

This is a kitchen scale, not a postal one. Not sure how accurate it is at this level. +/- a gram or so at the very least.

Yeah, was just hopping on to also confirm the free Rhinos are just clipped parts rattling around in a box. That must have been a real boring afternoon for the store dude.

 Prometheum5 wrote:
Yeah, was just hopping on to also confirm the free Rhinos are just clipped parts rattling around in a box. That must have been a real boring afternoon for the store dude.

What, they didn't let you cut it off the sprue yourself? I had to self-service myself, but that was actually good since I could make sure I nipped enough gates intact to make cleanup perfect later on.. I also got to choose my cupola weapon options which was nice

Oh no, our store had a ton of them already boxed up in the little promo boxes. I didn't check if it included extra cupolas or such yet.

Well, just great. They borked the formatting in the ebook for multi-page pictures. I didn't have this problem with any of the previous ebooks.



This is with Lithium on my android tablet. It looks similarly weird with Calibre on the PC, but that has never displayed the epub3 files particularly well.

The 2nd page of multi-page spreads looks OK, but all of the 1st pages are messed up.

 SgtEeveell wrote:
Well, just great. They borked the formatting in the ebook for multi-page pictures.

Lucky they used that extra time that they had for proofing...

 Lord Damocles wrote:

 SgtEeveell wrote:
Well, just great. They borked the formatting in the ebook for multi-page pictures.

Lucky they used that extra time that they had for proofing...

Oooff

Last modified date of the epub is 2nd Of November, so the digital document was completed one month prior to release

A number of stores in my area received their LI shipments but the GW store I pre-ordered from did not. :(

I did, however, manage to score a bunch of free Rhinos by visiting the GW stores in my area.

 Prometheum5 wrote:
Oh no, our store had a ton of them already boxed up in the little promo boxes. I didn't check if it included extra cupolas or such yet.

Yea, as you can see from the image above, some were assembled while others were just bits. Loadout is completely random.

Lmao making the store staff assemble them is even more cruel.

It's also a little irritating because some of them just can't be bothered to properly clean (trim sprue contacts) the pieces before assembling them. One of them has heinous gaps and they were glued with plastic cement so... gg me?

 SgtEeveell wrote:
Well, just great. They borked the formatting in the ebook for multi-page pictures. I didn't have this problem with any of the previous ebooks.

Spoiler:

This is with Lithium on my android tablet. It looks similarly weird with Calibre on the PC, but that has never displayed the epub3 files particularly well.

The 2nd page of multi-page spreads looks OK, but all of the 1st pages are messed up.

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Man, that's funny but sorta sad too, like they had how much extra time with the delay and not one person at GW did any QA on the epub at all? The rulebook is reading too like the author just went off their adderal, paragraphs feel like a child telling a story punctuated with "and then". It's been an odd afternoon, terrain really needs untangling.

I have to keep teaching this lesson - white spirit will loosen the plastic weld. If you're a grognard know it all you'll ignore me and say it's a permanent weld. It isnt, the spirit infiltrates and allows a usually perfect pop free.

axotl wrote:
I have to keep teaching this lesson - white spirit will loosen the plastic weld. If you're a grognard know it all you'll ignore me and say it's a permanent weld. It isnt, the spirit infiltrates and allows a usually perfect pop free.

I did not know that and will definitely have to try this on some 'un-un-glueable' models I have.

My first starter was put in the mail at midnight Friday. Gues CMO holds to release date very literally. It should arrive Monday. My local game store confirmed he was able to get me my larger order, but it will be some time this week.

i also drove to Ann Arbor, Mi and north of Detroit to visit the two closest GW stores. Ann Arbor had plenty of rhinos to give out and since the family was with me I got 3. However he had no LI stock to sell. He had only gotten his personal order and 2 starter sets which were gone immediately. I did get to see the mins however and they were awesome. (The store assembled all 120 rhinos randomly, but they look pretty good.)
The store in Rochester Hills did not get any rhinos to give out but got 4 starter boxes which also disappeared. Nothing else to sell and a regular was there looking for his order that never came in. So US distribution is not going so well.

at least I got a few rhinos for all the driving.

I’m still waiting to hear anything about my GW order (placed right after the opening of preorders). I do have a starter box preorder and two boxes of baneblades that have arrived at my lgs I’ll pick up on Thursday.

 Lord of Deeds wrote:
Well so much for improvement in the distribution system. My FLGS had to cancel and refund mine and everyone else's orders for the Sector Imperialis box because they will be receiving zero (0) boxes due to a distribuator (GW) error.

Has anyone else in the US heard or seeing something similar from either their FLGS or GW?

Same here in Germany,

my FLGS ordered the Sector box and the Boards, but got it canceled by GW (set on 0) for no reason.

Also one of the store staff yesterday was joking, because the internal delivering confirmation noted shipment to them on December 31, 2900...

I guess if I've waited this long, a little more is more like a rounding error...

Annoying, but only really fatal if I'm on a trip to Mars.

My preordered copy of LI and Kratos squadron didn’t turn up to the GW shop today, was told it’ll be early-mid next week. Store guy is great, GW couldn’t organise a game release if their life depended on it.

Wordy wrote:
My preordered copy of LI and Kratos squadron didn’t turn up to the GW shop today, was told it’ll be early-mid next week. Store guy is great, GW couldn’t organise a game release if their life depended on it.

GW Delivery FAQ wrote:What Is A Pre-Order?

New products are available to pre-order on our webstore almost every Saturday. Pre-orders will usually dispatch after the official launch day.

This is why I don’t preorder direct, unless it’s an exclusive item. Well, that and the independent stockists are generally cheaper.

I'm currently reading through the rules and did I get it correct that you can't premeasure shooting attacks in this game? It says you choose the firing detachment and the target, then the weapons and then you measure the distance and compare if your weapons are in range. It doesn't specify if you can't measure before that but I would assume so based on the wording.