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Reply To: Trying to keep up with the GW curve before a game disappears

September 10, 2019 at 5:58 pm #1434543

limburger

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@tobymagill the ‘local’-ish FLGS doesn’t stock a lot of GW product, so the majority is either ‘old’ (before AoS / 40k 8th edition) or really new.
When I was looking for it during the 40k weekend the only hit I got was the ‘start collecting’ set.

I’m not sure if I had excluded the web-only items from my search.
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With a catalog as big as GW has it would be impossible and impractical to keep everything available all of the time.
As such it’s not that weird … especially since they can’t exactly ‘print on demand’ (yet).
Companies like Warlord Games can do it, because they’ve got metal/resin figures that can be produced on-demand without too much overhead.

Besides … limiting availability is in their best interest as it increases demand at launch. They want to sell you as much new stuff as often as possible.

This definitely sucks if you want to wait&see if a game like WarCry is fun before committing.
I kind of hope there’s a big (non-Chaos … I hope) expansion planned for this game (assuming Killteam schedule), because it looks like the non Chaos unit cards are going out-of-stock already at my favourite local webshop and here at OTT.

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Could it be that the unit stats for non-Chaos factions are in the ‘Mercenaries & monsters’ book ?