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

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The new shiny on Kickstarter is just too much to resist!

As ced1106 mentions you should always keep the focus on keeping the backlog low if at all reasonable.

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@limburger Testify! Quite a few spes murin variants I would love for variety in Kill Team that are only available in whole starter boxes…

It’s true the pace they are putting things out now is relentless and there is a lot of FOMO. I suppose the savo G grace for boxed games is they often reprint stuff if it proves popular. Though, over £200 for the Blackstone Fortress everything so far box is a step start.

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@limburger – do you just mean the Taurox isn’t available separately at your FLGS? I can find it on the GW site and other online stores individually if that helps.

 

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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 ?

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For me, the issue is the time in general nowadays. I stay with the specialist games and collect those at release. I’m trying to build and paint AT and AI mainly at the moment, with Necromunda and Kill-team and blood bowl behind. Black fortress as well. I stay away from anything AoS related ( 9 old WhFB armies) and I kind have given up on 40k, though at some point I’ll pick it up again and finish and update my existing 40k stuff.

 

But it can be a financial commitment just to keep up with one or two systems or even more. And I don’t like the new take of printing just enough to cover the release. Running out of dice and cards and even the main boxes during pre orders is for us the customers annoying as shit. And I have had soo many times issues ordering from the flags preorders not being there or missing out due to availability, that I usually pre-order from a big independent LGS, and the two exclusive stuff from GW at 10 am sharp.

 

From a business point of view it actually makes much sense to produce to little, as you will have no overhead in keeping stock dry and save, you will not have to deal with long term issues and you will create artificial demand for your product. From a consumer point this means impulse buys, no saving up for a buy and higher prices due to lower availability.

 

I like the new GW in general but I  do not like that part.

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