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Space Marine Attack bikes - what use?!
Pariah Press
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 25, 2003 7:50 am 
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I'd feel like I had to order a bunch of stuff at once to justify the shipping costs, so I'd have to wait to save the money.  If it was in the store, I could casually plunk down $6 (or whatever) for a blister of metal terminators without having to do any heavy thinking.  Plus I feel virtuous supporting my local hobby shop; which is locally-owned, so some of the money stays in the local economy, rather than being syphoned off to the east coast somewhere...  
 Oh well, I guess it just means I'll be impulse-buying 28mm daemons instead of 6mm space marines.  I'm sad that the Epic renaissance that I'd anticipated evidently is NOT going to happen.  Why did I have to invest in the Doomed games (SM2, Man O' War)?

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PostPosted: Sat Oct 25, 2003 3:10 pm 
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Hi!

Pariah press brings a good point on impulse buying, you just cant do that online. Only at a LGS can you see things which you may not even guess existed and open that game to impulse buying and perhaps long term players.

A game only sold through GW severely limits expose, especially in the US.

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PostPosted: Sun Oct 26, 2003 10:15 am 
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Dont get me started mate...at least YOU will be able to buy it from within your own country :angry:

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PostPosted: Sun Oct 26, 2003 3:53 pm 
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Hi!

I know Tas, its really sucks. The news that it would be distributed in GW AUS was the first indication on how GW wasn't going to fully support epic. I think its ridiculous that one of GW's "parts" will not sell the game...just plain dumb.

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PostPosted: Sun Oct 26, 2003 5:01 pm 
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I live 500 miles from G/W US and I still have to go through G/W MO ...   :{

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PostPosted: Sun Oct 26, 2003 5:18 pm 
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Oh well, I guess I better bite the bullet and get a (shudder) debit card.  Who knows what terrifying economic repercussions will ensue?

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 27, 2003 9:39 am 
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Quote (Legion 4 @ 26 2003 Oct.,16:01)
I live 500 miles from G/W US and I still have to go through G/W MO ... ? :{

I live 30 miles from GW HQ, and I still have to go through mail order!  :;):   :D

Of coarse, I could just drive up and collect it from the Nottingham HQ, but I'm too lazy!  :blush:
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 27, 2003 11:31 am 
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All I do is head down to my local store, place an order there, and have it sent to the store, it saves on P&P costs! Otherwise, I go through the online store.

Going to the HQ is kinda limited to the people who live like 10-20 miles away. A guy in London ain't going to want to drive to Nottingham is he!

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If it takes longer than 30 minutes ... I don't drive !  And Mail Order is too easy ... usually ...  :L

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 27, 2003 8:26 pm 
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Quote (Chris @ 27 2003 Oct.,10:31)
Going to the HQ is kinda limited to the people who live like 10-20 miles away. A guy in London ain't going to want to drive to Nottingham is he!

I've only done it once.......

God I'm a fanboy.....  :{

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Hi!

As I have said, MO is good, but buying directly from GW doesn't get you a good price, no discounts to be had.... :{

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 05, 2003 3:23 pm 
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As if the nay-sayers needed more fuel for their fires, Jervis posted this on the playtest forum.

GW US haven't set the release date for Epic yet. This is mainly my fault - I've been so busy doing the rules I haven't had the free time to speak to them about their release plans for the game. I think it is unlikely that Epic will be 'officialy' released in the US until the summer. However we should be able to sort something out that will allow people 'in the know' to order stuff from GWUS Mail Order from February. I'll let you know more about this as soon as I know more myself.

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That sounds as if there will be the core, Swordwind (eldar), and the Nid release in about a 3 month period.  Sounds dodgy on the marketing side to me, but then I'm an amateur.

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Also, news for the Aussies:

Grant is back from his trip back home to Oz, and has told me that the GW Australia team will shortly get in touch with me with a plan for the specialist games range that 'will make me happy'. He wouldn't go into details, but I will let you know what they are as soon as I have them. Before people get too exicted, I should say that I *don't* think this means that the range will be sold in stores in Australia and NZ, but I do think that they guys should have come up with a system that it makes it easier to get hold of specialist games product from Mail Order without having to pay too much for shipping. Anyway, more on this as soon as I know myself!

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So, it should at least be tolerable.

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Thanks for the intell again, Neal.  Well, I guess, I'd rather wait and get a better product than "a half-baked, rush job".  But at least he's "throwing us a fricking bone" (to quote Dr. Evil), by saying they'll release some models in Feb. (?) ...  And I guess, this fits into the comment I made on another thread here, where I said, I'd stand-by for the next change or release of E-A ... whichever comes first ... It appears we saw which came first ... I'll be standing by for more changes.  And after over 12 years of "Epicing", since SM1, I can say with confidence that G/W is as fickle as a school girl on prom night.  :;):

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Quote (nealhunt @ 05 2003 Nov.,14:24)
Also, news for the Aussies:

Grant is back from his trip back home to Oz, and has told me that the GW Australia team will shortly get in touch with me with a plan for the specialist games range that 'will make me happy'. He wouldn't go into details, but I will let you know what they are as soon as I have them. Before people get too exicted, I should say that I *don't* think this means that the range will be sold in stores in Australia and NZ, but I do think that they guys should have come up with a system that it makes it easier to get hold of specialist games product from Mail Order without having to pay too much for shipping. Anyway, more on this as soon as I know myself!

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So, it should at least be tolerable.

Thanks for the posting Neal!  

Good news for NZ'ers, sounds like we may be able to order from OZ, rather than the UK or US :D

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