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[Captain Idaho]

That's got me frustrated and sad.

 

I do get longer to save sure... but got so much planned!

[Matrindur]

The cyclops is interesting as it isn't in the leaks, so either those are incomplete or this box wasn't meant to be revealed yet and happened because the release was moved back

[Captain Idaho]

Be cool if there's Land Raiders coming and that's why we're seeing the release pushed back - so they can have less time between the first release and the upgrade box. 

 

Terminators without Land Raiders... in Epic? Nah son.

[Valkyrion]

4 of each rapier and 4 of each tarantula on a sprue would be 20 models - 2 sprues gives you the 40 models on the box, but that doesn't count the cyclops.

12 of each rapier and 12 of each tarantula plus 4 cyclops gives you the 28 models mentioned in the article. 

 

 

[jaxom]

8 minutes ago, Captain Idaho said:

Be cool if there's Land Raiders coming and that's why we're seeing the release pushed back - so they can have less time between the first release and the upgrade box. 

 

Terminators without Land Raiders... in Epic? Nah son.

I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a close-combat Terminators and Land Raiders combo box.

[Matrindur]

Another strange thing is that the article says its 28 models, 12 Rapiers, 12 Tarantulas and 4 cyclops but the box shows 40? Also the cyclops arent even shown on the box?

[Captain Idaho]

I think Land Raiders will come in a box of 4, alongside 2 Spartans and then something else... probably something Terminatory

[Marshal Rohr]

The delay is absolutely bananas. GWs warehouse upgrades and IT modernization are absolutely not going to plan. The point of these things is specifically show you don’t delay product, so if they are delaying product there’s a massive issue. 

[vadersson]

4 minutes ago, Matrindur said:

Another strange thing is that the article says its 28 models, 12 Rapiers, 12 Tarantulas and 4 cyclops but the box shows 40? Also the cyclops arent even shown on the box?

They like to count each mini in counts.  So only 28 bases/units but with the gun and little support guys, it gets to 40.

[Matcap86]

Well :cuss: there goes my summer project. 

[MARK0SIAN]

GW’s logistics team arriving for work:

 

 

[nilsh]

The miniatures looks great but the delay is terrible news but then, now I can save up more cash for it I guess.

[Splog]

16 minutes ago, MARK0SIAN said:

GW’s logistics team arriving for work:

 

 

To be fair, this is an incredible logistical achievement 

[01RTB01]

45 minutes ago, Nephaston said:

Now to wonder if this is delayed because everything is delayed, or are they shuffling releases around?

Presumably warehouse and IT issues. Shame but I've got Leviathan to paint up and sell plus essays to write [as a 40 year old returning to uni this is jarring to say the least...] so a delay isn't too big a deal. 

[Burni]

Sad news about the delay, but does give me more time to continue with my pile of shame sell off.

 

One reason for the delay could be that they’d underestimated the interest but customer reaction has been such that they are producing more (like they tried to do with the Lion). The fact that it doesn’t say a delay of a few weeks but ‘later in the year’ makes me think this might be the case as they’ll need more books printed. 

[Marshal Rohr]

Here is what is probably going on:

 

-Games Workshop have operations managers hired for ‘attitude’ and not competence who don’t have any experience beyond working for GW

-Games Workshop is hiring small ball IT Staff who are lying about or over promising on the possible. I just left a company like this. The new Managed Services director was a business major that thought his lead security architect handled password changes and phishing emails. 
-Games Workshop is using a third party vendor that is delaying delivery to drag out payments. 
-Games Workshop has some kind of institutional drag in older employees and warehouse team members causing the implementation to delay. 
-Games Workshop is trying to do this in house with individual hires and won’t commit the money needed (not likely given their reports)

-A combination of these. 
 

If GW can’t pull its head out of its [redacted] it’s going to cascade into larger failures and losses. 

[Doobles57]

The delay is kinda good news for my wallet (do we know if this is a launch box or a starter box?). But bad news in general for GW. The assumption was that post-Leviathan things would start getting back on track but we seem to be headed the opposite way.

 

Anyway, I've always loved the cyclops as it's just super cute and daft. Now it's even tinier I love it more. SA might be swinging it for me right now.

[SkimaskMohawk]

It's extra bad news for GW as it gives that much more lead time for 3d designers and people who print. Especially with the leaked rules to give an idea of what people might want.

[Lord Marshal]

7 minutes ago, SkimaskMohawk said:

It's extra bad news for GW as it gives that much more lead time for 3d designers and people who print. Especially with the leaked rules to give an idea of what people might want.

 

I suspect the people who were always going to print were never going to touch GW's boxes anyway.

 

It's no secret what a Spartan or Land Raider looks like.

 

Edited August 3, 2023 by Lord Marshal

[Scribe]

39 minutes ago, Marshal Rohr said:

Here is what is probably going on:

 

-Games Workshop have operations managers hired for ‘attitude’ and not competence who don’t have any experience beyond working for GW

-Games Workshop is hiring small ball IT Staff who are lying about or over promising on the possible. I just left a company like this. The new Managed Services director was a business major that thought his lead security architect handled password changes and phishing emails. 
-Games Workshop is using a third party vendor that is delaying delivery to drag out payments. 
-Games Workshop has some kind of institutional drag in older employees and warehouse team members causing the implementation to delay. 
-Games Workshop is trying to do this in house with individual hires and won’t commit the money needed (not likely given their reports)

-A combination of these. 
 

If GW can’t pull its head out of its [redacted] it’s going to cascade into larger failures and losses. 

 

Have they said what ERP they are moving to? Seems comically bad at this point that this is still an issue.

[nilsh]

3 minutes ago, Lord Marshal said:

 

I suspect the people who were always going to print were never going to touch GW's boxes anyway.

 

It's no secret what a Spartan or Land Raider looks like.

 

 

Yeah I agree, I doubt this will make a difference when it comes to that. I've been toying with the idea of ordering some proxies from Etsy to see how they hold up against the official miniatures but haven't pulled the trigger yet.

[Mechanicus Tech-Support]

17 minutes ago, Scribe said:

 

Have they said what ERP they are moving to? Seems comically bad at this point that this is still an issue.

If its AWS/SAP lord help us all 

Edited August 3, 2023 by Mechanicus Tech-Support

[DuskRaider]

The delay isn’t the end of the world for me. The mere announcement of Legions Imperialis has given me the motivation to jump back into Titanicus and finish the ton of unpainted stuff I have and has also helped me rope in at least one new player for both systems. 
 

I am really annoyed that literally everything for AT is unavailable, though. 

[Sword Brother Adelard]

The rumour I've heard is that there's a quote in the rulebook which is also an actual quote from one of history's less than palatable regimes and the books are in need of a reprint.

[Urauloth]

I wonder if they aren't delaying to give themselves time to make more, so they avoid the launch box selling out instantly. Seems more likely the release has been hit by whatever infrastructure issues are affecting the company generally, though.