Legions Imperialis Legions Imperialis: The Great Slaughter

[Deus_Ex_Machina]

It would be logical to have some form of forward deployment for the LR Explorator because it says so in the name of the vehicle.

[beefeb]

On 1/5/2024 at 6:17 PM, Captain Idaho said:

GW were going to build a factory and couldn't in Nottingham. They had the investment ready to go but Nottingham Council wouldn't allow it.

 

So this doesn't appear to have anything to do with their company struggling after their explosive growth.

 

And besides, growth and record profits every year should mean they're in a better place to invest for the future.

 

Sure I see elements that might be out of their control, like global shipping issues and certain resource supply concerns.

 

However, building a factory someone else in the UK would have resolved a lot of these issues or lessened their impact. Instead of just putting your hands up and saying "we can't build a factory because the council said no" they should have thought about Manchester. Or Birmingham. Or anywhere in the UK really.

 

 

I imagine there are a great many cities/locations in the UK that would welcome the injection of job opportunities that such a facility would bring.  By building a complete facility, with a new Warhammer World, Bugmans etc, it would become an even bigger draw.  Not sure how many of the execs at Nottingham would want to move though?  We have historically seen that they are very loathe to move or accept new things at times.

[Captain Idaho]

That's true, moving everything is an issue, though executives often don't live in the same town etc. For a factory they could easily place it at another location and ship from there to places in the UK, including ports. If anything, a Southampton factory and distribution centre would work very well since it is a port city connected to Europe also.

 

Anyway, moving on from that reply (thank you for engaging of course!) I can honestly say I can't wait to get the end of the month and get the campaign rules in the supplement. Oh and always want a Leviathan and Deredeos!

[Marshal Rohr]

Isn’t it hard to move things by road and rail in the UK? Like just putting a factory in another town wouldn’t be the pain point, getting the sprues from that other town to Nottingham adds additional shipping costs that compound with then shipping the stock from Nottingham. 

[Captain Idaho]

Ha ha no, it really isn't. We have businesses that do it loads.

 

Probably be tough for GW to organise though 

[Marshal Rohr]

Well that’s good if they explore that route then. I thought it was the common European problem of having a few big highways and once you are off the highway it turns into the shire with one lane farm roads between the small towns. The US is essentially just an interstate with some land between lanes. 

[SgtSharp]

5 minutes ago, Marshal Rohr said:

Well that’s good if they explore that route then. I thought it was the common European problem of having a few big highways and once you are off the highway it turns into the shire with one lane farm roads between the small towns. The US is essentially just an interstate with some land between lanes. 

pretty much every town and village has at lease a B-Road conecting it to somewhere else, and through that to a motorway, unless GW wants to situate their new factory in one of the random hamlets scatered though the depths of the countryside roads wouldn't be so much of an issue.

[Dark Shepherd]

Am only half joking but am sure theres a company like Airfix or Hornby they could do a hostile takeover of and seize their resources :)

 

For the Slaughter, I really hope it has all the new units out for at least 9 months

Needing 3 books in about a year would be a bit of an ask

[Captain Idaho]

Yeah I agree with that. The heavier Dreads, alongside support weapons and vanguard units, Spartans of course as well, should provide the widest amount of game variance for us all.

[VanDutch]

So much for the preorder being up this month! It’s not in today’s preview.
 

Happy to wait another week or so if it means there is plenty to go around though.

[Matcap86]

I noticed last weeks article they announced "reinforcements voor Legions Imperialis" but assumed they just used weird wording for the transfers. Seems like they :cuss:'D again.

[ccnick22]

16 minutes ago, VanDutch said:

So much for the preorder being up this month! It’s not in today’s preview.
 

Happy to wait another week or so if it means there is plenty to go around though.

Unfortunately it's doubtful that the delay means there will be more stock.  It seems that at this point they are very much trying to do way more than what their infrastructure can handle.  They aren't producing near enough of product for launches and they are consistently missing given dates and timeframes.  An entire preorder weekend dedicated to made to order models that may take up to 6 months to receive all for a system that hasn't even hit most shelves yet in the US... Seems like another last minute filler weekend because they couldn't keep up.

[Matcap86]

Just went back to check. It was their twitter so seems like this weekend should've seen the LI releases.

 

Edited January 21 by Matcap86

[Burni]

Bah, where’s my tiny reinforcements!?

Well at least I don’t have to deal with ordering next Saturday morning when I’m away from reliable internet.

 

I wonder how long a delay were looking at.

[SkimaskMohawk]

Man they really can't get their act together with LI can they? The original August delay, Great slaughter proportional marketing spaced-out into missing it's January window, and terrible stock levels.

 

The game is super fun, but all the issues are super aggravating. 

[Lord Marshal]

Game is just cursed at this point.

 

I think WarCom gives timelines for it as a deliberate sick joke.

[Black Cohort]

I would argue that at this point you can't actually play LI properly yet.  Without things like Land Raiders, transports for SA and a bunch of the other missing options we are only playing like 80% of a game.

[Astartes Consul]

29 minutes ago, SkimaskMohawk said:

Man they really can't get their act together with LI can they? The original August delay, Great slaughter proportional marketing spaced-out into missing it's January window, and terrible stock levels.

 

The game is super fun, but all the issues are super aggravating. 

 

Feels like it has been completely shafted by missing the original release window. Always going to be a low priority and now can't get the space to catch up, especially with TOW launching.

[Matrindur]

Interestingly they have this at the bottom:

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* These products are delayed in Japan and Australia.

** These products are delayed in Japan.

 But nothing in the article those footnotes actually belong to. A region delay also doesn't really make sense for products that don't have a fixed release and are just made to order anyway.

So it seems likely those footnotes where meant for LI and something happened so not just Japan and Australia are delayed but everyone else too.

Which would mean it's a very short notice change if they already had the Sunday article written for LI and changed it afterwards

Edited January 21 by Matrindur

[Matcap86]

It honestly feels a bit like the wheels are coming off at GW. Maybe they need to impose a month of no releases or something just to catch up. Cause this is getting messier and messier.

[WrathOfTheLion]

They've been having a bunch of delays in North America as well due to weather in Tennessee. If it's delayed heavily in multiple regions, they may have delayed it overall.

[Interrogator Stobz]

That makes sense. Even though they were happy to make us in the Antipodes wait two extra weeks for the initial release, for the big markets such as the US we all may suffer 

[Marshal Rohr]

Maybe Epic Scale is cursed? Titanicus came out with the Grandmaster set and sat in a holding pattern for a year until the other classes were out. Aeronautica released shortly before being smothered in the cradle by Covid. Legiones Imperialis got delayed and sold out so fast people can’t play it. 

[Interrogator Stobz]

There's not enough Chaos to be cursed....

 

Not yet.

[Pacific81]

I would guess they may have been surprised at the success of both new Epic and Fantasy.

Perhaps as many fans have pointed out, neither of those games should have stopped being sold in the first place