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I don't think so. It's hardly the first time they've done this, and I doubt they'll sell those bundles for long. It's the ol' "hope your customers' excitement for this new model is more powerful than their ability to do math and they go for it" approach. They've done it before and they'll do it again, but marketing based on hoping your customers are idiots is really bad (and obviously insulting) marketing. They're not being clever, they just think they are.

3 shields on the E-Wing. That thing looks really good!

Man, I haven't even been able to get my hands on the 3rd wave rebel stuff...

May your over-sized dice and tape measure crash like thunder upon the field.

You aren't stealing if you buy from them, but you are rewarding them monetarily for stealing. It's up to you to decide if that bothers you. At any rate, this thread probably belongs on Warpspace (and getting closer to RoC by the post), at this point. It was barely related to 40k in the first place. I like those Chibi marines though!

I like that you pay $45 each no matter how many you buy, bundle or not. Do they not know how bundles work?.....or do they think that we don't...?? It's like walking into a store and seeing a sale sign that says, "JEANS! Buy 6 at a time!" Seriously, the most baffling marketing strategies... Stoked for Dwarves though!

I wonder what they're doing with that space marine statue!

I think I could probably swing this.

Can't say I'm surprised. They cut out any reason for customers to go there, and it closes how many months later? 4? 5?

Nice! Except one thing. One of the last pictures has a caption mostly illegible from glare. At the end it sts soothing like "if you really want to make sure your organ gun hits, attach a master engineer." While is cool that he can now operate an organ gun (that never made any sense), it also pretty strongly suggests the organ gun has to roll to hit. HOPEFULLY it has that superior volley special rule pictured above (re-roll to hit) at least.

Taking a bunch of undrafted, unwanted, inexperienced players that everyone said were a joke, and using them absolutely BULLDOZE the team that everyone was predicting would win the super bowl before the season even started is something to talk about. Well that's the thing about winning your first Super Bowl, you don't have another one to cling to... Are you honestly suggesting that fans shouldn't celebrate a Super Bowl victory until they win another one? I can understand sour grapes, but what you're saying is just naive.

Sure, but you'll never get us to stop talking about 2014!

It actually scales better than 40k in some respects. There's no force organization to be maxed out, the allocations are percentage based. So its consistent through all point sizes. That said, certain linchpin characters are unuseable at lower points and the whole army can suffer.

*edit* Never mind, I'm too broke.

I'm down for some more fantasy action, but I'm not super interested in another escalation league. I understand the draw for newer players, but that is the only format we've used in any game system since Dark Tower opened. I'll play either way, and won't whine (much) if that's what folks want to do, but I'm more interested in getting in games at points levels people commonly play.

Yeah that seems silly to me. I get the idea, but with their prices as high as they are, impulse buys aren't all that common. People tend to buy the models to serve a purpose in the list. Without the rules, the models serve no purpose. Moreover, what does it say about their self-confidence if they are changing their release structure so they don't undermine their own sales with lopsided rules? In light of GW's recent financial woes, it looks like they're panicked and desperately experimenting with new ideas. Unfortunately for everyone, they did the exact opposite of what they should. If it were me, I'd start with the book release. It is the one sale nearly GUARANTEED to every player of that army, so why not start off with a low-risk release? Fill it with pictures of all the up-and coming models, and keep your finger to the pulse of the community. Then adjust your production levels of each unit according to the interest they're generating in anticipation of release day. I really don't understand that company anymore. Their policies so often work directly against their goals these days, and they can't seem to figure that out.

Yeah, the offense was lazy, but Manning himself wasn't playing poorly. That's all i'm saying. I don't think I'd say their defense played a "great game." In those clutch moments, they just weren't there. Slow, off-target tackles all game. We scored at least 18 points off of plays where they missed 3 takes in a row.

I dominated all of the alcohol downtown. It, in turn, is dominating me

Everyone is talking about Manning playing a terrible game, but I don't see it that way. We just gave him NO options. The only pass he could land was a 5 yard pick-up on the outside, and he did it very consistently. But when you're that far behind, 5 yards at a time isn't mathematically feasible. He definitely made some sloppy mistakes and it wasn't his best work, but there just wasn't an exploitable chink in our defense. I hope he plays again and gets back to the Super Bowl. He deserves to end his career on a high note.

Who knew Broncos had a JV team.

Not enough pervy teachers with squirt guns at the end of Hunger Games for it to be considered the same ending. I've got my fingers crossed for the final 2 installments rectifying that mistake.

Maybe a marketing strategy based around only a few weeks of good sales would explain their recent financial woes :P

I know this is a long-dead thread, but I think it deserves a bump. I'm hungry for podcasts, and chances are someone else on here is too. BTW, I figured out how to find the podcasts on Zune, so I'm happy now. Anyway, the reason I posted on here is for those History of Rome fans out there, he also has Revolutions out now. Still quirky, informative, and concise as you'd come to expect. He's covered the British Civil Wars so far and is on a short hiatus but will be covering, I believe, the American Revolution next. I'm very interested to hear his perspective on it because I'm much more familiar with that bit of history than anything else he's covered.

Now I'm even more confused. Can you use PTL to take actions before moving? I thought it was just an additional action during the action step.

Oh okay. I was very much second-guessing my decision to order one.