| DColtman | 15 May 2008 7:41 a.m. PST |
Any Canadian retailers getting this in stock soon? |
| vdal1812 | 15 May 2008 11:36 a.m. PST |
Give Terry at North Bay Games and Hobbies a call. He may have it. |
| Tim in Saskatoon | 15 May 2008 12:20 p.m. PST |
Gee Dave, none of your friendly local game stores are planning on getting it in…? Redclaw has Warhammer Ancinets and LOTOW in their online store so I would assume they COULD get it in. If someone asked them too… I'm sure Sentry Box has all the Warhammer Historical stuff – though I can't seem to find it online… so I imagine they'll be getting it in at some point.. |
| DColtman | 15 May 2008 2:13 p.m. PST |
Good point Tim, forgot about RedClaw. Otherwise FLGS are darn thin on the ground here for historicals (i.e. none). Mind you, the carbon footprint and cost of gas to drive across town to RedClaw is more than the postage from beyond is likely to be. When I spoke with Gord at SB last week he was unaware of it, but likely to get it eventually. |
| willthepiper | 15 May 2008 2:22 p.m. PST |
The Great War has only just been released. UK gets the first batch of books, followed by America. Other countries will get their copies in order of priority. Since Canada falls between Cameroon and Central African Republic, you should expect to see Great War in Canadian shops sometime between June and Christmas. |
| Tim in Saskatoon | 15 May 2008 3:42 p.m. PST |
the carbon footprint and cost of gas to drive across town to RedClaw is more than the postage from beyond is likely to be… Don't you have a bicycle…? |
| DColtman | 15 May 2008 6:42 p.m. PST |
Slow day at the office Tim? |
| DColtman | 15 May 2008 7:28 p.m. PST |
BTW Tim- did you order a copy? |
| rob broom | 16 May 2008 6:17 a.m. PST |
As your store if they order from "Lion Rampant" as they are a Canadian distributor for WHW product. Some stores do get our books from other distributors though. The book has only just shipped out though, so some stores won't have it yet unless they ordered from their distributor in advance, and of course this assumes their distributor ordered from us, so several loops in the chain beyond us having the book available. |
| wehrmacht | 16 May 2008 6:28 a.m. PST |
Tim – what's "Redclaw" and where is it? tks w.
Winnipeg |
| Tim in Saskatoon | 16 May 2008 8:04 a.m. PST |
Red Claw Gaming is a new-ish store in Edmonton that is solely devoted to miniature gaming. redclawgaming.com I've never been in there but I've met the owner Tom a couple of times. I know when it was in the planning stages he was pumped to have everything to do with miniatures – historical, fantasy, the works… Of course when he actually got it going and realized he had finite resources and there's a AWFUL LOT of historical miniatures out there and didn't know where to start. When he asked around nobody would tell him what they would buy and so I don't think he really has much of anything in the way of historicals. At least that's the story I got from him – in a nutshell. "They won't support my business" vs. "He doesn't stock what we want" – that whole chicken-egg thing… Tough times for small independent stores. Why would joe-gamer travel half way across Edmonton (or any city) to order a book that the store will place an order for sometime within the next couple weeks… maybe… then wait another week for it to be delivered… then find time to make another trip across town to pick it up – only to find it costs a couple dollars more than it's advertised for elsewhere… when you can sit down at the computer in your office or home and order one and have Canada Post deliver it to your door in a week (before friendly local game store would even place it's order)…? (Other than that whole keep-you-money-in-your-own-community thing…). I've asked him if he'd order stuff in for me and he seemed perfectly willing to do so… but anything he can get my own friendly local game store can get for me. Have I ordered Great War(hammer)? No. I know my local game store, Dragon's Den Games in Saskatoon, will probably order it in. I've got them good and trained. I spend as much of my gaming money as I can there – a lot of is special order, but now he sometimes orders stuff in he thinks I might like for stock. Great War(hammer) will probably be one of those. I'll have a look at it when it comes in, and at some point I'll probably pick it up – just because it's WW1 and I'm thrilled to see anything in that era and if he's willing to take the risk and order something like that is I'll buy it just to encourage him to keep doing that – but I doubt I'll ever play it. Though I'm sure it will be a lot slicker than CLA, in the end I can't imagine it will play much different… and I'm pretty sick of CLA… I don't think he does a lot of mail order… but you never know… The website is a bit out of date but the contact info is there: link |
