normsmith | 12 Mar 2014 6:28 a.m. PST |
Italy Battles is in WH.Smiths amongst the other wargame mags for just £4.99 GBP there are 120 pages, stand alone scenarios and a campaign system. Great value a source for FOW or other tactical systems. Nice to see a wargame product on the high street. |
jameshammyhamilton | 12 Mar 2014 7:41 a.m. PST |
It is nice for the gamer but a bit of a downer for the various games shops where the RRP is I think £7.95 GBP |
normsmith | 12 Mar 2014 9:54 a.m. PST |
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John the OFM | 12 Mar 2014 10:00 a.m. PST |
Nothing like undercutting your FLGS. |
Steve W | 12 Mar 2014 10:55 a.m. PST |
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Frothers Did It And Ran Away | 12 Mar 2014 11:06 a.m. PST |
Poor FLGS, compelled to charge full RRP and be uncompetetive. Evil WHSmiths robbing the food out of game shop owners children's mouths. Where's that Dickens fellow, bedad? |
(Stolen Name) | 12 Mar 2014 3:08 p.m. PST |
Yup WH Smiths bring far more people into The Hobby (TM) than your FLGS |
Jemima Fawr | 12 Mar 2014 5:15 p.m. PST |
Yup, bought my very first wargames mag in a WH Smiths (in Stratford-Upon-Avon, during an extremely tedious school trip). FLGSs did not exist for me, though I knew one or two UFLGSs. |
Lion in the Stars | 12 Mar 2014 6:54 p.m. PST |
Hrm, I will have to keep my eyes open for that here in the US. Even at MSRP, it sounds like a good deal! |
bruntonboy | 13 Mar 2014 3:04 a.m. PST |
Well I would say probably 90% of British gamers don't have near access to a wargames store selling Battlefront products whilst the same percentage do have a WHS store in their local town. So I don't really see an issue. Getting wargames product seen more widely is the key thing. I doubt if I would have bought a copy if it wasn't in Smiths. |
ubercommando | 13 Mar 2014 3:34 a.m. PST |
What FLGS? This is the UK, there are probably only a dozen in the whole country. Waterstones' bookshop occasionally have gaming books there (they had copies of Force on Force at one point) but over here you get the gaming books where you can and if that's WH Smiths, so be it. |
Steve W | 13 Mar 2014 3:45 a.m. PST |
Do we really need FLGS's
plenty of clubs to play at and plenty of shows to buy things at |
forrester | 13 Mar 2014 6:17 a.m. PST |
Model shops are very rare, and the chances of one actually having what you're looking for even rarer. Even pre-internet, you had to resort mostly to mail order, simply because one shop cannot possibly cater for all periods and scales. I tend to use a local shop for paint, glue etc rather thsan specific items. Is the Italy book useful? I don't do FoW but I got their Normandy book when WH Smiths sold it and browse through it occasionally. |
Marc the plastics fan | 17 Mar 2014 7:04 a.m. PST |
And when one gets a FLGS one finds that it is not allowed to stock rival products – ie if it has FOW it does not have PSC (and yes, Waterloo and Hockley – it is you I am looking at
). Smiths works for me – it has a wide audience, so non-core people may see something on the off chance there. Cannot be bad. |
Lion in the Stars | 17 Mar 2014 10:21 a.m. PST |
Weird, because my FLGS stocks Battlefront, PSC, Forged in Battle, and some others that I can't remember. And when one gets a FLGS one finds that it is not allowed to stock rival products – ie if it has FOW it does not have PSC (and yes, Waterloo and Hockley – it is you I am looking at
). In the US, that would be grounds for an antitrust lawsuit. I'm sure that the UK/EU has similar laws about anticompetitive behavior. |
jameshammyhamilton | 17 Mar 2014 12:25 p.m. PST |
The Italy Battles book is much like the Normandy Battles one. It takes all the non army list stuff from the older books and compiles it into a single volume. It is certainly not FoW specific. |
Gravett Islander | 17 Mar 2014 3:02 p.m. PST |
Marc,
And when one gets a FLGS one finds that it is not allowed to stock rival products – i.e. if it has FOW it does not have PSC (and yes, Waterloo and Hockley – it is you I am looking at
). Check out Harlow's FLGS, Marquee Models, mmodels.co.uk One will find that Keith sells FOW, PSC, Zvezda, and lots more. P.S. I have no shares in Marquee Models, I just shop AND game there! |
Marc the plastics fan | 18 Mar 2014 2:34 a.m. PST |
Cheers Grave – I will take a wander there. Thanks |
ubercommando | 18 Mar 2014 5:19 a.m. PST |
My local WH Smith's didn't have a copy, and didn't have any delivered either. Oh well. |
tuscaloosa | 22 Mar 2014 7:35 p.m. PST |
I envy British wargamers. The idea of a mass market newsstand carrying wargame magazines is unknown to us in the U.S. I get the idea that miniature wargaming is a bit more mainstream in the UK. |
AncientWarfare | 23 Mar 2014 4:30 a.m. PST |
It's not entirely unknown. Wargames, Soldiers & Strategy is available from select B&N, Books-a-Million, Hastings, etc. If you give me the city you live in, I can check for the nearest one. |