Where are we up to with the new Horus Heresy 3rd Edition this week?
Still no confirmed release date. However. Games Workshop has announced a competition online which involves winning your choice of Primarch, a bunch of upgrades like resin heads and shoulder pads for a legion of your choice, as well as the relevant transfer sheet and so forth. This comes with the new boxed set. Of significance here is the small print:
6.2 The approximate retail value of the prize pool is £1245/$1942.5 USD/$2975 AUS/€1565. This value excludes delivery and sales tax, where applicable.
8.1 A redraw, if applicable, will take place at Games Workshop, Willow Road, Nottingham NG7 2WS at 10 a.m. (UK Time) on 6th August 2025. The redraw will be made by computerised random selection.
I am left wondering about the release date of the new boxed set. It seems from this it won't be until AUGUST! That seems a long way out here at the end of May.
The prize pool is incredible as well. GBP1245 is very high. Let's break it down. There will be 5 winners, hence each winner gets a value of GBP249. This is incredible value just by looking at it.
We will assume that a Primarch is worth GBP100 (it isn't on average, but Magnus the Red is clearly expensive compared to Angron). Down to GBP149.
Shoulder pads are worth GPB16. Multiplied by 4 - because there's supposed to be enough for the box - that's GBP64. Heads are the same price. So another GBP64. Add on GBP23 for the transfer sheet and we get down to GBP negative 2. And that's before any of the paint brush bundle, and the paint pot bundle. Let alone the boxed set itself. My estimate for the boxed set is somewhere in the region of GBP150. Total guess. YMMV.
Shoulder pads are worth GPB16. Multiplied by 4 - because there's supposed to be enough for the box - that's GBP64. Heads are the same price. So another GBP64. Add on GBP23 for the transfer sheet and we get down to GBP negative 2. And that's before any of the paint brush bundle, and the paint pot bundle. Let alone the boxed set itself. My estimate for the boxed set is somewhere in the region of GBP150. Total guess. YMMV.
And then the Horus Hearsay page itself has updated to confirm which things were real, versus hearsay. And to be honest, there are no surprises. There's no d18 in the boxed set. Hardly a surprise. I don't think the rest is exceptionally surprising either.
Regardless, loving the forthcoming miniatures (breachers, assault squad, and everything else). Just a bit disappointed that the three year old books are already being eliminated.
As much as I'd like to pre-order tomorrow an August release date make sense:
ReplyDelete- It allows a steady pipeline of plastic releases up to and including Christmas
- It means that everyone will be back and focused from the 'holiday' part of the school holidays
- there will be anticipation of that for the adults (which is mainly the target audience).
Yes, I do agree.
ReplyDeleteI've also just looked back at second edition which according to my notes went on pre-order on Saturday 4/June/2022. This, I suppose, also makes some mild sense as it is before some nations summer holidays?
yeah, if you're in retail or Finance then June to mid-August is the REALLY sleepy part of the year. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if we were looking at a late August release to coincide with back to school shopping.
ReplyDeleteHence if you're going for a summer release then you need to go for either an early June or Mid to Late August release. Personally I'm not fussed as I've got stripped and re-sprayed BA Rhinos to paint, along with scenery and Dawnbringer Cohorts