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Was there an iron wind metals sculpt between the original Ral Partha versions and the current ones?

Because I think the Summoner at least is significantly larger in the new sculpt.
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The Thor, Vulture, Black Hawk, Ryoken, Man O War, and light omnis are all noticably different in size between the originals and the resculpts.

As are the Masakari, Gladiator, and Daishi but they're not in the set.
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Still work, to be honest, I cannot tell much of a size difference between the Timberwolves . . .

As far as I know they are all 75 tons.
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As far as I know they are all 75 tons.

And as far as I know, tons aren't an expression of height, width, length, or volume.   :P
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And as far as I know, tons aren't an expression of height, width, length, or volume.   :P

There's a "YOUR MOMMA" joke in there somewhere I'm sure ;)
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There's a "YOUR MOMMA" joke in there somewhere I'm sure ;)

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And as far as I know, tons aren't an expression of height, width, length, or volume.   :P

i only get annoyed by scale discrepancies in fringe cases like the targe. i also excluded the JagerMech III from my Davion FCCW company because it was so ill-proportioned next to the rest (and also because it's a jagermech III).

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Anyone else in the US still waiting for their copy of GoAC?

Ordered both my Beginners Box and A Game of Armor Combat from my neighborhood game shop. Got my copy of the Beginners Box but they still haven't gave me a ETA on my copy of GoAC.

There are other game places I can go to buy the box but these guys have always been good to me and I rather give them the money. Just need to know if there is a still a wait in distribution or if my order with them was somehow mismanaged before I take my business elsewhere to get my BT fix. 
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Anyone else in the US still waiting for their copy of GoAC?

Ordered both my Beginners Box and A Game of Armor Combat from my neighborhood game shop. Got my copy of the Beginners Box but they still haven't gave me a ETA on my copy of GoAC.
I'm in the exact same situation.  I pre-ordered both from the same shop and received the Beginners Box right when it was released, but the store still has no ETA on A Game of Armored Combat.  I have the same questions you do...  It seems that I have read about other stores getting stock at various times, so it makes me wonder why my order doesn't get fulfilled.

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I think half of the pre-ordered beginner sets and zero of the full game arrived at my FLGS.

I'm not certain what the point of having pre-orders is if you can't fulfill them. Then again, it's Catalyst. They're nothing if not late and disappointing.

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I think half of the pre-ordered beginner sets and zero of the full game arrived at my FLGS.

I'm not certain what the point of having pre-orders is if you can't fulfill them. Then again, it's Catalyst. They're nothing if not late and disappointing.

Sorry, that is not Catalyst but either your store or the distributor.  Catalyst can be pointed at if say the container was impounded b/c of needing to pay port fees or whatever.  But the ship dropped off the container and it went to the warehouses.
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Sorry, that is not Catalyst but either your store or the distributor.  Catalyst can be pointed at if say the container was impounded b/c of needing to pay port fees or whatever.  But the ship dropped off the container and it went to the warehouses.

Pre-order at FLGS != manufacturer pre-order.  It just means that the store placed an order for it with their distributor over and above their normal order.  It is up to the distributor to fulfill that.  At that point it is out of CGL's hands (other than manufacturing more if they are selling out).
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I picked up both boxes recently myself, from a couple of different local game stores. apparently they are popular, and dont stay on the shelves for long. which makes the complete lack of any mechs on store shelves a bit confusing, there isnt anywhere near me that i know of that carries the iron wind metal minis. the place i bought all my old ral partha lead from went out of business back in 2008.

I kind of want to get some more tanks, but the only option seems to be ordering directly from IWM. I wish they would make a box with plastic tanks...

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My local store's main distributor recently dropped IWM from what they carry by what we have been told.  We are trying to work with the store to get them to carry IWM, but I am not sure how that is going to happen.  You might be in the same situation.
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Something happened last summer that caused one of the major distributors in the US to stop carrying IWM products completely.  So far I haven't been able to get any information about what's been going on or whether or not it's likely to get fixed any time in the near future.

But that's not relevant to Catalyst.
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Something happened last summer that caused one of the major distributors in the US to stop carrying IWM products completely.  So far I haven't been able to get any information about what's been going on or whether or not it's likely to get fixed any time in the near future.

But that's not relevant to Catalyst.

Which distributor?
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Diamond, I think, but I'm not certain.  I'd have to check and get back to you.
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I was looking through Alliance's 2019 catalog and their IWM section was about 20 items.

turned to the CGL page. they seem to have the entire BT catalog listed including some stuff that was never released like the Alpha Strike box and the AS card sets, and items that haven't been available from anywhere for years like the old core rulebook cardstock kits so that can't be accurate.

despite that, I saw this and I HAVE QUESTIONS


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I was looking through Alliance's 2019 catalog and their IWM section was about 20 items.

turned to the CGL page. they seem to have the entire BT catalog listed including some stuff that was never released like the Alpha Strike box and the AS card sets, and items that haven't been available from anywhere for years like the old core rulebook cardstock kits so that can't be accurate.

despite that, I saw this and I HAVE QUESTIONS



Hunh, not a catalyst number. I think there was a typo.
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I was wrong, it was Alliance that my local store uses.  Store owner can't get an explanation for why it's not available.
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I’ll screencap the iwm page in the alliance catalog when I get back to my computer, but what you can get from them is very meager. It’s mostly relegated to the past few years of new releases (all of the catalog numbers are the 200-5XXX types).

Unsure what that means but my flgs also uses alliance and there are exactly zero BT minis there these  days

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I’ll screencap the iwm page in the alliance catalog when I get back to my computer, but what you can get from them is very meager. It’s mostly relegated to the past few years of new releases (all of the catalog numbers are the 200-5XXX types).

Unsure what that means but my flgs also uses alliance and there are exactly zero BT minis there these  days

I'd be interested in that list as well, as I think that's who my FLGS uses and they also have a hard time getting IWM stuff I try to order.

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alliance 2019 catalog pg 122. the catalog has some stuff in bold, some in regular type, and some in italics. at no point does it attempt to explain the difference that i could find. fairly certain bold = new and/or coming soon. But I remember this being much, much more robust ten years ago the last time i had to use one of their catalogs.




you know what. now that i'm looking at these, there hasn't been anything added for a couple years. this must be overstock they have left.
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Yeah, the newest things on that list are the Xanthos and Hawkwolf, and those are both from 1st quarter last year.
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I'd be interested in that list as well, as I think that's who my FLGS uses and they also have a hard time getting IWM stuff I try to order.
Been going on for years. If your FLGS contacts IWM, they can work out something. https://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php?topic=13293.msg312347#msg312347

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That's what my FLG did.  However they had to make sure the group people pulled their interests together point out they were committed to buying stuff.
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despite that, I saw this and I HAVE QUESTIONS


I, uh, can confirm that CGL does not have the Warhammer Fantasy license. Nor would they use a Cubicle 7 product number.
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Upon further investigation, neither does cubicle 7

What a weird confluence of errors

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I, uh, can confirm that CGL does not have the Warhammer Fantasy license.

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Do Ice Hellions like to paint their mechs red?

Only after they take a cockpit crit.
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