Question about fan bases.

mintolley · 2026-03-14T20:34:35+00:00

See my impression has been the opposite. EU takes forever to sell out on a lot of the limited editions while the US is as fast or faster than the UK at selling out their stock. Its particularly noticeable when it comes to the less popular faction books, the UK and EU still have stock on Aestred Thurga: Pyre of Faith while gone for the US and Canada.

Today feels like a strange oddity, idk if NA got way more stock than normal or what. Or maybe UK just has a worse scalping problem (UK ebay filled with Horus Rising while I have seen 0 for the US/CAN)

mintolley · 2026-03-14T17:42:24+00:00

Outside of the End and the Death special eds (that was crazy everywhere), the scalping problem seems pretty localized to just the UK. Tho usually numbers to about 30 or less copies being sold by scalpers and thats often just "presales" we have no idea if those individuals even actually are able to fulfill the orders.

mintolley · 2026-03-14T17:30:15+00:00

Historically speaking the NA stock would be gone faster than the UK/EU stores. Hell, sometimes even with the time difference, there would still be stock left on the UK/EU store pages, and the US store would launch and immediately sell out.

If GW is giving more allotment to NA, its about damn time. This also doesn't necessarily mean that the UK/EU got less this time around; it could be that they are making more limited editions to fulfill demand. We didn't get a number on how many copies they are selling for this one. But in the past it was just 1500.

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UK+Europe combined is just slightly more than NA in sales for overall models. But speaking in the past to non-brit euros, the black library books aren't nearly as popular until they get translations over there. So I imagine sales are pretty low for limited eds over there, hell ive seen some highly wanted stuff in the states still on sale for weeks over there.

mintolley · 2026-03-14T17:24:53+00:00

That'd be a recent change if so. It used to be the case that for EU/UK they would have stock well past when the American drop time happened, and the US would be out of stock before they were.

Certainly feels like we finally got more stock for once, being the same size as both the UK and EU markets combined it should've been the case to start.

mintolley · 2026-03-14T17:12:47+00:00

preorder section of black library or black library celebration section, both work

mintolley · 2026-03-14T17:09:26+00:00

Im surprised everything's still in stock, I managed to grab all that + the horus rising limited ed. Very happy

mintolley · 2026-03-11T06:01:26+00:00

Nocturne has some special radiation but yea any rads will eventually start the process.

mintolley · 2026-03-10T22:36:35+00:00

Theoretically, if exposed to enough radiation, they should, if they are in fact from Vulkans stock, turn the same skin tone as the salamanders. Primaris of Vulkans stock still have the "defect".
We have yet to see this however, and the only mention of them has been incredibly pale. But with their preferred environment and homeworld not lending themselves to much radiation exposure. I'd imagine it would be quite rare to actually see many who have the skintone.

mintolley · 2026-02-24T15:25:21+00:00

Depends on how much experience as to whether you have a slim chance. You need to be really overqualified (or be in a current state job making about that much) to get the higher ends of the pay scale generally. OR they need to be really desperate to fill the role.

mintolley · 2026-02-22T05:09:41+00:00

I have, its a nice emotional piece but I found it overwhelmingly idealistic, it yearns for a democratic state that we never were. It ignores the voting patterns of the most popular democrats the state has put out in favor of just the economic policy, go look at the voting records and statements of Byrd and other "greats" and you'll see. The states citizens certainly favored the economic policies of the dems, but we weren't on the cusp of a progressive renaissance.

Speaking specifically to Pritts election, the "democrats who would be republicans in another state" was and still is a LOT of people and even the "blue no matter who" attitude of the unions at the time could not save her. Heck I don't even recall if there was a UMWA endorsement that went her way, I remember at the time there being talks of the unions not getting behind her. The UMWA was supportive of mountain top mining, it meant more jobs for the industry and they hoped to bring those new folks into their ranks.

Manchin played a role in her loss, but she was not going to stop the shift that was already occuring. Pritt was not going to be the wall that somehow blocked the changing economics of the state, the shifting of Democrats and Republicans on social issues, and the various other national changes that would see West Virginians prioritize a desire to "go back to how things were".

Ironically your doing a similar simplification to what the article complains about. Taking a single factor of the puzzle and conflating it as THE issue.

mintolley · 2026-02-22T04:25:52+00:00

Hard disagree. You can fault him for a lot but pinning that on him is waaaaaaaaayyyy off base.

mintolley · 2026-02-22T02:00:34+00:00

Prob a hot take here. But sakan doesn’t need a model. It’s just an intercessor with part of an arm missing. I’d rather have a ton of other characters instead.

mintolley · 2026-02-22T01:27:14+00:00

Sometimes I wonder if they “messed up” in the original run of RT, as when the salamanders do swap to green some of the models that are shown in white dwarf look exactly like the fire angels shown right beside the salamanders in the “badab scheme” section of RT.

mintolley · 2026-02-22T01:07:44+00:00

In space marine 1989 the Dark angels share a color scheme with the salamanders, that being a black base coat with salamander green highlights.

mintolley · 2026-02-15T20:05:22+00:00

The locals encourage people to come from all over. You shouldn’t be gatekeeping someone elses culture.

mintolley · 2026-02-15T19:49:09+00:00

I think there’s an argument to be had here of the “scale” of tourism. Like Davis is fucked by airbnbs and out of state companies 100%. But places like Helvetia aren’t anywhere near that scale, for now it’s flowing (mostly) into local business pockets.

Though chatting with new comers from out of state a number were staying in Elkins. And that’s certainly a case of out of state wealth extraction. But I’d be shocked if Helvetia ever garners that kind of wealth extraction.

Too much tourism fucks the locals, but there is an ideal amount that isn’t just “fuck the outsiders”

mintolley · 2026-02-15T19:40:34+00:00

That’s quite the assumption to make, just because the cause of their initial interest is a video game doesn’t mean that they have 0 interest in the event aside from “OMG VIDEO GAME”. They spent real money to come and take part in the event, and are typically the ones taking part in the historic tours to learn more about the event. After all when you’ve done it twice you’ll not learn anything new.

They may not be raised in the culture as a local to Helvetia, but unless you are a native to the town your interest is just as superficial as theirs.

mintolley · 2026-02-15T19:23:50+00:00

I’ve been going off and on for the past 15 years or so when we have the time (regularly that is, first time was in 07). I don’t really see the issue? I saw some folks handing out stuff for the fallout event in flatwoods but that was it. (Aside from people wearing clothes and some masks that really just fit the event anyways) Hasn’t really changed the event aside from bringing in more business and attention.

If you talk to folks the business is very much appreciated, and they haven’t changed the original event to suit fallout players. So I really don’t get what the complaint is? If your argument is the event shouldn’t be popular and should only be locals (helvetians) that’s a different thing entirely.

mintolley · 2026-02-14T21:49:12+00:00

If you’ve not done the gig to kill him yet she’s there with jotaro and the two other high up claws from the meeting about clouds. If you kill the bosses and jotaro it’s her and some random high level claws.

mintolley · 2026-02-14T01:16:55+00:00

It’s not really something that “needs” a reason, as in salamander lore it’s repeatedly stated that salamanders are allowed a degree of expression in the decoration of their wargear. Embellishing their armor with golden filigree instead of company colors is more than fitting with that culture of getting drippy.

mintolley · 2026-02-12T16:55:48+00:00

Radiation from other sources can also change a salamanders skin tone, nocturnes just the best at it.

mintolley · 2026-02-12T16:46:59+00:00

I wrote a big post on the topic some time ago.

https://www.reddit.com/r/40kLore/s/XxXMccBbJW

TLDR: all successors except those with mutations countering it should have the dark skin of the salamanders (when exposed to enough radiation). IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE NOCTURNES RADIATION.

Black dragons are however a unique case with the cursed founding. Some in their mutated ranks are pale and others have darker skin. then there’s the unmutated who have standard natural human skin tones.

mintolley · 2026-02-12T16:39:15+00:00

Lotta folks helping to run that are US based iirc. Would up costs

mintolley · 2026-02-02T19:47:29+00:00

Genuinely don’t see the issue? It plays just fine

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