Games Workshop delays have turned severe as webstore orders are not even moving according to notifications sent to customers.
We’ve talked a lot about Games Workshop’s recent shipping issues, changing the warehouse to an automated system, the heavy allocations, and more. However, this might be the most significant issue GW has actually addressed. On top of that, Legions Imperialis has also been delayed now (we’ll talk about the details below), so things are not looking good for the Games Workshop distribution network right now.
Delays Turn Severe For Games Workshop Webstore Orders…
So, this was the initial announcement from GW for customers in the UK, but this is apparently just scratching the surface, as they recently sent out another email highlighting the issues.
This is an email GW sent out:
Greetings Rogue Traders.
We are reaching out to you today regarding your recent mail order due to recent improvements being made with our logistics facilities, we are experiencing a few delays beyond those that were advertised on our web store. Please don’t worry, your order is safe in our system and will be processed again once the improvements have been completed. We thank you for your continued patience and ask that you keep an eye out on your emails for a dispatch confirmation to follow over the next few weeks. If you have any other questions please don’t hesitate to ask.
Best regards.
This is pretty crazy, as they are not only saying they are moving systems, they said it is worse than they initially advertised. This means this could be another 2+ weeks in shipping delays. This also lines up with them barely releasing anything for the past few weeks. However, the issues with their disruption networks have lasted months and months and seem to be a bit severe now.
Either way, this sets them back a couple of weeks (beyond the initial plans) and may even make sense as to why the Legions Imperialis starter is being pushed back. Games Workshop also said something curious in their recent financial report that seems to indicate that, perhaps, a lot of these stock issues are, in fact, on purpose.
To continue to be fair to our 6,500 trade partners and to ensure our stock allocation is
appropriate, we don’t carry high quantities of new release products on our own online store – so it will nearly always sell out
Legions Imperialis Starter Box & Game Delayed
The latest Legions Imperialis Starter Box and game update come from Warhammer Community.
While we had initially hoped to release Legions Imperialis in August, the release date will now be a little later in the year. Don’t worry – you’ll be commanding a tiny legion of troops to victory very soon.
As we said, they don’t give an exact date for release, but it’s still the beginning of August, so at this point, we have at least a month, but we’ll have to see if it actually drops in September or if this will get pushed back to the Fall. While this is disappointing, it might also push back Old World, as we don’t expect them to drop two games in the same month. As they have said, they want to drop Old World this year.
So let’s hope this comes out in September so it doesn’t push back other releases like the new 10th Edition Space Marines and Tyranids codex books…
GW Warehouse is Even More Clogged As Skynet Takes Over
Image From Hikrobotics
We first heard about the robot takeover in 2019, and this fumbled first attempt at a rollout of an automated system for Games Workshop happened in December of 2021 at the height of the holiday shipping season!
According to an Industry Insider from back then, these IRL robots are part of GW’s new automation system and warehouse expansion.
Games Workshop has been growing. Now they’re making things more automated with IRL robots. It’s called something like a Hikrobot– a smart machine that can pull orders from shelves and recharge itself (like a Roomba).
Now we have full proof that the robots are online; the main issue is It seems the people who work there can’t make any changes to the automation or what’s happening, and the automation seems to be making many mistakes currently. It also seems from the responses customers and retailers alike are receiving that orders can not be canceled once placed, as that would somehow mess with the automation.
While Games Workshops logistics eventually worked it out in the first quarter of 2022, this was highly disappointing to both hobbyists and LGS locations in the 2021 holiday season.
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