Reply To: Is GW's constant "limited release" marketing starting to bite back?

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Cheers Shredhead (hadn’t seen those ones), but there’s not the ones I was talking about. The Gang Tactics box of cards has about 12-14 tactic cards specific to each gang, there’s all OOP now (and it’s those we’re just trying to get the rules for, even the text from the cards so we can make our own (with paper and a ballpoint pen). Our group has some of them, but some gangs we didn’t move fast enough. We also tried to get the “Underdog” cards (for balancing out fights with gangs with wildly different gang ratings), but again these were sold out in the pre-order phase before they even got to retail.

It’s a problem with half the rules are ONLY printed on these card packs (wouldn’t be so bad if GW just went “old skool” and printed the rules in the rulebooks and then released the cards as a convenience thing (like they used to)).

Alas these limited runs things make it really hard for gamers who want to get into the game facing opponents with these cards and not being able to counter in kind (or you just remove the cards entirely from the games, but this removes a lot of the “flavour” between each gang). I had a similar issue with Bloodbowl (as I couldn’t get the team cards for that game system), as the players who had been in from the start were using the cards in their games. So I ended up just walking away from the game rather frustrated at the stupidness  that these marketing decisions had made to the game for me as a “new” customer 🙁