Thaw of the Lich Lord Nickstarter launched

[Harry]

I was amused to see Amazon are out of stock of Thaw of the Lich Lord already. I wonder who bought them all....

I am less amused when I read on here that some folks who have preordered it from second hand providers have had it delivered and have already read it ... when I backed the nickstarter and mine hasn't turned up yet. I am beginning to think I must have messed up the order ... is there some way i can check if that is the case?

[tyrionhalfman]

Did you ever get an email confirmation with the code WANABALICH for the hidden extras page from Northstar? If you didn't your order might not have gone through. I'd email them just to check

[Harry]

Did you ever get an email confirmation with the code WANABALICH for the hidden extras page from Northstar? If you didn't your order might not have gone through. I'd email them just to check

No ... I got that and ordered some more stuff. But that reassures me that I am in the sytem somewhere. Cheers. Must just be the spell card thing ... I ordered some of those.

[Darkson71]

I was under the impression that orders with spell decks had only just gone out?  I know mine arrived mid-week, and I didn't have the deck (idiot me!).

[nicknorthstar]

Drop us an email Harry and we'll chase it for you.

All the Nickstarters are out there in the hands of the postman.

The time between the Nickstarters being ready and the release date by Osprey was three days. There was always going to be a cross over of supply. The big thing we can't control is the books because they come from Osprey not us. We have held back selling the figures before the Nickstarters left to avoid winding people up, I'd have loved to have the Cultists for sale at Warfare in Reading last weekend but we couldn't do that.

My point is always, Nickstarters are not about you getting your stuff before your mate. They are about you supporting us by pre-ordering product and we making that worth your while by giving you free stuff and discounts. To avoid Thaw of the Lich Lord arriving in shops at the beginning of November I bought the whole print run. I tried to buy the whole second print run too, but couldn't, the result being some geezer gets his copy a few days ago and you get wound up Harry.

Something we did this time differently was staggering the shipping of Nickstarters. In the past the whole thing went in one day. This time, because the Spell Card decks were delayed, we started shipping those orders that didn't need cards first, with the rest following quickly after. I knew it would lead to comments of 'my mates got his where's mine' but it was a choice we made.

It's always our intention to do the very best we can for you guys, spare a thought for the North Star chaps who work hard on your behalf with this story.

We have 1000 parcels filling up the office and warehouse. They just need the spell card decks. A truck arrives. Hurrah. Casters drop their ladles, office staff drop their keyboards, it's all hands on deck to get the Nickstarters out that day. Exciting. Pallet is forklifted off, we sign the docket for the driver. Nick says 'How big are these spelldecks?' looking at the giant pallet. Dean rips open the wrapping, cuts open a box to find it's full of computer parts. Where's the Spell Decks? The delivery driver looks baffled, there is much wailing and gnashing of teeth amongst the faithful North Star workers.

Needless to say, the card decks were found and delivered later on, but just another hassle in the background of getting these big projects out the door. 

[rufus sparkfire]

Well, I got my stuff on Wednesday, so thanks Northstar!

[Magos Kasen]

My order arrived on Friday, which I was very impressed by considering it had to come to Australia! Absolutely love the cultists and the new book, really fired my frostgrave imagination. Should be able to finally get my campaign going in about a month. Gives me some more time to finish terrain and models.

[Harry]

Drop us an email Harry and we'll chase it for you.

All the Nickstarters are out there in the hands of the postman.

No need ... sounds like it's on the way ... I was just worrying I had messed up my order in some way.

I read the line ... "casters drop their ladles" as 'casters drop their ladies' ... and thought to myself what the hell kind of outfit are you running there.

[Nooblord]

I read the line ... "casters drop their ladles" as 'casters drop their ladies' ... and thought to myself what the hell kind of outfit are you running there.

In a Jack Nicholson stylee I would hope

[Laniston]

I'm still waiting on mine too, Harry.  Canada post does work on weekends but they don't make deliveries Saturday or Sunday.  I am hoping for tomorrow because we are starting thaw of the lich Lord this coming Saturday.

[flytime]

I'm still waiting, too.

Will be very happy then the parcel arrives next week. :-)

[NurgleHH]

My parcel arrived at friday. Great stuff. Worth waiting the Time.

[Mr Pumblechook]

I wasn't in a position to go in for the Nickstarter (sigh) 

Are things like the Cauldron and new treasure markers going to be available normally or have I missed by chance? 

[Eric the Shed]

mine has arrived...thank you Northstar

[PhilM]

Has anyone else head problems with the axe hand on the Cultist sprue?

I've had all 4 snap  on the handle without any give and heard the same from a few people now.