Games Workshop CLOSED

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From their email sent around this morning

Hi Everyone,

Seems it’s finally time to stay at home and tackle that pile of sprue you’ve been stashing under the bed and finish that half-painted unit that’s been languishing on your desk.

The safety and wellbeing of all our customers and staff are paramount to everyone here at Games Workshop. In response to the developing global situation surrounding the spread of COVID-19, and following the advice and instruction from both the government here in the UK and throughout the world – we are closing Games Workshop sites around the globe.

This means that all our Warhammer and Games Workshop stores will be shut from the 24th March until an initial date of the 14th April. We’ll also be closing our factory and distribution centres – so our online stores (Games Workshop, Forge World and Black Library) won’t be selling or shipping any physical products during this period either. If you’ve recently placed an order and are waiting for it to arrive, please give us 48 hours to contact you. If you've still got questions after that, then please drop our Customer Service team a line via email, they’ll be valiantly working from home to ensure you’re supported over this period.

Now, more than ever, the wonderful spirit of friendship and cooperation that binds Warhammer hobbyists around the world is needed. With that in mind, the Warhammer Community and Warhammer TV teams are bunkered down in their hobby rooms at home ready to update warhammer-community.com with fun Warhammer news, articles and content each and every day.

And, of course, you’ll also still be able to keep yourself entertained with some cracking ebooks and audio dramas from Black Library’s digital offering.

Most importantly, everyone stay safe – be supportive to the people around you, and keep your mind and body happy and healthy. When this all blows over, we’ll get back to throwing dice together soon enough!

Sincerely,

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Andy Smillie
Global Head of Warhammer Community Team
Tuesday 24th March 2020

[killercroc]

While I'd love to stay at home and work on my mountain of Death Guard sprues I still have to go to work, so I appreciate their sentiments but it's just not to be for me!

[Jbizzy]

If only the local brick and mortar stores were open...

Guess I could work on the back log instead of buying future future projects...

[bolk]

Not surprising after I heard England is closing down. It's good they take this seriously.
No problem for me, I still have 7 Carnifexes, 3 Hive Guard, Exocrine/Haruspex and Maleceptor/Toxicrene to build and paint. And about 150 CSM models to finish painting. Not to mention all the terrain.

[trashcan01]

I've dug through my stash and I need to finish:
12 termagants
22 hormagaunts
3 warriors
2 rippers
4 gargoyles

Fingers crossed I get it done in a month!
I've also ordered blue stuff mould and some green stuff, so I will start with some customisation and conversions. Also, I'd be more than happy to stay at home but I have to work. :\

[infornography]

Wow, that backlog looks entirely manageable compared to my pile of boxes and sprue.
Though I am in the same situation as Croc. I still have to work. I at least get my commute time back as I work from home right now, but still, not a lot of free time for minis right now.

[garg]

I think it's a good consistent nice from GW to also close online shopping. I have plenty to be painted but I'm also working from home. Somehow i actually feel i have less free time now despite the fact that other activist are also cancelled and no commute

[killercroc]

Well change of plans here, Governor signed a 3 week shut down in my state and since I'm a government employee that means I'll be home. 3 weeks... gonna build those Death Guard after all!

Two boxes of Dark Imperium, 2 extra boxes of Death Guard, 1 box of Blightlords, 3x Blight haulers, a Blight drone and Lord Felthius. Should make for an interesting month.

[bolk]

Curses, I forgot about the 94 Genestealers I need to strip and repaint...

[mattblowers]

Mar 26, 2020 16:02:47 GMT garg said:

I think it's a good consistent nice from GW to also close online shopping. I have plenty to be painted but I'm also working from home. Somehow i actually feel i have less free time now despite the fact that other activist are also cancelled and no commute

I agree with this. I'm stuck working at home now too. I have trouble turning off work because I want to be as productive as possible. When the inevitable retraction starts in response to a tanked economy I don't want to be one of the ones out the door because I took these weeks/months like a free vacation like many of my colleagues. So that means I keep saying "I'll just finish this" and then I feel guilty when trying to hobby.

[killercroc]

Mar 30, 2020 7:07:56 GMT bolk said:

Curses, I forgot about the 94 Genestealers I need to strip and repaint...

That sounds like a terrible time no matter when you're planning on doing it.

Mar 30, 2020 12:00:30 GMT mattblowers said:

Mar 26, 2020 16:02:47 GMT garg said:

I think it's a good consistent nice from GW to also close online shopping. I have plenty to be painted but I'm also working from home. Somehow i actually feel i have less free time now despite the fact that other activist are also cancelled and no commute

I agree with this. I'm stuck working at home now too. I have trouble turning off work because I want to be as productive as possible. When the inevitable retraction starts in response to a tanked economy I don't want to be one of the ones out the door because I took these weeks/months like a free vacation like many of my colleagues. So that means I keep saying "I'll just finish this" and then I feel guilty when trying to hobby.

Yeah I noticed their online shopping has everything out of stock, probably the easiest way to just make it so people cannot submit orders. Whilst it's a good idea part of me is sad I can't waste more money on my plastic drugs.

My work offered to work from home as well but in reality I just finished my latest project and I'm feel guilty about "working" from home and all it would be is double checking old data and reading emails. Yeah I could have easily just said I worked the 40 hours but that does sit right for me (A government employee not just sitting on their butt getting paid to pretend to work? How novel!)

Also I agree working from home with all the temptations would make focusing on actually working more difficult, I'd want to be productive but the temptations to watch Netflix would be all too real. That and I'm use two working with two monitors so doing it on my one smaller one would just be annoying.

My boss asked me if I just wanted to take the 3 weeks sick so I did, but told him I can still come in if anything is needed. Mine isn't free though, work isn't comping us but I had 110 hours sick time built up and figured this is my best chance to actually use it all. also again I finished my project so I have nothing on the plate anyway.

Never had 3 weeks off since I turned 18 but it might be nice, who knows? I just spent the last week transferring data from one source to another and what do you know the format types were different so the data didn't fully move. So I spent the last week entering in over 10,000 individual informational bits in a system that doesn't have copy/paste. So... lets just say stepping away from work is ok by me.

[bolk]

Mar 30, 2020 18:54:18 GMT killercroc said:

Mar 30, 2020 7:07:56 GMT bolk said:

Curses, I forgot about the 94 Genestealers I need to strip and repaint...

That sounds like a terrible time no matter when you're planning on doing it.

Yeah, I had an awesome idea at the time to see how many Genestealers I could put into a 2000pts list with Broodlords and Venomthrope support. 130. I had 36 at the time. Luckily they're very cheap on ebay.

[killercroc]

Sounds like a great goal to me! Never ran more than 60 Stealers in a list, let alone 130! Should be a fun time for... well the Hive Mind but not anybody else facing a horde of Terminator killers.

[hivefleetkerrigan]

Mar 31, 2020 12:28:31 GMT killercroc said:

Sounds like a great goal to me! Never ran more than 60 Stealers in a list, let alone 130! Should be a fun time for... well the Hive Mind but not anybody else facing a horde of Terminator killers.

I ran 100 exactly one time. It's a blast. Hilariously I came up against an almost mirror list. It was an awesome game.

[bolk]

Mar 31, 2020 12:28:31 GMT killercroc said:

Sounds like a great goal to me! Never ran more than 60 Stealers in a list, let alone 130! Should be a fun time for... well the Hive Mind but not anybody else facing a horde of Terminator killers.

Yeah, was thinking a big Space Hulk scenario. Doubt we could run it in my Zone Mortalis board, rather make a table looking like the grand hall of a space ship. Oh so many ideas and projects.