Games in the UK

[Nefaro]

I'm having the opposite problem.  I want to get some miniatures from Wargames Foundry but can't find them anywhere in N. America.  Shipping costs from the UK are ridiculous.

Yeah.. seems like many of the minis manufacturers, who have something I want, are in the UK.   I can often find a smattering of their stock list at Noble Knight, but they're often out of some I wanted.  Plus they tend to be MSRP.

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

Well if you, or anyone, has a line on two packs of Jolly Monks from wargamesfoundry, please let me know.  (or if anyone in the UK wants to grab them and ship them here, I can reciprocate with something from N. America)

[bayonetbrant]

Alternatively, all you poor Limey bastards could just come to Origins next year and go home with a suitcase full of games each

I would LOVE to - but Cyprus calls next year  ;D

that had better be one f'n' awesome game convention out there ::)

[JudgeDredd]

Alternatively, all you poor Limey bastards could just come to Origins next year and go home with a suitcase full of games each

I would LOVE to - but Cyprus calls next year  ;D

Didn't you already spend some time there for Old Blighty a while back? Aren't you a bit old now for battle dress?

A bit older and a bit fatter - this one is purely holiday.

[JudgeDredd]

Alternatively, all you poor Limey bastards could just come to Origins next year and go home with a suitcase full of games each

I would LOVE to - but Cyprus calls next year  ;D

that had better be one f'n' awesome game convention out there ::)

mmmmm  :'(

[weateallthepies]

Think most of the places have already been listed that I use. Apart from maybe iguk.co.uk who get board wargames in usually.

Part of the problem is the distribution here. There is one distributer for boardgames (Esdevium games) and pretty much all the shops here stock from them. Anything that Esdevium don't pick up doesn't make it onto the shelves online or otherwise. Stuff from GMT seems pretty regular and you'll generally find it between gameslore, guru and iguk. Other publishers are less regular, I've found lock 'n load stuff increasingly hard to find and Esdevium seems to only get them sporadically.

If you go to Esdevium's website http://www.esdeviumgames.com/ and scroll to the bottom, they publish a PDF of new releases each friday. This will tell you what will be available at the online boardgame retailers the following week. They usually list wargames in it's own category so good for checking when stuff is coming up.

Legion wargames are worth a look too, since they post to someone in the UK who sends them out locally. You can even preorder from them and not be hit with customs charges. http://legionwargames.com/

[bob48]

I just received a game from Compass Games - a gift from a good friend - and I had to pay the post office £19.38 for the privilege of collecting it. This was £8 international handling fee plus £11.38 VAT.

No doubt when my BoB KS games eventually arrive, I'll be hit again.

[undercovergeek]

You Kickstartered yourself?

[panzerde]

There is clearly money to be made smuggling games into the UK.

[bob48]

...in a container I would think.

[bob48]

You Kickstartered yourself?

I, like many others, backed the BoB KS over a year ago - my copies are somewhere betwixt Worthington and me (I hope).

[Nefaro]

I just received a game from Compass Games - a gift from a good friend - and I had to pay the post office £19.38 for the privilege of collecting it. This was £8 international handling fee plus £11.38 VAT.

No doubt when my BoB KS games eventually arrive, I'll be hit again.

That VAT you Brits pay is just fookeen ridiculous. 

No wonder you guys complain about the shipping costs all the time.  You're getting squeezed by someone in the gov't.

We have none of that crap, here in the States.  Some of the porkiticians made ramblings of it, a few years ago, but adding an extra tax to shipped goods obviously didn't go over well with the peons whom they intended to extract money from.

And, as we all know, once a new tax is instated, it never goes away.  It only goes up.