Walmart is no longer is taking orders on Armada. My personal order is still good. Ship date is still the same. The order is being fulfilled by Walmart, not third party.

I intend to cancel it anyway and order somewhere else.

OK...?

What shipping date did they give you?

Walmart? Ma and Pop it at your LGS next time brother. Heck even hitting Amazon or Miniature Market is better.

Good.

Support your LGS, folks.

well, at $60 for a May 5th ship date, i really cannot pass up using this for a second set. If FFG wants to give wal-mart a low cost deal that undercuts brick and motor stores, that is on them.

Even Think geek is selling them for the retail price

I do not think Wal-mart is going to have any of the expansions, so everything else is going to come from my FLGS obviosuly

Walmart? Ma and Pop it at your LGS next time brother. Heck even hitting Amazon or Miniature Market is better.

Yeah right. I had a conversation with the actual owner/partner of my most local "FLGS." While he was participating in a store run X-Wing miniature tournament he told me; "We will have no plans to, and we will not be stocking Armada in the future. You can buy X-Wing here though." The other game store (actually more of a Comic Book store that has a small wall of miniatures) had this to say; "We stopped having X-Wing and Attack Wing tournaments. We might have an Armada box when it releases. Our other store [50 minutes away] might have some Attack Wing tournaments. Call them and find out." I suppose having such tournaments will impede their newly gained status as a Core Store for Magic the Gathering.

They don't want to support it, but I am to shell out extra money to support them? Will they contract out to my business I run in return? ha ha. They are nice people, but I am not a charity and there is zero chance in their minds they will invite Armada players to their store.

You should buy online then WJ

Kinnison Wlamart does there pricing that way on purpose, FFG did not give them a deal?

They sell at no Profit to kill other markets than increase there own prices once they own the market. They have already brought back the price anyway.

You should buy online then WJ

Kinnison Wlamart does there pricing that way on purpose, FFG did not give them a deal?

They sell at no Profit to kill other markets than increase there own prices once they own the market. They have already brought back the price anyway.

I have to remember I live in a Geeks paradise and forget other parts of the country are more of a sports bar type of culture. Can't imagine moving out of the NW or going back to Michigan. Life is so much better here where I have to decide between 5-6 game stores to purchase from and that's just the ones that are convenient to get to.

where are you based wjgo?

What shipping date did they give you?

I forget the actual date. They only list the arrival date as May 5th.

Having been the victim, multiple times, over my lifetime of credit card fraud, I am more confident in doing business with Walmart/Amazon online. While some other major retailers have been struck - I will probably hear about it on the news or on the radio before I will from a small basically unknown niche vendor like many people do use here. Some of those vendors use Paypal, but I will not. Paypal in the past has unnecessarily kept my clients' payments held up in their accounts for days so they could rack up daily interest rates with their own banks, and they are now an ardent anti-2nd Amendment business and I refuse to send fees their way. I am happy to do business with Walmart. If I could have Armada shipped to a Walmart store, I'd go home with it and some 9mm missiles. They would be better served if they used the Amazon payment system. In fact, Cool Stuff Inc does sell Armada on Amazon. I only noticed that recently (they were not before), and I may even switch my order to them.

FFG would not deal with Walmart. A distributor will. Its highly improbably for even for the relatively few games that FFG does (in the grand scheme of the industry), that they handle all the game store and retail outlet sales. FFG would work through a distributor. My order suggests its Diamond Comic Distributors. I already went to their website and they claim to be "world’s largest distributor of English-language comics, graphic novels and pop-culture related merchandise." So - they are the ones that make deals with whomever sells the game. FFG wouldn't have a say in the matter unless they have a special contract with them. When a store buys stuff, they are buying more than just a game. They couldn't stay is business if one person had to call every publisher every-time they wanted something.

I am more or less south of Harrisburg, PA.

I only noticed CSI was on the Amazon market today. I know they were not listing a few days ago. As for the vendors, just some of their names are weird enough I wouldn't buy from them. I did call CSI yesterday to see if they did actually answer phones, and they did. So I will probably end up moving my order there. I'm just not in a rush.

There is another "board game" place, but I don't know how serious they are. While they have a Facebook page, they won't link to their early 1990's era styled website from their Facebook page. They won't have Armada tournaments either. You can show up at their gaming room though on some days and hours of the week, when their other games are not being hosted. If they have Armada on their shelf - its not on their Facebook page, other current announcements are though.

I swear to God, on every family member's grave, if I win the BIG lottery, there shall be a PC Star Wars capital ships game that will be worshiped more and talked about longer than Papyrus NASCAR and will have more games played on it than views of Psi's Gangnam Style.

I swear to God, on every family member's grave, if I win the BIG lottery, there shall be a PC Star Wars capital ships game that will be worshiped more and talked about longer than Papyrus NASCAR and will have more games played on it than views of Psi's Gangnam Style.

Big problem, getting the rights to use Star wars material. They would have to contact you first, before you would be even able to start the game.

I have a friend, well at least a person I know, that created "Attack Vector" a tabletop space combat game that sticks to hard science, and real physics. Your better off working with him in creating a computer game.

I actually work for a distributer WJ so im familiar with how the system works. It was just shorthand for this to this to this etc. Its doubtful even then that the distrubuter gave walmart a 'deal' especially in the boardgame industry it is more likely that walmarts plan originally was to sell them at zero take so they could quell the market. At least thats my theory. Of course they changed their ways knowing they couldnt own this market. Not yet anyway :/

Figured I would weigh in on this. I had a pre order through walmart too and went back and forth with walmarts customer service after March 27th trying to get an answer as to why the order was still saying a ship date of April 28th. Not long ago the ad space for the regular priced game showed up but said out of stock online. The other day it apparently updated and had shipping dates and dates when it would be available in the store. Taking that info I emailed walmart CS again and got a verification the product was in stock. I then called and with that info got someone to look at the SKUs and product info of the product in my order vs the product on the website and he verified it was different. They let me cancel the order, reorder at the regular price and refunded me the difference and gave me expedited shipping. I should have my copy this Friday now.

Well wjgo, do what you have to do, sometimes that's just it.

But remember Paypal is a very safe method of payment too.