Mostly looking for a good place to buy two starfield mats (official ones)

any idea where the cheapest place is?

Try Amazon

Games Lore have 'em for £30 plus delivery. I got mine from Chaos Cards (who're pretty good for X-Wing in general, tbh) for £31 inc. delivery, but they're out of stock at the mo.

Games Lore is best if you're putting in a large order as they offer scaling discount. Not that their prices are high to start with. Chaos Cards is a good suggestion also. Eurotrash Games are good when they have the entire Wave bundles up, but that doesn't help you with your game mats.

http://www.chaoscards.co.uk/miniature-games-c487/x-wing-miniatures-c587

Some of the best prices I've found online I buy from them on a regular basis now.

Amazon sellers are an option ive never had an issue with sellers like the book depository.

http://giftsforgeeks.org.uk/shop/tabletop-wargames%7Cstar-wars-x-wing-miniatures-game/

These guys offer fast reliable service as well.

http://www.waylandgames.co.uk/997-x-wing

Good prices but they are a busy shop so you'll get slightly slower service.

Hope this helps.

Games Lore have 'em for £30 plus delivery. I got mine from Chaos Cards (who're pretty good for X-Wing in general, tbh) for £31 inc. delivery, but they're out of stock at the mo.

plus delivery, plus Vat???? pricey

Amazon sellers are an option ive never had an issue with sellers like the book depository.

Amazon sellers are an option ive never had an issue with sellers like the book depository.

The Book Depository's prices (on their website proper) fluctuate wildly but if you catch them at the right time you can snipe some real bargains. I got my second Firespray off them for £16 delivered and have picked up a variety of small ships for £8-8.50 each or so.

Got a shuttle from them for £15, but yeah you have to watch prices and with any seller make sure they don't pull a fast one with postage.

go to your local game shop... ask do you have "x wing miniatures game" and accessories...... if they anser no ask why not and can you get it. The more shops caring it the better it is for all players

go to your local game shop... ask do you have "x wing miniatures game" and accessories...... if they anser no ask why not and can you get it. The more shops caring it the better it is for all players

In the UK games workshop destroyed flgs with its shady tactics in the 90's unless you're in a big city like London or Manchester the odds you'll have a shop where you can play are near zero.

go to your local game shop... ask do you have "x wing miniatures game" and accessories...... if they anser no ask why not and can you get it. The more shops caring it the better it is for all players

In the UK games workshop destroyed flgs with its shady tactics in the 90's unless you're in a big city like London or Manchester the odds you'll have a shop where you can play are near zero.

Then its time to bring back the local dealer.... It works in the rest of the EU so why not over there on the island.

The toy store around the corner from my work run by 2 little old ladies only carried "classic toys" e.g lego etc. until I asked them if they could get it in, and they did. Thy have no idea what they are selling but they can sell it

I know Midlam miniatures had some mats in and they are pretty good on postage and on pricing.

http://www.midlamminiatures.co.uk/

Or if you are near Sheffield.

There is the outpost and patriot games (you have to watch when ordering from the latter as they apply a general p+p cost, so you need to contact them to query this, read the shipping note on their site) Also I don't know if either of these do the mats.

http://www.patriotgames.ltd.uk/store/

for some reason the outpost website is not responding right now.

There's also wargames emporium with physical shops in Sheffield and Mansfield. Again, you will need to check on the mats situation.,

Last one, Magister militum, no shop, online or they do get to wargames conventions up and down the UK.

Speaking of which, there are other sellers that get to these shows. Check the following, it will mean checking out which traders are at the shows (all of the convention sites will list this info) and then their sites to see if they stock x wing. Derby and Salute are a couple of good options to check as they are big shows with lots of traders. (April and October)

http://www.newarkirregulars.org.uk/calendar2015.html

Living up in Newcastle we are pretty lucky in having 3 shops that do all the FFG stuff. Midlam, Travelling man and Forbidden planet.

I've also used gameslore, chaos cards and book depository and have had good service from all of them at good prices. I'd happily buy from them again. As stated above some places seem to be near RRP for some ships then have great deals on others. Another online retailer i'd highly recommend is gamessesh. I've bought loads from them, the main guy Ben has always been excellent especially regards quick, honest and helpful communications, something often missing from online retailers, (they're usually ~10% below RRP and they also do a further 10% discount if you sign up to their monthly newsletter email which effectively negates your shipping charges). They've got official and unofficial mats (plain official mat looks to be out of stock at the mo).

FLGS's are also a great source if you have any within easy reach. They're usually more expensive (increased overheads i guess) however if they have the space they have a major advantage over online retailers - a local gaming community and that is worth it's weight in gold in my opinion... I'll always split purchases to ensure i'm helping support my FLGS even if it does cost me more as i am getting additional service from them...

about the lgs comments above, in the UK driving to my nearest toyshop of ANY kind would involve a 1hr minute round trip inc parking etc and probably spend 10%-20% more than online with 10%-20% of a purchase on parking and fuel to get there. They need to place themselves off the high street personally with large areas of gaming would make it a slam dunk, spending more money just to get some grumpy old man (who wouldn't be with all that gamers funk in the air) telling you they are out of stock when you called earlier to check isn't worth it.

Online I have never had an issue with a purchase of gaming stuff that they haven't sorted ASAP

about the lgs comments above, in the UK driving to my nearest toyshop of ANY kind would involve a 1hr minute round trip inc parking etc and probably spend 10%-20% more than online with 10%-20% of a purchase on parking and fuel to get there. They need to place themselves off the high street personally with large areas of gaming would make it a slam dunk, spending more money just to get some grumpy old man (who wouldn't be with all that gamers funk in the air) telling you they are out of stock when you called earlier to check isn't worth it.

Online I have never had an issue with a purchase of gaming stuff that they haven't sorted ASAP

I am guessing you live in the middle of no where then (if that is possible in the UK)

about the lgs comments above, in the UK driving to my nearest toyshop of ANY kind would involve a 1hr minute round trip inc parking etc and probably spend 10%-20% more than online with 10%-20% of a purchase on parking and fuel to get there. They need to place themselves off the high street personally with large areas of gaming would make it a slam dunk, spending more money just to get some grumpy old man (who wouldn't be with all that gamers funk in the air) telling you they are out of stock when you called earlier to check isn't worth it.

Online I have never had an issue with a purchase of gaming stuff that they haven't sorted ASAP

I am guessing you live in the middle of no where then (if that is possible in the UK)

Oh a size joke...funny.

Although I'm 15 minutes from the nearest town and 30 minutes from the nearest city neither has a place that sells x-wing in any shop.

It would take me an hour to get to Manchester in a car, less on a train but that's significantly more expensive and then I'm paying nearly full retail price to support a shop I don't play in or even regularly buy from.

Like I said on its way to the top GW crushed every game store they could and the high street never recovered.

So the internet option is the only option.

That's not true everywhere Hobo. There are a lot of FLGS' appearing throughout the UK. You're just unlucky that there isn't one near to you yet

go to your local game shop... ask do you have "x wing miniatures game" and accessories...... if they anser no ask why not and can you get it. The more shops caring it the better it is for all players

In the UK games workshop destroyed flgs with its shady tactics in the 90's unless you're in a big city like London or Manchester the odds you'll have a shop where you can play are near zero.

Althought the exception to this is Nottingham/Derby/Beeston ares as nearly everyone who left GW stays and sets up a wargames company or shop.

Its why Nottingham area has GW, Mantic, Warlord, Chimera, Foundry, Ramshackle Games Mondo Comics and a load more.

In the above Chimera and Mondo Comics sell xwing stuff and i'm sure there are others i've forgotten to mention.

Im sure Chimera sell the mats, i know mondo comics sell ships and the like.

Sheffield also has 'the outpost' who are very good and do between 10 and 20 per cent discounts on orders

Why don't you come down to the Chimera X-Wing tournaments Gadge?

Because they are nearly always on weekends when i'm either Djing a club or festival, touring/gigging with the band or covering a re-enactment event for the magazine im an editor on.

Honestly *every* single one thats happened in the last two years i've been previously engaged. It got to be *really* annoying. For most of them i've been out the country for one reason or another.

That's not true everywhere Hobo. There are a lot of FLGS' appearing throughout the UK. You're just unlucky that there isn't one near to you yet

Yeah it's the area i live in is a deadzone the nearest town is more pubs than actual shops.

Doh! I've noticed there are some up Mansfield way too, but that's a bit far and I can't really justify two Saturdays a month playing X-Wing/

ebay.

Amazon are awesome especially with prime.

Second Chaos Cards for online purchases.

But seriously, if you play in a store locally, spend the few extra £'s to say thanks to the owner for giving you somewhere to play.

I'm getting my Wave 7 stuff from Common Ground Games in Stirling; without spending the wee bit extra I'd have nowhere to get my arse handed to me at tournaments.

Cheers

Baaa