MongooseMatt
First Post
We just wanted to make a quick note as to the current mail order situation with Mongoose, for both miniatures and books.
MINIATURES
The last call for Babylon 5: CTA miniatures was huge. Not just large, but an order of magnitude or more than we were expecting. We guessed we would receive a few hundred orders over the last month of sales, but instead we received thousand upon thousand.
So, it will take us a little longer to work through the orders than we had originally planned.
We are currently predicting that around 75-80% of all US and Canadian orders will be finished around the end of the month, with only the orders placed in the last few days to finish. The rest of the world, supplied via the UK, will be around 2 weeks behind this.
We are currently concentrating on fleet box sets, and you should see these arrive first. Single ships will follow on from that, and finally we will be working on parts that people have ordered.
Please note that Matthew and Kelly from the UK office will be departing for the GAMA trade show on Wednesday, and so no mail orders will be sent from the UK during this time - however, we have ensured that there will be a couple of hundred packages being sent out before we leave.
Our apologies for the delays, but please be assured that we have all your orders on file, and we will be getting to them as soon as we can. We have also taken note on how popular this game remains.
Finally, if you have ordered any Judge Dredd miniatures, you will be pleased to know that all but two blisters worth are going out today!
BOOKS
With the change in our printing to third parties in the US, there have been some titles that have either temporarily gone out of print, or that have been delayed.
You will be pleased to know that almost all of these titles have now been accounted for, and our warehouse has taken delivery of several thousand books in the past week. If you have been waiting on mail orders, you will soon be seeing these books if you are in the US or Canada, and they will be sent off to you before the end of the month if you are elsewhere in the world (because of the GAMA trade show).
The reprinted titles include;
Much of the RuneQuest line, including Hawkmoon and Elric
The Conan, Victory at Sea, A Call to Arms, Paranoia and Babylon 5 lines
We have also reprinted the Drow War series
The Conan rulebook, Cthulhutech and Spycraft are also being reprinted but, being hardbacks, these are taking slightly longer, and you can expect to see them around the middle of next month, along with the Lone Wolf books.
Finally, there are plenty of new titles on the horizon, either already in our warehouse, or due to arrive this month;
RQ Monsters 2
Land of the Samurai
Secrets of Tragic Europe
Secrets of Skelos
Bestiary of the Hyborian Age
And, of course, Traveller.
If you have mail ordered Dark Passions, please be aware that while the general release of this book is not until next month, alongside the main rulebook, we have already printed a short run to cover all of you who have been waiting for this title. Again, you should see it come through your letterbox around the end of the month.
We also wish to assure you that there are no books remaining in our inventory that have been printed last year, and so potentially suffer from binding defects, and we have made our best efforts to esnure none remain in the inventories of stores or distributors - if you know of any, please get in touch with us at msprange@mongoosepublishing.com. All books supplied by us now come from third party printers.
We can now offer our usual fast turnaround service on 80% of our book range and, as soon as the hardback reprints arrive next month, this will come back to 100%.
We wish to thank you for your patience.
MINIATURES
The last call for Babylon 5: CTA miniatures was huge. Not just large, but an order of magnitude or more than we were expecting. We guessed we would receive a few hundred orders over the last month of sales, but instead we received thousand upon thousand.
So, it will take us a little longer to work through the orders than we had originally planned.
We are currently predicting that around 75-80% of all US and Canadian orders will be finished around the end of the month, with only the orders placed in the last few days to finish. The rest of the world, supplied via the UK, will be around 2 weeks behind this.
We are currently concentrating on fleet box sets, and you should see these arrive first. Single ships will follow on from that, and finally we will be working on parts that people have ordered.
Please note that Matthew and Kelly from the UK office will be departing for the GAMA trade show on Wednesday, and so no mail orders will be sent from the UK during this time - however, we have ensured that there will be a couple of hundred packages being sent out before we leave.
Our apologies for the delays, but please be assured that we have all your orders on file, and we will be getting to them as soon as we can. We have also taken note on how popular this game remains.
Finally, if you have ordered any Judge Dredd miniatures, you will be pleased to know that all but two blisters worth are going out today!
BOOKS
With the change in our printing to third parties in the US, there have been some titles that have either temporarily gone out of print, or that have been delayed.
You will be pleased to know that almost all of these titles have now been accounted for, and our warehouse has taken delivery of several thousand books in the past week. If you have been waiting on mail orders, you will soon be seeing these books if you are in the US or Canada, and they will be sent off to you before the end of the month if you are elsewhere in the world (because of the GAMA trade show).
The reprinted titles include;
Much of the RuneQuest line, including Hawkmoon and Elric
The Conan, Victory at Sea, A Call to Arms, Paranoia and Babylon 5 lines
We have also reprinted the Drow War series
The Conan rulebook, Cthulhutech and Spycraft are also being reprinted but, being hardbacks, these are taking slightly longer, and you can expect to see them around the middle of next month, along with the Lone Wolf books.
Finally, there are plenty of new titles on the horizon, either already in our warehouse, or due to arrive this month;
RQ Monsters 2
Land of the Samurai
Secrets of Tragic Europe
Secrets of Skelos
Bestiary of the Hyborian Age
And, of course, Traveller.
If you have mail ordered Dark Passions, please be aware that while the general release of this book is not until next month, alongside the main rulebook, we have already printed a short run to cover all of you who have been waiting for this title. Again, you should see it come through your letterbox around the end of the month.
We also wish to assure you that there are no books remaining in our inventory that have been printed last year, and so potentially suffer from binding defects, and we have made our best efforts to esnure none remain in the inventories of stores or distributors - if you know of any, please get in touch with us at msprange@mongoosepublishing.com. All books supplied by us now come from third party printers.
We can now offer our usual fast turnaround service on 80% of our book range and, as soon as the hardback reprints arrive next month, this will come back to 100%.
We wish to thank you for your patience.
