A combat patrol “Blood Angels”, in stock: 17,000 rubles (160 euros). Box “Legions Imperialis” with free shipping to a relay point: 20,000 rubles. Prices are high but Russian fans of warhammer 40,000a strategy game with figurines, you can easily buy the latest news through, for example, the Hobby World store network, the leading chain of board game stores in Russia.
The availability of these figure sets is surprising: officially, since March 2022 and the invasion of Ukraine, Games Workshop, the British publisher known worldwide for its games. war hammer AND warhammer 40,000suspended all sales on the territory of the Russian Federation. In mid-2023, in its annual financial results, the group, valued at around 4 billion euros, went so far as to explain that it had made the decision to fire its team of translators who produced the Russian versions of its games. “We have waited as long as we can, but with the war in Ukraine sadly showing no signs of stopping, we must accept the reality that we will not be able to provide Russian players with the products they want for a long time. »
However, Russian fans of war hammer – and above all warhammer 40,000its futuristic version particularly popular in Russia, they have never lost access to the rule books and miniature boxes of the most famous battle simulation game. At the end of October 2022, while prices in specialist stores had increased significantly due to inflation and lack of stock, Hobby World, which before the war was the official distributor of Games Workshop in Russia, announced, to the surprise of all, a price reduction in more than a thousand references warhammer 40,000. In early November of the same year, the Russian retailer added that new figures would soon be available and that it would be possible to pre-order them. “We have resumed deliveries of Warhammer and plan to bring new products”The company then explained seriously.
Has Hobby World created a parallel import system, sourcing from foreign wholesalers? Or has Games Workshop quietly resumed exports to Russia? No company responded to requests for World. But it is difficult to imagine that the volume of purchases achieved by Hobby World, which has a network of more than 150 stores and an online sales platform, has gone completely unnoticed.
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