So none of us are pre-ordering direct from archon again right?
After the constant delays and constant rapid change in timelines or outright lies within a week of the previous timelines. There has shown to have been practically 0 value in pre-ordering first outside of saving money when street date is about to wind up being public within a week of actual mass delivery of pre-orders to everyone, including the largest share of the market (hey yeah, the US is legitimately why this game made over half of its sales). I personally am never pre-ordering again from archon directly and will solely be ordering through my LGS from now on.
And yeah I heard about the horrible AvP boardgame/miniature debacle, and if I had heard about it before this I would have saved myself 700 bucks and just waited for the models to actually be on the shelves first.