Tam Henderson
CREATOR
8 days ago
Project Update: Manufacturing update
Hello and and thank you for your continued patience.
I wanted to reach out to share where we are and how we are dealing with the current tariff situation. It has been a challenging year so far, and we are frustrated at the delay to this project and are working to get you your physical rewards as soon as we can.
There is currently a 90 day "pause" in US/CN Tariffs, and the situation (at time of writing) appears to be calming down. However we are left with a 30% tariff for all goods into the US from China, and the future situation is difficult to predict. Tariffs, traditionally speaking, are applied when the BoL (Bill of Lading) is dated, i.e. when the stock goes on the ship. However the current situation is as unusual as it is unpredictable in that we are hearing tariffs may be calculated based on the rate when the goods are cleared into the US, which would lead to a fair bit of uncertainty. There are also a few legal challenges which may or may not improve/change the tariff landscape.
In conclusion there will be higher costs and greater uncertainty getting stock into the US, and this is likely to remain for at least the rest of the year and probably beyond.
We are also seeing increases in shipping prices and delays getting stock onto ships given the spike in demand the pause has caused. It has also caused a spike in manufacturing in China which is causing us a few headaches.
We have made the decision to press on with manufacture now and (assuming there are no further developments) ship ASAP. The headline date for backers is that we hope to realistically have you your rewards in late November. This is later than we had hoped, and here is why. Our factory is currently very busy and while we are in the queue there are a lot of people trying to get stock made and moving in time for Christmas and our factory is struggling to meet the demand, additionally we are having some issues sourcing materials for the same reason. When the time comes we have to allow 3 months for shipping factory to warehouse (uk/eu still cannot use the Suez canal and has to go round the cape of Africa, and US ports are predicted to be busy).
In order to thank you for your ongoing patience we have put together some digital maps combining the tile maps in the Cyberpunk set, which we have included in a bundle of map titles, a code for which should be on its way via email to you now. As before the link will add the title(s) to your DrivethruRPG library.
Thank you again for your patience, we will continue to update and the next update will include details of the mass production!
Cheers
Matt & Tam
Loke Battle Mats
I wanted to reach out to share where we are and how we are dealing with the current tariff situation. It has been a challenging year so far, and we are frustrated at the delay to this project and are working to get you your physical rewards as soon as we can.
There is currently a 90 day "pause" in US/CN Tariffs, and the situation (at time of writing) appears to be calming down. However we are left with a 30% tariff for all goods into the US from China, and the future situation is difficult to predict. Tariffs, traditionally speaking, are applied when the BoL (Bill of Lading) is dated, i.e. when the stock goes on the ship. However the current situation is as unusual as it is unpredictable in that we are hearing tariffs may be calculated based on the rate when the goods are cleared into the US, which would lead to a fair bit of uncertainty. There are also a few legal challenges which may or may not improve/change the tariff landscape.
In conclusion there will be higher costs and greater uncertainty getting stock into the US, and this is likely to remain for at least the rest of the year and probably beyond.
We are also seeing increases in shipping prices and delays getting stock onto ships given the spike in demand the pause has caused. It has also caused a spike in manufacturing in China which is causing us a few headaches.
We have made the decision to press on with manufacture now and (assuming there are no further developments) ship ASAP. The headline date for backers is that we hope to realistically have you your rewards in late November. This is later than we had hoped, and here is why. Our factory is currently very busy and while we are in the queue there are a lot of people trying to get stock made and moving in time for Christmas and our factory is struggling to meet the demand, additionally we are having some issues sourcing materials for the same reason. When the time comes we have to allow 3 months for shipping factory to warehouse (uk/eu still cannot use the Suez canal and has to go round the cape of Africa, and US ports are predicted to be busy).
In order to thank you for your ongoing patience we have put together some digital maps combining the tile maps in the Cyberpunk set, which we have included in a bundle of map titles, a code for which should be on its way via email to you now. As before the link will add the title(s) to your DrivethruRPG library.
Thank you again for your patience, we will continue to update and the next update will include details of the mass production!
Cheers
Matt & Tam
Loke Battle Mats
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