Warhammer 40K in a box

Chapter 30 Loyal Friends
A few days later, Chen Xi, carrying his chess piece, came to a wine shop.

"Hey, Seventeen, what watch are you going to use today? Or your favorite canned food?" The shop owner is also a Hammer enthusiast. He wears a red T-shirt with a Chaos Eight-pointed Star printed on it and a pair of gold-rimmed glasses. He looks very loyal at first glance.

"No, we're using nuns today. I'm planning to try something different lately." Chen Xi responded to the other person's question, then asked, "How many people are using hammers today?"

"Not many people are here today. There's a surgery at the Sea Aplysia Hospital, A Ling is invigilating at the school, A Kam Company is working overtime to meet a deadline, and Dog 76 said he needs to prepare quarterly financial reports." The shop owner explained the situation to Chen Xi, then curiously asked, "Seventeen, where did you get that power sword you posted in the group earlier? Are you considering selling it?"

"If I don't give you the stuff, you won't give it up even if you have it." Chen Xi directly rejected the other party's temptation, but did not say anything final: "But if you ask for directions, it's not that I can't recommend it. I'll tell you in detail after the fight."

After hearing what Chen Xi said, the shop owner did not show any disappointment. He just nodded and did not ask any more questions.

Chen Xi looked around and asked, "Where's Yuri? Didn't he come today?"

"I went on a date with a loli, you know what I mean." The shop owner shrugged his shoulders with an expression that said you know what's going on.

However, Chen Xi frowned and said, "Didn't he get dumped? He's already said that."

"Oh, if he could let go so easily, he wouldn't be himself." The shop owner sighed. Emotional issues are not an easy problem for anyone to face.

After hearing what he said, Chen Xi didn't say anything more and just went upstairs with the suitcase.

Although this store sells red wine downstairs, the owner converted the upstairs into a salon-like lounge, with a large table large enough for eight people to lie side by side, which is specially used for tabletop battles and group games among group friends.

This is also the main gathering place for Chen Xi and his group friends. After all, if you want to play Warhammer tabletop battles, especially large-scale tabletop battles, the terrain, chess pieces and various indicators will take up a lot of space.

Moreover, it would be fine if the Warhammer chess pieces were white models, but once they are painted, they will easily be damaged during transportation and carrying.

Especially big toys like Imperial Knights, Dreadnoughts, Land Speeders and Dip Titans. Even if you don't consider the problem of bumps and collisions, such large things are not easy to carry.

Therefore, unless it is a specially prepared military box, the better choice is to place it directly at the place where the battle is fought and take it out whenever needed.

Chen Xi has a cabinet here, in which he keeps some chess pieces from a thousand-point military table that he often plays on the table.

After putting down the military box he brought with him, Chen Xi saw that two group members were already fighting each other, so he stood aside and watched.

They did not engage in any large-scale battles, but instead used GW's recently released Kill Team to fight. One side used the Marine Stormtroopers and the other side used the Rogue Trader's Squadron.

This type of team battle is short, flat and fast. Usually the winner can be decided within three to five rounds, and each round will not last very long.

Compared to large-scale battles with thousands or even tens of thousands of points, where each round takes more than ten minutes, this small-scale battle is undoubtedly more suitable for gatherings or leisure time for fun.

Seeing that the two sides had quickly decided the winner, Chen Xi finally greeted them: "Mai Mai, Mu Se, are you two the only ones here today?" "Yeah, the others didn't come, so it looks like it's just us today." Mai Mai greeted Chen Xi and then asked, "By the way, Seventeen, where did you get that power sword? Can you lend it to me for cosplay at the next comic exhibition?"

"What character are you planning to release? A political commissar?" Chen Xi asked curiously when he heard the other party say that he would use it at the comic convention.

"I want to be a traveling merchant, but I don't have any suitable clothes." Mai Mai shrugged, looking helpless.

"Traveling merchants don't have a fixed style of clothing, right? How about collecting some Baroque-style vintage clothes?" Chen Xi gave Mai Mai some advice, although he had a simpler solution.

"Collecting vintage clothes is too expensive, let's talk about it later!" Mai Mai seemed to have just had an idea and didn't talk about it in too much depth.

The three of them cleared the chess pieces on the table and then started a new game.

The shop owner seemed to have finished his work and went upstairs to the lounge carrying a bottle of decanted red wine and a few wine glasses.

"Come, let's drink and have fun! I opened a bottle of good wine today!" The shop owner looked generous and filled everyone's glass.

Chen Xi took a sip, savoring the wine's flavor, and suddenly asked the shop owner, "Say, if I own a winery and am about to start making wine, how do I sell it?"

"Winery? Selling wine? Is yours an old winery or a new one? If it's an old winery, you don't need to worry about these things. Just sell it through the winery's original channels." The shop owner was a little confused by Chen Xi's question. After raising his eyebrows, he gave an answer: "But if it's a new winery, it will be more troublesome. You need to find a professional evaluation agency to score it, and you need to get the highest score possible.

Only after getting a good rating can you start hyping it up and invite some celebrities to taste the wine. Then you can try giving some away or sending it to a special auction.

In short, don’t think about making money from the first batch of wine. The most important thing is to increase its reputation.

Once you become a little famous, you can basically try to contact some high-end catering industries or hotels to sell your wine.

However, this is a high-end approach, which requires controlling annual production. Generally speaking, high-end wineries only produce a few thousand bottles a year, and this output is basically maintained until your brand becomes famous.

While keeping inventory, create a sense of scarcity.

However, this is the way high-end brands play. If you want to distribute the products and increase sales, it is easy. It is very easy to do now. Find a non-head internet celebrity with decent traffic, ask them to help you promote the products, and then the people in the live broadcast room will help you increase sales.

Of course, if you do that, don't expect your brand to have a good reputation. High-end restaurants will basically be out of your reach, unless you become big and create a high-end brand for yourself."

Listening to the other party's talk, Chen Xi touched his military box and said, "What if I were selling wine in the Warhammer world?"

"Warhammer World? Why would you have such an idea?" The three of them showed surprised expressions, but the shop owner seemed to have made a connection. He looked at Chen Xi in surprise and said, "Could it be that you have really been conscripted by the Emperor?"

(End of this chapter)