Re: [NetEpic ML] Models in the pipeline

From: Peter Ramos <primarch_at_...>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 11:10:32 -0400

Hi!

Dalton Calford wrote:

> In order of preference.
>
> I would like to see some of the older Imperial guard vehicles and ork
> vehicles be produced by forgeworld.
> For example, a new version of the Leviathan and Capitallis
> Imperiallis, as
> well as a Hell Bore and Ordantis. As these would be standalone
> models, the
> guys at forge world could put them out faster than trying to do an
> entire new
> army list.

Those would be excelent choices since several of these models have not
been available for years and many missed out on them. I would love to
see a true scale leviathan and capitol imperialis!

> I would also like them to reprint the origional cardboard buildings,
> like the
> origional city blocks from the titan legions game or the ork buildings (I
> have seen them on ebay but don't know how they were origionally sold).
> Again, this could be done without alot of money or effort on the part
> of the
> fanatic guys and fill in alot of holes in the product range.

I suspect they would never go that route, not enough money to be had. I
wonder though if we could make those available for download and people
can slap it on cardstock or plastic-card. Just a thought.

> I would then like them to re-issue the waterslide transfers and
> banners that
> they used to have for the different races/models. A single water
> slide turns
> a medium paint job into a work of art without alot of effort. Again
> this can
> be done without alot of cost or effort from the fanatic guys. (the work
> already is done, it is just a matter of reordering them and making them
> available).

Oh yeah! I still have quite a bit of the original ones and boy do they
save time!! That would be an excelent addition to their line and
profitable too.

> I would then like them to put together a 'Starters Kit' that has all the
> dice, rulers and bits needed to start playing, but no models, so that
> a new
> player knows what to buy vs fighting with mail order to try to get
> dice and
> told that they are no longer produced.
>
> I would like them to put together bundle army offers (all this would
> take is
> to come up with a 2000 e40k point army list for each army and put a
> price on
> it, they would be simple pick lists so no fancy packaging would be
> required)
> This way a beginner would just buy a starter kit and the starter army of
> choice and they are playing. Right now, they have so many choices of
> different items, that you need to be a player already to know what you
> need
> to play.

GW has a bad way of bundling up armies, they never seem to get the
models you really need in there, but if done right it could be a very
useful buy.

> I would also like to see them re-issue the origional plastics so that
> eldar
> can have standard bearers again and ork madboyz are back on the table.
> This would give older players a way of bulking up thier forces and let
> e40k
> players customize thier armies.

<nostalgia> ah yes. they also came with eldar heavy weapons to use as
optional unit seekers, the standard bearers were very cool!

> Then once all the support materials are released by Fanantic, to generate
> income with little effort, I would then like to see them come up with the
> Dark Eldar.
>
> >From my comments, you can see that I am very concerned about any new
> models,
> because the Fanatic guys are doing little to expand the game. It is
> almost
> impossible to get the support materials to go with the Epic game and
> unless
> you can pick up a rule set from ebay, you can not get into the earlier
> Titan
> Legion/Space Marine games.
>
> That means that the market is constantly shrinking and therefore there is
> less and less reason for the Fanatic guys to produce any new armies.
>
> That is why I want them to forget about new releases right now and simply
> bring out nice easy starters kits and reissue all the older
> materials. They
> can do this without alot of work and generate enough income to justify
> all
> the new projects.

Agreed, they seem to say all the time that they are getting more old
stock available, but yet little change is really seen. The first
priority is to get all the product line available, then new stuff should
come.

> I am hoping enough people tell them this so that they realize it and
> start
> actively working to save the game. Since most of the work is already
> done or
> simply needs a little bit of tweaking, they could do it all with less
> effort
> than producing a single epic magazine.

I wonder sometimes if this group should send them a signed petition of
some other analogous means to let them know what we want. Of course this
relates to miniatures since any "we want the old rules back" requests
are summarily ignored.

Peter
Received on Fri Aug 10 2001 - 15:10:32 UTC