Re: [NetEpic ML] Epic A: should we say someting?

From: <deaconblue3_at_...>
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 21:32:03 -0400

To be honest, I understand the problem from Jervis' point of
view. Plastics are expensive to manufacture. Massively expensive. To
make sure they make a profit they have to be guaranteed of selling the
product in its thousands. This they can do with the 40K kits and the
Warhamster regiments and so they can justify the US$15K+ set-up
costs. With Epic, there is no guarantee, just like with Warmaster.
Metals
are much cheaper to set-up and as a result they can produce them for the
more specialist games like Epic and Warmaster. Sure, we're gonna hate it

as its going to make putting them onto square bases harder, but I think
they are up against a pretty hard brick wall. These metals are obviously

the way they are going to have to go. So if you're looking to expand
your
Epic collection and still want to use square bases, I think investing in
some good quality metal clipper will be the way to go.

-->I'm with Kelvin (as opposed to stupid) on this one. 8) Yes, the
metal strips can be a pain to work with, but conversions and rebasing
isn't all that difficult. Having worked a bit with the warmaster minis,
I have had an easier time actually of converting things than I did with
the old plastic Epic infantry and such. As Kelvin said, invest in a good
pair of metal snips, and rebasing is fairly simple. just cut the strips
to individual infantry, then rebase on square card or what not. It will
look better than some of the stands I've seen, where the infantry
roundels don't fit into the divets, or are based on flat card (like some
of my own stands). while the individual plastic types may be dust
binned, the metals may help in keeping costs down, which would be a
pleasant change from GW. Also, the quality of the casts shoudl be
generally higher than with lastics, and less likely to be damaged by
conditions in shipping. No more half melted IG because the box was too
close to a space heater, and such. No, it's not ideal, and not
specifically useful to us, but it's still a far better deal than nothing
at all. So we have to do a little more "hobby work" than before. So
what? It's part of the hobby in general after all, and we can't expect
things to go exactly, or even clode to what we idealize. As long as
we're in the same area code, we should manage just fine.

silly Q for Peter: Who's more cantankerous: GreyTalkers or NetEpicers?

Josh R

"No matter where you go, there you are." B.Bonzai
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