RE: [Epic] Thread on Orcs, AT & LRs [was barrage]

From: Miller, Chris <CMiller_at_...>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 17:03:12 -0500

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>From: Scott Shupe[SMTP:shupes_at_...]
>Sent: Thursday, June 19, 1997 3:23 PM
>To: space-marine_at_...
>Subject: Re: [Epic] Thread on Orcs, AT & LRs [was barrage]
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> Too bad you can't really play that way anymore... since
>the only marine assault troops are followers of Khorne, the only
>heavy weapons guys are Slaanesh, the only airpower is Tzeentch...
>At least in 40k you can field a balanced chaos army of a single
>power (or no power at all, if you wish).
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>---> Agree with this. Until late (around TL) in the game (oops) it was
>difficult to do a
>one-power only chaos army other than Khorne, but it was fun when you could.
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>> > They aren't GW's favorites, they are the PLAYERS' favorites!
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>> If people played them less (I'm talking 40K here too) they would do
>> less of them.
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>> 3 marine codexes plus the IG plus
>> probably at least one more is a lot, but it's what people buy. Maybe
>> not in your area, but overall it is.
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> Yeah, because GW pushes them more than anything other army.
>It's a cycle - GW pushes SMs, people buy SMs, GW makes more neato
>stuff for SMs. Just like what they did to the old Epic, in the
>opposite direction - "We're not really supporting Epic anymore
>because it doesn't sell that well" - well, if you supported it in
>the first place, maybe it would have sold better...
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>Scott
>shupes_at_...
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> I think the empire has to be the center of the game universe
>so there are always going to be imperial mini's of some kind in the box.
>Whatever's in the box is going to be a large percentage of the armies
>played. As far as neato stuff, I think there's enough to go around...
> I agree on the Epic part above, though. "Make a coherent set of rules
for the damn game with correct examples and you might sell more"
Cool mini's aren't enough to keep a product around, and that really has
 never been the problem. The big knock on GW has been rules and
pricing. For me, if the rules & the mini's are good, then the pricing
is less of an issue. Also, knowing that the game will be dropped
in a given time frame tends to cool my enthusiasm. This does raise
another point:
        Anyone know how well Epic40K is selling ?

Chris Miller
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Received on Thu Jun 19 1997 - 22:03:12 UTC