| Shakespear | 28 Mar 2008 6:25 a.m. PST |
link 54mm is a nice change. Figs look good, but who knows how they will look out of the box. |
| PapaSync | 28 Mar 2008 9:02 a.m. PST |
I just can't get myself around this game. I loved the original 28mm lead minis and the game. Ultimate Warzone fixed alot of the old bugs. But even with the bugs it was a cool game. At least I got all the stuff I wanted before Excelsior went under. Its a shame such a good game went into three bad hands. Hearbreaker, Target and Excelsior. Fanstay Flight is not putting out the same game. All they did was take the fluff, double the size and turned into a cmg. I hope they do well form their own sake. 54mm didn't do to well for GW so I don't think its going to do any better for FF. I won't be playing it thats for sure. I just can't get into cmg's anyway. |
| Zenwired | 28 Mar 2008 9:46 a.m. PST |
54mm didn't do to well for GW… To be fair, I don't think the scale of the game was to blame. More likely, it was the ~$20 per model price point (Ouch!) and the lack of hard-and-fast "army book" type stats/creation rules for the units. The game in question (Inquisitor) was, IMHO, a great piece of work to players who like to fill in the blanks (and perhaps to folks like me, who think that Warhammer 40K ceased to exist after the Rogue Trader days), but those people – I believe – are generally not the same people who regularly dump wads of cash on games like 40K. I see little to no comparison between FFG's Mutant Chronicles and GW's Inquisitor, aside from the fact that they're both 54mm sci-fi games. (ALthough I agree with the "meh" attitude toward this game. For me, though, it's a result of not being thrilled with the MC universe and the whole CMG thing. I like knowing what I'm throwing away my money on. :P) 
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| Acharnement | 28 Mar 2008 9:57 a.m. PST |
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| Farstar | 28 Mar 2008 10:31 a.m. PST |
Army books for Inquisitor? It's an RPG! Poorly disguised, mind you, but an RPG nonetheless. It failed because GW has no patience for projects that can't be resold to the same people every four years or which don't require vast multiples of the same sculpt. Mass production or mass extinction is the GW way. I haven't seen any of the 54mm Mutant Chronicles stuff yet… |
| terrain sherlock | 28 Mar 2008 2:10 p.m. PST |
The dice for MC54 hark back to Siege of the Citadel.. Might pick it up on e-bay when it starts getting dumped.. |
| Insomniac | 28 Mar 2008 3:12 p.m. PST |
Am I right in saying that there is not a gallery of all the available miniatures yet? I looked on the site and couldn't see very many pictures of the miniatures. It seems like the wrong approach to get people interested and then not show good pix of what is available. Has anyone else had any joy? |
| Gear Pilot | 28 Mar 2008 3:25 p.m. PST |
I can't beleive that they don't include Imperial as one of the factions. I thought the guys in the tin hats were an icon in that game. |
| Dragon Gunner | 28 Mar 2008 3:25 p.m. PST |
I will check it out when it becomes available. I'm not to excited because of scale, hex basing and CMG. The real killer will be is if the first figure I pick up is soft plastic bent and deformed with a crappy paint job |
| The Beast Rampant | 28 Mar 2008 6:21 p.m. PST |
"I can't beleive that they don't include Imperial as one of the factions. I thought the guys in the tin hats were an icon in that game." FFG stated sometime back (somewhere) that they preferred to concentrate on fewer factions initially; all the better for future expansions. Imperial is just around the corner, I'm sure. For the release date to be April (hopefully, it IS Fantasy Flight), they have been a long time coming for previews. Privateer has been no better with Monsterpocalypse. It would seem these dips would have enough sense to put out regular sketches, greens, and rules previews to pump up the hype and maintain a market presence. |
| Backyardpatrol | 29 Mar 2008 12:12 p.m. PST |
Pictures:
link The problem with this scale for me is the terrain, there is none, unless you scrounge. Thats a bigger investment than the figures.
I'll give it a shot, even though I'm not happy about the cmg aspect. |
| alien BLOODY HELL surfer | 29 Mar 2008 3:18 p.m. PST |
Following the link from Backyardpatrol there is this link link I may pick up a handful to do skirmish games in the back garden during the summer – like I did as a kid with all my Britain's and Airfix soldiers etc. Sometimes we used the 3 1/4 inch action figures instead mind, but we could fill up a whole summers day with no rules and a garden full of figuresand vehicles :-) |
| alien BLOODY HELL surfer | 29 Mar 2008 3:19 p.m. PST |
Actually, looking at those pre-paints it is a real shame they are not 28-32mm 'standard' size, they'd work in quite well with the WOTC Star Wars figures, well, some of them. |
| The Beast Rampant | 29 Mar 2008 4:54 p.m. PST |
Twenty-eight in that pic…anybody know how many's in the set? I don't see it anywhere. |
| The Beast Rampant | 29 Mar 2008 4:58 p.m. PST |
OK, duh, I found it, along with a set list (52 total). link |
| Topkick890 | 29 Mar 2008 11:24 p.m. PST |
Have they finally got a firm release date? The game and the movie have shared a common history of missing the stated release date on more than one occassion. Now that FFG has got Dark Heresy I'm afraid that it may get sidelined again. |
| The Beast Rampant | 30 Mar 2008 7:05 a.m. PST |
Their 'upcoming' page has now pushed it back to May (surprise, surprise). I have been checking it every other day or so, just waiting for that one. Obviously, asking for firm dates with these guys is completely out of the question. |
| frankthedm | 02 Apr 2008 5:20 p.m. PST |
The great big monsters will be useful to me, shame there will be costly. Cherry picking time! |
adds a tower to his 15mm trainyard.