| Jon Sutherland | 05 Jan 2009 10:05 a.m. PST |
Bit confused here. I bought two boxes of the Indian elephants expecting to find two elephants in each box and to my astonishment there were three. The box art and the HAT website (and sellers too) suggest that there are only supposed to be two. The plastic soldier review website suggests that HAT found they had room for three not two.
Was I just lucky and found some old stock? Or is three the actual norm? Shops don't like you tearing open boxes to find out. Does anyone actually know as I want to buy a dozen of the Macedonian elephants now (and four boxes is a lot cheaper than six). |
| Griefbringer | 05 Jan 2009 10:15 a.m. PST |
You could always try contacting HäT themselves to find out? Griefbringer |
| fairoaks024 | 05 Jan 2009 10:27 a.m. PST |
stoodley, PSR is correct, there are 3 in all the boxes i bought, some a long while ago, and a couple of boxes recently. regards jim |
| Mulopwepaul | 05 Jan 2009 10:46 a.m. PST |
But I don't recall anyone saying that they squeezed three Macedonian elephants into that set. |
| Who asked this joker | 05 Jan 2009 10:51 a.m. PST |
Hmmmmm… PSR shows 2 Indian and 3 Carthage elephants… link link Perhaps they were wrong? |
| Connard Sage | 05 Jan 2009 10:58 a.m. PST |
PSR shows 2 Indian and 3 Carthage elephants… There are 6 in the Carthaginian box you linked to… |
| Mulopwepaul | 05 Jan 2009 11:46 a.m. PST |
PSR says that the original run of Macedonian elephants did include 3 per box, but shipping problems forced them to revert to 2. I don't believe there's a way to tell without opening the box. |
John Leahy  | 05 Jan 2009 12:17 p.m. PST |
Paul is correct. I bought several of the boxes when they were 1st released. They did originally start with 3. They switched to 2. Thanks, John |
| Who asked this joker | 05 Jan 2009 12:18 p.m. PST |
There are 6 in the Carthaginian box you linked to… Dang skippy! So there are! Shows that I need to scroll down a bit to see the whole thing!  |
| Cyrus the Great | 05 Jan 2009 12:25 p.m. PST |
I don't believe there's a way to tell without opening the box.
Oh, but there is. Stoodley, get your hands on one of those small hand held scales. Weigh your box containing 3 elephants and write down the weight. Take the scale to your hobby shop and weigh the boxes. Matching weights will have 3 elephants.
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| Mulopwepaul | 05 Jan 2009 12:48 p.m. PST |
Why not just use your portable fluoroscope? |
| Jon Sutherland | 06 Jan 2009 8:49 a.m. PST |
Silly me Mulopwepaul, trouble is I need to be able to get down the aisle in the store with the pallet-sized generator and I worried about crushing the Academy kits. |
| Jon Sutherland | 06 Jan 2009 9:24 a.m. PST |
Cyrus the Great – surely you mean using a block and tackle or some other device from your own bank of ancient technology? |
| Cyrus the Great | 06 Jan 2009 9:34 a.m. PST |
Stoodley, Ahem…err…yes, yes that's what I meant to say! |
| Griefbringer | 06 Jan 2009 10:22 a.m. PST |
Does anyone actually know as I want to buy a dozen of the Macedonian elephants now (and four boxes is a lot cheaper than six). The worst that can happen is that you end up with eighteen elephants. And as the saying goes, one can never have have too many elephants in his trunk. Griefbringer |
