"Confrontation and AT-43 Stock Now on sale at FFG " Topic

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You can get the Confrontation Starter set and the AT-43 Starter set for $20 USD apiece.

Operation Frostbite is $20. USD

The walker robots are $10-$15. The battlesuits are $10 USD a squad.

The Confrontation army books at all $10 USD and so are most of the sets.

Anyone buying $125 USD or more worth of stuff gets for promo figures including the opened steel legion tacarms, Darius(a Karman with an antitank gun), some Griffin guy, and some UNA sergeant or something.

Good luck! The next big Rakcham sale at FFG won't be till the end of the year.

North American orders only. Orders for Rackham products from outside North America will be cancelled.

Thats a bit naughty…

In fact, it SUCKS!!!!

Sadly the one thing I want the most, the accessory set with 2 cargo containers, is not available.

Oh wow! I didn't see the brigandlike shipping! Geez!

You should go to youtube and do a search for At-43
video I saw there done up by a guy called Kelleyman3.
Pretty interesting explanation of the game.

Man, it's a good thing I'm tapped out right now or I'd be buying about $300 USD worth of Karmans.

Wait, that is a good thing, right?

Warstore Neil has reduced his pricing to almost match theirs.

He is about $2 USD more on most of the stuff. And a lot cheaper on the books and heroes

FFG is no longer the US distributor right? Is this just stock they have left? My understanding was global distribution was being handled by Racham Productions (the new company).

I'm getting a little uneasy about all these deep discounts, I guess retail/distributers have given up on these games, or know somthing we dont?

Ben, actually FFG had a note on their site the first time around that they would allow shops that wanted to help them liquidate do so. I'd imagine those shops (WarStore and MiniatureMarket) are doing that now as the newer releases from Rackham are at their normal price.

I. AM. RESISTING.

jpattern2: I had exactly the same thought.

Has confrontation made any headway in the market or is everyone still angry about the metal minis going to plastic? personally I didn't like old rules or the metal they used, and I think the new rules look better.

The 3.5 edition of the rules were good and the book was a work of art. The new Confrontation rules are better though – going for larger battles. They are even a step up from the AT-43 rules though both share many of the same mechanics.

I have a complete tau army for 40k. The only problem is, I can't motivate myself to both assemble and paint the damn thing. I really want to but in the end as much as I like painting the odd figure or two, painting armies is not my thing. I guess I'm the perfect demographic for both Confrontation and AT-43.

Hi!

I would disagree with you Condottiere. I own vast amounts of CoAR and routinely play mass battles in the realm of 8000 point (just played one this afternoon).

The game is balanced and a lot of fun at these levels.

I find the older rules clunky and boring. I only looked seriously at Rackham and their offerings when they went to pre-paints. So. have many other people.

I would lend little credence to some of the forum residents, since some still just seem to bellyache about the change. They aren't the target audience anymore. It stings, buts that's business.

Rackham switched the target audience from "hobbyists" (those interested in painting and modeling more than playing the game) to "gamers" (those whom care more about playing the game than painting/modeling).

That's a business decision. Nothing wrong with one groups taste over the other, but they have done well for themselves.

Most if not all Rackham's woes due to the poor distribution of their products. If they can solve this, they should do well since from a sales point of view both game were doing very well when FFG distributed them.

If distribution issues are solved and releases are timely, they will continue to do well.

Primarh

Nice. You got to love the deals right now.

Condottiere, first let me say, you present your argument very well. I did not play earlier versions of the game, so can't really comment.

Second, and I may very well be wrong here, but as I understood it, FFG was forced out of distribution by Rackham because of Rackham restructuring. First they were in bankruptcy, meaning they could not renegotiate contracts (such as the one with FFG) and then they were bought out by the NEW Rackham who decided that distributing themselves would be a better move financially.

Interesting. That's the first time I've heard that, but it rings true. Can anyone confirm this?

I Have issues w/ the old metals due to the fact that as wargame figs go, they where too fragile to play with, also I didnt like the confrontation rules, I found them complex purely for the complexitys sake, also the point values in no way reflected a models actual value on the tabletop. I did like the smaller scale over the current larger scale skirmish game it has become however.