Tango01  | 21 May 2013 9:10 p.m. PST |
Of possible interest?
See here
link Hope you enjoy!. Amicalement
Armand |
| 15mm and 28mm Fanatik | 21 May 2013 9:36 p.m. PST |
Definitely of interest. Perfect timing too. Though a Borg Cube would be really bad news for all these cool looking ships. |
| theRaptor | 21 May 2013 9:55 p.m. PST |
Are these the same scale as the clicky models? I was worried about this game driving up the price of those. |
| emckinney | 21 May 2013 11:48 p.m. PST |
I believe that they actually are the Clix models. I don't think that game did well (since the rules were a sucking chest wound), and they want to make some of the money back. |
| Carpet General | 22 May 2013 3:13 a.m. PST |
In the UK, Father's Day is imminent. Need I say more? Edited because I just noticed the release date was 30th August! |
| Mr Elmo | 22 May 2013 3:57 a.m. PST |
It might be OK as long as there are enough TOS era ships to make it interesting. |
| McWong73 | 22 May 2013 3:59 a.m. PST |
Pricey. And a mix of periods too. |
Chortle  | 22 May 2013 4:26 a.m. PST |
They are a bit expensive. If the game bombs, we can pick them up cheap and use them with other rules. I used to love the Star Trek boxed set game. |
| 15th Hussar | 22 May 2013 5:14 a.m. PST |
Yeah, I'll wait until they show up on the Target/Walmart discount shelves… |
| elsyrsyn | 22 May 2013 9:16 a.m. PST |
Pricey. And a mix of periods too. Also, I believe, a mix of scales. Doug |
| billthecat | 22 May 2013 9:56 a.m. PST |
Mixed scales! uhg….. Mixed periods…. meh…. 10 GBP per ship? … pass. too bad, as the concept is strong. |
| Tango01 | 22 May 2013 10:11 a.m. PST |
Glad some of you had enjoy it guys!. Amicalement
Armand |
| David Manley | 22 May 2013 11:02 a.m. PST |
I suspect PDfs of the rules, cards and accessories will appear on the internet in short order and so you'll be able to create your own copy for next to nothing and then play the game with micro machines. Thats how X Wing is turning out for me these days. |
| wminsing | 22 May 2013 11:25 a.m. PST |
The lack of consistent scale has always sunk the Wizkids Star Trek models for me; unlike FFG which at least has some research to back up their sometimes controversial scaling, WizKids seems to scale their ships to 'whatever is convenient for Wizkids to make and package'. -Will |
| The Gonk | 22 May 2013 12:23 p.m. PST |
I don't think my 11 year old Star Trek nut will care much about mixed scale, and if I don't have to paint anything, so much the better… |
| Chortle | 22 May 2013 9:27 p.m. PST |
Inconsistent scale can work for me, depending on the game. In some things it would drive me nuts. But I can accept it in a very abstract game. I don't have a justification for feeling this way. I mean, we bend reality for virtually all of our games. |
| BigNickR | 23 May 2013 12:06 a.m. PST |
the details, colors, and PLASTIC used in the clicky ships was pretty terrible… |
| billthecat | 23 May 2013 8:00 a.m. PST |
Good point, Chortle (and Gonk-- excellent situation!). I certainly don't need 'accurate scale' between specific ships… but I do need 'small, medium, large' for quick relative identification of a ship's 'size class' and also for aesthetic reasons.
Of course, the CCG concept and pricing is more of an issue.
Oh well… |
| Greenfield Games | 23 May 2013 12:49 p.m. PST |
I don't think that game did well (since the rules were a sucking chest wound), and they want to make some of the money back. "That game" being HeroClix? It seems to be doing very, very well. The first series of the Star Trek ships released for the set sold out very quickly. More quickly than they expected since it took quite a long time to get them back in. Now, people don't seem to play with the ships much, but that doesn't make them a failure. They sold a crap-ton of them. |
| Buckaroo | 24 May 2013 9:05 a.m. PST |
While I wish them luck the non-consistent scale and different Eras just kills it for me. I won't be getting into it. How does a TOS Connie compare to a Galaxy class? |
| Brother Jim | 24 May 2013 3:02 p.m. PST |
In 1/7000 scale a Constitution class should be 41mm long.
In 1/7000 scale a Galaxy class should be 92mm long. The clix Prometheus(4mm too long), Nebula(5mm too short), Excelsior(don't have one) and one of the Klingon ships are close to 1/7000 scale. |
| Dice Monkey | 27 May 2013 3:59 p.m. PST |
I have never understood the obsession some fanboys have with scale especially on something fictitious. I am not worried about whether I can make little perfectly scaled dioramas depicting each individual episode but whether the game itself is fun. |
| CorsairFAS217 | 01 Jun 2013 2:38 p.m. PST |
With all due respect to the purist's out here… Well said Dice Monkey. I get that way with WW2 tanks but at least there are real ones to measure, a real point of reference.
That all said I guess an Executor class Star Destroyer should be seriously larger than an A-Wing fighter. So at 1/7000 should a Borg Cube be the size of a dish washer? |
| Brother Jim | 01 Jun 2013 4:33 p.m. PST |
Don't know, don't care, think that's redonkulus (in a good way).
I mentioned 1/7000 scale because I have those models. Well, the TOS Enterprise anyway. My Prometheus hulls are the Clix as they're close enough (and the only models near the right size). My Galaxy class hulls are Furuta (a few mm too long, but MUCH cheaper than an exact 1/7k model was at the time). Same with my Nebula hulls, except they're the common Clix model.
Most of the other ships in my Fed fleet were from Shapeways.
Unfortunately I became unemployed before being able to get any opponents for them. |
