"Mantic Games - New The Walking Dead Pre-Orders " Topic

A new wave of The Walking Dead releases can be pre-ordered from Mantic Games

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Amicalement
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Interested, but expensive

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Amicalement
Armand

Yep. Expensive. Mantic (and FFG with its Imperial Assault) parcel out the "name" characters at one or two per base game or mini-expansion. That comes to $20 USD+ (or $10 USD+) apiece. I don't like the softness of the Cryptozoic Walking Dead miniatures, but at least they put more than one "name" character in an expansion.

Most of the "main" characters are part of the core game or the various theme expansions.

For each wave, Mantic also has three smaller boosters, normally with a unique walker, and two playable characters. These playable characters are often new poses for existing (already available) characters.

At discounted retail, I have been paying $16 USD to get three figures. A bit over $5 USD per figure. Are they "necessary"? Not really. But I enjoying having alternate poses (and you get alternate player character cards as well.

But I get the boosters more for the extra equipment cards than I do for the alternate poses. But that is just me.

At some point, I will say I have enough, and I will just stop. But for now, I pick up the retail "exclusive" boosters as each new wave comes out.

From Miniature Market:
* Core set: $40. USD Carl and Rick.
* Days Gone Bye: $32. USD Dale.
* Miles Behind Us: $32. USD No one, unless you're a Hershel and Otus fan.

For Michonne, Glenn, Andrea, Negan, etc. each mini-expansion is $16 USD each. If you want to pay $5 USD for a zombie figure when other companies are selling them for under $1 USD each, you go right ahead. Seems pretty obvious that they're milking, er, stretching the franchise as much as they can, when they could have packaged multiple "name" characters together.

EDIT: Sorry, should have said "well known" when I wrote "name". Some of the named characters in the WD miniatures game didn't have names in the comic, and one of them in the core set lasted only two panels, without even being encountered in the comic book by Rick and company.

Thanks for posting the links.

I really like the casualty 'markers', always adds to a 'battlefield'. And the compound is excellent. But..
yea it Will Be the co$t that's the make or break point for me as well.

@ced1106 … I understand where you are coming from, but decisions had to be made, and I think Mantic did a pretty good job, given their plans.

The game is based off the comic, not the tv show, so that might throw some folks off. Second, they wanted a series of game expansions, with each expansion adding some new rules and playable characters, and scenarios.

From a marketing side, this makes sense. A one-time game box is a single splash. A core game and expansions every quarter is a constant buzz, and generates more sales.

Keep in mind this is a competitive game (that can also be played solo). It would have made no sense to put all of the "main/well-known" characters in the first box. It would have looked "wrong" having a team where Andrea and Carl go up against Rick and Dale (for example).

So they opted for a core game, and two types of expansions, Settings (like the Farm and the Prison) add new rules, playable characters, walkers, and cards. And characters (some are retail exclusive, and some are not), which include two playable characters, a walker, and more cards.

True, that means the average price for each minis in the character expansions is $5 USD or so, but you are also getting player character cards, and equipment cards, so each pack is not just minis.

Prelude to Woodbury gives you 6 walkers and the Governor (before he was the governor). Also solo rules and scenarios, and various cards. At 7 minis for $32 USD that comes to slightly under $5 USD per mini. But if you are going to ignore the walkers because you think they should be nearly free, then that is $32 USD for one playable character.

I like having as many unique poses for walkers as I can get, and the 6 that came in Prelude were unique … not offered up as part of any other expansion, so I was happy to pay my $32 USD to get the 7 minis, the new rules, and the cards.

But we all have different pain points when it comes to what games cost. So I understand if you think Mantic made some major mistakes with this product line.