"AT-43: "Saint Armstrong, Pray for Us"" Topic

These announcements get more & more surreal.

Yes, they do.

Kewl stuff…a Pirate Gorilla!!!

I like everything except the cigars…

Do all these monkeys smoke, don't they have any idea how bad it is for them?

I sure hope the troubles the company appears to be going through won't effect the release schedule of the Karmans. I really like the look of these guys.

Love the Karmans, love the cigars.

Oh look, it's Sgt. Nick Fury, devolved!

Hopefully Rackham will stay in business long enough to get it out the door!

Do all these monkeys smoke, don't they have any idea how bad it is for them?

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Stunts their growth? Hair on their palms? (oh, wait…)

Anyway – don't lecture them. Drives them ape.

Doc, I think you mean Sgt. Nick Furry, and His Howling Commandapes!

Only the french monkeys smoke…

"Oh look, it's Sgt. Nick Fury, devolved!"

"Doc, I think you mean Sgt. Nick Furry, and His Howling Commandapes!"

I LOLed.

I look forward to seeing these guys in the flesh, as it were.

Power armor gorillas that smoke cigars and have religion? I'm so there.

Granted, probably not the rules, but everything except the human troopers keeps looking better and better.

I pray Rackham stays in business… how the mighty fall.

I have faith! Just looks to me like they overspent on their initial "tooling up" for the metal molds to produce the AT-43 plastics in high volume and got bit when Confrontation sales nose-dived. Their requested 6 months of "protection" should allow them to make minimal interest payments on their loans while AT-43 takes off and the new plastic Confrontation line ships.

I know we're loving AT-43 around here now that wifey has started stocking it. We just need the Red Blok units to arrive and desperately need the army books to ship. (in English this time, LOL)

when I saw the initial stuff for AT-43, I wasn't impressed. But when I heard they were doing a sorta russkie army, my esolve quivered. now with powered armor cigar-chomping gorillas, Rackham may finally get a pile of my money…

This isn't a complaint more of an OMG they will be scary in combat!

Ok the average juvenile Earth chimp can easily dislocate an adult man's arm to the point of tearing all the muscles in the rotator cup. i.e. They now call you lefty if you live. So is the armor the gorillas wear just servo assisted armor? In other words the servos neutralize its weight. Cause if it is strength enhancing armor they don't need guns when they can just hurl a car or beat you to death with one of your comrades. Just my thoughts on it.

The Karman are really great models. The prototypes I saw at Gencon were cool. I just wish they didn't make one with a WWII leather bomber cap.

Rackham is in trouble? Mon dieu! I hope they stay afloat too. Buy their minis while you can!

Man… I canna wait to get my sticky paws on those damn, dirty apes.

Rackham is in trouble? Mon dieu! I hope they stay afloat too. Buy their minis while you can!

That really won't help much unless you're buying direct, which puts a lot more money in their pockets, as opposed to splitting it between the stores and distributors. For that matter, anything already in a store has already sold from Rackham's POV. I've also seen several stores that are dropping Confrontation like a hot potato, and I know many US distributors had radically sacled back their orders even before the "protection" announcement. That's undoubtedly contributed to the money crunch, but it remains to be seen whether it's a panicky mistake or a wise business decision.

Myself, I'd kind of like to see power-armored apes, but I don't much care who makes them. Probably at least one casting company has noted the level of interest in the concept by now (you are all paying attention, right guys?) and is looking at doing something similar in metal, so we'll see them eventually.

Be handy for Jammers in the Feng Shui RPG, anyway… :)

Rich

Duly noted.

S.

Heh. If anyone knows that ape minis sell, it'd be you, Scott.

Rich

Wow the company is in trouble?? I just bought the rule book and was looking at the miniatures. Figures, I start getting interested in a game and the company goes belly up!

No belly up,

Just some trouble facing the huge investments regarding plastic I believe…

I am a big fan of their stuff, and I met their reps at Origins and dropped some cash at their booth. Good people and good products. I am hoping for the best for them.

Scott

Huge investments, coupled with a sudden and severe dropoff in Confrontation orders from US distributors. And that's exacerbated by the fact that many, many retailers are deep-discounting the existing pewter Con minis in an attempt to get rid of them before the plastics and the new rules arrive. Widespread discounting like that kills direct sales, where the company makes the biggest margin.

They aren't belly up, but they are definitely overextended right now. Might be fatal, might not…time will tell.

I for one will be buying up Confrontation figures at Colours next weekend, as I will continue to play Confrontation 3 and NOT the new dumbed down C4 or whatever the hell its called…

well thats good news then. if its to reorganize then I'm not to worried. Reorganize to me means the company is big enough to stick around for awhile. hahaha

S.M. Sterling.
"Marching Through Georgia"
"Under the Yoke"
"STONE DOGS"

The 2nd and last books of this alternate history set of books had the DRAKA genetically modify Great Apes into combat troops. Not real bright so they made good shock troops – no fear, fast, very strong, fierce killers.

TG

P.S. if you haven't read anything on the DRAKA or by S.M. Sterling move your butts

Ooooooooooh! Fantastic series! When did "Stone Dogs" ship?
I'll have to run to Chapters and look for it.