| Jeremy Sutcliffe | 05 Jan 2009 2:40 a.m. PST |
I'd vote if I knew what it was about. |
| PzGeneral | 05 Jan 2009 3:36 a.m. PST |
Collectable Miniatures Games Now you know.
And knowing's half the battle.
G.I. Joe,
The real American Hero,
Fighting the Cobra Foe,
G.I. Joe! |
| Lentulus | 05 Jan 2009 5:22 a.m. PST |
"What do you think would be the next big idea in gaming? Or does this spell the end of all CMGs?" A curious "or" – since the CMG idea is already loose, the next big idea will certainly not be CMGs. As far as "the end" goes, while the absense of the big players may contract the market, these things never seem to disapear completely. |
| Ron W DuBray | 05 Jan 2009 7:29 a.m. PST |
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| nycjadie | 05 Jan 2009 7:30 a.m. PST |
To me, all miniatures are collectible. |
| nycjadie | 05 Jan 2009 7:30 a.m. PST |
And I won't be satisfied until I have all of them. |
| dandiggler | 05 Jan 2009 7:34 a.m. PST |
I have a nagging suspicion they will continue on, for better or worse… |
 John the OFM  | 05 Jan 2009 8:01 a.m. PST |
If this means that I won't have to buy a single Axix and Allies Churchill at a time for $5.99 USD plus $6.50 USD shipping, for a plastic tank, I am all for it. |
| WarmasterCharlie | 05 Jan 2009 8:13 a.m. PST |
Considering that Privateer has Monsterpocalypse and somebody else is doing a World of Warcraft CMG, I'd say, no, CMGs aren't dead (at least not yet). |
 Parzival | 05 Jan 2009 8:38 a.m. PST |
As I don't believe in buying anything "sight unseen," I don't buy CMG games. I took a brief dip into Mechwarrior DA and learned my lesson (I got one that was apparently an overgrown lumberjack. It had an axe. Great. A super-science high-tech fighting machine is armed with… an axe. :-P) No more "random in a box" stuff for me. But I doubt the age of CMG is over, any more than the age of baseball cards is up. |
 Der Alte Fritz | 05 Jan 2009 8:53 a.m. PST |
I've never heard of this term so I can't answer. I thought that it referred to "one off" figures made by Old Glory for the OG Army or Foundry's special figures, etc. |
| J Womack 94 | 05 Jan 2009 9:45 a.m. PST |
Mainly we use some Axis & Allies minis for our Twilight 2000 game. We raided a museum in Czechoslovakia and got a couple of vehicles that way. A Sdkfz 250 and a Schwimmwagen, plus a couple of MG-42s. The Puma needed too much work in the limited amount of time available to us, darn the luck. |
| Space Monkey | 05 Jan 2009 10:43 a.m. PST |
The only one I touched was Navia Dratp… and only after it was already dead… with very few figures to chase down. |
| mrabbit | 05 Jan 2009 10:55 a.m. PST |
JWOMACK94 "We raided a museum in Czechoslovakia and got a couple of vehicles that way." This sounds like a wargamer version of Kelly's Heroes!! …can we assume the vehicles weren't 1:1 scale? |
| Jamesonsafari | 05 Jan 2009 1:19 p.m. PST |
where's the "God I hope so?" option… |
John Leahy  | 05 Jan 2009 1:54 p.m. PST |
Actually, while I dislike the collectiblity aspect I AM happy to have so many figs available for dirt cheap. The Star Wars, Heroclix, Mechwarrior, Mage Knight and DnD figs are all fvor sale from secondary sources for as cheap as 10 cents each. Many are no more than a dollar. That is why I own 100's of Stormtroopers, Clones, Droids, Rebels, etc. It isn't all bad. Thanks, John |
| SECURITY MINISTER CRITTER | 05 Jan 2009 2:42 p.m. PST |
Quester had my response. It will never go away, there will just be new fads. |
| sapper joe | 05 Jan 2009 6:09 p.m. PST |
This only reinforces my opinion that Michael Eisner is in league with the devil. I was not aware that Wizkids got axed. When I looked it up and then saw that Michael Eisner bought Topps… |
| Scorpio | 05 Jan 2009 7:13 p.m. PST |
They'll still be around, just like CCGs are still doing fine. The market's in such turmoil these days, and there was a lot of behind-the-scenes business, I wouldn't read too much into Wizkids getting axed. |
| Topkick890 | 05 Jan 2009 11:45 p.m. PST |
Hopefully "Plastic Crack" will go the way of the dinosaur but it will probably linger on corrupting future generations of gamers til the end of time. |
| psiloi | 06 Jan 2009 4:16 a.m. PST |
It may be the death knell, but there are still plenty of games not related to Whizkids out there. |
| svsavory | 06 Jan 2009 3:54 p.m. PST |
Ahh, my precious plastic crack! I love the stuff (at least the Star Wars variety). While I know it's not everyone's cup of tea, please allow me to wallow alone in my squalor. Seriously though, John Leahy's comment is dead on. The 'common' figs are dirt cheap on the secondary market. |
| zapper | 07 Jan 2009 12:23 p.m. PST |
I don't know if it's the end, but I certainly hope it is. |
| The Beast Rampant | 07 Jan 2009 1:53 p.m. PST |
As I don't believe in buying anything "sight unseen," I don't buy CMG games. I took a brief dip into Mechwarrior DA and learned my lesson (I got one that was apparently an overgrown lumberjack. It had an axe. Great. A super-science high-tech fighting machine is armed with… an axe./Actually, the "classic" Battletech 'Hatchetman' had an axe, way back in the first Technical Readout manual (3025?). Now, if you want to talk about 'mechs armed with soil tillers…
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