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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KaosDevice" data-source="post: 2106620" data-attributes="member: 14172">Just to hop in on the Warhammer tip, there are cheaper drug-pusher modes into the minature gaming world. Mongoose did a really canny thing with the Babylon 5 ship combat game, they gave out counters. You can have a perfectly satisfying game blowing the crap out of Narn ships with your Centauri counters...but wouldn't it be so much cooler  if you had the actual minis there when you are blowing the snot out of those upstarts?Warhammer (and any min game really) is obviously going to be more expensive then any RPG, so if the rule books are cheaper, well it makes sense, the company isn't making the money off the expansion rules sets, but instead the figures that support it. Very simple buisness model and a good one. Where Mongoose did a good end around is appealing to the nerd factor inherent in us gamers and make us want to swap out those counter sets for $100 a pop fleet sets. Smart guys over at Mongoose, they just need to hire a serious editor of content. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />As far as cost of video games go, look at a past rant (I believe it was Wednesdays') at Penny Arcade, Tycho had some interesting things to say about rising production costs on video games.</blockquote>

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