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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bran Blackbyrd" data-source="post: 1031037" data-attributes="member: 1710">Re: Re: Re: Re: beating a dead horse1:) Between the prices they want for the packs and the random factor I bet it would cost more per D&D mini to actually get what you want, instead of "fishing" for what you want by buying 10-20 dollar packs.2:) The cash you save just going to another mini company and flat out buying what you want will pay for those paints and brushes.3:) If you are satisfied with the paint job on those D&D minis you could easily replicate the same level of detail on a "pewter" mini in about 2 minutes (not counting the, still paltry, amount of time it takes for the paint to dry).You beat me to it! I have that mini and we haven't even used gnomes yet in any of our campaigns. He just looks cool!Mordheim by GW is a skirmish game. My friend bought the rules but we use Reaper minis. It's not like we give a rat's hairy buttocks about official games since there aren't any going on between here and State College PA (take that GW). MerricB hit the nail on the head. 1 mini = 1 character and there usually aren't very many characters on each team.With mass combat games 1 mini usually = many identical troops. The exception being leaders and unique heroes. I don't really play either one. Too much battle, not enough characterization.--The people saying that these new D&D minis don't look too bad must be mentally adding "compared to *Clix minis". They are really and truly butt-ugly. The quality reminds me of the bags of plastic army men or cowboys and indians only with some splashes of paint. You could buy those for, what, a buck-fifty for a bag of about 30+ figures? WoTC wants 10-20 dollars a pack for their army men. It's like someone over there started an April Fools prank that has gone too far. I'm trying hard to believe that this is just a talking suit at Hasbro pushing Wizards to come up with the next Pokemon.The bottom line is that the figures are ugly, the paint jobs are too. Reaper will get my dollar every time. Too bad Confrontation minis are so expensive to import or I'd grab some of those as well.Speaking as a TT-RPG player; the minis are too ugly to pay so much money for and then not even get the ones you wanted.Speaking as someone who plays other games, collectible and otherwise; I don't care how good the rules might be, I'm not plunking down that much scratch for minis of such poor quality.Edited for unauthorized smiley faces! Get out, out, out!</blockquote>

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