DnD minis cheap?

[Venport]

as far as minitures go DDM are the cheapest and the best however the other options are the unpained expesive reaper\warhammer ect... witch i like but are not the cheapest and easyest way to go.

My other favorit place to go for minitures for Roleplaying is the Doller store and party stores looking at party favors and things like that.

I read on a post somewhere there was someone looking for cheat Chinesse imitations of DDMs there was a responce that i love. "DDMs are the cheat chineese imitations"

These are the only options i have found but keep looking... you can get minitures all kinds of places if you know where too look...

Oh and lookat mage knight figures they can get cheep if you are willing to hunt (however i can;t stand the size of the basses so you may need to changer bases)

 

[Agamon]

Mainly I want to stock up enough to have a mini which is a close enough representation of just about everything in the Crater Ridge Mines. Obviously it won't be exact, but I can try.

Nice. Yeah, it probably won't be exact unless you want to throw a whole lotta money at a good number of rares. I was happy just gettung 2 burning skeletons in my last case of minis.

Maybe stay away from Angelfire for the first couple weeks on eBay. The minis tend to be a bit overpriced until the market starts to saturate (remember the $50 beholder?!?)

Hopefully your group actually cleans out the whole CRM before moving to the Fanes.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Since Chainmail got discontinued and replaced with the D&D Miniatures game, a lot of places are offering those minis at substantial discounts.

I bought BINS of them at 50-70% off.

 

[DaveStebbins]

I have always had excellent service from The Card Vault (.com). They do a nice job of only listing minis they have in stock, their pictures are decent, their prices for commons and uncommons are very good and their shipping charges (to me, within the US) are very reasonable. For the half-dozen or so purchases I've made from them, they have been the best deal I've found. I can recommend them highly.

-Dave

 

[Waldorf]

Nice. Yeah, it probably won't be exact unless you want to throw a whole lotta money at a good number of rares. I was happy just gettung 2 burning skeletons in my last case of minis.

Maybe stay away from Angelfire for the first couple weeks on eBay. The minis tend to be a bit overpriced until the market starts to saturate (remember the $50 beholder?!?)

Hopefully your group actually cleans out the whole CRM before moving to the Fanes.

All too true, but I'd give it more of a month before things cool off. You can also buy them just before they go on sale since a lot of people don't know that sellers put them up for auction before the official release date.

Of course, as the new ones age, the prices go down; I've bought tons of these guys at substantially cheap prices well after the set becomes 6-8 months old.

Wow, I guess I do shop at gaming stores.

LOL

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Is there a place to get fantasy minis without the cards and collectible rare/uncommon thingy? I don't want them for prestige, I want them for tactics.

Sure, but not DDM. Of course, you can just get the minis and ignore the cards - or ignore the skirmish side and use the RP side, as it has abbreviated D&D stats. The rarity works against you if the mini you want is a rare, and the random packaging means that you cannot just walk into the gaming store and buy a pack "with the beholder in it". You can try the secondary market, though. As the others said, common and uncommon stuff is relatively cheap there.

Monsters were, until recently, almost exclusively rare. This has changed somewhat, especially since they have large figures that are uncommon rather than rare - angefire, the new set, has 8 large uncommons, for example, and has one such gritter in every booster.

(edit) Oh, and about the prestige/tactics: In the DDM skirmish games, rarity plays a role in tactics (or meta-tactics, if you like), as rare minis are generally stronger than uncommons (which are stronger than commons). In the past, there were often cases where rarer minis were relatively weak while more common ones were stronger (I think the weakest rare has 11 points, even common minis can top that easily), but that is getting less.

Also, you can expect someone to have literally dozens of xeph warriors (a common mini), but usually they won't have more than a couple of centaur heroes (a rare mini), if any.