Reaper to produce pre-painted Plastic minis - Non-random

[rgard]

Will they be green or grey?

I hate the grey orcs but realize that those starting with 3.0 probably don't know that a lot of us prefer the geenies!

Or blue ala Heroscape!

 

[rgard]

Privateer Press: Round

Warlord: Square

Warhammer 40K: Round

Warhammer: Square

Confrontation: Square

Ragnarock: Square

I'm sure there are others out there but a good mix of square and round bases no?

Hi Joe, don't follow you on that one.

Yes, there are a mix out there, but if I use a Warhammer fantasy fig, I mount the fig on a round base instead of the square one provided. If the painted plastic Reaper fig comes already mounted to a square base, it's extra work to whack it off and put it on a round base.

Now, somebody without my obsessive/compulsive need to have medium figs on round bases to match the DDMs won't have the same problem!

Thanks,
Rich

 

[hexgrid]

I tried my Google Fu, but nothing. Anyone have an idea of what he is referring to?

The word to search for is gashapon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gashapon

 

[Shadowslayer]

What the heck are "infernal broccoli bases"?

What they said.

My main beef with them is not so much the texture, but that the shapes are irregular and sometimes the bases are either the wrong shape, or too small for the mini in question.

I've played on a table that used these things exclusively, and sometimes they topple over if you bump the table. (I fix that by glueing mine onto 7/8ths metal washers before I prime...that makes them nice and sturdy. But it'd be nice not to have to do that.)

heh...by the way, talk about coincidence. I finished one of those Cave Trolls a couple weeks ago. (Its an older sculpt and I found it on the post-New-Year sale peg in my FLGS) Its my sweetest paintjob yet. I secretly hope the factory paint's not as good as mine. (Does that make me a bad person???)

 

[Pbartender]

Reapers Bull Orcs from their Warlord line are painted green in the rulebooks and on the data cards...

Huh... Now that I've seen them painted, I kind of like the boar-heads.

 

[Dragon Snack]

My work here is done...

 

[trancejeremy]

Hmmmm, now that I look around the Reaper site and message board, this really seems more like a thing for Warlord players, rather than D&D players. I'm sure they won't mind if they sell to D&D players, but this looks like a way to let Warlord players fill up their armies with grunts on the (relative) cheap. Since it seems like pewter is getting to be more expensive.

 

[JVisgaitis]

Hmmmm, now that I look around the Reaper site and message board, this really seems more like a thing for Warlord players, rather than D&D players.

Nah. Orcs are orcs and skeletons are skeletons. They'll work fine for my games.

 

[WhatGravitas]

The Dark Haven line of Reaper's miniatures come connected to a base which has a 'grassy' texture sculpted onto it but it tends to look like broccoli and many, icluding myself, wish that the integrated bases all looked cooler instead of just select miniatures.

Ah, then they're called "infernal broccoli" - I just called them "annoying stuff"... thanks for clarification (this includes the other posters as well - this was just the first post).

Looking at the green boar head orcs... If they look somewhat similar to them, that'd be great. Okay, the boar head is a matter of taste, as well as the colour... but it isn't like they'll only produce orcs, right?

And for the Warlord aspect: Well, they don't have a "Warlord" on their head... so the packaging could say "Pink Pumpkin Punkband", and I won't care, as long as I get my minis.

I'm looking forward to these hopefully non-broccoli plastics

 

[trancejeremy]

Nah. Orcs are orcs and skeletons are skeletons. They'll work fine for my games.

Oh yeah, you could use Gummi Bears and they would be fine, really.

And like I said

I'm sure they won't mind if they sell to D&D players

But my point was, that doesn't seem to be their main focus. They aren't really trying to compete with Hasbro, but simply expand their own base of Warlord players.

I mean, seriously, do they want to sell every GM $50 worth of orcs and skeletons, or try to get people hooked on their game and field $1000 armies? I'm sure they'll take the former, but the latter probably makes up their steady business.