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

[Mark CMG]

Those new Reaper minis seem a little pricey for mass produced rank and file minis. Hopefully, WotC will answer the call with a better deal.


Interestingly, no DDM minis were sold via the Games Plus auction this time around. No masses of Mage Knight minis were available, either. A handful of SW stuff came through, though.

 

[JVisgaitis]

How popular is Warlord?

Cheers!

I'm pretty entreched in everything in the industry. I've vaguely heard of it before, but I know nothing about it and have never seen anyone playing it.

 

[Kunimatyu]

Those new Reaper minis seem a little pricey for mass produced rank and file minis. Hopefully, WotC will answer the call with a better deal.

Picky picky picky....

$2-2.50 is probably a lot closer to the "real" price of a common miniature when you don't have rares consuming most of the value in a pack.

 

[crazy_cat]

Picky picky picky....

$2-2.50 is probably a lot closer to the "real" price of a common miniature when you don't have rares consuming most of the value in a pack.

Isn't the "real" price the one we as consumers actually pay? The fact it may be via the secondary market is irrelevant IMO.

The "real" price of many commons is about $0.5 - $1.00 in the US - its higher elsewhere in the world, but then I suspect Reapers prices wil be too (mores the pity )

 

[JoeGKushner]

Those new Reaper minis seem a little pricey for mass produced rank and file minis. Hopefully, WotC will answer the call with a better deal.


Interestingly, no DDM minis were sold via the Games Plus auction this time around. No masses of Mage Knight minis were available, either. A handful of SW stuff came through, though.

Ah man, I thought the miniatures were sold on Sunday!

 

[thalmin]

Ah man, I thought the miniatures were sold on Sunday!

Don't worry. The regular (metal) miniatures are on Sunday. Wednesday was for the cards and tradable miniatures.(/hijack)

 

[Pbartender]

Don't worry. The regular (metal) miniatures are on Sunday. Wednesday was for the cards and tradable miniatures.(/hijack)

And here I'm hoping that new Reaper plastics will be released in time for the next Chicago Gameday in June...

 

[Shadowslayer]

At the risk of sounding incredibly stupid, what is Warlord?

To actually answer your question, its a "tabletop armies" game in the same vein as Warhammer. There's differences of course...I don't think the armies are as big, and they seem to be more player friendly with regards to using proxies and such...but you get the idea.

 

[Twowolves]

Unless they vastly changed their rules, I just could not justify getting into Warlord. Assuming, of course, this is the same tabletop miniature wargame they put out in the mid 90's. Every figure had only 1 hit, and the big dragon-type monsters just had a ridiculously high defense, so that 50-60 rank and file wouldn't stand a chance against one. Thus, it would seem like "whoever fields the biggest monster wins" type of set up.

But cool figs though!

 

[Dragon Snack]

Warlord was released in June 2004.

It's popular in pockets. Usually where someone takes up it's cause against GW (like any TMG basically). There's a big tournament at Gen Con (and Reaper Con, obviously). There's over 1300 people registered at Warlord HQ (although apparently the site has been kind of wonky lately).