D&D General Why does WotC/Wizkids wait 6 months for tie in minis?

[MonsterEnvy]

One thing I'll point out are things observed from the Spelljammer release:

Wizkids released a ton of cool ship-scale miniature sets seemingly to use with some ship rules from SJ's books. There were no such rules in the SJ release.

There are ship rules.

 

[Distracted DM]

There are ship rules.

There are less ship combat rules in this dedicated ship setting than there were in Ghosts of Saltmarsh. They're incredibly bare-bones and the book says "just get to boarding action."

 

[MonsterEnvy]

There are less ship combat rules in this dedicated ship setting than there were in Ghosts of Saltmarsh. They're incredibly bare-bones and the book says "just get to boarding action."

The ship rules are just part of the regular rules, they serve fine from my experience.

 

[Vael]

Production times are different and creating tie in media is a lot of logistics. I'm sure Wizkids would love to be closer or even simultaneous, but can't

 

[Stormonu]

The ship rules are just part of the regular rules, they serve fine from my experience.

They work for regular RP play, I think we were all just expecting rules that were orientated more towards the 2E tabletop rules that were geared more for (small) fleet actions.