ACTA´s future developements?

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

To be fair, pre-painted minis have their place.
Many of my gaming friends now have families of their own and hobby time gets more and more limited. They tend now to prefer games that allow more time for playing and not so much work at home painting.
RPG's have gotten a resurgance for that reason among my feiends also...a book is a one time purchase, not something you buy and then go spend hours and hours working to get "done" for the tabletop.

Chern

Exactly, what I was thinking. I have 2 kids, one 11 and one 2. The 11 is in the Boy Scouts (of which I am a Leader), Karate (which I take with him) and basketball (which I love to watch) and the 2 year old, well anyone with kids knows about how much time they demand, not to mention the wife. At the end of the day I have to sacrifice sleep in order to get any work done on my models. I'm not complaining about that fact, but it would make some things as far as having enough time to prepare & paint an entire fleet, a little easier for the time challenged.

 

[E Nicely]

Painting metal spaceships is one of the finer things in life.

Unless of course you just want to play and not paint.

I don't know if you've tried it, but painting space ships isn't that hard. Just a few basic techniques. To each his own though.[/i]

 

[Chernobyl]

I don't think its hard, its just comes down to time management. I love to paint my ships, and I'll continue to do so. but having a quick set of plastic painted to play with at a con for demo purposes would be awesome. I like my ships to look good. but when I need a variety of races to play, thats a lot of work. so they both have their place; I think its up to mongoose to see if having both lines (plastic/metal) active at once is viable.

Chern

 

[OnlyTheShadowKnows]

I see pros and cons....

Minus is that a lot of us feel cheated if we work hard on the unpainted metal ones and that it takes the fun out, I know that once I get my tournaments up and running in my local store I would like to do prizes for best painted mini, best fleet, worse fleet, worse mini, and etc.

Plus side is that if they are plastic and prepainted like much like *cough* Hero, Mech, Horror clix *cough* Then you may get more people involved. For example I went to a hobbie shop that sells a lot of Warhammer 40K and this guy who was a retired fire fighter who had some kind of limitation that forced him out of the force and he wanted to get into miniatures but couldn't paint them. Or like someone said in this thread, get younger people or busy people involved.

Not to mention it would be good to be able to put together a fleet quickly while you work on your favorite fleet or a special fleet.

-OTSK

 

[prelude_to_war]

*cough* Hero, Mech, Horror clix *cough*

Ah, a recovering plasticrack addict? I was able to kick the MW habit via EBAY. I can see plastics working...as long as their not 'collectable'. <<shudder>>

 

[mthomason]

I can see plastics working...as long as their not 'collectable'. <<shudder>>

I think the anti-collectable sentiment is the one thing both sides of the argument have in common

 

[Reaverman]

I can see plastics working...as long as their not 'collectable'. <<shudder>>

I think the anti-collectable sentiment is the one thing both sides of the argument have in common

I think Matt already covered that, and said that Mongoose were not going to be selling collectables.

 

[mthomason]

I think Matt already covered that, and said that Mongoose were not going to be selling collectables.

He has, thank all that is holy (and all that is unholy - if it comes down to a choice between dealing with demons or collectable miniatures then you'll find me researching summoning spells)

 

[E Nicely]

I cringe to think that there will be a Star Wars colletible spaceship game. Slave 1, the Executor, Millenium Falcon.

must...resist...evil...collectibles :lol: