Got a bit frustrated so I thought I would write a few lines to get the dissapointment off my shoulders a bit.
For almost a year I have wanted to get into ACTA and have tried to get a group on the local club interested.
No one have however seemed very interested as very few have watched the B5 show with missconception that it's a poor Star Trek ripoff and that they are already playing GW-games like WHFB and WH40k.
A few weeks ago however I managed to lure some of the guys that have somewhat tired of GWs games into borrowing my B5 DVDs and (of course) they loved it.
About the same time MGP declared that they would discontinue the miniatures range so I understood that it was now or never as none of us is interested in playing with counters and also that we love painting and building armies/fleets with miniatures.
So we decided that I and one other guy would order a rulebook each and I ordered EA:Early and EA:Third Age fleets and he ordered a Minbari fleet.
The reason were that we wanted the rules and to have a chance to try it out and be able to decide which fleets and ships to order before it is to late.
Also we were four guys that had decided that we wanted to start playing based on reading this forum and S&P and another four guys that said they wanted to join in on ordering before the deadline _if_ the could try it out and if they liked the game.
As I'm more excited about this than any other game in a long long time I went overboard and also ordered a space-gaming-mat, plastic playing counters, the Earth/Minbari War source-book and started to printing and laminating ship-cards and we built 30 astroids and some planets. We wanted everything to look fantastic to convince the four borderliners that they had to join us (prepare to be assimilated).
I also thought that when we get the rules and can have a look at it I will complete a big EA-fleet of all the three ages and buy a Shadow-fleet box and a ISA-fleet box and possibly some extra ISA ships.
Today some weeks later I have recieved the first shippment of our order: One copy of the Fleet book.
I contacted MGP and they have been very friendly and kind but it turns out that the Rulebook is OOP and will not be availible until after this month (i.e. after it is to late to order any miniatures any longer).
For us this means that we can't demo it to the four guys interested if they like it until after it is to late for them to order miniatures and without miniatures they are not interested either way.
And for us four that already have decided that we want to start we will not get the rules in time so we can find out what ships we like to order until it is to late to order them and ordering blind seems like a bad opion.
Very unfortunate that I didn't manage to get the group excited about B5 and ACTA until it were to late...
So currently I'm very unhappy and unsure of what to do with this debacle?
For almost a year I have wanted to get into ACTA and have tried to get a group on the local club interested.
No one have however seemed very interested as very few have watched the B5 show with missconception that it's a poor Star Trek ripoff and that they are already playing GW-games like WHFB and WH40k.
A few weeks ago however I managed to lure some of the guys that have somewhat tired of GWs games into borrowing my B5 DVDs and (of course) they loved it.
About the same time MGP declared that they would discontinue the miniatures range so I understood that it was now or never as none of us is interested in playing with counters and also that we love painting and building armies/fleets with miniatures.
So we decided that I and one other guy would order a rulebook each and I ordered EA:Early and EA:Third Age fleets and he ordered a Minbari fleet.
The reason were that we wanted the rules and to have a chance to try it out and be able to decide which fleets and ships to order before it is to late.
Also we were four guys that had decided that we wanted to start playing based on reading this forum and S&P and another four guys that said they wanted to join in on ordering before the deadline _if_ the could try it out and if they liked the game.
As I'm more excited about this than any other game in a long long time I went overboard and also ordered a space-gaming-mat, plastic playing counters, the Earth/Minbari War source-book and started to printing and laminating ship-cards and we built 30 astroids and some planets. We wanted everything to look fantastic to convince the four borderliners that they had to join us (prepare to be assimilated).
I also thought that when we get the rules and can have a look at it I will complete a big EA-fleet of all the three ages and buy a Shadow-fleet box and a ISA-fleet box and possibly some extra ISA ships.
Today some weeks later I have recieved the first shippment of our order: One copy of the Fleet book.
I contacted MGP and they have been very friendly and kind but it turns out that the Rulebook is OOP and will not be availible until after this month (i.e. after it is to late to order any miniatures any longer).
For us this means that we can't demo it to the four guys interested if they like it until after it is to late for them to order miniatures and without miniatures they are not interested either way.
And for us four that already have decided that we want to start we will not get the rules in time so we can find out what ships we like to order until it is to late to order them and ordering blind seems like a bad opion.
Very unfortunate that I didn't manage to get the group excited about B5 and ACTA until it were to late...
So currently I'm very unhappy and unsure of what to do with this debacle?
