Wargames Illustrated SF and Fantasy section - Opportunity to promote Mongoose?
This presents an opportunity to both advertise to a larger market than visit the Mongoose site, and also to encourage a generic industry magazine rather than a historicals only magazine. We all know that some fantasy and sf elements have crept into WI, I can certainly remember the report they did on a Star Trek game at a con, and that was over ten years ago. Given the demise of Harbinger following some extraordinarily poor decisions by people who didn't understand the industry, I think WI is wisely moving to absord Harbingers readership if possible.
Mongoose is a games company in the rare position to have articles in both the SF and Fantasy section and the historicals section.
VaS will easily slip into the historical section, and could provide a gateway product to introduce historical gamers to Mongoose products. Given how well playtesters have received it and how solid the rules are I can see WI as one tool to help raise its profile.
Also BF:Evo has the potential to be treated as historical in gaming modern battles from the variety of wars currently being fought, as well as what if scenarios based around modern events.
However one thing the has developed in a large part from submissions to WI is the conversion of the GW core rules for warhammer and warmaster to historicals. While GW don't officially recognise the existence of non-GW products and historical gaming in gneral, some bright spark in GW has seized the opportunity to sell people what they want, a fun and fairly quick to play ancients system to use with 25-40mm figures. GW don't provide the figures, but BL publishing seem to enter into informal arrangements with mini manufacturers (as they have with the forthcoming Warhammer pirates, which is having a supporting 40mm range).
Could Mongoose follow a similar plan with less popular historical periods. Stalingrad would have Mongoose pre-paints when it is published, but era like the Interwar period, Vietnam, Korea, the Falklnds, Iran/Iraq, the middle east, the 1905 Russo-Japanese war etc could all be possible subjects for a SST/BF:Evo conversion. Mongoose sell supplements which require the BF:Evo book ie army lists, plus fluff, plus setting for campaign, and miniatures are sourced elsewhere, or Mongoose provide traditional metals.
Does anyone think this is a good idea?
I certainly think Mongoose should provide WI with articles on its core systems on a regular basis in order to reach WI readers.
BEn
This presents an opportunity to both advertise to a larger market than visit the Mongoose site, and also to encourage a generic industry magazine rather than a historicals only magazine. We all know that some fantasy and sf elements have crept into WI, I can certainly remember the report they did on a Star Trek game at a con, and that was over ten years ago. Given the demise of Harbinger following some extraordinarily poor decisions by people who didn't understand the industry, I think WI is wisely moving to absord Harbingers readership if possible.
Mongoose is a games company in the rare position to have articles in both the SF and Fantasy section and the historicals section.
VaS will easily slip into the historical section, and could provide a gateway product to introduce historical gamers to Mongoose products. Given how well playtesters have received it and how solid the rules are I can see WI as one tool to help raise its profile.
Also BF:Evo has the potential to be treated as historical in gaming modern battles from the variety of wars currently being fought, as well as what if scenarios based around modern events.
However one thing the has developed in a large part from submissions to WI is the conversion of the GW core rules for warhammer and warmaster to historicals. While GW don't officially recognise the existence of non-GW products and historical gaming in gneral, some bright spark in GW has seized the opportunity to sell people what they want, a fun and fairly quick to play ancients system to use with 25-40mm figures. GW don't provide the figures, but BL publishing seem to enter into informal arrangements with mini manufacturers (as they have with the forthcoming Warhammer pirates, which is having a supporting 40mm range).
Could Mongoose follow a similar plan with less popular historical periods. Stalingrad would have Mongoose pre-paints when it is published, but era like the Interwar period, Vietnam, Korea, the Falklnds, Iran/Iraq, the middle east, the 1905 Russo-Japanese war etc could all be possible subjects for a SST/BF:Evo conversion. Mongoose sell supplements which require the BF:Evo book ie army lists, plus fluff, plus setting for campaign, and miniatures are sourced elsewhere, or Mongoose provide traditional metals.
Does anyone think this is a good idea?
I certainly think Mongoose should provide WI with articles on its core systems on a regular basis in order to reach WI readers.
BEn
