Why does mongoose release an incomplete game?

[Brother Jim]

I think there should have been APCs and/or IFVs before the MBTs were released.

IMO. YMMV.

 

[Mr Evil]

i agree to an extent.

but if they had you can bet your bottom dollar people would be screaming that tanks should have be launched befor apc's.

 

[Xorrandor]

I think there should have been APCs and/or IFVs before the MBTs were released.

Sure, if you were trying for a balanced game from the outset. If you want the game to sell, OTOH, you give each faction a gigantic monster unit and then something that isn't too unbalanced if you play it alongside.

I think infantry is where the game really shines, so I would have released two infantry per side: one basic squad, and then one "different" squad for each faction. Say special forces, command squad, militia squad, and a contrasting basic squad (with RPGs instead of MGs, for example).

 

[anton970]

as the releases stand at the moment, the brits have it in my option, with the up and coming command sqd they really do ruin your day!!

 

[Turtle]

Once wave 3 hits, I'm actually planning some games with no tanks allowed. They're just too much a central fixture of any battle they're in. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, it's just I like infantry engagements along with infantry support units like APCs/IFVs.

Later, when they release all the infantry AT weapons, along with the full rulebook which should have some more tactical options for infantry, I'll put back in more tanks.

 

[lastbesthope]

as the releases stand at the moment, the brits have it in my option, with the up and coming command sqd they really do ruin your day!!

And I intend to ruin a few days at the upcoming tourney.

ALthough one of my experimental armies will not be available, at 225 points for an SAS squad, have 3 of them in ambush and the Command squad at the back in cover, would lose against tanks more than likely, but just to see my opponents face after deployment :lol:

LBH

 

[mthomason]

ALthough one of my experimental armies will not be available, at 225 points for an SAS squad, have 3 of them in ambush and the Command squad at the back in cover, would lose against tanks more than likely, but just to see my opponents face after deployment :lol:

*pops head out from under a pile of work for a moment*

Hey, LBH, are the rumours of you stripping the paint off your BF Evo minis so they match the rest of your Mongoose minis collection correct?

 

[Mr Evil]

i hear he is spraying them silver and disasembling them.

 

[sassgt]

Patience gentlmen, all good thing's take time. Wave 2 is about two weeks out. I've played my 1st game Tues. night at 1000 pts. each side had a full 3 squads and one tank the tanks kept each other honest, while the grunts did most of the work. So just relax, and remember our feloow countrymen who are dealing with the "Real" MEA.

 

[lastbesthope]

ALthough one of my experimental armies will not be available, at 225 points for an SAS squad, have 3 of them in ambush and the Command squad at the back in cover, would lose against tanks more than likely, but just to see my opponents face after deployment :lol:

*pops head out from under a pile of work for a moment*

Hey, LBH, are the rumours of you stripping the paint off your BF Evo minis so they match the rest of your Mongoose minis collection correct?

Watch it, or I'll take back some of the nice things I said about you in the past :lol:

LBH

 

[lastbesthope]

i hear he is spraying them silver and disasembling them.

Noew that;s silly, that would mean applying paint to models wouldn't it :roll:

LBH

 

[Vic]

Even 40k only started out with a box of plastic marines and a a box of metal orcs. I know cos I bought 'em.

Ahhh my first wargaming purchase.... A box of Marines with 40k Rouge Trader! Now that game was incomplete.

Its still incomplete!

 

[The Old Soldier]

Even 40k only started out with a box of plastic marines and a a box of metal orcs. I know cos I bought 'em.

Ahhh my first wargaming purchase.... A box of Marines with 40k Rouge Trader! Now that game was incomplete.

Its still incomplete!

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[Paladin]

Hey, LBH, are the rumours of you stripping the paint off your BF Evo minis so they match the rest of your Mongoose minis collection correct?

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[Greg Smith]

He's hammering them flat too. :twisted:

 

[lastbesthope]

He's hammering them flat too. :twisted:

Yeah, well I wouldn't want you to have to play against minis taller than you are Greg :lol:

LBH

 

[emperorpenguin]

He's hammering them flat too. :twisted:

Yeah, well I wouldn't want you to have to play against minis taller than you are Greg :lol:

LBH

Touche! :lol: Damn LBH that was funny, cruel but funny!

 

[weasel_fierce]

It's like some new 40k player complaining about tank rules when his first squad(say marine squad with plasma gun and heavy bolter) can't win because they can't hurt friends land raider...

More accurately, its like some 40K player unable to hurt his friends land raider, because the only thing that exists for his army to select is marines with heavy bolters.

 

[Lorcan Nagle]

But only because the missile launcher minis haven't been released yet...

 

[weasel_fierce]

But only because the missile launcher minis haven't been released yet...

Which tells me I shouldn't bother buying the game now.