Arcane Legions on TTGN: to CMG or not to CMG, that is the question

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**malfred**

http://www.tabletopgamingnews.com/2009/05/21/27157

http://www.arcanelegions.com/

And some interesting info on their facebook group:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=75699686635&ref=mf#/topic.php?uid=75699686635&topic=11425

When will we launch official forums for the game?

-Not until the website goes live, which is stil a couple months off.

Why did we choose go have both pre-painted and unpainted figures? And will the same figures be available with either option, or will they be exclusive to either SKU?

-We did it so that the consumer can afford to collect our product. All the neat, powerful, or flavorful figures come painted, while the scrub units, the basic soldier types of figures, come unpainted. The two are currently mutually exclusive – at the moment we have no plans to offer the prepainted figs unpainted, nor do we currently intend to offer painted versions of the unpainted figs at retail.

Will you have an Envoy system similar to the old Wizkids one?

-While our support system is still in development, look forward to something new and different designed to fit the business model and the community program.

Could you clarify the synergy between individual figures and their bases/ stats?

-Out of the box, individual figures are simply components of units (a unit is a base with a base card on it.). Each unit calls for a specific selection of figures from your collection, and has a starting slot for each one. They have no inherent cost of their own, or stats of their own – all that is handled on the base card.

With the online base builder tool, however, the relationship between figures and bases becomes much more involved and the figures gain much more importance. The individual figures you choose for the unit determine what statistics are in the “pool” for placement on its base card. Once you’ve placed the starting positions for each figure, you can start placing the individual statistics – the dice, the movement icons, the special abilities – in whatever configuration you wish. You can apportion out the stats the way you want to (caveat: sometimes your choice of figures limits your options) and you can create extra slots that match the size of any of the figures your unit contains (if there’s room) which will help to reduce its cost. Since stacking up lots of icons on one slot gets very expensive very quickly, those extra slots help you spread the burden and lower unit cost.

**Osbad**

Seems like a fethed up marketing strategy that in trying to appeal to everyone will in fact turn everyone off.

Those who like "blind purchases" have to buy a lot of non-blind units. Those who don't like blind purchasing still have to blind purchase rares, (or buy a crap-ton of models to get everything). Those who like painted minis have to buy unpainted commons, those who dislike painted minis have to buy painted rares...

Sounds like a bit of a marketing disaster to me!

And the blue movement trays!! Now that is fashion suicide, dahling!

**malfred**

Aren't the blue movement trays meant to be the customizable part of the armies?

It sounds like a neat concept to me. (Customizable movement trays, that is). The
only trouble with it is that it precludes 3d terrain or at least increases the difficulty of working
around such terrain. I'm thinking it will end up being one of those "neat mechanic, not quite right"
things.