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 Wargames Atlantic wrote:

 Albertorius wrote:


otoko bushi

Can you clarify what you mean or are referring to, please?

Male samurai as opposed to the female (onna-) ones.

 Wargames Atlantic wrote:

 Albertorius wrote:


otoko bushi

Can you clarify what you mean or are referring to, please?

A bit of a tongue-in-cheek way of saying that male samurai ("otoko" means "man" the same way "onna" means "woman") would be great to see, too

Also, in addition to the classic kozane styles of armor, it would be cool to also see some tosei gusoku ones, for a change, which would be much more appropiate for anything 1500-onwards (as in, anything Sengoku Jidai-related, for example).

We'll take those suggestions and pass them on to the sculpting and design team.

What does dakka want to see from Atlantic Digital? We appreciate all feedback and commentary that can be passed on back to the team at HQ.

We believe we offer an exceptional value with the number of kits we release each month, that you can get for $12 per month in our tribes subscription.

There is also a tribes only discount for the back catalog.

More subscribers on tribes will give us the ability to create even more amazing content.

 Wargames Atlantic wrote:
We'll take those suggestions and pass them on to the sculpting and design team.

What does dakka want to see from Atlantic Digital? We appreciate all feedback and commentary that can be passed on back to the team at HQ.

We believe we offer an exceptional value with the number of kits we release each month, that you can get for $12 per month in our tribes subscription.

There is also a tribes only discount for the back catalog.

More subscribers on tribes will give us the ability to create even more amazing content.

I dunno how well it might do, but it would be fun to see some stuff made for the WGA lizardmen. Lizard priests, command/characters etc. (alternate tail sculpts, which is something I would love).

More alt arms/weapons packs for the plastic kits would be nice, like the civilian pack for the Canon Fodder. But it'd be nice if it'd allow entire box sets to have the same armament. Like enough sword, shield, and bow arms for an entire halfling box, or the ability to equip the entire skeleton box with any of the weapon options there.

Give us the options to equip the plastic troops as we want in the numbers we want, by printing additional arms/equipment.

How about an Adversary theme. An antagonistic faction regiment or a sensible monster encounter for your plastic sets.

https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-zenobia-queen-of-palmyra-284698



https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-ww2-british-polish-female-soldiers-284700

Greetings Tribes Legion,
We have recieved a number of awesome entries to our spring painting competition. It is great to see you printing, painting, and enjoying our digitial kits.
Please take a moment and check out the main rules thread to see the categories available. We encourage ALL who want to paint to enter, even if you don't paint to the highest standard.
If you enjoy painting, use the contest as motivation to try a new technique or method. Remember: Its not a pile of shame, its a pile of opportunity.
Submissions are due by 4/15/23, so if you are interested in entering the painting competition, you only have a few weeks left to submit your photos.
There are single model and group categories.
https://wargamesatlantic.com/community/xenforum/topic/85784/wargames-atlantic-presents-spring-painting-contest-2023
See the link above for more information.

Some of the latest from Wargames Atlantic Digital. See more and join the tribe at the link below

https://www.myminifactory.com/users/WargamesAtlantic?show=tribe

The German Treasure Hunters made me laugh so hard! Excellent work, guys.

I feel like they might be a reference to something

 lord_blackfang wrote:
I feel like they might be a reference to something

They do feel like something out of some 30s pulp adventure serial.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:
I feel like they might be a reference to something

They do feel like something out of some 30s pulp adventure serial.

I know! They're troopers from the 1936 Flash Gordon serials with Buster Crabbe! Cool retro raygun shout-out!

https://www.myminifactory.com/tribes/WargamesAtlantic/posts/A_few_more_WIP_renders_for_April_s_releases-18193















New previews for upcoming April releases. Most of these are in revisions and editing now. There's more to come too.

Les Grognards Ogre!

Once the Raptors are out, that will be one unified looking not-Imperial Guard army.

Let's campaign for Bulldog ogres next?

Is it me, or does it seem that the WA Tribes is trying to do too much each month? It seems like they never can complete the month until way after it ends, after all, and there's some presupports and fixes that seem to have fallen by the wayside due to it.

If feels like they should probably slow down releases a bit and simply not try to put out quite so much each month, IMHO.

 Albertorius wrote:
Is it me, or does it seem that the WA Tribes is trying to do too much each month? It seems like they never can complete the month until way after it ends, after all, and there's some presupports and fixes that seem to have fallen by the wayside due to it.

If feels like they should probably slow down releases a bit and simply not try to put out quite so much each month, IMHO.

They try to include at least one digital item per range. That means at least eleven items per month.

 alphaecho wrote:

 Albertorius wrote:
Is it me, or does it seem that the WA Tribes is trying to do too much each month? It seems like they never can complete the month until way after it ends, after all, and there's some presupports and fixes that seem to have fallen by the wayside due to it.

If feels like they should probably slow down releases a bit and simply not try to put out quite so much each month, IMHO.

They try to include at least one digital item per range. That means at least eleven items per month.

Wich is, simply put, kind of insane, TBH.

I think them would be better to only do half that and alternate ranges every other month.

I don't purchase digital files but I assume some gamers have a virtual pile of shame that rivals their physical pile of shame.

 Albertorius wrote:

 alphaecho wrote:

 Albertorius wrote:
Is it me, or does it seem that the WA Tribes is trying to do too much each month? It seems like they never can complete the month until way after it ends, after all, and there's some presupports and fixes that seem to have fallen by the wayside due to it.

If feels like they should probably slow down releases a bit and simply not try to put out quite so much each month, IMHO.

They try to include at least one digital item per range. That means at least eleven items per month.

Wich is, simply put, kind of insane, TBH.

And also effectively makes each set "cost" $1 for subscribers.

 McDougall Designs wrote:

 Albertorius wrote:

 alphaecho wrote:

 Albertorius wrote:
Is it me, or does it seem that the WA Tribes is trying to do too much each month? It seems like they never can complete the month until way after it ends, after all, and there's some presupports and fixes that seem to have fallen by the wayside due to it.

If feels like they should probably slow down releases a bit and simply not try to put out quite so much each month, IMHO.

They try to include at least one digital item per range. That means at least eleven items per month.

Wich is, simply put, kind of insane, TBH.

And also effectively makes each set "cost" $1 for subscribers.

That is nice and all, don't get me wrong... but I'd rather them be more consistent and less stressed out by deadlines.

Also, the more recent digital offerings have fewer build options compared to the earlier releases. So just enough arms, and +2 heads. I'd like a few more arms especially, and more heads (say +4 heads instead of just +2).

 Ancestral Hamster wrote:
Also, the more recent digital offerings have fewer build options compared to the earlier releases. So just enough arms, and +2 heads. I'd like a few more arms especially, and more heads (say +4 heads instead of just +2).

That too, I'd rather have better sets than more, worse ones. I mean, one other Patreon I back is the Anvil Digital one, and that's a single "set" per month, but it's.... really good.

 Wargames Atlantic wrote:


What does dakka want to see from Atlantic Digital? We appreciate all feedback and commentary that can be passed on back to the team at HQ.

We believe we offer an exceptional value with the number of kits we release each month, that you can get for $12 per month in our tribes subscription.

There is also a tribes only discount for the back catalog.

More subscribers on tribes will give us the ability to create even more amazing content.

First off, I tuned out of this Digital-Only thread for awhile, so I missed the cultist designs. They are absolutely fantastic. Damn, but I wish you guys would consider releasing those in plastic. Cultists are always popular, and they always have wide cross-genre appeal: Good for fantasy, good for 40k, good for post-apocalyptic, good for Cthulhu, good for weird West - hell, they fit in everywhere but My Little Pony (and they probably fit there, too.) It's hard for me to imagine what would be a safer bet than cultists for a hard plastic kit, and your cultists have the killer design needed to prevail in the market according to the "rule of cool." Don't change their design, don't water them down to be more generic. Their current look is their strongest selling point. You might consider including a few laser gun arms in the kit, as you've sometimes done in other fantasy kits, for more cross-genre appeal. But whether you did or didn't, I'd probably buy them anyway, because kit bashing laser pistol hands where dagger-wielding hands used to be is simple and durable when you're working with polystyrene. The only thing I wouldn't need is the sacrificial damsel in distress.

Second, full disclosure: I'm not looking to buy a digital printer yet. I'm a guy with a huge pile of shame to paint through, not a luddite, so maybe that will change in the future. (Although the brittleness of resin gives me pause.). I have used printer services in the past, but they obviously add a fair amount to the cost of the original STL file, and those services can get badly backlogged with orders. Anyhow, take my comments below with a grain of salt.

I don't claim to know how well your digital subscription is going. It's certainly an interesting strategy, and I'm enjoying watching it play out from the sidelines. But it's principle strength has one inevitable, corresponding weakness: the cover-all-bases inexpensively approach works best for people who collect multiple genres, but a lot less well for those who collect only one.

I mostly collect sci-fi minis. If you release 19 files in a month for $9.25, and two or three are sci-fi and / or multi-genre including sci-fi, then on any given month the question is whether or not I like or need those two or three files. The subscription's real value for me depends on the average number of "hits" there are over time. 19 files for $9.25 is objectively and inarguably a bargain, but $9.25 for 19 STL files that I'll never print is wasted money. I'm not so much complaining as explaining my own behavior. The smart thing for me to do now is wait and see how your releases go. If, after a year's worth of content, you produce enough STL files that I have to have and would happily pay $111 for, then I'll probably subscribe in the future.

That said, your digital subscription does offer something besides the STL files: customer input. Specifically, you're holding votes on what you produce each month, and you're listening to what your subscribers are suggesting and asking for. I'm not currently a subscriber myself, and I don't know how much sway one subscriber's voice can have, but the fact that you're open to and asking for suggestions from your backers, rather than just charting a course yourself and telling people to like or lump it, is itself a plus.

Time is on your side, in the sense that I have to imagine that what you're offering is going to look more and more appetizing as home 3-D printing gets easier, faster, and more reliable. I have to imagine that today's 3-D printers will look prehistoric in ten years, and it's possible that a lot of the fussy work of removing supports and annoyance of dealing with misprints, clogs, and the like may look antiquated in the future. From the little experience with 3-D printing that I have, the prospect of printing out a regiment of multi-part resin figures and cleaning them up looks like a big headache, even before I get to assembly. Perhaps the more advanced printers of tomorrow will be able to do that in ten minutes, flawlessly ever time, without cake lines or supports to cut away, like a Star Trek replicator.

Closing thought: The STL Heresy - A.I. Will Dance On Our Ashes

This just occurred to me. When we get to the point where the average consumer can tell an A.I. program what miniatures they want by describing them in a few simple sentences, and then that program spits out 100 different at least reasonably good variants to select and print from, that'll be the end of most traditional miniature publishing. Even if human artists remain better designers, "free" A.I. generated miniatures will probably peel away enough paying customers to make selling miniatures, even as printable STL designs, untenable except as a hobby. Some of the less-forward thinking companies might think "great, we don't need to pay for human artists anymore!" at first and start A.I.-generating their own STLs for sale, but very soon afterwards consumers will have the ability to do that more cheaply themselves. We will have reached the singularity when most mini collectors are subscribing, not to multiple miniature STL subscriptions, but to a single A.I. digital sculpt generating program, perhaps even to a single A.I. art-generating program that paints, composes music, digital sculpts, writes novels, you name it.

It's really going to suck.

Speaking as a consumer, I don't look forward to that future as one of "freedom" where "we all become artists." It means a lot to me that human creativity imagines the products I consume and that human talent designs it. But having those strong preferences probably places me in a very small minority.

But whether or not that dystopian future ever comes, it's not here yet. And if home-printing polystyrene never becomes a thing (for technical reasons, because the process releases poisonous gasses, I dunno,) perhaps hard plastics will keep miniature companies afloat even if STLs get A.I.'d. Generations of mini collectors / gamers have embraced polystyrene as their preferred material for miniatures, after all. That's not going to die out anytime soon.

 Albertorius wrote:
Is it me, or does it seem that the WA Tribes is trying to do too much each month? It seems like they never can complete the month until way after it ends, after all, and there's some presupports and fixes that seem to have fallen by the wayside due to it.

If feels like they should probably slow down releases a bit and simply not try to put out quite so much each month, IMHO.

Well we always knew it was too good to last, didn't we? They burned through the backlog in 2 months and since then they're falling more and more behind, this month the first kits came out on the 24th and they're reusing a bunch of old assets too.

 lord_blackfang wrote:

 Albertorius wrote:
Is it me, or does it seem that the WA Tribes is trying to do too much each month? It seems like they never can complete the month until way after it ends, after all, and there's some presupports and fixes that seem to have fallen by the wayside due to it.

If feels like they should probably slow down releases a bit and simply not try to put out quite so much each month, IMHO.

Well we always knew it was too good to last, didn't we? They burned through the backlog in 2 months and since then they're falling more and more behind, this month the first kits came out on the 24th and they're reusing a bunch of old assets too.

We have not canceled any Wargames Atlantic Digital kits. Everything is still in production, however certain kits have hit delays for various reasons. Some of which can't be disclosed. The remainder is very boring back and forth updates between the sculpting team, supporting team, and other team members. If we were to post it all, it would read the same day after day.

Don't know what you are talking about relating to "Burning through the backlog", however. Atlantic digital releases are new assets formulated for 3D printing, VS the engineering files needed for plastics production which would be our only "Backlog" material. If you could clarify so we can address your concern, that would be great.

What assets has the sculpting team re-used?

A note about releases:

DoppelSoldner just hit the tribes.

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Les Grognard have received ogrish reinforcements.



Jan Kozietulski leads the charge at Somosierra



The semi-legendary Battle at Stamford bridge, to go with the general accoutrements bridge released earlier this month:



And Custer firing away.

Those Ogres!

Can't wait for them from Only-Games.

The idea of having them in plastic. Big smiles.

 lord_blackfang wrote:

 Albertorius wrote:
Is it me, or does it seem that the WA Tribes is trying to do too much each month? It seems like they never can complete the month until way after it ends, after all, and there's some presupports and fixes that seem to have fallen by the wayside due to it.

If feels like they should probably slow down releases a bit and simply not try to put out quite so much each month, IMHO.

Well we always knew it was too good to last, didn't we? They burned through the backlog in 2 months and since then they're falling more and more behind, this month the first kits came out on the 24th and they're reusing a bunch of old assets too.

I have the same feeling. The first releases like the hoplites were sets that were intended for plastic production. If you compare the options of the hoplites with that stamford and landsknecht set.. big difference in options and quality. Their latest historical sets are not so stellar compared with current plastic or metal mini's and not of the same level as other historical patreon / tribes as Medbury and Reconquer designs.

I was subscribed from the start until two months ago. They can't keep up, the amount what they want to release each month is way to much and the releases are suffering from it.