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Auspicious Aspiring Champion of Chaos





life.

Hi all, Lord Marcus from two idiots printing service here.

We have recently come into a range of 15 mm models with more on the way.

Neither of us here at 2 idiots have ever had any experience with 15 mm models. If I go smaller scale I'm much more partial to 10 mm and my business partner doesn't play much.

And while I could take the easy way out and compare with other manufacturers as to how many models they give per pack, I thought I'd do something different.

What is your ideal pack of models? How many cavalry, how many command models in each pack? Separate packs or combined army packs? How about both?

I collect:

Grand alliance death (whole alliance)

Stormcast eternals

Slaves to Darkness - currently Nurgle but may expand to undivided.
 
   
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Malicious Mandrake




As a consumer, more is always better. (well, nearly always).

A pack has to be functional. By that I mean sufficient models to make up a commonly functioning unit: in GW terms that generally equates to 10. Might be worth checking what the most common 15mm games for the range require in terms of minima and effectiveness. Still sticking with effectiveneess, with or without command packs sounds good.

As a beginner in the field, a combined army pack sounds good too.
   
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Legendary Master of the Chapter





SoCal

I can’t speak to 15mm fantasy, but for sci-fi it’s almost as good a scale as 10mm for tanks and aircraft, especially weird or alien craft that can work for multiple scales. A robot tank that hunts/kills for example won’t have any crew hatches or ladders to give the scale away. A crescent-shaped space jet with no visible pilot could be any scale.






I am, of course, describing a Bolo and a Death Glider. Don’t know what anyone was thinking I meant.

   
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Auspicious Aspiring Champion of Chaos





life.

For reference, these would be 15mm 15th century figures. Starting off with 15th century spanish.

I collect:

Grand alliance death (whole alliance)

Stormcast eternals

Slaves to Darkness - currently Nurgle but may expand to undivided.
 
   
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Fixture of Dakka




NE Ohio, USA

My only 15mm experience purchase wise is the various versions of Flames of War. So anything not 3d printed is from Battlefront or Plastic Soldier Co.

My expectations? The pack should contain at least the models necessary to make a min. sized unit with all the options they could have.
Though for vehicles/guns/etc it IS nice to be able to buy single models/sprues.
   
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Rampaging Reaver Titan Princeps





Earlobe deep in doo doo

Might be worth looking at 15thc Spanish unit formations or googling them at least. Unfortunately they probably won't help much as military formations of the period weren't standard sized.

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Shadowy Grot Kommittee Memba




The Great State of New Jersey

Different companies do it in different ways. As far as vehicles are concerned, they almost always come available in two forms: individually plus a bundle option (usually 2-5 vehicles, depending on the historical organization of the units that used said piece of kit). As for infantry, some companies package them based on historical organization (i.e. a platoon would be a specific makeup of minis with specific weapons and equipment based on a historical TOE of the unit), others will give you a pack of minis armed identically in different poses (i.e. a pack of 20 minis in 4 different poses armed with rifles, a pack of 20 minis in 4 different poses armed with SMGs, etc), and yet others will give you seemingly random assortment (12 minis with rifles, 4 with smgs, 2 lmgs w/ loaders).

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Oberleutnant





Mortem et Gloriam, L'Art de Guerre, Field of Glory, De Bellis Antiquiatis...the optimum number of minis per pack would be the minimum one that satisfies the models per base/unit for those games for the types of units you have to offer. Each one is a bit different depending on how each unit would be qualified as.

It would take some research, but to be able to market what you have in terms of "x number of our bags to field y number of bases for z game" would be a big selling point. Nothing is worse than thinking you have ordered enough bags, paying what always feels like inflated shipping costs only to discover you need one more bag, or have to pay for 20+ extra models to get the extra 2 models you need to finish a unit.







 
   
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Auspicious Aspiring Champion of Chaos





life.

Shotgun wrote:
Mortem et Gloriam, L'Art de Guerre, Field of Glory, De Bellis Antiquiatis...the optimum number of minis per pack would be the minimum one that satisfies the models per base/unit for those games for the types of units you have to offer. Each one is a bit different depending on how each unit would be qualified as.

It would take some research, but to be able to market what you have in terms of "x number of our bags to field y number of bases for z game" would be a big selling point. Nothing is worse than thinking you have ordered enough bags, paying what always feels like inflated shipping costs only to discover you need one more bag, or have to pay for 20+ extra models to get the extra 2 models you need to finish a unit.


The cool thing with that is that if anyone ever wanted one or two singles to finish a unit we would happily sell them those two singles individually. We would just bill it as a custom order and do a custom quote / invoice.

I collect:

Grand alliance death (whole alliance)

Stormcast eternals

Slaves to Darkness - currently Nurgle but may expand to undivided.
 
   
 
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