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 LunarSol wrote:
Mercs are technically possible as well.

Right, but you can't really make a reasonable mystery box from them (ends up split between 3 distinct factions, or pure cephalyx with a rhullic battle engine).

Mercs don't have a huge plastic option?

 malfred wrote:
Mercs don't have a huge plastic option?

The Dwarf Battle Engine is sprue plastic.

A menoth showed up in someone's mysterybox so it looks like they're rotating other factions in. Also the Cygnar stuff has changed to have 3 plastic warjack kits instead of any units.

 LunarSol wrote:

 malfred wrote:
Mercs don't have a huge plastic option?

The Dwarf Battle Engine is sprue plastic.

Forgot about that. They'd have to draw from the different sub factions to pull that one off though right?

 malfred wrote:

 LunarSol wrote:

 malfred wrote:
Mercs don't have a huge plastic option?

The Dwarf Battle Engine is sprue plastic.

Forgot about that. They'd have to draw from the different sub factions to pull that one off though right?

Not as long as Irregulars is a thing.

Mystery box seems to be out of stock. I wonder if they ran out? Mine's supposed to come next week, so I hope it's a good'n!

It's ran out of stock at least once before. I would suspect they set it to that once their backlog is too much and then put them back for sale after catching up and checking inventory as they have been switching things up with what shipped last week.

 Monkeysloth wrote:
I got my shipping order for the 2 boxes I ordered. Should be here Wednesday. I can post what's in them.

Got them for the RPG and figured I'd try out Company of Iron. I like the setting but the core game isn't really my thing.

Same boat as me, I love the rpg, and I love CoI (its what i always hoped WM/H would have been) but am no fan of WM/H as it plays.

minicrate update for october and the vip

Well damnit, I was hoping they would do a new Alexia but making it the 6 month VIP figure? Grrr.

Say what you like at least PP know some marketing tricks!

 Overread wrote:
Say what you like at least PP know some marketing tricks!

Indeed. They know quite well how to make me go "well, go feth yourself then" when looking at a mini I might have wanted to get.

 Albertorius wrote:

 Overread wrote:
Say what you like at least PP know some marketing tricks!

Indeed. They know quite well how to make me go "well, go feth yourself then" when looking at a mini I might have wanted to get.

As a non-PP person when is just looking at some of their models since seeing the L5R preview, I’d like to pick up that Alexia, but not have to buy a subscription to other models I’d have no use for. So yeah, buy this and you can have one good model that fits your desired aesthetic.

Yeah I dislike minicrate as a concept too - I've only really wnated one I could use which was the head-hunter and missed it. I sort of don't get why they are doing this but it seems to be working for them.

It's also the tiny window of sale on most - one month - coupled to the long sale on the collectors one being bound to having to buy into 6 months of models of which most you might not want (eg I don't want red ridinghood)

 Overread wrote:
Yeah I dislike minicrate as a concept too - I've only really wnated one I could use which was the head-hunter and missed it. I sort of don't get why they are doing this but it seems to be working for them.

It's also the tiny window of sale on most - one month - coupled to the long sale on the collectors one being bound to having to buy into 6 months of models of which most you might not want (eg I don't want red ridinghood)

Why is PP doing Minicrate?
Because it's a guaranteed monthly sale from nearly every PP fan. Which is much better right now than depending on your customers buying choices and habits.
Why wait for customers to make the choice when you can force them to just pay every month?

I'm getting tired of every product and service these days being a monthly subscription. But my guess is it provides a steady and predictable revenue source.

I subscribed for 8 months and found zero use for any of the models, except to do an occasional painted model give-away. I cancelled when I realized that for the amount I was spending every month I could get something I actually wanted.

It’s a guaranteed sale that they don’t have to keep in inventoryb

It also gives them a means of retaining artistic talent by giving them an outlet for vanity projects that don't have to adhere to the existing design templates for the game.

Uh, as a dude that doesnt play this game, but buys the occasional model that looks good to paint... this one is probably gonna cost me =/ I want more female models for my D&D and that Alexia model looks ace

I would be more interested in the minicrate of the minis were consistently good, but they're a decidedly mixed bag so far.

Agreed, though since the female Totem Hunter it's been a slow upscale in quality.

I got 3 mystery boxes coming took a good 18 days for them to process the order though.

I'm pretty tempted by the Alexia but I think the only one that really stood out to me from the past year was the piper. The October mini is nice sculpt wise but not worth $17. Would be nice if they showed concepts for a few months out to really see if it's worth getting the VIP sub.

 Theophony wrote:

 Albertorius wrote:

 Overread wrote:
Say what you like at least PP know some marketing tricks!

Indeed. They know quite well how to make me go "well, go feth yourself then" when looking at a mini I might have wanted to get.

As a non-PP person when is just looking at some of their models since seeing the L5R preview, I’d like to pick up that Alexia, but not have to buy a subscription to other models I’d have no use for. So yeah, buy this and you can have one good model that fits your desired aesthetic.

They do make for some great chars in the RPG.

I VIPed the first two, but I’m probably out. The original plan had been to use the ones I wasn’t interested in personally as tournament prize support, but that’s turned out to not really be worth the effort.

angel of death 007 wrote:
I got 3 mystery boxes coming took a good 18 days for them to process the order though.

Yeah, I just got my shipping confirmation on the box I ordered a while ago. It was getting to the point where I was going to shoot them an email.

 ScarletRose wrote:

angel of death 007 wrote:
I got 3 mystery boxes coming took a good 18 days for them to process the order though.

Yeah, I just got my shipping confirmation on the box I ordered a while ago. It was getting to the point where I was going to shoot them an email.

Im tempted to get a box but the shipping to the UK is outrageous but from what ive seen they do send you a fair few bits!

 skullking wrote:

 AduroT wrote:
So I’m hearing

Cygnar: Starter box, Stormblades, Colossal multi-kit, Stormclad/Reliant
Circle: Starter box, Mist Riders, Gorax, Storm Raptor
Cryx: Starter box, Reaper multi-kit, Nightwretch box, Ripjaw box, colossal multikit
Ret: Starter box, Gorgon, Invictors, colossal multi-kit
Skorne: Starter box, Desert Hydra, Incindiarii, Cetratii

All of them come with tokens.

I like these options. Can’t say I’d really use Ret, but all others would be great!

Well, my box came yesterday, guess what it was...


LoL! Still nice figures, and a hell of a deal. It looks like it's available again also.

There does seem to be another "run" of them, and someone showed a Menoth box, so there might be more to it.
I suspect it'll be limited to factions with a HIPS huge base though (so Khador, Convergence, maybe mercs)

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