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 Soul Samurai wrote:
 Red Harvest wrote:
Heck, the entire box ought to be references to bad 70's American Cop Shows.
Why does it have to be bad ones?
Because the only good one from BITD was Columbo. I don't see that making for a good mini. Nonetheless, CB designers are a bit too much in love with the long coats these days, so Columbo's trench coat may attract them.

New Saladin is a nice mini, but sadly, it is locked into the box.

 
   
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SoCal

It's more likely that Starmada developers are so small they don't have the money to challenge them in court, let alone across borders, assuming they still exist as a company.

   
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Starmada is a Trademark. The people that make the ship game would have to prove it's easy to confuse the two products to win a suite. Then they might have to prove it's not a generic term (if CB counters) as that's a line for a model car manufacturer's replicas ,videogames, and studio among other things from a quick google search.

A judge could easily rule there's nothing special about the name as well as all you're doing is combining star+armada.
   
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...especially as Starmada is a small part of one faction of many?

So yeah, doubtful that law suits will be filed BUT stranger things have happened!
   
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Melbourne, Australia

The vids start today.

Rules and Starmada unboxing:




Stills:















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The rule book is much smaller then expected for sure.

White company is coming (Pano+yujin mercs)
Kosmofloat is Ariadna space force with what looks like a were polar bear.


   
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Muscat, Oman

 Red Harvest wrote:
 Soul Samurai wrote:
 Red Harvest wrote:
Heck, the entire box ought to be references to bad 70's American Cop Shows.
Why does it have to be bad ones?
Because the only good one from BITD was Columbo. I don't see that making for a good mini. Nonetheless, CB designers are a bit too much in love with the long coats these days, so Columbo's trench coat may attract them.

New Saladin is a nice mini, but sadly, it is locked into the box.
Columbo mini sounds pretty cool to me... but it would have to be posed with him turning back, as if he had been about to walk out when out he just remembered something trivial and started to say "Oh, just one more thing..."

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Down Under

 Soul Samurai wrote:
Columbo mini sounds pretty cool to me... but it would have to be posed with him turning back, as if he had been about to walk out when out he just remembered something trivial and started to say "Oh, just one more thing..."


Gah, that would be a fun LOS to declare.

Looking forward to all these videos coming out this week.
Between this and the Bloodbowl kerfuffle, there is a lot of news to keep up to date for me.

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Greece


   
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Boise, ID. US

Liking that bike profile more and more, or at least the model. Then again I think I have almost all the bikes in the games except the Russian ones. And that's only because our group wasn't playing around then and I just spent my gaming budget 8n other places.
   
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It could just be me and my Internet Skillz (or lack thereof) but, why can't I locate a USA based store that has all the N4 stuff up for pre-order?

Aren't we well into day 3 of the pre-order period already?

Is there something going on behind the scenes in regards to USA distribution or something?!?
   
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Gathering the Informations.

What USA distribution?

Not sure if anyone has ever used them before, but Game Kastle has the preorders up.
   
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Nice, I like Kosmoflot.

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Alpharius wrote:It could just be me and my Internet Skillz (or lack thereof) but, why can't I locate a USA based store that has all the N4 stuff up for pre-order?

Aren't we well into day 3 of the pre-order period already?

Is there something going on behind the scenes in regards to USA distribution or something?!?



I think there's two pre-order dates. One for CB and very select people (warsenal in the US) and one for everyone else some other time down the line.

Kanluwen wrote:What USA distribution?

Not sure if anyone has ever used them before, but Game Kastle has the preorders up.


I use them maybe once or twice a year. Not as cheap as they use to be back when their online store front was FRP Games.

But if Game Kastle has theirs up I can't see MM or Gamenerdz not having their listing up today I would expect. Be curious to see. Maybe CB is pulling a Privateer and clamping down on steep discounts with N4.

But ya, most of the distributors have close down are in limited run mode like a lot of the game stores and there talk Diamond might go under (was an issue pre-covid as well). CB might be only shipping things directly to some stores but that still wouldn't make sense for MM who I think has a distribution arm as they don't have it listed yet.

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Kosmoflot has suspiciously few kosmo-units. 5 new units in total I think? And one of them is a lady sniper that looks like your usual cloak-wearing Ariadna sniper.
Almost feels more like Scot-French sectorial with a sprinkling of cossacks.
   
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Gathering the Informations.

I spammed the laughy face because eFigures(the now defunct Warstore's distribution arm) was the distributor for Infinity and a great many European import games here in the US.

eFigures formally dissolved late 2019. Nobody's stepped into the gap as far as I've been able to find, in my quest to get the Bushido 'Open Rebellion' warband box from a local retailer.
   
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Gosport, UK

 Monkeysloth wrote:
Alpharius wrote:It could just be me and my Internet Skillz (or lack thereof) but, why can't I locate a USA based store that has all the N4 stuff up for pre-order?

Aren't we well into day 3 of the pre-order period already?

Is there something going on behind the scenes in regards to USA distribution or something?!?



I think there's two pre-order dates. One for CB and very select people (warsenal in the US) and one for everyone else some other time down the line.


It’s up on all the retailers I would use here in the UK.
   
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 Kanluwen wrote:
I spammed the laughy face because eFigures(the now defunct Warstore's distribution arm) was the distributor for Infinity and a great many European import games here in the US.

eFigures formally dissolved late 2019. Nobody's stepped into the gap as far as I've been able to find, in my quest to get the Bushido 'Open Rebellion' warband box from a local retailer.


Fantization and Gamekastle both carry bushido. They both also directly order their minis from the manufacturer when they can too. But ya I forgot that Warstore had eFigures as well. Clearly infinity is getting some type of distribution as there wasn't a disruption for general releases over the past year.
   
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Gathering the Informations.

 Monkeysloth wrote:
 Kanluwen wrote:
I spammed the laughy face because eFigures(the now defunct Warstore's distribution arm) was the distributor for Infinity and a great many European import games here in the US.

eFigures formally dissolved late 2019. Nobody's stepped into the gap as far as I've been able to find, in my quest to get the Bushido 'Open Rebellion' warband box from a local retailer.


Fantization and Gamekastle both carry bushido. They both also directly order their minis from the manufacturer when they can too. But ya I forgot that Warstore had eFigures as well. Clearly infinity is getting some type of distribution as there wasn't a disruption for general releases over the past year.

There was a disruption in places that used eFigures rather than importing/ordering directly. My local shop does Infinity as special order rather than regular stock now because of it.
   
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 Kanluwen wrote:
 Monkeysloth wrote:
 Kanluwen wrote:
I spammed the laughy face because eFigures(the now defunct Warstore's distribution arm) was the distributor for Infinity and a great many European import games here in the US.

eFigures formally dissolved late 2019. Nobody's stepped into the gap as far as I've been able to find, in my quest to get the Bushido 'Open Rebellion' warband box from a local retailer.


Fantization and Gamekastle both carry bushido. They both also directly order their minis from the manufacturer when they can too. But ya I forgot that Warstore had eFigures as well. Clearly infinity is getting some type of distribution as there wasn't a disruption for general releases over the past year.

There was a disruption in places that used eFigures rather than importing/ordering directly. My local shop does Infinity as special order rather than regular stock now because of it.


You would have thought someone would have picked up infinity due to it's size but knowing all the issues with distributors that's coming to light and the pandemic I really see why some of the larger/no-GW game studio heads are saying that parts of the industry may not survive COVID as things weren't all that great in 2019.
   
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Gathering the Informations.

I mean, that's assuming that its size is actually there.

Remember that a lot of these companies are private and don't have to post earnings, growth, etc like GW does.
   
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 Kanluwen wrote:
I mean, that's assuming that its size is actually there.

Remember that a lot of these companies are private and don't have to post earnings, growth, etc like GW does.


That's very true. CB, at least a few years ago, gave out percentage growth but that's obviously hard to know how big a game is only how much it's grown.

It is easy, however, to see that it's pretty decent sized compared to all the non-GW systems just off of the traffic Infinity threads/groups here on facebook and their own forums are. It's clearly a game with a following and arguably in the top 5 non-GW game systems. Question is how big is that really?
   
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 Monkeysloth wrote:

You would have thought someone would have picked up infinity due to it's size but knowing all the issues with distributors that's coming to light and the pandemic I really see why some of the larger/no-GW game studio heads are saying that parts of the industry may not survive COVID as things weren't all that great in 2019.


The long and short is that distributors are happy to pick up new products, but unwilling to restock existing ones, which is really hard on the minis industry in particular.
   
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 LunarSol wrote:
 Monkeysloth wrote:

You would have thought someone would have picked up infinity due to it's size but knowing all the issues with distributors that's coming to light and the pandemic I really see why some of the larger/no-GW game studio heads are saying that parts of the industry may not survive COVID as things weren't all that great in 2019.


The long and short is that distributors are happy to pick up new products, but unwilling to restock existing ones, which is really hard on the minis industry in particular.


It's more then that according to Privateer's Matt Wilson and Modiphius's Chris Burch. They won't really even stock new stuff unless it's really big, like Gloomhaven, and just order what they already have pre-orders of for new stuff plus maybe a few extra if they think it will be popular enough. There's too many games, too many companies and no warehouse can possibly stock it all without Amazon level money and technology. Even then how much will sit around for years--which is why they don't like old stock as you mentioned. So now manufacturers are expected to store stuff, which is expensive, and since they don't have room they do smaller runs which they can store or just fulfill what the distribution wants and that causes things that cannot be made in house to be backlogged for months if they missjudge how much to make (sounds like ASoIF). Which of course means stores can't get anything in to sell.

Add COVID to that and distribution and manufacturing being limited atm and that compounds things even more.

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So, anyone else notice a decent amount of MRRF units ending up in Kosmoflot?

I figured they would do this to keep the better sculpts and units relevant, also explains the Mirage-5 statue sculpt.

I suspect Chasseurs, Briscards, and Loup-Garou might end up in a US teamup sectorial in the future.

   
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Gathering the Informations.

 Vertrucio wrote:
So, anyone else notice a decent amount of MRRF units ending up in Kosmoflot?

I figured they would do this to keep the better sculpts and units relevant, also explains the Mirage-5 statue sculpt.

I suspect Chasseurs, Briscards, and Loup-Garou might end up in a US teamup sectorial in the future.

Two Merovingian units ended up in Kosmoflot.
Para-Commandos and Mirage 5.

That's it.

The majority of stuff is of Russian origin, with Caledonia being second, generic(112, Dozer, Traktor Muls) in third, Merovingia and Mercenaries in fourth, and USARF last.
   
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I can't watch those videos until I get on a wifi network. It sure would be nice if CB would release the profile art like they used to.

Also, did I miss a new version of the Jotun? Since when do they carry hammers?

   
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 Alpharius wrote:
It could just be me and my Internet Skillz (or lack thereof) but, why can't I locate a USA based store that has all the N4 stuff up for pre-order?
GameNerdz put their Starmada/N4 pre-orders up today.
   
 
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