Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

I'm definitely tempted by some of the Zerg models, and I absolutely want a Hydralisk model. Just one would be fine for me, though. Not sure if I care at all about the terrans, which dampens my enthusiasm for starter sets. (They were also my least-played faction during the Star Craft video game's heyday.) I guess I could check with the wife, since she was a big Star Craft fan back in the day. If she's nostalgic enough for it to be excited for a miniatures game, that'd make it a worthwhile investment for me.

A 3-4 year run sounds about right to me, unless Star Craft nostalgia truly is something unique and bigger than I anticipate. For one thing, there's a natural limit to the number of new models they can sell to expand the game since they presumably won't be making brand new ones up (and even if they could and did, would they sell?). Without the capability of indefinitely expanding on the universe and models, it's hard to see Star Craft becoming an enduring challenge to 40K dominance. Could still be a great game, of course, and if it ends up with a tighter ruleset, that's potentially a great feature rather than a bug.

Since a lot of my models run 28 to 32mm, the Star Craft ones are likely to look a bit too large for most of my collection, which is too bad because I love mixing different franchises together. The Zerg seem like the most adaptable models given their non-humanoid monstrous forms.

All in all I'm unlikely to go in for this in a big way, but I am glad it's happening, and given the remarkable progress Prodoss has made in plastic casting quality, I hope they have great success with this.

Are they planning to release the drones, scv’s, pylons, etc.? I’m more interested in those than more human troopers.

Pylons already appear in the protoss starter pack. Unless you meant probes - and yes I'd love to see drones/probes/scv!

I do really like those Protoss...I don't know if I can justify starting a new game though.

I would have killed for those models (especially the marines) in the late 1990s/early '00s.

 warboss wrote:
I would have killed for those models (especially the marines) in the late 1990s/early '00s.

Same, now I get the same feeling I got from Rivenstone and that's not a good thing.

The amount of doom posting is unwarranted and honestly tiresome. Like them or not, Archon haven't been Prodos for a long time and to my knowledge have delivered all of their projects in full since then.

I backed their US MotU Kickstarter and that delivered more or less on time with no problems. Plus MotU Battlegrounds has been receiving products for 4 years at this point and still has new stuff coming even though it's a fairly small game.

For StarCraft specifically they've said multiple times that they have license to use everything official from Blizzard. The games, the books, concept art from cancelled projects, literally all of it. With just StarCraft 2 alone they estimate about 9 years worth of quarterly releases when you consider that Co-op commanders will be getting Subfactions in the miniature game.

Despite StarCraft being an older franchise at this point it has a decent amount of nostalgia and hasn't been milked as a franchise yet. I grew up with SC1 and honestly have more nostalgia for it than 40k. If Blizzard do announce a new Helldivers/Space Marine 2 style SC game this year, then that could do a lot to change things as well.

I’m basically hoping to get everything at this point. Even if I’m just playing alone, I’m super keen. I honestly find the negative posts here strange.
Like even with the history they have been doing well it seems for all there products now.

Also, StarCraft helldivers. I don’t need another game like that. Please blizzard I can’t.

I think the doom is just the natural doom that arises during the pre-launch phase when there's enough marketing to get excited, but also no actual moving product to latch onto. People thus start to remember all the other things they got excited over which failed/didn't deliver/weren't as good as they thought.


Granted we are very close to launch so normally that doom is easing off - honestly I think some of is less "doom" and more "heck I want this but who will play with me so I can justify to myself the buying of legions models"

 Overread wrote:
Pylons already appear in the protoss starter pack.

Perhaps Archon must construct/include additional pylons?

 Jack Flask wrote:
The amount of doom posting is unwarranted and honestly tiresome. Like them or not, Archon haven't been Prodos for a long time and to my knowledge have delivered all of their projects in full since then.

People aren't doom posting because it's Archon, people are doom posting because of a well known and researchable history regarding licensed games and the majority of non-GW games.