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Reported by TGN

With the success of the game AT-43, Rackham was able to impose new quality standards to the miniatures market. With ready assembled and painted miniatures that offer immediate gaming pleasure, new players have been able to discover miniatures strategy games thus helping the sector find a second wind.

In line with the expectation of new gamers, AT-43 was voted best game of the year 2007 by the reference website Tabletop Gaming news for to its innovative game system and the quality of its miniatures. Confrontation: The Age of the Rag’Narok is following the same path and its mission will be to stimulate the miniatures market by offering a complementary range to AT-43.

However, Rackham hasn’t forgotten the historical heart of its trade: the manufacturing of original and finely detailed miniatures made out of metal, the favorite material of painters and hobby enthusiasts. Rackham has to offer a range of products intended for this specific clientele alongside its two ready assembled and painted miniatures ranges, which are designed to open miniatures strategy gaming to the wider public. This is why a new range of products will be launched soon: Rackham Legends

This new range, destined to the most demanding customers, will be constituted of metal or resin miniatures that will require assembling and painting. As a true laboratory for artistic research, Rackham Legends products are dedicated to the universes of Confrontation and AT-43, but could also be opened to new universes or draw its inspiration from share imaginary culture.

Miniatures from the Rackham Legends range will only be cast in limited numbers and will be exclusively available from Rackham and Fantasy Flight Games online stores. Considering the low number of copies that will be cast, such products cannot be offered to stores. However, some Rackham Legends miniatures could be massed produced in ready assembled and painted plastic. These miniatures would then be sold in stores, in order to make them accessible to all.

The miniatures from the Rackham Legends range will be released with game characteristics available from the www.rackham.fr web site. Finally, the whole of metal Confrontation miniatures will be integrated to Rackham Legends in order to constitute a coherent range of products.

While remaining faithful to its reputation of artistic excellence, Rackham wishes to offer all its players miniatures that meet the standards they expect, no matter if they are made of plastic, metal or resin.

Rackham Legends answers these expectations: with this new range, you will always be able to find the product that suits you, no matter if you are a painter or a collector, an experienced player or a newcomer to miniatures games.

I am not sure how to take this.

It appears as good news but the limited availability thing has me kinda...confused. Especially since they are lumping the older confrontation models in this new "Legends" line.

Hopefully we will know more on this soon.

So Legends will become the collector's plate of
tabletop miniatures gaming?

"Oh, so you have that Wolfen sculpt? Yeah, I missed
out on it the last time. I had to settle for these totally
lame Goblin things."

Another Forgeworld or specialist games.

Sweet. Rackham delivers!

Lemartes wrote:Another Forgeworld or specialist games.

Specialist...*shrug* I am not so sure.

Specialist is for models and games that arent really supported anymore.

All of the models they are proposing to put into Legends, are already usable for the newest confrontation game, with modifications to how a force is composed.

But the do have their version of forgeworld though. Fire industries or something like that.

Everybody was complaining that Rackham had dropped unpainted miniatures... Now they're back with a vengeance, and people are complaining again... Meh.

I certainly will not be complaining about this. It should go a long way towards mollifying some of the vocal critics, especially those who've bought Rackham minis as painting projects first, gaming pieces second.

It will depend entirely on the minis themselves whether I'll get any, as well as on how limited these limited editions will be, and whether their current metal range will become likewise limited.

This is, on the whole, good.

Kotrin wrote:Everybody was complaining that Rackham had dropped unpainted miniatures... Now they're back with a vengeance, and people are complaining again... Meh.

With a vengeance? Not quite. It sounds like a limited release with a limited
production run for each release. Nobody wants Rackham to go out of business,
but gamer/painters might be turned off by the business model.

I wanna play AT-43 space gorillas.

Besides that, Rackham who? What? Where?

Why.

malfred wrote:It sounds like a limited release with a limited
production run for each release. Nobody wants Rackham to go out of business,
but gamer/painters might be turned off by the business model.

I don't know how it will fare, but by looking at the final price of most OOP/limited release/Collector Edition miniatures or books that end up on eBay, there's certainly money to be made. Search for Dark Heresy books or Malekith on foot just to be sure.

Many of us have a fiber for collector items.

Now, I agree that Rackham notoriety can't compare to GW's. It might well affect their business model.

Money to be made = aftermarket? How does that help
keep this business solvent?

As this is couched in the usual barely intelligible corporate franglais my personal response is "meh".

As with anything announced by Rackham I'll take a large pinch of salt with it and wait 12 months until something happens on the ground.

R have changed their gameplan so many times they are starting to sound like Mongoose!

Limited production means e.g. a run of only 400 instead of 4000 for a given miniature. If its sold out and demand is there, a new run will be produced. Many minis of the x000+ runs are still covering dust in Rackhams stock department, so no need to worry there.

People were quite vocal of buying minis, but in the end not so many did buy them.

But they're only gonna be available in the online store right? Isn't that all in Euros? Why do I have to get paid in stupid dollars?

Distribution via LGS would not be feasible at such a limited run, so yes, only via Online Store and in Euros.

Duncan_Idaho wrote:Distribution via LGS would not be feasible at such a limited run, so yes, only via Online Store and in Euros.

Of if you're a Yank, via FFG's online store and US Dollars.