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Wish you and Diana all the best!
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Hi!

My well wishes to a happy outcoming.

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I hope it all works out for the best mate

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Hi Guys,

I just wanted to say thanks to everyone for offering well wishing. I really appreciate. Diana and I are speaking again and she's better coping with her impending surgery.

Thanks again.

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Hi James,

Quote (wargame_insomniac @ 29 Jan. 2006 (18:04))
A bit off-topic for this thread so I'll keep it brief. I know you like the smaller scale for doing Star Wars but with the number of models now released by WoTC for Star Wars minis maybe you should scale up.
Now they have done an AT-AT, and that is a chunky piece of resin/plastic (18" wide x 14" high x 7" deep :wow: ), I think I will stick to that scale.


One word: EXPENSIVE!

The AT-AT costs about $50.oo USD or roughly 25.00 GBP!

For the cost of less than just one of those 28mm / 30mm AT-ATs, I've put together a 10mm set with several dozen AT-ATs, AT-STs, AT-PTs, Snowspeeders, defence towers, troops, terrain bases, etc.

There's the storage issue too. Just one of those 28mm AT-AT's takes up nearly as much storage space as my entire "Battle of Hoth" collection.

Quote (wargame_insomniac @ 29 Jan. 2006 (18:04))
Plus you have Luke on Tauntaun, Stormtrooper on Dewback, Tusken Raider on Bantha, Stormtroopers, Rebel Speeders and AT-ST's from the original trilogy. And Darth Maul on Speeder, Hailfire Droids and AT-RT's from the newer trilogy.


The range on the collectible miniatures game is very good, but you're stuck with random blisters or extremely high trade-in or E-bay prices. Most of the figures you mention above go for $15.00 to $65.00 USD or equivalent Britsh Pounds prices! And if you try buying random blisters, it may cost even more.

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Next release is called "Attack on Endor" and will feature AT-ST in jungle camo.


The Endor pack is really neat, but I don't want to invest hundreds of Dollars in a random collectible game.

I'm glad you like it though and I hope you enjoy it very much!  :;):

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Hi Luis,

Quote (Cuban Commissar @ 27 Jan. 2006 (21:55))
On a curoius note where can I read the background to the traveller universe wihout buying the books?
Thanks.


I'll give you some links:

http://www.freelancetraveller.com/

http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/Classic-Traveller/

http://www.farfuture.net/

http://www.travellerrpg.com/

http://zho.berka.com/

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Thank You

I'll have to tear into those...
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Hi M/S,

Quote (MaksimSmelchak @ 30 Jan. 2006 (04:29))
Hi James,
Quote (wargame_insomniac @ 29 Jan. 2006 (18:04))
A bit off-topic for this thread so I'll keep it brief. I know you like the smaller scale for doing Star Wars but with the number of models now released by WoTC for Star Wars minis maybe you should scale up.
Now they have done an AT-AT, and that is a chunky piece of resin/plastic (18" wide x 14" high x 7" deep :wow: ), I think I will stick to that scale.


One word: EXPENSIVE!

The AT-AT costs about $50.oo USD or roughly 25.00 GBP!

For the cost of less than just one of those 28mm / 30mm AT-ATs, I've put together a 10mm set with several dozen AT-ATs, AT-STs, AT-PTs, Snowspeeders, defence towers, troops, terrain bases, etc.

There's the storage issue too. Just one of those 28mm AT-AT's takes up nearly as much storage space as my entire "Battle of Hoth" collection.

The range on the collectible miniatures game is very good, but you're stuck with random blisters or extremely high trade-in or E-bay prices. Most of the figures you mention above go for $15.00 to $65.00 USD or equivalent Britsh Pounds prices! And if you try buying random blisters, it may cost even more.

The Endor pack is really neat, but I don't want to invest hundreds of Dollars in a random collectible game.

I'm glad you like it though and I hope you enjoy it very much!


Thanks for transferring thread; would be unfair to have highjacked the Dune thread any further.

Yes the WoTC SW Minis AT-AT is expensive but like everything in this hobby you get what you pay for. Although I confess when I saw the sheer size of this thing I only bought one rather than the intended two! :blush:

I take your point about the price of some of the rares/ultra rares. There are a couple of die-hard Star Wars fans at my local gaming club and several others with a stong interest. I have found that I have usually been able to swap for most of the hard-to-get figures.

The only ones I have had to fork out for so far on ebay have been Darth Maul from the Clone Strike expansion and the AT-ST from the latest expansion. Darth Maul cost me US $50+postage. It was worth it though as a one-off splurge as he was my favourite character from the recent Trilogy (maybe because he has so few lines that not even George Lucas could screw up his dialogue!).

The AT-ST cost me UK?22. Again expensive, but I just had to have one.

Apart from the above, through trading of my SW minis/Heroclix/Mechwarrior spares I was able to collect a complete set of all first three releases (Rebel Storm, Clone Strike & Revenge of the Sith). I even managed to get a friend's spare Boba Fett by offering him a free choice of my liver/kidney/first born. :D

However by the time Star Wars Universe came out some of the rares/ultra rares were so obscure I hadn't even heard of them. I think some of them were characters from the various SW books rather than films. So I took the attitude that I kept what I pulled from boosters and didn't try to chase down any of the ones I didn't pull.

I now have more than enough SW Minis figures to do SW Roleplay and could probably do most of the scenes from all six of the films. Maybe not Assault on Geonosis or Battle of Hoth on a one-for-one scale... ???

But I have a whole lot of guys in brown robes waving blue / green / purple pointy sticks and I can't ask for any more than that!! :D

Cheers,
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Glad to hear you an your "Gal" are working things out!

By the time my "friend" and I work things out...

We'll be playing E:A v.100.1?! :o0 :blush: :oops: :down: :laugh:

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Hi James,

Quote (wargame_insomniac @ 30 Jan. 2006 (13:45))
Thanks for transferring thread; would be unfair to have highjacked the Dune thread any further.


You're welcome!

Quote (wargame_insomniac @ 30 Jan. 2006 (13:45))
Yes the WoTC SW Minis AT-AT is expensive but like everything in this hobby you get what you pay for. Although I confess when I saw the sheer size of this thing I only bought one rather than the intended two! :blush:


I agree. The minis are nice, but like irmarch, I'm a bit onery when it comes to collectible games that come in random blister packs.

My roommate has a small collection of the SWMB collectibles though including just about all of the big Episode II and III characters.

Quote (wargame_insomniac @ 30 Jan. 2006 (13:45))
I take your point about the price of some of the rares/ultra rares. There are a couple of die-hard Star Wars fans at my local gaming club and several others with a stong interest. I have found that I have usually been able to swap for most of the hard-to-get figures.


I don't know who sets the prices, by they are really high for a lump of plastic painted in China!

Quote (wargame_insomniac @ 30 Jan. 2006 (13:45))
The only ones I have had to fork out for so far on ebay have been Darth Maul from the Clone Strike expansion and the AT-ST from the latest expansion. Darth Maul cost me US $50+postage. It was worth it though as a one-off splurge as he was my favourite character from the recent Trilogy (maybe because he has so few lines that not even George Lucas could screw up his dialogue!).
The AT-ST cost me UK?22. Again expensive, but I just had to have one.


I've seen the AT-ST's go for really high prices! Insanely high!

You'd think they were rare Epic items that Doug and I bid on! Crazy speculators!

Quote (wargame_insomniac @ 30 Jan. 2006 (13:45))
Apart from the above, through trading of my SW minis/Heroclix/Mechwarrior spares I was able to collect a complete set of all first three releases (Rebel Storm, Clone Strike & Revenge of the Sith). I even managed to get a friend's spare Boba Fett by offering him a free choice of my liver/kidney/first born. :D


Trading is the way to go.

I've also found that if you wait about six months, the pieces go at a quarter-price or less on E-bay. I've bought a few MWDA and D&D collectible minis that way... waited for the market's bottom to drop out and bought a load at sell-out prices.

Quote (wargame_insomniac @ 30 Jan. 2006 (13:45))
However by the time Star Wars Universe came out some of the rares/ultra rares were so obscure I hadn't even heard of them. I think some of them were characters from the various SW books rather than films. So I took the attitude that I kept what I pulled from boosters and didn't try to chase down any of the ones I didn't pull.


Many of the pieces come from the Star Wars Expanded Universe, which are from the books.

Quote (wargame_insomniac @ 30 Jan. 2006 (13:45))
I now have more than enough SW Minis figures to do SW Roleplay and could probably do most of the scenes from all six of the films. Maybe not Assault on Geonosis or Battle of Hoth on a one-for-one scale... ???


If I was a bigger RPG player, I might think about it, but I rarely get to play in a concerted RPG campaign anymore.

And usig the smaller scale, I CAN play the "Battle of Hoth" at one-to-one scale!

I don't think I'll be able to play the "Battle of Geonosis" anytime soon though. I thought about it and haven't figured out where or how to get all of the pieces yet.

Quote (wargame_insomniac @ 30 Jan. 2006 (13:45))
But I have a whole lot of guys in brown robes waving blue / green / purple pointy sticks and I can't ask for any more than that!! :D
Cheers,
James.


That's what it's all about in the end!

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Hi Guys,

I've updated my blog page with a new entry:

http://6mm-minis.blogspot.com/

I've included reports on a few games I played as well as a ton of new links to hot miniature and board games including:

- The ARES fantasy skirmish rules set from MJ12 Games.

- A lopsided 16 to 24 HOTT game.

- GMT's "Command and Colors: Ancients" and the battle of Cannae in which the Romans were historically crushed by Hannibal and the mighty Carthaginians.

- Alpha Forge's new sci-fi skirmish rules: "Star Mogul!"

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Quote (MaksimSmelchak @ 30 Jan. 2006 (04:23))
Diana and I are speaking again and she's better coping with her impending surgery.

That's very good news that you two are speaking and that she is coping with her upcoming surgery. I hope everything works out well for her.

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Echoing Dwarf Supreme - with best wishes to Diana for the surgery.

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Hey Maksim,

*** Do you have any pictures of the minis you used for the "Battle of Hoth" game? ***

I would sure just like to see them. Thanks!
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