Comments on: Ask Asmodee: the answers

By: GrimDog

GrimDog — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:19:12 +0000

waiting for this game to come out in the US is agony i tell ya. It looks so sweet.

By: mathieu

mathieu — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:00:43 +0000

Interesting that he said that plastic miniatures are more likely to have paint chip. I find the opposite to be true, especially if you’re using an acrylic paint which most miniature painters do.

I think you are right from a mechanical standpoint. The paint layer is less likely to chip if the material underneath absorbs shocks the model might receive, which plastic does in a much larger extent than pewter. On the other hand I’m under the impression that gamers take less care about their plastic models and happily shove them in their bags when they’re done with them. Perhaps there’s a higher “chipping rate” on plastic models due to gamers’ behavior? :)

By: Zach Brown

Zach Brown — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:36:02 +0000

Interesting that he said that plastic miniatures are more likely to have paint chip. I find the opposite to be true, especially if you’re using an acrylic paint which most miniature painters do.

Aside from that, all very intriguing.

By: gavroche

gavroche — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:34:29 +0000

I like their “take it or leave it” attitude regarding the theme & miniatures and willingness to accept that because of those their audience may be smaller. Too many companies try to please everyone.

By: Veritas

Veritas — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 05:28:39 +0000

(Being in Japan this is just a suggestion for one of you enterprising young Americans.) If one of you were to organize something along the lines of what Mr. Tisdel did back in the early days of Confrontation I bet you could speed up the presence of tournaments in North America. Just by his website he created a lot of traction for Confrontation in the US. (Back when I lived in the US.)

By: GoCat

GoCat — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:12:54 +0000

Thanks for the translation Mathieu!

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:40:37 +0000

I think player input in the evolving future of a game is very interesting - and I think that it probably hasn’t been done well since the L5R card game years ago. Every other one, I think, has paled.

Sadly.

I too wish that the stuff he’s talking about - tourneys and tourney seasons - would get some US traction, but right now we can’t even get the cards in English.

By: Gitteau

Gitteau — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:06:15 +0000

Some really good ideas in there. It’s unfortunate that they seem so geared toward tournaments, though. This leads me to believe that it’s only Europeans that will be impacting the storyline and getting the single models. Hopefully I’m wrong about that.

Do players even care about global campaigns and otherwise changing storylines through gameplay? I often feel that I’m in the minority for finding that sort of stuff interesting. I know that AT-43 players (yes, I can always bring it back to Rackham. it’s my Kevin Bacon) were either indifferent or oddly hostile toward the idea that every game (supposedly) contributed to deciding the fate of Damocles.

By: mathieu

mathieu — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:03:51 +0000

English cards at the end of the month via download?

My bad, that’s ‘within the next month’. I’ll ask Zac to edit to avoid confusion.
Still a very good news though :)

By: LarkinVain

LarkinVain — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:10:02 +0000

English cards at the end of the month via download? Man that’s the best news I’ve heard in a long time. I can hardly wait.

By: redstripe

redstripe — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:52:23 +0000

Great, great responses. The description of playing with metal minis, I think, is a feeling a lot of us players have. It is difficult to describe but there is a difference between playing with metal and playing with plastic.

Anyhow, cheers. I really enjoy the Hell Dorado miniatures. Keep up the great work.

By: GS_topcow

GS_topcow — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:24:44 +0000

Excellent answers, I like tha fact that they are willing to narrow their market rather than change their concept, hope this doesnt affect them commercially, or rahter, hope that they are prepared for it.

Excellent again, cant wait to try it out.

GS
Rodrigo Guerrero

Btw, Kudos to asmodee for answering the avalanche of emails (specially Ms. Meza who was kind enough to reply in english AND spanish!)