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I take it you mean Tlaxcallan with Cortez commanding and a single Spanish BG to go with all the locals.azrael86 wrote:IIRC Santa hernandad nueva castilian has a quite convincing record against Aztec....
Wallachian is one of those armies that looks good but doesn't deliver, a bit like Bactrian Greek. It has all the right bits, but - probably because it is both fiddly and expensive, in the end it struggles. Obviously it doesn't help that in period it has to handle Hungarian, Ottomann, Lithuanian etc - all of which are quite similar but in some way better.grahambriggs wrote:
Wallachians sound a fun army and reasonably competitive.
Christian Nubian should sell well. Yes, lot's of people have 'make do' figures but might replace and quite a few people people would be looking to build a CN army based on their success.
Instead you could look at providing for ranges where there is only one pose available.grahambriggs wrote:I'd say the Moche and Timucuan would be obscure armies. They're both decent, so some players would go for them. The other reality is that few people make figures for B+G armies so, perhaps, people would re-use the figures for other armies too. Yayoi is kind of similar as well, though perhaps the figures are less re-useable. I'd say the issue with all of these is whether you'll sell enough to cover costs.
Wallachians sound a fun army and reasonably competitive.
Christian Nubian should sell well. Yes, lot's of people have 'make do' figures but might replace and quite a few people people would be looking to build a CN army based on their success.
expendablecinc wrote:Instead you could look at providing for ranges where there is only one pose available.grahambriggs wrote:I'd say the Moche and Timucuan would be obscure armies. They're both decent, so some players would go for them. The other reality is that few people make figures for B+G armies so, perhaps, people would re-use the figures for other armies too. Yayoi is kind of similar as well, though perhaps the figures are less re-useable. I'd say the issue with all of these is whether you'll sell enough to cover costs.
Wallachians sound a fun army and reasonably competitive.
Christian Nubian should sell well. Yes, lot's of people have 'make do' figures but might replace and quite a few people people would be looking to build a CN army based on their success.
There is not a lot of mongol, assyrian, mameluke, russian superior armoured cavalry that is armed firing a bow. Oupost have a good dynamic bow shooting ghilman but its only one pose. Essex do a single pose for Bzaninte and assyrian superior/elite bow. I have mine based for DBM so mostly with lance. in Fog they are lance to front and bow to rear and generally Fog requires more troops. If there were a range of dynamic poses I'd 'Fogify' my thematics and assyrians with whole bases of bow armed troops if they existed in more than one pose.
There was a huge opportunity for this with amulgvars but eureka have that covered already now and its an excellent range so its hard to top. Rather than looking for entire armies that are not covered it might be more profitable and more widely recieved to flesh out existing high use armies with alternative poses.
Eg for a lpost mongol russian army almost the entire army is armoured bow aremed cavalary but there are not enough poses in ranges that mix well t odo an entire arm of them well.
Would it make much business sense to make a range of figures that just fills gaps in other peoples ranges.expendablecinc wrote: Instead you could look at providing for ranges where there is only one pose available.
There is not a lot of mongol, assyrian, mameluke, russian superior armoured cavalry that is armed firing a bow. Oupost have a good dynamic bow shooting ghilman but its only one pose. Essex do a single pose for Bzaninte and assyrian superior/elite bow.
Well, you can't retire on any of this stuff!philqw78 wrote:Would it make much business sense to make a range of figures that just fills gaps in other peoples ranges.
You're not going to retire on those sales.
So . . . which comes out first? KM-1706 and KM-1707, or the new infantry army?khurasan_miniatures wrote:Well, you can't retire on any of this stuff!philqw78 wrote:Would it make much business sense to make a range of figures that just fills gaps in other peoples ranges.
You're not going to retire on those sales.
But you're right, naturally I'm not going to invest thousands of dollars to make incomplete lines of models, in order to help competitors sell their models.
Yes Graham, I do make Kofun!
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