Well said, Blakor. And if we're talking about gaps in available ranges, well, hang it all, the wars of the Conquistadores probably did more to shape todaughty's world than any others ever fought (possibly excluding the SYW).
   Mongols spent time "paping" the countryside? Surely that would rather be what a 30YW imperialist army did to Prod territory?

    30YW

But Fierce, they have Gangstas on the list, gangstas - ooooh  cant wait should be very cool   

Hi Blaker
The appeal of the YOM Kippur War is not its length of time but the scale of the battles. Apart from the Iran/Iraq war these are some of the biggest battles since WW2. Certainly saw the largest tank battles since Kursk. It makes the falklands and both gulf wars look like skirmishes.
So if you like lots of kit and you are into modern (be it 1973) warfare then it has a lot going from the wargame point of view.

Its not just the size of the war it's also the type of kit. All the armour bar M41 needed for Nam (both sides), most for central Europe, certainly for WarPact, and new hulls for late WWII stuff, plus some is already made.

IanS

Howdy Martyn and ianrs54, that just goes to show ya how much I know about those wars     I didnt know YK was on such a massive scale.  They both sound interesting.  I just like the way Pendraken is trying to keep up with all of our requests for minis - what a very cool time to be wargaming with miniatures 

How the blazes did THAT typo get in?

Gangsters.... oh my!!!!!


    

Still think only one bag of gangsters will be more than you`ll ever need.

How many battles between the Al Capone Division vs the 29th police motorized brigade  or the Bugs Moran mechanized corp were fought in chicago (er hello, NONE).

So the  little wars like the falklands and yom kippur get my vote.

Quote from: Jim Ando on 15 July 2011, 07:29:25 PM
Still think only one bag of gangsters will be more than you`ll ever need.

How many battles between the Al Capone Division vs the 29th police motorized brigade  or the Bugs Moran mechanized corp were fought in chicago (er hello, NONE).

So the  little wars like the falklands and yom kippur get my vote.

No!!!  Silly little wars as Malvinas are not going to raise the same income revenues as the Mongols and their friends for a gaming company

Mongols maybe

But there are an awful lot of people who want modern stuff and we really only have one alternative which is minifigs (which aren`t for me ) or do it in 6mm which I`ve done in the past. But once bitten by the 10mm bug I can`t stand 1/300 now .

Hey Jim you are right, I hadnt noticed that there were no modern warfare minis available in 10 other than Minifig and Action 200. But Action is very limited and I havent seen Minifigs' range.

So I can "see the need"     More so than Gangstas but gangstas can transcend many periods in history and in fantasy and in alternative 

Okay Leon, get cracking on those Falklands and YK so the Mongols and Aztecs can get done  sooner

It's an interesting three ranges there.  The Falklands is a quite small range to do, several variations of foot, packed in 10's like the WW2 stuff.  Add a few vehicles and away we go.  Mongols are relatively easy as well, not many variations in figure type, but we'd need more variety in each pack I think.

The outsider is the Gangster's, where the figures needed are going to be more like personality types, and aren't going to sell in big numbers.  Tricky one to justify cost-wise, despite a good level of interest.

Hmm, all food for thought!   

But gangsters and cops on foot need plenty of vehicles - cars, motorcycles and trucks - and then there's the possibility of "street furniture" e.g. fire hydrants, mail boxes, street lamps etc, so the range could expand.

Quote from: AndyT on 22 July 2011, 06:11:40 AM
But gangsters and cops on foot need plenty of vehicles - cars, motorcycles and trucks - and then there's the possibility of "street furniture" e.g. fire hydrants, mail boxes, street lamps etc, so the range could expand.

lots of street furniture 

Quote from: DaveH on 13 July 2011, 01:58:54 PM
I'd really like to see the AWI stuff finished off so that the range is really close to completion.

a voice of sanity and reason amongst the various gangsta/mongol/falkland/aztec nonsense !!

Quote from: goat major on 22 July 2011, 08:04:08 AM
a voice of sanity and reason amongst the various gangsta/mongol/falkland/aztec nonsense !!

Another MINORITY Rant I see......

IanS

AWI. Strange priority. A horse and musket war without real cavalry.

Quote from: FierceKitty on 22 July 2011, 08:19:09 AM
AWI. Strange priority. A horse and musket war without real cavalry.

well we would have some cavalry if we had any figures with the right hats ......   

Quote from: ianrs54 on 22 July 2011, 08:06:00 AM
Another MINORITY Rant I see......

IanS

minority rants are the  best. Majority rants are a bit too noisy for my liking. 

from a commercial point of view the mongols will be a big seller I would have thought even though I`m not interested in them at all.

The falklands will also be popular because no one else does them and like leon said it would be a small range ie

brits in berets, tin hats, lumberjack hats, mortars and HMGs and maybe a scorpion/schimitar.

argies in tin hats, special forces in wooly hats, mortars, Hmgs and a panhard armoured car.

As far as gangsters are concerned how many cars do do a hand full of gangsters need. But  you will need buidings and streets to put your handfull of gangsters in so the builings would make more money than the figures.