Impact Miniatures Kickstarter

So I went over to the Impact Miniatures Site to check out some Big Guys I was thinking of ordering and I see that they are running a kickstarter.   Their goal is to add a few new teams and convert some others to resin to add to their line of inexpensive resin fantasy football teams.

Now I have gotten stuff from Impact before(skill rings, tokens, weather dice, chests, third party minis)    and have always been happy with both the service and product so I went looking into the kickstarter.  The main new edition is a line of elves which using a mix and match approach can be either Pro or Dark.
 

This is the dark elf version.  I did a review of the GW Pro Elves and thought them pretty weak so these might be a good alternative.  One of the issues I general have with many of impact models is the sculpting style just does not get me.  I could use a solid fully set up halfling team or maybe another undead/necro style team but their offerings here just do not entice me there.

I do like their big guys though like this Chaos Pact Troll.  So if you are in the market for some fantasy football teams go take a look you might find something that peaks your interest.

Is a New Dawn Almost Upon Us?

So GW is going to drop the 7th Edition of 40K on everyone tomorrow after only 23 months of 6th edition after 4 year cycles for both 4th and 5th editions.  Rumors have turned to confirmations and the fanboys have their credit cards ready.  I have looks at the stuff a little but nothing I saw made me go I have to get out my stuff and get back to the table with it.  Probably the 195 dollar bill for just the rules and the codexes for my marines and nids is not leaving me very inspired.  Small rule tweaks aside, I think my problem is still a lack of confidence in producing even a semi dangerous army out of the models I already have.

Anyone out there really jazzed about the new edition or does you see it as just an attempt to prop up the fiscal numbers at the end of the corporate year to hide the weakness of sales.  If they even have a 100K active players still, a new edition of 85 dollar books is worth 8.5 M dollars which is like a 5% sales boost plus investments on new minis to better match your armies to the new rules.

X-Wing Miniatures: Imperial Shuttle Expansion

Another X-Wing Miniatures Expansion on the table today, Lambda Class Imperial Shuttle.  This is a 30 dollar set with a single larger ship.

Blood Bowl Dwarf Deathroller

Another item for my Blood Bowl Archive, the most recent dwarven deathroller. This is the third of these that GW has produced.  It comes with like 15 parts and was a very pricey model costing almost as much as the 12 man team boxes when it was dropped from sale with the rest of the specialist games stuff last year.

New Revised Edition Just in Time for End of Year

GW appears to have scheduled their new revision of 40K to ship just at the end of their fiscal year.  Previously they had been launching in the summer months so I can only really guess that this is an attempt to squeeze a few more dollars out of the shrinking player base to make this year look better.   I guess it is also getting about time to be looking for the price rise sheet.  GW got money out of me last summer with the closure of the specialist games lines but has not seen a penny since and mainline games go back more than a few years now with no purchases here (all the way back to a couple of months after the previous nid book came out last edition).  FFG with X-Wing and Lego are getting my funny money now.

The rules adjustments I have seen talked about does not really have any pull with me so whatever they call it I will still probably just watch semi interested from afar.