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Hi, I got to play a demo of this game from Kain and crew at Gencon and thought it was really promising. It played well, with some interesting mechanics, and the minis were really smooth. So I get back home and browse the website and my interest continues to grow - great visuals, strong story, interactive scenarios and community. So I visit the online store and promtly get my bubble burst. Great googly moogly! 10-12 EUROS per fig!?! And they're made of plastic right? Are there North American (even Canadian, fingers crossed) carrying this game? and if so are they really charging $20-30 per mini? I really like what I've see so far from this game, and would love to get get into to it but that price, well 
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The warstore has it, at the "standard" warstore deals. Wave three is in fact $22 for a mini. It was a mistake and it's not something they are ever going to do again...at least that is what I've been told! 
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The war store sells the stuff, Warpath games distributes the game, and I think ACD will also distribute. The price is a little high, but from what I heard this is going to change in the future. There will not be another single model to a wave anymore. A guy from Kraken, I think it was Joss, said that it cost them just as much to do the three models in wave 2 as it did the single model from wave 3.
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Yeah, I took a class with Jeremie after Gencon (one of the owners) and he said the future will be 2 character minis in a box, rather than 1, for the same price. He also dropped hints as to the future factions that will be coming up - he pointed to the card of the summoned demon that is the LE for the Jade Triad - its card has two faction symbols - one will be a new faction (what happens if the summoned demons in the world weren't so happy about being slaves???).
He also said Alliance will be distributing the game - which is very good news indeed.
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New faction(s)?!  Perhaps there will be something to do with the Naashti (see fluff about Mornea on kraken's site). It's stated that they "disappeared," but who knows.
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There will be a total of 8 factions when all is said and done. I talked with Joss at GenCon, and he made the comment that there are 4 elements and currently there are 2 armies linked to earth and fire is currently unrepresented.
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As long as this forgotten race is not like the Ophidians from Confrontation's world....right? 
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kainthedragoonx wrote:As long as this forgotten race is not like the Ophidians from Confrontation's world....right? That might depend on who you're talking to.
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We are carrying it/selling it here just outside Chicago as well. And the wave 3 fig is only $20 here... even before mail order discounting.  The figure price is a little high, but so is the problem with imported stuff. I'm hoping the strength of the game and the uniqueness of the figures carries it, or I have about $1000 worth of plastic that is gonna be sitting on my shelves for a while... But like I said, I'm pretty confident in the product.
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Luckily for me i bought Alkemy on sunday during gencon so it was basically getting the character AND the LE model for free. But i can definitely see where it might be seen as a lot of cash for one mini, rivaling even EE. Though it's good to hear that they will fix this and start to package two per pack!
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Indeed... No more single human-sized figure in a smal box. It was a mistake we made. We won't do it again. So further characters to be released will be packed by two. You will then have two minis for approx. 22-25$... way more interesting to our opinion.
So... sorry for this mistake. Be sure it won't happen again. As we are also gamers, we know how expensive our hobby can be.
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kainthedragoonx wrote:As long as this forgotten race is not like the Ophidians from Confrontation's world....right? Well, the Naashti are described as being a reptilian race/species. So, if they are eventually included, we could have another game with motherfuckin' snakes on a motherfuckin' table. 
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Thanks for furthering clearing that up for everyone Caherwain, though it wasn't that big of a problem for myself. That's the thing i like about skirmish games is that they are relatively low in cost compared to some other games so i can start a few war bands using $100 US and about $20-30 every two to three months.
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thanks all for the feedback! I will probably pick up a starter set, and good news about the other waves being a little more affordable. I guess I need to stop thinking about it as a cost per model and remember all the other stuff you get as well - colour cards, fancy packaging etc.
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irondesk wrote:thanks all for the feedback! I will probably pick up a starter set, and good news about the other waves being a little more affordable. I guess I need to stop thinking about it as a cost per model and remember all the other stuff you get as well - colour cards, fancy packaging etc. most importantly a good game ;)
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kainthedragoonx wrote:As long as this forgotten race is not like the Ophidians from Confrontation's world....right? I pray you are right. Lots of snake-hate here in C3!  :)
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I want snakes, dammit!
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damn I love snakes...just seems like my opponents like them!
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can i ask, did i have anything to do with the snake hate?
I mean, most tourneys i saw the sankes finished in the bottome half of the tourney. Actually, of the tourneys i saw, i was the only snake player that had regular tourney success.
Also, i would like to thank Mira for her death on the bridge, possibly my single most favorite confrontation moment!
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