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General Chaos / Re: ENDLESS HORDE - 3D print your miniatures

« on: July 15, 2012, 04:41:52 PM »

Thanks Gorkamorka,

Was thinking of a few stops on the kick starter up to the printer and full games system;
Rules
Rules with minis
Rules with minis and access to online resources (living rulebook & future minis)
+ hardcover rules minis artwork etc
Unassembled printer
Assembled printer
The lot

Love to start the miniatures range idea but I'm not sure the quality of the print at this stage would come close to GW standard, we have a range of suppliers sending samples now so I'll post the results.

I haven't played for a while & it was all GW when I did, is there any stand out minis systems that we should be looking at for a good example of how to put a rule book together ?

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General Chaos / Re: ENDLESS HORDE - needs your feedback

« on: July 15, 2012, 05:13:35 AM »

Thanks for the feedback Joe,

At what pricepoint would you invest in this concept ( assuming the rules and miniatures are at a sufficient quality) or is it more about the perceived quality of 3d printers?

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General Chaos / ENDLESS HORDE - 3D print your miniatures

« on: July 13, 2012, 10:54:21 PM »

Hey All,

I'm investigating an idea for kick-starter based on the following successes:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/printrbot/printrbot-your-first-3d-printer
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2087444096/dwarven-adventurers-box-set?ref=live
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/coolminiornot/zombicide?ref=live
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1744629938/kings-of-war?ref=live
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/coolminiornot/sedition-wars-battle-for-alabaster?ref=search

If you haven't put it together Endless Horde is a table top miniatures war-game where you download your miniatures models and print your army out using a 3d printer.

If you have a sec I would love to get some feedback on:

1. How much you would pay (would you have paid when you were an active gamer)?

2. How developed would the rules/concept/theme/miniatures need to be for you to cough up $500 for the game(includes the printer)?

3. Considering the affordable printers don't have the greatest resolution, the best theme for the game would be heavily armoured/spacesuited or exaggerated comical miniatures; with this in mind what would you recommend for the game setting?

4. If you were asked to come up with written rules for Endless Horde what would you charge?

5. Would 2 army types with 5 different soldiers and 5 hero miniatures each army be enough to start off with?

6. If you were asked to design a miniature how much would you charge for each one?

7. How much materials cost would you be happy with for each miniature?

8. Would you be comfortable assembling the 3d printer ?

9. How much more would you be willing to pay to have the printer come preassembled?

General thoughts ?