Some thing GW may have done right

[Rua Baineann]

My son and I started Warhammer over 10 years ago, we purchased a complete boxed game, with 2 armies (goblins and elves), quick start rules, measuring devices, dice etc. This is what got us hooked on miniatures gaming. Since then their box sets have appeared in dept stores and Barnes and Noble etc. Good sound marketing if you ask me.

[Osiris]

I was thinking about what an introdcutory Dark Age starting set would look like. Cronfrontation has recently begun putting out an 'Initiation' Set. It also takes the responsiblity off of comming out with your own starting army which has both it's pros and its cons.

An interesting thought.

I guess the question is what would come with it and how much would it be?

Cheers,

Osiris

[Stunke]

Warhammer, confrontation, and warmachine all need to make it inexpensive for players to START the game, because costs will quickly add up because of all the things you need.
Dark Age doesn't need that, becasue it is inexpensive throughout.

And this is coming from a guy that loves warmachine almost as much as he loves Dark Age. If you can only choose one game, and money is an issue, I think the cost/benefit advantage goes to Dark Age.

[Pyrrhus]

A few xmas' ago GWs LOTR boxed gamed shwed up in the Chapters/Indigo bookstores. Sold fairly well if memory serves - but since then their product has been restricted to specialty shops only. Curious to see if that starts to change.

[DA_Grafter]

I think they are refering to marketing, smoke'n mirrors, not the actual product itself. It is a thought... all the other games do it.

[Stunke]

No doubt about the benefit of making those intro-sets.
But for me the biggest advantage is that WHFB has so bad rules, that people will get into the hobby through the extreme exposure from GW, and then revert to other games when they find out about other systems.

A starter DA box might be handy too though.

[Wayne Rogers]

This is one of Simon's new strategies for Rezolution. They are putting the Shadow Wars boxset in bookstores and such.

[Anarch]

We do have starter sets... sorta. The warband sets. I assume that eventually each faction will have a small 350ish point warband which will be their starter army.

[DA_Grafter]

Yeah, we can do a box set for that purpose... but then again, look at warmachine... they are one of the most successful mini comps, and thye didn't make one... old school tactics may not always work. I will have a think after we get a few more faction specific box sets out.

[Jordan]

Yeah, we can do a box set for that purpose... but then again, look at warmachine... they are one of the most successful mini comps, and thye didn't make one... old school tactics may not always work. I will have a think after we get a few more faction specific box sets out.

One consideration there is putting the quick start rules with the 'starters,' which in DA's case might be the saint warbands and equivalent.