[GZG] New Mini's Coming?

Hi Jon,

End of the month is coming up soon, need to use those Christmas
vouchers.....  Got anything new and/or exciting on the horizon this last
week of January?  Need to jump on this soon......  :-)

Thanks

> Hi Jon,

Hi Mike (and all....)

There won't be any new releases before February now, I'm afraid. We do have
some new stuff being prepared, but we've been so overwhelmed
with the sheer volume of pre- and post-Xmas orders that there has
been no time to get anything new into production yet. We hope to have
some new releases for the first couple of UK shows in mid/late Feb
(Hammerhead on the 15th and Tonbridge on the 22nd), which will then become
available online soon afterwards, ie: the end of February.

So, best to use your vouchers up on current production items before the end of
the month, then just top up on the new items when we have them ready.

Jon (GZG)

> Mike Hudak

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> --- On Mon, 1/26/09, Ground Zero Games <jon@gzg.com> wrote:

From: Ground Zero Games <jon@gzg.com>
Subject: Re: [GZG] New Mini's Coming?
To: gzg-l@vermouth.csua.berkeley.edu
Date: Monday, January 26, 2009, 9:22 AM

> Hi Jon,

Hi Mike (and all....)

There won't be any new releases before February now, I'm afraid. We do have
some new stuff being prepared, but we've been so overwhelmed
with the sheer volume of pre- and post-Xmas orders that there has
been no time to get anything new into production yet. We hope to have
some new releases for the first couple of UK shows in mid/late Feb
(Hammerhead on the 15th and Tonbridge on the 22nd), which will then become
available online soon afterwards, ie: the end of February.

So, best to use your vouchers up on current production items before the end of
the month, then just top up on the new items when we have them ready.

Jon (GZG)

> Mike Hudak

Actually I have a better idea: If anyone on the list is in congress or on
staff, could you add an approps line to the stimulus bill subsidizing the
industry's transition from 28mm to 15mm?

Talking points:

* The new scale uses up to 87% less metal, so it's a "green" initiative.

* Jon's operation features incredibly good relations between employees and the
senior executive team.

* Seeing as how the published material leaves off with Earth under
siege by the Kra'Vak, a no-conditions cash payment could be just the
kind of daring diplomatic gambit we need to jumpstart the peace process.

* Everyone says we need a stimulus. Well, what could be more stimulating than
a rousing game of Stargrunt, Dirtside or Full Thrust?

Rob

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Fred Kiesche
> <recursive_loop@yahoo.com> wrote:

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the non-appointed non-senator from Pennsylvania, I insist on an addendum
allowing for 6mm to also be subsidized as an even greener initiative.

J

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Robert Mayberry <robert.mayberry@gmail.com
> wrote:

> Actually I have a better idea: If anyone on the list is in congress or
initiative.
> * Jon's operation features incredibly good relations between employees

> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:26:53AM -0500, John Lerchey wrote:

Oh, you _know_ where this will go once the politicians and lobbyists get
hold of it - G*mes W*rksh*p gets its "1/2mm Chaos Death Dust Speck" army
so heavily subsidised that everybody buys one.

And probably makes them out of something biodegradable so that they have to
buy another one next week...

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lot discussing the ridiculous government sponsored plan to encourage a change
of scale are all Scalist Heretics(TM). The followers ot the One True Scale(TM)
shall soon rise up in righteous wrath!

And when we resolve the combat, we'll get upshifts on movement, damage, range,
and how many hits we can take due to superior scale.

Of course, the downshift in cover and signature dice and the numerical
advantage are clearly on the Heretics side. But ultimately, truth, beauty, and
paintjobs that normal mortals can make look good (note I particularly exclude
anyone with the initials S.T.U.A.R.T M.U.R.R.A.Y. in this category) shall
triumph.

You 15mm pansies shall be our lantern bearers, cabana boys, and garden gnomes.

The 6mm crowd? They'll be action figures for the younglings or make cartoons
after we dip them all in blue paint and stick funny conical white hats on
them.

The only people we moderately fear are the 30mm-ites. On the good side,
they're all stuck in an alternative universe (codenamed Gamma
Whattheheckweretheythinking by our scientists) that has exceedingly
impermeable borders which they will be unlikely to escape and which apparently
prevent entry of forces not originating in that universe. So we're fairly safe
from the great majority of those bruisers.

25mm is THE ONE TRUE SCALE. Scalist Heretics, your day draws nigh. We shall
triumph!

T.

PS - Remember, Flouridation, Telecommunications Monopolies, and The
National Surveillance Agency were all similar government initiatives and we
know how those turned out! Learn from the past!

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- MY!

If we're going to get into that "old time religion", one could well argue that
our miniatures descend from toy soldiers. Even before their
incarnation in-the-round ala Britains, they were tin flats made from
molds lovingly etched in slate. Flats standardized on a 30mm scale back in the
19th century. 30mm is also a scale adopted and promoted by Jack Scruby, one of
the early leaders in popularizing miniatures gaming in the US.

One could well argue that scale creep moving us from 25mm to 30mm is actually
just a return to our roots. Tradition! Family Values! A Chicken in Every Pot!

I have chosen to focus on 15mm, as I am half the man these giants in the
miniature industry were! B-)

Martin

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> The 6mm crowd? They'll be action figures for the younglings or make

<VBEG> When you go let me rent your gymnasium for doing WW2 games to avoid
"tank parking lot syndrome" as well as a storage unit for all that extra space
my armies will take up, we can talk.

Till then, I'll amuse myself with the thought of a T-34 with a little
smurf hat... (Wait, so does that mean that the Panther's brainy smurf, the
Panzer IV's Pappa smurf? so who's smurfette then? a Pz35(t)? <VBG>