Dark Age: Blister verlassen das Sortiment

Dark Age haben angekündigt, von Blistern auf Boxen umzusteigen.

Für Dark Age gibt es inzwischen eine beachtliche Anzahl an Produkten. Beinahe 300 unterschiedliche „SKU“ genannte Produktcodes sind dort inzwischen vergeben. Da ein weiter Großteil davon Blister sind, ist es für Händler oft schwer, diesen Platz im Laden zu verschaffen. Daher hat man beschlossen, auf größere Boxen umzusteigen, die jeweils mehrere Modelle zusammenfassen. Dabei wurde darauf geachtet, die Boxen sinnvoll zusammenzustellen, immer die auf 500 Punkten maximal erlaubte Anzahl eines Truppentyps hineinzupacken, und die Preise möglichst gleich zu lassen oder zu verringern.

Um bestehenden Kunden die Möglichkeit zu geben, Lücken in der Sammlung zu füllen, bevor man dann in Boxen eventuell Modelle mit kaufen müsste, die man schon hat wurde das jetzt schon angekündigt und in diesen zwei Artikeln die ersten zwei zur Überarbeitung anstehenden Fraktionen detailliert besprochen: Outcasts und Forsaken.

Hier die Original-Ankündigung:

INTRODUCING THE NEW UNIT BOXES FOR DARK AGE – OUTCASTS

Over the last year, we’ve been talking with lots of people – from retailers, to hobbyists, to distributors, and all the combinations thereof – and we were ablate walk away with a lot of answers to questions had. As we suspected, our incredibly large SKU count (close to 300, a SKU is the unique code given to each product) coupled with the fact 95% of our line was in blisters meant that Dark Age wasn’t at all easy to stock for distributors or retailers. Of course, the large range and blistered product gave our customers – the Dark Age faithful – the ultimate in flexibility when assembling their collections, but not being able to buy it in their local stores meant that this flexibility was somewhat inaccessible (almost entirely inaccessible in some cases).

To this end we decided to move to boxed sets, and to reduce the number of SKUs to a manageable level. Over the next few months, starting in April with Outcasts and Forsaken, we will be switching over our blisters to boxes. This will make it easier for distributors and retailers to stock and therefore more available for you all to access the cool minis! The down-side is that there won’t be quite as much flexibility, which is why we wanted to start talking about it now. If you have holes in your collections, you might want to order some of the individual or unit blisters now.

When putting together the contents of these boxes, we tried to meet the following criteria each time:

• Contains the availability for the model at 500 points (e.g. if the availability is 3/500, then there would be 3 models in the box).
• Allows us to keep the models at the same price, or lower the price. In about 50% of cases the prices are the same, about 10% the prices have risen, and in about 40% or cases, the prices have dropped.
• Contents follow the patterns generally seen when people are purchasing blisters (e.g. when people decide to buy into a particular Saint force, they typically buy one of each of the blisters for that Saint sub-faction).

As we mentioned earlier, the first ranges to be switched over are the Outcasts and the Forsaken. Today we’ll provide a list of the Outcast boxes, their contents, and their US prices. Tomorrow we’ll do the same with the Forsaken.

• Outcast Scavenger Faction Starter –  $60 – Warchief, Manhunter Fixer, Blades, Wasteland Warriors (3)
• Wasteland Warrior Unit Box – $20 – Wasteland Warriors (3)
• Outcast Scut Unit Box – $25 – Bully, Scuts (3)
• Outcast Brute Unit Box – $50 – Brutes (3), Brute Anchor
• Outcast Pit Fighter Unit Box – $30 – Pit Fighter (4)
• Outcast Command Box 1 – $50 – Hoj, Brute Pusher, Manhunter, Oz
• Outcast Command Box 2 – $55 – Fixer, Mongo, Warchief, Happy Hour
• Salt Flat Nomads Tribal Warrior Unit Box – $20 – Tribal Warriors (3)
• Salt Flat Nomads Thornwinds Unit Box – $25 – Thornwinds (4)
• Salt Flat Nomads Hand of War Unit Box – $15 – Hands of War (2)
• Salt Flat Nomads Herder Unit Box – $15 – Herders (3)
• Salt Flat Nomads Solo Box – $40 – Berserker, Dishonored, Caravan Keeper, Oathpourer
• Salt Flat Nomads Leadership Box – $55 – Bendahrin Durshe, Kane, Lynette & Dust Jackals, Moonless Night
• Salt Flat Nomads Dust Bull Box – $25 – Dust Bull
• Salt Flat Nomads War Beasts Box – $35 – Vrocks (2), Moloki (2)
• Chains Barrow Slavers Command Box – $30 – Coffersman, Slavemaster, Gang Boss
• Chains Barrow Slavers Chain Ganger Unit Box – $15 – Chain Gangers (3)
• Chains Barrow Slavers Unbound Unit Box – $20 – The Unbound (3)
• Chains Barrow Slavers Frenzied Unit Box – $30 – Frenzied (4)
• Chains Barrow Slavers Leadership Box – $60 – The Warden, Aja, Devon, Bonner Spyte, Hood, Finn Deadeye

And here are a sample of a few other boxes coming soon!

Und der zweite Artikel, der auf die Forsaken eingeht:

A FURTHER LOOK AT THE NEW UNIT BOXES – FORSAKEN.

Yesterday we started our look at the new Dark Age Unit Boxes that we’ll be releasing over the next four to five months. We looked at the list of the Outcast Unit Boxes, and talked a bit about the way the prices were going to be affected.

Well today we are going to take a look at the Forsaken Unit Boxes. These will release the same time as the Outcast boxes, i.e. April 2017.

Here’s the list of boxes, their price in US dollars, and the contents of each box:

• Forsaken Faction Starter Box – $60 – Warwind A, Field Medic, Coil Diskmaster, Deacon, Banes (3), Bane Leader
• Forsaken Bane Unit Box – $30 – Banes (3), Bane Leader
• Forsaken Coil Unit Box – $30 – Coils (3), Coil Leader
• Forsaken Ravage Unit Box – $30 – Ravages (3), Ravage Leader
• Forsaken Strike Unit Box – $30 – Strikes (3), Strike Leader
• Forsaken Firestorm Unit Box – $30 – Firestorms (3), Firestorm Leader
• Forsaken Militia Unit Box – $15 – Militia (3)
• Forsaken Flock Unit Box – $25 – Flock (3), Shepherd
• Forsaken Command Box 1 – $40 – Warwind B, Deathstryke, Deacon, Coil Diskmaster
• Forsaken Command Box 2 – $40 – Warwind A, Sister of Compassion, Weaponsmith, Field Medic
• Forsaken Saint Mary Faction Box – $70 – Saint Mary, Flense (3), Clergy Anns (2), Judah, Joan
• Forsaken Saint Mark Faction Box – $70 – Saint Mark, Junkers (3), Shades (2), Hephzibah, Sentinel
• Forsaken Saint Isaac Faction Box – $70 – Saint Isaac, Controllers (3), Centipedes (2), Prometheus
• Forsaken Saint John Faction Box – $70 – Saint John, Faithful (3), Paladins (2), Elijah, Sir James
• Forsaken Saint Luke Faction Box – $70 – Saint Luke, Stingers (3), Arsenals (2), Zuriel, Marionette
• Forsaken Saint Joan Faction Box – $80 – Saint Joan, The Furies (3), Death Knights (2), Sin Eaters (2), Inquisitor, The Grey Lady
• Forsaken Heretic Faction Box – $55 – Saint Johann, Dexus, Dominique, Quietus, Harborya
• Forsaken Saint Mary Herald of Vengeance Box – $50 – Mounted Saint Mary
• Forsaken Saint Mark Harbinger of Judgement Box – $50 – Mounted Saint Mark
• Forsaken Saint John Aegis of Faith Box – $50 – Mounted Saint John
• Forsaken Saint Luke Bastion of Faith Box – $50 – Mounted Saint Luke
• Forsaken Scorpius Box – $40 – Scorpius
• Prevailers Red Sisterhood Unit Box – $30 – Red Sisters (3), Crimson Mother
• Prevailers Skylancer Unit Box – $30 – Sky Lancer (3), Sight of the Prevailers
• Prevailers Warknight Unit Box – $50 – Warknights (4), Bondsman, Warknight Captain
• Prevailers Repentant Unit Box – $25 – Repentants (4)
• Prevailers Archangel Unit Box – $65 – Archangel Gabriel, Archangel Michael, Archangel Raphael
• Prevailers Command Box – $60 – Marius (and cherubs), Esh (and cherub), Lilith, Voice of the Prevailers

And here we have a few of the boxes to show off. Soon we’ll let you know the contents of the next batch – Bounty Hunters, CORE, and Kukulkani.

Link: Dark Age