Re: Rising Sun Now On Preorder

After breaking his piggy bank for Rising Sun, I doubt that Maria will let him stray beyond the Okanagan, much less the provincial border. :)

But then, Maria probably doesn't know about the great shopping on St. Catherine Street in Montreal (yet). ;-)

On 2013-03-06, at 10:00 PM, David Olie wrote:

> Hey, Wynn.
> 
> Yes, I admit the cover art is very pretty. So I'll download the image Chas posted on ConSim and have it for free. ;-)
> 
> Also, I'm saving my ASL pennies (oops, nickels now) so I can attend the CASLO in May. Any chance I'll see you there?
> 
> David "nickel-pincher" Olie
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: Wynn Polnicky
> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 10:20 PM
> To: ASL Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [Aslml] Rising Sun Now On Preorder
> 
> David;
> 
> You neglected to mention the cover art!  :)  So of course I'll buy Yanks,
> too.
> 
> Wynn "Right Brainer/Left Brainer/No Brainer" Polnicky
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: David Olie
> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 3:40 PM
> To: ASL Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [Aslml] Rising Sun Now On Preorder
> 
> I won't be ordering RS for the very simple reason that I already have
> everything that's in it, and it all still works. None of my CoB and GH stuff
> is in any real need of an upgrade.
> 
> And do you know what? I'm perfectly OK with that, because RS isn't for me.
> It's for the guys coming into ASL who haven't been able to get CoB and GH
> for nearly a decade.
> 
> I don't understand this seeming compulsion to buy every single product MMP
> puts out even when you clearly don't need it. Are you also going to buy 2nd
> Ed. YANKS when it comes available? What on earth for?
> 
> Finally, wrt "merchandising techniques", MMP could have put something
> entirely new in RS that was only available by buying RS. They didn't.
> Frankly, if that's really how you think they operate, I think they're doing
> a pretty crappy job of it.
> 
> David
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: [email protected]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 4:49 PM
> To: ASL Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [Aslml] Rising Sun Now On Preorder
> 
> 
> 
> Hummm....  so we need to buy something we already have, in order to
> 
> upgrade.
> 
> 
> 
> Wow..... nice merchandising technique.
> 
> 
> Obama - America's Nero :-(
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chas Argent" <[email protected]>
> To: "ASL Discussion List" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 6, 2013 12:59:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [Aslml] Rising Sun Now On Preorder
> 
> Selling "scaled-down" versions of a HASL isn't likely to happen. It's too
> big of a headache for the office  for too small a return to have them deal
> with multiple versions. We also price and order components with a specific
> number of units in mind. Mixing and matching different quantities of
> components makes that impractical.
> 
> ~Chas
> 
> 
> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Fred <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On a similar note, having recently punched my FB I would like to suggest
>> that when you release Ponyri and the 3rd Stalingrad historical games with a
>> pre-release only option that is a stripped down version that doesn't
>> include 2 new sheets of Russians and 2 new sheets of Germans that those of
>> us with all (or at least most) existing MMP games don't need. This stripped
>> down version will require a little thought in laying out the counters so
>> that all of the extra duplicate counters are on the same sheets and the few
>> new units are all on the same (different from the extra counters) sheets.
>> You might also include a few extra counters of some units types that a lot
>> of are needed. You would need to state that the stripped down version
>> assumes you own VotG and either RB or FB (or some other such assumption).
>> Such a stripped down version would sell for $4 less per "missing" counter
>> sheet.
>> 
>> Fred
>> 
>> 
>> On 3/6/2013 8:15 AM, Chas Argent wrote:
>> 
>>> David-
>>> 
>>> No, they won't. We experimented with variations and pricing for some sort
>>> of "upgrade kit," but from a production (and financial) standpoint there
>>> was no logical place for the company to draw the line because everything
>>> has changed to some degree from the Avalon Hill versions of Code fo
>>> Bushido
>>> and Gung Ho!
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> ~Chas
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 11:08 AM, David Elder <
>>> [email protected]**ca <david-tJaOsOnekaxy6FVk5UMYRG+DJq1SqhBbsOSz5zK2v9k@public.gmane.org>>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Keith,
>>>> 
>>>> Just curious but will the revised rules chapters be available separately
>>>> for those of us who already own Code of Bushido and Gung Ho? Presumably
>>>> the
>>>> counters and other elements from the earlier games are still usable?
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> 
>>>> David
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 3/6/2013 10:52 AM, keith dalton wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Listers:
>>>>> 
>>>>> For those interested, Rising Sun is now on preorder here.
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://www.multimanpublishing.****com/Products/tabid/58/**
>>>>> ProductID/228/Default.aspx<htt**p://www.multimanpublishing.**
>>>>> com/Products/tabid/58/**ProductID/228/Default.aspx<http://www.multimanpublishing.com/Products/tabid/58/ProductID/228/Default.aspx>
>>>>> >
>>>>> 
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Keith
>>>>> MMP
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