Re: Rising Sun Now On Preorder

Chris;

You mean there's something other than 'gentlemen's clubs' on St. Catherine's 
St.?!

Wynn

-----Original Message----- 
From: Chris Doary
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 7:17 PM
To: ASL Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Aslml] 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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