carlisimo109 wrote:
Unless we’re going to saddle one person with the task, I think it would have to be a wiki, so any of us can update it at will. We’ve talked about that before, creating a wiki with sample army lists and advice for new players. Either way, to avoid walls of text I’d recommend that the link be hidden in the model’s name, rather than being a separate URL.
I'd volunteer, if the forum management would be willing to sticky the new thread, so it wouldn't really be someone getting stuck with the job. * The thread might evolve into a wiki over time, or even devolve into a link to an offsite web page (I have the space). But at least in the early stages I suspect it would work best to have one person responsible to keep the project coherent and organized.
I agree that the link should be hidden in the model's name. That's an easy modification to the sample I posted above.
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Alternatively, we take an opposite approach and compile all the manufacturers we know of and summarize their product ranges, including what Epic figures they might look like. I think that’d be healthier – it’d give them more exposure, and new players going to those websites would be more likely to look at their ranges as a whole, rather than individual pieces to snipe for use in the 40k universe.
We should do this as well, and to an extent we already do with the Epic Proxy Mk2 thread. This is actually the opposite of my intent with my "Where to Find a Model" thread idea, however. I'd like for this thread to be helpful for someone who has just bought or downloaded the EA rules, looked at the pictures in the book, gotten excited about the game, and now wants to know, "where do I buy a Leman Russ like the one I see here in this picture?"
I want an easy catalog where a prospective new EA gamer clicks on "Leman Russ" and then sees a model he can buy
as a Leman Russ, rather than a company's catalog he can hunt through for prospective proxies.
I also think t is important for a prospective new EA gamer to be able to immediately buy something that looks "like" a GW Leman Russ (or whatever) since many times it will be the GW universe which brings them to the game and that will be the universe they wish to game in. We need something that feeds their expectations and keeps them around.
-Allen McCarley
*The forum member hereby volunteers services, however the forum member does not surrender his rights to later leap from tall buildings, confront WalMart moms on Black Friday, or play soccer in busy streets--as needed--to maintain sanity.
