The Apathy of New Releases (March 2013)

Ah, Spring is in the air... and your customers might be gone for awhile.  Fresh air does that to all but the weakest of constitutions still living in their parent's basement.  Let's see if there's enough stuff in the lastest Game Trade Magazine to bring in a few new tree huggers, shall we?

My Want List: nothing

My Money-is-no-Object List:
Axis and Allies: WW1 1914 -  Okay Wizards/Avalon Hill, I'm listening.  Perhaps not, as their blurb promotes the use of biplanes, and they would only have a reconnaissance mission for 1914.  Guess there won't be a late war version of the game, as the "22 new game pieces" must include tanks and trench fortifications.  If it were just 1914, there would be piles of infantry and some cav on the board. But $99.00?   Wha-What?!?

AD&D 1st Edition Premium Dungeons of Dread Hardcover:  Wizards is in the midst of a money-grubbing assault on nostalgia, and it's a GOOD thing.  If you can't get the thousands at home to switch over to 4th or the new 5th, clean up the old product, make it shiny, and promote it to the older crowd.  TSR had assembled the S1-4 years ago, another hardcover might make look nice on the shelf, but what is the track record of running games directly out of a hardcover book?   $39.95

The Imaginary Store List:
Battlefront Miniatures
Market Garden Compilation - Allied                                              $50.00
Market Garden Compilation - Axis                                                $50.00
Market Garen Compilation Pack                                                    $85.00

DGS Games
DGS produces Freeblades, a fantasy skirmish game.  This month they release the Trillian Seekers (Elves), but it's the animal swarm stand that won me over

Now I'm just worried if the rules are any good.  It is a valid point.

Expeditious Retreat Press
ADVANCED ADVENTURES #28:  REDTOOTH RIDGE                    $12.00

Fantasy Flight Games
Dust Tactics P-48 Pelican                                                                        $39.95
Dust Tactics SSU BR-47 Mobile Weapons Platform                                $29.95

Every once in awhile a book or figure will come out and force you to consider a product line.  FFG threw out two to wet my whistle on Dust Tactics.  Probably should put these on my money is no object want list, cause if I came into a store with a wad of cash and saw these on the shelf, they would be mine instantly.

STAR WARS RPG: EDGE OF  THE EMPIRE CORE RULEBOOK          $59.95
STAR WARS RPG: EDGE OF THE EMPIRE DICE                                   $14.95
STAR WARS RPG: EDGE OF THE EMPIRE GAME MASTER’S KIT     $19.95

Mayfair

Settlers of Catan Water Bottles (20 oz) $12.00
Settlers of Catan Cut Brass Christmas Ornaments multiple years $48.00
I don't know how many of these could be sold, but they do make interesting tournament prizes

Osprey
The Vickers Maxim Machine Gun
The Martini-Henry Rifle
In Her Majesty’s Name: Steampunk Skirmish Wargaming Rules
BOLT ACTION: ARMIES OF THE SOVIET UNION

Paizo:
PATHFINDER CAMPAIGN SETTING: DRAGONS UNLEASHED             $19.99
PATHFINDER: REIGN OF WINTER PART 4 - THE FROZEN STARS       $22.99
Pathfinder Player Companion: Dragon Slayer's Handbook                                  $12.99
PATHFINDER FACE CARDS: ANIMAL ALLIES                                         $10.99
PATHFINDER FLIP-MAT: ARCANE DUNGEONS                                      $13.99
PATHFINDER MODULE: THE DRAGON’S DEMAND                               $24.99

Reaper:
A huge solicitation of the plastic BONES figures.  It gives me great joy to see $12 dragons back on the market.  And it's been a long time (90's Ral Partha) since I've seen giants under $10 (even if it is $9.99).   Fear not, metal lovers, there's still a few metal figures in the lineup, most Pathfinder.

WotC:
D&D Premium 3.5 Edition Spell Compendium HC- even the newer players aren't immune  $49.95

WizKids
BIOSHOCK CMG
DC HEROCLIX: TABAPP ELITE STARTERS
DC HEROCLIX: MAN OF STEEL
STAR TREK HEROCLIX: TACTICS MOVIE MINI-GAME