The Apathy of New Releases (Sept '13)

Hello again, to another month of solicitations!  This month I detected another glut of miscellany product, and for every dice bag offered, there are two puzzles, pre-K board game, or licensed pair of socks.  If there is anything you are looking for like that, I advised jumping online and reading the Games listing in issue #163 of Game Trade Magazine. 
My must have list:
Back to the usual nothing

My money-is-no-object list
Thank God I word it like that, because the only item that makes the list this month is the Dystopian Legions Empire of the Sund Ke-Ho Ironclad, at a measly 102 bucks!  It is pretty sweet:

The Imaginary Store List
ALDERAC ENTERTAINMENT GROUP
Thunderstone Advance: Numenera............... $59.99

ARES
Wings of Glory.............................................$15 per plane
Another game that if the store can promote it, it should do well, but $15 for a single plane is a bit too much for some to pay

ARMY PAINTER 
Another wave of paints, sets, and related items.  Their pots are 18ml, which is significantly more than GW (12), a bit less than Foundry (20), and substantially less than Howard Hues (30) or a Hobby brand such as Americana (54).   Still a decent deal for $2.99 for paints, and $3.25 for washes.

BATTLEFRONT MINIS
Dust Tactics still looks like an interesting game, but like Dystopian Legions, it's the one or two models that win me over, not the entire line.  The new bunker guns look great for Victorian Sci-Fi or Gnomes, although $45 is a bit steep.

BLUE PANTHER
Hex dice tray                ....................  $20.00
WW2 dice tower          ....................  $20.00

CHESSEX
Don't know if it's new designs or a basic restock or a price increase but there are a lot of dice listed.

CRYPTOZOIC ENTERTAINMENT
Adventure Time Card Wars .......................... $20.00
Ender's Game Battle School Board Game ......$25.00
Assassin's Creed Board Game  ......................$50.00
Archer board game             ...........................  $40.00
The Hobbit Desolation of Smaug Board Game $40.00

CUBICLE 7
Advanced Fighting Fantasy RPG - Blacksands ..... $24.99
Hobbit Tales Card Game               ........................$29.99
Doctor Who: The Gamemasters Companion ..........$34.99
Rocket Age: Blood Red Mars Expansion ...............$29.99
World War Cthulhu: Europe Ablaze .......................$24.99

DGS
More Freeblades, probably from the Kickstarter.  Still trying to wrap my head around $7 individual minis, regardless of strength or power, and how a mounted fig is only $2 more.
Fantasy Flight
Winter Tales ......................................................... $49.95
A narrative storytelling and fairy tales adventure board game

Star Wars Rpg: Edge Of The Empire - Enter The Unknown  $29.95

GAMES WORKSHOP
Warhammer 40k: Apocalypse                       GAW 40-03-60...........................$74.25
Chaos Space Marine Khorne Lord Of Skulls GAW 43-20..............................$160.00
Imperial Guard Baneblade                             GAW 47-24..............................$140.00
Necron Tesseract Vault                                 GAW 49-19..............................$160.00
Imperial Targeting Templates                         GAW 40-48................................$25.00
Wall Of Martyrs Aquila Strongpoint              GAW 64-59..............................$115.00
Wall Of Martyrs Firestorm Redoubt              GAW 64-58................................$65.00
Wall Of MartyrsVengeance Weapon Battery GAW 64-57................................$50.00

Nice, inexpensive items.

Gamesmith
Twelve Days                 .................. $15.00
From James Ernest

Green Ronin
Mutants and Masterminds Deluxe Heroes Sourcebook  ....................$39.95

Lost Shade
Inexpensive dice bags for once. satin/fur 4x6   2.99/3.49

Louis Porter Jr Designs
Pathfinder: Horrific Fears

Mantic
The Ogre Army is solicited this month, and the figures look a bit... stiff.  Like each figure should have kung-fu grip stiff.  Still, if you want a full army with fewer figures, this one's for you!

Ogre Army... 19 total figures  for $74.99
Ogre Shoots    3 figures for 29.99 (I hope they're metal)
Ogre Warriors 6 figures for 29.99

Mayfair
Settlers Of Catan: Explorers And Pirates  5-6 Player Extension  $29.99

Offworld Designs
Another "accessory" item that rarely gets any love: the quality t-shirt Offworld is offering a Pathfinder t-shirt, as well as the Dork Tower "Your dice really do hate you."  No prices, but if they aren't in the concert tee category, it's worth it to stock a couple.

Osprey
Bolt Action Armies of Italy and the Axis......................................$24.95

Paizo Publishing
Pathfinder Adventure Path: Wrath Of The Righteous Part 4 - The Midnight Isles $22.99
Pathfinder Campaign Cards: Chase Cards 2 - Hot Pursuit!                                 $10.99
Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Inner Sea Npc Codex                                           $19.99
Pathfinder Pawns: Bestiary 3 Box                                                                       $39.99
Pathfinder Flip Mat: Wasteland                                                                          $10.99
Pathfinder Player Companion:  Magical Marketplace                                          $12.99
Pathfinder Module:  Tears At Bitter Manor                                                         $24.99

Palladium
Robotech RPG Tactics
Another groovy game that had nice buzz at GenCon.  I would love to see Palladium pull this one off.   $90.00 core set   $30.00 for each other set to expand our forces.

Pelgrane Press
Trail of Cthulhu - Eternal Lies        ..........................   $39.95

Steve Jackson Games
Chupacabra: Survive the Night Dice Game               $19.95
Munchkin Apocalypse: Mars Attacks Booster Pack   $5.95
Munchkin Pathfinder: Gobsmacked Booster Pack      $5.95
Zombie Dice: Deluxe Game                                      $24.95

Stronghold Games
Space Sheep  $49.95
This company has a good number of run-of -the-mill, possibly overpriced, board games, but I'm a sucker for a good sheep game.  We all have our weaknesses.

Warlord Games
Another slew of new product for all their lines, including some sweet looking WW2 Tanks in 25mm.  The problem is the dreaded "PI" (Please Inquire) for all their prices.  More work for the customer, and a smaller profit margin for the retailer (PI is a set discount from the distributor, many times significantly less than the normal discount, which is usually determined by sales volume.)

Wizards of the Coast
Dungeons & Dragons: Lords Of Waterdeep Board Game - Scoundrels Of Skullport Expansion $39.95
Dungeons & Dragons: Murder In Baldur’s Gate        $34.95

I'm getting that dying days of TSR/2nd Edition vibe again with these products, and D&DNext won't be for another year?  Not good...


WizKids
As usual, just the listing...
Dc Heroclix: Superman Quick-start Kit  2-pack
Mage Knight Board Game: Krang Character Expansion
Marvel Heroclix: The Invincible Iron Man
Marvel Heroclix: Thor - The Dark World Movie Expansion
Pathfinder Battles Builder Series: Undead Horde
Pathfinder Battles: Legends Of Golarion Standard Booster Brick (8)
Star Trek Attack Wing: Expansion Packs
Star Trek Heroclix Tactics: Series III

Z-Man Games
Another wide range of products that vary between pretty decent and poor.  My biggest gripe is the re-release of Ricochet Robots.  It was the one game that was on the shelf at Griffon Games when I got hired long ago, and it was still there when we closed the doors... after an 80% off sale.