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Sick of waiting - Why not MAKE a *FREE* starter box for your FLGS?
« on: September 12, 2017, 04:35:35 PM »
I've been laid up with a knee injury, and CGL has - irritated me.  So, I'm considering what it would take to MAKE a intro box set, with fan-produced content only, to see if I can start some interest locally.

I'd include a copy of the free online introductory rules, Worktroll's Army reports, and a sheet of the mech icons from MegaMek.  I'm a little hung up on the hex maps, given that I wouldn't want to just copy standard maps.  I suppose I could supply a blank hex sheet suitable for photocopy, with a card explaining how to draw on your own map.

There are plenty of online resources, from Sarna to fan-produced TROs, that would provide a basic TRO for the cost to print, while binding is a simple matter of a drill and jobber bit to fit a ring binder (or use page protectors if you're rich - and it could hold a record sheet between TRO pages).

I could even provide a "introductory" TRO of a dozen sheets, from one of the fan TROs.

Thoughts, opinions?
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Re: Sick of waiting - Why not MAKE a *FREE* starter box for your FLGS?
« Reply #1 on: September 12, 2017, 10:42:42 PM »
Have a look at what Ulisses Spiele (the German rights owner) did with their "starter box" - albeit very pricey (50 Euros). The cardboard cutouts are a brilliant touch, except they wussed on a mix of colour & line art for the images.

(Oh, and using 20-odd year old Citytech 2 plastic minis, which must have been mouldering in a bunker somewhere ... not new production)

On a less formal note, printing the free QSRs here are a good start. Add to them the other things you're mentioning, and you'd have a good intro pack.

And yes, feel free to use the Intro Rules. The trick is to print the PDF in booklet form, both sides - they come out as handy-dandy A5 booklets.
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Re: Sick of waiting - Why not MAKE a *FREE* starter box for your FLGS?
« Reply #2 on: September 13, 2017, 01:36:19 AM »
Total budget for this project (an individual box); $0  (But I can dream.)

Some of it will have to be printed, but if I go back to work (not for a while) I have a print allowance and admission to the general photocopy account.  The big thing will be time, and convincing the owners to let me put something on the rack by the door.
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Re: Sick of waiting - Why not MAKE a *FREE* starter box for your FLGS?
« Reply #3 on: September 13, 2017, 06:33:46 PM »
True fact - in 2000, when I heard FASA was shutting down, I used the crude internet resources of the day to grab hold of all PDF copies of FASA product I could lay my hands on. I was working for a government department, who had industrial-level printers and enormous quantities of used ring binders.

I ended up divesting myself of them around the time I became an 'official' volunteer, to a friend of my son's who was interested. Shortly after that, the local game distributor (MilSims) ended up stopping carrying BT books, and liquidated their stock for peanuts, and I now have about 90% official in dead tree.

So the answer is obvious - get a job with the government! :0
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