GMT moves into mounted boards

would you also put in the hours to make the counters and type up the rules?



I just clipped my 50,000th counter!

SenorOcho wrote:

Refusing to play a game due to its looks and refusing to pay $60 for a game that looks like something I could have printed on my own paper are two entirely different ballparks.

*shrug* GMT hasn't produced anything that looks like it was published by Winsome (which charges $40 for something that *is* more or less printed on your own paper--one of the charts for the Pampas Railroads reprint was actually printed on the back of a bunch of Bohrer's old emails to Clearclaw) in a decade...unless you've got a basement full of offset printing and die cutting gear, or at least a 36" high-res plotter, in your basement.

Judging by the fact that GMT continues to do business and expand the range and type of games that they publish leads me to believe that the bulk their customer base is just fine with paper maps. I'm a poster-frame user with paper maps personally--saves a lot of headaches with fold lines/valleys--a problem with every sort of map--and counter "stick", and really limits wear & tear on the maps [my old Squad Leader hardboards were worn white in some places, so I learned to put plexi over the mounted maps too]. Plus, that lip on the edge of your average frame reduces counter travel when someone inevitably bumps the table...

Paper Maps aren't worth wiping my royal ass with. Mount that thing you fucking cheapskate.

Mr Skeletor wrote:

Paper Maps aren't worth wiping my royal ass with. Mount that thing you fucking cheapskate.

Even if it adds a minimum of $15 to GMT's already fairly high prices? When MMP stopped producing mounted mapboards for ASL and moved to cardstock, they cited costs of $4+ board production costs. Since ASL boards are roughly 1/2 to 1/3rd the size of most GMT maps, I'd presume a minimum of $10+ added to production costs thus $15-20 to the base price. [And, before anyone cites Simmons games, Bonaparte @ Marengo maps were either $20 or $25 to buy a replacement, or roughly 1/2 the cost of the MSRP of the base game]

You want to pay $10-15 a map when you buy a game like Deluxe SPQR or other tactical gamers? They generally have 3-4 maps, if not more.

moss_icon wrote:

I just clipped my 50,000th counter!

It's only half as funny when it's true:

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/35357

Yes - I have clipped the counters on three different World in Flames games

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i see your point.