Re: Question to all, re Mecha kits...

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Right off the bat, Size? For me, anything over 2 inches tall is pretty
much
a collecter's item not a gaming piece, and as such I skip right over.
The
New Gruntz Mech is too tall, for example.

On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 09:42, Ground Zero Games <jon@gzg.com> wrote:

> A quick hypothetical question to all out there in list-land -
> especially those of you who like Mecha-style units with your ground
> forces....
>

Votoms and Landmates yes. Gundam, no. Anything over 5 scale meters tall,
might as well paint a target on it.

> When you get a kit of a gaming mecha (something for use on the table,
> as opposed to a Gundam-type plastic kit for display), how important
> is "poseability" to you? By that I mean the flexibility to choose
> exactly how you pose your particular model when you build it, as
> opposed to having to assemble it in one fixed pose determined by the
> manufacturer.

> If you were faced with a white-metal Mecha kit with LOTS of parts -
> let's say anything up to 40 separate components - which effectively
> had almost every joint poseable, would you panic and never build it?
> Would you prefer to see it made up in a much smaller number of
> solid-cast subassemblies that were much quicker to glue together, but
> would result in a model that looked just like the next guy's one?
>

That depends, good joints then more is ok, crappy joints few is better.
It
all depends how much thought went in to those points.

-- 
Evyn