@Imperious-Leader said in Is Field Marshal Games still around?:
@IWillNeverGrowUp right. no meaning FMG is gone
Ah yes, well, this thread is from 2023.
Not quite sure why questions about IWNGU were placed here to resurrect this thread but, not my call.
@moralecheck said in Is Field Marshal Games still around?:
@Imperious-Leader Oh, geez. It sounds like it was a rough ride.
I have to assume IL is saying “no” to FMG not being around.
IWNGU was great while it lasted (10 years) but life gets in the way and the decision was made to shelf the company, going out while we were still riding high.
@moralecheck said in Is Field Marshal Games still around?:
@IWillNeverGrowUp I tried your site today. It’s still down from the postal strike. Will it be returning or have you pretty much sold out? Tx
We’re done. We have very limited stock left and there are far too many uncertainties to even consider reopening.
@bismarckable said in Is Field Marshal Games still around?:
@IWillNeverGrowUp sad to hear if what happened to your business, best of luck
Thanks! I was hesitant at first, but I think I made the right choice. It was just far too much work and headache for something that was making very little extra cash.
Dear I Will Never Grow Up Customers and Friends,
After a great deal of consultation, calculation and soul searching, we at I Will Never Grow Up Games have made the difficult decision to wind down operations for at least the forseeable future. While we do not rule out returning to the scene in the future, at this point in time we have decided to clear out inventory and shutter our online store.
Having been in operation for a little over 10 years we have seen many ups and downs in the gaming community and industry and have weathered all of it as best we could. Unfortunately, this small business has lost it’s “fun” as a hobby and is not viable enough to operate as a full time business and so, with heavy heart, we must concentrate on what’s most important; friends, family and our lives outside of the hobby business.
We will continue to be active in the community and absolutely continue to enjoy playing games as much as the rest of you. We will also continue to offer our flagship products, the Industrial Production Chip, Metal Flight Stands and Combat Dice through retail outlets such as Historical Board Gaming and Noble Knight Games as much as they see fit to continue to do so. We will also continue to offer our own game designs through the print on demand services provided by The Game Crafter.
Beginning Tuesday, June 27th, 2023, all items available in our webstore will be on clearance, from 20-50% or more off regular price. All sales will be final, and when an item is gone, it will not be replaced!
On a personal note, I have enjoyed creating and sharing games and game accessories with the community over the past decade and if everything aligns at some point we may see a return of I Will Never Grow Up Games to the retail space.
Keep gaming friends! We’ll see you around.
James Campbell
I Will Never Grow Up Games
www.iwillnevergrowup.com
It absolutely can work, and work well.
Robert Otto created one in May 2022 called Total Civil War 1861-1865 and had it produced in limited quantities as a full boxed set … but at $350 a copy it was expensive (though considering only about 50 … maybe 100 … were printed, it makes sense to me (as a publisher)).
Unfortunately I don’t think he plans on doing it again and the website he had for taking orders is no longer available.
As for why it wasn’t released by MB/Wizards/Et.al. is probably because of a lower demand (even if only perceived) vs other projects. They also pretty much abandoned anything new or novel for the line quite a long time ago and just updated or tweaked and rehashed everything repeatedly. Their last great ‘innovation’ was A&A Zombies. Now that it’s in the hands of Renegade Games, who knows; they’re more open to new games.
Yup, FMG closed it’s doors several years ago and we (I Will Never Grow Up Gaming) are the ones who have all remaining stock.
Historical Board Gaming also sells some FMG Combat Dice as our US reseller.
I Will Never Grow Up has (mostly) completed a major relocation and renovations to our new, permanent home just in time to also celebrate our 10th anniversary serving the board gaming community!
As such we are having our Grand Re Opening + 10th Anniversary Sale, on now until February 28th!
Save on a selection of items, while supplies last!
Due to high volume, orders will take longer than normal to ship out. Please be patient and thank you for your understanding.
http://www.iwillnevergrowup.com
@iwillnevergrowup said in I Will Never Grow Up moving AGAIN - Permanent location inbound!:
I Will Never Grow Up Games is moving once more, for the final time to a permanent location!
As a result, we will have very little stock available during the transition and new orders will be slower than usual to ship as we renovate/remodel the new location and prepare to move.
We hope to have everything back up and running 100% as of Dec 1.
Thank you for your business and your patience during this disruption!
Well, as you may (or may not) have noticed, we did not get everything sorted by December 1st.
Our new, Relocation Grand Re-Opening AND 10th Anniversary Sale will begin on January 15th (to February 28), 2023!
I will note, Renegade doesn’t make any games with plastic units. That would seem to be a pretty big hurdle to me to taking on A&A. At this point, maybe that is just fire and forget for the old stuff as its all subcontracted to China, which has all the old molds and production down pat. But anything new, and easy to see renegade losing its shirt.
I wouldn’t say they don’t make ANY games with plastic “units”. There are at least three;
Dead Men Tell No Tales
My Fathers Work
Power Rangers Heroes of the Grid
And it looks like maybe their GI Joe game may have some in there …
Admittedly not in the hundreds of pieces like A&A, but they are highly detailed molded miniatures (including a fancy separate miniatures pack upgrade for DMTNT).
TBH, for a publisher the size of Renegade, they’d have zero issues dealing with plastic minis. If a small time publisher like me can manage without any hurdles (if I could get the funding that is), they can as well. COST would be something that they’d have to factor in but that’s beyond our knowledge as we have no idea how well capitalized they may be or what their risk tolerance is.
I Will Never Grow Up Games is moving once more, for the final time to a permanent location!
As a result, we will have very little stock available during the transition and new orders will be slower than usual to ship as we renovate/remodel the new location and prepare to move.
We hope to have everything back up and running 100% as of Dec 1.
Thank you for your business and your patience during this disruption!
@johnson73 said in can not Register on FMG website:
@panther Didn’t FMG go out of business?
Quite a few years back now, yes. I cant believe the url is still active as neither owners maintain the business now.
We’ve come in to a lot of 1/144 scale Dragon Models modern Armed Forces vehicles and are selling them off!
https://iwillnevergrowup.com/product-category/minis/minis-other/
All in quantity and some in either Desert or Camo patterns!
@tvarberg said in China - placing new infantry:
@panther said in China - placing new infantry:
Every power that will not be attacked and that maximizes (or at least tries to maximize) their IPC gains and unit builts will be able to achieve huge amounts of units
Yes, you are very right.
My point is just that the China rules to me are very unclear (in terms of Mobilize New Units)
And that you can just over come the “max three or more rule” by moving China’s units and make space for the new units.Thought I misunderstood the rules, but seems like it’s not the case because basically we are on the same page in terms of the rules I can see.
You are correct. As long as there are no units in a Chinese territory, they can place up to 3 units there during mobilization. So if you move all units out of a territory, you can then place your new units there, and repeat this ad-nauseum.
It’s not overpowered though as Chinese units can not leave China, so if this is happening chances are Japan is ignoring China anyway (as they can easily go around and ignore it). So go ahead a load up those infantry in China. If they are being completely ignored by Japan (I frequently ignore China as Japan), they’ll sit there, completely useless.
@dsumner said in Sci-fi themed A&A like games?:
Each turn being 6 Months is just there as time frame players would be familiar with, as I’m trying not to make things to complicated
Just make each turn a “turn”/“round” of the game. No need to attach an arbitrary time to it. Even a turn/round timeframe in A&A is debated (I personally don’t see it as any set amount of real-world time, others see it as a set number of months, etc).
@general-6-stars said in Is this Kickstarter now officially dead?:
@iwillnevergrowup said in Is this Kickstarter now officially dead?:
To be honest, I (thankfully) avoided backing from the start because there was, imho (as a publisher) no realistic way this game was being made (properly anyway) for the funding goal they were asking for. Not in my experience at least, though I’d be happy to be wrong.
4 years later and the prices have only skyrocketed on absolutely every step of the manufacturing, freight and delivery process making it even less likely. Plus the constant changes to the game since funding boggles my mind. Wasn’t the game done and ready to go before it was put up for funding?
I feel for those who backed this. I really do. This is a horrible situation and a stain on the entire industry when things like this happen.
That said, I really really DO hope that I’m entirely wrong and you all get your game. Eric did post in the kickstarter comments yesterday.
You got a link to where this Eric posted in Kickstarter comments ?
Yup, as Panther replied with.
Unfortunately, the comment update (which is par for the course it seems … updates where it takes work to find) essentially says the exact same thing he was saying back in 2019 with the pieces finally (?) prepped for the mold process (as they were also in 2019 and 2020). You know; stuff that should have been ready to go when the funding wrapped up if not within a couple of months of.
Honestly … there is zero excuse for this having taken 4+ years and still nothing of substance to show. (in my opinion).
To be honest, I (thankfully) avoided backing from the start because there was, imho (as a publisher) no realistic way this game was being made (properly anyway) for the funding goal they were asking for. Not in my experience at least, though I’d be happy to be wrong.
4 years later and the prices have only skyrocketed on absolutely every step of the manufacturing, freight and delivery process making it even less likely. Plus the constant changes to the game since funding boggles my mind. Wasn’t the game done and ready to go before it was put up for funding?
I feel for those who backed this. I really do. This is a horrible situation and a stain on the entire industry when things like this happen.
That said, I really really DO hope that I’m entirely wrong and you all get your game. Eric did post in the kickstarter comments yesterday.
Added - UK/Canadian River Class Frigate
Hey! We’re looking at the possibility of adding replacement roundels and/or custom roundels to our lineup and I was wondering what kind of roundels anyone would be interested in and what price point would be acceptable (either individually or in sheets of 15).
We’re looking at 19mm round, 2mm thick punchboard, just like you get in the game so it would match your OOB setup well.
Drop your ideas here and we’ll see what we can do if the demand actually exists!