Rackham’s AT-43

I’ve been watching the arrival of another pre-painted miniatures game: Rackham’s AT-43. The starter box for this game will contain 19 plastic prepainted miniatures. The factions (so far) appear to be human and an undead-machine looking race. As regular readers of the blog may know, I am a firm believer and prepainted miniatures have the potential to transform the hobby,

The key to any successful introduction of prepainted miniatures will be price. Rackham has listed in the price of this game at $80. I must admit $80 is high but one must consider that the box includes rules as well as miniatures. Given that the box contains roundabout 20 figures for $80 that means the figures will run $4 each. Is $4 each too much for prepainted figures? I guess that depends on what others charge for unpainted figures.

A Reaper D&D miniature costs $3.99

A Striking Scorpion from Games Workshop costs $5

A Judge Dredd from Wargames Foundry costs $5.25

So I guess $4 per miniature isn’t a lot to pay. Too bad the price of the box is likely to scare some people away.