Reply To: [unofficial weekender] Don't panic, stay inside, do your backlog of minis

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Opening pledge: to get some figures from a held project done

Good news! Digging through hobby stuff that I pulled from storage has yielded both my Milliput black AND Apoxiesculpt  amid my minis. I’m set well beyond summer for modelling putty.

For the questions:

• Physically I’m well. Emotionally it sucks at the moment
• I’ve been laid off for two weeks. Being a temp there’s no paid leave opportunity like the full timers. I’ll be filing for unemployment benefits Monday. This sucks after finding new work post move and getting the first paycheck.
• A mini game that would do with a videogame interpretation could be Infinity. With the same response dynamics of Xcom and then add in hacking elements it might work. A bright and shiny urban setting with ultra high tech combat sounds close to Fortnite but it has possibility.

@sundancer Wartile was a fun purchase from Steam. Pretty good for the short time that I plugged into it. For videogaming Super Dungeon Explore Tactics was another good title to pull from Steam.

Noseblower Prognostication, Giftmas will be the best time of this year for gaming purchases. The summer con schedule is shot. Big time exposure has been flattened but the events online will help. CMON, Noble Knight and others that get stock of OOP games/merchandise will likely have quite a selection to offer if small companies get shot down and fold. From the void in the market umbrella consolidation will occur. We see it with the likes of Hasslefree getting rights to other sculpt linew and Warmonger getting rights to some of Foundry’s figures (yes quite old news but worth rehash). There is hope for the future as the sculpt line for Confrontation came back from its ashes as Legends of Signum. The whole of “flattening the curve” for the pandemic means extended timelines of recovery for yhe industry behind our hobby.

China already has the majority of us by the short and curlies from the global manufacturing aspect unless you look at GW or home production. With government shut down of postal services, Spain notably from Kickstarter info I’ve got, there might also be impediments to shipping to FLGS stocking around the world. Continued direct purchases will be the best way to keep businesses afloat to weather this.