Check out the box size!
holy crap your right... that is huge.
That's huge.
The VSD doesn't look all that big.. in fact its way smaller than I thought. Its not any bigger than the Decimator.
Its not any bigger than the Decimator.
I'm still guessing 5 inches for the VSD. The same size as the Falcon.
****. Definitely deeper than Descent's.
So if they keep the scale right, the Imperial SD should be damned impressive.
From the Team Covenant Video:
How big are you guys eventually going to go?
Uh, all depends on how popular [this goes]
An ISD would be about the size of, like, this table right?
If it was in scale. We have relative scale, ‘cuz obviously nobody wants to spend $400 on a…
Right around 9:04.
So this means:
1: FFG is aware of the cost and aren't greedily rubbing their hands together plotting a $x00 star destroyer to offer, because they are reasonable.
2: Relative scale. Word of God, they are not beholden to making everything absolutely true to scale, so we can have our toys at the expense of hearing the scale-heads whining about it... before someone makes accurate scale ships on shapeways.
Norse...from the video I hear it to mean they will be going bigger for sure. This game will sell a ton. An ISD is slightly less than 2X the size of the Victory correct? That's not a super huge unit so it should be affordable to field a few in a Epic game.
I firmly believe the are using a relative scale based on an affordable ISD model from the very beginning.
I would rather have a "close enough" scale and have it affordable than holy sh@#! thats huge but I don't have $1,500 dollars in my pocket at the moment to spend on that...
I firmly believe the are using a relative scale based on an affordable ISD model from the very beginning.
If I'd been in their shoes, that'd be one of the requirements I'd be working from - something along the lines of:
1) The ISD has to be bigger enough from the core-set VSD to be visually "bigger"...but reasonable enough that people can easily afford multiple copies of it (I'd guess they were aiming at the Falcon/Slave-1/Lambda-shuttle $30 MSRP for it)
2) We have to be able to release a super-star destroyer.
3) The Corellian Corvette has to be big enough to 'look cool', and that someone would still be willing to pay $15 (typical standalone expansion pricing) for.
...and then 'make everything else fit' in relation to the curve you get from that.
Well they can't make the ISD too expensive I need to buy at least three!
I firmly believe the are using a relative scale based on an affordable ISD model from the very beginning.
If I'd been in their shoes, that'd be one of the requirements I'd be working from - something along the lines of:
1) The ISD has to be bigger enough from the core-set VSD to be visually "bigger"...but reasonable enough that people can easily afford multiple copies of it (I'd guess they were aiming at the Falcon/Slave-1/Lambda-shuttle $30 MSRP for it)
I'd guess pricing on the VSD will be equal to the X-Wing Decimator ($39.95) and the business guy in me thinks the pricing on the Decimator was set at that level in part so they could price the VSD there. Pricing and product positioning are very important.
Guessing the ISD will be $69.95 since it should be about twice the size. If the VSD is 6" the ISD should be 11.5" (approx.) so don't rip me for not doing the exact calculations based on cannon numbers!
Not sure how a Super fits in size and game play wise. It's so huge even in relative scale it would need to be 20" or more to look good plus how would you work in the power of a ship that size?