You know, producing plastic spaceships that get a light coating of simple paints isn't exactly a complex product.

For all this talk of product lines and such...we're talking a couple of models and a couple of paint schemes.

So: no.

Pedro can paint, he is quite talented, for a donkey with an international shipping company.

I predict (using the Force):

No articles THIS WEEK.

I predict (using the Force):

No articles THIS WEEK.

I predict that you are wrong. There will be plenty of articles this week.

One of them may even be ours.

Is FFG HQ open today? With it being a 'holiday' here, and with a lot of places being closed... We may not even see any articles posted today for any game let alone for our beloved plastic crack addiction.

I predict (using the Force):

No articles THIS WEEK.

I predict that you are wrong. There will be plenty of articles this week.

One of them may even be ours.

Hope leads to disappointment...

You know, producing plastic spaceships that get a light coating of simple paints isn't exactly a complex product.

For all this talk of product lines and such...we're talking a couple of models and a couple of paint schemes.

So: no.

It's actually a fairly complex product. I work with molding machines on a daily basis. It's not a simple matter to produce those models at the best of times (given they're not produced in a one-shot method, but built from several shot parts assembled on a production line later, before painting even happens). On top of that, unless FFG has a manufacturing behemoth counterpart over in China, they're likely running the entire series of models from all FFG SKUs in a rotation. I doubt they have a room full of IMMs for each product type. A machine might be making Armada CR90s one day, and X-wing TIE Fighters the next, and another could well be doing Mansions of Madness figures before doing a run of ISD parts. On top of that, you have resin issues and mold faults or retooling.

It's very complex.

Nope, still not a very complex product.

Nope, still not a very complex product.

Oh, well I'm convinced now.

I predict (using the Force):

No articles THIS WEEK.

I predict that you are wrong. There will be plenty of articles this week.

One of them may even be ours.

Hope leads to disappointment...

I am a glass always full kinda guy, half full with water and the rest full with air.

Woot! My local store just put Wave 5 on a preorder with an expected availability time of 11th November! And they had Wave 4 one week BEFORE the expected time. I'm starting to think positively

I predict (using the Force):

No articles THIS WEEK.

I predict that you are wrong. There will be plenty of articles this week.

One of them may even be ours.

Hope leads to disappointment...

I am a glass always full kinda guy, half full with water and the rest full with air.

But space is a vacuum.

Is FFG HQ open today? With it being a 'holiday' here, and with a lot of places being closed... We may not even see any articles posted today for any game let alone for our beloved plastic crack addiction.

What holiday???

Is FFG HQ open today? With it being a 'holiday' here, and with a lot of places being closed... We may not even see any articles posted today for any game let alone for our beloved plastic crack addiction.

What holiday???

Columbus Day, but the only people who get Columbus Day off work for the government or a bank.

Is FFG HQ open today? With it being a 'holiday' here, and with a lot of places being closed... We may not even see any articles posted today for any game let alone for our beloved plastic crack addiction.

What holiday???

Columbus Day, but the only people who get Columbus Day off work for the government or a bank.

My company observes Columbus Day as a floating holiday, so I could have taken off of work. And my contractor company has off today as well...

I didn't think anyone outside of the usual suspects observed that day

A lot of schools in the US use is as a "teacher workday".

FFG hopefully uses it as a "prep for Thursday's big Armada announcement day."

I didn't think anyone outside of the usual suspects observed that day

I work at a small startup biotech company. We observe 8 holidays, including Columbus and Presidents Day.

Is FFG HQ open today? With it being a 'holiday' here, and with a lot of places being closed... We may not even see any articles posted today for any game let alone for our beloved plastic crack addiction.

What holiday???

Columbo Day

Is FFG HQ open today? With it being a 'holiday' here, and with a lot of places being closed... We may not even see any articles posted today for any game let alone for our beloved plastic crack addiction.

What holiday???

Columbo Day

Nope, still not a very complex product.

You've clearly never seen a manufacturing facility from the inside; but hey, good luck with your unwillingness to understand things or acknowledge experience!

Nope, still not a very complex product.

You've clearly never seen a manufacturing facility from the inside; but hey, good luck with your unwillingness to understand things or acknowledge experience!

I know nothing about manufacturing, so I can't speak to Wave 5, but the campaign is just stickers and cardboard, right? Something I could get at Kinko's? (Sorry, FedEx Office)

There was this time when I went to the Eurocopter assembly factory (during war college). Looked fairly complex to me :-D

Oh, and I did work with logistics in the air force. That was pretty complex too, deploying overseas. All those bits and pieces and people.

But I'm just pulling you leg. Back to case.

There are undoubtedly real production lines. Real logistically challenges. But looking at it from a larger perspective, the number of parts is low, the tech involved is low, the overall logistics requirements are moderate.

Not negligible, but not overwhelming.

Or, judging by the number of armada delays, maybe I'm underestimating :-D

Nope, still not a very complex product.

You've clearly never seen a manufacturing facility from the inside; but hey, good luck with your unwillingness to understand things or acknowledge experience!

I know nothing about manufacturing, so I can't speak to Wave 5, but the campaign is just stickers and cardboard, right? Something I could get at Kinko's? (Sorry, FedEx Office)

Inside the Correllian Conflict box will be a bunch of sticky notes and a letter sized piece of paper with the link to the FFG website. Customers will find the PDF instructions and PDF board that they can print out on their own. They can also use the color coded sticky notes to update the board they printed out as the campaign progresses.

the 10 remaining objectives are just blanks. You make them up.

$29.99

Nope, still not a very complex product.

You've clearly never seen a manufacturing facility from the inside; but hey, good luck with your unwillingness to understand things or acknowledge experience!

I know nothing about manufacturing, so I can't speak to Wave 5, but the campaign is just stickers and cardboard, right? Something I could get at Kinko's? (Sorry, FedEx Office)

I'm with Soonerted on this one. No ships to deal with. If it isn't a part of wave 5, and by the paltry information FFG has released about it CC is it's own release, then it should be shipped sooner due to less technical hurdles in production. I mean, if it were a completely new kind of system I would understand, but this is merely a different set of items they already have in their game, just art and card text changes. Well, they DO have to learn how to deal with sticky paper, but they also already have that in their Imperial assault stuff, so that's not re-creating the wheel either.

Honestly, we all know they need SOMETHING armada out for Christmas....