Precis Intermedia Promo

I'd like to give a shout-out to Precis Intermedia who offer paper minis and plastic stands to hold them up (they also offer a range of RPGs).

So, you've seen Jackson's Cardboard Heroes before, and possibly run across PEG's Cardstock Cowboys. Meh, right?

What makes Precis Intermedia such a great option for those making the jump to Cardboard Miniatures is that they can sell them to you like the others do, as sheets of cut-outs in PDF format, or you can pick the miniatures you want and only download them.

So if you need, say, an army of Confederate troopers, perhaps thirty to forty of them, and maybe half a dozen NCOs and an officer, you download the NCOs and the Officer and you also download the trooper in what's called an Army Deal, basically a print of multiples of the same mini on a page.

Let's say you are running a game of Deadlands:Reloaded and you would like for the players to go tactical (as in start a combat on the grid on the table using perhaps the excellent Chessex Battlemat) but then get overrun and caught up in the equivalent of Picket's Charge, you can do that.

Savage Worlds offers a great way to have umptytump figures on the table without it taking all day to work out what they look like and what they can do. The officers and NCOs are special cases but even they are just modified mooks ("extras" in Savage Worlds-ese) that take no time at all to stat up.

And now Precis Intermedia offers a way to get the figures you'll need on the table without the need to set aside a year or two for sourcing, buying and painting the army.

Because, lets face it, you are hardly going to need those minis very often after this. You aren't a Civil War wargamer, you are a Deadlands:Reloaded GM. And most of those minis are on the table in order fo rthe players to kill them. Why waste hours or days painting a mini that is designed from the ground up to last maybe less than one game turn?

The bags of plastic stands can come with some sticker shock, but a bag of a hundred works out to just under 2.5 cents each, and they'll be misplaced before they wear out.

Everyone loves a well-painted miniature on the tabletop, and there are some beautiful miniatures that make every warm-blooded GMs juices start flowing. I have boxes full of 'em.

What I don't have in much supply is painting talent or time. Or, if I'm honest, the desire to paint minis any more. I collected GW armies in the past and the assembly-line technique that is required for them pretty much killed the pleasure I got from the finished articles.

Yes I still buy evocative Zulu War-era British minis because I love them and can visualize them making a brave last stand against a horde of savage High Martians (in a Space 1889 game).

But most of those actions that have seen the tabletop have been fought using the cardboard minis that came with the Space 1889 supplements.

Resources:

Precis Intermedia

Pinnacle Entertainment Group (PEG) - home of Savage Worlds

Chessex Battlemats and Megamats