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DRM newsletter
July 2007

Welcome to another newsletter.

So where do I start? Well, this newsletter comes not only to update people with all the usual news, but also bring you details of several releases which will take place in the coming weeks. Not only that but I am happy to welcome two new retailers who will be stocking our products both online & in brick & mortar Stores too. So rather than ramble on I will get on with all the various bits of news for this month!

Rules & Army Lists
Updated Rules, Stats, Reference sheets and force organisation.

V2.5 of the rule set has recently been released and has had a massive overhaul. The rules are really coming together and I would like to thank all those out there who sent in emails and even files to help update the rule set. So a big thank you for all the effort.

The stats and reference sheets have also been revised based on play testing and ensuring that you have the rules at a glimpse. I hope these work well and any comments, please feel free to make good use of the forums, or drop me a line.

The force organisations for all three races are now available, finally showing you how we see each army working and at what “points cost” to the player. There are still some question marks where these units are still being reviewed as our own playtest time is limited - so get involved! As soon as we are confident that the points allocated are reasonable, the file will be updated.

As already mentioned, any comments on the various documents please send them in! Its always great to hear people’s comments so that the review and development of the rules can continue to build on what we have so far.

New Retailers

We’d like to extend a Hearty welcome to two new DRM Stockists this month.

Battlefield Berlin now stocks the full range of Dark Realm Miniatures, which are available both from the website or via the shop itself.

And in case you were thinking DRM doesn’t get around enough, we now also have a representative on the other side of the world! “Australian Veteran Wargaming Supplies”, who will be online soon with a brand new website & store. When I know more details as to when everything goes live for Australia I will let you know.

New Releases
In our last newsletter people saw the picture below. Well, I’m pleased to say the various codes for this brand new set of terrain will be available by the time you have read this newsletter.

Alien Terrain Pict

 

Alien Terrain Release

Name

Code

Parts per blister

UK / US Price

Main Module

TA0001

2

£5 / $10.25

Tunnel Variant 1

TA0002

5

£5.5 / $11.25

Tunnel Variant 2

TA0003

6

£5 / $10.25

Tunnel Joints

TA0004

7

£5.50 / $11.25

Alien Terrain Bits

TA0005

9

£5 / $10.25

3 Alien Towers

TA0006

9

£10 / $20.50

View all of these items in our online store.

Army Deals

I know that many people have expressed their interest in being able to purchase army deals - especially since the Force Organisations went online! To that end a number of army deals have been devised for each of the current races.

They’ve all been designed with 3 things in mind.

1) They obviously have to be useable and in accordance with the Force Orgs!

2) They all provide complete forces, without any spare or leftover models, so you’re not paying for extras to complete any formations.

3) They save you as much ££/$$ as we can afford to give you!

Please note these deals have been designed to monetary, rather than points levels as these are still open to change. One force may not be “balanced” against another right out the box, but the savings are the same for all!

Available next week the following army deals can be bought exclusively via our website:

£25 Army Deals (saving over 10%)

Available for Andrayada, Kraytonian and Pax Arcadian Humans. For example:

Pax Arcadian Forces

1 Commander in Ramjack Transports

2 Shock Troop Platoons

1 Fire Support platoon with Sorensons

1 Fire Support platoon with Dragon MLs in Hammerjacks

 See HERE for details of all Deals.

 £50 army deals (almost 25% off!)

Available for Andrayada, Kraytonian and Pax Arcadian Humans. For example:

Andrayada Forces

1 Alpha Commander

2 Infantry Cohorts

2 Heavy Cohorts

2 Vanguard Cohorts with Lieutenants

1 Vanguard Cohort without Lieutenant

2 Velite Cohorts

2 Verger Cohorts

1 Vorace Cohort

1 Voran Cohort

 See HERE for details of all Deals.

 £100 army deals (at least 33% extra free!)

Available for Andrayada, Kraytonian and Pax Arcadian Humans. For example:

Kraytonian Forces

1 Commander

1 Aurika squadron

3 monitor Broods

1 Heavy Brood

1 Medium Brood

1 Ketzali Brood

2 Rakkat Broods

1 Kameli Brood

1 Gara Team which include Kameli

2 Arkalest Squadrons

2 Arka Batteries

2 Arkiten Wings

1 Arkator Wing

1 Aryx

See HERE for details of all Deals.

As soon as these are packaged, I will that make all these deals available & let people know. They should all be online next week.

Due to the huge discounts, these deals are only available via our website & we unfortunately cannot afford to offer them to retailers at trade discount (we‘d be paying you to buy our minis - I’m afraid not even DRM is that nice, though we do our best!).

There are some great savings to be had and a brilliant way to start your army from scratch.

Please note:

DRM’s casting & packaging was set up before the game came into existence. Thus, some blisters unfortunately don’t match the makeup of formations in the force Orgs. These army deals are the most economical method to provide gamers with complete forces without them having any spare or leftover models. If the game & sales go well, we will start making some big changes to our casting & packaging (which may well be a slow process as the range is already quite large!) to better fit the game design, but until then I‘m afraid you‘ll have to survive saving large piles of money buying army deals ;o) .

More information on the deals next week commencing 23 rd July.