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Thursday, January 04, 2007

Tholian Attack

I am finishing up the last bits of FEDERATION COMMANDER: THOLIAN ATTACK even now.

Well, designing them. There is a lot more to a new product any more than there used to be.

After I finish the rulebook (by this weekend so the last playtest round can start) we need a full-bore production meeting. We need to figure out the final contents of Tholian Attack (will it have map panels and which ones? or something other than map panels?), but more than that. One sheet of laminated color cards will cover the 16 ships, and the second sheet will cover the bonus ships plus any ships we are short of plus possibly some ships for future products plus maybe a special ship or something. In theory, there might be space for the Franz Joseph booster (but that gets into complicated issues that the plastic zocchi ships are no longer available in quantities to support such a release and within a few months will be totally gone, unless maybe Lou makes some more). If it turns out that I need a reference card for tholian attack, I wil have to print the second sheet at the same time as the first one, and that causes cash flow problems, unless we don't print new maps at the same time....

More than that, thanks to Ken's brilliant product concept (no sarcasm there, trust me) we also have to schedule the production of new miniatures to fill the various squadron boxes, fleet box, and border box.

And then, this very web site has to be reworked to add a Tholian Page and a Tholian Attack page. Plus Vanessa needs to do an alert and some new banners and maybe a new new google keyword search. Sigh. The modern business world is exciting, but overwhelming as well.