Daily Archives: August 15, 2012

15mm.co.uk sponsors HOTT Zaragoza tournament 2012!

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I am pleased to announce that 15mm.co.uk is an official sponsor of the 2012 Zaragosa HOTT 2nd Edition tournament to be held in Spain on 15th September. The tournament is to be held in Zaragosa and expects more than twenty active players on the day. Working with organiser Ignacio Poblador several prizes have been supplied for the winners of the event including two 24AP complete HOTT Armies and some HOT packs of 15mm Fantasy miniatures. In addition to this 15mm.co.uk has supplied a special voucher for all players on the day which will get them 10% off an order on the website.

Here is the information for the event which, along with a transation into spanish will appear on 15mm.co.uk later this week.

I Torneo de HotT Zaragoza “Vamos a Chichimequear”

Date: Saturday, September 15

Place: The neighbor of the beast, located in Luis López Allué No. 6

Game schedule:

9: 30 – Reception of players
10: 00-11: 00 – 1St round
11: 15-12: 15 – 2Nd round
12: 30-13: 30 – 3Rd round
FOOD
17: 00-18: 00 – 4Th round
18: 15-19: 15 – 5Th round

Price: 10€ (Payment in hand the same day of the tournament)

Rules:
-Rules, version 2.0.
-We accept all the land available in the regulation unless the BUA.

Army lists:
They will be delivered at the time of registration, with armies of 24 AP according to the rules of the game (12 point maximum in troops of 3 or more AP).

Scale:
The armies must be based for 15 mm scale, its size being that the player you prefer (although we recommend the use of 15 mm or similar).

In case of not having the player of an army, the Organization will have several armies in order to assist participants who have warned him previously. However, do not have strengths for these armies day today, so yes we would need that they trajesen their own strengths (are DBA camps or prepared itself).

Score
The classification will be sorted according to the number of WINS/losses, and in the event of a tie, with the difference between points killed / lost points.

Awards

-Rated first
-Runner-up
-Third classified
-Better painted army
-Best army
-Kills General
-Wooden spoon
-Possible surprise prizes as receive from sponsor.

You can view the original page with this information in Spanish here: http://laarmada.info/index.php?topic=19502.0

Adios!

GBS

Advertising in Miniature Wargames Issue 352 – Results!

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Following up on last months look at the result of 15mm.co.uk advertising in Miniature Wargames Issue 351 it’s time for a round up on the advert placed in Miniature Wargames Issue 352.  You can follow the link backs to previous posts to see those results and the advert in question but it was an advert for the Altuos 15mm Renaissance range of white metal historical miniatures.

Last month’s look at the results of magazine advertising were positive in fact 15mm.co.uk has continued to receive orders citing the USE ME advert right up to this week.  So quite happy there. However the response to the Altous advert have been quite frankly a disaster.  Enquiries and orders citing the advert were virtually non existent and the level of sales for the Altuos range actually fell 25% overall during the calendar month of the advert.  How the advert actually reduced sales is beyond my ability to understand but I expect (and hope) they were not connected.  Web views on those pages relevant ran about 10% down on the month before but total visits remained the same.  Based on the results of last months questionnaire on the Notables Yahoo Group it seemed that outside of the UK few read MW magazine and many prefer to get content online too.  But there was a solid core of players who read it each month.

The 15mm Renaissance range is fairly popular for 15mm.co.uk.  Not on the same level as HOF 15mm Science Fiction and Laserburn but it more than holds its own for players of FOG and DBM and so on in the historical gaming clubs and societies across the world.

Frankly this has left me rather glum and puzzled.  Comments and thoughts welcome on this by reply or by email.

So what is the link between advertising and figure / rules choice for wargamers?

GBS