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RE: Are we excited?
Indeed, the target currently is a new release every 14 days! The limiting factors are 1. printernator capacity (already exceeded, CSA Navy's book had to be outsourced) 2. limited laser-cutting capacity (but with the laser, we can now look forward to 30, 55, 97 unit countersheets, we are no longer tied to the old cardboard dimensions) 3. the complete drying up of creative juices 4.Tornados and Deaths 4. the rent for the new facility going way up 6. a severe double-dip recession. 7. a supernova wiping out the earth.
Limiting factors. It still costs a fortune to die cut 500-2000 sets of countersheets for a boxed game. Making the big mistake once can severely hurt the publisher. The black box solution saves some money, but still costs and so supplies of them are deliberately kept limited. (Wholesaler orders for KSF were apparently not as good as anticipated, which means Black boxes are available for the boxed release of Remember the Maine) Traditional large paper-maps are also apparently pricey, see the cardboard maps for Coral Sea and Pacific Crossroads.
The upshot: the future of supplements looks very rosey, and the long drought of counters is over, provided we are happy with laser cut counters. Boxed games remain something of a question mark. They will require continued growth of new funds through lots of supplement sales.
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