Are we excited?

[J6A]

Directly from Dr. B, it is taking so long to get all the KSF pre-orders orders out because their source for laser cuting is a small company which at the most can turn out 50 sets of counter sheets for KurskSF per week. If anything goes wrong, then zero sets per week (one week they could only produce one of the unit counter sheets, which meant no shipping for 7 days). As he said in the beginning laser cutting is good for short press run projects, but die cutting is the way to go with boxed games that sell by the thousand. Again he has stated that had he waited till he could afford a minimum sized die-cut printing of the countersheets funding wouldn't have allowed the order to be placed yet. KSF via laser was done in order to get the most pre-ordered project off the ground while AVP continues its upward climb to viability. Latest word is that the last of the pre-orders should be mailed out by the end of this month. Doing the math and doing a wag (wiled assed guess) suggests that there were about 400 unit pre-ordered, some under the Citadel title, and some as a two volume Kursk product. Only after these and current online store orders are produced will retail copies be manufactured. I was relatively lucky, I preordered in 2010, and received mine in the second week of shipping. I also pre-ordered Imperial Grenadier which is also now a two volume set, back during the initial offering, when all of us were a lot younger, so I have no trouble feeling the pain.

With some luck, the people producing the counters may be getting a second laser cutter (not that I'm aware of the source or anything) which would help production, however the 2nd laser wouldn't be just for APL. Realistic capacity right now is about 250 sheets/week, IIRC. That's not a lot of copies of KSF. I'm thinking it was more than 400 copies ordered, based on the number of sets produced to date and the fact that AP is still filling pre-orders.