PG product glut

[vulcan558]

Quality is one thing I have never found a need to grumble about with AP. I have 4 PG and 5 GWAS boxed sets, and the quality is great. To be honest, I'd rather have a game on time than laser cut counters. I gather that laser cutting allows smaller runs, on demand printing and a host of other business friendly advantages, but clearly the technology has come back and bitten APL with Sword of Israel. Maybe there is a case for churning out sure-fire sellers like Eastern Front PG or 'World War 3' PG Modern with lower tech, rather than limited run, direct from publisher products like SoI, or esoteric (but very cool) games like Ironclads or Frontier Battles? IMHO, PG Modern should have launched with WWIII or Vietnam. Yes, they have competition, especially from LnL, but people buy games on those topics in volume.