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My opinion is that we will not see plastic archers.
WE had two sets of plastic Dwarves, two sets of plastic Elves, Hunters, goblins, fell wargs and hunters on fell wargs for plastic evil. Plastic Dale, Plastic knights, 3 Trolls and eagles too.
And sales can be argued as not spiked like the ROTK days. WE had fine cast lake town guards, fine cast Dol Guldor Orcs, I think they will play it safe and go fine cast elves this time, as any mirkwood player should have the other sets to make a rounded force, or add in the other armies of BotFA to make up the difference. I think for plastic this time we will see the dwarven cav come in, Lake town peasants, Troll kits, and maybe another plastic evil set. I expect a lot of fine cast for the Siege equiptment, not cause I want it, but due to older sets already experimented with and this being very similar. Finecast Carts, Wraiths (maybe 2 per pack and a WK single), Sauron, White Council, Heroes, Armor Dwarves... yeah lots of FC to look forward too.
But this is all speculation leaning toward the negative side (hard to not be when reading posts on this site). Bot I do hope for more plastics than that, but with all of us knowing that the end of SBG releases is fast approaching, it would not be cost effective to run 5000 sprues of any warrior now, just make enough to sell for a few years and finecast fits that cost bracket (GW's not ours).
Another reason is that we mostly see in the trailers rows upon rows of archers. They may have swords or daggers too, but we don't get a lot to go with. So if they are all bowmen, then how many poses would you expect, we can't exactly have them all prancing about like the Mirkwood Rangers when they look very uniform in combat pose in the trailers, when they stand they all stand the same way, when they turn it is in unison, when they draw to aim they all look identical. So really three poses is plenty.
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