Is it time for a Two-ship Starter Set?

[TexaS]

They could keep the rule book as it's expensive to make a new one and they could say the set only covers the basic rules. That lets them have less counter types. The damage counters should be the same but less. I don't know what fits proportional wise, but if they made Chesapeake vs Shannon about a fourth of the counters would be well enough I'd guess.

Keeping everything otherwise the same would mean beginners could buy this and then add a big starter and just add the new counters to the old ones without changing the balance.

[Bligh]

As you chaps say there are many and varied ways of bringing the price of a starter set down with only a little retooling if Ares have the will to do it. I would have thought that with all the money that they already have invested in dies and press tools, it would be in their interest to keep sales alive by any means that they can.
Rob.