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 AkhilleusK42 wrote:
I just got a Mantic missing bits generic email moments ago. It was sent to approximately seven billion email addresses, and I just received what I can only presume to be the first of 1 billion "Cheers mate" responses. FML


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I'm now at three replies.

At least the Italian guy sent us his address...

To be fair, while all the email addresses being shared is Mantic's fault, anyone hitting reply all back...

Ada-Lorena team preview

As you can see, this see-through blue plastic miniature has had a little paint and a wash added to allow you to see the detail in the photography.

Have any US backers gotten Wave 2 stuff yet?

I figure we should start seeing them arrive in the US in the next week or so, if they haven't already started to appear.

I think they're trickling through.

I haven't got mine yet though.

I know a good way you can ask a fewh hundred people all at the same time....

 DaveC wrote:
DBX wave 2 arrived all present and correct the casts are very nice possibly the best Mantic have done yet only Brute Force looks a little skinny from shrinkage but her mech sort of compensates for that. I ended up with 2 Graks I bought 1 as he was added to Fenzy level only (backed Rampage) but there is 1 in with the MVPs pack so it looks like every one gets one now. The other is DZ conversion fodder I guess .

I think some will be disappointed with the size of the Tsudochan - they are zee sized - they didn't look that small in the renders. On the other hand Kryphos has me rethinking not getting the Koris.

They weren't that small in the renders! I thought that this one was for an MVP:



It's possible that they've gone for a Yoda look on the cowled one, given that they can use the force to throw things around and he's meant to be a particularly powerful one...

I do not play Dreadball, but that Ada-Lorena team preview looks great. Glad to see that Mantic's experiments with the blue/clear plastic seems to be a success.

(as an aside did they do any similar coloured plastics for Mars Attacks, and if so how did people think they turned out?).

According to the latest Mantic newsletter (to tell us there won't be a newsletter this week), they mention something 'top secret, important and not a KS'...

Any ideas? Thoughts? Rampant and unfounded speculation? Let the games commence!

Maybe after the success of Mars Attacks another tie in with another IP? Pure guesswork on my part though Para.

DAT glowy space cop... Neat.

 Paradigm wrote:
According to the latest Mantic newsletter (to tell us there won't be a newsletter this week), they mention something 'top secret, important and not a KS'...

Any ideas? Thoughts? Rampant and unfounded speculation? Let the games commence!

They began interviewing for an additional one person to help package kickstarters to help get them out the door faster. So far the guy from the blind school is their favorite candidate as he shows great skill in jamming stuff into boxes in record time.

Nevermind...

Wave 3 according to mission control.

@Highlord Tamburlaine - I got my Wave 2 DBX stuff about a week ago. Still waiting on my final Deadzone order, though.

Top secret and not a kickstarter? I doubt it's deadzone, or warpath related then...

LOKA 2 Electric Boogaloo?

I'd say Twilight Kin release but I doubt they funded, tooled, had painted, etc, etc, such a thing without any leaks before hand.

No idea.

I'm flummoxed over the fact that it isn't a Kickstarter. That's basically the Mantic modus operandi these days, no?

I'm going to guess it's a board game. Why? I don't know. Mantic seem to be doing well with their board games.

Whatever it is, I feel like it'll be small and self- contained. The big sprawling product lines seem reserved for KS. Or at least that would make the most sense.

I wonder when we get to find out. I didn't see a disclosure date in the email.

Warpath beta rules?

If I had to put money on it, my bet would be them releasing details on their upcoming computer game.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Warpath beta rules?

Afraid not.

 Compel wrote:
If I had to put money on it, my bet would be them releasing details on their upcoming computer game.

I doubt they're doing one just yet, but I could see it in future. A Deadzone FPS would be awesome, as would a Dungeon-Saga-themed RPG.

I'm pretty sure they announced there was one coming about 6 months ago.

They did? I must have missed that, but if so, consider my interest potentially piqued...

Bioptic wrote:
Hah! Just got a very polite email from Dave at Mantic explaining that my query would be dealt with over the next couple of weeks, which cc'ed...everyone who had submitted a query, email addresses and all.

Privacy aside, this means that at least 497 people have outstanding queries - I assume that this is store/Kickstarter independent though, so probably not very useful to calculate a % incidence.

Might be worth sending an email to Dave explaining what BCC is and how it works.

CptJake wrote:I'm gonna 'reply to all' multiple times throughout the weekend, often attaching large files, just for giggles.

My hatred for you is the molten steel that will forge the sabre of your demise

GrimDork wrote:That's what I was thinking it may be used for.

AK: which rules? Most mantic rules go up for free eventually but the card decks I was talking about are probably always gonna cost money. PDFs exist of most/all of the card decks but I dunno if those will end up hitting the free rules page at some point or not.

You guessed it, I was hoping that the human Mars Attacks rules would be available for free, which it seems they're not, I guess I'll ask nicely for them to put it in my missing pieces order

BobtheInquisitor wrote:

 AkhilleusK42 wrote:
I just got a Mantic missing bits generic email moments ago. It was sent to approximately seven billion email addresses, and I just received what I can only presume to be the first of 1 billion "Cheers mate" responses. FML


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I'm now at three replies.

At least the Italian guy sent us his address...

Don't let CptJake read that!

BobtheInquisitor wrote:I know a good way you can ask a fewh hundred people all at the same time....

Exalted, haha

Whatever the secret is seems to be related to how they've been letting a lot of warehouse stock wind down the last 2 months. Or at least that's the impression I got from the email.

Looks like the Ada-Lorena renders were reworked, at least for the one miniature that is on display in the recent newsletter email. The figure's pose looks like it's probably a revision of the 2nd render from the left. Glad they got rid of the Space mickey mouse ears, too.

I'm actually pretty happy about this. I was probably the only one, but I really didn't care for the original Ada-Lorena poses. They kind of looked like four DC comics OMACs posing for a KISS album cover. The first two poses in particular don't look particularly sporty (to my eye, they're more "don't hate me because I'm beautiful.")

The production figure still looks like an OMAC, but hell, I like OMACs, and it has an ethereally creepy vibe I quite like. Phantasm, despite being opaque, is also a wonderful model, and a nice Javert for Blaine.
I'll be giving the Ada-Lorena a second look now.

One other thing - weren't the Ada-Lorena supposed to be larger than normal human-sized creatures? Phantasm is slightly "afloat", but otherwise he's got a pretty standard 28mm size to my eye.

I don't want to speak too soon but... From just looking at the bags themselves, Dreadball Extreme wave 2 might very well be the first time when I've not had to fill out a missing parts form from a mantic kickstarter wave.

Mantic even sent me a bag of the kalyshi in the wave, presumably to make up for the missing arm I reported in dbx wave 1.

On top of that, I'm really loving the star player models. So many of them would actually fit in as random civilian and alien models to add colour in other games.

Come to think of it, not many games companies have their sci fi settings that encourage random aliens wandering about. 40K, Infinity, Dropzone Commander are all very much human centric, with some other alien factions or empires too. Dreadball has done amazingly well at giving the Warpath universe a different vibe, something closer to Star Wars, Trek or Mass Effect.

Now there's a thought, a Mantic Mos Eisley cantina scene. Thumbs up from me so far.

Hmm secret project from mantic, Not a kickstarter. How about this gentleman, fantasy flight games is no longer producing the gears of war board game could mantic have picked it up?

Game of Thrones license, using the KoW ruleset is my only hope.

Will probably be something as random as Mars Attacks, though.

No Kickstarter will make things interesting, adds a bit of mystery to their release schedule rather than us knowing it all a year in advance.