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The MaA are actually OKish with the crossbow arms, and the spears work quite well in the hands of the quilted-uniformed winter soviet infantry from Warlord (I just wanted the greatcoats for BA, so I had 15 left anyway. It's working out surprisingly well so far). I'd guess the shield (minus clipped-off arm) and sword would only be that much easier to mod on for my second box.

And that's kind of the reason why you'd buy them. Not that I'd advise spending €40ish on 15 models and then buy the mantic weapons, but the weapons have a lovely fantasy-ish look that works really well with other miniatures. And at the price they're sold at, it's still a pretty good deal (keeping in mind that, as I said, the crossbow arms actually make the models work pretty well so you basically get a bunch of crossbowmen plus a bunch of weapons for some other historicals).
It's really just the arms that make the MaA unworkable. (sure, some of the detail is rather soft but for line infantry it's not a huge issue to me TBH)

 .Mikes. wrote:
I actually like the look of Men at Arms.

Of course you do.


Well that was interesting. They bumped the already-produced models from Feb or whenever to "July" to save themselves money on shipping in two waves (without telling anyone that they changed the deal) and now there'll be two waves anyway with other items led out until Christmas. That's so Mantic.

I guess they really weren't expecting WHFB to implode so spectacularly right as they were heading to print, or the magnitude of the surge in demand for KoW products as a result.

 NTRabbit wrote:
I guess they really weren't expecting WHFB to implode so spectacularly right as they were heading to print, or the magnitude of the surge in demand for KoW products as a result.

Correct. They knew it was coming, they didn't know when

I got the impression as soon as they got wind of the Age of Simgar, they pushed as hard as they could to get Kings of War into distribution instead of Dungeon Saga, which was supposed to have released first (if I remember correctly).

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
I got the impression as soon as they got wind of the Age of Simgar, they pushed as hard as they could to get Kings of War into distribution instead of Dungeon Saga, which was supposed to have released first (if I remember correctly).

Nope, KoW plans for the book and when we had to have it all done by were all set in stone long before GW announced AoS and nothing changed afterwards. As baragash says, Ronnie knew what GW were planning with AoS but didn't know when they were going to do it.

 edlowe wrote:
If they could redo the goblins to look like the ds ones I'd be very happy.

Spoiler:

Guess I'd rebuy my Goblins IF these would become the standard.

Got my DBX/KoW package in today. First time I've seen a DHL van in a while.

Seems like I got what I'm supposed to have gotten, though I have a Ronaldo the Bard (I thought you had to add him on purpose and don't recall doing so?) and what might amount to three extra 8-body teams for DBX. Though, being honest, I didn't pay a lot of attention to DBX so I could just be misremembering what I was meant to receive.

I did get the hardback KoW book, Dino-King Blaine, and the DBX stuff all in one package. Blaine's spear is bent all to hell but I think resin has a similar hot water treatment properties to restic, yes? It's a very smooth cast and quite pretty, though the material seems somewhat bendy (which I thought was a quality *not* possessed by resin?).


Also, for pointy nosed bat-eared goblins, the DS variety are pretty slick and I wouldn't mind having a regiment or two of those if resculpts ever came to light.

I think Grimdork is the first US DBX/KoW backer to report receiving product!

Means mine is not far off

 GrimDork wrote:
Got my DBX/KoW package in today. First time I've seen a DHL van in a while.

Seems like I got what I'm supposed to have gotten, though I have a Ronaldo the Bard (I thought you had to add him on purpose and don't recall doing so?) and what might amount to three extra 8-body teams for DBX. Though, being honest, I didn't pay a lot of attention to DBX so I could just be misremembering what I was meant to receive.

I did get the hardback KoW book, Dino-King Blaine, and the DBX stuff all in one package. Blaine's spear is bent all to hell but I think resin has a similar hot water treatment properties to restic, yes? It's a very smooth cast and quite pretty, though the material seems somewhat bendy (which I thought was a quality *not* possessed by resin?).


Also, for pointy nosed bat-eared goblins, the DS variety are pretty slick and I wouldn't mind having a regiment or two of those if resculpts ever came to light.

Weird on the bendy resin, but yea, a boiling (tea temp) cup of water should do the trick. It should straighten under its own weight if you dip it in then lift it out. A quick dip in cold water afterwards isn't necessary, but not a bad idea either.

I think it's Prodos spincast resin so its properties are not quite the same as other resin one backer reported theirs warping under its own weight bending at the ankle after assembly if your in a hot country it might be a problem.

Ronaldo the bard was included free in living legend and up they tried to back track on this but had to concede when it was pointed out in the original updates.

There seems to be some mispacks with DBX season 6 teams I didn't order any of them but got all 4 as have others they are even on the packing slip but not in my pledge.

I actually received mine via DHL as well. A shockingly low number of mispacks considering the crate I received. :-p

Turns out mega-army bundles of every faction, terrain, books, etc... take up a lot of space. :-p

All your DBX mispacks give me hope for receiving some extra teams. I think I actually ordered some though...

Still anxiously awaiting my KoW rulebook...

 Ozymandias wrote:
Still anxiously awaiting my KoW rulebook...

Did you back the KoW v2 campaign? Cause you can download it right now from Mantic Digital for free.

@grimdork, Reinaldo the hard was free to everyone with the $50 pledge and up. The "extra teams" we're the stretch goals and you should have them on top and the main teams all together in a separate bag below.

All of my bags were separate I believe. But I was fairly sure you only got one free team a season and I've got 4 lol.

Ronaldo looks OK but the feather and top of life are very flimsy so cleaning will take care.

My dual package arrived yesterday, had everything from KoW I was supposed to get in it, but I haven't had the chance to see if any of the DBX stuff in there was in excess of what I was supposed to receive. There were 3 additional baggies of sports stars on top of one large bag called DBX Wave 2 Frenzy Bag

 Theophony wrote:
Reinaldo the hard was free to everyone with the $50 pledge and up.

Was Reinaldo the Hard a Kingdom Death crossover?

The Bard was an end-game stretch goal. I think they may have even been out of other stretch goals they wanted to do, but people kept badgering them for a Bard hero. I think they finally caved and made the Bard in Ronnie's image. I think.

I don't believe it had anything to do with Kingdom Death.

 GrimDork wrote:
The Bard was an end-game stretch goal. I think they may have even been out of other stretch goals they wanted to do, but people kept badgering them for a Bard hero. I think they finally caved and made the Bard in Ronnie's image. I think.

I don't believe it had anything to do with Kingdom Death.

Derp. I see now that it says Hard and not bard.

I'm like, I dunno tired or something. TGIF I guess.

Champ, I say, Champagne comedy, son

 Alex C wrote:

 GrimDork wrote:
The Bard was an end-game stretch goal. I think they may have even been out of other stretch goals they wanted to do, but people kept badgering them for a Bard hero. I think they finally caved and made the Bard in Ronnie's image. I think.

I don't believe it had anything to do with Kingdom Death.

I can't exalt this hard enough Man, I miss Foghorn Leghorn...

 NTRabbit wrote:
Champ, I say, Champagne comedy, son

Stupid autocorrect, Reinaldo is cursed I tell you CURSED.

 Wehrkind wrote:

 Theophony wrote:
Reinaldo the hard was free to everyone with the $50 pledge and up.

Was Reinaldo the Hard a Kingdom Death crossover?

He is now.

Just need some GreenmStuff...

Boy, I really hope the Lion doesn't roll a certain result on the injury location table.


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Back on topic, have we seen any sprue picks for the Salamandars or Naiads?

I got a "You were out" today when I wasn't expecting anything. Have mantic started shipping the hardback books?

I seem to remember they had started shipping living legend pledges in no particular order. Being in the UK chances are you'd get yours relatively quickly so it might just be.

That's the thing, I got my combined Dreadball Xtreme and KOW softback/Blaine more than a week ago, that's why I'm confused.