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**Cyporiean**

Solar_lion wrote:
So what the next step for us pledgers ( is that a word? ). Are we going to get a selection form or email, carrier pigeon, Whalemusic showing up at the door with a clipboard and a baseball bat?

Apologize if I missed this earlier.

Next Step RiTides will get a dump truck filled with money driven up to his door. He'll then be able to fill a swimming pool with it and swim around ala scrooge mcduck.

You'll likely be getting a survey a few days after the campaign ends with basic questions, and then some form of Pledge Manager after that.

**RiTides**

malfred wrote:
I backed for sweetspot2. How does this work with the wm/hd tokens?

Awesome! You'll get your choice of 2 sets of ModCubes, so you could get 2 sets of Warmachine / Hordes ModCubes (useful if you run a list where you're going to set everybody on fire or knock everybody down

). I'll have detailed pictures of each set up when I send out the survey soon after the campaign ends, so you can make your selections there!

Solar_lion wrote:
So what the next step for us pledgers ( is that a word? ). Are we going to get a selection form or email, carrier pigeon, Whalemusic showing up at the door with a clipboard and a baseball bat?

Apologize if I missed this earlier.

Yes, a survey will go out through the Kickstarter system the week after the campaign ends. I asked a lot of the core backers and, given that I need to start production on these right away, I'm now planning to simply get your selections in the Kickstarter survey, and not offer a pledge manager. The turn around time on this campaign is fast enough that I think if people want to add more they can just get them through the webstore after they get their Kickstarter rewards

Cyp - No swimming in things here

as we've got a clear plan for all the funding, even through $40,000 if we are able to make it that far! A large percentage is going to the production run of the cubes, another portion to the bulk order of acrylic, and a lot of course being set aside for shipping of rewards at the end of the summer, etc. The scale of things has been really helpful for getting price breaks on a lot of those things, and we've planned for this amount of extra funding by bringing in summer help to get the extra tokens cut. All on track, and we really plan to deliver these on-time!

**Theophony**

RiTides wrote:
Cheers Stormwall

Anpu, I think those are actually going to turn out to be the 4 most popular sets, the response from the 40k community has been really good! Lots of backers have come from Dakka and Beasts of War, and actually even more from BOLS than BOW despite us not posting anything on BOLS. If anyone has a contact over at BOLS, I would love to get more info up there!

Easy, I'll start a news and rumors thread here on DakkaDakka stating that GW is coming out with a new cube to replace dice and is trying kickstarter to test the water. Give it a day or two and Larry Vela will have "inside information" regarding the new direction GW is headed with "fully modular" dice.

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

I'm hearing warning mumbles that USPS is planning more price hikes later this year (summer?) so seen if you can chase that down (unless you already know the details)

**Cyporiean**

OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
I'm hearing warning mumbles that USPS is planning more price hikes later this year (summer?) so seen if you can chase that down (unless you already know the details)

Monday.

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

well at least it won't be a surprise then, sigh

**RiTides**

Thanks for the heads up, Orlando! I will just absorb any domestic increase; the turn-around time on this is short enough that it will not be too much I think. And I have already agreed to my international rate with the UK-based distributing company

who I may actually send all the international orders to to fulfill, depending on how the "first to ship" batch goes!

**Vanguard-13**

If you are hiring for the summer, could I work for you and get paid with Mod Cubes and Tiles?

>.> Just curious...

**RiTides**

Vanguard, from the address you gave me I think it'd be like a 9 hour commute

(also, we already have someone lined up and are just working out the final details, but I appreciate it

).

**RiTides**

New ModCube Tool V2 revealed, along with the free lanyards we're on the cusp of unlocking!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1388589874/modcube-part-tokens-part-dice-fully-modular/posts/1247040

You'll get one tool for each set of ModCubes you've pledged towards, along with the free lanyard! Using this tool makes popping your ModCubes apart a breeze, see the video of the V1 tool in action here if you missed it:

Spoiler:

Finally, the next stretch goal is the option to split the cube sets into two different colors, since that seemed very popular

. And we should be ready to reveal the already unlocked Star Wars: Imperial Assault set on Sunday or Monday!

**Vanguard-13**

Looks Good! I know at least one is going on my keys. The others... I'll find some place for them.

However, I think I'll have to expand my Dice Box to a Dice Chest at this rate!

RiTides, At least you know you have a willing worker up here where I am at. And willing to work for Mod Cubes!

**RiTides**

Thanks Vanguard

. It's a simple thing, but will make keeping track of those tools much easier! (I'll probably loop mine onto my dice bag)

And noted about the willingness to work, if you can get some ModCubes lit up with LEDs that will be amazing

and I am happy to pay in ModCubes

(doing so to AdeptiCon already, actually, for part of the booth fee for this year's convention).

**cincydooley**

Have we seen Imperial Assault yet?

**RiTides**

Not yet, cincy - we switched the order of the Imperial Assault and V2 Tool updates since the IA set needed just a little more polishing (will be ready to show in a day or so, planning to post it Sunday or Monday morning).

**Theophony**

RiTides wrote:
Thanks Vanguard . It's a simple thing, but will make keeping track of those tools much easier! (I'll probably loop mine onto my dice bag)

And noted about the willingness to work, if you can get some ModCubes lit up with LEDs that will be amazing and I am happy to pay in ModCubes (doing so to AdeptiCon already, actually, for part of the booth fee for this year's convention).

I've got some light kits in my hobby desk

Now just the waiting

**RiTides**

I'm heading to the post right now to put a few in the mail to Vanguard to try lighting up, as we'd worked that out some time ago but I've been so busy! So hopefully we'll see if that's feasible and if others want to give it a try once I'm past this campaign madness I would be open to that, too

Also, we are now featured on Kicktraq! Although maybe we should have done so last week since there were no featured projects

and now we share the spot with 3 others. But if you refresh the home page a few times, you should see our logo just above the "Top 10"

http://www.kicktraq.com

This is also 150 pixels tall so does fit in a signature field if you'd like to use it

Lastly, we have cleared $30K and 500 backers almost simultaneously, both of which were huge milestones for us, so that is extremely exciting! We have goals lined up to $40K and are hoping we can make it that far with the final push, as it would really help with quantity discounts, so please share the word if you know others who might be interested

. Along with Vanguard's set to try lighting, I'm sending more samples to the Independent Characters, the X-wing facebook group and a podcast that is in Brazil, no less!!

**Theophony**

I'll light up my sets when they arrive. Actually just spent two hours cleaning in my gaming/hobby area and found all the light kits that were there.

I think I'm going for black set and yellow set with tokens for x-wing and crates. Having just seen all my Scythes of the Emperor figures collecting dust I may have to bump up my sets to include 40K vehicles and troops.

**RiTides**

The Star Wars: Imperial Assault compatible set is finally revealed! And we'll be revealing a set compatible with Maelstrom's Edge tomorrow

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1388589874/modcube-part-tokens-part-dice-fully-modular/posts/1249423

Update #18

Star Wars: Imperial Assault compatible set revealed!! And a teaser =)

The Star Wars: Imperial Assault compatible set of ModCubes is finally ready to be revealed!

We actually are using new purple color for some of these tokens, to match the color of official card tokens. You can see that in these pictures, we've built the cubes to have some dedicated for damage tracking, and others for strain tracking + other effects. We also wanted to make some crate tokens, but due to how many damage and strain tokens are needed, we just couldn't fit them in this set. However, we will have a dedicated "SciFi crates" set as a stretch goal for later this week!

Speaking of which, here is the stretch goal map, all the way to $40K!

- $31,500 - Free option to split any ModCube set into two cube colors
- $33,000 - ModCube set compatible with Maelstrom's Edge
- $34,500 - ModCube set compatible with Star Trek: Attack Wing
- $36,000 - ModCube set compatible with D&D: Attack Wing
- $37,500 - SciFi crates set!
- $40,000 - ModCube set compatible with Firestorm Armada

We'll be revealing a new set each day this week, so keep checking back!!

Finally, our good friends and amazingly dedicated wargamers over at Spiral Arm Studios have a game coming out called Maelstrom's Edge. They've raised almost $50K towards it, and are in their final hours! We'll be revealing our ModCube set compatible with their game tomorrow, so check out their page and make sure you don't miss out on their campaign!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/medge/maelstroms-edge-a-next-gen-sci-fi-miniatures-warga

Until next time, keep on modding!

We also showed the full stretch goal map to $40K above, with the SciFi crates set (the idea for which came from Dakka!) at $37,500. The campaign runs through Friday, and I think we can make it but we could use some new backers!! So please spread the word if you know of any board gamers who might like this Imperial Assault compatible set

**Vanguard-13**

Awesome turn out so far! I still don't know which sets to buy! There are so many I want!

Glad to hear the MEdge set, is actually coming out!

I am fairly certain we will hit that mark, especially with all of MEdge's pledgers having a few days after their KS to pledge to the Mod Cube KS.

And thank you RiTides, I can't wait to crack my knuckles and get to work on some glowing Mod Cubes! I know it's a mad house right now.

**cincydooley**

The Imperial Assault cubes are gonna be a huge boon. With so many Imperial models that can repair, it's going to remove a lot of the fiddliness of having to track (and move) wound counters.

It'll also really help clean up the Rebel player boards.

Very, very excited. Not just to determine what color cube frames to get for it.....

**weeble1000**

Hey 'Tides, one of those Imperial Assault compatible token icons is a bit...suggestive. Maybe it is just me, but you may want to consider revising it a bit.

**RiTides**

Vanguard - Thanks, looking forward to seeing what you come up with on the lighting

cincy - I'll post a picture of the different token colors inside the different cube frame colors the week after the campaign ends, right before the survey goes out. For sets where there are multiple token colors (so far just this Imperial Assault set, X-wing, and the half poison / half burning Malifaux set) I prefer a darker frame color. So I think black, grey, military green, or maroon would look best. Let me know what you think once I post those pics!

weeble - Hmm, you could be right

and as I had an artist create this image as a vector I can easily alter it. However, it's pretty similar to the official art, so don't shoot the messenger

**weeble1000**

RiTides wrote:
weeble - Hmm, you could be right and as I had an artist create this image as a vector I can easily alter it. However, it's pretty similar to the official art, so don't shoot the messenger

I had no idea what the FFG art looked like, and I was tempted to leave it alone as I figured it might have been evocative of the game icon. But then again, if you see something, say something, especially if it is a

.

**RiTides**

I appreciate it, weeble, and will look at a tweak to that design before mass laser cutting them!

**cincydooley**

So.....maybe this hasn't been brought up yet..but I can't help but think this would be a cool little backer support kinda thing:

How about an insert that looks like:

**RiTides**

I have considered that (and another backer suggested it), but I wasn't sure what people would really do with it! I am making the ModCube Tool (with Kickstarter label) and including that with each set, and it has a fairly large center area cut out that is currently discarded, which I could use for something like this. But it's made from a thicker material than the tokens for the cubes. So, it's posible I could include a few squares (to use as first player tokens, maybe?) but again I just wasn't totally sure of the use for them... if there are some good ones let me know so I can see what's possible

**RiTides**

ModCubes compatible with Maelstrom's Edge revealed! This is just a sampling due to the time remaining, of course, and I'll show off the full set shortly after the campaign ends. Let me know what you think

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1388589874/modcube-part-tokens-part-dice-fully-modular/posts/1250867

ModCube set compatible with Maelstrom's Edge revealed!

We'll be showing off a preview of a new ModCube set every day this week! Yesterday we revealed Star Wars: Imperial Assault, and today we're showing off a ModCube set compatible with the new game Maelstrom's Edge. Check it out!

This is just a sampling, but you can pledge for the full set and all of the tokens will be revealed shortly after the campaign!

Above are tokens indicating the 3 forms that Angels can take (Combat Form, Winged Form, Slasher Form) along with a special ability of the Kaddar Nova (Kinetic Boost). The last two are something you can do to your Epirian robot units each turn (Enabled) and a general effect (Pinned, from taking too much suppression!).

Not shown but will be included in the set are: On The Move, Shield Mode (also from the Kaddar Nova), Painted (another Epirian trick, similar to Tau marker lights), and possibly Activated, since this is an alternating activations game. There will also be tokens showing dual effects, such as Enabled / Pinned.

Haven't heard of Maelstrom's Edge before? Check out their Kickstarter at the link below, which ends tomorrow! The Angel is the model shown below, alongside a Hunter for the opposing faction (which will be my faction... go robots =)).

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/medge/maelstroms-edge-a-next-gen-sci-fi-miniatures-warga

Tomorrow we'll be showing off a ModCube set compatible with Star Trek: Attack Wing.

Until next time, keep on modding!

**Vanguard-13**

Oooooh!

I'm still not sure if I want to use the MEdge's Suppression tokens, Or use numbered dice. Their tokens will look cooler, but take up more space. I guess I'll have to try out the beta rules and see how it goes!

Oh! and your package arrived today! I have to pick it up after work, but I'll be jumping on that tonight. See if I can't get something thrown together, and photographed/videoed for you to see by the end of this week.

**RiTides**

That would be amazing, Vanguard!

I actually hadn't planned to have suppression tracking on the cubes, just other statuses / effects, but if there is leftover space in the set I might consider it. It just looks like you can get a whole lot of suppression going at once in this game

so I need to figure out if it'd be worth including, as I think there are enough other options to fill out the set (particularly with wanting to mark each unit as "Activated" along with "Pinned" or "On the Move", so there will be some dual token options in the set).

**Theophony**

Well hopefully I hear about my wife's promotion early tomorrow. If she gets it then I'll be adding to this KS, and only because the tokens look cool I'll jump in on the MEdge kickstarter too. If she doesn't get it then I'm just going to up my pledge here.