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Got mine today ( 1 of 2 ) Awesome. Went together without any problems. Instructions were clear and Modtool worked perfectly.

The Only issue I had was I have to many armies and the variation is gonna require me to create some different combo's. Luckily I got a bunch of cube colors. What I'll probably need to do is get a few more and vary the panel colors.

Good for now. but I'll be doing some retail shopping when available. Now to arrange a game.

 Anpu-adom wrote:
Mine arrived today, and they did improve my mood. At least until I got the "What the crap did you buy?" look from my wife as I was assembling.

I know this look! (I think most wargamers probably do )

 d-usa wrote:
So I put together three dice with the standard x-wing layout suggested by Steve.

I was thinking about putting together a couple "utility" dice like this:

Spoiler:

Focus
Stress
Ion
Critical
Critical/Ion
Weapon Disabled

I'm thinking one regular cube and the utility cube should cover pretty much most possibilities that I could run into as long as I'm not using anything too fancy.

For a set of 8 - 9 X-wing cubes (counting the bonus cube), I'd probably want 6 standard, 2 utility... and in my case 1 phantom . To your earlier OCD question, I guess I like stress to face the opposite way of target lock like ying-yang!

 Solar_lion wrote:
Got mine today ( 1 of 2 ) Awesome. Went together without any problems. Instructions were clear and Modtool worked perfectly.

The Only issue I had was I have to many armies and the variation is gonna require me to create some different combo's. Luckily I got a bunch of cube colors. What I'll probably need to do is get a few more and vary the panel colors.

Good for now. but I'll be doing some retail shopping when available. Now to arrange a game.

First - "ModTool" - Why didn't I think of that! Maybe we'll start calling it that now (instead of "ModCube Tool")

Since d-usa also asked, we're targeting end of November to start selling them on the website, after we're through shipping all the Kickstarter rewards, of course! We will likely sell the cubes and tokens as separate items to help with bookeeping, and so people can just snag more tokens or cubes if needed. It should also help with getting them in a few stores, since then they don't need separate SKUs for black cubes with different token designs - people can just get a bag of black cubes, and a separate bag of tokens.

We have also been thinking about what token colors to put in stores... they may all be possible on the website, but in stores we will definitely need to pick and choose! Likely just going by which are the most popular for the different sets (although we might need to limit the total number of colors, too, or else someone in a shop might see a red set in one token type, but not in another, and not buy since they were after red). Thoughts on that definitely appreciated!

Happiness can be found in small packages

No time to go through it all to check for contents, but It all looks great from here.

I had a idea since about the third day of the kickstarter to try and link these together into an Olympic Rings sort of display and light them up, but they just barely won't interlink. I'll still try and Light them up when I can, which with current family issues won't be for a week or two probably.


All the Colorful glory of the cubes, Minus the tools and the actual tokens which are still in their bags.


Thanks Steve for a really awesome KIckstarter. Hoping to use these soon.

P.S. I'll try and take them up to Miniaturemarket to show them off to the owner/managers.

Wow, did you really snap all those cubes together without panels, nicely done . They actually go together easier with the panels in place, but I'm sure you've gotten the hang of it after this!

It actually looks like so much more once all laid out (Theophony got 5 sets + a few rainbow set fill-outs). Vanguard-13 also just messaged me about the GlowCube inserts he's working on, so we might be able to offer something for lighting them up - ideally I'd love to be able to do so at the retail launch in late November. I'd love to see what you come up with, though!

Thanks for sharing the pics

Maybe you need a P&M blog/ contest with MODcubes, either before kick-off, or after kick-off. Will help sales and get the word out again. Maybe the winner can get an exclusive cube (how hard would it be to get just one batch of "golden cubes" to have as prizes or convention specials)

Got my cubes in today! Been a little busy so I haven't pilfered through them yet, but hopefully in the next few days I can snap some together.

RiTides, are you sending an email notification on dispatch?

I'm not being impatient or anything....I'm not.....at all....

Theophony - Specials will more likely be token material, the cube colors are set for the moment since it was one large run. There is also a minimum per color (and higher cost), so that limits how many more we can offer. I'm kind of regretting not going with pink instead of dark green, though

Sinful Hero, that's great! The instructions should make things clear but just ping me if you have any questions

notprop, we're not sending out notifications yet (still getting the hang of BackerKit!) but can check for anyone who asks. The "first to ship" EU box is on its way to our distributor, and we're actually packing up the remaining EU orders this week. Of the 500 packages remaining, 108 are to the EU! So we hope to get that on its way early next week, although part of the reason for that is to use an alternate service... international priority is highway robbery . So it will start on its way before the rest of the orders, but might not arrive to the UK for several weeks - we'll keep you all updated!

Woo Hoo sound like mine will be moving soon then (even if it does take a while to arrive)

I got my box on 10/3. I play D&D Attack Wing, so I put together 3 Action Cubes each for me and my son, plus 2 Timer cubes and one Armor cube each. Also put together 3 or 4 generic cubes, with actions and other panels.

The dedicated Action cubes have:

Target
Focus
Dodge
Charge
Pivot
Can Not Attack

These were the biggest reasons I wanted to back the KS. One cube per creature replaces a whole tray of action tokens.

The generic action cubes have

Target
Focus
Dodge
Charge
Exhausted

With either an empty panel, or the burst symbol, which really isn't useful because the cube is not the same size as the burst token.

The set really didn't come with enough Armor markers to be useful, as I could only make 2 cubes. I guess that's enough for maybe 1 player, but not two. It also didn't come with enough Delay Timer markers. I could have used some Disabled panels, which I would have preferred over the two effect panels the set came with.

Overall, I'm very pleased with the set. I also got an X-Wing set, just in case I get back into that game.

kingbob, that's great feedback! We can tweak the DnD composition for the future, could you possibly suggest what to remove / add quantity-wise from the below pic?



I am guessing that Paralysis, Confused, and the Burst symbol are on the chopping block, although that only frees up 4 tokens. But with that, we could reduce the generic timer and shield to 3 (instead of 4) and add 1 to each of the other timer and shields, giving 3 of each face.

Is it useful to build a half armor, half timer cube that you could grab for either case (obviously only works for up to 3 of each, or 4 of one and 2 of the other). Our thinking here was that people would be using up at least 6 of the cubes for the normal game actions, and the leftovers could be used for armor and timer effects. I'm not sure if it's called for, but just to mention this also came up with the Malifaux set with the poison and burning options, and we ended up also offering a dedicated poison and burning only set. So that's something we would be open to, as well!

One other possibility would be to free up those 4 tokens, but to put them into more of the other options, such as Pivot and Can Not Attack.

Let us know any suggestions you have on the set composition and we'll look at getting it tweaked - and thanks again for the feedback

Re: Gold Cubes....

There are techniques to electroplate plastic
Very curious if the Cubes could handle this- Its got some tight tolerances, but if it works.... man

Or actual Gold.. special edition... followed by it's lesser cousin the real Silver cubes.

Spent Uranium anyone?

I'll take depleted uranium over spent uranium, thank you. I have enough exposure to ionizing radiation.

Re: Electroplating, there's a local place that actually does this, but I need to look up how much thickness it adds. The cubes also flex a bit to snap together / pop apart, and I'm not sure if they could still do that once plated without marring the outer surface. But it is something I might try out once orders are fulfilled, as we had originally hoped to offer a metal version before realizing it just wasn't feasible - this could be a compromise

Likely not something that we could sell given the cost of plating, but it could be a cool exclusive or contest/charity item. Ask me about it again once we've gotten everything shipped and the store up!

Theres also Vacuum Metalization- the finish is like the chrome you get on old 80's-90's action figures...




An alternative option to plating- If I remember from the days of yore, the surfaced of my action figures were really tough. Even with hamfisted kids like me playing with them!


In the mean time, Got my cubes and man... are they sweet.



Built up 3 for Wounds (2 black, one orange), a set of 6 objectives, 2 orange/black splits for various fliers, 6 for misc. vehicles, and I still have another Im not sure what to do with yet

Really REALLY pleased with these. Well done, Tides!

They look great, Ramos, cheers! Warms my heart to see half-and-half cube builds

Got my remaining order today.

The Mysterious Objectives are Awesome... This will enable us to actually use them in a game. ( Usually we ignore them as they are PITA)

Some thoughts looking at the whole set:

The burst token symbol really can't be used in a proper game, since the token is a specific size, and measurements taken from the cube would vary slightly from those using the token. I do use my burst token to indicate Initiative, however...but that's a single token, and really we don't get much use out of putting that into a panel.

The two status panels also don't add much. If you could make a separate of just status names, I could then make Status dice, but that would be a pretty large set, and one that expands with every release. I think it's better to use the original tokens for this.

Looking at the set, I can make 4 dedicated Action dice using Focus, Dodge, Target, Charge, Can Not Attack, and Pivot. This leaves me panels to make 4 partial Action dice of only the primary Action choices (Focus, Dodge, Target, and Charge), but leaves me without out good matching option for the last 2 panels.

For Armor and Delay dice, I can make two cubes. Armor dice has 4, 3, 2, and 1 Armor panels, leaving room for 2 other panels...Ground and Swoop? Exhaustion? For most 120 point games, 2 Armor dice would probably work, so I'll want to throw those spare 1 Armor panels onto the partial Action dice, with maybe a spare DT as the last panel. I don't really want to put the Infinity DT on the Delay dice, though.

Looking at the mix, I think I only have a problem because I'm trying to make two working sets. It clearly supports a working set for one player, letting you have 2 creatures with up to 4 Armor each, with two more dice that have 1 Armor on them.

So if that frees up 4 panels, the best place to put them might be to include more 2 count Armor and DT panels.

 RiTides wrote:
kingbob, that's great feedback! We can tweak the DnD composition for the future, could you possibly suggest what to remove / add quantity-wise from the below pic?



I am guessing that Paralysis, Confused, and the Burst symbol are on the chopping block, although that only frees up 4 tokens. But with that, we could reduce the generic timer and shield to 3 (instead of 4) and add 1 to each of the other timer and shields, giving 3 of each face.

Is it useful to build a half armor, half timer cube that you could grab for either case (obviously only works for up to 3 of each, or 4 of one and 2 of the other). Our thinking here was that people would be using up at least 6 of the cubes for the normal game actions, and the leftovers could be used for armor and timer effects. I'm not sure if it's called for, but just to mention this also came up with the Malifaux set with the poison and burning options, and we ended up also offering a dedicated poison and burning only set. So that's something we would be open to, as well!

One other possibility would be to free up those 4 tokens, but to put them into more of the other options, such as Pivot and Can Not Attack.

Let us know any suggestions you have on the set composition and we'll look at getting it tweaked - and thanks again for the feedback

Thanks again for that detailed feedback, kingbob! What about this:

- Remove Burst, Paralysis and Confused (freeing up 4 panels)
- Add 2 panels to Pivot and Can Not Attack

Separately:

Would it make sense to remove one 1 Armor and add a 2 Armor, so that there are 3 of each? Same for the Delay Timer. Cheers

Shipping update plus some action shots! Some from our very own Gitsplitta . We are getting close!

We are very happy to announce that we are approximately 50% complete with the ModCube packing process! Here is our status

- 195 "First to Ship" packages to all over the world - Shipped!
- 25 Misc. Packages - Shipped!
- 106 EU packages - Picked up, to be transported to the UK by sea
- 61 ROW packages - Packed, filling out customs forms
- 325 US packages - Packaging in-progress

So, most of you don't have your hands on your ModCube sets yet, but we are getting very close! We hope to have most of the remaining packages sorted by this weekend, and then over the course of the next two weeks ferry it all to the post office.

Our "first to ship" backers have begun sharing pics of their ModCubes in action, so check out the shots below =)















This last image is actually a screen grab from a video bat rep using the ModCubes! You can see the full battle report, featuring Gitsplitta's AdMech versus Wargamer Shawn's Necrons here:

https://youtu.be/pt7ZKor-RUk

Some of the photos above are from the Nova Open, and you can see the full photo stream of their amazing event here:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/135957484@N02/page1

In our next update at the end of the month, we hope to be able to announce that we have fully shipped all packages for folks who responded to the survey! We'll be chasing up the small number who did not afterwards and trying to get them their rewards, too =). Until next time!

Yay, stuffs!

I'll get some pics at my next game. Looking forward to adding some sets when retail sales are available.

I got mine in Germany today. I am still tinkering with the X-Wing layout. I think I will build a ship status cube (focus, evade,...) and pairs of targeting dice for my ships and the targets.

That's excellent, Ghrik! There's some good discussion on X-wing loadouts earlier in the thread starting here, too:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/840/638434.page#8161699

I've posted some mini-updates in the comments - this past weekend saw us spending the whole two days upgrading the exhaust and air assist systems on the laser cutter, so we're not as far along on the US orders as we'd like, but still hoping to get 1/3 of the remaining US packages (i.e. about 100) out this week.

Also, the EU box of ~100 packages has cleared customs in the UK, so is close to being delivered to our distributor! We ended up shipping it by air to the UK after all (long story!) so those will be getting in the mail to their final destinations soon, hopefully sometime next week

Mine arrived down here today. I think I might have all the cubes I'll need, but I suspect I'll by expanding my token range in the future

Well that gives me hope mine will be in shortly. NTRabbit, was yours a first to ship?

It was, yes

That's great, NTRabbit! Varag, I just checked and yours was a first to ship too (and I recognize the name from packing ) so should be showing up shortly

It was more a case of, if NTRabbit wasn't a first to ship, I'd have to pay the post office a visit and ask them if they've misplaced it. Has happened before for a parcel that was too big for the po box. They wrote a 9 where they should have written a 7 and it sat out the back for a couple of weeks until somebody had a proper look.
Although my wife keeps telling me I should learn to be more patient when waiting for parcels. She just doesn't understand a man's need for a Modcube