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Nah, Jorge is the reason we have a chance at finishing close to on-time (aiming for Mon/Tues for these last shipments!). Will have to make a thorough "thank you" update since we've had so many people chip in, it has been really incredible! Including Wehrkind quite heavily during the prototyping phase before we revealed the project.

Okay, back to packing!

OK then:

ModCubes were a hit at the Gaming Convention yesterday. I got a lot of comments on them, especially the objectives set!
RiTides sent an X-Wing Set for me to give the winner of the tourney I ran; the eventual winner was very, very happy with his prize!

Mine turned up here in Blighty.

Very nice, cheers RiTides + Crew.

Cheers, Anpu and notprop! One of our backers got to use his ModCubes at X-wing worlds and I'll put a pic in the update tomorrow. That update should also say we've shipped the last box... so close I can taste it!!

We will still need to track down a small number of folks who didn't get their surveys in - will get a list of those up likely the following week. This week, I'm going to treat myself to a trip to the FLGS to use my own ModCubes (on Wednesday after that last box is in). Then it's on to getting the website ready for the end of the month retail launch!

Must again congratulate you on an excellently well run campaign. Really love using these in game and will be expanding my token sets once you've got retail up and running.

Ran a tournament.

Played the bye rounds.

Totally forgot my box of cubes on the table.

malfred - Ack, did someone grab it for you / is there a lost and found possible?

Thanks Eldarain just one more night of packing to go...

I has ModCubes!

The box of my ModCubes arrived in the mail today. Pretty snazzy.

 RiTides wrote:
malfred - Ack, did someone grab it for you / is there a lost and found possible?

Thanks Eldarain just one more night of packing to go...

I mean I left them on the table at home. Didn't get to try them lol

Been playing with mine for a bit tonight. It's clear to me that I am going to need more.

 malfred wrote:

 RiTides wrote:
malfred - Ack, did someone grab it for you / is there a lost and found possible?

Thanks Eldarain just one more night of packing to go...

I mean I left them on the table at home. Didn't get to try them lol

I'm puzzled why you don't have some sort of man-bag/purse/clutch to keep them in?

That way you would always remember them and look snazzy too!

 notprop wrote:

 malfred wrote:

 RiTides wrote:
malfred - Ack, did someone grab it for you / is there a lost and found possible?

Thanks Eldarain just one more night of packing to go...

I mean I left them on the table at home. Didn't get to try them lol

I'm puzzled why you don't have some sort of man-bag/purse/clutch to keep them in?

That way you would always remember them and look snazzy too!

EXALT! +1

It's the bringing all the things to the tournament that does me in in the end. Every. Single. Time.

Chess clocks, flags, scenarios.

Sadly, not all of it fits in the purse.

So are these things ready for regular purchase yet or what? I can't find them on anything but KS. Which is getting damned annoying I might add.

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 Raven911 wrote:
So are these things ready for regular purchase yet or what? I can't find them on anything but KS. Which is getting damned annoying I might add.

Its hard enough waiting for a kickstarter to ship. It's tough waiting for a kickstarter that you missed to go retail. RiTides just finished shipping the KS, and has mentioned that the storefront will go live sometime in the next few weeks.




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 notprop wrote:

 malfred wrote:

 RiTides wrote:
malfred - Ack, did someone grab it for you / is there a lost and found possible?

Thanks Eldarain just one more night of packing to go...

I mean I left them on the table at home. Didn't get to try them lol

I'm puzzled why you don't have some sort of man-bag/purse/clutch to keep them in?

That way you would always remember them and look snazzy too!

I bought a big dicebag from Inkedplaymats because things don't fit in the plano that I used to store my 40k accessories. My X-wing fit in the dice bag that I won at a store tourney last summer (score!).

Raven, Anpu has it right - there will not be a long delay from the last KS package shipping to the store launching. Update looks like it will be tomorrow now, but we'll give more details on the store launch then!

As wargamers, do you guys have suggestions for the timing on that? We need two weeks to get it ready, so that puts the launch options somewhere between November 23rd and 30th... with Thanksgiving right in between for US folks! I'm not sure whether it would be good to go up before or after - likely before, if we can be ready by the 23rd?

I would launch it before. Even with "black Friday" deals now being strung out over the course of the weekend, that Friday is one of the biggest retail days of the year.
Not saying you need to throw an immediate black Friday deal but you do want to have your product available on that day.

Also REALLY hoping mine show up soon

Just checked and yours is in this last wave, keltikhoa - I am guessing it will arrive Monday with the timing we've seen from first class shipping (although it would be great if it made it by the weekend!).

As a bit of a KS addict, I know it is not cool to see too much on a normal release if I'm still waiting on my stuff! So, I'll put the dates we're targeting for the store launch in the update tomorrow, but just want to emphasize that right now the focus is making sure this last wave of packages arrives safe and sound, and it also contains most of the large orders!

If anyone has issues receiving their package we'll replace it, and while we'll be working on the store in the background a lot next week, the first priority will be fixing any orders that went awry. Will also be trying to track down those who didn't submit their surveys next week.

Timing for the store:
Sooner would be better, especially if you can offer a Black Friday (Or Cyber Monday) deal.

Even if you can't do a full release an 'early' release as a Black Friday deal would work

some publicity, some orders, and a bit more time to get the website etc together for the full launch later

Does anyone have the recommended layout for the x-wing cubes?

Thanks for the input guys, we will try to have something up for the big day (either Black Friday or Cyber Monday)!

Cincy, this is mine:

Focus
Evade
Stress
Target Lock
Target Lock / Focus
Target Lock / Stress

You then use the red target lock symbol to put next to the enemy ship, and the above cube with your ship, cycling between your different states (for example, if you got your Target Lock last turn and now do a red maneuver, you turn it to Target Lock / Stress).

This configuration is missing Target Lock / Evade, but I find that I do not do that very often - I usually Focus if I have an action, so I can have a chance to use the Target Lock (otherwise, I messed up!) or get Stressed if I need to pull a red maneuver. I find this config is really good for "basic" ships. For Phantoms, just swap in Cloak instead of Target Lock.

If you have a trickier ship, another option a few local players are trying is using their normal target lock tokens instead of putting them in the cube, and using the cube for everything else. This would free up several faces for things like Ion, the new Tractor Beam token, two Focus tokens, etc. For myself, I tend to build 6 cubes like I laid out above, then build my last few cubes with alternate things like Ion.

We will also get some suggested layouts on the website in December, as it has been the most requested info! Will likely be pinging Dakkanauts for their ideas on that for sets I don't personally play

I like it. I was having some serious AP figuring out how to assemble them!!

 notprop wrote:

 malfred wrote:

 RiTides wrote:
malfred - Ack, did someone grab it for you / is there a lost and found possible?

Thanks Eldarain just one more night of packing to go...

I mean I left them on the table at home. Didn't get to try them lol

I'm puzzled why you don't have some sort of man-bag/purse/clutch to keep them in?

That way you would always remember them and look snazzy too!

http://pvponline.com/comic/2015/11/03/catwalking

Sigh

I'm still waiting on mine and would have no problem if you went live with the store right now. Still kicking myself for choosing FSA over X-Wing, so want to rectify that sooner than later.

Mine came today. They went together really easily. Really great piece of engineering, Steve. I'll definitely be ordering more.

Trying to figure out what set to use for Rum & Bones, now.

Even had I not I'd be 100% okay with them being live on the store.

On the subject of using one set of faces/tiles for another game I am planning to use my 40K/Infinity ones for Warmaster tonight.

I figure I can do this with some numbers (1-4), a confused side and one for spell effects.

I'm liking the adaptability of Modcube at the moment, even if my hamfists and sausage fingers struggle to get them together!

Triple - I just sent you a PM, your box is actually in the batch going to the post office today and I was able to swap the tokens

Cincy - Thanks, I really appreciate it!

Notprop - Nice! And yeah, there is a learning curve but the good thing is, muscle memory kicks in and you should be able to do it much easier once you have the hang of it . They also stay together like a boss once assembled, which we decided to err on so you can toss them around freely. I also hope to make an edcuational version of these, where the teacher could assemble them as learning aids, in which case they really don't want the kids getting them apart and scattering tokens everywhere!

Most of the last batch are going in the mail today, with 25 left for tomorrow (ran out of ModCube tools when packing!). Those will be Priority Mail to make up for the additional day delay, so should hopefully arrive the same as if they went out today.

Edit: It is Veterans Day here in the US, but I forgot that meant the post office is closed... So, all going in the mail tomorrow!

Hi There,

I got my Modcube Order (2x8 Cubes) today and I also get the whole X-Wing Plates with it. After I show up all the Tiles I'am a bit confused about to how I have to assembly all these Plates with the Cubes in a smart way so it will make sense for gaming. Is there Anyone how have assemblied allready these Cubes and can give me some advise in wich order I have to do it.
btw. please tell it me in a simple way, cause my english is not the best. Thank you so much.