Alpharius wrote:
Hulk - let me know what email you use...

 Yonan wrote:

Can confirm the SS report of the Mantic clippers being good, can clip models right on the contact point without damaging the model which saves some work. Much better than my old Army Painter clippers.

 Azazelx wrote:
How do they compare to Xuron Clippers?

DreadBall - The Futuristic Sports Game is out of stock!
Back in the early days when we funded DreadBall on Kickstarter, only half of the first print run went to backers, and the rest went to our retailers. Since then we’ve reprinted the game three further times, as well as introduced the Kick-off variant.

The Futuristic Sports Game

Well, now the fourth print run of DreadBall – The Futuristic Sports Game has been and gone, closely followed by DreadBall Ultimate and some of the other bits in the range.

But never fear – the Galaxy’s Greatest Sport will be returning this summer.

To celebrate the fifth print run of this iconic game we are creating an all-new Limited Edition Azure Forest DreadBall game set with an incredible Special Edition Azure Forest Gaming Pitch, and:

- A'teo "The Savage" Adyssi MVP
- Azure Forest Rulebook: which includes expansion rules for your DreadBall games and League Rules
- Azure Forest Gaming Cards
- 10 Corporation Players
- 10 Marauder Players
- RefBot
- Balls
- Clear Hex Bases
- Season 1 Rulebook
- Roster Pad
- 18 coloured dice
- 54 Gaming Cards
- Special Edition Box with foil cover.

The new limited edition set begins shipping in July.

More imagery will be coming next week but we just wanted to give you the heads-up first as this set is ONLY available in STRICTLY limited quantities - once they're gone they're gone. Pre-order now on the Mantic Games Website and we will also include two FREE random MVPs in your order!


The Azure Forest Limited Board is based on this great design from FF Fields and Rob Taylor, though will vary with some additional details.

Finally look out for our Azure PrimalBall VIII Mega Bundle, which includes:
- Limited Edition DreadBall: Azure Forest game set
- DreadBall Ultimate: Season 3 rulebook, rubber multiplayer mat, 4 DreadBall Giants, and all the cards and counters you need to play
- A FREE copy of the Season 2 Rulebook
- A FREE Dozer Giant MVP as well!!

Rob's Azure Forest Board in action at the DreadBall National Finals - image courtesy of p-g.net.

A sixth print of DreadBall will be coming later this year, back to the standard specification without all of the special edition goodness. The only difference will be that we’ll take the “Deluxe” off the front of the box, because we know that seemed to confuse a few people.

PapaSoul wrote:
Wasn't sgt Howlett meant to have claws? I'm sure he did in the concept art.

 CptJake wrote:

PapaSoul wrote:
Wasn't sgt Howlett meant to have claws? I'm sure he did in the concept art.

Why would the concept art have any bearing on what Mantic ends up producing?

privateer4hire wrote:
Pacific wrote: "Really like the look of the Azure Forest limited edition board, although it looks like it will only be available as part of the boxset. "

That pitch is available directly from FF Fields here (see bottom right most design):
http://www.ff-fields.com/?page_id=1488

 GrimDork wrote:
But dbx has moar spikes and murders


Is anyone else really excited for the dz solo deck? I could see folks creating "dead mans hand" esque scenarios where its almost impossible to beat the AI's superior force unless you move the right way (and get lucky).

Plus I'd like to get a game in

 Theophony wrote:
Been thinking of getting into dreadball , looks like a good deal for the bundle. Might justify it as a birthday present to myself.

 GrimDork wrote:
Is anyone else really excited for the dz solo deck? I could see folks creating "dead mans hand" esque scenarios where its almost impossible to beat the AI's superior force unless you move the right way (and get lucky).

Plus I'd like to get a game in

 Yonan wrote:

 GrimDork wrote:
Is anyone else really excited for the dz solo deck? I could see folks creating "dead mans hand" esque scenarios where its almost impossible to beat the AI's superior force unless you move the right way (and get lucky).

Plus I'd like to get a game in

Myself as well! Was really excited when they added that, was a big part of why I went in big. It also means you and a mate vs "the enemy" and so on, which is great as I'm a big fan of co-op play.

 Yonan wrote:

Myself as well! Was really excited when they added that, was a big part of why I went in big. It also means you and a mate vs "the enemy" and so on, which is great as I'm a big fan of co-op play.

Hello everyone, Ronnie here. I meant to post this on Friday, but it’s been so hectic here since the move. But what a move! We’ve got internet that’s faster than a snail’s pace, plenty of space for everyone, and so much news coming over the next days and weeks, you won’t believe it. We’ve also got a special surprise up our sleeves for you. Apologies that this didn’t appear on schedule though.

DreadBall is currently Mantic’s bestselling game to date; although it is rapidly getting caught up by Deadzone and Mars Attacks (MA looks on course to be the biggest outright, simply by its launch!).

What is the Azure Forest Limited Edition of DreadBall?

This summer, DreadBall will be getting its 5th printing, which is an amazing achievement for any table-top game, and it’s all thanks to you guys!
Interestingly, only half of the first print run went to Kickstarter backers – all the rest have been sold by our independent stores, with a few going from Mantic directly at shows or online. Every single one of those 5 print runs have been packed here in the UK, and then shipped around the world. The components have come from many different suppliers, all around the world, including the UK, China, and Lithuania. It has been a fun challenge bringing in all the bits needed for the game from so many places and keeping it in stock for the past 18 months (that’s right DreadBall is only 1 ½ years old!!!!) but now, it is time for a change.

At the end of summer the 6th Edition will be printed and packed by the same company that handles DeadZone and Mars Attacks. They can now source all of the components directly at the quality we need.
DB-Box-Lid-azure-forestThis has the added advantage of allowing the team here in the UK to concentrate this summer on packing (carefully!) and shipping nearly 7500 Kickstarter orders, plus all the usual trade and mail orders! We are expecting to be busy! We will get delivery of the 6th print run of the main DreadBall game in early autumn (or fall depending where you live). Oh, and we will no longer need to call it DreadBall Deluxe – it will be back to the original-is-best plain DreadBall. DreadBall Kick-Off will continue to run down over the summer, and will be discontinued at the end of this print run, so if you want a copy, now is the time to grab that.

So to celebrate the fifth printing we have decided to do a very cool one-off only Azure Forest Edition – celebrating this year’s expansion – and perhaps a nod in the direction of another major sporting event in a rainforest this summer

Kickstarter backers, and other Azure Forest previous purchasers, we’ve got you covered too! The pitch is available as a separate purchase, for those that want it.
This Azure Forest boxed set is strictly limited to just 750 copies, and we have produced it for 3 main reasons…

It will celebrate the fifth and final packing of Dreadball in the UK and be a fitting way to end the production here.
- It will mean that people can buy DreadBall in 2 ways over the summer:
The Kick-Off version (if they want to give it a try for the lowest cost possible – and then come back to upgrade it later, of course!!)
OR
The Azure Forest Edition which has all of the basic game components – AND includes the Azure Forest book, cards and pitch – plus A’teo “The Savage”, the MVP from the expansion.
3724.1.600.600.FFFFFF.0 The Azure Forest version will also come with the very cool Azure Forest arena pitch – and will look very much like this…. and its own unique limited edition box.

It will allow us to print the Azure Forest pitch, which a number of people have been asking us for since we did the expansion earlier this year. We will be able to make that available separately for anyone who doesn’t want a full new version of the game too, although again that will be in very limited numbers.
This is made up from the last of the print run of the Azure Forest books, and once it’s all gone, it’s all gone. We’re not reprinting any of this once it goes out of stock, so please do grab a copy as soon as you can.
Oh, and it is cool – I know that makes it 4 reasons, but you know, what the heck!
I am sure this will mean DreadBall continues its march to top of the leader board and remains entrenched as a fan favourite for Mantic Games. It is a great celebration for our first game to sail pass the 10,000 copies mark, and keeps the attention focused on this most special of games – ahead of season 4 and Xtreme later in the year!

Best wishes and thanks for reading.

PS. Look out for other big news over the coming week – we’ve got some really great stuff coming up for you, and we couldn’t do it without you all, so thank you for supporting us and allowing us to bring you great games for everyone to enjoy.

 warboss wrote:
Interesting to hear that MA is on track to be the best selling... I would have thought Deadzone (at least until Warpath) would have that locked in but that might be my own bias at play.

 warboss wrote:
Interesting to hear that MA is on track to be the best selling... I would have thought Deadzone (at least until Warpath) would have that locked in but that might be my own bias at play.

SeanDrake wrote:

 warboss wrote:
Interesting to hear that MA is on track to be the best selling... I would have thought Deadzone (at least until Warpath) would have that locked in but that might be my own bias at play.

MA has been picked up by 2 large euro distributor's who are also translating it into there native languages Spanish and German I think. This is a pretty big deal as it means it will be available in mainstream stores in those countries.

scarletsquig wrote:It's the pre-assembled thing that's why the distributors went for it.

Any assembly at all = forget about it, as far as euro board game market goes.

And the bag of tiny little restic components thrown together like you get in, say, Dreadball (All 16 minis and the ball come in the same bag with lots of sub-5mm sized bits and no instructions at all) is even more of a death sentence from that perspective, distro won't look at it.

It's not just Dakka that gives a big "nope" to restic and all that is involved with it.

 Vermonter wrote:
I wouldn't mind seeing Mantic do a line of licensed, Deadzone-based skirmish games, if there's a market for them. But only if they do alternate DZ decks for all of them, to make them cross-compatible.

Hi everyone it is Ronnie here.

Let’s start with the serious stuff, and an apology and a promise.

First the promise - we have spent most of May moving to the new building. There have been lots of reasons for the move, but one of the main ones is in order to send the second shipment of Deadzone in a far more organized, professional and well-packed way than we did the first wave. While the boxes we dispatched were huge and filled with lots of great models, scenery and the game itself I know the packing materials were inadequate and the accuracy was poor. There were too many bits missing and in some cases damaged.

This is ultimately my responsibility.

The sheer scale and enormity of the job caught us off guard. This will not happen on the second shipment. We have dedicated space to pre-pack complicated sets. The contents will be marked more clearly and faction starters will be pre-packed, as will the Battlezones scenery. We will have more staff, a checking area and we will just take longer to do each order carefully and completely. Of course there may still be individual errors – when you send out 4500 orders with 100’s of individual components in each something always goes wrong – but it will not be because of how the product is packed or the people doing it.

Our commitment with the wave 2 shipment is to include as much fun and great product but in a more organized and well packed fashion.

We've got top men and women lined up to work on your packages (pic is actually of painted Strider Pilots without the canopies on, which is why the controls are kinda floating in mid-air.)

We have now sent out packages with missing items and most people now have got their issues sorted. However, I have spent part of this week personally chasing down some outstanding missing items for people who have contacted me on email or via Facebook. While I have seen a few, I know there might still be a few more. Please send us a gentle reminder (via Kickstarter PM) and I will personally make sure any outstanding issues are sorted, or email sarah.clark at manticgames.com.

We lost a few weeks because we put more products over into hard plastic, but we look to still be on course to start shipping in July. For a moment there it looked like it might go earlier, but this is a Kickstarter after all and that never happens

Thanks for being patient with us, now let’s get on with the good stuff. I think we’ve been good on some details and showing off new pics as and when we get them but I’m sorry that I’ve not had the clarity to tell you the overview more exactly. Now we know more we can get on with it!

First up our warehouse is filling up with Zombies, sprues and very soon books…

Some sexy proofs

We have just sent the Contagion and the Incursion books off to print. They look fantastic and digital copies will be sent to you ahead of the physical dispatch so you can have read up on your new arrivals and prepare colour schemes.

The Brokkrs, Asterians and Zombies have all had a terrific response in the comments section on their respective updates and we are expecting a box with final test shots of the new hard plastic sprues any day now. We will get photos up as soon as we have them. We will quickly bring in the quantities of models and books we need to be able to dispatch your pledges, otherwise everything we need for wave 2 is already in the warehouse.

Also, a few weeks ago we sent out the Deadzone collection of short stories.

I asked at the Open Day who had seen it and it became clear that while many people had gone and downloaded the compendium not many had actually read it. Please. I really urge you to read the stories. Each one is the perfect length for about 15 minutes of quiet time. It’s very easy to get onto the iPad and iPhones – just visit Mantic Digital and the site will automatically adjust to fit your screen if you read it online. Please, please have a read. The stories bring Deadzone to life and inspired me to get on to gaming.

The link to the download is here - don't forget to use the code we gave you in a past update.

In the warehouse we have the Secret Weapon tiles too (and they look so good I have bought one myself and have started building my own Deadzone table on it).

We have also generated a few videos about assembling the buildings…



... and how to get started playing Deadzone by stripping back the contents a bit:

Sorry these are a bit rough and ready (and a tad long!) but in a few weeks time we will have a quick start video to help people get playing Deadzone. Until then we thought why not get stuck straight in?

Once you have played Deadzone it really comes to life, but actually getting started is the hardest part. The quick start guide will strip away everything down to the basics to get you playing – and then the extra layers can be added back in as your experience grows. We will get a full video up soon in conjunction with our friends at Beast of War so anyone who still has to play the game can get started, and bring in more new players alongside the wave 2 releases.

Thank you for being patient with us whilst we delivered this massive undertaking. The final pieces are now being made and shipped into us. We will keep posting all the last bits as they arrive and with the move completed we are on track for getting wave 2 out in a far more organized and well packed way – but even more so the sculpts, books and scenery are looking just as fantastic as they were in the first shipment!

Best wishes and thank you for your support, Deadzone would be nowhere near as filled with plastic, scenery and books without your support.

Ronnie

 .Mikes. wrote:
The Atserian / FF cover does look tasty.

 .Mikes. wrote:


Are the compendiu(s) (you know what I mean) included in the next wave? I've forgotten.

 Vermonter wrote:
Just curious - if WarPath slipped back another year, what do you think are the chances that someone else will come along with a hard plastic Sci Fi game and steal Mantic's thunder?

 Alpharius wrote:
Given Dreamforge's pace, I can't see that game being up and running and a viable system for another 2 or 3 years.

 scarletsquig wrote:
Quick update on the Mars Attacks KS, the retro US soldiers are being replaced with Warlord plastics, due to almost no-one adding them in the survey.

Sometimes the most vocal people are not in the majority, or do not back up their requests with hard cash.

I think this is the case with Mars Attacks, I recall seeing a lot of "well this sucks no retro soldiers" comments about it, but when retro soldiers were added in response to the feedback those same people didn't go for them.

In a similar fashion, the dead figures were extremely unpopular in the KS comments ("waste of a stretch goal" etc.) and elsewhere, but were the #1 most popular add-on in the survey.

Kinda frustrating since it shows how unreliable internet feedback can be.

 Vermonter wrote:
Just curious - if WarPath slipped back another year, what do you think are the chances that someone else will come along with a hard plastic Sci Fi game and steal Mantic's thunder?...

privateer4hire wrote:
I wish Mantic had pushed hard on the 7ed 40k launch with WP 2.0 and developed lists for most 40k armies (undroid, plague enforcers, etc).

 scarletsquig wrote:
Quick update on the Mars Attacks KS, the retro US soldiers are being replaced with Warlord plastics, due to almost no-one adding them in the survey.
Sometimes the most vocal people are not in the majority, or do not back up their requests with hard cash.
I think this is the case with Mars Attacks, I recall seeing a lot of "well this sucks no retro soldiers" comments about it, but when retro soldiers were added in response to the feedback those same people didn't go for them.
In a similar fashion, the dead figures were extremely unpopular in the KS comments ("waste of a stretch goal" etc.) and elsewhere, but were the #1 most popular add-on in the survey.
Kinda frustrating since it shows how unreliable internet feedback can be.

 MasterSlowPoke wrote:
That's only if 8th edition includes movement trays, unfortunately.

 GrimDork wrote:
It has been suggested that they are a thing and are being considered, I believe. Nothing so much as set in stone, if the 3.0 rules come out sooner or later it's possible they might be in there, but I think the next rules release/update is more like an open beta. A couple of our better news sources could probably tell it better, I'm just running off of shaky memory here.

 .Mikes. wrote:
The thread about movement trays on the Mantic forums seems split 50/50, which surprises me, as I would have thought not that many people would be in favour. But then again, maybe that's because I don't like the idea.

However, the original rules, and I'm pretty certain the v2.0 rules too, could use movement trays easily. Cover was counted for a unit as a whole not individual models, and blast templates weren't used.

But for me, the whole idea of a lose squad formation in modern and SF games demands the movement of individual models. But I'll accept taht's very much my view.

 .Mikes. wrote:
The thread about movement trays on the Mantic forums seems split 50/50, which surprises me, as I would have thought not that many people would be in favour. But then again, maybe that's because I don't like the idea.
However, the original rules, and I'm pretty certain the v2.0 rules too, could use movement trays easily. Cover was counted for a unit as a whole not individual models, and blast templates weren't used.
But for me, the whole idea of a lose squad formation in modern and SF games demands the movement of individual models. But I'll accept taht's very much my view.

 Barzam wrote:
New stuff is looking good. Didn't Mantic mention that they'd have color scheme examples in these books, too?

 Azazelx wrote:
Thanks for the pics. Wasn't there going to be a hardcover book as well at one stage?

 judgedoug wrote:
Okayokayokay hold on a sec, still trying to catch up. (Been moving and am only barely on dakka recently)

So Warpath is not confirmed or even mentioned by anyone in Mantic at all to have movement trays? So people complaining about it are complaining about nothing, right? Just complaining to complain? Literally inventing things out of thin air, then complaining about them?

The Deadzone Collector's Edition hardcover is still going to be hardcover and limited edition, but the softcover Compendium is still softcover? So again, there's no bait-and-switch on a hardcover limited edition rulebook? So we're _not_ going to get a page or two of people saying "Mantic. Almost." because they think it's cute?

 judgedoug wrote:
So Warpath is not confirmed or even mentioned by anyone in Mantic at all to have movement trays? So people complaining about it are complaining about nothing, right? Just complaining to complain? Literally inventing things out of thin air, then complaining about them?

overtyrant wrote:
I was under the impression KS was shipping in July. Not sure where I got that from though!

We lost a few weeks because we put more products over into hard plastic, but we look to still be on course to start shipping in July. For a moment there it looked like it might go earlier, but this is a Kickstarter after all and that never happens

 Riquende wrote:
From the most recent update:

We lost a few weeks because we put more products over into hard plastic, but we look to still be on course to start shipping in July. For a moment there it looked like it might go earlier, but this is a Kickstarter after all and that never happens

Of course 'start shipping in July' probably does mean that that majority of packages go out over August.

 judgedoug wrote:
So Warpath is not confirmed or even mentioned by anyone in Mantic at all to have movement trays? So people complaining about it are complaining about nothing, right? Just complaining to complain? Literally inventing things out of thin air, then complaining about them?

Well, there is no point watching football any more

…let’s paint great minis instead!
Has your team crashed out of the World Cup already? Spain, it looks as though you are joining England, coming home early this time!!

The great news is once your team is knocked out, it leaves you with lots of time to paint miniatures – instead of watching all those tedious draws (and inevitable penalty shoot-outs!).

To cheer us all up (and so I don’t have to discuss the embarrassing fact that the USA will be staying in the World Cup longer than England!) I thought everyone who has been knocked out should be able to get some minis or amazing scenery to paint at a nice price, by way of compensation!

So, England currently has lost both games and has a goal difference of -2 – so everything on the site has 20% off until Friday night (24 hours after the group stages end, so everyone has a chance).

If England lose the third game and our goal difference gets worse we will increase theDreadball T Best Painted discount up to 30%!

But if we win and our goal difference improves – the discount will reduce back to 10%!

To use the current discount, just add ALREADYOUT20 - this code will work for any countries that are no longer in the World Cup (even if they did not qualify) – it only excludes the countries that are still involved in the competition. The code must be used on any order over £30/30 Euros/$50.

From the next round we will have a new code each day a game is played that will be valid for 24 hours – based on the previous days results and goals – with any losing teams able to join the party!

Watch out for updated codes on our blog and Facebook pages – and keep living La vida loca!!

Best wishes,

Ronnie

 MasterSlowPoke wrote:

 judgedoug wrote:
So Warpath is not confirmed or even mentioned by anyone in Mantic at all to have movement trays? So people complaining about it are complaining about nothing, right? Just complaining to complain? Literally inventing things out of thin air, then complaining about them?

I know a guy on another forum that is a regular visitor to the Mantic company/warehouse or something like that. He all but confirmed that Warpath 3rd Edition has movement trays.

 Azazelx wrote:
Yay?

 Riquende wrote:

After all, there's no requirement in Kings of War that your regiments etc must be on movement trays, but people use them because they're convenient. I'd hope Warpath would turn out the same way - tray based movement supported, but no obligation for those who say it 'feels wrong'.

Now, cue reactions of "but the game rules can't support trays as all scifi games require you to be able to have individual models clambering up, down, inside and around terrain pieces" in 3, 2, 1...

 Azazelx wrote:

Nice attempt at poisoning the well, but it doesn't actually answer the question.

 Theophony wrote:
Wonder if it applies to preorders as well. I just ordered the dreadball azure forest bundle. Sucks tgat the US is still in, wonder if they'd give a discount based on favorite team instead. Not that I follow soccer( ).

 Riquende wrote:

 Azazelx wrote:

Nice attempt at poisoning the well, but it doesn't actually answer the question.

How can it, when I don't know the answer? Personally I doubt Mantic have made a final decision yet, it's possible that it's something they want to do but realise how much resistance there would be,

 GrimDork wrote:

Say, any of you people who actually watch the Football... what are the chances England will lose again increasing the discount to 30%? I'd hate to miss out on the 20% but I'd probably spend more money overall if the 30 became active.

 GrimDork wrote:
Oh yeah it's only just getting to be 10 am around here, I'm up all day Thanks for the information. I'm kind of hesitant to order at 20% since I can get that anywhere, even though I like directly supporting mantic. At 30% though... that's pretty hard to argue.

 Paradigm wrote:
They've said there will be daily deals going forward, I think, so it may be that they start doing sales for countries that do go further at some point.

And now I'm hoping for England to lose 8-0 tonight. If -2 on goal difference is 20% off, does that mean -10 is 100%? Do Mantic gives me free stuff?

Come on Costa Rica!

 squall018 wrote:
Its the price you have to pay to live in such a glorious soccer nation.

 GrimDork wrote:
Or maybe it will continue winning and... that's... also... good?

NTRabbit wrote:
It sounds like they'll listen and dial it back if the response is negative enough towards mass battle movement tray stuff, especially if it's over on the Mantic forum where it's a 50/50 split between wp1 pro and wp2 con posters, which wouldn't be a true reflection of the community or potential community at large I don't think.

 MasterSlowPoke wrote:

NTRabbit wrote:
It sounds like they'll listen and dial it back if the response is negative enough towards mass battle movement tray stuff, especially if it's over on the Mantic forum where it's a 50/50 split between wp1 pro and wp2 con posters, which wouldn't be a true reflection of the community or potential community at large I don't think.

The Beta 3.0 rules are being shipped with Deadzone wave 2, so it's going to be too late to change them. They almost certainly have them printed off already.

 MasterSlowPoke wrote:

The Beta 3.0 rules are being shipped with Deadzone wave 2, so it's going to be too late to change them. They almost certainly have them printed off already.

 angelofvengeance wrote:
I think if you have a look at the KS updates Ronnie has actually apologised about the problems that occurred during the delivery of the rewards. I should also point out that there was a survey for folks who maybe didn't get all their stuff or had issues with the models or terrain kits. Did you fill that in PapaSoul?

 edlowe wrote:
There was a missing/damaged parts survey to fill in, but im still waiting for my replacement bits :(

Plus I must say the resin enforcers in my pledge were pure gak, they were really badly mauled with big chunks missing from the waists plus misaligned moulding on the legs. Weirdly the army box I had already bought weren't too bad. Im really looking forward to the plastics (fingers crossed)

We have now sent out packages with missing items and most people now have got their issues sorted. However, I have spent part of this week personally chasing down some outstanding missing items for people who have contacted me on email or via Facebook. While I have seen a few, I know there might still be a few more. Please send us a gentle reminder (via Kickstarter PM) and I will personally make sure any outstanding issues are sorted, or email sarah.clark at manticgames.com.

 Hulksmash wrote:

I await the hard plastic warpath kickstarter but outside of that I'll probably hang back on most Mantic kickstarters in the future. I wasn't really happy with pulling the individual model ordering or the inability to order the FF big guys outside of a starter or expansion on the second survey.

 Riquende wrote:
Could you perhaps quote the 'being a dick part' and highlight which part you personally took offence to?
Edit:
Ah, okay. Think I worked it out. It's not the best phrased, true, But it is literally what happened last time the subject came up - people assuming that the rules will require that models be able to climb all over terrain, when none of us know nothing of the sort.
Perhaps a friendly smiley would have clarified it as a tongue in cheek comment rather than a backhanded swipe at other posters?

 GrimDork wrote:
Gasp! You are correct =/ Oh well, maybe our team will lose and I'll get access. Or maybe it will continue winning and... that's... also... good? Either way I'll get a deal or not spend money, I can live with such options

Thanks for spotting that though, helps me manage my expectations!

 Baragash wrote:
US need a point against Germany to guarantee going through. If they lose then it depends on goal difference and possible further tiebreakers if there's a winner in the other match in their group.

 DaveC wrote:
You should have received an email summary when you submitted the survey that lists everything with prices and how many of each you ordered. Look for an email titled Deadzone Kickstarter FINAL Survey from manticgames(at)googlemail.com

 DaveC wrote:
You should have received an email summary when you submitted the survey that lists everything with prices and how many of each you ordered. Look for an email titled Deadzone Kickstarter FINAL Survey from manticgames(at)googlemail.com

 Azazelx wrote:
Are they all through Wargame Vault? Or are some direct downloads?


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And which rulebooks are printed and included in various pledge levels, a nd which are not? I found the "compendium" is supposed to be free & printed for $300+ (or has that been split into two books?)

The hardcover book is for pledges of $700 or $750 or something like that.

alphaecho wrote:
A bit of news for the retail Mars Attacks. The latest SFX magazine carries a full page ad for the game with the slogan "Invading this Fall".

I assume that corresponds to September at the earliest.

 scarletsquig wrote:
^ No, it shipped immediately, in a limited format.

Mars Attacks will be an October retail release.

July and August releases will be Deadzone. Ruins for July, hopefully Forgefather and Asterian starters for August.

 Theophony wrote:
I wish some of the discounter s kept decent stock of mantic, I'd buy more. As it is thewarstore is always out of stock when I check them, so I have really stopped checking, and miniaturemarket just gets in the initial wave (maybe hey buy into the Kickstarter or something, then they sell it off until they decide to clearance and don't restock . Don't forget that they also have the free terrain sprue deal going too , not much more incentive, but it is a little extra that you get from them over their discounters.

 angelofvengeance wrote:

So if you buy the Ruins quadrant- you'll get a box rather like the one I got yesterday

 judgedoug wrote:
frpgames.com has pretty much every Mantic thing released, at minimum 20% off.

decker_cky wrote:

 judgedoug wrote:
frpgames.com has pretty much every Mantic thing released, at minimum 20% off.

I think there's bundles on the Mantic site that aren't available elsewhere. If there's a 3 goal win, then there gets to be some real steals.

 Necros wrote:
Gonna be getting the ruined quadrant soon. That's one big box! I noticed Miniature Market just added it for I think $139.99.

I'm sure I'll still be painting it around this time next year...

Here you go everybody

With Deadzone: Incursion introducing bigger and better battlefields, you’re going to need new equipment to combat the new threat.

Enter the Strider, a versatile Light Support Vehicle that we’ve been previewing for a little while now…



‘Strider’ is a generic term applied to a variety of bipedal vehicles employed by the Corporations. The GR-77 model is a combat variant employed by the Enforcers, but often stolen and re-purposed by other factions. As versatile as it is powerful, a Strider is a valuable asset to a strike team.

The Strider is a mean machine that can be employed by no less than the Enforcers, the Plague and the Rebs. Oh, and there’s a Corporation Pilot included as well so you can include it in Warpath (or maybe if one day a Corporation faction gets added to Deadzone?)



The Strider kit itself is premium plastic and includes an array of unique pilots, cockpits and several different weapon configurations – for any long-range menaces the Enforcers can use the Genling 88 HLS-X, a Range 12 AP4 cannon to blast away any opponents from afar. If however you prefer your carnage a little more up close and personal both the Rebs and Plague variants have the Brawler special rule and come equipped with an Assault Flamer and Chainsaw. Nasty!



The plastic kit also comes with banners for the Rebs, extra armour and a shoulder-mounted missile launcher - because why not?!

Enjoy!

 DaveC wrote:
Mantic have upped the store discount to 25% for the next 24 hours.

Code: HEROHOWARD25

 Alpharius wrote:
I'd like everything in that picture too - as it is either 'hard' (not premium) plastic and/or 'real' (not PVC) resin, most likely!

 .Mikes. wrote:
I wasn't too bothered about the Asterians by the concept art, but the minis are making me change my mind.

 GrimDork wrote:
Defender shield on the peacekeepers is just sexy. The aesterian looks particularly not-eldar to me, but it's kind of hard to tell from the picture. The drones look fancy, bigger than I expected.

privateer4hire wrote:

 .Mikes. wrote:
I wasn't too bothered about the Asterians by the concept art, but the minis are making me change my mind.

Did that mean you didn't like them originally and changed your mind to like them
OR
Did that mean you liked them originally and changed your mind toward not liking them.

Sorry for my confusion.

 Yonan wrote:

 GrimDork wrote:
Defender shield on the peacekeepers is just sexy. The aesterian looks particularly not-eldar to me, but it's kind of hard to tell from the picture. The drones look fancy, bigger than I expected.

Whilst loving the whole "dying race of high elves in space" concept, I've never liked GWs implementation of it. Putting your civilians with short range weapons in bad armour on the front lines... what the feth? Commanders controlling drones is a much more fitting "high tech but dying elder race" ... thing. I also much prefer the aesthetic for the most part - especially the armour. I've never liked any Eldar armour (the helmets... ; /). Or WHFB High Elf armour for that matter. Farseers look nice though ; p

 GrimDork wrote:
Well I think its more like your brain going on overload from pain slash the sensory input system dividing by zero... but to each his own. Goofy as the movie was (Pocahontas in space, sheesh) avatar monkey suit things fit it closest to me.

 Compel wrote:
I think the idea is that yes, normally, they do save their soldiers from harm.

However, on very rare occasion extremely traumatic events can be passed on to the pilot, killing them. Slightly more often damage can cause issues that mean they can't pilot again.

I imagine that still, the vast majority of the time, the pilot will exit comfortably.

 GrimDork wrote:
Aww, no sprue for me? Thats ok, i've got like a bajillion of those anyway. I just hope they charged my card right, i may still send them an email so they can try to figure out what's going on with that so they don't piss off too many customers.

As to that big army box, the revenants, skeletons, ghouls, and zombies are for sure hard plastic. So 140 o the models in the box are hard plastic, leaving the mummies, werewolves, and cavalry as restic (i think). The characters at top should be metal and i know the catapults are hard plastic too.

 Paradigm wrote:
Yeah, I'm not too fussed by the Asterian fluff, it adds a bit of character if there's a risk to the operator (otherwise, playing them in-character you'd not care about any kind of defence as there's always another drone available).

Only four of his ten Cyphers had returned, another was severly damaged. Joshan Go had perished through the shock of disassociation. Preliminary reports suggested two others might never be fit for Cypher work again."

 Alpharius wrote:
It is still 'bad science' and doesn't make a lot of sense.

But hey, at least the miniatures look good - for now!

 Compel wrote:
It makes a helluva lot more sense than the similar technology and concepts found in Pacific Rim...

 pretre wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:
It is still 'bad science' and doesn't make a lot of sense.

But hey, at least the miniatures look good - for now!

Good thing it's science fiction and not science then.

 Alpharius wrote:
Er, OK - for the pedantic nit pickers, it is still bad science in a science-fiction setting! Or, in other words, bad SF.

I'm really liking the look of the Asterians though, so I hope they transfer to PVC well...

 Paradigm wrote:
No, no, everyone knows you 'reverse the polarity of the neutron flow!'

 sukura636 wrote:
I did the kesla run in 12 parsecs...

 agnosto wrote:
And don't cross the streams....that would be very bad.

 Paradigm wrote:

 sukura636 wrote:
I did the kesla run in 12 parsecs...

Ah, my least favourite line in Star Wars! I mean, the Parsec is a unit of distance, not time, so that's like saying 'I can run from here to Texas in 12 miles!'

Oh, but of course, this is not the plot hole we're looking for...

 Paradigm wrote:

 sukura636 wrote:
I did the kesla run in 12 parsecs...

Ah, my least favourite line in Star Wars! I mean, the Parsec is a unit of distance, not time, so that's like saying 'I can run from here to Texas in 12 miles!'

Oh, but of course, this is not the plot hole we're looking for...

The Kessel Run was one of the most heavily used smuggling routes in the Galactic Empire. Han Solo claimed that his Millennium Falcon "made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs". A parsec is a unit of distance, not time. Solo was not referring directly to his ship's speed when he made this claim. Instead, he was referring to the shorter route he was able to travel by skirting the nearby Maw black hole cluster, thus making the run in under the standard distance. By moving closer to the black holes, Solo managed to cut the distance down to about 11.5 parsecs. The smuggler BoShek actually beat Solo's record in his ship, Infinity, but without cargo to weigh him down. A few months later, Han Solo beat both his own and BoShek's records in a run he made with Luke Skywalker.