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1hr to go, can it make it???

It is at $772K now, so... yes?

I really want a placeholder pledge here, but KS is telling me
"Sorry, the reward you've selected ships within the US only. If you're in the US, click "In the US" below."

I can pledge if I click "in the US", but does this cause problems later on? Does anyone have any experience? Last minute I know, but... too many KS:s going on at the same time.

$6k to go with 25 minutes to go,.... it is going to make it!!!!!


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less than a K now !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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$800k done!!!!!! with 15 minutes to spare


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less than 15 minutes,.... last chance folks!!!!!!!


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I really love Keith's art,....... many here thought this thing was dead while in the "valley",...

an amazing come back!!! well played MegaConGames team!

Well it broke 800k. It seems to have been quite a rally in the last few hours.

Creator MERCS Miniatures just now
We still have one more surprise, but it will be at the end.... stay tuned.

awesome recovery,...... hopefully some SG for the PM add on phase,..... maybe some news about something special added it??

Update #58 Apr 18 2014
The Starting Line
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We are including this "stretch goal" at the end. You have all earned it.

House 12 are deep cover FCC agents that have infiltrated the highest levels of every MegaCon. They are rumors. Most don't believe they exist, but they do. You get this miniature and a special Mission card just for making the final ride so fun.

House 12 Saint
House 12 Saint
Next real SG is the EIC for Gem. See you in the PM.



Congratulations!

Man, what a ride. Seriously gals and guys, you have once again been wonderful. We can’t express our thanks enough. As with Myth, I will continue to put out updates detailing the process, sculpting, production, and shipping. We are going to have a PM. I suspect it will take several months to setup. I’ll get the details for that in an update next week. As I mentioned, we are going to honor funds added in the PM to meet SGs not revealed. I will put these in an update as we move forward, and what items have been added to the PM that were not available during the KS.

You have given us the ability to do these things and we honor that pledge by not using cheap materials and providing you with something we are all proud to put on our shelves.

It is extremely hard to sound sincere in an email, but thank you. We love you. God bless.

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I'm trying to figure out what that last line means- the next real SG is EIC for Gem.

I'm assuming the EIC is another MegaCon? What's the Gem then?

They really did turn things around there in the end.

Gem was one of the active posters on the kickstarter forum who really wanted EIC (East India Company)

Gem was truly outrageous about his desire for EIC.

The implication is that this will be a post campaign stretch goal that can be achieved via funds added in the PM?

it is another Mission Pack

Hi, anyone interested in splitting their Myth stuff off? Where there are things that have one model for both games, I'd be fine with just getting the rules (though minis would be nice)

Pretty sweet finish,..... $180K in the last 12 hours,....

It did more in the last half day than it did on the first half day,.... seemingly defying those who insisted that a campaign such as this could not have such a great Day1 total and still have a big spike at the end. Well done to all involved,... creators and backers alike! I think there are many things that some of us would change,... but in the end,... It looks like a pretty amazing value for the pledge,... not quite as many minis/$ as MYTH had,.... but many many more individual sculpts; so much unique content here!

Huzza!

Well, hats off to them, they made it despite the chaos they self inflicted.

Why they couldn't do that from start is beyond me.

I'm thinking for the next KS MegaCon runs, I'm just not going to bother looking at it until those last 48 hours. That's when things got good. A shame because I was really pumped for this, and the way things were handled early on just really left a sour taste in my mouth.

Which sucked, because the game itself always looked to be pretty good, and an excellent entry point into the tabletop game.

Who knows where this could have gone if things had gotten off to a smoother start.

An Agent pledge alone is going to be a hell of a lot of game. Nevermind OpFor levels with its extra game and tabletop rules, or the All In with its craploads of extra stuff.

Seriously impressed by how they turned things around.

Still think it would be cool to see some Myth rules for the Daimyo. I'm pretty sure he'll officially be replacing the Warrior from Myth, at least until the Journeyman classes from the expansion show up and we got someone in armor rather than that smug looking guy with the ridiculous pompadour.

Wow, that really picked up in the end. All day it was moving, but it seemed to be going really slow. I went to bed at 3am and it didn't seem like we were going to reach GCC. Glad to see I was proven wrong.

Tamburlaine, I'd be more than happy to buy your ISS pack off your hands when you get them.

I'm really rather surprised that alternate Daimyo isn't a Myth crossover figure. He looks like he should be.

I was kind of hoping that this game might have had a narrative campaign mode at some point. I hope that if they do another Mercs game Kickstarter, that they make a proper narrative-driven dungeon crawl RPG.

It did sound that from some of their comments the some of those charachter (the daimyo and the big GCC guy could gain some add on functionality for MYTH,.... perhaps in the PM

Well they did add those campaign weapons before things finished, but they were a ten dollar add on...

A bit of an overpriced one I might say, for a few weapon cards.

Maybe they'll consider adding them towards some sort of campaign ruleset?

Well glad I jumped in on this when Yamato suggested quite a while back (think it was you Yamato).

Seem like those early assumed Myth backers were not such the driving force they were assumed to be in the end. The TT element of the game was definitely the driving force/heavy influencer in this KS from comments made on the KS.

I also have to say for my first Kickstarter I thoroughly enjoyed it once I stopped visiting Dakka. Getting involved on the KS comments board was way more fun.

As for the Douche'y posts. There is only one Douche left on here in my opinion.

Well done MCG.

See ya!

That was one heck of a recovery!

It also gave them a nice 'classic' campaign graph!

Yes it was. Congrats to them for pulling it out.

Wow, that was some impressive finish! What changed, or was it primed to do this all along?

The creators finished with Adepticon and PAX, started paying more attention, added stuff that finally got it to the 'too good to resist' level, and there we are!

The 500k stretch goal brought in the all in one pack, which was a 25$ save, the 600k made it a 50$ save and apparently ISS were really anticipated from more than just me, the 700k gave for free more than enough opfor models to make it a really good deal, the 750k was a free mission pack which gave it the final boost.

wish they had focused more on the campaign, less on cameo characters and more on the content, this boost could have happened at mid of the campaign.

Maybe they should have saved the cameos for the tail end last minute stuff? There might have been more mid campaign excitement if stuff like lockdown had shown up a lot earlier than the last few hours.

I might have to do a Martian base invasion at some point, replacing all the SecFor pieces with Mars Attacks troops. Could be fun. Hopefully one or two of those mission pack tiles will have some ominous warehouse locations to fill full of lead.


I have this nagging feeling I'm going to be seeing a lot of tabletop mashups in the near future. ICC and Kemvar agents fighting Martian insurgents. SecFors fighting Trederrans pouring forth from dimensional portals in the swamps of Jargono. Twilight Knights from various worlds teaming up with Tango and Cash to stop the great god Yig from leveling Nexus Psi.

Going to be a lot of crazy stuff happening in my household.

 PsychoticStorm wrote:
The 500k stretch goal brought in the all in one pack, which was a 25$ save, the 600k made it a 50$ save and apparently ISS were really anticipated from more than just me, the 700k gave for free more than enough opfor models to make it a really good deal, the 750k was a free mission pack which gave it the final boost.

wish they had focused more on the campaign, less on cameo characters and more on the content, this boost could have happened at mid of the campaign.

I surely think that the "all-in mission pack" add on was huge in starting the way back,.... And that lockdown kit became the goal with the most bulk plastic,..... It think due to the feedback that then continued to get, that those 20 figures made it in there,. I don't think any one goal in MYTH had so many figures. (And that information about the figure seemed to be added quite late,.. After the goal was posted, even though they said in the first week that they were ready with goals up to $1M. So they clearly made some changes, moved things up, closed planned SG gaps,... And maybe gave away a little bit more than they had originally planned,......... It sure looked like they worked to get it back on track.

I think they have learned a bunch from this one,...... I think if the MYH rules backlash had not been so insane, this would have gone much smoother,... Those few days where things went back and forth,... There were quite a few PtP-ers,.. More than I had seen in the middle of a campaign. It was good to see many of those folks come back.

In the end, I think they will admit that if they had been able to focus on this they way they would have liked,... That it could have done much more than MYTH did,....... But this still turned out to be an awesome campaign,.... I've never been in one with additional SG reveals and unlocks in the post campaign time period, so this promises to be more exciting!

 spiralingcadaver wrote:
Hi, anyone interested in splitting their Myth stuff off? Where there are things that have one model for both games, I'd be fine with just getting the rules (though minis would be nice)

Spiral, if you want I can just order second copies of the myth stuff. Lemme know.

Anyone know if we can upgrade on the PM to Agent from a $10 pledge?

All signs point towards "Yes"!