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$335k: unlocked another freebie (with legs)

A good update. Good to see them look at the same concerns that we have been discussing, and move to address them in the last couple of updates.

If I'm not wrong, they increased the price of the heavy units. Does that mean that we'll possibly need to top up our pledges when swapping between heavy troops, troops and heroines?

The Heavies have always been 20$, along with the Heavy Command Groups.

I think it's all just dollar values now. Which is great, quite frankly. I'll probably be using my existing pledge to get almost entirely heroines in metal as stuff to paint, and picking up every other model, and probably some larger units post-KS.

Jaheda Kano looks pretty sweet. Now that she's going to come with legs, she might make a good Master of Ordnance.

A couple of the other Heroines might find their way into my army as regimental advisors, methinks...

I go on vacation, 45 pages get added! No way to catch up :-/

Anyone up for summarizing launch / post-launch / stretch highlights?

Long story short, great amount of money at launch, horribly handled communication. Second day, pretty much the same, horribly handled communication. Third day, improvements, more communication, more stretch goals, more definitions. Fourth day, great improvements, drastic shift to the pledge styles, greatly improved communication. Today? Greatest of improvements (improved the stretch goals to keep making pledging more appealing than waiting for launch,) set the stage for consistent stretch goal numbers, and the possibility of increased value at Captain or Above pledge level.

Effectively, they are learning at a very quick rate, and improving where they had misteps earlier. Still early in the campaign, but looks to be an amazing growth in both the KS itself, and the creators.

Editted: To Add a SG highlight, and update highlight.

For Stretch Highlights, we have two freebie minis (Jailbird Armored Division officer, and the Kurganova version.) The third will be at 345k.

Add on Stretch Goals will be at the 10k mark, consistently.

Pledges are now, pretty much, a "cash value" system, so you can mix match a bit more.

Freebies seem to be placed now between the add on unlocks.

Hope this helps!

somewheresomehow wrote:
Long story short, great amount of money at launch, horribly handled communication. Second day, pretty much the same, horribly handled communication. Third day, improvements, more communication, more stretch goals, more definitions. Fourth day, great improvements, drastic shift to the pledge styles, greatly improved communication. Today? Greatest of improvements (improved the stretch goals to keep making pledging more appealing than waiting for launch,) set the stage for consistent stretch goal numbers, and the possibility of increased value at Captain or Above pledge level.

Effectively, they are learning at a very quick rate, and improving where they had misteps earlier. Still early in the campaign, but looks to be an amazing growth in both the KS itself, and the creators.

Editted: To Add a SG highlight, and update highlight.

For Stretch Highlights, we have two freebie minis (Jailbird Armored Division officer, and the Kurganova version.) The third will be at 345k.

Add on Stretch Goals will be at the 10k mark, consistently.

Pledges are now, pretty much, a "cash value" system, so you can mix match a bit more.

Freebies seem to be placed now between the add on unlocks.

Hope this helps!

That's... a really good summary, actually.

The only thing I would really add for Tides is that the "Freebie" miniatures that have been added were originally going to be torso-and-up designed to be used in an armored vehicle portal. They will still be that, but will be full models that come complete with legs in addition to the... tank plug.

 RiTides wrote:
I go on vacation, 45 pages get added! No way to catch up :-/

Anyone up for summarizing launch / post-launch / stretch highlights?

Complaints about lack of communication. RH issues more regular updates.

Complaints about lack of freebies. RH issues more freebies

Complaints about distance between stretch goals. RH shortens them.

Complaints about overall prices.

Complaints about lack of plastic.

Arguments over validity of spin cast resin.

Slavish devotion to Raging Heroes from a dedicated few.

Question from user regarding summation of 45 pages of posts.

Snarky but good natured post summarizing 45 pages of posts.

How's that?

Snarky only because I was being blunt, as he asked for a summary, and then I added a small couple of sentences for personal reflection.

I didn't want to try and summarized here, because well.. MADNESS!

Quite good, actually.

Don't forget complaints about plastic too ; p
I'll add a complaint about metal too - I much prefer to not work with it! Still debating if RH awesome models are worth the annoyance of the metal.

somewheresomehow wrote:
Snarky only because I was being blunt, as he asked for a summary, and then I added a small couple of sentences for personal reflection.

I didn't want to try and summarized here, because well.. MADNESS!

I wasn't calling YOU snarky, I was calling ME snarky! Sorry brother!

Oh! No problem! Sorry for that, targetting and directionality are hard to tell in text!

Thanks for all the summaries of the action, guys . Much appreciated!

Edit: Strike that, I was kinda regretting jumping ship any way, and since I'm getting work.... the new math and flexibility options are great though.

My new math
LT Level
$188 shipped (inc: $150 in models)
(get freebies here, +minis, some bits)
Full Break Down:
Commander Elektra $10
Irina Vega $10
Karmina Noxx $10
2x grunt CS - $30
4x grunt squads $60
1x HCS - $20
$10 left from $150

Add ons:
Heroines:
Not Tech Priestess - $20
Katrina Zerga - $10
Arushka - $10
Volga Potemkine - $15
Troops:
2x H Grunts $30
- $10
$273
Minis: 52 base, 56 total (freebies, I'm assuming we're AT LEAST clearing the tank commanders, Ash is destined for a Vanquisher turret as Knight Commander Ashley Pask (Yeah it's sacrilege, eat it) , the Kruganova tanker will probably end up on foot or I might find another tank turret for her, the Iron Empire model will be painted in the name of being awesome in the most dramatic pose I can manage. Skulls will be involved.

Not bad actually, the only thing that could really get me to up my pledge cash wise is unlocking the Kruganova sniper team, and them being ridiculously awesome. We'll see if I keep my pledge, gonna depend on how much work gets thrown my way the next couple weeks, I did just make a just shy of one thousand dollar investment so the wallet's hurting this month already. Not too sad about the loss of the Early Bird either, cost difference is negligible.

Current total 341,387$

Iron Empire heavy troopers unlocked! Woot, I guess.

Can I be honest? I'm starting to get a little discouraged with the unlocks. So far we haven't seen a single unlocked mini I'm really excited about. And it isn't like I'm super picky, I've got lots of minis I want to see in the queue. Any of the snipers, any of the bikes, a half a dozen or so of the characters...it just seems like all the characters that have been unlocked are, thus far, kinda 'meh.' (I love the sculpts, don't get me wrong, I just don't see most of them fitting in with what I want my army to look like.) I'm just not a fan of mecha, I guess, and the heavy troopers haven't really done it for me.

I don't know, I assume that everything will be revealed eventually, I just wish that I could get some of the stuff I've really been waiting for into the batting lineup.

I can understand that sentiment Jim. But I have a feeling you aren't the only one, and for the varying armies. There are so many minis we have yet to see. Some are even not caring about anything but the heroes, while others aren't caring about anything but the troopers, or support. I think with patience, we will see what will get our steam engines revving to build the armies of our desires from these minis.

Oh, let's just say, I have pledged additional money for heroines not yet unlocked, even ones I am just hoping the render is awesome.

Yeah I think we'll all walk away with roughly what we want from this you know? I'm with... one earlier poster who's name I am having trouble remembering. I'm positioning my ladies as an elite infantry force, two squads of lights, a bunch of heavies bringing the heat, snipers with a sniper hero taking the ranged pain and a core of hard core curb stomping elite troops.

I think I finally have reason to grab a Tauros Venator. That thing would look awesome with a Jail Babe driving it.

Hah! In other news I briefly moved up in the world, happened to be on the page playing with the math when the earliest of the EB Commander slots opened up, yoink!

prankster wrote:
For future reference we're at $332,355 pledged.

So, a jump to $341,506 following the update yesterday evening and there's probably more people who've not seen it. Though given the blog post some of this is going to be new backers who've come on board but some of it will be people upping their pledge to the LT level if they weren't already at or above it. This was on top of the $7k or so that had already been pledged before the update, putting the total at $17.5k for the day.

The question is, was this just a blip due to the blog post / update combination or are we going to see this as the new average pledge per day moving forwards? How this is answered depends squarely on how RH communicate through this week. If the average pledge per day is to stay at this level (or increase further) they need to be on top of updates as and when SGs are reached. I'm not saying we need a massive post each time, just a quick paragraph or so and then details of the next SGs that are being added to the pile. We've had an add-on SG and a freebie SG unlocked since their update and we're sitting fairly close to the third tank commander SG. If they can get out an update this morning with details of the $365k and $370k SGs they should be able to keep this momentum going. Hopefully the next update will also give us some details of the $355k upgrade pack unlock as we're relatively close to that as well.

Whilst any SG reveal would be nice to see, I think it'd be especially nice to see either one of the bikes or a set of snipers for the next add-on SG reveal, and then the other after that at $380k. That way we'll have seen at least one example from each and people can get an idea of what the same unit from the other factions would look like.

Does anyone know if the troopers/heavy troopers are going to come with any optional equipment bits?

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
Hah! In other news I briefly moved up in the world, happened to be on the page playing with the math when the earliest of the EB Commander slots opened up, yoink!

So very, very envious!

Also I did say RH was listening to communities, glad people are happy with the latest updates

 Vermillion wrote:


Also I did say RH was listening to communities, glad people are happy with the latest updates

Indeed, the last couple updates were pretty good, but I think Update 8 spells it out in 30 foot neon that the comm lines are open. Looks like the first of the hotly anticipated minis (the Mad Nurse) is upcoming though, I wonder if unlocking her will mean a spike?

Brief poll question for you lot, since I have three tank commanders to pick from for my normal IG Army. Who makes the better stand in for Knight Commander Pask? Ash (Jail Birds), Jaheda Kano (Kruganova) or Kristina Karlstein? (IE)

All 3 are valid candidates it all depends on how noble you want your pask look like.

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
Brief poll question for you lot, since I have three tank commanders to pick from for my normal IG Army. Who makes the better stand in for Knight Commander Pask? Ash (Jail Birds), Jaheda Kano (Kruganova) or Kristina Karlstein? (IE)

I would vote for Jaheda Kano followed by Kristina "Drive-Me-Closer" Karlstein.

 Jimsolo wrote:
Does anyone know if the troopers/heavy troopers are going to come with any optional equipment bits?

We just know that there will be option unlocks, but not exactly which ones. I think, more heads were mentioned.

BTW Boing Boing seems to have posted a positive review of this kickstarter on a Women's Interest website as well (only with a snarky comment on chainmail bikinis at the end ):
http://jezebel.com/kickstarter-for-all-female-miniatures-reaches-12k-go-512167781