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 ChargerIIC wrote:
I know it's probably part of a nearby WMH display, but the brief idea of a giant rampaging slave gretchin made me smile

Yeah, it's there for scale comparison purposes and was one of the models they happened to have on hand at the booth.

I snagged some pics at AdeptiCon - those little tanks look absolutely beautiful in-person, and even the large models were much more impressive than I had thought. And I love the clear basing!







I tried to wheedle out some info, but they just said the Cthulhu faction looks awesome and not too much else. That makes sense, though - I painted those models for my counts-as tyranids even in the prior version. Now that they're designed to be assembled and painted, I'll bet they're fantastic!

Definitely looking forward to this

This is a shame...I hear nothing but good things about Monsterpocalypse (old edition, of course), but I can't stand the aesthetic. I feel like I'm missing out, but the 'Power Ranges' vibe is a killer for me.

Elbows, I feel the same!

What got me pretty excited at AdeptiCon (and it's probably covered in the news here) was having them describe how you can take any of the "Defender" monsters, and pair it with any of the "Defender" tanks/minions. Same goes for "Invaders" (forgive me if I'm using the wrong name).

So, if you like any one of the big models, you can pair it with these sweet little tanks . Personally, I don't like this Gundam-style one, or the monster it's opposing, but I LOVED their old Cthulhu sculpts, and am hopeful one of the big Defenders will also appeal to me

Only downside is if the release schedule is slow - they're definitely leading with these two sets, but other sets should follow shortly thereafter...

The models do look pretty sweet.

The models aren't pre-painted anymore, right? Did they have some unpainted/unassembled stuff for perusal so you could see what you were actually buying? Because I can't paint like that (it's a much nicer paintjob than I can do, and I like it!).

They didn't have any unpainted, unfortunately! I would really like to see that, too...

Darn, I was really hoping for a few more tidbits about Monpoc at Adepticon. :/

But thanks for the new pics, RiTides!

Good scale!

 Hellfury wrote:
Darn, I was really hoping for a few more tidbits about Monpoc at Adepticon. :/

But thanks for the new pics, RiTides!

There's a session going on at Lock And Load. I'll be sure to forget that I'm going to attend it and post about what I did instead on facebook.

I thought that crocodile thing in the background was a Gojira for the game. However, it looks like it's on a round base, so it must be for WarmaHordes...

Shame, that would have gotten me straight in buying on this.

I think that's the Dracodile, Stormonu.

Thogh both things on round bases are Colossals, so them be big round bases.

So how big would that make the MonPoc figures?

Loving those unit models... but where is Explodohawk?

Are they allowing you to mix factions or do you have to pick one?

100BostonFan wrote:
Are they allowing you to mix factions or do you have to pick one?

There's only going to be 2 factions Protectors and Destroyers. It also sounds like 2 monsters will become the norm, so likely you'll be able to mix say, GUARD with the Terrasaurs, but not with Cthulu.

 LunarSol wrote:

100BostonFan wrote:
Are they allowing you to mix factions or do you have to pick one?

There's only going to be 2 factions Protectors and Destroyers. It also sounds like 2 monsters will become the norm, so likely you'll be able to mix say, GUARD with the Terrasaurs, but not with Cthulu.

The way it's been laid out, there's going to be 2 Agendas made up of 3 factions each:

Protectors
-G.U.A.R.D.
-Terrasaurs
-Shadow Sun Syndicate

Destroyers
-Planet Eaters
-Lords of Cthul
-Martian Invaders

You can mix Monsters and units in each Agenda.

Also, in regards to size, PP has this image up on their new MonPoc website:



The Warjack on the left is roughly the same size as a Dreadnought.

 RiTides wrote:
Elbows, I feel the same!

What got me pretty excited at AdeptiCon (and it's probably covered in the news here) was having them describe how you can take any of the "Defender" monsters, and pair it with any of the "Defender" tanks/minions. Same goes for "Invaders" (forgive me if I'm using the wrong name).

So, if you like any one of the big models, you can pair it with these sweet little tanks . Personally, I don't like this Gundam-style one, or the monster it's opposing, but I LOVED their old Cthulhu sculpts, and am hopeful one of the big Defenders will also appeal to me

Only downside is if the release schedule is slow - they're definitely leading with these two sets, but other sets should follow shortly thereafter...

The other Defenders were giant ninjas ala ultraman.


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Seeing them side by side...except for a couple monsters here and there I doubt id buy much of the new stuff. its just so...exactly the same.

the_scotsman wrote:

The other Defenders were giant ninjas ala ultraman.


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Seeing them side by side...except for a couple monsters here and there I doubt id buy much of the new stuff. its just so...exactly the same.

Shadow Sun is more of the Ultraman style giant ninjas. The other defenders were kind of a similar idea, but warrior monks that summoned giant elemental avatars. Ninja like definitely, but notably the ninja itself was made almost entirely of fire or water or whatever.

the_scotsman wrote:
Seeing them side by side...except for a couple monsters here and there I doubt id buy much of the new stuff. its just so...exactly the same.

Just looking at that side by side, the new sculpt is bigger and more detailed than the original.

People would complain if it didn't look the same lol

I think people are going to complain if/when they DO look the same.

Well, maybe not complain so much as just use what they already have?

Maybe just re-based?

I like the new models a lot. On top of that, I am very glad this won't be collectible.

 Manchu wrote:
I like the new models a lot. On top of that, I am very glad this won't be collectible.

Likewise. I love my old Monpoc stuff but those new sculpts look miles better - looking forward to getting and painting them up!

 malfred wrote:
People would complain if it didn't look the same lol

This is true.

And if we use deductive reasoning to read between the lines, PP reusing former designs with a slight detail upgrade gives tacit permission to keep using CMG era models to play the new game.

 Hellfury wrote:

 malfred wrote:
People would complain if it didn't look the same lol

This is true.

And if we use deductive reasoning to read between the lines, PP reusing former designs with a slight detail upgrade gives tacit permission to keep using CMG era models to play the new game.

I think you'd be missing out though. I repainted my old Ape force, and as much as I preferred my repaints to the models out of the box, they were pretty much ass to paint.

Oh I'm not saying avoid the new hobby stuff. I'm buying in on many of those. Especially hard to find units like power pods.

I'm just combating the ever lasting kvetching I'm seeing from a lot of the grognards online about not being able to use old models in the new game.

PP were silly to rationalize their need to sell models with the excuse of scale.

I believe reality to be that the old models will be fine and that the evidence of the same kaiju/units being produced is tacit permission to continue using old models, at least in the short term.

 Hellfury wrote:
tacit permission to continue using old models

What do you mean? The only venue where permission would be an issue would be organized play. At that point, we're talking about explicit rather than tacit permission, where TO says yea or nay. I would be surprised if PP wanted people using old MonPoc models in events they sponsor.

Yeah, I think PP is trying to avoid people spending a bunch of money on the new figures, painting them up real nice, bringing them to a tournament, and getting squashed by some one who bought a bunch of the old pre-paints on ebay for $20.

A better thing they could have do is just make it so anything that hasn't seen and updated release yet, is legal in a official tournament. Once it's out, you have to use the new models. Similarly, If you still wanted to use the old models, perhaps you could have a rule that for official tournaments, they have to be rebased and repainted. I would rather play against someone with a crazy modded original model of the Ares mothership, compared to someone with a new model and 3 colors (or whatever PP's rule for being 'completely painted' is) slapped on it.

 Manchu wrote:

 Hellfury wrote:
tacit permission to continue using old models

What do you mean? The only venue where permission would be an issue would be organized play. At that point, we're talking about explicit rather than tacit permission, where TO says yea or nay. I would be surprised if PP wanted people using old MonPoc models in events they sponsor.

A couple posts above that, I remark more on it.

 Hellfury wrote:
And if we use deductive reasoning to read between the lines, PP reusing former designs with a slight detail upgrade gives tacit permission to keep using CMG era models to play the new game.

Long and short of it is this, if they really didn't want anybody using old models at all, they would have rebuilt the entireline from scratch.

However, they did not.