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Well, consistency of product is a thing - and even if they completely redesigned it fans would probably be asking for revised versions of the original figures.

http://privateerpress.com/community/privateer-insider/monsterpocalypse-mayday

Some renders.

Have they penned a general release date? I'm trying to figure out when I can start querying my FLGS for preorder information.

 ChargerIIC wrote:
Have they penned a general release date? I'm trying to figure out when I can start querying my FLGS for preorder information.

If I had to guess id feel theyd want atleast 2 starters or a 2 player set for Gencon. Missing that would be a huge mistake for a game like this

They've been talking fall. Judging by their recent release pattern, they'll probably have their schedule full releasing Crucible Guard through August, with MonPoc aiming for a Sept/Oct release.

And we have a peek at the starter sets. Nice dice and stat cards....

http://privateerpress.com/community/privateer-insider/monsterpocalypse-starter-unboxing

Fixing the dice is a huge huge improvement.

MarkNorfolk wrote:
And we have a peek at the starter sets. Nice dice and stat cards....

http://privateerpress.com/community/privateer-insider/monsterpocalypse-starter-unboxing

Happy to see it comes with the buildings. Wonder if they'll release a 2 player box a la WMH?

Here are the starters for the first two factions

Do we know if they're launching with only those two starters? They literally picked, for my personal tastes, the most dull options out of their catalog. :-p

NewTruthNeomaxim wrote:
Do we know if they're launching with only those two starters? They literally picked, for my personal tastes, the most dull options out of their catalog. :-p

Just these two to start. I'm not really surprised as they've always clearly been the game's initial concepts with the other factions expanding on the core robot vs monster idea. There's a reason they were on opposite sides of the old Agenda wheel. I suspect we'll see the other factions released in similar pairs.

NewTruthNeomaxim wrote:
Do we know if they're launching with only those two starters? They literally picked, for my personal tastes, the most dull options out of their catalog. :-p

Rumor has it that Lords of Cthul and Shadow Sun Syndicate will be the second factions with releases. If I'm remembering correctly though, I think they intend to just have one starter per agenda (not faction). This is backed up by the fact that they are the Protectors starter and Destroyers starter, and not GUARD starter and Planet Eaters starter.

Personally, I think they are the two best options, as they are the most indicative of the feel of the game (giant robots vs aliens) and most mass market. If they were to do Shadow Sun vs Cthul, the posters and ad sheets would give off a very different vibe.

Still looking like a zero effort nostalgie cash grab, down to using 16mm chessex custom dice, which are gonna be awful to use in fistfuls on the 70cm mat. Never mind having 4 entire sculpts to launch the game with.

Six sculpts. The little guys are four grunts and one of something else.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Still looking like a zero effort nostalgie cash grab, down to using 16mm chessex custom dice, which are gonna be awful to use in fistfuls on the 70cm mat. Never mind having 4 entire sculpts to launch the game with.

Surely 'zero effort' would just be reprinting the original game as is, with no alteration what so ever.

So they are taking out buildings entirely for cardboard cutouts?

The starter box buildings are cardstock, but they’ll have resin buildings later, including in tournament kits apparently.


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MarkNorfolk wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Still looking like a zero effort nostalgie cash grab, down to using 16mm chessex custom dice, which are gonna be awful to use in fistfuls on the 70cm mat. Never mind having 4 entire sculpts to launch the game with.

Surely 'zero effort' would just be reprinting the original game as is, with no alteration what so ever.

Well the version bans using the old figures, so they can get money again from people who already own it all.

A reprint would involve finding a new factory that can do prepaints. They didn't even feel like finding a place that can engrave small dice.

 AduroT wrote:
The starter box buildings are cardstock, but they’ll have resin buildings later, including in tournament kits apparently.


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MarkNorfolk wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Still looking like a zero effort nostalgie cash grab, down to using 16mm chessex custom dice, which are gonna be awful to use in fistfuls on the 70cm mat. Never mind having 4 entire sculpts to launch the game with.

Surely 'zero effort' would just be reprinting the original game as is, with no alteration what so ever.

Well the version bans using the old figures, so they can get money again from people who already own it all.

That's a different argument, and for official tournaments. I intend to use my old stuff where it fits in for casual games and where nonofficial tournaments allow.

I was just pointing out that game rewrites, figure design and sculpting and final production with all it's costs and logistics issues can hardly be called 'zero effort'. As for 'nostalgia cash grab' - that can be leveled at the new Necromunda/Adeptus Titanicus/Guilds of Ravnica/Battletech... hell, there have been reprints of Car Wars and OGRE. They're all at it, to be honest. And to PP's credit this wasn't run as a Kickstarter.

Yeah all new sculpts in a different scale being produced in house
doesn't feel like zero effort.

The zero effort came and went already when they reboxed a bunch
of stuff and sold it as a single set. I forget what that was called.

The little dice were fun, but engraved dice is really all that matters. The old ones were disastrous and didn't hold up to even a little bit of casual play.

Just got a huge collection of the old Monpoc stuff from a friend the other day. I was sorting through it to beef up my existing collection, and it's crazy how much stuff was released for the game. Really too bad that is so abruptly got pulled from market, as it's a really fun game. Does anyone know how many of the quantums actually got released? I have King Kondo, but apparently more were made, but I've never seen them on ebay.

I really can't say I"m interested in G.U.A.R.D. or Planet eaters, so I guess I'll have to wait for terrasaurs before I start playing.

 skullking wrote:

I really can't say I"m interested in G.U.A.R.D. or Planet eaters, so I guess I'll have to wait for terrasaurs before I start playing.

They're just doing 2 sides and apparently 2 monster games will be somewhat standard. I suspect GUARD/Terrasaur combo armies will be a thing long before there's enough monsters to run pure Terrasaur.

 AduroT wrote:
The starter box buildings are cardstock, but they’ll have resin buildings later, including in tournament kits apparently.


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MarkNorfolk wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Still looking like a zero effort nostalgie cash grab, down to using 16mm chessex custom dice, which are gonna be awful to use in fistfuls on the 70cm mat. Never mind having 4 entire sculpts to launch the game with.

Surely 'zero effort' would just be reprinting the original game as is, with no alteration what so ever.

Well the version bans using the old figures, so they can get money again from people who already own it all.

And how exactly does PP propose to "ban" me from using all my old figures, given that these look like nearly identical scale?

Are they going to break into my house and douse my box of figs with gasoline? They want to give me literally zero reason to ever want to purchase the new figs (they evidently did no redesign on them visually) so I'll just bust out the massive collection I ebayed for when the original game went south and enjoy the new edition without a single purchase.

Sadly, unless they do a really good job promoting this game, I see this game to be a gigantic commercial flop.

lets take a gander at ol' ebay...

Let's see, I can buy a lot of about 10 randomly assorted monsters and 30 randomly assorted grunts for roughly 30$, or basically the entirety of a faction for 60$. I can splash and buy a big lot of someone's collection for about 250 dollars, getting me everything I need to play pretty much every faction from the original game (seems like the second expansion is much rarer and more aggressively priced, but they're going for the originals first.)

Why is anyone going to drop what will probably be 50$ for a new, slightly HD monster in super fun to work with PP resin when they could spend that same 50 bucks to get all 5 monsters and 40-odd grunt units from the old game on ebay?

 skullking wrote:
Just got a huge collection of the old Monpoc stuff from a friend the other day. I was sorting through it to beef up my existing collection, and it's crazy how much stuff was released for the game. Really too bad that is so abruptly got pulled from market, as it's a really fun game. Does anyone know how many of the quantums actually got released? I have King Kondo, but apparently more were made, but I've never seen them on ebay.

I really can't say I"m interested in G.U.A.R.D. or Planet eaters, so I guess I'll have to wait for terrasaurs before I start playing.

There were 6 other Quantums, only 2 of each were made for Gencon Masters (IIRC) prizes. Considering the tiny print run and the fact they were the last MonPoc minis ever, I imagine they were just regular monsters stripped and repainted in house by PP, not actually manufactured.

PP’s resin is actually pretty top notch. It’s the pvc stuff that’s dodgy.

I'd expect "banning" the old figures would work the same way as banning third party models for other games. Nobody would care unless its a PP sanctioned event.

Yes, that would pretty much be the only way they'd be able to attempt to 'ban' old stuff, and even then, I'd bet that most FLGS wouldn't even care to try and enforce it.

Hopefully the cards and rules will be available separately.