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Ok the ruined streets do look pretty amazing. I got the clean streets because I'm the freak that uses Cities of Death kits to build complete un-ruined buildings, and I'm getting mine tomorrow!
4 tile display set $79.99 (includes frame)
16 Tile set $199.99
24 Tile Set $249.99
That's very slightly cheaper than the GW board, although more likely to be discounted. I'm still glad I withdrew my pledge. My gaming needs have changed in the last two years, and while it would be cool to get a great discount, I'm excited to see these enter general distribution. I also figure that, like most injection plastic stuff, there will be times they are more heavily discounted (at least in bundle form).
I'm willing to be a late adopter, and see what these look like painted and played on.
Oct 18 2014
All Themes - All Countries - GENERAL UPDATE
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Just a quick update on how things are progressing....
Shipping Status
The Rolling Fields 8 tile sets all arrived at the Secret Weapon warehouse today. We will have them out to Mantic and The Combat Company next week after we coordinate delivery.
Australian and American customers have begun receiving their tiles. I will be begging for unboxing images
Everything should be square with Mantic shortly, and I'll update again as soon as they begin shipping.
Secret Weapon HQ expects to move about 200 orders next week -- which would put us close to the 50% mark for orders shipped. We are shipping domestic orders first as they're all going FedEx, whereas international orders (at least Canada, which make up the bulk) will ship via USPS.
Backer Pre-Order Additions
This is the last weekend to add pre-order items to your pledge. We're doing our best to combine orders so that your pledge and new additions go out together. Act quickly though, because at the pace we're going your pledge might be out before we get your addition.
Public Pre-Orders
I will open pre-orders to the public as soon as we break at least the 50% mark for overall orders shipped. All domestic backer orders will be shipped prior to any public pre-orders, or distributor wholesale orders.
Funds from these sales will help cover the cost of international shipping, particularly to Canada.
Border Frame Add-On
If you included a border frame with your pledge... it's going to be late. No excuse here, I simply forgot to include them in my production order. I realized this as soon as I received the containers, and I'm already communicating with WGF to get them produced and shipped. I will have an update on this as soon as there's news to share. These will be shipped separately from your pledge as soon as they are available.
If you ordered a Display Board - your border frame IS INCLUDED with your tiles.
Themed Wall/Fortification Add-Ons
We're cranking out the wall sets, and adding to the production molds, as quickly as possible. These will not be available as add-on items until all backers have received their pledge sets.
104 Boxes, Standing By
When I left the warehouse today we had 104 parcels ready for FedEx to pick up. These were largely Wargamer, and Double Wargamer orders, as they take up the most space -- and we need more room to stage orders. Next week we'll have enough room (and the shipping supplies we're low on) in the warehouse to start in on the smaller orders. Those will move through the warehouse very quickly.
That's It For Now
I'll be back next week with more updates, but right now I'm going to go and celebrate my ten year wedding anniversary... because I can
So I did some playing around with my tiles yesterday, just to get a feel for them.
They are exquisite to say the least and well worth the wait.
Took some side by side shots comparing various clean and damaged tiles (if anyone is interested).
Spoiler:
Clean Street (a)
Damaged Street (a) 1
Damaged Street (a) 2
Spoiler:
Clean Street (b)
Damaged Street (b)
Spoiler:
Clean Intersection
Damaged Intersection
I did notice that on the underside of some tiles there is a tiny point where the injection point is. This can unbalance the tile if sitting on a hard flat surface.
It's easy removed though with a blade or file. Some of them you can even rub away with your thumb.
And also, for those who have 16 ruined/8 clean urban tiles, you can fit them all into the one box. Like so.
-22 tiles lined one way.
-1 tile lined the opposite way.
-slide the clips down the side.
-Final tile sits on top.
I'm going to assume that a full 24 clean urban tiles will also fit nicely as well. I don't think 24 ruined urban tiles will fit though. I can't comment on any of the other styles.
A lone sentinal stalks across the ruined cityscape.
Wayland Games is confirmed as the UK retail distributor - there is a small amount of stock for them in the shipment that went to Mantic so preorders should be up soon.
Snrub wrote: So I did some playing around with my tiles yesterday, just to get a feel for them.
They are exquisite to say the least and well worth the wait. an
I'm going to assume that a full 24 clean urban tiles will also fit nicely as well. I don't think 24 ruined urban tiles will fit though. I can't comment on any of the other styles.
A lone sentinal stalks across the ruined cityscape.
They look really good; I can't wait to get mine in and you're making me jealous. I ordered 16 Clean and 16 Ruined myself and really can't wait for them to get here.
UNCLEBADTOUCH wrote: Urgh not way-tingforstock-land :-( guess I will have to wait until a decent retailer starts stocking these.
This. Call me when Dark Sphere or Element Games start selling them, I don't fancy waiting around for weeks on end while Wayland process the order on their 1950's building-sized punchcard computer or whatever the hell it is that makes them so slow.
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I got a set of Rolling Fields and a set of Scrapyard, as well as a display set of Scrapyard. Gorkamorka, here I come. Anyone else remember the 'rolling road' scenario?
I got mine yesterday (two big boxes, and then a small box of 4). All street tiles, all clean.
I'm in several minds about them.
On one hand, they're great. They're the perfect sort of road system in that they're completely modular and with the spread I have (2x16 + 4) I can do a variety of things.
On the other hand, the ruined tiles (which one of my friends got), look better than the regular streets. The detail level is pretty damned impressive, and I'm kinda wishing I'd got some ruined ones.
One the other other hand, repeated terrain details like the same pile or rubble would begin to annoy me. I generally dislike what I call "moulded tables", that is to say tables with "built-in" terrain*. It's why I dislike GW's Realm of Battle Board, because as nice as it looks those hills are always going to be there, and you have a limited amount of scope over what can be done with the table. I think that, as nice as the ruined streets stuff is, the limited variety would stop me from wanting a large amount of it. The good news is that these are 1x1 tiles, meaning you can do a lot more with them in terms of variety and changing the setup, something that's not possible with 2x2 tiles like the GW ones.
*The exception to this is tables with trenches. Trenches never work as deployable terrain pieces because they're simply not trenches. They don't sink into the table (like a trench would), they rise above it, meaning they're just raised battlements. GW gets away with this because their plastic battlements specifically aren't trenches, but there are lots of terrain companies out there that make "trenches" that look terrible. Moulded tables with the trenches built in are the only way to achieve proper trenches. It'll be interesting to see how Secret Weapons handles that.
On the other other other hand, the streets are all straight. Generally speaking, and I know a lot of people that have echoed this across Dakka, streets work better for wargames when they're at an angle to avoid creating near terrain-less thoroughfares that make games too easy, or overbalance the game in favour of heavy shooting armies.
On the other other other other hand, as mentioned above, the smaller scale of the tiles (1x1) means that you can mitigate this problem somewhat with good placement.
And finally, on the final hand, I was saddened to see that there's no dead-end road piece like the test shots during the KS had led me to believe. See this:
The lowest tile on the right doesn't exist in the finished product. There's a road with a barricade to be sure, but it's a regular straight road. It doesn't have a border of regular paving around three sides like the one in that picture. That was disappointing.
Overall I'm very happy with the product and I don't regret purchasing it (unlike Sedition Wars and Deadzone). I'm just in several minds about what could have been.
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Mine were apparently delivered to my mailing address today, so I'll pick them up on Friday evening and (probably) open them this weekend for a look at QC. 1 set each of regular streets, and ruined streets. I figure it should give me enough variety for a warzone table of various proportions, without needing to have a new ruin every 12" or so.
I also ordered a set of rolling hills and ruined temple from the backer pre-order sale for my Zavod 311 tank graveyard table, so hopefully they get here in the next month or so and I'll see just how much they can co-exist with the roads (if at all) before I work out how to paint either set....
I wonder what the ball park percentage is of orders that have gone out...
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According to my parents, I received two boxes at different times in the post (different couriers?Aust Post delivery people?). Not unusual in itself.
One large box from somewhere in China, and one smaller box - "like a large shoebox" from Combat Company inside a plastic mailing package.
Do either of these sound familiar to anyone? I'm concerned that the Chinese box could be something unrelated and that SWM/Combat Company fethed up my order and I got the original display board set sent out instead of the "Wargamer" I upgraded to via the pledge manager...
Actually, I think I know what the Chinese box is.... 1:6 scale models. gak... I wonder how long Justin and CC will take to un feth my order.
updated:
I've been in contact with Justin now and he's confirmed that CC got the correct info. Now I'll just have to wait and see what's in the box...
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I keep getting an error when signing up for it, which people have been reporting for over a year now.
So much for that idea.
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I ordered 16 Clean and 16 Ruined myself and really can't wait for them to get here. 
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