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Pledge Manager Closes March 23rd (9 days from now!)
The pledge manager is closing March 23rd at 1PM EST.
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Ah... well I can't really leave the update without anything fun. Here is a 1/8th scale Cockroach Queen!
sadly even the basic untracked shipping to the UK seems to have gone up again with a single resin mini being $30 (or its the glitch that's showed up previously) so I can't afford to get anything... Boo I really wanted the Bard and those green dice
(sorry no links, paste seems to be broken at the moment)
Alpharius wrote: Quick question for anyone who has completed/locked/etc. the Pledge Manager - does it charge your card straight away, or will it be waiting until the deadline on the 23rd to do so?
Thanks!
it will be charged whenever the creator locks things down, so the 23rd assuming Adam does it on time (you'll also be able to reopen it and change things via the link in the email you'll get until it's locked so if you have a last minute change of mind its ok)
If you can only buy one expansion i'd go for one of two choices
1. Dragon King or Sunstalker
both give you an alternate campaign to play, the general consensus seems to be that Dragon King is better, but pick whichever you think looks best, discount is also best on Dragon King
2. Gorm
this provides an alternate monster to hunt right from the start of the game instead of the white lion which some people get burned out on after multiple campaigns
As to new expansion there is no guarantee the PM will reopen to let you buy these later on (but I would not be surprised if it does).
Shipping will be whatever it costs KD whenever it happens, they're not going to profiteer from it, but aren't going to loose money, they're guessing about $20 + $2 per expansion to Canada at present, but I'd expect it to go up as shipping costs are bound to keep rising
Expansion interactions
Red Witches: intereacts with Fade (a whitebox mini not in either KS) and the new Parriah expansion, from the sound of it neither are required but will probably make it better
Campaigns of Death sounds like you'll need a lot of the original expansions to make the most (or anything) of it
Inverted Mountain: requires lots of the new expansions
Silver City: sounds like you'll need the Lion God expansion from the first KS
Abysal Woods: Requires Spidiculese and the flower knight from the first KS
If you wanted to get one of the new ones i'd probably go for the gamblers chest as I think the new advanced rules will change up the game, it contains the atnas nemesis monster and a huge number of narrative sculpt minis,
if you wanted a more standard expansion id go for one that didn't intereact with any of the others, and wasn't late game only so
honeycomb weaver,
oblivion mosquito,
frogdog,
nightmare ram,
screaming god
I'd be entirely happy for him to sell at Gencon whatever the status of the KS stuff is,
but considering the way the manufacturing is done (sprues at one place, printing at another and then packing at either at one of the above, or possibly a 3rd location) unless he's in a position to at least be packing completed boxes into containers for shipping he's not going to be able to do it
since he'll have to get all of each component done in a single run (or pay much higher prices), once the boxes are assembled he can airfreight some to get 2-3 weeks jump on the containers by sea to the US (customs being equal) but other than that there's not going to be a huge amount of wiggle room timing wise
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the store restocks every month or two, typically around the middle of the month (although when there's a holiday like Halloween the restock tends to be then). You'll typically see 2-4 new resin minis and 2-4 encores when a restock hits (although if you're not online most may well sell out before you see the email)
second Full Metal Planet in Japan which does get stock on a regular basis (if you can cope with the Japanese language website)
and the final place worth looking at is CMON who sold their stuff before they were a big hit and sometimes stuff shows up there (none in stock at present)
is the main unofficial KD facebook group although they're trying to direct selling post to the place below you'll still see some temporarily as they get posted (enough time to at least start PMing for a deal)
a KD trading group where some will offer stuff at more reasonable prices (although a fair few will still look to get what the ebay rates are)
The stuff from the KS (all plastic) will go to the normal KD retailers as it comes out with the reprint of the base game now probably Q3 2017.
next reprints of the existing expansions (The Lion Knight is getting 4 extra minis in the reprint so avoid the original for now) set for Q4 2017
then the new content in Q1 2018 and Q1 2019
probably the best resource to see what has been release in the past is http://vibrantlantern.com/ (although it is missing some stuff)
also the sold out tab on the KD store although a bunch of the OOS stuff was taken down during the KS (to avoid confusion/keep some of the more NSFW stuff off the radar?) https://shop.kingdomdeath.com/collections/sold-out
If you do get tempted by stuff on ebay plastics are likely to be real (I've not seen any fake HIPS sprues yet), but there are a lot of recasts of the resins (often priced as the real things)
Real KD minis come with a brown craft box with an image stamped on the front and a business card like small art card (you might also have a numbered COA and a larger postcard sized art card) If you're not offered that it's most likely to be a recast
(the exception are a few rare pieces that came in grab bags one year when Adam cleared out a bunch of miscasts and some stuff he'd decided wasn't good enough for a real release after he's ordered the casts)
oh and the plastics are the closest thing to resin quality in terms of detail that I've come across in a mini, so don't discount them, especially the big monsters where they become more affordable than the $1-200 resins
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the design and sculpting are by the KD crew, but the casting is going to be by Soda Pops casting people, but if the previous cross overs are anything to go by it will be popular
(note don't try and mix anything else from the store into your relic knights KS order as that's not allowed and will lead to your order being canceled)
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spiralingcadaver wrote: He's part of the Abyssal(?) Woods giganto-expansion, rather than listed as a separate monster, if that's where the confusion comes from.
Also, anyone there or tapped in, is there any info on what they're selling other than presumably old stuff and the detective promo?
the only other new stuff on sale seems to be summer dice, KD card sleaves and the oblivion mosquito t-shirt,
with the forge god being the star of the hard to get existing stock (some are suggesting they're old stock, but I've seen a lot posting they've bought the limit of 2 so I wonder if it's an encore, or if perhaps he never actually had the full amount cast and now has)
(and I suspect that will remain the case as that's a time limited release and he probably wants to keep those in house along with the resins and other stuff)
in the interview with Justin Soli they talk about the table edge pieces shown above as something to bling up your gaming table
Adam would like to get them out there but 3d printing to order would tie up their printer for too long, and other routes would be too expensive/too high a minimum order,
but he might just upload them to thingverse so people could print their own (around 21 mins)
Mini update from Poots in the comment section:
Kingdom Death 4-time creator 5 minutes ago
Just thought i'd give you guys a quick status update. At this point, cargo ships have started to reach their respective ports. Once they have arrived it usually takes another 1-2 weeks for the ships to be unloaded and the cargo to be trucked over to its warehouse. I want to have as little delay between global shipment as possible (very tricky when your sailing containers all over the world!) I don't have any "official" timeline updates yet. I am still personally at the wait and see point.
so very much wait and see what with the potential for customs delays, waiting for other ships to arrive etc
but very much time to start putting aside the shipping money if you backed for the base game
I'm still expecting the 1.5 upgrade boxes not to ship at the same time as the full new 1.5 boxes, but am prepared to be pleasantly surprised if they do
some people on the facebook group are reporting the ability to add extra core games too,
but i'd really recommend not doing anything until there's an official announcement as I suspect backerkit is still fiddling with things on the back end and there's always the change of being charged for something that's just not available
I know from what Adam has said on a podcast that the official painting guides he wanted to do didn't happen as he couldn't get official permission to feature paint range(s) in them
although recently one (I want to say Army Painter but I can't be 100% sure I'm remembering that right) has made positive noises
quite why the reluctance is unclear especially lines that don't have a mini company associated with them
you could speculate that they don't want to be linked to KD (controversial adult themes), that they would want to do official paint sets (I doubt that would fly with Adam), nobody has ever asked permission for this before so they don't know what to say etc
Facebook group has just had photos of the update pack in the wild so that's shipping for US folks too (spoilers in the album if you want to avoid looking)
That sounds like you've not actually managed to pay the shipping
You get a near instant email from support@s.backerkit.com titled Survey Confirmation -- Kingdom Death: Monster 1.5
then a second one when they charge your card (being done in batches) from reply@s.backerkit.com titled Your payment has been processed for Kingdom Death: Monster 1.5
i'd have another look at your backerkit
it should say in green under STATUS
Survey is Answered Rewards and Add-ons are Locked Credit Card is Charged
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