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KS, the bane of my bank account!
That said I'm more interested in knowing the contents of the Alpha Strike boxed set. Unfortunately for me the number of mechs points to 2 IS lances vs a Clan Star, and I'm not very interested in clan mechs.
Am I the only one that doesn't like the jumping mechs?
M.
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Gitzbitah wrote: Looks like a wide spread. The Regent is ilclan, the Penetrator is 3055, Wraith is 3055, Sagittaire is Fedocm Civil War )3063), Gunslinger is 3055.
So primarily 3055, late Clan invasion, with the Grey Death pack being an outlier from the 3150s..
I sort of figured it would be around the time just after, or not too long after, the Clan Invasion.
I'm old, so I'm very in tune with 3025.... lol
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Miguelsan wrote: KS, the bane of my bank account!
That said I'm more interested in knowing the contents of the Alpha Strike boxed set. Unfortunately for me the number of mechs points to 2 IS lances vs a Clan Star, and I'm not very interested in clan mechs.
Am I the only one that doesn't like the jumping mechs?
M.
For those worried about the jumping 'mechs in the new mercenary force packs, Adrian Gideon (BattleTech Line Developer Ray Arrastia) posted this on the BattleTech forums:
We’re trying to them done as separate pieces. So you can put the mini on the base without the plume, and they were all sculpted with that intent.
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A Merc-based Kickstarter with vehicles is something they talked about. Glad it's happening but I want to know:
1. Will these new Lance Packs be available as part of this Kickstarter?
2. Are all the 'new' 'Mechs in this Kickstarter just these Force Packs?
1: I suspect they won't be unless they are add ons in a pledge manager post crowd-funding campaign.
2: In the blurb for the Mercenaries crowdfunder it mentions "Among the miniatures in production are the Firestarter, Griffin IIC, Ostroc, and Kraken ’Mechs" so I would think there may be a few more new mechs than just what is the retailer exclusive mercenary Lance packs.
To those who participated in the first Kickstarter: was there a tier akin to "one copy of each new model" (that actually represented savings compared to eventually buying all the retail releases)? Or were the options divided up in a wacky manner where one had to get multiple copies of some models, or non-model perks, in order to get all of the releases?
Altruizine wrote: To those who participated in the first Kickstarter: was there a tier akin to "one copy of each new model" (that actually represented savings compared to eventually buying all the retail releases)? Or were the options divided up in a wacky manner where one had to get multiple copies of some models, or non-model perks, in order to get all of the releases?
I only got into BT this year, and I'm still figuring out the release history. Were there models available in Salvage Boxes that are - as yet - unavailable elsewhere? Or has the Urbanmech been the only "exclusive" model released thus far? Did the "Legendary Mechwarriors" lance contain unique sculpts, the primary sculpts with extra components/decoration, or merely the standard sculpts available in other products?
Altruizine wrote: Were there models available in Salvage Boxes that are - as yet - unavailable elsewhere?
No. The original Salvage Boxes had a limited selection of KS Mechs (15 Clan mechs), and the current ones have all of them in (93!).
Altruizine wrote: Or has the Urbanmech been the only "exclusive" model released thus far?
Yes (there was the Shilone fighter, but that's been up on CGL's store).
Altruizine wrote: Did the "Legendary Mechwarriors" lance contain unique sculpts, the primary sculpts with extra components/decoration, or merely the standard sculpts available in other products?
Unique sculpts.
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The Urbanmech and the fighter. Legendary models are unique sculpts.
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petrov27 wrote: As far as the "exclusive" lance packs, has there just been one released so far (Barnes and Noble or where-ever?)
So far - Wolf's Dragoons Assault Star is Barnes & Noble exclusive. There are five more coming:
beast_gts wrote: Eridani Light Horse Hunter Lance - "new Sagittaire, as well as a re-posed Banshee, and new variants of the Cyclops and a jumping Thunderbolt" (Fall 2022 – Initially exclusive to Barnes & Noble) Hansen’s Roughriders Battle Lance - "new Penetrator, as well as a re-posed Atlas, and new variants of the Enforcer and jumping Hatchetman" (Fall 2022 - Initially exclusive to retail outlets via Alliance Game Distributors) Northwind Highlanders Command Lance - "new Gunslinger, re-posed and jumping Highlander, and new variants of the Grasshopper and Warhammer" (Fall 2022 – Initially exclusive to retail outlets via ACD Distribution) Kell Hounds Striker Lance - "new Nightsky, a re-posed Wolfhound, and new variants of the Griffin and jumping Crusader" (Fall 2022 – Initially exclusive to Catalyst Game Labs web store) Gray Death Legion ForcePack - "new Regent, a re-posed and jumping Shadow Hawk, and new variants of the Gargoyle and Catapult" (Spring 2023 - Initially exclusive to Barnes & Noble)
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It’s half-way through 2022, and Catalyst is hard at work on the next BattleTech campaign. That does not mean, however, that we’ve forgotten any of the missed promises from our first campaign. We have several digital products and the lost card decks to account for, plus the insignia dice which came out at such suspect quality that we chose to drop them from approximately 20% of our final deliveries.
It’s easy to focus on our losses and not count our victories, but all in all we delivered more than 1,100,000 digital and physical items to better than 15,000 backers. An average of seventy-four items per person in what was one of the largest Kickstarter campaigns (Top 100) of all time. On the downside, if we count the loss of quality control on the insignia dice, we failed to deliver 4% of our promised items.
So, a 96% fulfillment rate. All while weathering a worldwide pandemic and lockdowns in China and enduring spiraling shipping costs. How bad did that get? At one point, right when we were moving the bulk of our rewards, containers had climbed from an $8000 average to $32,000, and could spike even higher. That’s adding about $4 in lost revenue to every copy of Clan Invasion, or an 8% penalty.
So, yeah, we do feel like we won a war, even if we lost some battles along the way. Which may not feel comforting if you, our backers, took some shrapnel during a skirmish. We can find a way to do better. And we will.
In the meantime, there has been some misinformation spreading out there which we want to set right. It has always been Catalyst’s intention to make good on the lost card decks and substandard insignia dice. No, you do not have to request it (or lose it). A significant part of the delay was figuring out how to handle this for every backer. Not just the highest backers or the Kickstarter vs Pledge Manager backers. All backers.
We think we’re now in striking distance. We’ve parsed through “spreadsheets from hell,” located and hired a solid customer service specialist who didn’t faint at the sight of blood, and worked with our website programmers to ensure that we didn’t break our own webstore system in order to handle this level of commitment. We chose to use CGL store credit to maximize your benefit by an extra $20 if you backed both dice and decks (see below).
DICE: Everyone who pledged to receive a single pair of dice will receive at least a $5 credit (per pair) on the Catalyst store to make up for the lack of CGL quality, and an additional $5 (per order) for the conversion to store credit.
DECKS: There were three missing decks (by title) but CGL combined the extant pilots from in-progress decks to create “Heroes of the Inner Sphere,” which you will have received in place of at least one missing deck. You will still receive a credit of at least $15 per missing deck.
In the next few weeks, credits will start to mail out. There are more than 12,000 of them. We will continue to post updates as to where we are in the process. For those who asked about applying this credit to the next campaign, we think that is possible, but it will take an arrangement with our pledge manager. If you do not spend the credit, we will work with you to apply it at that time.
BattleTech has been utterly transformed in the gaming market over the last three years, with sales and popularity not seen since the original Clan Invasion thirty years ago. In large part due to your amazing passion.
Thank you all for your brilliant patience and support.
Whats not clear to me from that post is whether or not you get the credit if you had the faulty/missing items included in your pledge. I got two pairs of dice, but I paid for neither of them because they were star colonel freebies... do I still get the $20 store credit for these?
CoALabaer wrote: Wargamers hate two things: the state of the game and change.
I didn't even realize things were missing, I bought in for the toys and got all the toys, don't feel like Catalyst owes me anything at this point.
Considering what has happened with other KS done in the same timeframe, this campaign went pretty darn well and delivered everything I expected or wanted it to, those dice and cards would have most likely been stashed in a box in the back of my closet if they hadn't been dumped into the trash immediately. Got my Star Colonel and a bunch of extras and am more than pleased, and have already BEEN more than pleased with the campaign. Being offered a credit for things I would have trashed feels kinda wrong
I thought people were mistaken with identifying the IIC mechs at the bottom until I read that the lightest design was the heaviest IIC conversion.
An assault mech out of the Phoenix Hawk? What are they thinking.
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Orlanth wrote: I thought people were mistaken with identifying the IIC mechs at the bottom until I read that the lightest design was the heaviest IIC conversion.
An assault mech out of the Phoenix Hawk? What are they thinking.
IIC 'mechs are not conversions, but new 'Mech models designed from a namesake parent design to make use of Clan technology. An Inner Sphere equivalent would be the Marauder and the Marauder II.
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