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I once had a postal employee fold a package to fit it into my mailbox. Yes, that's right they FOLDED a package. It was one of those flatter boxes that are about 1.5 inches thick. Let's just say I was NOT amused.

 cuda1179 wrote:
I once had a postal employee fold a package to fit it into my mailbox. Yes, that's right they FOLDED a package. It was one of those flatter boxes that are about 1.5 inches thick. Let's just say I was NOT amused.

Good god, that's terrible. I hope it wasn't something extremely valuable, like a laptop or a painting or something.

My Warpath KS package has arrived, and all in accounted for

 cuda1179 wrote:
I once had a postal employee fold a package to fit it into my mailbox. Yes, that's right they FOLDED a package. It was one of those flatter boxes that are about 1.5 inches thick. Let's just say I was NOT amused.

This happened to me as well. They folded a book I backed on kickstarter. It had a bad crease on it and the project creator was nice enough to re-issue.. which.. also got folded despite a giant do not fold sticker that was placed on it this time. The crease wasn't as bad the second time around and I was like.. look this guy is probably going to get tired of sending these out so I just let it go.

Damn. These Enforcer Intercepters are awesome models. And GREAT stand-ins for IG/AM valkyries.

 Compel wrote:
I think Mantic are really very lucky they got that out before the board game hits retail.

Though I think Warpath will be badly hurt if 8th Edition 40k ends up not being terribad, especially if they leave it until April.

So, you're saying that Mantic is pretty safe, then?

The Auld Grump - joking. (Or am I?... )

Quite unexpectedly part of my pledge also came in today: Chard and two sprues of troopers, which means I'm still waiting on the truck and the shuttle.

 TheAuldGrump wrote:

 Compel wrote:
I think Mantic are really very lucky they got that out before the board game hits retail.

Though I think Warpath will be badly hurt if 8th Edition 40k ends up not being terribad, especially if they leave it until April.

So, you're saying that Mantic is pretty safe, then?

I honestly have no idea. 8th edition 40k is the litmus test I think. GW do have some people that actually care about rules writing now. On the other hand, they've not shown any signs of moving away from War-monster 40k yet. - I had asked my gaming club for a couple of 40k lists last week, without any superheavies in them. What I still ended up with was a 1750pt Tau list with 2 Riptide Battlesuits in it. That was a real struggle fitting them into my Army List Experiment.

So yeah, if 8th edition ends up going "Age-of-40k" or is just one of those "3rd edition 40k with minor tweaks" as it has been for the last decade, then yeah, I think mantic are pretty safe. But if GW pull a blinder with 8th, then all bets are off.

 Compel wrote:
So yeah, if 8th edition ends up going "Age-of-40k"

That's honestly what I'm hoping for - I love Age of Sigmar. And it would be different enough from Warpath that I can play both quite easily.

But I'm also kind of NOT hoping that 40k 8th is good, because I don't want to start playing 40k again...

 judgedoug wrote:

 Compel wrote:
So yeah, if 8th edition ends up going "Age-of-40k"

That's honestly what I'm hoping for - I love Age of Sigmar. And it would be different enough from Warpath that I can play both quite easily.

But I'm also kind of NOT hoping that 40k 8th is good, because I don't want to start playing 40k again...

I really, really hope that they do not go the AoS route - my love of AoS is that of finding a slug has crawled into your shoe - after you have put your foot in.

I would rather that 8th edition 40K be really good, even if I never play the game again (which is likely).

So, now that both posts are in this thread, the Matter/Antimatter reaction is going to destroy the world....

The Auld Grump

I would be happy with any game that gets rid of "dice roll randomness" simply for the sake of rolling dice. Rolling for charge range is too time consuming and should just go back to a "standard" of 6 inches. Psychic tests should go back to leadership tests. Bring back some Area Terrain to make shooting simpler (no crouching required).

 cuda1179 wrote:
I would be happy with any game that gets rid of "dice roll randomness" simply for the sake of rolling dice. Rolling for charge range is too time consuming and should just go back to a "standard" of 6 inches. Psychic tests should go back to leadership tests. Bring back some Area Terrain to make shooting simpler (no crouching required).

Yeah, the 2d6 charge range was bad in Fantasy and it was bad in 40k.

Yeah, I'd wish many random things in 40k were just set numbers. Charging or moving through rough terrain simply halved your charge/movement rate. Run could just be 3 inches of movement, etc.

Not seen one yet so here's a size comparison pic of the GCPS troops



Anyone got the heavy weapon upgrade set to take a pic of?

Got my stuff. Only managed to assemble one sprue of Asterian drones so far, but they were top notch quality, easily on par with GW in terms of sculpting and casting quality, if perhaps not on sprue layout and CAD assembly design. All the poses look good. The details are distinct and visible. The aesthetic is unique in the market. I'd call the kit a winner. Hopefully I'll get to look at the GCPS and Plague sprues this week.

I somehow forgot to order the new novel. Need to rectify that.

The fluff in the big ebook they sent backers has really come a long way. I've gotten as far as the Mandrake Rebellion, Isla McKinley and the Asterians, and Mantic have really captured the big sandbox feel of 40k, with lots of breadth and some depth of background with enough dangling plot hooks to whet the imagination. Very impressive.

Brueckenkopf-Online posted a (german) review of the Asterian plastics with many pictures

http://www.brueckenkopf-online.com/2016/review-warpath-asterian-marionettes/

They like the kit as well

Some of their photos - including a size comparison



They have also made lots of photos of the new Warpath 3-book ruleset

http://www.brueckenkopf-online.com/2016/unboxing-warpath-regelbuecher/

Mmmhh is there supposed to be an overview on their manticdigial / Pledge manager of ones pledge/order?
I filled out the survey and payed for it a year ago but since I've not reccieved anything I checked the PM and it's completely empty for me. Address is correct, but no order info or anything O_o

RoninXiC wrote:
Mmmhh is there supposed to be an overview on their manticdigial / Pledge manager of ones pledge/order?
I filled out the survey and payed for it a year ago but since I've not reccieved anything I checked the PM and it's completely empty for me. Address is correct, but no order info or anything O_o

They changed it here's the new link

http://pledgehammer.net/warpath/

That page doesnt load? :(

Yeah it's down now but it's the correct link their forum and Mantic digital are down too so they have some IT work to do when they get back in the office

Okay, thanks anyways

RoninXiC wrote:
Mmmhh is there supposed to be an overview on their manticdigial / Pledge manager of ones pledge/order?
I filled out the survey and payed for it a year ago but since I've not reccieved anything I checked the PM and it's completely empty for me. Address is correct, but no order info or anything O_o

It was the same for me. I freaked out, but my pledge arrived nonetheless.

Got mine today. The interceptor is a great kit, but I can't for the life of me understand how anyone thought putting three of them on the table at once was ever going to work, it's really quite large.

Marionettes and GCPS troops look really good too, and Major Loren Chard isn't near as bad as the early pics made her look. The Forge Lord and his dog are much better though imo.

Only two mispacks for me this time: Blaine was missing his head, and my GCPS battlegroup only came with the metal parts for one heavy weapons team... aside from the tripod. One set of weapons, one set of alternate arms, one ammo box, one set of alternate metal torsos kneeling/sitting, one metal head, but two tripods. Go figure how that one happened.

Does the actual Loren Chard sculpt remind anyone else of Jane Lynch? Especially ala "Wreck-it Ralph?"

I don't actually know who that is, so I can't help you.

Another small thing I like about the flyer is the base - they seem to have taken a leaf out of FFGs X-Wing and Armada book, and have given us a clear plastic flight stand designed to be disassembled for ease of transport, while retaining a reassuring sturdiness when in use.

The plastics are fine, though my cast of Chard has some serious slippage going on.

 NTRabbit wrote:
Got mine today. The interceptor is a great kit, but I can't for the life of me understand how anyone thought putting three of them on the table at once was ever going to work, it's really quite large.

Marionettes and GCPS troops look really good too, and Major Loren Chard isn't near as bad as the early pics made her look. The Forge Lord and his dog are much better though imo.

Only two mispacks for me this time: Blaine was missing his head, and my GCPS battlegroup only came with the metal parts for one heavy weapons team... aside from the tripod. One set of weapons, one set of alternate arms, one ammo box, one set of alternate metal torsos kneeling/sitting, one metal head, but two tripods. Go figure how that one happened.

Mine is the same. For the metals. I thought they were supposed to be that way. It's a mispack? Damn.

Well we're supposed to get 2 heavy weapon teams in the GCPS battlegroup, and that sure looks like the parts for one heavy weapons team to me. Two HWTs should at the very least come with 2 of each weapon, so that you can build two of the same.

I think there's enough bits in the bag to make two different but complete heavy weapon teams. But you're right, there probably should be two of those bags, or at least two of each weapon type. I hadn't even thought of that until you mentioned it.

Did they tell us that Blaine would be metal? For some reason, I expected him to be resin or plastic. Oh well.