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My personal preference on Gargoyle design...

I loved that show

But yea, I think it would be cool to see more stony gargoyles. Maybe even Ogre Sized ones (cough count as Vargheists cough )

Assuming that they're winged. "statuesque" and "female" make them almost sound like Harpies. I'll wait for the concept art, and see if the figures would (theoretically) make decent Chaos Furies.

Did someone mention female gargoyles?

Bit weird

I think they'll double up nicely as Harpies or Furries. I imagine they'll be pretty and bestial, in that otherwordly daemonette kind of way.

Also, less than $300 until we get Brock Riders

Black Nexus wrote:Bit weird

I think they'll double up nicely as Harpies or Furries. I imagine they'll be pretty and bestial, in that otherwordly daemonette kind of way.

Also, less than $300 until we get Brock Riders

Furries?

Yeah ^.^ - or even Furies

$110,000 achieved! Brock Riders for all.

New stretch goals up as well:

$120,000 – Plastic Elf Palace Guard
We’re been asked on numerous occasions to transfer more of our metal and hybrid figures over to sprue-less Plastic Resin, so – if we break $120,000 we will convert the Elf Palace Guard figures into plastic.

We will include one model free in all pledges of $100 or more and at $175 or more we will include a unit of five plastic models into your reward for free! What's more is it will let us see what the viability of turning other metal/hybrid kits into plastic as well!

Given the amazing feedback we’ve had from the Goblins, if the madness continues we will then look at:

$130,000 – Goblin Fleabag Riders
If we can break $130,000 then we will produce a Goblin Fleabag Riders unit!

Mawbeasts from the "Mawbeast Pack" unit - the Fleabag Riders will ride larger, more dynamic beasts.

This Goblin cavalry set will feature riders mounted on vicious Mawbeasts. These guys will be given free with pledges of $175 or more and will be available in the Buy One Get One section in the special extras section - they're just too big for us to give away at $100 sorry!

Oh finally the Palace Guard can get out of metal. IIRC they along with the Revenant Cavalry were slated to be changed when they first came out

Yep, tis true!

We’re been asked on numerous occasions to transfer more of our metal and hybrid figures over to sprue-less Plastic Resin, so – if we break $120,000 we will convert the Elf Palace Guard figures into plastic.

We will include one model free in all pledges of $100 or more and at $175 or more we will include a unit of five plastic models into your reward for free! What's more is it will let us see what the viability of turning other metal/hybrid kits into plastic as well!

Yay to this. Though you think the Revenant Calv and the Wraiths would tell them all they need to know about the viability of turning things to plastic already.

I wish they had chosen the Gobbos though - as a pre-release thing - I bet that would greatly increase the demand for them.

So are the gobbos half metal? That's what I was after, but I ain't keen on the split kits...

mattyrm wrote:So are the gobbos half metal? That's what I was after, but I ain't keen on the split kits...

The melee troops are.


Archers are plastic

Bummer.. I don't like the look of the others either.. I best prepare for a glue nightmare!

Goblin melee troops have metal arms and command pieces, the heads and bodies are plastic.

Bit of a pain to glue, but gel superglue will do the job.

I'm hoping twilight kin are up next for the restic/metal-to-plastic conversions, as I love their designs but I've heard the restic and metal bits don't play very well together for some of the models.

Though you think the Revenant Calv and the Wraiths would tell them all they need to know about the viability of turning things to plastic already.

'spect they mean via Kickstarter. Afterall, the supplement was a bit of a dud and and they've not strayed from new models since. Research into converting existing models AND something for the good players to sink their teeths into. That and I want Fleabag Riders, and I need us to get Palace Guard to get there!

5 hours later... and we've got another $5k, halfway to the new stretch goal that was just posted... at this rate, we'll have both the Palace Guard and the Fleabag Riders funded in no time.

There is a *LOT* of free stuff being given away. As in, whole great heaping piles of free stuff. As in, 10 whole units of miniatures, for free at $225+... If you're just browsing this thread for the first time, go check my first post, and scroll down to see all the free stuff.

The $225 pledge level will be giving people pretty much exactly $225 of additional free stuff once the palace guard and fleabag riders arrive.

This is about to get *big*. I guessed that this might hit $150k back on day 1, but now it's looking like there's an outside chance that it might just go ballistic in the last few days and hit $300-$500k.

It has hit that sweet spot where it has become too much of a good deal to pass up (even if all you want to do is hock the stuff on ebay afterwards for profit), just like Zombicide did.

kenshin620 wrote:

mattyrm wrote:So are the gobbos half metal? That's what I was after, but I ain't keen on the split kits...

The melee troops are.


Archers are plastic

Plastic plastic or resin plastic?

If they are real plastic on real sprues, then I will finally be interested in gobbos. Very interested.

^ Plastic plastic. On sprues.

Seperate bodies, heads, right arms and left arms on *all* models, so properly multi-part too. 5 models on each sprue as well, so it's not one of those little 2-man jobs either, there's plenty of variety.
Mantic finally made a sprue that doesn't have any of the design flaws that the internet has been yelling at it about for the last 2 years. :p

Sculpts are great too:



Goblins are my favourite fantasy race after humans, so I couldn't be happier.

I think a plastic sprue would be really great as an ambitious "final goal" for this kickstarter. $60k stretch goal for something downright awesome, like a plastic human sprue, and give away a full regiment of 20 as the reward.

Too risky to do as a stretch goal at the moment in case it doesn't work out, but in the last 2-3 days Mantic will have absolutely nothing to lose by just throwing it out there and seeing if people really want it.

@scarlet

What exactly are those free hero models for the $225, everything from the high level pledges?
so that would be 2 for the eternal warriors pledge already made, 1 each for the 2 living legend pledges made and perhaps up to 6 more if the warmaster, eternal warrior and god of war pledges get taken?

edit: thanks. it's gotten to a point where making heads or tails of the rewards explanation on the KS page itself requires an advanced degree or two, so I wasn't quite certain.

^ That's 100% correct!

The total currently stands at 4 free hero models for all $225+ backers.

scarletsquig wrote:

Seperate bodies, heads, right arms and left arms on *all* models, so properly multi-part too. 5 models on each sprue as well, so it's not one of those little 2-man jobs either, there's plenty of variety.
Mantic finally made a sprue that doesn't have any of the design flaws that the internet has been yelling at it about for the last 2 years. :p

I think a plastic sprue would be really great as an ambitious "final goal" for this kickstarter. $60k stretch goal for something downright awesome, like a plastic human sprue, and give away a full regiment of 20 as the reward.

Too risky to do as a stretch goal at the moment in case it doesn't work out, but in the last 2-3 days Mantic will have absolutely nothing to lose by just throwing it out there and seeing if people really want it.

Yeah - they made an awesome sprue for the goblins that I have no complaints with. Cept then they decided to make the melee parts metal

And I love the idea of a big push for a nicely loaded (to put the goblin sprue to shame!) human kit as the last big goal. I'd love a Mantic human army (particularly if the rumor of the 3-way split is true)

Mantic better watch it though, being flush with cash and a bunch of (hopefully) awesome new kits. My expectations are going to be much higher for them (again) in the future.

I don't wanna see any more metal after the goblins!

scarletsquig wrote:^ Plastic plastic. On sprues.

Seperate bodies, heads, right arms and left arms on *all* models, so properly multi-part too. 5 models on each sprue as well, so it's not one of those little 2-man jobs either, there's plenty of variety.
Mantic finally made a sprue that doesn't have any of the design flaws that the internet has been yelling at it about for the last 2 years. :p

Sculpts are great too:



Goblins are my favourite fantasy race after humans, so I couldn't be happier.

I think a plastic sprue would be really great as an ambitious "final goal" for this kickstarter. $60k stretch goal for something downright awesome, like a plastic human sprue, and give away a full regiment of 20 as the reward.

Too risky to do as a stretch goal at the moment in case it doesn't work out, but in the last 2-3 days Mantic will have absolutely nothing to lose by just throwing it out there and seeing if people really want it.

Wait wait.... Im almost afraid to ask * this is my 3rd time asking :'P

Those ARE plastic plastic now? >.<

Schmapdi wrote:I don't wanna see any more metal after the goblins!

I take it you mean for troops, as opposed to for characters?

Dysartes wrote:

Schmapdi wrote:I don't wanna see any more metal after the goblins!

I take it you mean for troops, as opposed to for characters?

Well yeah - character models and tiny things like that are fine. But definitely no more troops, especially horde-y ones like goblins.

I'd honestly rather Mantic run a small monthly kickstarter now if they need the funds to skip metal. It's just not something I want to deal with for anything but characters and the tiniest of skirmish games (even then I'd rather have resin TBH).

Well, Palace Guard is the first time they convert a hybrid-kit to restic. All others were full-metal.

$120k Goal met - Palace Guard are in! Fleabag riders up next.

ThomasPolder wrote:$120k Goal met - Palace Guard are in! Fleabag riders up next.

Wohoo! I guess it is time for me to chip in so we can get more gobbos then!

Mantic Games, about 18 hours ago, wrote:

We do have a bit of a suprise unit not in the list coming if we can do the Fleabag Riders. Our fantastic concept artist Roberto is already working on it

So that will be yet another freebie. yay!

Duncan_Idaho wrote:Well, Palace Guard is the first time they convert a hybrid-kit to restic. All others were full-metal.

I think the Abyssal Dwarves are switching to restic so they may be the first hybrid kit to switch