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If true, I feel better NOT backing wrath of kings.

 MrDwhitey wrote:
I just ordered on amazon a copy of the core boxed set, with zero intention of taking it any further than that, for £30.

After reading the last few pages it seems it's a good idea not to take it any further, but I'm not doing wrong just for the core set, am I? I have no expectations of second wave stuff/terrain because I didn't even see the KS!

It depends on what you want out of it.

The minis are mostly very attractive, if a bit small. However, they are a real pain to clean up to "tabletop" level, and will take a lot of time to assemble. The good news is that the Samaritans and the Strain paint up very well with simple techniques like drybrushing and washes. The core set of minis are the best to come out of the kickstarter, in my experience.

The rules have some issues. The balance seems to be off, and there is a lot of ambiguity in the poorly worded sections. From what I understand, this changes the game from "survival horror" into "the carnival from Zombieland", which will ruin the game for serious gamers. I fully expect to enjoy the game when I finally get to play it in ten years or so, but my gaming group is more silly than competitive.

Bob, I've been involved in testing the rules errata- the game is quite a ways from where it was, and getting to the point of reasonably balanced. I wish it had happened at very least before the second print run, but if you're willing to tolerate a game that's still in flux then it's pretty good.

BTW, don't understand the Zombieland comment.

Battlefoam obviously lost a bunch of stuff down the back of the sofa

Update

Missing shipments from EU warehouse - out tomorrow

For those of you who got in touch with us on this matter yesterday, sorry for the delay, there was an oversight at the EU warehouse and some packages were not sent - we've located the pledges that need to be completed and these will be sent out on Friday (and Monday if there is overflow).

Thanks for replies, the game I got had the models in 2 special vacformed plastic box things, and the cards have bolded [MOVE ABILITY] tags, so I assume second?

 MrDwhitey wrote:
Thanks for replies, the game I got had the models in 2 special vacformed plastic box things, and the cards have bolded [MOVE ABILITY] tags, so I assume second?

would you have a pic or two of that? thanks! sure does sound like 2nd run, yeah.

Here it is:

Yeah - I wish mine came like that.

Oh, that's new. The 1st edition ones just came in bags. And yes, that's definitely 2nd edition, though (I forget if I mentioned it before), you'll want to DL the errata, load outs, etc. from the site- particularly the rulebook has seen a lot of changes even since 2nd edition.

Thanks.
That looks a lot tidier than how we got our stuff, tbh...

Well, I've put it all together now. That was a fun few hours!

There were only a few models with noticeable mould-line (the female with a sword, the robot Cthonian, and the hoverdroid tank). Each model had around one point where it had obviously been on a sprue and I had to clean it up a little, but nothing major. Only issue besides that was the four legged big beast, it didn't really fit so well when going together, but it's not too bad, especially as the major gaps are hidden once the legs are on. So from the sounds of it I lucked out, or they really did fix up the kit for second.

I absolutely love the models though, and if nothing else, I now have a collection I can use for Dead Space horror stories.

You saw they did a dead space reference model, right?

Though that was a KS-exclusive add-on...

 Azazelx wrote:
Though that was a KS-exclusive add-on...

Which you can find on eBay for cheap

So, except for the BF bags is delivery basically done then?

And a bunch that are still supposed to head out in Europe that they missed (or, according to a potential leak, de-prioritized)

re: add-on, yeah, meant that it should be easy to find.

They indeed seem to have forgot a few of the EU backers.....

"we have shipped everything" a few emails alter mine included, "we have not shipped to everybody"

Consistency FTW.

Maybe Battlefoam just has a Really big sofa in the warehouse,

and a bunch of boxes fell down behind it and got lost until they went looking for the TV remote control ?

I'm not letting them off the hook until I see that promised Sedition Wars tie-in novel.

Oh yes, I forgot about that. I suspect that particular KS promise/stretch won't ever eventuate. Though it reminds me - aren't we supposed to get a Kings of War Digital Art Book at some stage?

They did send out the KoW art book. It even had in it some of the "real" design sketches that were sent to sculptors in lieu of the designs we pledged to support.

And it's a shame about the novel. The universe has a lot of promise in terms of being entertaining...and I already have the toys.

The book? Hah!

I'm STILL waiting for the campaign that lets us use all the Biohazard-level figures we got. Don't think that'll ever happen either, though.

 AegisGrimm wrote:
The book? Hah!

I'm STILL waiting for the campaign that lets us use all the Biohazard-level figures we got. Don't think that'll ever happen either, though.

Or the promised solo rules...

As a tester, I can confirm we're working on the quarantine campaign (albeit slower than I'd like) though there hasn't been anything about the solo rules.

I kinda' thought the book thing was a joke. Either way, yeah, I don't expect to see that, though was never inspired by the SW writing.

I'm championing actually getting rules for the cthonian drone, so hopefully they'll eventually get to that.

 spiralingcadaver wrote:
I kinda' thought the book thing was a joke. Either way, yeah, I don't expect to see that, though was never inspired by the SW writing.

I would have been more interested in the book if they hadn't ruined the most interesting thing about the setting.

What was that?

 Alpharius wrote:
What was that?

That the Solar Conglomerate had the technology to cheat death. Instead they just find a replacement and act like that's the same thing. Even if a woman like canon!Kara could exist - someone who knows from first-hand experience the pain of being presumed dead while nobody else cares that she died because they created a clone to live her life, yet has not the slightest qualms about subjecting the men under her command to the same treatment - I don't want to read a novel about her.

You could still write an interesting story about the "replacement goldfish" technology, but it wouldn't look like this.

I remember that now - and you're right, that's not good.

Got my tracking number yesterday; at least this time they shipped from the UK, not from the US.
Jokers managed to adress it to "bolognesus" rather than my real name, though. This could be fun when the package gets here. I'm kind of thinking I might sign with a little cross rather than my usual signature though - only fitting

Well all my SW stuff has finally arrived but tbh i'm so dispondant about the whole affair that i'm considering moving it all on, the only thing stopping me being that I'd make a massive loss and a faint hope that mcvey might turn it all around and make the game actually worth it, any thoughts on if that's actually going to happen or dya think they'll just sweep it under the carpet and pretend it never happened?