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Open till the 16th? Might have some cash then but I'm not sure I wanna dump any more into MA, even considering the zombies and so on. Hopefully the DZ survey is open till march, or better still april

Ooh...

 scarletsquig wrote:
Mars Attacks surveys are going out.

Just got mine... was there ever a render shown of the giant spider?

I basically just pledged for 6 bugs. Need to choose between them... is it just the below to go on for the spider, and nothing else? Hoping I missed a render being shown somewhere!




Whereas for the ant, there is both a render and a 3d print shown:






I don't trust Mantic's art, so I think I'll just be going with 6 ants if there's been no render shown for the spider... but thought I'd ask here with the folks who know

IIRC in the Mantic Radio #10 Ronnie said the survey will be open til the end of March for Deadzone so backers will have ample time to get replacements and see production tests of all the hard plastic sprues.

TLR - US and Canadian Battle Foam bags shipped, Deadzone Second Survey launching this week, deadline for missing bits submissions is Friday 31st January and there’s a big progress update coming end of this week.

Good news!

Battle Foam has now shipped all of the Deadzone Carry Bags to any US or Canadian backers who ordered one.

Not only that but the second survey is coming this week, giving you another bite at the cherry. You’ll be able to order extra of most of the range, though certain items such as the T-shirt and the Patch will not be available.

Never fear though, because we’re going to more than make up for that with some groovy new miniatures not previously available, as well as a few deals on things like individual Sorak and Connectors sprues – because y’all asked so nicely for them.

Look for that at the end of the week.
Missing Bits Survey

The 31st January is the deadline for the missing bits survey – if you are missing anything from your Kickstarter package, please fill out this form and let us know before Friday.

http://bit.ly/1dyMkWa

Next week we will download the forms and send an email to everyone who has submitted a form to say that we have received it. We will then sort through them and order the necessary stock – please keep an eye on the Kickstarter Updates for all the information as it becomes available.

This will allow us to best manage the process and ensure everyone gets his or her stuff after the crazy Christmas period.

Thank you for your patience.
And finally…

Because the second survey is your last chance to make use of the great Kickstarter offer, we’re going to be posting up a mega progress update so you can see where we’re up to on all things Deadzone related.

It’s promising to be very exciting, and we can’t wait to show you more.

Until then!

I really want to get behind Mantic as a solid GW competitor, but I think they're going overboard with a lot of their projects. I get that they want to have larger appeal but I'd say they should shoot directly for 40K and WHFB, and not worry about this Dreadball (Blood Bowl?) stuff, and while Deadzone fills the place of Necromunda, was it really needed? It seems like they should have either focused entirely on WHFB/40K competitors or focus on bringing a version of the specialist games that were abandoned by GW, but not both.

I've been eyeing Kings of War as a solid alternative to WHFB with better rules and cheaper models, but reading the issues people are having makes me wonder a lot if it's worth it in the long run, and if these things are just growing pains (how good was GW when it was 5 years old, for example?) or if they're indicative of a larger issue.

Wayne: I thought the same way, but sometimes you try to find a market, and sometimes the market finds you.

If DB and DZ are successful, they can reliably make money year and year out, independent of GW, in a way the KoW or Warpath really can't.

Given they way they've knocked the KoW rules out of the park, I'm eager to see them create a rules set for sci-fi. At this point, I'd rather play Mantic Games with Gw minis then the other way around.

Meh, I just added 3 of each type of bug. Hopefully the spider's good... and not to be too negative, but this really is the last chance I'm giving Mantic if it isn't.

Fingers crossed!

Got my Mars Attacks summary, and it says that payments for extras have to be made by the 29th June.

Make of that what you will for shipping timescales/how long you'll get to pay for Deadzone extras.

I had a re-jig of my pledge after deciding that I wanted to pull back some of what I spent and put it into more deadzone terrain instead.

Ended up with $203 spent for:

- EB 1 Invaders Arrive (box game + rewards + $188 credit)
- $100 on 4 Deadzone battlezones.
- $50 Escalation Expansion
- $25 mat/cards expansion
- $5 DZ accessory sprue
- $8 Blaine

Fairly happy with that. I qualify for the free hardback book too, which is nice!

Is "Blaine" the "Krooters Gonna Kroot" mini?

My willpower was strong. I was just in for a Will of Man EB, so I selected the custom pledge with Escalation Expansion (basically the 1-click pledge, but the 1-click only shows 1 paper mat) and just added on the Martian DB team, plus the AI deck and DZ decks. Will be the cheapest I've gotten out of a Mantic KS by far. I'm just pile o' plasticed out.

 Alpharius wrote:
Is "Blaine" the "Krooters Gonna Kroot" mini?

Yeah

I'm gonna have to sit down and do some thinking for MA... there's a lot of good stuff in there. Cheap mantic zombies come to mind.

'Krooters Gonna Kroot' or 'Moldlines Gonna Frustrate'?

Speaking of which, anyone have the original "Krooters Gonna Kroot" pic?

I just filled it in. I think I'll get an invoice for another $50 or so.

I saved $20 on new freebies (the space bounty hunters and radar dishes that we get free now) and I put that towards another 2 intact terrain sprues, a set of vintage soldiers, a set of translucent masters of science and one of the Antenocities flipped car packs.

That's on top of my existing $350 pledge

It's kinda funny that even though I went all in on Deadzone and got the large booster packs for everything, Martians and US Soldiers will be the two Deadzone factions I have the most miniatures for

Can't wait for Big Stompy Robot to duke it out with a Corporation Strider!

I don't know about anyone else but I'm looking forward to Jan 31 or so as they have promised an update showing new stuff, which I'm expecting hard plastic news.

 Alpharius wrote:
'Krooters Gonna Kroot' or 'Moldlines Gonna Frustrate'?

Speaking of which, anyone have the original "Krooters Gonna Kroot" pic?

Mold lines really aren't that bad and I'm 99% done assembling my pledge. Now, figuring out how wrath goes together, that's a bitch.

 pretre wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:
Is "Blaine" the "Krooters Gonna Kroot" mini?

Yeah

Spoiler:

Holy Mouldlines batman.

 carlos13th wrote:


Holy Mouldlines batman.

Agree. While I have seen worse on both mantic and other stuff, those look hard to actually clean without damaging the detail or getting them all. At least there isn't one down the middle of the face. The one on the claw hand looks pretty snaggly and hard to get to.

And I am glad people are getting some emails. (and those who are not now have reason to follow up)

I just grabbed the first internet pic I found. I think the guy who owns that one might want to spend a bit more time with an X-acto knife.

 lord_blackfang wrote:

Can't wait for Big Stompy Robot to duke it out with a Corporation Strider!

That'll be like a grown (tallish) man taking on a toddler! You better bring a few backup striders


I always get a fresh blade when I start a new batch of restic minis... its more of a delicate snake-y cutting procedure for me than any kind of scraping or back dragging. And the new blade makes it especially easy to slice too deep. And it takes forever, but it works for me.

I may just add some zombies outright depending on how some funds work out. Maybe a bday present for myself I dunno though, not sure I need so many extras of a lot of the things in MA either. I almost want to cave and get the second set of survivors to splice with a zombie kit to do a Zombivor style option... but I *really* don't need the game twice, and i'm 95% sure it would be "too good of a deal to pass up" if I considered getting the heroes add-on instead of just another box game. Hmm.

Those Blaine mouldlines really aren't that bad, in comparison to others I have seen on Restic. I still have my copy of Sedition Wars sitting in the box, after seeing the mouldlines on those figures. Just the sheer hours it would taketo clean the basic boxed set figures is discouraging to me, and I am a veteran of metal minis for years and years.

Well, that and the rules. At least the Deadzone rules are playable.

 AegisGrimm wrote:
Those Blaine mouldlines really aren't that bad, in comparison to others I have seen on Restic. I still have my copy of Sedition Wars sitting in the box, after seeing the mouldlines on those figures. Just the sheer hours it would taketo clean the basic boxed set figures is discouraging to me, and I am a veteran of metal minis for years and years.

Well, that and the rules. At least the Deadzone rules are playable.

Am I the only one in the world who gets good restic casts? I finished all of the models in SW (minus the Biohazard expansion stuff) in record time since they required almost no clean up.

 pretre wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:
Is "Blaine" the "Krooters Gonna Kroot" mini?

Yeah

Spoiler:

Guess, when I react to all you trolls and your spam pics, it is me who gets the warning, right?

 Kroothawk wrote:

 pretre wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:
Is "Blaine" the "Krooters Gonna Kroot" mini?

Yeah

Spoiler:

Guess, when I react to all you trolls and your spam pics, it is me who gets the warning, right?

Wut? The model looks like a GW Koot model.

I've got to say, I had some models that were a paint to remove mouldlines from, but I'm pretty sure my Blaine was perfectly fine. My worst models were my plague teratons and some marauders I think.

 agnosto wrote:
Wut? The model looks like a GW Koot model.

Scan the thread: The photoshop pic using my avatar pic was made to troll me and belittle everyone criticizing Mantic.

 GrimDork wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:

Can't wait for Big Stompy Robot to duke it out with a Corporation Strider!

That'll be like a grown (tallish) man taking on a toddler! You better bring a few backup striders


I always get a fresh blade when I start a new batch of restic minis... its more of a delicate snake-y cutting procedure for me than any kind of scraping or back dragging. And the new blade makes it especially easy to slice too deep. And it takes forever, but it works for me.

I may just add some zombies outright depending on how some funds work out. Maybe a bday present for myself I dunno though, not sure I need so many extras of a lot of the things in MA either. I almost want to cave and get the second set of survivors to splice with a zombie kit to do a Zombivor style option... but I *really* don't need the game twice, and i'm 95% sure it would be "too good of a deal to pass up" if I considered getting the heroes add-on instead of just another box game. Hmm.

Mantic pretty much has to wait until the hard plastics are ready to show/preview for the next update.

With out them, there really is no point...

 Alpharius wrote:


Mantic pretty much has to wait until the hard plastics are ready to show/preview for the next update.

With out them, there really is no point...

But, since they are going ahead with the survey, that must mean they are pretty sure they will have those pictures pretty soon, right?

(I won't hold my breath but I am moderately hopeful)