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New stuff via Beast of War

Security Drone:

“These security drones were the first line of defense against the Ordhren onslaught. When networked together they form a Starlight-wide information and
security grid. Individually they are not much of a threat, but when they counter-attack in unison they can be quite formidable.”

Enjoy

Troops look cool! Guns... well they seem to have forgotten a barrel. The landscape has a very Avatar-type tone to it, me likey.


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Oh and the drone is great! Maybe a bit indecisive on whether it should be sleek and rounded or square and bulky though. Once again they seem to fail in the gun dept imo, looks very un-drone like.

Kickstarter's up: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/178087494/thon

And I'm a backer.

Good to hear!

Thanks for the update!

I will support this also the Ord figures really hit the mark for me.

Ok this looks fantastic, colour me interested!

Great minis, vision, and design! I just backed the project on kickstarter

It looks very neat, although unfortunately the drones don't have quite the sexiness of the suits.

Thon really needs to clarify what the exclusives are, though, it's already generating a lot of questions and they have yet to be shown, yet people need to pledge for levels containing them.

Overall, I will be watching this with a ton of interest!

RiTides - that's what I'm waiting to see too!

Oh gosh darn it I think this weekend is going to be a flood of new KS

What am I going to do!!!!!!!!!!

Wonder what level stretch goals (assuming there are strechties) are going to affect

Also someone should edit the title to note that its a KS now

Edit

I know that they cater to different groups (board game vs wargame), but anyone feel a little sad that this just had to launch the same day Zombicide season 2 launched? People who might want both but can only afford one might have diverted funds to zombiecide

The kickstarter looks good, I think a few more pledge options would be great, but unlike some other recent efforts, I really like that the campaign has already been updated with a "what's in the box" image.



Nice. I always like it when a campaign makes it clear what you are actually getting.

Edit: seriously, check out that Havok...

That graphic is great! But what I think people really need to know is what the exclusives are, as they take up a large amount of the higher pledges, and are completely unknown at this point.

But a graphic for base box contents is indeed appreciated

I feel a bit sad Zombicide 2 started today, not just for Thon, but also for the closing of Godslayer.

With Godslayer over all I can think is "Highborn, Highborn, Highborn!"


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For the exclusives I'm hoping for the vehicles.

But does exclusive mean "Kickstarter exclusive" or just like a hard to get model... one that is rare in the game world, or the like? Like an "elite" model...

I can't imagine vehicles could affordably be made as Kickstarter exclusives, so I'm guessing the latter...

Looking good so far, the two-player starter set seems worth the money in my humble opinion, I'll take the Thonian Alliance give the Ord guys to a friend. Although I would like to see more of these Highborn guys, the female ranger is pretty cool looking.

Highborn Ranger (?): The Highborn faction are going to be a stretch goal.


Don't know if anyone else noticed this:

Multiplayer is called S.CO.M.A. (Self-Contained Mobile Armor) and is the most casual of all. It is a design-your-own free-for-all. Players decide on an experience pool and build a character using those points.
Players battle it out in a player vs. player arena. Players can easily convert their miniatures from hundreds of parts included in the Core Set.

I wonder how many spare conversion parts there will be overall, if it is "hundreds" then that really adds to the value of the stater box.

Aaand, I just backed at the $150 level. We'll see where it goes from here.

Yeah, I did notice that. The spare parts and "exclusives" are something I'm also interested in, especially since at the moment I'm supposed to be getting two of them.

I'm not sure if I'll be able to afford to actually stick with my pledge, I got some big bills coming up a month from now and there's also Warzone which I'm really interested in (but having the same problems I had with another UK-based KS and can't actually get a pledge through), but we'll see I guess. Warzone I'm less worried about anyway since we know that one will hit retail for sure, so if I can't pledge I can still get it later. Anyway, for some reason when I first saw the models for this game it really grabbed me and I couldn't help but pledge immediately when I noticed it went up. I'll admit the drones are kinda "meh" though, and I'm not entirely sure I like the design of the robots on the Thon side either, but on the whole I really like the look of this stuff and I have a feeling there will be some more good things coming later down the road.

Curious. I would need to have some idea of these exclusives before I jump in (so far it is just something I would happily wait to see how the product turns out). I am still not a fan of some of the models/renders. Hopefully they will put a pledge up to just get a single force rather than the whole box set.

The first update is up, asking a question;

1 and 1?
Update #1 · Mar. 02, 2013 · 1 comment

I've seen a number of requests for 1 Core Set and 1 Exclusive. Let me know if you want this and I will add a M.I.T.E. level for 100$

Personally I think that level of pledge would be a good idea, but it depends on what the exclusives actually are.

First Stretch Goal is mentioned on the front page:

MAR 3 - Stretch Goal 1 - **New Model // New Highborn Unit**

It was the Highborn Rangers that first trakked Ordhren Movements away from the Eastern Armada Coreward, towards Thon. Nobody could have predicted what would come next. A Highborn Ranger is a Multipurpose Unit for both the Highborn and the Thonian Alliance. If this stretch goal is reached each Core Set will be upgraded with *2* Highborn Rangers.

Help us reach this goal! Increase your bid by 15$

@kilcin: I'm not sure if that's meant to be an answer to the question of what the Exclusives are going to be, as that is an upgrade to the core box.

Little update, I didn't see this as part of the information before, but the creator clarified in the comments that the models will be "Plastic Injection Molds on sprue, some assembly required."

@buzzsaw Sorry, I didn't mean my post to be in response to your exclusives questions, more of something that I saw changed on the front page from earlier today.


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Also he added the plastic injection to the front page as per your suggestion.

Hmm so you add $15 you get 2, and then another 2 will also be added into the core set when 50k is reached?

 kilcin wrote:
@buzzsaw Sorry, I didn't mean my post to be in response to your exclusives questions, more of something that I saw changed on the front page from earlier today.

No problem, just being clear.

It's slightly odd to ask people to increase the pledges arbitrarily when there are going to be additional items (the Exclusives). My feeling is, don't ask for $15 more, offer something cool for $15, you'll probably get people increasing pledges, but also recruit new backers.


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Hmm so you add $15 you get 2, and then another 2 will also be added into the core set when 50k is reached?

I don't think that's what he means, I think he means if everyone increased by $15 they could help get there. I think.

Now that I look again, I'm more confused by that. I am honestly not sure what's being said there.

 Buzzsaw wrote:

 kenshin620 wrote:
Hmm so you add $15 you get 2, and then another 2 will also be added into the core set when 50k is reached?

I don't think that's what he means, I think he means if everyone increased by $15 they could help get there. I think.

Thats an....odd request

The wording is a bit odd; the communication over all isn't the best but at least the guy is willing to listen and adjust as needed. Just doesn't feel like some of the communication in regards to what's in the pipeline after the initial offerings was thought out.

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 Buzzsaw wrote:

 kenshin620 wrote:
Hmm so you add $15 you get 2, and then another 2 will also be added into the core set when 50k is reached?

I don't think that's what he means, I think he means if everyone increased by $15 they could help get there. I think.

Thats an....odd request

I'm just confused: if $15 adds a pair to your pledge, then at $50k another pair is added to the box? I honestly don't know.

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I'm just confused: if $15 adds a pair to your pledge, then at $50k another pair is added to the box? I honestly don't know.

I asked for clarification in the comments about this.

Kinda depressing, reading the comments...again there are people complaining about lack of "value", and one guy in particular is upset because he wants more pin-up girls like in Kingdom Death, and I guess the bald-headed honor guard and the ranger concept just isn't doing it for him.

Anyway, I'm also confused about the stretch goal, hopefully it'll get cleared up soon.

I think this campaign has the potential to really do some impressive stuff (I was honestly surprised to learn it was going to be hard plastic, that's impressive), but I think he does need to think a tad about the organization of information. For example, there is a $15 pledge level which is basically the "catchall" option for people to buy things ala-carte, as it were. The problem is that, as of right now, there simply aren't a prices listed for things.

The way the pledge levels jump around is kinda odd too. All of the levels with exclusives also contain the hardback (as of now, anyway), which strikes me as odd, since the hardback is completely redundant with the rulebook in the core set.