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I'm looking forward to an excellent board. I've purchased from SWM on two occasions and received quality product.

If I get a few extra freebies, great! As-is, I'm paying a good price for what promises to be a quality board with some ability to change the layout from game to game.

Nope, it doesn't.

And I always hope to avoid the what does and does not deserve to be on Kickstarter.

And in the end, Justin himself has already stated that there will be incentives and 'freebies' if the campaign gets high enough - so in the end, all will be OK!

 Azazelx wrote:
On this forum we're giving money up front to people so they can make toys and games that we might like to help their businesses make more money. We're not exactly donating money to cure cancer or end world hunger or so forth, so the high horse probably doesn't belong in the discussion...

I feel cheap all of a sudden...

I'm not saying there's anything wrong with supporting Kickstarters. I'm just saying that people who hold up supporting a KS for a gaming company to make a new toy as some kind of noble goal from on high are a bit.. shall we say, overenthusiastic.. and could possibly do with some wider perspective?

There can often be an entitlement mentality on both sides of the KS transaction, is my point. And again, this isn't directed at Justin - it's more of a counter-argument to some of what's gone on in the last few pages.

Adepticon is in full swing, we've got a couple of painted tiles and an untainted one on display.

 Cyporiean wrote:
Adepticon is in full swing, we've got a couple of painted tiles and an untainted one on display.

I hope that the display generates up a butt-ton more pledges. I wants my trenches and temples.

Gah, Furries. In the Emperors name purge the abominations!

 Cyporiean wrote:
Adepticon is in full swing, we've got a couple of painted tiles and an untainted one on display.

Only one tile is untainted?

It is a gaming convention after all!

(I'm guessing Autocorrect Gremlins at work there!)

 Alpharius wrote:
It is a gaming convention after all!

(I'm guessing Autocorrect Gremlins at work there!)

Yeah, thanks Apple. :p

Cam we get some pics from the con?

Sure!

Live From ADEPTICON!
Update #19 · Apr 20, 2013 · comment

Another sleepless night in Chicago and another day of teaching hobby classes, meeting great people, and showing off the Tablescapes Tiles!

You can find the painted tile display at On The Lamb Games inside the main vendor hall, right next to the CMON booth... Which conveniently has two Secret Weapon banners atop racks with the complete SWM product catalog!

I will be at the booth until about noon today and heading down as soon as I get caught up on the comments and messages here.

I eagerly await his return from Adepticon, as we appear to be in a bit of a funk currently:

Ok seriously. How do you access all the cool kickstarter tools?

 darefsky wrote:
Ok seriously. How do you access all the cool kickstarter tools?

http://www.kicktraq.com/

 Swara wrote:

 darefsky wrote:
Ok seriously. How do you access all the cool kickstarter tools?

http://www.kicktraq.com/

Thanks! Now to kill 4 hours or so messing with this......

So I was trolling KS and can't believe I missed this, or this thread....

However, I very interested in the Clean Urban tiles now because of.... the Robotech KS.

I think they would make excellent tiles for that, Battletech, or DZC. Not to mention the larger scale games like Infinity.

What kind of terrain/buildings did you guys have in mind for these tiles? I know it would be a pain in the ass to make walls for 6-10mm, 15mm, and 28mm, but I see those Urban Tiles and my evil mind is swimming with ideas.

You will be getting some of my money for sure.

[Edit] To be more clear, lol.... the Urban tiles look like they are scaled to the 6-15mm size if I'm seeing them right. Is this correct and will the walls/buildings reflect that scale?

It's all scaled for 28/30mm games.

 Cyporiean wrote:
It's all scaled for 28/30mm games.

So how wide are the streets on the Clean Urban tiles?

I'm guessing that picture of Clean Urban is 4 tiles and not 1 tile making the street roughly 5 inches across?

The sidewalks are 2" either side so the road is 8" wide.

Well, a 4x4 Urban table looks like it's going to be extremely useful for Mantic's Deadzone (their plastic necromunda-style terrain will be a perfect fit for one of the boards now that I've seen it), so I'll see if I can get some cash together for both this and that.

If not, I'll definitely buy a 4x4 urban when they're released to retail.

The overly-visible gridding due to 1x1 instead of 2x2 tiles is still a major concern of mine on the more organic boards, but for an urban streets board it doesn't matter so much.


I have a question - if these are injection moulded plastic, will it be possible to glue them together using (a ton of) poly cement?

I'm wondering if I can make my own 2x2 tiles or even entire boards simply by gluing together the tiles and doing a little putty/ texture work over the seams to hide the join lines.

If this is a possibility, then I'll be a lot more interested in this. The grid lines are the only thing that bugs me and I'd be happy to sacrifice a little modularity to remove a bunch of them. IMO GW's 2x2's represent the sweet spot.

 DaveC wrote:
The sidewalks are 2" either side so the road is 8" wide.

My mistake, I didn't think the picture was of all 16 tiles.

It looked like 4 tiles to me, roughly halving the size of the roads.

 darefsky wrote:

 Swara wrote:

 darefsky wrote:
Ok seriously. How do you access all the cool kickstarter tools?

http://www.kicktraq.com/

Thanks! Now to kill 4 hours or so messing with this......

I think that's everyone's reaction when they're first introduced to kicktraq . It really is addictive seeing how different campaigns have performed, etc.

 scarletsquig wrote:

I have a question - if these are injection moulded plastic, will it be possible to glue them together using (a ton of) poly cement?

I'm wondering if I can make my own 2x2 tiles or even entire boards simply by gluing together the tiles and doing a little putty/ texture work over the seams to hide the join lines.

If this is a possibility, then I'll be a lot more interested in this. The grid lines are the only thing that bugs me and I'd be happy to sacrifice a little modularity to remove a bunch of them. IMO GW's 2x2's represent the sweet spot.

It's likely that the sides are going to be sloped (at least to an extent) as you see on square bases simply because that meant they extract from the mould easier, so you'll probably need to file the edges flat to give a solid contact surface, but otherwise I don't see why not

The sides will not be sloped lol, that would be terribad. It will fit flush-

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
It's likely that the sides are going to be sloped (at least to an extent) as you see on square bases simply because that meant they extract from the mould easier, so you'll probably need to file the edges flat to give a solid contact surface, but otherwise I don't see why not

Didn't they say they were using the same sort of multidirectional moulds Dreamforge did? If so, mould extraction shouldn't be a problem.

 Alpharius wrote:


I eagerly await his return from Adepticon, as we appear to be in a bit of a funk currently:

It might be a bit of a similar situation that the second RBG KS found itself in now (disregarding the KS1 fulfilment issues). In that people are holding off until the items they want become available, and there's probably others who have already pledged for stretch goal items (trenches, temples, etc).

The OTL crew might have their hands on a tile... >_>

The bidding starts at 1 million dollars*

* - This is obviously a joke


But seriously, after spending all weekend with these boards, I'm so fething excited for these tiles misterjustin has an awesome product, and as many people told me this weekend, "This is something the community needed."

I just posted the Kickstarter to my local group's page, and there's some enthusiasm I intend on nurturing. We've got a bajillion flat tables and a metric ton of terrain, and these themed boards are great, and enormously cheaper than GW's lackluster "Realm of Battle," which never excited me.

 MajorTom11 wrote:
The sides will not be sloped lol, that would be terribad. It will fit flush-

I can confirm that they fit flush and pop together and apart easily and with very little effort.

If people are worried about the mid-KS funk, every KS does this. Best thing to keep it going in the center is word of mouth. Once you get a couple of buddies to pledge, it starts to show back up on popular this week, which in turn garners a few extra pledges.

So if you know anyone who would like something like this, make sure they know about it.