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 legionaires wrote:
They have another vehicle "tank" in tooling right now that isn't currently part of the campaign.

hmm "ready for tooling" doesn't mean "in tooling" in my estimation

The hounds are great, I can see so many applications in Necromunda, 5 parsecs from home, the pets of the word bearer in one of the recent Dawn of fire novels ...

But I would have liked "normal" dogs as well.

EDIT:
My girlfriend thinks they look perfect for evil pets. But she would have also preferred normal dogs.

 ScarletRose wrote:
I like the mutant doggos, they seem like a quick paint using some contract and then picking out the armored plates.

Seems like they'd work for DE beasts, or a pet for Chaos warlord.

Yeah and I should clarify. I don't dislike them, I was just hoping for "normal" dogs since there is so few dogs in plastic. Maybe a future DF kit will have normal dogs. Cyber dogs would have been cool too.


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 judgedoug wrote:

 legionaires wrote:
They have another vehicle "tank" in tooling right now that isn't currently part of the campaign.

hmm "ready for tooling" doesn't mean "in tooling" in my estimation

Crap, good catch. Considering some kits have stayed at "extra sculpting" on the old schedule, it could still be 5 years out.

Garrac wrote:
Well, one funny thing is: atm there are only 2 retail pledges. Atm I think is fair to say there may come more that will unlock some stretch goals.

Also, as my biggest petition left, I'd ask for mroe to be shown on the command squad cos I'm pledging for them but rn we only have 5 models of 12 lol

The Les Grognards Command/ Heavy box gave parts for an Officer/ alternate Sergeant, a medic, a standard bearer, a sniper and a comms operator. The rest of the sprue was for heavy weapons and crews. Maybe these are the archetypes that will feature in the Damned with two or three variants of each?

I quite like the muto-dogs, but i really like the handlers so might get a box mainly for them, but they're not on my pledge list at present

@Wargames Atlantic: A suggestion for a pledge level. If it is viable, your company may want to offer a few pledges where the backer is guaranteed getting their likeness made. The 1st edition seasons of Zombicide had that. Four pledges in Season 1 and 2 that meant those people were Survivor figures in the next season. They were expensive pledges, and you might want to make yours cheaper just because what the current SG offers is just the head, not a full figure. Still, it seems there are some folk out there who do leap at this kind of opportunity and will shell out the cash for it.

I like the mutant war dogs quite a bit too, much different than the GW spiky/chaos warhounds that currently exist (probably mixing the two and kitbashing a bit would produce some cool chaos beasties as well, especially with adding in some Raptoryx bits)

 Ancestral Hamster wrote:
@Wargames Atlantic: A suggestion for a pledge level. If it is viable, your company may want to offer a few pledges where the backer is guaranteed getting their likeness made. The 1st edition seasons of Zombicide had that. Four pledges in Season 1 and 2 that meant those people were Survivor figures in the next season. They were expensive pledges, and you might want to make yours cheaper just because what the current SG offers is just the head, not a full figure. Still, it seems there are some folk out there who do leap at this kind of opportunity and will shell out the cash for it.

We'll get that passed along to the campaign team.

For best results going forward, feel free to throw suggestions in the gamefound campaign comment list. It is being actively monitored.

Perhaps a stretch unlock could be more German Shephard or similar looking regular dogs for the handlers?

Huh, when did female infantry become the 200,000$ goal? I mean color me excited as that is the main draw for me, but last I glanced at the stretch goals I swear I didn't even see it there.

 kurhanik wrote:
Huh, when did female infantry become the 200,000$ goal? I mean color me excited as that is the main draw for me, but last I glanced at the stretch goals I swear I didn't even see it there.

That came this afternoon. $200k used to be the Hounds

 kurhanik wrote:
Huh, when did female infantry become the 200,000$ goal? I mean color me excited as that is the main draw for me, but last I glanced at the stretch goals I swear I didn't even see it there.

From the comments section on Gamefound:

Hey, we're currently in the process of pulling some of the more popular kits forward. The big one is The Damned Female Infantry will now be unlocked at $200,000! An update will go out tomorrow confirming the rest of the changes but we are looking at a total of 8 The Damned box sets by the time we reach $250,000!

Man, pretty happy with this change. If it hits 1k backers, you followed the campaign, and backed in the first 24 hours it's 2 sprues of infantry plus 1 each of Outriders and HWT, with a Brute sprue at 5 boxes.

I was kinda preocupied when I saw the crowdfunding advancing only 35k on the second day, but now with 21 days left my most wanted pledges should be unlocked on time, I hope.

Seems reasonable to expect 10k bucks by day?

 legionaires wrote:
Man, pretty happy with this change. If it hits 1k backers, you followed the campaign, and backed in the first 24 hours it's 2 sprues of infantry plus 1 each of Outriders and HWT, with a Brute sprue at 5 boxes.

And if you purchase multiple packages, you multiply your package level freebies (according to what the team has stated in the gamefound comments.)*

*The responding team member is not part of the gamefound campaign team and will check to confirm this is true. Please bear with me.

Really cool that the hounds are available at a lower stretchgoal and female infantry not that far off, either! I will have to increase my pledge if this keeps up

Nice alien doggos. Is that supposed to be chitin or metal armour? I'd have preferred them fully organic.

Currently at 15 boxes to help unlock gak but will probably drop out before the end, even with the 15 box "deal" I'm paying more than what I'm used to paying for Atlantic kits. I can only assume the new RRP will be in the 45€ range, so pushing GW price per mini in specialist sets like Command.

Seems like now artillery is an objective for 250k. There's only one stretch goal at 225k, so maybe there'll be some more there?

They said there would be 8 kits up to 250k, so counting the bases there's still one more left

Garrac wrote:
Seems like now artillery is an objective for 250k. There's only one stretch goal at 225k, so maybe there'll be some more there?

They said there would be 8 kits up to 250k, so counting the bases there's still one more left

4 kits unlocked on funding Infantry, Brutes, Command, Weapon Teams
4 more kits up to $250k Female Infantry, Hounds, Outriders and Artillery

That’s the 8 it’s good to get these front loaded as it removes any doubt as to whether or not they’ll be funded early on. I’ll probably bump from 5 boxes to 10 when it reaches $250k not much saving on retail but the added sprues helps and WGA kits aren’t easy to get here (and no discounts) so saves a bit of hassle in that regard.

 DaveC wrote:

Garrac wrote:
Seems like now artillery is an objective for 250k. There's only one stretch goal at 225k, so maybe there'll be some more there?

They said there would be 8 kits up to 250k, so counting the bases there's still one more left

4 kits unlocked on funding Infantry, Brutes, Command, Weapon Teams
4 more kits up to $250k Female Infantry, Hounds, Outriders and Artillery

That’s the 8 it’s good to get these front loaded as it removes any doubt as to whether or not they’ll be funded early on. I’ll probably bump from 5 boxes to 10 when it reaches $250k not much saving on retail but the added sprues helps and WGA kits aren’t easy to get here (and no discounts) so saves a bit of hassle in that regard.

Ah, yes, you're totally right!

I'd be happy if we reach at least 250k, I'll consider whatever comes next as more of a bonus

Garrac wrote:

I kind of hope that a further stretch goal for alternate mounts opens up some that look similar to the doggos...

 Wargames Atlantic wrote:

 legionaires wrote:
Man, pretty happy with this change. If it hits 1k backers, you followed the campaign, and backed in the first 24 hours it's 2 sprues of infantry plus 1 each of Outriders and HWT, with a Brute sprue at 5 boxes.

And if you purchase multiple packages, you multiply your package level freebies (according to what the team has stated in the gamefound comments.)*

*The responding team member is not part of the gamefound campaign team and will check to confirm this is true. Please bear with me.

I have confirmed with headquarters. This is correct. If you buy multiple packages you get multiple freebies.

Hmm, then 8 boxes would be my next 'better' value option after 5, that could be do-able if i'm frugal

something to consider when the unlocks happen

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
Hmm, then 8 boxes would be my next 'better' value option after 5, that could be do-able if i'm frugal

something to consider when the unlocks happen

If you do a monthly gaming budget. The stretch pay allowing to do 3 payments over 3 months is good. I was going to do the 5 box and see if I could squeeze a 10 box in before the end. But being able to do it in 3 payments solved that... So I can just use my gaming budget and not have to touch "real" money... or alert my wife...

Seems like WA is doing a survey on the size of the hounds, if you want to vote:

https://wargamesatlantic.com/blogs/news/how-big-do-you-like-your-hounds

WGA poll on how large the hounds should be




https://wargamesatlantic.com/blogs/news/how-big-do-you-like-your-hounds

if you're interested have your say

Voted for option A = smaller one.

and a confirmation in the gamefound comments that there is a female body on the command frame

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
and a confirmation in the gamefound comments that there is a female body on the command frame

We've seen 5 bodies already with the medic and the original article said there would be a Brute Commander making 6 so does that make 7 now (14 in a set) or is one of the original bodies swapped for a female body?

Voted for B - bigger the better

 DaveC wrote:

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
and a confirmation in the gamefound comments that there is a female body on the command frame

We've seen 5 bodies already with the medic and the original article said there would be a Brute Commander making 6 so does that make 7 now (14 in a set) or is one of the original bodies swapped for a female body?

Gamefound says that a command set is 12 models, so I suspect that the 'brute commander' is a head, arms, and some accessories to fit onto a standard brute body.