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The dwarven mine entrance actually is a difficult part for me because I don't see any good way to really incorporate it. So I have to admit that I would rather have seen something else there.

I'd buy that entrance any day of the week if it wasn't for the horrible cost of sending it to Japan. I got burnt with the last Rampart KS. I'll try to get it next time I visit Europe.

M.

 rosafari wrote:
Sorry it was VAT rather than anything else, just sloppy writing there. It came as an invoice from Archon via Stripe


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The cost of the order with shipping was €89.


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Edit 2: And they charged €71 for the village pledge in the manager rather than the €85 on Kickstarter.

OK. Thank you for the clarification. It appears the new system is working as intended.


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 Dolnikan wrote:
The dwarven mine entrance actually is a difficult part for me because I don't see any good way to really incorporate it. So I have to admit that I would rather have seen something else there.

If you remember the bridges from D&L 2, you have one Sf bridge and two fantasy bridges. One of the fantasy bridges was in independent terrain element, in reality the first item from the Encounters range.
The other two bridges had D&L connectors. I strongly suspect this mine entrance has something similar and is intended to dovetail with D&L dungeon tiles, and not Encounters per se.

Now I could be wrong here, we have unlcoked dungeon entrances already and they do not transition, but this is a much larger piece with a rear to it.


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End of project livestream here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAPnHfuF2_M


Nearly 900K pledged. If this is like D&L3 people will get hyped and go crazy pledging to unlock something big in the last few minutes. This happened last time with the phoenix. I remember turning up for the Discord party/feeding frenzy, but left my credit card under lock and key before I did.

That's €900k and the Goblin Hut unlocked still 2 hours 39 min to go

final goal @€950k

Roblin on Giant Rat?



SG list

Damn cool but I doubt we will hit it. The end-of-campaign push seems to be about over.

Livestream

- The coloured plastic is set and is not optional
- looking at option to connect dwarven mine entrance to the dungeon sets depends on tooling.
- Roblin is not one per backer
- Goblin Hut is available for €15
- The dragon is smaller than the previous dragons
- new base pack in the PM only - 25mm, 50mm and 75mm bases
- Serpent King 50mm base - viper swarms 25mm bases

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Damn cool but I doubt we will hit it. The end-of-campaign push seems to be about over.

About 20min left with 17k needed. Be really surprised if the total gets close to the amount needed.

Already pledged for a Starter, and just opened a second Gamefound account and pledged a Euro in case the deal is worse in PM after Archon realizes the pricing is too generous.

What the hell am I doing opening up a second GF account, that would be so stupid buying another pledge...

 Miguelsan wrote:
I'd buy that entrance any day of the week if it wasn't for the horrible cost of sending it to Japan. I got burnt with the last Rampart KS. I'll try to get it next time I visit Europe.
M.

Yeah, I was eyeing off this KS until I saw the shipping to AU almost doubles the cost of the thing.

I think almost reaching a million in these difficult financial times is pretty good. I like a lot of the concept art ideas and look forward to seeing how they look when completed. We pledged for the four set pledge (planning on one of each set) and will add some add-ons later during the pledge manager once we free up some more money from our budget. No idea when I will finally get around to painting this stuff but I feel more comfortable ordering stuff made in the EU than from China.

sh4mike wrote:
Already pledged for a Starter, and just opened a second Gamefound account and pledged a Euro in case the deal is worse in PM after Archon realizes the pricing is too generous.

What the hell am I doing opening up a second GF account, that would be so stupid buying another pledge...

Archon have never welched on prices so far. I do not think they are going to now. Your pledge is safe. We know the overdoing of stretch goals for D&L2 hurt them, but they kept their promises and made the biggest free stuff one per backer instead.

That being said in this economy we might discover an even worse situation in 2023, with prices for shipping greatly magnified. But in that case D&L shipping costs are the least of our worries.

My DL3 arrived a couple of days ago and it's a ridiculous amount of stuff to put together! Spent almost a full day on it and I've only put together all the ks dungeon accessories and the bigger models, along with maybe half the villagers from the base Pledge. Congratulations to anyone who manages to stay motivated enough to put all this together and paints it up, I'm exhausted already and my hands are cut to bits!

The people are small, very small. Doesn't matter too much on the NPC style villagers as mh heroes should stand out and tower over these plebs, but it might look a bit odd with the army/ hero figures. The weapons as well are very very spindly and fragile, you need to be very careful

Update/Email today confirming they plan to start shipping Ramparts 3 toward the end of the month

(and will re-open the PM when they do so folk who were worried about it closing earlier than the expected Dec date can add more stuff)

... that will hopefully mean all the D&L shipping is done by then

(although it wouldn't surprise me if there are still some UK pledges to ship since the paperwork makes them so much harder to do, and being able to carry on maxing out their courier capacity will be important, use it or loose it as they say)

AMA 8th July

- Retail plans - July, September and November releases for Pathfinder sets and D&L
- January 2023 - next Gamefound campaign - no details given
- Encounters may ship in November/December - optimistic but achievable
- D&L Woodhaven shipping to finish end of 3rd week of July - shipping is on time and as planned
- Encounters upgrades - Sail for the boat (space on tool), Wasps have been scaled up in size parts were too small.
- River sculpt done (see pictures) next tool on production list
- no clear insect wings - no clear sprue space available.
- Coloured plastics (where applicable) only no grey plastic option.
- Curved walls are planned for future D&L projects
- Open to working with other games/developers to theme D&L sets - have approached North Star about Frostgrave but haven't heard back yet.
- Roblin goal - not totally ruled out adding him yet.
- Jarek would like to do a full castle in future

Archon overview
- Prioritise their own production over customers
- Products changed and developed based on feedback
- Issues - working with 3rd parties/external suppliers - understanding their processes are not the same
- Jarek acknowledges he doesn't always make the best calls, gamer head vs business head - regrets supplying preassembled minis takes to much time.
- Mispacks (currently 3.2%) need to reduce to 1% or less
- costs $300 to $400 to put a tool back on the machine so they have to plan production accordingly can't keep jumping around and going back if they get quantities wrong, that's why they locked in the Rampart PM (which will reopen in August) (My own note - expect the Encounters PM to lock early if they ship early don't be surprised if it doesn't run to December)
- Wargame development - Space combat game being worked on. Sci-Fi wargame still being worked on (may be licensed talks ongoing - triple A title)
- No plans for Chibi minis


There was a section on their boardgames, development, ratings, feedback, what they've learned etc. which I won't cover here.

Pictures to follow

Cool, I suggested Frostgrave in a survey.

So, who's the (d)weeb who asked for chibi minis?

Too bad about the insect wings not being translucent. Good news on the sail for the boat. Still waiting four our D&L 3 to arrive so I can form an opinion on the figures. We were near the end of D&L 2 as well. Sigh.

 Grumpy Gnome wrote:
Too bad about the insect wings not being translucent. Good news on the sail for the boat. Still waiting four our D&L 3 to arrive so I can form an opinion on the figures. We were near the end of D&L 2 as well. Sigh.

I'm waiting on my too before doing the pledge manager. It shipped a little over two weeks ago and has been stuck in Customs in both the EU and now the US. It actually arrived in the US at Memphis TN and then flew to Newark NJ and has been sitting there for clearance. Not sure what FedEX is doing. that's over 1k Miles (1750 KM) from the destination hub just to get inspected.

On the other side of the coin I had some 3d printer resin shipped from Asia and get ignored by customs more or less and get to my house in 3 days this week. Whatever Archon did to my package it's cursed.

Thank you for these updates. The boat is far more interesting now.

 Monkeysloth wrote:

 Grumpy Gnome wrote:
Too bad about the insect wings not being translucent. Good news on the sail for the boat. Still waiting four our D&L 3 to arrive so I can form an opinion on the figures. We were near the end of D&L 2 as well. Sigh.

I'm waiting on my too before doing the pledge manager. It shipped a little over two weeks ago and has been stuck in Customs in both the EU and now the US. It actually arrived in the US at Memphis TN and then flew to Newark NJ and has been sitting there for clearance. Not sure what FedEX is doing. that's over 1k Miles (1750 KM) from the destination hub just to get inspected.

On the other side of the coin I had some 3d printer resin shipped from Asia and get ignored by customs more or less and get to my house in 3 days this week. Whatever Archon did to my package it's cursed.

I often wonder if Fedex actually don't trust their own warehouse systems, so feel they've got to keep packages moving even if it is to the wrong place (or country) otherwise they'll loose them forever.

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:

 Monkeysloth wrote:

 Grumpy Gnome wrote:
Too bad about the insect wings not being translucent. Good news on the sail for the boat. Still waiting four our D&L 3 to arrive so I can form an opinion on the figures. We were near the end of D&L 2 as well. Sigh.

I'm waiting on my too before doing the pledge manager. It shipped a little over two weeks ago and has been stuck in Customs in both the EU and now the US. It actually arrived in the US at Memphis TN and then flew to Newark NJ and has been sitting there for clearance. Not sure what FedEX is doing. that's over 1k Miles (1750 KM) from the destination hub just to get inspected.

On the other side of the coin I had some 3d printer resin shipped from Asia and get ignored by customs more or less and get to my house in 3 days this week. Whatever Archon did to my package it's cursed.

I often wonder if Fedex actually don't trust their own warehouse systems, so feel they've got to keep packages moving even if it is to the wrong place (or country) otherwise they'll loose them forever.

This wouldn't surprise me. They sent the package East 1,000 miles while I'm closer to the Western edge of the US. The package did finally leave New Jersy this morning after being there for 3 days.

 Monkeysloth wrote:

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:

 Monkeysloth wrote:

 Grumpy Gnome wrote:
Too bad about the insect wings not being translucent. Good news on the sail for the boat. Still waiting four our D&L 3 to arrive so I can form an opinion on the figures. We were near the end of D&L 2 as well. Sigh.

I'm waiting on my too before doing the pledge manager. It shipped a little over two weeks ago and has been stuck in Customs in both the EU and now the US. It actually arrived in the US at Memphis TN and then flew to Newark NJ and has been sitting there for clearance. Not sure what FedEX is doing. that's over 1k Miles (1750 KM) from the destination hub just to get inspected.

On the other side of the coin I had some 3d printer resin shipped from Asia and get ignored by customs more or less and get to my house in 3 days this week. Whatever Archon did to my package it's cursed.

I often wonder if Fedex actually don't trust their own warehouse systems, so feel they've got to keep packages moving even if it is to the wrong place (or country) otherwise they'll loose them forever.

This wouldn't surprise me. They sent the package East 1,000 miles while I'm closer to the Western edge of the US. The package did finally leave New Jersy this morning after being there for 3 days.

I have to ask if there are giant virtual pinball flippers on either coast of the US. This parcel has been kept in play a while, and someone is running up a score.

I have to confess that I'm actually happy with less clear plastic. I just finished assembling the ghost dragon and it was an absolute pain to see anything at all. So I really prefer it if things are just normal plastic so I can see what I'm doing. Everything gets painted anyways.

Of course, it's different with other people who have other approaches.

 Dolnikan wrote:
I have to confess that I'm actually happy with less clear plastic. I just finished assembling the ghost dragon and it was an absolute pain to see anything at all. So I really prefer it if things are just normal plastic so I can see what I'm doing. Everything gets painted anyways.

Of course, it's different with other people who have other approaches.

Clear plastic has to be done right, less is more. Archon has yet to learn this.

 Dolnikan wrote:
I have to confess that I'm actually happy with less clear plastic. I just finished assembling the ghost dragon and it was an absolute pain to see anything at all. So I really prefer it if things are just normal plastic so I can see what I'm doing. Everything gets painted anyways.

Of course, it's different with other people who have other approaches.

Agreed, it's so hard and brittle, it's horrible to work with and you can't make out details at all. I think the ghost dragon has a really stupid head, but I won't know for sure until I Prime it

If you want a translucent dragon try the Reaper Bones shadow dragon Krateryx.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eN7Vc2e_CE

I cannot say if it has better composition until my Archon ghost dragon arrives, but the Krateryx is very nice.

I do not know if it is out yet, I got mine in the Bones V kickstarter. Let me check.....

No it isn't out yet on retail, but there are several for sale anyway.

My package arrived today and sadly didn't have any visa stamps from all the fun places it visited.

This was my first D&L as I just tend to 3d print things like this but I was interested in the thinner walls and transparent rooms (as printers aren't great at either) and the very cheap townsfolk and guards. Looking at how small each of the lava rooms I got was, and the general price D&L goes for at retail, it would be quite pricy to get yourself a reasonable amount of this stuff for games outside of Kickstarter.

I'm kind of disappointed I didn't do another set for frost caverns in the blue (as I think with some cheap LEDs and dry brushing it would look cool) as to even just have an ice cavern large enough for a reasonably sized dragon fight it would cost around $150 at retail at MSRP but if I had gone up one level in the KS (doubling my cost) I would have gotten about that size of a room for maybe $30. Thems the breaks though but it does feel like it's an expensive catch-up game if you haven't backed all the campaigns so I see no reason to move away from 3d printing for a lot of what they have.

On the Dungeons and lazers 3 I went with the Town pledge, 2 Core fantasy walls, and unfortunately did not pick the room sets. It default and or picked for me and I got 7 Lava of which I do not want and Archon said I have to pay to ship back. It should not have accepted my town pledges with out me selecting the rooms. What a waste.

That sucks. It's odd that it would default like that for the extras (I understand the base core box is the default unless you trade it in but that's different).

Looking at all the Stretch Goals for the townfolk starter it shows how much the economy has shifted as D&L 4 was no where near as generous. I had honestly forgotten how much stuff was unlocked.

yeah apparently the thumbnails you click on and pick the room type. If you do not it picks the type already pictured as opposed to not completing pledge. It doesn't help that the thumbnails are mixed with the SG's. expensive mistakes

I don't mean to be insensitive but some degree of computer literacy is required for online shopping. I'm not sure what you expected to happen when you paid for an order without choosing your rewards.