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I still hope Mantic considers just making some weapon hands included with those Plague teams.

I mean, why not? They're just plug in arms. Why not have a few weapon carrying ones in the mix, save us some conversion trouble?

At least with the mechs, some of their arms already could be used as melee weapons and they may have stuff we can count as projectiles too.

If there were weapon options for those plague figures, I would imagine they'd end up selling quite a few more sets of them.

Cheers vermonter

Why do I have the urge to paint the plant things head as a pumpkin?

Plus im glad I put a minimum pledge into ma now, it turned into a sweet spot on pledge manager and im really looking forward to getting the game.

I got to hold the MA models today, and the sculpts are gorgeous. There was very little flash, and the details are very good. The US soldiers are amazing models.

Also, my Avengers squad of Enforcers will be featured on the Mantic site soon. Met with the rep here today, showed him them in person, and he loved them and requested to put them up on site. Been a good Thursday.

Hah sweet! All I did was mow yards for 8 hours, glad to hear *somebody* is having a good time It's a really neat idea, makes sense to show it off Jealous you got to look at the new MA minis.


Is anyone playing in the DZ campaign come Gencon? I had to pick between that and a single 1 hour 'learn to play' and figured I'd tough out the 4 hours for a chance to play more Janes Gully or something wasn't it?

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Hah sweet! All I did was mow yards for 8 hours, glad to hear *somebody* is having a good time It's a really neat idea, makes sense to show it off Jealous you got to look at the new MA minis.


Is anyone playing in the DZ campaign come Gencon? I had to pick between that and a single 1 hour 'learn to play' and figured I'd tough out the 4 hours for a chance to play more Janes Gully or something wasn't it?

Janes Gully, yep. I'm doing the 4 hour slog at noon on Saturday.

Balls, I'm doing friday, I think. I guess you are safe from many a crushing defeat! Well not really, I'll have to get a few more games in before august lest I embarrass myself! It sounds fun though, in any case. I'm looking forward to seeing what they've done with the terrain and if there will be any specific mission types and so on.

Yeah, I don't get in until around noon on Friday, so have to pack the majority of events on Saturday. I was hoping the AI deck would have been released by now, because I'm quite sure I won't get enough games in otherwise and will embarrass myself.

Still no Dreadball Xtreme pledge manager?

No. Have you not been following the updates? I think the last 3 DBX updates have been about the pledge manager delays.

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Yeah that deck would help me too. Its mid august right? I mean I think shipment 2 is due by then isn't it? Hopefully we get the PDF sooner than that. Might be forced to set up some games solitaire and play that way just to get used to the dice and turn sequence

New pic of the ruins battlezone, which goes up for preorder next week:



Probably the most useful out of all the sprues, looking forward to it.

Liking the texture around the edges as well, would have been all too easy to leave that flat and dull but it shows a triple layered composite material with metal bracing/power conduits etc. sticking out.

I can see myself ruining mine even further, drilling in bullet holes and scratching up the paintwork.

Agreed on that Squig, it looks great. I certainly want a good few ruin battlezones when they are finally released. And, as others have stated, the AI deck will be brilliant for me once it is released.

The panels look REALLY good, the rubble piles are not so good. They don't look like rubble made from the destruction of the panels, and the detail on them seems kind of soft.

Really looking forward to the ruined stuff. The intact buildings look great, but who has pretty sparkly buildings in the middle of a warzone? not me!

Wow, I hope the 2 I ordered will be enough...

I have two on order as well.. may have to get some more! I have to agree on the rubble piles... the I bar things and the chunks are both too stocky to be made from the walls.

Bah! Wish I'd added on a bunch of the ruins to my DZ or MA KS shipments that are coming in the next couple of months.

The new big gun is nice...lol. Can't wait to get home and clip it off and put it up. Don't have pictures of the sprues, but they are in hand.

Well, colour me impressed..

Think you could get some kind of 'street ruin' map combined with that set and get a ruined sci-fi setting very easily and cheaply.

My Crazy Boxes Arrived!

C for Chovar
1 Bag of 10 Corporation Marines
1 Bag of Basilean Cathorses
1 Sprue of 10 Elven Bowmen Command
1 Sprue of 2 Orx Warpath Command
1 Sprue of 2 Deadzone humans and 1 Deadzone Yndij
1 Bag of Dreadball Z'zor with Guard and Striker
1 Silver Paint pot (anyone know the actual colour?)
1 Loka Skeleton pawn
1 pair of clippers

D for Deadzone
1 Warpaint Gold
1 pair of clippers
1 KOW Orc Command arm sprue (Hrm, no bodies)
1 bag of 2 Dreadball Asterians
1 Loka... Fire elemental?
1 bag of Ogres with 2 guns
1 Deadzone sprue with Marauder boy and Goblin Sniper
1 Warpath Veermyn Sprue
1 Sprue of 10 Elven Bowmen Command


So, overall, pretty good, I think. - They certainly feel a lot more useful to me than the set from Christmas. The Deadzone models will always have a place. No harm with having more Dreadball minis. The Corporation Marines are great, too - Are they getting rid of Project Pandora? Between the sale and having marines in one box and Veermyn in the other, it's curious.

Sounds like a nice haul. I was gonna order a couple but the DZ and MA surveys both needed to be paid and then there were gencon badges to buy. I kind of consider the entire DBX kickstarter to be little more than a large crazy box anyway so that'll do

From the hauls listed, the crazy boxes weren't bad at all. Last Christmas I got lucky on an Amazon seller getting rid of Project Pandora for $20 shipped, though, so I was already taken care of this time around.

And yes, Mantic looking to clear their old stock of Pandora does look like a good sign that the Veer-myn and Corps will be coming to Deadzone / returning to Warpath soon. Or that Mantic will be re-launching Pandora. Either way I win, sucka!

The thing about crazy boxes is, the longer you wait, the better they get. By Christmas there will probably be Mars Attacks stuff in there, and maybe Dreadball Xtreme. And sometime after the Warpath KS finally, really, actually launches, there should be sprues from that thrown into the crazy boxes too.

I agree. I see the crazy box as a bargain-priced conversion kit, so the wider the range of items included, the better!

Anarchy Stencils which had a Kickstarter for stencils has hooked up with Mantic to produce some deadzone terrain specific stencils.

I love the stencils I got from the KS, really high quality and Brian has put out a lot of good video tutorials on them. My procrastination may have paid off! Looks like there's a triple pack with a decent discount. They're expensive, but really high quality, I highly recommend the Anarchy stencils. I also picked up some Snappy Stencils which are made from laser cut HDF which makes them more durable but... far less good. basically. For the flat Deadzone terrain I thought they'd be perfect and i still think they are, but I can see me getting the new Anarchy ones too as they're specifically deadzone themed which is awesome.

I'm kind of tempted by those, thanks for sharing. I'm a bit afraid of ordering an A4 sized package from anywhere that uses squiggly marks for currency though, it's liable to cost almost as much to ship as it does for the items. Might just have to stick with masking with tape and the nifty little square card thing I've been using. But those are pretty nice still.

The shipping during the kickstarter was very reasonable, it's saying 3 squiggly lines for delivery, and the triple pack of stencils is 21 squiggly lines. Signing up for an account on their webshop now so I'll see how much it is. The stencils are basically just sheets of paper size and weight wise so shipping is thankfully relatively cheap.

edit:
Royal Mail USA Flat Rate £5.55
Royal Mail Worldwide Flat Rate £5.55

So yeah it's money, but probably the same cost if you see any of the other stencils that you like. Some are really good, very happy with the dozen that I received from the KS.

Well that's not terrible for shipping from anywhere that costs in pounds. Certainly better than I paid from Heresy for some certain metal minis. They're pretty neat for sure.

I tried to take some pics of the stencils but it's impossible to see the detail. Brian has printouts of the various stencils I think (saw one in his last tutorial video). I might ask him if we can see them.

Here we go:




Very long video, was expecting it to go to Abba's Greatest Hits or something after 10 minutes!

These look tremendously cool, after doing loads of this stuff with masking tape in the past and I can't tell you how much time this would have saved..

Nice will have to watch that vid, Pacific. Yeah you can do a lot with masking tape but stencils definitely have their place. Especially if you're on the slacker or less competent side. Or both ; p *raises hand*

New DBX update. The Jack for the Crystallens looks pretty good, closer to the more slender concept art we saw than the guard model we were worried about. The guards are chunkier than the concept art, but I'm happy with the design still. The pic from the open day was just a weird paint job / frosting effect.


The Mechanites seem a bit... bland? I like the designs, but they just seem to be lacking detail.