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Not sure about the pose but the rest is much much better.

The guard poses are good, but yeah the jack pose isn't ideal now that you mention it. Most importantly, the Crystallen guards look like they'll fit right into Deadzone ; ) The jack could be modeled with a wrist mounted weapon too with that pose.

I just saw the update. These crystallens look alot better than what we saw from the open day pictures. I hope the end product looks more like these, and less like those first pictures. I think this is one of those teams I will remain hopeful for, but will wait until retail if I want to pick them up.

These are resin too, not clear acrylic so that'll help witht he final product too imo, I'm really looking forward to that aspect. Yeah the initial pic from the open day with the frosting was dodgy, these are a big relief as they were probably my favourite concept.

I'm liking the Mechanites much more than I expected to. I see what people are saying about them needing more fine detailing, but I don't really think it's that bad, and after they're painted I don't think it will be a problem at all. It's fair to say that they currently look too clean and streamlined to pass as ramshackle junkyard robots - at least, not without considerable conversion work and weathering - but that's ok by me.

The Crystallans aren't really my cup of tea, though. The Jack resembles the concept art, but his pose is uncertain. The guards have better poses, but they look more rock golem than crystal alien. I'm not convinced that the guards' current lumpy rock designs will make the most of the blue translucent casting material.

I won't write the Crystallans off, but I won't be buying these models to convert to Deadzone. I'll wait to see what the official Crystallan Deadzone figures look like, if they ever happen.

^ Agree with the above completely. Crystallan sculpts still kinda sucky other than the jack, mechanites surprisingly cool, I'm now happy to be getting them as a free faction.

I think the main design flaw with the Crystallans was choosing to pursue the whole "they fused with rocks" thing... if they were just plain sharp crystal aliens that would have been awesome... adding the blobby rocks to them confuses the overall look and makes them look like coral, plus those part will have to be painted on an otherwise clear plastic mini.

Nice idea, execution somewhat poor.. it would have been cooler if they were fleshy creatures at first and the doomsday device they activated turned them into sentient crystals.

This is why I spent literally the entire Kickstarter asking Mantic for more pics of the sculpts, concept art to mini translation is still pretty much non-existent with Mantic, any given sculptor may either produce a perfect carbon copy of the art, or go off and do their own thing.

And from the look of the WIP sculpt, the sculptor was more keen on the rock golem style rather than crystal style.

I apologize if it's already been mentioned recently... but was there any idea of when the fantasy skirmish game would be released? Would it be through a kickstarter?

 Red Viper wrote:
I apologize if it's already been mentioned recently... but was there any idea of when the fantasy skirmish game would be released? Would it be through a kickstarter?

Pretty much everything Mantic does is released through KS. As far as when that KS was starting, I believe it was end of this year, or the beginning of next. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

July I think

 carlos13th wrote:
July I think

DKH4 is July, the proposed Fantasy Skirmish game is later this year or early next year

Alright, sounds good.

Thanks guys.

So looks like the pledge manager is going live soon, and everyone should have it in the next 24 hours. If you want any of the limited stuff, keep an eye on your e-mail!!

I bet I get mine last and all the Blaines are gone...

Some more info:

- Survey money counts towards new stretch goals.
- They will be opening the survey to new backers (if you want a cheap 40% discount Dreadball shopping cart for the rest of the year, here it is).
- Survey will be open until this November.
- There will be a second survey early next year.

A delay has been announced, it won't all ship this November, only the core box game and a selection of extra stuff.. the rest comes 2015.

The delay matters little to me, getting my goods staggered is probably good for me at this point. Hopefully they take full advantage of it and push the quality as far as it will go. Will have to check out the survey soon, though adding anything is gonna have to wait.

The Mechanites actually look quite good. I reckon with a little bit of work they'd be very usable in 40k as Imperium/Adeptus Mechanicus Robots or Mechanicum stuff.

 scarletsquig wrote:
Survey will be open until this November.

November? Is that a record for Mantic surveys? It feels like a long time. I wonder if, combining that long open period with opening the survey to non-backers, stretch goals might explode.

As for the limited Blaines, I hear you; I want want one too and there's no PM in sight for me yet. On the other hand, while Dreadball Blaine is the original, Deadzone Blaine is a much, much better sculpt in my opinion. So if I do miss one, I'm glad it's not that one.

I am looking forward to the Mechanites. I'm surprised nobody else has tried making modular kill-bot kits yet.

Those Mechanites look good, apart from those idiotic integral bases. It's the other designs that I expect to look like gak.

 Azazelx wrote:
The Mechanites actually look quite good. I reckon with a little bit of work they'd be very usable in 40k as Imperium/Adeptus Mechanicus Robots or Mechanicum stuff.

The lack of detailing could work well int hat regard, as it'll leave room for 40k gubbins.


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Brian from Anarchy Models was kind enough to email me the designs for the stencils so we could see what is in them. I watched the video and I'm sold. I know we can make our own, but this will save so much effort, and a lot of them - especially the text - are better than what I would come up with after hours of work. I'll happily add these to the bunch I picked up from the Anarchy Models stencil kickstarter. I love how they're perfectly cut to sit over the tiles and a number of the decals I can see being useful elsewhere too.

I just got my Dreadball Xtreme Pledge Manager in. - It looks like Mantic have purchased a tool from another company to use it. - Here's the overview.




Now only if I could remember what my precise order was....

Sigh, still no pledge manager for me.

Just filled my pledge manager out. I'm a bit annoyed I need to waste money getting 'Dreadball Ultimate' when all I actually want is the 2 Giants I missed in the first kickstarter. But live and learn. And at least the rubber mat comes in more handy for travelling places than my fancy one.

The Pledge Manager itself is pretty harmless, my only criticism being that they could have labelled "you've already bought this in the pledge" a little more clearly. However, hearing the horror stories from the Raging Heroes thread, I think we got away lucky.

Only thing is, I wish I could remember what I planned to spend the last $25 of my pledge on... I think it was originally going to be Tycho, the coin and something else...

^ Probably dice bag and blaine?

Still waiting on the pledge manager. I've decided if I miss out on Blaine due to this I'll just ask for a refund on my entire pledge.

I pledged in the first minute of the KS, and upped my pledge for Blaine within minutes of the update with him in going live, since it's the *only* exclusive Mantic model I don't own.. it wasn't marked as exclusive in ODB KS, only as a DBX preview model.

No point getting bothered about it until it is confirmed that I got screwed over though. :p

As long as they don't let you choose him,

but then run out and send you something else instead .....

I'm a little surprised you don't already have him, Squig, as I thought you'd been in on every Mantic KS campaign so far.

Or maybe you were in on the original Dreadball, but Blaine was just an optional purchase or something? In which case he's become a "stealth limited" figure that flew under your radar at the time, I guess.

Blaine was added free for all DBO backers at Jack level and up. I got him as part of my Striker pledge. I'd be a bit upset alright if I was hoping to get Blaine from DBX and hadn't got my PM nearly 24 hours after others have. (I haven'e got my DBX PM yet either).

I was short on cash at the time of ODB, have managed to catch up on every other exclusive I missed via mantic points and convention purchases.

Still a stealth limited figure though, since no-one knew he was a KS exclusive for ODB until DBX launched.

 scarletsquig wrote:
I was short on cash at the time of ODB, have managed to catch up on every other exclusive I missed via mantic points and convention purchases.

Still a stealth limited figure though, since no-one knew he was a KS exclusive for ODB until DBX launched.

He was never KS exclusive, which is why Mantic is offering him on DBX at all. They did seem to think he was, though. I figured out he wasn't by doing some DBO KS sleuthing and was the first to push the case, which others then supported.

It's going to be pretty ironic if I don't get a Blaine after making the argument that made him available to DBX backers in the first place.

Still don't have the pledge manager... anyone else with me in this?

I made sure to add 20 Blaines to my pledge but could only get 12, limited stock I guess. Who wants one? $25 each, bargain! ; p