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Doug Craig‎ > Mantic Games - Mantic do you have any shots of the plastic Enforcers and Peacekeepers sprues? It's almost November and everyone would really like to see how they're coming along.

Mantic Games - We're getting these out soon, just dotting t's and crossing i's. Or the other one. Watch this space!

Good to hear Judge, Mantic certainly have a lot on their plate with Mars Attacks, Dreadball Extreme and Deadzone Wave 2 Forgefather plastics and Wave 3 to get shipped out of the door.

How are people doing with missing parts/replacement emails at the moment?

 Thraxas Of Turai wrote:
Good to hear Judge, Mantic certainly have a lot on their plate with Mars Attacks, Dreadball Extreme and Deadzone Wave 2 Forgefather plastics and Wave 3 to get shipped out of the door.

How are people doing with missing parts/replacement emails at the moment?

I sent my request October 1, got confirmation on the 2nd, a shipping notice on the 10th, and received the items last Monday. I probably should have bought a lottery ticket that week.

 Thraxas Of Turai wrote:
How are people doing with missing parts/replacement emails at the moment?

I don't understand the question...

 Thraxas Of Turai wrote:
How are people doing with missing parts/replacement emails at the moment?

I got a reply to my initial broken parts/missing parts submission, and a couple of days ago got a packet with the missing parts. Replacements for the broken parts were (disappointingly) not included.

 CptJake wrote:

 Thraxas Of Turai wrote:
How are people doing with missing parts/replacement emails at the moment?

I got a reply to my initial broken parts/missing parts submission, and a couple of days ago got a packet with the missing parts. Replacements for the broken parts were (disappointingly) not included.

Oh good, I still wait to hear about the acrylic boards I bought the previous GenCon.....

Any idea on when the other terrain sets will be available? As in the intact brick buildings, street clutter and crashed saucer ones?

I'm sitting here with the ruins set and, like a lot of Mantic's stuff, it'll do. Matched against Tamiya's version its miles better, but I do have a few issues. Its obviously made so its simple for those who don't want to glue the bits together (even if not all of the sections actually do that perfectly), though that causes some issues. The holes for clips everywhere are a bugger that'll have to be filled. There's obvious gaps if you chose to place sections end to end rather than at corners (I noticed on the Ks page that they only showed corner sections), again more filling. Second floors and wall sections to represent the underside of the window frames (rather than having a window just stop) aren't too viable without some work, but I guess they're not the highest priority. There doesn't seem to be enough clips overall if you chose to have X shaped sections, have the long ones with two clips either side of the join (something necessary to not have them fall apart) or to mount second floors. Not a major issues as youknow, there's glue for that, just something to note. Overall they're good, but I can see what they are. I managed two A4 sized ruined buildings out of the three bags of bits that came in the box.

Whenever the intact wall sets come out I'll be picking up another ruined set along with one of those. Something which was bugging me was not being able to have a section of wall larger than two pieces, which results in having parts which aren't too long. Again that's just personal preference and I guess something which Mantic intended (it is an addon kit).

Someone want to tell me where you find mailboxes that stand no taller than your waist too? Heh, I was comparing the Mantic ones to a Black Cat (uh, I think it was them who made those) set I have and noticed just how unusually small they are. Odd. =P

I've got some pretty low mailboxes further down on my street.

Then again, the city also demolished all the individual boxes on my street a few years back and put one big giant community one out in the middle of our neighborhood track.

I'm thinking it's that whole American ease of access type thing going on. Why reach our hands up when we can just keep them at waist level to retrieve our mail? Who ever said anything about having to exert any effort whatsoever?

Wait, are we complaining that the modular terrain is modular now?

I still haven't gotten my MA stuff yet. I may have to submit a ticket. Blah


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Forgot it shipped on the 15th. Should have it any day, I guess.

Huh, I'd be interested in seeing one of those smaller ones. When I picture a US public postbox its one of those blue ones that've been used for the past century which you can fit a grown man inside... I was actually thinking of painting them up red and with some extra work turning them into newspaper vending machines or something, as overall the Mantic ones just look really out of place alongside my big blues. =/



Don't ask me why there's a green one in that image. I thought those were done away with in the early fifties (that's the army olive drab IIRC, which was replaced with red, white and blue in the mid fifties, then the standard blue in the latter half ...because red, white and blue looked dumb as hell).


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@ pretre

Bleh, rather than they haven't included bits to cover up all the gaps. This is me complaining for complaining's sake though, as either you don't have the ability to cover the gaps and probably don't care, or you do care about the gaps, but are willing to just pull out some clay and sculpt over the holes. =P

I was just good-naturedly busting your chops.

And I don't know that the Mantic terrain is really setup for high-end terrain, so you definitely do have to do that work to clean it up if you're using it for that.

From a modular standpoint, it's pretty decent though.

I got an intact ruins set form the KS. It includes elongated hexagons (think of a rectangle with corners cut) to act as 'spacers'. I think this does occur in American architecture, but if you're stuck, you could just create the same with some spare card or plasticard?

I thought it was mentioned that the new Deadzone would be including more bits designed to cover up the connector areas.

I have the ruins as they came in the box sitting built at the moment. I'll be going over them with clay and balsa wood in a bit to spruce them up, then adding bits like piping and wiring to make them a bit more realistic. Well as realistic as building which have walls only a brick thick are (I don't think I've seen a terrain set yet which has one set of bricks, and insulating spacer, then another set). Maybe that's fine with US buildings though, as I don't know how they handle insulation and structure issues in warmer climates (I mean in the US they get away with buildings made entirely from wood). I did like the little electric box clips that were included, though I don't know what the other clips are meant to be. I think I'll have them painted like supports, but I'd much rather they looked like bricks in the first place. Again, whinging about Mantic's cheap and cheerful terrain not being up to my standards. That and its not like the people that see my terrain in person would actually care if I was using this stuff right out of the box or spending my evening sprucing the things up a bit.

Jake has put up his original rules for using the Mars Attacks Martians/ Humans as factions in Deadzone, am interested to see how they shape up

http://quirkworthy.com/2014/10/23/martians-in-deadzone-rules/

No downloadable card deck though

Good to hear that most missing items etc seem to be being dealt with in a timely manner.

 Wyrmalla wrote:

Don't ask me why there's a green one in that image. I thought those were done away with in the early fifties (that's the army olive drab IIRC, which was replaced with red, white and blue in the mid fifties, then the standard blue in the latter half ...because red, white and blue looked dumb as hell).

I believe they still use the OD ones as strongboxes for carriers on foot to place packages that are to be delivered (or recipient wasn't at home) so they don't have to carry it along with them for hours.

Here I don't think the carriers are that far away from the collection office at a time, so they just keep the packages with them till they return. Good to know that actually. ...Ah, even if I did paint up some green ones, but repainted them red, white and blue as they didn't fit the period I was going for exactly. Heh, so that's perhaps a little annoying for me to find that out now.

There's my missing parts ship confirm, we'll see by a couple of weeks then.

I haven't seen the cards yet but the quirkworthy update about the MA decks extra special rules makes me extra anxious to get them.

Mars Attacks: World War, the MA solo rules and the MA Dreadball team rules pdfs just went up on Wargamesvault for backers, link in your KS messages

^Reading through those now. The points system seems pretty interesting, grunts are super cheap and specialists/characters/vehicles are fairly expensive.

The sample human armies have around 20 soldiers and a truck at 150 points, and closer to 40 dudes, a character, and a couple of trucks at 400. Interesting size, bigger than infinity/necro/etc smaller than 40k/etc. There's a section for larger battles too but I'm reading it slowly.

I like how the 'standard' game sizes mentioned make pretty solid use of the models available in the core game, the martian 150 pt force is basically the two groups of grunts, human force is similar.

The world war book is also a nice compilation of all of the special rules and main game rules from the other books too.

Rules for martian Dredd too, that I don't think I've seen elsewhere. He gets 3 one-shot special ammo types, and tends to shoot at anyone who successfully kills an enemy, on either side. Something about Judging known murderers etc.

Compendium seems to have most or all of the extra stuff that didn't fit into other books like rules and scenario for Martian Dredd, and what looks like a copy/paste of the DZ zombie book's artificial stupidity rules (but I just glanced).

I see there are tank rules for the marines as well interesting (no model - use whatever modern tank you like basically - the one pictured is the Warlord Games Sherman M4A3)

I'm gonna read through it today. On a quick glance I think there's pictures of models in the army list section that we haven't even seen yet (Craig and Tunga, some Martian specialists?)

Does anyone know if Mantic ships their MA packages by USPS or UPS?

I'm fairly sure you can only ship by USPS if you're shipping from within the US...?

 lord_blackfang wrote:
I'm fairly sure you can only ship by USPS if you're shipping from within the US...?

Nah, we have UPS, USPS, and Fed Ex.

So far I think I've mostly gotten stuff from Mantic via Fedex, but I usually have the 'too big for Royal Mail' orders too... Even if they ship it UPS (or fedex) there's a reasonable chance it might arrive via USPS, some kind of weird handing-off that goes on lately.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
I'm fairly sure you can only ship by USPS if you're shipping from within the US...?

If they ship via Royal Mail, once it gets CONUS the USPS takes it and gets it point of delivery.

Any Aussies or Kiwis received their MA stuff, or even a shipping confirmation yet?

Did anyone else has problems with the fortified bunker walls having one edge that looks a bit melty and off? All of mine are having a bitch of a time on one corner where it totally looks melted and the connection is at a weird angle.