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 Vanguard-13 wrote:
I know it's a long shot;

But what would happen if the kickstarter did raise the "trending" $438,659?

There would be much rejoicing!

I've never used Kicktraq for its predictions, they're almost always wrong. Its only value to me is to view daily numbers.

We shoot guns wildly in the air while whooping and hollering that this is a great victory for Dakka Dakka?

 yakface wrote:
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2) Although Dakka is a big community, not even everyone that uses this site will have noticed this thread. We have a lot of tricks up our sleeves to help get the word out over the course of the campaign, such as the MEdge banner at the top of the page here. But many of these things are scheduled to happen throughout the campaign to keep the momentum going. So even if we don't hit blockbuster numbers on the first day, we should still see some nice growth throughout.

Perhaps not, but they would have presumably received the unsolicited marketing email and noticed the large banners on the site, no?

 cincydooley wrote:
Perhaps not, but they would have presumably received the unsolicited marketing email and noticed the large banners on the site, no?

The banner can be disabled by clicking the big 'x' in the top left corner. And you can select on to have emails/newsletters sent to you by going into your profile and unchecking the relevant box.

 GrimDork wrote:
Feels like this is moving a lot slower than I expected, but then again most of the mantic kickstarters get crazy funding up front from return customers and I haven't backed much else lately.

I guess I was expecting a large flood of dakka-folk to be on it instantly too, but 9k is particularly slow either.

Another significant factor is there are no early bird slots

much as some people don't like them they are (even at $5 or 10 off) a real factor in getting people to pledge NOW rather later

they also encourage backing even if the preceved "value" a potential backer wants is not there yet as it makes sense to back (and get the discount) and pull out iat the end if things still aren't good enough, otherwise they'll just hit remind me and wait till the end

I feel it may struggle due to design elements the owners chose.

I really hope new sculpts and factions don't suffer from some of the same design flaws.

The game components and rules look and sound great! I am in for the starter box, likely going to use the robots with my 30k silliest as Emps.

By the way, the KS intro video was pretty ace.

Pledged and spammed some posts on a variety of media.

 d-usa wrote:
By the way, the KS intro video was pretty ace.

Yeah, you aren't wrong.

As far as intro videos go, that was really nice.

So when will we see the Hunters and Scarecrows?

Obviously after the KS. But I'd love to know if it's something we will see next year, or maybe this year?

 Vanguard-13 wrote:
So when will we see the Hunters and Scarecrows?

Obviously after the KS. But I'd love to know if it's something we will see next year, or maybe this year?

Why do you think they will be after the kickstarter?

So Lego, what's the pricing for that massive banner ad spot?

I'll budget out $90 for the start of June.

 Snrub wrote:

 cincydooley wrote:
Perhaps not, but they would have presumably received the unsolicited marketing email and noticed the large banners on the site, no?

The banner can be disabled by clicking the big 'x' in the top left corner. And you can select on to have emails/newsletters sent to you by going into your profile and unchecking the relevant box.

And? Doesn't change the banner being there initially, right?

It's a tough pill to swallow when the starter box is only $20 less than the markedly superior Dark Vengence box that includes 19 more models.....

Man, I think that's the first e-mail I've ever gotten from Dakka that wasn't PM notifications. I think we can chill a bit and let it go.

How many years of free entertainment have you gotten out of dakka in exchange for nothing? Least you can do is click off the banner and ignore the e-mail if you aren't interested.

 cincydooley wrote:

 Snrub wrote:

 cincydooley wrote:
Perhaps not, but they would have presumably received the unsolicited marketing email and noticed the large banners on the site, no?

The banner can be disabled by clicking the big 'x' in the top left corner. And you can select on to have emails/newsletters sent to you by going into your profile and unchecking the relevant box.

And? Doesn't change the banner being there initially, right?

It's a tough pill to swallow when the starter box is only $20 less than the markedly superior Dark Vengence box that includes 19 more models.....

Are you including shipping?

DV is generally free shipping. Or are you talking about ME?

Eh. Did my part to feed in to the great Dakka hive mind.

I should probably try to escape to work now before the kids wake up and expect to be entertained.

 cincydooley wrote:

 Snrub wrote:

 cincydooley wrote:
Perhaps not, but they would have presumably received the unsolicited marketing email and noticed the large banners on the site, no?

The banner can be disabled by clicking the big 'x' in the top left corner. And you can select on to have emails/newsletters sent to you by going into your profile and unchecking the relevant box.

And? Doesn't change the banner being there initially, right?

It's a tough pill to swallow when the starter box is only $20 less than the markedly superior Dark Vengence box that includes 19 more models.....

On the other hand, with MEdge you get to play a better game

 Alex C wrote:

 Vanguard-13 wrote:
I know it's a long shot;

But what would happen if the kickstarter did raise the "trending" $438,659?

There would be much rejoicing!

I've never used Kicktraq for its predictions, they're almost always wrong. Its only value to me is to view daily numbers.

Come on, the Kicktraq predictions are pretty funny. Towards the start of the campaign, the predictions are WAY high, and at the end of the campaign, the predictions start getting super low.

Some time in the middle, the prediction is going to be actually right, but there's no way to say exactly where.

Wow. I just watched the video. Class act.

 pretre wrote:
Man, I think that's the first e-mail I've ever gotten from Dakka that wasn't PM notifications. I think we can chill a bit and let it go.

I'm not a huge fan of unsolicited emails in general, so my complaint isn't unique to this. But you're right.

How many years of free entertainment have you gotten out of dakka in exchange for nothing? Least you can do is click off the banner and ignore the e-mail if you aren't interested.

How long has HSM been here?

I just wanted to point out that John Lewis, a large British department store chain, was taken to task over opt out email system in the UK and was successfully sued.

Not sure if the ramifications may affect you in the future but it may be wise to make everything opt in.

So here's my question: If the game requires about 20-30 models per side to use, what options are there for expanding? The box set only has about 15 models per side.

This looks great. The models look fantastic. I don't think I'm going to opt into the kickstarter for 2 reasons though. 1. I'm piss broke and 2. I like aliens, and since it seems like there are 3 more factions planned I'm going to wait, generate some interest in my community, and get some others to try it with me too!

Best of luck to you guys Dakka crew

I agree, the video is ace!

Also, just like any big box campaign the contents of the box set will only get better as the campaign progresses - much better, in fact, I think

The first two stretch goals are free additions, after all (a new character for the Karists, and a free terrain sprue). I know there won't be THAT many new sculpts to show since this is all in already-underway hard plastic tooling, but the value per box is only going to improve as things go (and likely make that two-box pledge much more enticing as a result).

 pretre wrote:
So here's my question: If the game requires about 20-30 models per side to use, what options are there for expanding? The box set only has about 15 models per side.

Yeah, that's why I'm in for two boxes although another option is, if you only want one faction, just trade halves with someone (like many people do / did with Dark Vengenace, too).

I don't think there's going to be individual add-ons due to logistics, but hopefully the box contents are such a good deal by the end that it's reasonable for folks who want a "full" army to do one of the above (trade half of the box, or pledge for two boxes for two full armies).

I hope there will be a gameplay video with just the box contents, though - I think it will be much closer to a "normal" game of MEdge (20 - 30 models) than a 40k or the like starter box is (with a much smaller fraction of a playable force in them).

 pretre wrote:
So here's my question: If the game requires about 20-30 models per side to use, what options are there for expanding? The box set only has about 15 models per side.

It doesn't "require" that many, it just plays best at that level.

I'm sure expansion options will become available as we unlock SG.

 luky7dayz wrote:
This looks great. The models look fantastic. I don't think I'm going to opt into the kickstarter for 2 reasons though. 1. I'm piss broke and 2. I like aliens, and since it seems like there are 3 more factions planned I'm going to wait, generate some interest in my community, and get some others to try it with me too!

Best of luck to you guys Dakka crew

Keep in mind you have quite a bit of time to get in on this, even if you are broke right now.

 Alex C wrote:


On the other hand, with MEdge you get to play a better game

With 100 people so far. Sweet . That's actually the problem I have supporting new game systems that don't have superior models: I have enough games no one plays sitting at my house. With arena Rex, or infamy, or darklands, I have beautiful resin models to paint even if I never roll a dice.


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 Alex C wrote:

 pretre wrote:
So here's my question: If the game requires about 20-30 models per side to use, what options are there for expanding? The box set only has about 15 models per side.

It doesn't "require" that many, it just plays best at that level.

I'm sure expansion options will become available as we unlock SG.

You seem to have played this a lot already, Alex. Do the game sizes scale as well as Wrath of Kings?

If I had 5k I could troll the entire maelstrom verse :(