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I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the DBX/ KoW mashup packages at least have them in there.

Any reports of US people getting their double game box?

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the DBX/ KoW mashup packages at least have them in there.

Any reports of US people getting their double game box?

Nothing here yet. i'll let y'all know.

DBX/KoW packages were the first to be shipped, so hopefully the fethers at Prodos didn't screw over our orders and make us wait even LONGER for DBX...

My dbx and kow combo shipment had Blaine in it.

Did your copy also have.. er.. extra teams in it?

I ordered two teams and got six, not sure if it was an error or a freebie/streamlined packing strategy - but since every Mantic kickstarter order I've received has had something wrong with it (rarely in my favour) I'm inclined to believe it's the former.

As did I, and I didn't order any teams at all. Hell, I only backed DBX for three MVPs.

It looks like they tried to merge the DBX and KoW pledges together and Mantic happened.

With my traditional Mantic luck, I'm sure you guys got my teams.

I had a few bits 'n bobs missing from my DBX wave 2 shipment. Never did get the replacement plastic bits. Spares package contained two frenzy packs for that wave, plus the team roster (I think, it's been a while) that I had reported missing from the initial package as well. Kind of didn't have the heart to chase up a few bases and a model or two I didn't care for that much anyway after that mishap

Prodos and Mantic seem like just the kind of team up that would require a 1-hour crossover special. Who will stop this dastardly duo? Why, Batman and Scooby Doo, of course!


"Let's see who's really under this Prodos mask... Chinese New Year?"

"I would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling backers, and your dog."

I wouldn't compare Mantic to Prodos.

Far too unfair to Ronnie & co.

 Alex C wrote:
I wouldn't compare Mantic to Prodos.

Far too unfair to Ronnie & co.

I see Mantic as being comparable to Bizarro. "Me save customers from restic by making it metal. Me lick artwork so much me bury it and start over."

Well I've never had a problem with Mantic anyway.

Other than them arbitrarily changing their mind on KS rewards.

At least I get product when I give them money, unlike Prodos.

I'm really looking forward to the conversion kits for skulks. I have enough plastic GW orc archers for a couple of troops, but they are grotesquely out of scale with my Mantic orcs.

 Alex C wrote:
Well I've never had a problem with Mantic anyway.

Other than them arbitrarily changing their mind on KS rewards.

At least I get product when I give them money, unlike Prodos.

We'll just have to agree to mostly agree.

I like Mantic, for the most part, but I will definitely make fun of them when they pull a Mantic. Which they will always do. Because they are Mantic.

 JoshInJapan wrote:
I'm really looking forward to the conversion kits for skulks. I have enough plastic GW orc archers for a couple of troops, but they are grotesquely out of scale with my Mantic orcs.

I didn't quite understand in the update, are they selling just the conversion parts, or complete kits?

Parts it sounded like, though a kit wouldn't go amiss especially for new players...

Also, where do you get the rules for Blaine? With the model or online?

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:

 Alex C wrote:
I wouldn't compare Mantic to Prodos.

Far too unfair to Ronnie & co.

I see Mantic as being comparable to Bizarro. "Me save customers from restic by making it metal. Me lick artwork so much me bury it and start over."

To be fair, by the time they've licked artwork that much I'm sure all the parties involved are better off for it being buried, all things considered

 Alex C wrote:
Also, where do you get the rules for Blaine? With the model or online?

We haven't written them yet, though the alpha version is slightly juicier than a Krudger on Slasher so we recommend that as an interim.

I thought I'd got a whole load of extra teams but then realised that Frenzy had doubled up on teams. The first lots were all together with MVPs and sponsors in a large bag. The rest (what I thought were extra ones) were all loose in their separate team bags (6 teams worth) in the box. So I got what I was supposed to once I'd figured out what was going on.

Maybe some people got lucky as over-enthusiastic packers threw these 6 extra teams into more boxes than just the Frenzy ones?

from Mantic on facebook

Mantic Games

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Anyone out there with a resin casting machine or know somebody with one? We need more supply!

seems they really are in need of more stuff

I know UK based Wargames Bakery had a similar issue when they were getting their Basius 2 pads made - they never specified who the casters they contracted were, but said they overpromised and underdelivered on the required timeframe to get them all done, and WGB had to go out and find additional casters.

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
from Mantic on facebook

Mantic Games

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Anyone out there with a resin casting machine or know somebody with one? We need more supply!

seems they really are in need of more stuff

Anvil industry do some mighty fine resin casting, some of the best stuff ive seen. I wasn't impressed at all with my warzone stuff from prodos most of its still in a box needing a ton of clean up.

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
from Mantic on facebook

Mantic Games

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Anyone out there with a resin casting machine or know somebody with one? We need more supply!

seems they really are in need of more stuff

Maybe they shouldn't have outsourced a model from their core pledge to a company that is known to have problems fulfilling orders.

 Alex C wrote:

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
from Mantic on facebook

Mantic Games

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Anyone out there with a resin casting machine or know somebody with one? We need more supply!

seems they really are in need of more stuff

Maybe they shouldn't have outsourced a model from their core pledge to a company that is known to have problems fulfilling orders.

ALMOST like they don't think everything through.

 Theophony wrote:

 Alex C wrote:


Maybe they shouldn't have outsourced a model from their core pledge to a company that is known to have problems fulfilling orders.

ALMOST like they don't think everything through.

I see what you did there.

Sounds like a non directed dig at the supplier maybe because direct communication hasnt resulted in an increased delivery timetable.

 MangoMadness wrote:
Sounds like a non directed dig at the supplier maybe because direct communication hasnt resulted in an increased delivery timetable.

Perhaps Mantic needs to write to them and call them lying fethers who lack any kind of competence or professionalism.

Some folks have had luck getting product from them by speaking on their level.

Was the Prodos stuff really that bad, or was it typical Kickstarter underperformance?

I've picked up a few pieces of Warzone stuff at retail and have been fairly happy with it.

Maybe Mantic can get in touch with Zealot Miniatures? They do their own casting don't they? They were doing Minion's stuff as well, weren't they?

Prodos makes amazing miniatures.

Whether you actually get said miniatures is a different story.

Also, their customer relations and business accumen actually make GW look good.

But yes, Prodos makes a nice product.