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 RiTides wrote:
Mathieu, I'm not really sure what you're asking!

The shoot-from-the-hip guy that I usually am is in a quandary:

I want a modern, equally representative fighting force of both men and women. I like the UAMC from Defiance, and they were slated to get female marines... in June.

Since I thought this was the case, I kinda sold my old catachan to a friend of mine, as well as my Shock Troops to someone else, so I am sans guardsmen right

now So I feel a bit silly, but I have my nine count-as chimera, my manticore, my two hydras, all my fliers... but only 25 UAMC marines. And I really love painting minis for some reason. I've just always been in love with the IG. So not having a case full of grunts makes me feel... naked.

So I can wait for Defiance, which will have exactly what I want (albeit I am throwing a dice on quality) Or pledge for a few more boxes of eisenkern, get a hold of some female heads (which is why I was thinking WGF zombie vixens) and make it work like that. I'd just hate to wait for Defiance until well into 2013.

If Mark is a paragon of communication and feedback response, some are not as disciplined, let's say. Or tend to be very cryptic.

Get the DFG stormtroopers.
Buy some very small rare earth magnets.

Put heads on with magnets, and then swap heads out for female versions when you find some good female heads that fit your vision.

...profit?

I thought that was genius.

I turned around and talked about it with my significant other, the real artist in the house, and it got shot down in about 10 seconds.

Her quote: "It's gonna look like men who are pretty like girls."

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
I thought that was genius.

I turned around and talked about it with my significant other, the real artist in the house, and it got shot down in about 10 seconds.

Her quote: "It's gonna look like men who are pretty like girls."

If it's any consolation, that's still an improvement over the wife who disapproves of the hobby and expenditure altogether.

I'm lucky enough to have a wife who's only complaint about my army is it isn't stompy enough and needs more boyz.

Gaaaaah I really friggin want some of this infantry. I wish we could get a comparison on the heavy troopers vs. Terminators. If the scale was right enough just one box would fill out the rest of my Death Wing in a second with only some minor additions.

Or maybe use some of the assault troops as counts as GK for an allies detachment...

Dammnit Mark! This is clearly wallet abuse! XD

So the heavy guys aren't unlocked till 120,000, but they're only $11 something for 5 guys...

How are people not funding the crap out of these guys? GW would try and charge you $40 for that box

If it hits the stretch for those guys, I may well go ahead an pledge another 11 bucks. Those are too cool to not to to be honest.

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
What do you guys think? Do I take a chance that at least a third of the heads in the "Zombie Vixens" box are undamaged enough to pass for human once painted, and use eisenkern as troops... or do I wait for Defiance to finally put out their female UAMC?

It would allow me to have zombies too... which is kinda cool.

You can always paint the damaged parts as metal for that cyborg look.

 NoseGoblin wrote:

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Just for clarity on the Shadokesh 1 free 4 purchased=5 total. Not to worry the Shadokesh will be the next faction developed...
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4 dollars more or less...

Shadokesh being next =





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The APC is stunning!! I don't think it will make it into this kickstarter; but why not gice it its very own one?

Stretches whould be variants of the base chassis;
- Command & Control
- Supply
- Anti-Air (quad 40mm autocannon? )
- Anti-Armour (guided missiles? )
- Artillery (MLRS? / 200mm fast-fire howitzer on a TOW? )


I'd pledge for that!!

Wow, if the smaller Mortis gets unlocked, I'm pretty much doomed to purchase some...

How much more AWESOME can one put on wheels?!

This is actually cooler than Atenicitis' vehicles IMO! And THAT'S like... PURE AWESOME!

I don't want that APC to get its own kickstarter. I want (to pledge for) one NOW, dangit!

That is seriously the best, there has been an obvously high amount of thought on scale and requirement gone into that. It knocks efforst from some other companies into the trash where they belong, and if it was released how much it would cost my planned pledge (Ah hell, I'm gonna pledge at lunchtime. This just so deserves to succeed, and I would be pledging for "I want my shinys as soon as possible" postage anyway, so adding a stage 3 pledge for that APC is just going to have be done considering I am after a set of troops and crusader from stage 1, multiple arms from stage 2, an APC in stage 3 would be icing on the cake!) may mean a restriction on the number of arms I get, but will be getting at least 4 anyway. My troops MUST have that ride!

I shiver at the thought of how many APCs I need for transport...

And a C&C one...

And a couple of supply ones...

And a AA one...

Maybe a CS or Arty one or three as well!

 RiTides wrote:
Alex, wow, I Totally agree!

I like the renders, but with the long nose it makes me think too much of the car "Cruella de Vil" in 101 Dalmations... just can't get it out of my mind.

If it looked like the sketch you just showed, I would be 100% for it, though.

I hope others feel this way, too, or maybe Mark just decides the nose is a bit too long and shortens it up a tad

Glad you like it, but unfortunately that's out of the question:

Mark on Kickstarter wrote:Honestly, no.... To make changes to the basic shape at this point, it would be faster to scrap the model and start again. The long nose is one of the trademarks of the Hanomag. A short nose makes it much more like a British vehicle. IMO

May have missed it since I just got up, but mortis is unlocked, now onto some dual smack down assault cannons.

90K is done. Plastic Mortis is in!!!

Epic!

Damn, now i need to change my banner

Seriously, if my tax isn't back by the time this is around I will scream...and you yanks will hear it from where you live.

Only 20k to go for the baby mortis and extra weapons. We might make it!

Im sure we will, hopefully, as in every other kickstarter, we'll get a big boost in the last couple of days.

Just tried to locate an old dakka thread where someone made a conversion of the mortis with the sickle mounted on the back of the fist like a can opener. He also used the brass etchings all over it for the traitor legion titans. If anybody can locate it I think it would be a great image here to help boost the totals. Sadly my search fu is weak.

Also, probably asked and answered, but if I buy more than 4 of the 28mm arms then does the price drop to the per piece price or do I need to order in groups of four?

I couldnt find it on dakka, but its here:

http://www.heresy-online.net/forums/showthread.php?t=96460&page=2

and here:

http://www.dreamforge-games.com/forum/index.php?topic=55.0

Thanks vitruvian xvii

That is exactly the beast I was thinking of. With the recent release of that other game company's cultists this could be an excellent centerpiece.

Wow it looks great with the blade mounted onto the claw! Thanks for showing the pics!

Alex- I saw, but that's OK, I can totally see the reasoning

Congrats on hitting the full-size Mortis!

I like the comment on Heresy-Online right after the pictures saying "It needs more spikes, it's too smooth."

mini-mortis... come to me baby. You know you want to.

Since this is my first KS, I was wondering, if I up my pledge, and we don't reach a stretch, what do I do with the extra money? Is it still sent to the backee and the backer just bites it?

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
Since this is my first KS, I was wondering, if I up my pledge, and we don't reach a stretch, what do I do with the extra money? Is it still sent to the backee and the backer just bites it?

I believe if you pledge the money, it goes to Mark regardless. If it was for a stretch goal that's not met and Mark can't get it made through other methods, then your options are to reallocate it to something else (e.g. - more stormtroopers/weapon arms) or eat it. That's why I'm leery about pledging for the farther out stretches.

Might be wrong, but I'm reasonably confident that's the case.

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
Since this is my first KS, I was wondering, if I up my pledge, and we don't reach a stretch, what do I do with the extra money? Is it still sent to the backee and the backer just bites it?

Pretty much, you have pledge a certain amount of money, cool for you! But if the item/reward you want isnt available/unlocked at the end of the kickstarter you obviously can't get it.

Considering you are here a lot it shouldn't be too hard to pledge for what you want and keep an eye out for when the pledge item you really want unlocks and then pledge more then.

Yep, about to pull out all my stops and add a Mortis to my pledge. I wish I could add more, but the past couple years have not been kind and medical bills suck.

At least I am in a position to pick up this much, and help out a great company with this Kickstarter.

I can't wait to get them in and put some paint on them.

ok lets get to the 15mm weapons. I can't wait to make killer mini crusaders.

You can also pledge for it now, and reduce later if we didn't hit a stretch. Works as long as you do it before campaign ends

I already pledge for the command squad. We'll make 105 easy with the end surge, and 110, too for the mini Mortis and 15mm weapons. Personally I think we'll go well beyond that, but those should be easy.