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

I don't agree with the reasoning. It's a wheeled vehicle instead of a half-track, and powered by a supertech powerplant instead of a 1930s vintage ICE, so it shouldn't need such a big engine. Giving it one anyway as a shout-out to the 251 comes at the cost of usefulness as a gaming piece and crossover appeal.

We blew past fourth place. And still 5 hours to go (according to Kicktraq).

Yes, I to answer to a previous comment. I am incredibly lucky to have found such a woman in my life. We split it even: she bought herself a business, and I get my toy soldiers for wwhen she comes home late.

She figured it was worth it to keep me, instead of having my lazy eyes wander.

Maybe there is a shield generator or other devices under the hood that we don't know about. Sensor suites in the big nose. Ground mapping radar, gps, or gaming consoles for the ten passengers

 MrMoustaffa wrote:
PLEDGES FOR THE PLEDGE GOD! MINIS FOR THE MINI THRONE!

Those are my thoughts exactly! I NEED those heavy troopers, I NEED that APC!
I love that APC design, it's like the threeway lovechild of a Cadillac, Dodge, and a tank.

Alex: The supertech powerplant might not be as miniaturized as we want it to be? There might be a design minimum the *theoretical, sci-fi* system needs otherwise it won't work?

It will obviously be bigger than a chimera. Or possibly a Land Raider. But hey, if it breaks the mold a bit, it might be for the better.

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
We blew past fourth place. And still 5 hours to go (according to Kicktraq).

Yes, I to answer to a previous comment. I am incredibly lucky to have found such a woman in my life. We split it even: she bought herself a business, and I get my toy soldiers for wwhen she comes home late.

She figured it was worth it to keep me, instead of having my lazy eyes wander.

You mean blew past 3rd place... wow!

And my wife has a similar world view; it works out well

My wife keeps trying to get rid of me, and we just increased my life insurance policy too.

She's tried to sell me before but my plastic crack habit is too high, and no right thinking women would have me. Luckily I kept it all under wraps until after the vows were done. She didn't hear me say through sickness and health until your army gets squatted.

That's a good one, theophony.

I thought that if you surpassed fourth place... no wait you're right. In a run, if you pass the guy in second place, you still aren't first.

Math is hard. I think I come from the please don't bash political parties like this; it's off-topic and it's likely to provoke an argument.- Mannahnin school of arithmetic.

Darn looks like the heavy support troopers got taken down.

I'm thinking 10 heavy assault troopers would make lovely "power weapon/stormbolter" terminator counts as.

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
Darn looks like the heavy support troopers got taken down.

Taken down from where? They're still on the main page when I just checked.

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
That's a good one, theophony.

I thought that if you surpassed fourth place... no wait you're right. In a run, if you pass the guy in second place, you still aren't first.

Math is hard. I think I come from the Redacted school of arithmetic.

As a Redacted I can tell you Math is pretty easy...deciding whether or not to accept the results on the other part is the hard thing to do.....

On the subject of wives, when I make a larger then normal purchase for my plastic addiction or know I will have a series of boxes showing up at the house I always try to make sure some flowers are magically delivered to the wife at work on day 1 of the expected purchases.

Nothing says I love you (and by love I mean spent a large sum of money on little plastic men) like a dozen roses

 Tannhauser42 wrote:

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:
Darn looks like the heavy support troopers got taken down.

Taken down from where? They're still on the main page when I just checked.

Photo didn't load for me for some reason. Nvm XD

 ironicsilence wrote:

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
That's a good one, theophony.

I thought that if you surpassed fourth place... no wait you're right. In a run, if you pass the guy in second place, you still aren't first.

Math is hard. I think I come from the Redacted school of arithmetic.

As a Redacted I can tell you Math is pretty easy...deciding whether or not to accept the results on the other part is the hard thing to do.....

On the subject of wives, when I make a larger then normal purchase for my plastic addiction or know I will have a series of boxes showing up at the house I always try to make sure some flowers are magically delivered to the wife at work on day 1 of the expected purchases.

Nothing says I love you (and by love I mean spent a large sum of money on little plastic men) like a dozen roses

Kind of on subject, one of you guys said something that is still making me giggle (quote) "Feel free to correct me if I am wrong, I am married… I'm used to it." (quote)
Still bings a smile to my face, even now

What I find hilarious, is that the backers for the very expensive (comparitively) titans literally outnumber the infantry backers by at least 3 to 1 by my count, if not more. There must be some really hardcore backers for this project.

Your wives are going to skin you guys alive when they figure out why their checking account just dipped by a grand.

All I bought was $39 of stormtroopers

 MrMoustaffa wrote:
What I find hilarious, is that the backers for the very expensive (comparitively) titans literally outnumber the infantry backers by at least 3 to 1 by my count, if not more. There must be some really hardcore backers for this project.

Your wives are going to skin you guys alive when they figure out why their checking account just dipped by a grand.

All I bought was $39 of stormtroopers

actually compared to the price of normal gw models, it was oddly easy to explain these, hard to argue for the wife to argue with a titan for $89 dollars, and thankfully she didnt even bother to ask any questions when I explained anything worth buying 1 of is easily worth buying 2 of, and if I'm buying 2 28mm ones I might as well get 2 15mm ones so they can have little brothers

I'm already in the doghouse. I've just upped my pledge for assault and support heavies. Plus shipping. Oooooooh.

By the way, Nose (may I call you Nose?), your calculator includes $7 shipping for both Ship When Ready and Ship Complete, which I'm pretty sure is wrong.

 MrMoustaffa wrote:
What I find hilarious, is that the backers for the very expensive (comparitively) titans...

AU$114.00 for a model that is almost the same size as a Warhound Titan...

AU$489.00 for the Warhound Titan from FW...

Glad you find it "hilarious", I just find it great value for a large model to paint.

Padre^.

 Padre wrote:

 MrMoustaffa wrote:
What I find hilarious, is that the backers for the very expensive (comparitively) titans...

AU$114.00 for a model that is almost the same size as a Warhound Titan...

AU$489.00 for the Warhound Titan from FW...

Glad you find it "hilarious", I just find it great value for a large model to paint.

Padre^.

What he said. I did the math at one point. For the price of a single small giant robot from some other company >.> with two weapons arms, it's approximately $500.

With Mark's kickstarter, for that SAME money you can get FOUR giant mecha, with four extra weapons arms to spread out amongst them... and still have $125 left for what ever the hell else you want to spend the money on. Such as food and beer. Or a gak ton of paint probably XD

Went up by 7k yesterday! Only 4k to go till we hit 100 then command squad unlocks at 105, and 15mm Mortis and weapon arms at 110!

Come on Tom, get it in the RIGHT THREAD THIS TIME!

Ok so I THINK I have this down...for 85 dollars I can get two hold the line packs (20 stormtroopers with an accessory pack), including shipping to Australia...

$69 (for the two 20 man units)+$0+$0 (because the accessory packs are free with each 20 man unit) +$7+$7 (for shipping).

Correct? Or am I off. Sorry to be a bother

When my tax gets in I'm dropping the necessary dosh for this, and I have 90 spare incase I don't get the tax in time haha. My stormtroopers will be UNIQUE amongst my gaming circle, well beyond the ability of my converting anyway. I just want to be sure of the amount.

motyak wrote:$69 (for the two 20 man units)+$0+$0 (because the accessory packs are free with each 20 man unit) +$7+$7 (for shipping).

Mark made retroactive changes to the shipping costs (hence the big notice at the top of the page) but Kickstarter doesn't allow creators to alter pledge level text for obvious reasons so the original costs are still displayed. There's a link to a user-friendly shipping calculator at the bottom of the page which will show your new cost is $69 (2 boxes and 2 free accessory sprues) + $15 (base international shipping + $4 ($2 per Stormtrooper box, $0 per accessory sprue) = $88, so only a small increase in your case. EDIT: Actually, your original cost would have been $69 (2 boxes and 2 free accessory sprues) + $11 ($7 for both Stormtrooper boxes + $2 per accessory sprue) = $80, so a significant increase but them's the breaks. *shrug*

MrMoustaffa wrote:What I find hilarious, is that the backers for the very expensive (comparitively) titans literally outnumber the infantry backers by at least 3 to 1 by my count, if not more.

Mark addressed this earlier; since those who want both infantry and leviathans are putting their pledges down as one of the leviathan options the counts are skewed.

KalashnikovMarine wrote:I'm thinking 10 heavy assault troopers would make lovely "power weapon/stormbolter" terminator counts as.

That they would...but bear in mind that both the Stormtroopers and Heavy Infantry are the same height as a Space Marine.

Not quite.

The online calculator gives (for international shipping of course)
$69 for a single "Hold the Line" pack (2, 20 man units)
Cost of 2 accessory sets $0, postage of accessory sets $0

However, Base postage is $15, and additional postage on the "Hold the Line" is $4, giving postage total of $19 and grand total of $88. But that does also include the single free Shadokesh and handler.

Edit: Ninja'd by Construct.

I'm spending my overtime on "Boots on the Ground", "Ready for Serious Stompin' ", 4 extra arms (2 Beowolf/Grendels, and either 2 HELs or a HEL and a Mauler Claw) and the 4 extra Shadokesh sets. May even put in a couple more arms before it closes.

So close to the $100K smackdown (Under $3K to go!), I'll have a real dose of serious smackdown with paired Beowolf/Grendels, HELs, or Vulkans!

Thanks a lot for your help, I was planning on just pledging 90 anyway (neater than 80-something), so its still all good.

Just checked out the new calculator and it is perfect. Nice and simple to understand although I fear it may make me spend yet more money in the long run!

What would you kickstarter veterans (this is only my second one) think of the chance of reaching the $140k Valkir units? I would up my pledge for them but not sure how likely we are to reach that goal!


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Oh, and why are the Valkir units priced at $42 as compared to the $11 for the support and cc guys? Just seemed like a bit too much of a jump for me. However, they are still relatively cheap at that price for multipart plastic goodness!

 Commander Cain wrote:

Oh, and why are the Valkir units priced at $42 as compared to the $11 for the support and cc guys? Just seemed like a bit too much of a jump for me. However, they are still relatively cheap at that price for multipart plastic goodness!

Box of 20 vs box of 5, respective to your post.

Oh perfect! I remember it being discussed now, silly me.

 ironicsilence wrote:

[...] and thankfully she didnt even bother to ask any questions when I explained anything worth buying 1 of is easily worth buying 2 of [...]

As the army reasons: "Why get one when you can get two foor twise the price!"

The significant other works abroad the coming 7 months, so I don't need to explain anything... Well; maybe the two new cabinets/bookcases I need to get to store the built minis afther this insane no-holds-bar spree I'm on!

 MrMoustaffa wrote:
What I find hilarious, is that the backers for the very expensive (comparitively) titans literally outnumber the infantry backers by at least 3 to 1 by my count, if not more. There must be some really hardcore backers for this project.

Not every leviathan pledge is just for the leviathans. While I'm pledged at the leviathan level, I've actually pledged an additional $350 for stormtroopers. So I'm really on the infantry side of it.

350$ worth of infantry!?!?? Dude, I respect your level of commitment. Impressive, most impressive.

Did you focus more on the basic boxes, or was it support weapons that ate up so much?

I did not know there were still Peak Freaks out there. I couldn't handle the end of the second season myself.

Yeah, I'm in for 6 boxes of stormtroopers, and 6 boxes of support weapons. And I'll be in for 4 command squads when they unlock.
Using the pledge calc, if all the heavies unlock, I'll be in for enough of those to make my total pledge nearly $750. But, hey, that's not too much for lots of awesome IG and Space Marine models, right? My wallet cries at the thought of how much the APCs will cost me...

I'm a big Twin Peaks fan. The show just wasn't the same when they started the Windom Earle storyline. I sometimes wonder what it would be like if David Lynch tried to remake it today on HBO.
What sucks is that the first disc in my Twin Peaks set is weirdly damaged (it looks like it's fogged up) and won't play properly. Have to buy a replacement...