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she is only a jack. i suspect the guard might have full armour and be a bit beefier.

I like her, i don't have a problem with her waist.

Always the same can of worms when anyone does a female sculpt, cant please 100% of the people 100% of the time.

 Divine_Tyranny wrote:
Always the same can of worms when anyone does a female sculpt, cant please 100% of the people 100% of the time.

Which is why there are discussion forums, right? It's the place where people express, share and discuss their diverging views on the internet.

 scarletsquig wrote:


Both the Orx and the Forgefathers are massively "hulked out" compared to the Warpath minis (which are extremely nice true-scale sculpts once you ignore the fantasy parts), and I imagine the Veer-Myn guard will be too.

And that is why I love them, and the flaws (if any) are hidden.

True-scale has a the issue of having to be perfect or any slight issue becomes 'in your face' which means it has to be perfect or not at all.

I like the giant fists and the bulkyness of the humans. As long as the females actually look like they can fit in the suit, that will be great. That armor is almost spandex from the concept art, unless they are cyborg females with robot bodies

 Zweischneid wrote:

 Divine_Tyranny wrote:
Always the same can of worms when anyone does a female sculpt, cant please 100% of the people 100% of the time.

Which is why there are discussion forums, right? It's the place where people express, share and discuss their diverging views on the internet.

Up to a point.

Harping on the same point over and over is somewhat frowned upon and after a certain amount can and will be considered spam/trolling/etc.

Will you be able to swap out one team for another in the striker level?

 Alpharius wrote:

Up to a point.

Harping on the same point over and over is somewhat frowned upon and after a certain amount can and will be considered spam/trolling/etc.

Is it?

Funny enough, I always thought repetitive product pitches and thinly disguised advertisement-posts/threads is what most forums consider spam, not the critical discussion thereof.

One never stops learning I guess

If you want to argue with polite moderation about what is spam, take it to PM. Rule Number Two is Stay On Topic.

Will you be able to swap out one team for another in the striker level?

pretty sure that Striker is just the teams listed and the other teams will need to be added on if you want them

I'm wondering what the delay is in putting up the pictures of the MDF board.

As for the female corporation team, we are going to have to disagree on what constitutes the appropriate body type for a woman who is expected to survive in a sports arena against larger opponents of the opposite gender and other races.

Ronnie is live on the KS feed answering questions

for how long this will go on, no idea, LOL

mantic have posted up an example rush now Ronnie has gone home. You can download it here

http://manticgames.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e62f0c35454fa3ba687404d69&id=98bf921486&e=73ad690512

shows a first turn and five actions, apparently it's ripped straight from the book.

Interesting stuff, and thanks for posting it! So it seems like it uses a system of order-giving in some ways similar to Infinity - rather than each model having its own actions, you have a pool from which the whole team draws.

And adamsouze please stop posting that bloody photo !

So now we can buy team dice!

I feel kind of... jipped... by Mantic. Sure at 150 I get 4 teams and the MVPs, but I feel like... 6 dice per team would have been a great added stretch goal for some extra free stuff. I just am not seeing added value for my money that I have gotten on pretty much every other kickstarter.

Maybe SW and Reaper has ruined KS for the smaller guys.

Custom dice can be expensive.

There's plenty of added value in here already - with lots more to come, I'm sure!

I agree. I don't like Mantic's products pretty much at all and even I am seriously on the fence about Dread Ball.

 Manchu wrote:
I agree. I don't like Mantic's products pretty much at all and even I am seriously on the fence about Dread Ball.

The thing that really blows my mind is... this thing still has more then 3 weeks to run!

I kinda like it but nobody at my club is remotely interested. It has been written off because they would 'rather just play Blood Bowl'

Too much cash on Planetary Annihilation and SedWars to spring for this on my own in the hope that I can badger somebody into trying it.

I was just looking at Kicktraq and it seems that DB is starting to really flatten out and lose momentum. Not sure what they can do, I'm sure a lot of people on the fence are hoping for a hell of a lot more before they jump in while others are very borderline about a fantasy sport game (and as you said, BB is still out there and the elephant).

For myself, I no longer see the point in adjusting my pledge every three days (on anyone's KS project) to add some dice or t-shirts or paints or whatever. Even for the female team, I mean I'd add the funds for them after they're unlocked, and the same if I were borderline on the project as well. Rather than pledge in the hope they get unlocked...

The flatting out really doesnt suprise me, most KS lose momentum and slow down in the middle only to ramp up again at the end, this one will be no different but I believe the slow down period will likely be longer as this kickstarter has a longer duration then most

 scipio.au wrote:
I was just looking at Kicktraq and it seems that DB is starting to really flatten out and lose momentum. Not sure what they can do, I'm sure a lot of people on the fence are hoping for a hell of a lot more before they jump in while others are very borderline about a fantasy sport game (and as you said, BB is still out there and the elephant).

For myself, I no longer see the point in adjusting my pledge every three days (on anyone's KS project) to add some dice or t-shirts or paints or whatever. Even for the female team, I mean I'd add the funds for them after they're unlocked, and the same if I were borderline on the project as well. Rather than pledge in the hope they get unlocked...

I wonder if they overshot by going for such a long funding period. Really, what is left?

I'd love a female team, but after that... do they even have any unrevealed armies left to use to make teams?

Such a large funding period seems more appropriate to a Warpath, really. Something very open ended. There just is so much you can add to a board game before people start going "waaa?", even Sedition Wars started to hit that towards the final stretch... it's just that Dreadball is hitting that point a lot earlier.

Mantic was talking about originally 12 teams over 3 seasons and that the funding is already pushing them through season 2 and possibly season 3 by the end of the kickstarter.

 adamsouza wrote:
Mantic was talking about originally 12 teams over 3 seasons and that the funding is already pushing them through season 2 and possibly season 3 by the end of the kickstarter.

Bwaaaa? What... what the heck would they be?

12 teams? Bloody heck... That seems a bit... grandiose for a board game...

*shrugs*

The project is funded, so even if it doesn't go on some crazy rollercoaster like the Reaper Kickstarter, it's still successful. Nothing wrong with preorders paying for production.

 Buzzsaw wrote:

 adamsouza wrote:
Mantic was talking about originally 12 teams over 3 seasons and that the funding is already pushing them through season 2 and possibly season 3 by the end of the kickstarter.

Bwaaaa? What... what the heck would they be?

12 teams? Bloody heck... That seems a bit... grandiose for a board game...

Don't think of it as a board game as much as entry level heroin to get you into the Warpath Universe fiction and line of games.

As for the teams, they said pretty much count on all the Warpath factions (Space Elves) and then teams based on new factions that haven't showed up in Warpath yet ( Zz'or).

Female Corporation team getting full team rules, of their own, so they are not just a proxy for the male team.

1. Corporation Male
2. Corporation Female
3. Rats
4. Dwarves
5. Orks
6. Zz'or <--- Confirmed, New Warpath Faction
7. Space Elves <-- Confirmed as Season 3 team
8. Robot <-- Mentioned as likely, but not confirmed
9. Plague <-- Mentioned as likely, but not confirmed
10. ?
11. ?
12 ?

Lots of new MVPs confirmed to be coming, but no details other than some of them will be homage figures.

there are also the rebels and plague.

 Buzzsaw wrote:

 Manchu wrote:
I agree. I don't like Mantic's products pretty much at all and even I am seriously on the fence about Dread Ball.

The thing that really blows my mind is... this thing still has more then 3 weeks to run!

That is what's troubling my wallet ...

Better make a tentacle-y team!

That seems a bit... grandiose for a board game...

i guess that's what they mean when they said they'll support it like a major gaming system, something I think the Bloodbowl crowd have been seriously lacking for some time. Great that guys want to stay loyal to it, but still...

oh, and i think the reason for the slow-down (and if I read the stats they were building up until yesterday) is the fact that RK and the Digital card game is finishing. There's always ground rush towards the end.

EDIT: 2 backers to go and less than $5 to get the girlie teams. nearly there!

In all seriousness, I like the fact that Blood Bowl is basically a "closed" game. None of the endless power creep or BS that something like 40k has. Just a good, fun game with a lot of options.