Rivet Wars Kickstarter - CMON New Miniatures RTS Inspired Board Game (Funded!)

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**H.B.M.C.**

Ouch.

Thanks Germany. And thanks Obama!

**PsychoticStorm**

... Amazing....

Honestly did somebody at the customs had really too much time in their hands AND was feeling he/ she had to vent their frustration of life/ job/ whatever, on the first thing they saw?

**Triple9**

Canadian and EU customs seems like very serious business. They must hire very humorless people.

**Catyrpelius**

Triple9 wrote:
Canadian and EU customs seems like very serious business. They must hire very humorless people.

If your refereing to their most recent update I think your taking their comments out of context...

**Triple9**

No, I'm referring more to every Kickstarter seems to run into silly snags with customs in the EU or Canada. That Rivet wars has the CE14+, but being asked to prove it is not a toy falls under the silly category in my book.

**PsychoticStorm**

Silly, corrupted, unreasonable, take your pick.

**wildger**

Triple9 wrote:
Canadian and EU customs seems like very serious business. They must hire very humorless people.

There is never any issue with Canada customs for Rivet Wars. All Canadian backers have received theirs a week ago.

**Triple9**

wildger wrote:
Triple9 wrote:
Canadian and EU customs seems like very serious business. They must hire very humorless people.

There is never any issue with Canada customs for Rivet Wars. All Canadian backers have received theirs a week ago.

That was a generalization, not specific to rivet wars. I see a lot of gripes about Canadian customs on other kickstarters. Figured I'd mention them before someone else did.

**wildger**

I heard a lot of stories as well for Canada customs. It depends on what type of informations the sender give. The more information provided, the worse it will be.

**Catyrpelius**

Triple9 wrote:
No, I'm referring more to every Kickstarter seems to run into silly snags with customs in the EU or Canada. That Rivet wars has the CE14+, but being asked to prove it is not a toy falls under the silly category in my book.

I actually read your comment wrong... Sorry about that.

Most countries in the world are alot more concerend then the USA with what gets shipped into them.

**RiTides**

Yeah, I don't see the need for nerd rage here... it's reasonable of them to say "these look like they're for children, are they appropriately CE marked?". Hopefully, the explanation sorts it and they're able to clear customs, but having customs ask about it makes sense to me.

**Catyrpelius**

On a positive not the figures themselves are great! They also appear to be made out of a harder plastic then SDE, Sedition Wars and Zombiecide.

**DaveC**

all sorted now

Project Update #72: EU Update
Posted by CoolMiniOrNot ♥ Like

We have great news for all of our EU backers! We were informed that the container of Rivet Wars was released by customs, and has already been received at our shipping partner's facility! The container arrived late in the day on Thursday, and our partners, knowing how important it was to start getting boxes out to you guys, shipped as many boxes as they could today.

Since they didn't know the container would be released today they hadn't made special arrangements to ship huge quantities. Those arrangements were made today and EU should start shipping out tomorrow. So backers should start receiving tracking numbers at the end of the day tomorrow, or Monday. As the EU is 6 hours ahead of us we will most likely not have any updates over the weekend. We'll be back and posting updates on Monday (EST) as soon as we receive more information.

As for Asia Pacific, we haven't heard anything yet, but we did send a message to our partners today. We will have an update for you as soon as there is an update, which will likely be tomorrow. Thank you for your continued support!

If you have any questions please email support@cmon.com

**DaveC**

Most EU shipping is underway. I see they've changed from UPS to DPD for these deliveries suits me the DPD depot is only 5 minutes from me

Update #73

Jan 17, 2014
Another EU and APAC Update!

We were informed today that almost all of our EU backers’ boxes were shipped out by our shipping partners! Since we’re using a logistics company to put packages into deliver, tracking numbers are generated a little bit differently. Basically they generate a list of the tracking numbers after their system has closed, in other words once the computer realizes there will be no more shipments that day. In this case that list will be generated tonight, however no one will be at work to send us that information until Monday. So, on Monday there will be a huge amount of tracking numbers released. The bad news is there are no tracking numbers today, but the good news is the packages are already on their way!

Asia Pacific, we heard from our shipping partner that they had made special arrangements with Fed Ex to handle the large amounts of packages they were sending out. That deal started today. So you should start receiving tracking numbers on Monday or Tuesday.

As you can see, everything is finally falling into place and it is still a much faster process than shipping boxes from the U.S. Thank you for your patience and support! And as you can see from the reviews, Rivet Wars is well worth the wait!

**wilycoyote**

Well once they cleared customs last Thursday night , I am really chuffed it has only taken a few days but I have it here in the UK now.

The quality of the minis is top notch - one minor quibble with a slightly bent MG barrel, but easily sorted. probably some of the best first time casts I have seen in a KS, no flash, ugly mold lines or Mantic's issue snapping of a sprue. Seriously impressed.

The boards are not as thick as expected but thick enough, no warping so far, but putting them under heavy books anyway for a few days.

If the quality is maintained this is going to be a humdinger of a game to get into. BoB will be amazing so what will be on offer when the Ruskis arrive?

**DaveC**

Brief bit about the Western Front taken from the CMoN forum

"The next thing we'd like to do is the Ruska (Russian like) and the Ottoman (Turkish like). Right now the thinking is to make it more urban combat like a Stalingrad type thing. Buildings, rivers, bridges, etc. We have tried some really cool ideas and have lots of things we'd like to do with this next round of minis/games to expand the rules and the world. Visually I'm really excited by these two factions and the powers their heroes could have. Also this'd be great if you had an Eastern Front core box and your friend then got these "Western Front" sets. You could combine them for some massive battles! And I've always felt more factions means more choices, variety and fun.

For now I'd like to keep the factions based on historical armies and nations. And trying to keep the tech somewhat believable and functional, turn of the century looking. But of course that slider can move depending on the faction. The Ottoman so far have a very classical ornamental look to their stuff contrasted with the stark hard edge and punched metal look of the Ruska." -Ted

**PsychoticStorm**

Not bad, not bad at all.

**Mr.Church13**

Board warp aside, they put one or two Tesla inspired weapons on the Ruska side and "You have my wallet!".

**highlord tamburlaine**

So the Ruska get the six legged juggernaut?

Fair enough. Looks nice!

They better get done up in red plastic!

**malfred**

Silly question: Can I pick up this game in shops yet?

**H.B.M.C.**

Got my shipping notice. UPS says Friday... I guess we'll see.

**wilycoyote**

@malfred

Retail shipping for the core box was supposed to be happening now so it should not be too long.

Wave 2 with all the extras and the aerial expansion is a good ways off yet for retail sale but hopefully us lucky KS's might see it in April - fingers crossed

**Dentry**

Posted in the comments of the latest update:

Creator CoolMiniOrNot about 5 hours ago
@Thomas We're currently forecasting Q1 2014 for shipping of Wave 2 and the stretch goal bonuses.

So looks like they're still on track.

**H.B.M.C.**

Hmm... I thought the planes and super-heavy tanks (plus any very late stretch goals) were phase 2, not "everything that isn't the boxed game". Guess I was wrong.

**DaveC**

Latest update says they still have to manufacture the Battle of Brighton stuff (planes) after Chinese new year so it's doubtful this will make Q1 but early Q2 (April) is very possible.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/coolminiornot/rivet-wars/posts/727630

**H.B.M.C.**

Still, I would've thought that a lot of the extras - especially the extras that are just duplicates of items from the boxed game - would have come in phase 1. Seems odd that they didn't.

**DaveC**

They never did explain the change to boxed set only for wave 1 but they did announce it last July

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/coolminiornot/rivet-wars/posts/544056

**Dentry**

Found here.

**DaveC**

Yep originally from the Facebook page you can see more of thw wave 2 production models there too.

https://m.facebook.com/RivetWars?id=201100006613814&refsrc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.ie%2F&_rdr

**Dentry**

Phey-z-bieuk ? I've heard or that, I think.

Thanks for the link, Dave. Appreciated. : )