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 carlos13th wrote:

 lagoon83 wrote:

tyrant of loserville wrote:

 lagoon83 wrote:

Thoughts?

I love you(r miniatures).

edit: cold fingers=bad typing

Our miniatures love you too!

It was only one night but they keep calling me, mind telling them to tone it down?

I prefer not to get involved.


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NoggintheNog wrote:
Well I like those, the big Plague model is the thing that attracted me to this game and it looks great.

I'm almost tempted to buy the box direct from mantic in this pre release thingy, but I would prefer to give my local shop the business if possible, so I guess I'll be getting it next year.

Good news! The pre-release is through stores as well as online. Contact your retailer - they should be ordering now!


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Just spotted the thread title change. Thanks guys

 Yonan wrote:

Joyboozer wrote:
So all Deadzone plastics will be cast of this newer mix with none being done in the older material?

All deadzone "restics" will be cast with this new restic formula - the bulk of the models. The "Plastics" such as the terrain and some of the kits coming in wave 2 will be "Hard Plastic".

Does that include the enforcers which will be in the first shipment? Or will those be sourced from existing stock of the old material?

That had better not be my box you've ransacked for those photos...

 Riquende wrote:
That had better not be my box you've ransacked for those photos...

Even if thy throw in some extra goodies when they repack it for shipping?

CptJake wrote:

 Yonan wrote:

Joyboozer wrote:
So all Deadzone plastics will be cast of this newer mix with none being done in the older material?

All deadzone "restics" will be cast with this new restic formula - the bulk of the models. The "Plastics" such as the terrain and some of the kits coming in wave 2 will be "Hard Plastic".

Does that include the enforcers which will be in the first shipment? Or will those be sourced from existing stock of the old material?

Yep, we got a load of them made up for Deadzone, so they'll be the same as the rest of the Deadzone stuff.

Riquende wrote:That had better not be my box you've ransacked for those photos...

It totally was.

 lagoon83 wrote:

CptJake wrote:

Does that include the enforcers which will be in the first shipment? Or will those be sourced from existing stock of the old material?

Yep, we got a load of them made up for Deadzone, so they'll be the same as the rest of the Deadzone stuff.

Great. Thanks for the reply.

@James: Quick question if it's known - Will the $20 acrylic counter pack in KS pledges include both the regular counters and the plague counters?

 scarletsquig wrote:
@James: Quick question if it's known - Will the $20 acrylic counter pack in KS pledges include both the regular counters and the plague counters?

I know not! I shall undergo a quest and return laden with knowledge.

Cheers for the photos, James.

Those look really nice - better than the current WP Enforcers I've got.

 lagoon83 wrote:


Good news! The pre-release is through stores as well as online. Contact your retailer - they should be ordering now!

Ahh, thank you James, its nothing personal against Mantic, but my local place organises Dreadball leagues and provides a place to play for quite a few people and I try and make sure they can keep doing that wherever possible.

I shall be asking about orders at the weekend.

NoggintheNog wrote:
Ahh, thank you James, its nothing personal against Mantic, but my local place organises Dreadball leagues and provides a place to play for quite a few people and I try and make sure they can keep doing that wherever possible.

I shall be asking about orders at the weekend.

Never feel you need to make excuses for buying from your FLGS - yes, we might make a tiny bit more when it comes through us direct but it's more important to sustain the community, and that's what gaming stores do. They're the valiant front-line crusaders keeping the hobby alive! That's why we do whatever we can to support them

So Mantic heard the complaints, since a rep over to Dakka and got us production pictures of the models from dead zone. Looks good to me! I'm reasonably sure they're not evil. Ha ha. I feel secure in the fact that I have backed them since that first plastic ghoul model they sent with the magazine. They've had a few hiccups along the way, it's true, but I think they're where they belong now.

Thanks for the pictures James! And thanks to our resident Squiglett O'Hare for keeping this thread and title up to date.

I do look forward to getting my DeadZone box, as enormous as it'll be. In regards to DreadBall, if I assume I was one of the last boxes out the door, I shouldn't start worrying until next week and nothing has shown, right?

Also, while it's great for the Dakka-ites (and we ARE the most important forum in the universe, just ask anyone here! ), could you convince Ronnie to put together a formal update to the backers with those pictures and/or maybe more? I'm sure the worry about "master versus production" is cropping up elsewhere and those poor benighted souls might not visit the shining beacon of reason and civil discourse that is Dakka.

Oh dear! It seems my tongue has gone straight through my cheek! Welp, off to the doctor, I'll just get me coat...

 Krinsath wrote:
Thanks for the pictures James! And thanks to our resident Squiglett O'Hare for keeping this thread and title up to date.

I do look forward to getting my DeadZone box, as enormous as it'll be. In regards to DreadBall, if I assume I was one of the last boxes out the door, I shouldn't start worrying until next week and nothing has shown, right?

Hmm... was it a Kickstarter order, or a pre-order? In any case they've all left us now. Drop me an email (james.hewitt@manticgames.com) and I'll do some detective work if you like.

Also, while it's great for the Dakka-ites (and we ARE the most important forum in the universe, just ask anyone here! ), could you convince Ronnie to put together a formal update to the backers with those pictures and/or maybe more? I'm sure the worry about "master versus production" is cropping up elsewhere and those poor benighted souls might not visit the shining beacon of reason and civil discourse that is Dakka.

Oh dear! It seems my tongue has gone straight through my cheek! Welp, off to the doctor, I'll just get me coat...

We've already been discussing it in the comments on Deadzone - and we're getting a proper update ready, of which these pictures will be a part. We don't like to spam people with too many updates for closed campaigns

Awesome, James! Those production casts look excellent.

Can you please pass it on up the chain of command that we do like seeing what we're getting? Production pics for backers should be at the top of things for Mantic.

Now I'm just wondering what the next bit of paranoia will manifest as.

The dice, we haven't seen the dice. They are probably made from baby seal bones.....

Ooh while we've got you, James, do you know when the DZ rulebook PDF is coming? Methinks it was said this week, so I guess I can just be patient.

Oh for those curious Stewart I think it was got back to me thru kickstarter and said the game would have paper and rubber mat to my question of how man rubber mats in strike team. The term game kind of confused me, i assume he meant strike when he said game. So that tentatively solves that riddle.

 Yonan wrote:

Also don't forget the mats with the rebel model:

Spoiler:

Damn, that rebel model is fantastic! Wait - is that the alternate rebs leader resin?

 lagoon83 wrote:
Right guys, production miniatures. Sorry to let the conspiracies build up again - as I'm sure you can imagine I've been crazy busy!



These components are just straight out of the bag, no work done.



These miniatures have been assembled, with mould lines removed, and the five on the left have been primed with grey spray to matt them down and show the detail better. The ones on the right are bare plastic, for comparison purposes.

Thoughts?

Well done! Most of us are reasonable folks when you come through like this . Puts an end to the controversy, and it's just that easy!

 Yonan wrote:
All reservations gone now.

Seconded.

 Hulksmash wrote:
The dice, we haven't seen the dice. They are probably made from baby seal bones.....

Damn, if I had known that I would have ordered extra sets.

Hulksmash wrote:The dice, we haven't seen the dice. They are probably made from baby seal bones.....

...am I to assume that's not what you wanted them to be made of? Hmm. Be right back...

GrimDork wrote:Ooh while we've got you, James, do you know when the DZ rulebook PDF is coming? Methinks it was said this week, so I guess I can just be patient.

This week!

Vermonter wrote:Damn, that rebel model is fantastic! Wait - is that the alternate rebs leader resin?

Sadly, due to shipping restrictions, we also can't include this model in orders. Sorry guys.

Arrgh . . can feel self mutating, body warping, becoming slavering Mantic fan . . . must resist . . .

Ok, so for the Warpath kickstarter I want computer sculpted Z'zor at the same level of execution as the Mars Attacks bug, a Veer-myn force from the get-go, Deadzone rules for every unit, and 24/7 monitoring of the Kickstarter comments section by the same person chained to a desk with no breaks. And a cheese danish.

In all seriousness, the production photos are fantastic. You guys at Mantic must be thrilled. You've had successes before, but Deadzone always felt like a watershed moment. Congratulations all around.


Ok, I did my bit. If THAT post doesn't bring a naysayer out of the woodwork, I give up.

No one is taking my new outrage point seriously

No one cares about the baby seals!

 Vermonter wrote:
Arrgh . . can feel self mutating, body warping, becoming slavering Mantic fan . . . must resist . . .

I recommend a cup of tea and a nice sit down.

Ok, so for the Warpath kickstarter I want computer sculpted Z'zor at the same level of execution as the Mars Attacks bug, a Veer-myn force from the get-go, Deadzone rules for every unit, and 24/7 monitoring of the Kickstarter comments section by the same person chained to a desk with no breaks. And a cheese danish.

I was with you 100% until the last part. You went too far, Vermonter. Deal's off!

In all seriousness, the production photos are fantastic. You guys at Mantic must be thrilled. You've had successes before, but Deadzone always felt like a watershed moment. Congratulations all around.

Yeah, we're pretty excited!


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 Hulksmash wrote:
No one is taking my new outrage point seriously

No one cares about the baby seals!

I'll have you know we care an awful lot about them! If they're not looked after properly, their bones become all brittle and are no good for dice production. Nightmare.

 lagoon83 wrote:

 Krinsath wrote:
In regards to DreadBall, if I assume I was one of the last boxes out the door, I shouldn't start worrying until next week and nothing has shown, right?

Hmm... was it a Kickstarter order, or a pre-order? In any case they've all left us now. Drop me an email (james.hewitt@manticgames.com) and I'll do some detective work if you like.

Thanks for the offer! It was a Kickstarter order, but if I don't get anything by Friday I'll drop you a note just to make sure I was at the tail end; even with as long as it's felt, I'm not sure we're out of the fairly normal "Royal Mail/USPS slowness" window yet.

Random thought, the courier shipments for DeadZone come with tracking information, right? If so, the impatient child in me will have that screen to obsess over come early December.

Cool, not a problem. Just let me know!

And yep, courier shipping means tracking numbers! We won't send them out to people unless they ask (because oh god, can you imagine the logistics of that?) but drop us a line once the first transport is away and we'll find yours

 Hulksmash wrote:
No one is taking my new outrage point seriously

No one cares about the baby seals!

I care that their bones make fantastic dice.

 CptJake wrote:

 Hulksmash wrote:
No one is taking my new outrage point seriously

No one cares about the baby seals!

I care that their bones make fantastic dice.

Yeah, they're great. You can really hear the horror and tragedy as they roll.

Also in an even more off-topic note, from looking at SS's signature, I really hope Mantic gets a sign printed up for the workplace: "X days without molesting a fish"

And that is all it took, thank you James. A quick question, the owner of my FLGS is going to the Open Day, will he be able to pick up additional Deadzone stock there?