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 scarletsquig wrote:
I'd get it if I wasn't already drowning in Mantic minis.

Got over 1000 that need painting.

I'll see your 1000 and raise it! 400 dwarves, 160 MaAs, 100 paladins, 40 mounted pallies, mounted and on foot sisters, 9 Elohi, 60 Enforcers still, 100 corps, 100 marauders, LOKA, 40ish Ogres, and everything from Dreadball except the Zees and female Corps. Plus characters for everything. And that's not including the host of Deadzone models coming in a couple weeks. I may have a problem...good thing my buddy is helping me sell all my GW stuff to some of his friends, or I'd be running out of room switching to a better group of game systems.


Sad part is, despite the 1500 or so minis I have, I've only spent a little over a grand on Mantic stuff so far. Yay kickstarters and online retailers (miniwargaming, miniature market, wayland)!!


It's officially a MANtic measuring contest now.

 DaveC wrote:
Christmas Crazy box is up for preorder - £19.99

http://www.manticgames.com/mantic-shop/christmas/treats/product/mantic-christmas-crazy-box-2013.html?utm_source=Mantic+Games+Newsletter&utm_campaign=8e6fd0b49d-Mantic_Games_Newsletter_228&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_20fe4cf5a8-8e6fd0b49d-201384889

Stocking gift to myself sorted

Yeah, I'm sure I won't get a dreadball mech. But may be a fun painting distraction besides

 scarletsquig wrote:
I'd get it if I wasn't already drowning in Mantic minis.

Got over 1000 that need painting.

Same here*. I have dozens of orcs, forgefathers, dwarfs, Dreadball and KoW rewards to assemble. And then each one deserves at least 30 seconds of pew-pew noises admiring a job well done.

Painting is not even on the table for them.






*Although we all know damn well I'll be adding some of those bugs, some of the plastic Martians and troopers and some plastic DZ units to the pile anyway.

Free international derivery, merry christmas to you Mantic! Only need to contend with the low Aussie dollar now.

If you guys have this many unpainted atm, I shudder to think of your project list once Deadzone and MA lands ; p

edit: Is every box the same unless it says "random" ie. the dreadball minis?

WHAT REALLY!? I didn't even see that, sweet. Wonder if I can get a dreadball MvP to ride along with that shipping, been wanting agent 88 for awhile and I don't trust getting him in either strike team or the CCB.

It had a set list last year, this time it doesn't. So my guess is that they either will be doing random stuff, or simply haven't finalized the list at this time.

Wait. The delivery is free?

Standard Shipping (World): £8.00

Items: £39.98
Shipping: £8.00
Free Standard delivery £-8.00
Total (includes VAT): £39.98

... why did you have to give me the horrible idea of adding more to the order. WHY?!

edit: Don't a lot of UK companies charge us (internationals) VAT but give us free shipping because they don't actually pay VAT on our orders?

Is the shipping free if we just buy the one Xmas box?

Just the one? What are we, peasants?! /jk I added a couple extra small things so far (decal sheets, hex bases), and still have the free shipping so it seems you can add to the order and still get it.

edit: Do we get any Mantic points from KS pledges?

edit 2: From the Mantic front page:

FREE SHIPPING
On orders over £30/€30/$75 or more!

So it's not just the christmas box, and you'll need to get 2 (or add something else) if you want the free shipping.

 Yonan wrote:
Standard Shipping (World): £8.00

Items: £39.98
Shipping: £8.00
Free Standard delivery £-8.00
Total (includes VAT): £39.98

... why did you have to give me the horrible idea of adding more to the order. WHY?!

edit: Don't a lot of UK companies charge us (internationals) VAT but give us free shipping because they don't actually pay VAT on our orders?

I must only be in the commonwealth. I had to pay $5 US for shipping. Still dirt cheap, though, so I'm not complaining.

I'm not gonna order it just now so I can't confirm, either way I'm sure the box will be heavily discounted. new mantic points are up to, surprised the warpath enforcer captain is only 15... I may have to snap one of those up...

 Yonan wrote:
you'll need to get 2 (or add something else) if you want the free shipping.

Whew! Thanks, Mantic, for helping me decide to avoid this deal.

Ahh that's what it was, he was over their free shipping limit, dur. Well, I"ll have to consider some extras then hrm.

 Yonan wrote:
Standard Shipping (World): £8.00

Items: £39.98
Shipping: £8.00
Free Standard delivery £-8.00
Total (includes VAT): £39.98

... why did you have to give me the horrible idea of adding more to the order. WHY?!

edit: Don't a lot of UK companies charge us (internationals) VAT but give us free shipping because they don't actually pay VAT on our orders?

Yes, that's the usual way of doing it. Some charge the VAT and then postage on top of it. Mantic's ROW free delivery used to require us to order $70+ in US$ at an unfavourable rate compared to the UKP, so if they've changed all that and we can order smaller amounts, and directly in pounds, then that increases my chance of looking at one or two.. if I can find any spare cash.


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 Yonan wrote:

edit 2: From the Mantic front page:

FREE SHIPPING
On orders over £30/€30/$75 or more!

So it's not just the christmas box, and you'll need to get 2 (or add something else) if you want the free shipping.

There we are. Do ROW orders have to be paid in US$ still?

I haven't bought direct form Mantic before, but my checkout was showing pounds when I added this stuff earlier. Haven't ordered yet though, hoping my DB S3 stuff arrives in the mail soon so I can get something with mantic points at the same time.

I got the box, and added the Simian giant and Ludwig to take it over 30 pounds for free shipping - since the box comes with one giant and one MvP and I have two Dreadball teams, I figure that's one for each when I bring it out for a first game over the break, hopefully my random ones are different!

Any word yet on when we will be seeing the injection plastic stuff aside from the base terrain sprues? I'm really curious to see how they turn out. I'm convinced that Mantic will forever remain a 2nd tier miniature company unless they can get injection plastic right.

No pics yet. Last we heard was that they're still working on it, and that they'll show us before the second survey at which stage if we don't like them we can get something else instead or a refund.

Agreed, they need to sort their hard plastics. WGF is showing you can get great detail with it and I love working with it. The new restic is looking good, but not as good as hard plastic, and it's not multi part poseable packed sprues of bitzy goodness.

Wgf? That's a nice mini.... Who are wgf?

Wargames Factory I think. No idea what particular kit though.

Yep Wargames Factory. That's a mercenary from Wild West Exodus, a Kickstarter that is shipping out atm. Rigeld has received some already and posted pics in the WWX thread.

 GrimDork wrote:
So from what it says, even if you follow the doom and gloom sayers and figure you'll get all MaA for kings of war and all steel warriors or marauder grunts for warpath, you still get a dreadball MvP and giant, combine those and you're well on your way to half the price anyway, plus whatever extras $35, looks like a fair bit of fun for what a box of tactical marines used to cost, so I think i'll have to get one

Would really like to get a Dreadball Mech so I can conscript him to the rebs Or a Jotunn, those are pretty spiffy.

I think id be happy with any of the giants to help me get into db and I'd be happy to get some of the MaA just to see if they live up to their reputation.

Was there some vehicles in last years box? I missed out at the time.

I remember there being some Warmachines in the last box but I didn't get any vehicles.


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 Yonan wrote:
Yep Wargames Factory. That's a mercenary from Wild West Exodus, a Kickstarter that is shipping out atm. Rigeld has received some already and posted pics in the WWX thread.

Assuming they are casted by WGF but not one of WGF's actual products.? If that makes sense.

 carlos13th wrote:

 Yonan wrote:
Yep Wargames Factory. That's a mercenary from Wild West Exodus, a Kickstarter that is shipping out atm. Rigeld has received some already and posted pics in the WWX thread.

Assuming they are casted by WGF but not one of WGF's actual products.? If that makes sense.

Correct, they're WWX minis that WGF were hired to make. WWX = Wild West Exodus, from Outlaw Miniatures. Dreamforge is in a similar situation, they get WGF to make their (delicious) minis and not-so-mini minis. WGF does have its own ranges, and while they're decent they're not amazing which the DFG and WWX ones are imo.

I think they had a Jotunn cannon and a marauder raptor, but then there weren't any dreadball items in there either so the balance is probably shifted. I suspect we may see some of the new KoW stuff, especially if they have too much of some of it, but hopefully they'll still include a sprue or two of their awesome undead. I'd like a sprue of elves too so I can objectively weigh in on them, since they seem to polarize people pretty fast!

Oh, while I'm here, I linked this over on the other Deadzone thread here, but:

http://gmortschaotica.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/deadzone-preview.html

Looks like somebody got a hold some faction starters (or maybe some other bits too, I forget) and painted+assembled them. I really like the gory plague and their other color schemes are good too. Marauders are not yet present.

Argh, a lot of the Rebs have that platform shoes thing going on with the base tabs too. Still really nice minis though, very glad to have went in big on Rebs (far more than I'll ever need just for Deadzone).

wasn't last year's box almost twice as expensive, too?

Not sure. I remember 50 something, but whether it was pounds or dollars, I can't say.

What would be amazing is if mantic ditched the integrabases for the warpath kickstarter. Wishful thinking though.

Platform shoes will be getting hacked off with the rest of the mini rounds to make way for the clear acrylic disks so they don't bother me much, but I'd prefer not to see them.

Bolognesus wrote:wasn't last year's box almost twice as expensive, too?

I bought last years box and I think it was the same price. £20 for the normal version and Maybe £25 with the bag.

scarletsquig wrote:Argh, a lot of the Rebs have that platform shoes thing going on with the base tabs too. Still really nice minis though, very glad to have went in big on Rebs (far more than I'll ever need just for Deadzone).

I can't believe the platform shoes thing got past any kind of QC, if there was any QC.