Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

 Mu wrote:
I've been sitting here wondering the same thing and although I have the same number and builds as you I make it ten enforcers and the two sentry guns. If that helps...

It does, it always helps to know that you aren't alone.

 Mu wrote:
I've been sitting here wondering the same thing and although I have the same number and builds as you I make it ten enforcers and the two sentry guns. If that helps...

This is correct. Captain, Assault Enforcer, Rocket Launcher, Sniper, Engineer, 2x Sentry Gun in one bag, other bag is a regular baggie of 5 warpath enforcers.

Engineer is quite a weird one to try and figure out just from looking at it so make sure you haven't missed it. The part that you'll take out of the bag and think "wtf is this" is the engineer torso.

 scarletsquig wrote:

Engineer is quite a weird one to try and figure out just from looking at it so make sure you haven't missed it. The part that you'll take out of the bag and think "wtf is this" is the engineer torso.

That was exactly my reaction.

I'm still a bit unsure about the heads, myself.

There's one without an antennae, a short, stubby antennae and there's one one with a long antennae, plus the 2 Peacekeeper heads.

I ended up putting Stubby on the Engineer and no antennae on the missile launcher. That then left me having to massively hack apart the connector part for the assault guy, so I think I did something wrong.

The Sentry Guns are weird, you get 2 but the Engineer can only carry one according to the rules that I can see.

Yeah that torso is weird , before I looked at pictures I tried attaching it to one of the sentry bases, I think it is a downside from all the digital sculpting.

This wait is killing me, gimme gimme gimee.

 Mu wrote:
Yeah that torso is weird , before I looked at pictures I tried attaching it to one of the sentry bases, I think it is a downside from all the digital sculpting.

It didn't help that it was the flashiest piece I've encountered so far too.. His right hand was really indistinct as well. The rest of them were great though, apart from the mould line on the Commander's cloak.

The engineer doesn't have to carry *any* sentry guns. Between the rules for sentry guns and the engineer ability, the whole team can bring sentry guns and the engineer can set them all up for the start of the battle. During the game he can pack and unpack the guns (including enemy guns), but the best ability of the engineer is to have those guns set up to start, spending a whole turn unpacking a carried gun into place is dangerous with the quick and deadly pace of deadzone.

xowainx wrote:


It didn't help that it was the flashiest piece I've encountered so far too.. His right hand was really indistinct as well. The rest of them were great though, apart from the mould line on the Commander's cloak.

The line right across the back of the cloak is a pain, the fact that it is the thinnest piece of restic on all of the models does not help either. I am a little scared to even try and remove it.

For those that have your stuff already, how do the Marauder heads compare to GW Orc/Ork heads? Specifically how they join up with the body?

I've been thinking of replacing the marauder heads with some Kromlech or Spellcrow resin ones meant as alternate warhammer heads, but if the size and join is too off I'll just stick with the mantic ones, maybe even order the Mantic fantasy orc heads if they are the same size/join

Still need to do a more thorough inspection for any damage, but at least I've got the basic inventory done. Even just playing with the terrain sprues is an "eeeeee!" feeling.

Random question maybe only James can answer but I'll ask anyway in case someone here was paying better attention: With the changes to the Enforcers, were those who elected to get an Enforcer starter for free supposed to get the mixed starter like the boxes have in this shipment, or were they pushed back to the second shipment? I don't see it in the box, and I would not be surprised if it was delayed until 2014, but it wasn't noted as being such on the shipping list like the others and I wanted to be sure it wasn't supposed to be here.

Got bitten by a couple packing errors so I'm just trying to get my proverbial ducks in a row. Nothing major for me as I still have loads of the things that got left out by mistake (insanity does have *some* perks), but I'd like to get things figured out quickly. Thanks guys!

 Krinsath wrote:
Still need to do a more thorough inspection for any damage, but at least I've got the basic inventory done. Even just playing with the terrain sprues is an "eeeeee!" feeling.

Random question maybe only James can answer but I'll ask anyway in case someone here was paying better attention: With the changes to the Enforcers, were those who elected to get an Enforcer starter for free supposed to get the mixed starter like the boxes have in this shipment, or were they pushed back to the second shipment? I don't see it in the box, and I would not be surprised if it was delayed until 2014, but it wasn't noted as being such on the shipping list like the others and I wanted to be sure it wasn't supposed to be here.

Got bitten by a couple packing errors so I'm just trying to get my proverbial ducks in a row. Nothing major for me as I still have loads of the things that got left out by mistake (insanity does have *some* perks), but I'd like to get things figured out quickly. Thanks guys!

I'm curious about this as well, as I also opted to have my freebie faction as Enforcers. Mine have not come in yet though, so I'm in the curious camp, and can't give you answers.

Has anyone looked at magnetizing the terrain yet? SS seemed interested in the idea, and I'm definitely going to look into it when mine rocks up, but as always it's nicer if someone does all the legwork first ; p

I had done some thinking but I still don't have anything but the lonely disconnected notification floating in space. Meaning no tiles till middle of next week at the earliest.

I've got some ideas but it's going to take having it in front of me to make them happen. For those of you interested, what are your expectations?

I think magnetizing everything, or using magnets to connect tiles to build a structure is probably right out. Apply pressure in the right direction and the whole thing will flex and fold into a collapse unless I'm quite mistaken.

I do believe it may be possible to use magnets to secure prefab structures together. Say you build a 2x2 tile square building and have a 2x3 tile rectangle. Putting the 2x2 on top and securing those points with magnets seems a lot more viable to me. Unless I'm wrong in my thinking, all of the points secured by magnets would have to yield to let the sections slip, as opposed to just a corner leading into other failures like I said above.

As for doing it... how big are the connectors? Will a 1/8" magnet fit into/instead of both square connector pegs on the straight connector? If that's the case, do that, and then get either a piece of sheet metal or two more magnets on the other side of something stiff, plasticard probably. Still using the connectors, but now they're magnets (and can be loose enough to not need tools to remove).

Another possibility would be to put magnets around the edges of the top of a structure, in a standardized way (dead center of a tile, most likely), such that connectors in the bottom of another structure could match up and be held down. This was my first thought, but I've heard the tiles are beveled so this may not be possible, which is why I was going over the connectors first.

No promises, but I'll try to make this a priority after I get my stuff and I have a general idea of if I have it all or not. I've been threatening to do an in-depth unboxing for months but so many people have beat me to it, this may be a more beneficial contribution.

I think at a certain point you're really just adding metal pins to the plastic to replace the plastic pegs.

Yeah, its gonna be interesting to find out if anything is viable or just a waste of time.

Yeah it's hard to say what's viable without the stuff in front of us : ( /shakesfist

 Rhelyk wrote:
For those that have your stuff already, how do the Marauder heads compare to GW Orc/Ork heads? Specifically how they join up with the body?

Some of the heads are part of the body. The rest join using Mantic's "jigsaw" system (which means you can't stick the wrong head on the wrong body), in a lot of cases IIRC the hole is on the neck so yu might need to fill it or use a pin to make the neck of any replacement head secure.

 Rhelyk wrote:
For those that have your stuff already, how do the Marauder heads compare to GW Orc/Ork heads? Specifically how they join up with the body?

I've been thinking of replacing the marauder heads with some Kromlech or Spellcrow resin ones meant as alternate warhammer heads, but if the size and join is too off I'll just stick with the mantic ones, maybe even order the Mantic fantasy orc heads if they are the same size/join

The join is quite similar, but your average GW head will be about 2-3x larger. If you look at a typical 40k ork, the head is often covering most of the torso. It is *huge*. It will look really bad on a mantic marauder, and the kromlech ones are even taller than GW ones from the looks of it:



If you do want to use some larger GW-style heads, then converting goblin heads might be a safer bet, bit more work involved. but the results are quite nice:




Unfortunately there aren't really any companies doing orc bits for anything other than GW-style orcs.

Made up my Rebs last night and loving the models. Hardly any mold lines, few bent parts that needed straightening though no major warping. Very, very happy i decided to go in this kickstarter.

Missing a Sorak though (not checked the rest of the factions yet), 4 dice and a terrain sprue.

Going to construct the rest and then drop an e-mail with what's missing (if anything else), not massive deal as with kickstarter of this size a few mistakes are bound to be made.





Automatically Appended Next Post:
I plan to glue some basic structures together and magnetise the roofs (not sure how yet, got to fully look at it) and then connect the buildings via magnetised gangways.

Would be interested to see other peoples attempts though to see what ideas i can stea.... Sorry, borrow.

 manrogue wrote:
Going to construct the rest and then drop an e-mail with what's missing (if anything else), not massive deal as with kickstarter of this size a few mistakes are bound to be made.

I'm sure you know this, but for the sake of the rest of the thread don't forget to submit packing errors at the Google Form they have to track it. I'm sure they'll answer emails, but going through the defined route will likely be faster.

On the other topic, I'm not sure that the terrain will magnetize all that well. I'm not really good with magnets, but I don't see where the contact points are going to work real well. I'll be interested to see what other people cook up in this area.

Sure thing Alpharius, it isn't going to win any prizes but it suits my needs.








And a few of my finished Deadzone minis on the board:



i still have a large building to paint and a number of barricades/accesories, so as you can see even the Strike team pledge alone included a fair bit of terrain.

Alright, I like that terrain paint scheme. How'd you do it?

That's really nice ToT! Its really clean and crisp, smooth colors, and some nice wear here and there. Enforcers and plague look great too Nice work!

Simple. Black spray, lighter burst of grey spray some sepia in ink the odd recess and the yellow/turqoise on the odd bit just to add some depth and interest. I tried some salt weathering for the first time too, albeit with mixed results.

Thraxas Of Turai wrote:
Sure thing Alpharius, it isn't going to win any prizes but it suits my needs.

You are too modest!

In fact, you've just won a prize - Alpharius' "Best Painted Deadzone Terrain He's Seen So Far" award!

And I'm not kidding - that looks great, and will work very well as dual purposed Infinity terrain too!

I see you shared your painting steps:

Thraxas Of Turai wrote:
Simple. Black spray, lighter burst of grey spray some sepia in ink the odd recess and the yellow/turqoise on the odd bit just to add some depth and interest. I tried some salt weathering for the first time too, albeit with mixed results.

Can you now also share brand names too?

Thanks!

Dunno, the Titan Games stuff is pretty epic.

Brand is Holts Auto Spray paint, a Manchester company, their 300ml sprays are cheap and what i use to base all of my miniatures.

Matt Black Spray.
Hgrey03 Spray
GW: Seraphim Sepia
GW: Hawk Turqoise
GW: Golden Yellow (over a white base).

Omg, so excited. They should be here on Monday and all these pics are getting me more excited.

Now if I could only remember what I got!

Just in case anyone was wondering what 4 Mantic Battlezones looks like...

 Alpharius wrote:

Thraxas Of Turai wrote:
Sure thing Alpharius, it isn't going to win any prizes but it suits my needs.

You are too modest!

In fact, you've just won a prize - Alpharius' "Best Painted Deadzone Terrain He's Seen So Far" award!

And I'm not kidding - that looks great, and will work very well as dual purposed Infinity terrain too!

I see you shared your painting steps:

Thraxas Of Turai wrote:
Simple. Black spray, lighter burst of grey spray some sepia in ink the odd recess and the yellow/turqoise on the odd bit just to add some depth and interest. I tried some salt weathering for the first time too, albeit with mixed results.

Can you now also share brand names too?

Thanks!

Agreed - that is some great painting.

Love that terrain, Thraxas! That bit of weathering you did is especially nice.

(The miniatures look good too!)

~Tim?