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 CptJake wrote:
The painting is looking good. Did you prime him?

The platforms his feet are on look awful. Those are going to add a lot of work to my figure clean up when my package finally arrives.

How many of the miniatures have those platforms, is it all of the Rebs? None of the Plague/Enforcers do. I just used a simple base in flock and then paint, the base is un-noticeable.

And knowing is half the battle!

That's good to know for future reference.

And it works! Time to head to the house, just received e-mail that they left it at the front door.

So far I've just seen them on that human reb trooper, and the enforcer with missile launcher.

 Pacific wrote:

 CptJake wrote:
The painting is looking good. Did you prime him?

The platforms his feet are on look awful. Those are going to add a lot of work to my figure clean up when my package finally arrives.

How many of the miniatures have those platforms, is it all of the Rebs? None of the Plague/Enforcers do. I just used a simple base in flock and then paint, the base is un-noticeable.

At least one enforcer is on platforms.

So just opened the package before I had to come back to work... Checking the packing list and I think I got everything except for 'Random Dreadball MVP' is that now or 2014? I don't care too much because I don't play dreadball, but...

Got my package today. Even though I emailed James with an updated address because FedEx won't deliver to the PO Box I originally gave Mantic, they still listed the PO Box as my address. Luckily FedEx had my phone number so I was able to pick it up as soon as they open. Everything looks good inside the box except I had a small bag of 3rd gen plague guys pop open inside the game box, took me a moment of shaking he terrain sprues to get the missing arm and head to pop out. Also the right hand edge of my cover is a bit scuffed up. I still need to go through all the baggies to make sure everything looks good. Oh yea, I only got 4 dice. Ah well, use to play L5R roleplaying so I'm good on D10s.

Pretre, if your random MVP is the enforcer and you're planning on trading/selling him off, I call dibs. You know, since you don't play Dreadball. Don't offer to anyone else, I want him!

 pretre wrote:
So just opened the package before I had to come back to work... Checking the packing list and I think I got everything except for 'Random Dreadball MVP' is that now or 2014? I don't care too much because I don't play dreadball, but...

I got a Forge Father MVP in my box... curses... I want to get rid of my Forge Fathers...

Hi folks,

Got mine today. Only had time to give everything a quick glance, so this is very much a first impression (and open to devastating revision), but my first impression is that GW will need to watch their back. So far terrain looks excellent, and the figures bear up much better in person than in the photos. Don't know without going over them more carefully if that will lead me to revise my opinions of Plague 3rd gens or the Marauders yet, but looks like it's a possibility. I did get a look at the 2nd gen Plague bodies, which I initially thought had great concept designs but middling execution, and they are excellent. (Still planning to modify the one who's studying the dirt.)

And I have to eat some humble pie, because I had a religious experience and lost 2 feet of height today. My random MVP is the exceptionally well-cast "Painmaster" Yurik (anybody know if this was a Remy sculpt?). Considering how shy I haven't been about announcing my general dislike of Space Dwarfs on this thread or on the Deadzone KS comments, you might feel that someone at Mantic was sadistically serving me up some karma. If that was their intention (of course it wasn't), it backfired. I love the little guy, and am now seriously considering buying into the Forge Fathers on the 2nd survey. Looks like Yurik will be very easy to hand-swap a gun or heat-hammer onto, and he doesn't have an outright "sporty" pose, so he would fit into a Deadzone FF team perfectly. And if anyone reading this is short, I no longer resent you because you don't have to worry about having your legs crushed in airplane seats.

I also think that since short=good in any game that emphasizes cover, Forge Father rules should take into account this natural advantage for the sake of game balance. Otherwise, I could see every player purely interested in winning preferentially fielding the little buggers.

Rulebook looks great, and had no dings / bends / problems. Likewise my sealed card decks and counter sheet were in great shape. The postcards, for which I cared not a fig until a brilliant movie screen terrain adaptation was posted here, are actually very, very nice. Perhaps I'll send some out as seasonal greetings, and one may get theater screen-ized on the board, but most I will hoard pointlessly like a Raven with a shiny object. The mouse mat looks good, but to my eye the paper mat looks even better, with a clearer palette and sharper resolution. I think the paper mats, which seemed like a throw-away item once the mouse mats were announced, could end up being the surprise limited ed. bonus of this KS campaign. I intend to scan mine, print out compatible interlocking sections of it on adhesive paper, apply said paper stickers to a wooden, plactic, or ferrous steel sheet metal base, and create my own 4'x4' Deadzone board. Don't think I'll be adding any more Deadzone mats to the upcoming Mars Attacks or survey 2 orders after all, which is excellent as it makes room for more landing pad and fortress battlezones (or perhaps a Martian robot).

You'd never guess it from my handle, but I live in the U.S.A. in the state of Vermont. I'll need to itemize my stuff and think it all over, but if any other USA / Canada types are interested in trades, I will almost certainly have extra Core Worlds terrain battlezones available. I have nothing against Brits or penal colonists, but I imagine a small trade wouldn't be worth the shipping costs for either of us. My trade interests are limited to sci-fi but are not exclusive to Deadzone or Mantic products, so could be a deal for someone. Details forthcoming on the appropriate thread.

So overall, you'd think I'm pretty positive about things so far. I'm not. All of the above positive impressions were cast into damnation and ruin by the fact that I got only eight dice, and only ONE Sorak. Yes, even I, who once so unmemorably posted in the KS comments thread that the Sorak was the break-out Rebs race surpise hit of Deadzone*, only got one. So I will now go out into the falling snow wild-eyed and turn my head skywards Jack Nicholson-style to scream

HEEEEEEEWIIIIIIIIIT!! Heeeeeewiiiiiit! heeeeeeewiiiiiit!

* Sad but true.

P.S. Pics or it didn't happen, yes. You guys have been very generous with your pics and advice, I will be reciprocating as soon as I'm able.

 timetowaste85 wrote:
Pretre, if your random MVP is the enforcer and you're planning on trading/selling him off, I call dibs. You know, since you don't play Dreadball. Don't offer to anyone else, I want him!

Well, I'm going to have to dig further, but I didn't get any, I don't think. Everyone looks to have guns. I'll check again later. If I do have the enforcer, we'll make a deal.

I het you guys, all of you who alredy got their stuff...

Im starting to get anxious about that e-mail... :/

Vermonter, that's just ... no words describe the depths of depravity James will sink to. I'm sorry for your loss.

 Yonan wrote:
Vermonter, that's just ... no words describe the depths of depravity James will sink to. I'm sorry for your loss.

He has a buddha's face, but a scorpion's heart.

 pretre wrote:

 timetowaste85 wrote:
Pretre, if your random MVP is the enforcer and you're planning on trading/selling him off, I call dibs. You know, since you don't play Dreadball. Don't offer to anyone else, I want him!

Well, I'm going to have to dig further, but I didn't get any, I don't think. Everyone looks to have guns. I'll check again later. If I do have the enforcer, we'll make a deal.

Mine were all in the boxed sets, and all of them were Riller. Since I already have all the DreadBall stuff, they were kind of a non-entity in my mind, but now I have 4 Rillers. Ah well, can't win them all.

So I take it nobody remembered if the bonus Enforcer starters were supposed to be there or just generally pushed back until they could be done "properly"? Anyone in the latest wave pick Enforcers for their freebie?

 pretre wrote:

 timetowaste85 wrote:
Pretre, if your random MVP is the enforcer and you're planning on trading/selling him off, I call dibs. You know, since you don't play Dreadball. Don't offer to anyone else, I want him!

Well, I'm going to have to dig further, but I didn't get any, I don't think. Everyone looks to have guns. I'll check again later. If I do have the enforcer, we'll make a deal.

I t would be nice if you had one for yourself as I think one of the Deadzone missions involves an actual Dreadball MVP in trouble or something similar...

 Alpharius wrote:

 pretre wrote:

 timetowaste85 wrote:
Pretre, if your random MVP is the enforcer and you're planning on trading/selling him off, I call dibs. You know, since you don't play Dreadball. Don't offer to anyone else, I want him!

Well, I'm going to have to dig further, but I didn't get any, I don't think. Everyone looks to have guns. I'll check again later. If I do have the enforcer, we'll make a deal.

I t would be nice if you had one for yourself as I think one of the Deadzone missions involves an actual Dreadball MVP in trouble or something similar...

Oh really? Okay, well I guess I need to figure out if I have one then. I need dig around and find a good guide to what's in strike team so I can double check everything.

 Alpharius wrote:
I t would be nice if you had one for yourself as I think one of the Deadzone missions involves an actual Dreadball MVP in trouble or something similar...

As a Dreadball fan, I'm more looking forward to this than using the MVP in Dreadball, I think it's a great mission idea ; ) I could see a custom mission where you have to rescue an entire team from a large facility being awesome too. God damnit... more things to work on....

So did I miss something on the dice, I only got 6 dice, I didn't order any extra, and the box says it comes with 6 dice... I've got the correct amount right?

Also I'm not so sure how random the random dreadball MVP is, because I too got Painmaster Yurik

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
Mantic have been playing with the terrain sprues

It's like a table from the original Tomb Raider game...

I realise I might be in the minority, but I'm not a fan of the buildings. Too many same-sized cubes, the panels appear to have a gap between them when they fit together, the single-section balcony railings that leave big gaps, and the holes for the connectors on each piece add to the toy-like appearance.

Well, I can confirm that my package still has not moved. How did Tamburlaine get his shipped out while mine hasn't? I only live like, 15-20 minutes away from him! Of course, I still haven't received my Mutant Chronicles stuff either.

 Alfndrate wrote:
So did I miss something on the dice, I only got 6 dice, I didn't order any extra, and the box says it comes with 6 dice... I've got the correct amount right?

Also I'm not so sure how random the random dreadball MVP is, because I too got Painmaster Yurik

I believe that KS backers were to get 10 if I'm remembering Ronnie's video correctly.

 insaniak wrote:

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:

Spoiler:

Mantic have been playing with the terrain sprues

It's like a table from the original Tomb Raider game...

I realise I might be in the minority, but I'm not a fan of the buildings. Too many same-sized cubes, the panels appear to have a gap between them when they fit together, the single-section balcony railings that leave big gaps, and the holes for the connectors on each piece add to the toy-like appearance.

The cubes are sadly very important to how the game plays, so they're kind of here to stay

I got two Dreadball MVPs in mine.. both of the same Judwan character.. and one that I already have!

Great post Vermonter, and glad that the Forge Fathers have got another convert. My favourite faction in the universe

Insaniak, that sort of setup might give good gameplay, but yeah it's defintiely not how I envision making my deadzone terrain. Even if it does "play" better, I don't think it'll feel better because it just seems so unrealistic, when realism should be quite doable.

I'm thinking of some of the areas from Mass Effect... 3? I think, which were made up of similar cargo-habitation things.

 insaniak wrote:

It's like a table from the original Tomb Raider game...

I realise I might be in the minority, but I'm not a fan of the buildings. Too many same-sized cubes, the panels appear to have a gap between them when they fit together, the single-section balcony railings that leave big gaps, and the holes for the connectors on each piece add to the toy-like appearance.

A lot of it comes down to how you put it together, it can look very toylike if assembled in an abstract way rather than looking like real buildings.

I much prefer the look of Mantic's earliest solid building builds rather than the newer "corner here, barricade there, half of an open smallish building with a wall missing there" efforts.

Agreed on the balcony railings although those can be replaced with the much more solid looking barricades, or even more solid defence line pieces if you want so there are options, it's just about making the best out of the kits.

Here we go, an example but not the one I was really thinking of.

edit: and here is the closest I could find of the mission I was thinking of if anyone remembers it, rescuing civilians from a poor area made up of cargo-habitation units.

Okay, to help myself out, I got the strike team list:



I think I may be short 4 dice as well. Anyone know what in there is 2014?