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Mine got delivered today
Shortly after I got on a plane to fly 2400 miles away
Where I'll be till the end of the week

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
Fething Fed Ex and their need for fething signatures when people are at fething work doing their fething job, impatiently waiting to get home so they can open their fething boxes.... feth.

Pretty much this. Been looking at the original FedEx tracking number I was given that claims to still be in the UK, didn't even know it was supposed to come today :( Oh well, already digitally signed for now and it gives me a chance to finish a comission I'm behind on.

So far it looks like I am missing, 2x x close combat enforecers, 1x sorak, 1x flamer, only got x6 dice. Tomorrow I'll do a thorough breakdown and count.

p.s.
the alternate sculpt rewards for hitting 3-350$+, is the alt plague lord 2nd shipment?

Assembled a couple dudes. A bit flashy, but not too bad. My kid is super excited.

Gonna get some games in with your youngin' Pretre? That should be awesome ; ) Let us know how it goes, I'm hoping to do the same with my niece, hoping she's not too young for it.

 Yonan wrote:
Gonna get some games in with your youngin' Pretre? That should be awesome ; ) Let us know how it goes, I'm hoping to do the same with my niece, hoping she's not too young for it.

Yeah, my five and a half year old loves all things sci-fi and miniature. So this is the next step. The wife will at least paint some and the gaming group will fill in the rest. If all goes well, we should have a minor campaign league going in a month or so.

Awesome, you're a lucky man having your very own gaming group in your house ; )

Har har har!

I got me box! Very happy with what was in it... but....

I am missing all kinds of stuff! Marauder commandos, a few pieces(?) of a plague terraton, my resin loot counters, 4 more dice, 3rd gens with knives... ended up with an extra bag of 3rd gens with a heavy machine gun and an extra flamer from the Marauder booster.

Haven't really gone through the other factions yet to see what's there. Hopefully they're all there.

Despite some packing hickups (like a missing arm and shoulder guard from my Terraton), a scratched up rulebook cover, I am still quite pleased with all that was in that box.

Weirdest thing though- NONE of the figures I've started fiddling with fit in their bases! Not a single one! Some of the integrated bases on the plague are nowhere even close to fitting in the base! This is a big departure from the fantasy stuff of Mantic I've built, where everything is nice and snug.

I guess I'll be emailing Mantic once I've gone through everything.

That doesn't sound too good. Even with the 5% error rate mantic were targeting, that's still 250 people, but... does sound like a *lot* of errors being reported in threads. Substantial errors too, not just a single model here and there, but multiple packs of models.

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
Weirdest thing though- NONE of the figures I've started fiddling with fit in their bases!

Just checking here, but did you flash the base as well? There was a bit of flash around the edges that I needed to remove before putting in the base.

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
Har har har!

I got me box! Very happy with what was in it... but....

I am missing all kinds of stuff! Marauder commandos, a few pieces(?) of a plague terraton, my resin loot counters, 4 more dice, 3rd gens with knives... ended up with an extra bag of 3rd gens with a heavy machine gun and an extra flamer from the Marauder booster.

Haven't really gone through the other factions yet to see what's there. Hopefully they're all there.

Despite some packing hickups (like a missing arm and shoulder guard from my Terraton), a scratched up rulebook cover, I am still quite pleased with all that was in that box.

Weirdest thing though- NONE of the figures I've started fiddling with fit in their bases! Not a single one! Some of the integrated bases on the plague are nowhere even close to fitting in the base! This is a big departure from the fantasy stuff of Mantic I've built, where everything is nice and snug.

I guess I'll be emailing Mantic once I've gone through everything.

Why'd you get yours so quickly? I kept checking my tracking religiously today, hoping it would finally say it started moving. Did they actually send another email once it got going? And are the integrated bases too big or too small for their stands?

The figures' integrated bases are too small- my undead and orcs fit the deadzone/ warpath bases I got fine. Going to have to green stuff all the gaps. Fun. With all the work ahead of me I think I will toss my hat in with the slotted base crowd, as these bases aren't going to be much (if any) help at all.

Seems I also only have 2 enforcers with wrist blades. Is that right? I've got enough basic guys with rifles though, as well as all my specialists.

I also have WAY too many human rebs and 3rd gens. Not sure how that happened, as I certainly hadn't pledged extra for them. Will probably give some to Barzam to tide him over until his stuff gets here.

With the sheer amount of stuff I think after I inventory everything I'm going to be working through one faction at a time.

Really like my Marauders (even though I'm down a few commandos)!

 Alfndrate wrote:

 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

Really? Because.. they look awful. They were the first thing I'd be changing. The Mantic board with all the barricades that we keep seeing that picture of looks nothing like a real ...anything.

That is just a result of what you make, though... I went to a lot of effort trying to make my terrain look 'real.' With every building having a story function.


Outpost Gatehouse


Comms Bunker


Maintenance Garage


'Checkpoint' Outpost

 scarletsquig wrote:
All the mercs other than Boomer, Chovar and Helfather are included in Strike Team.

8 restic minis in their own bag.

The other three were paid add-ons and will be metal due to lack of demand in the first survey.

Can confirm that I got the Hellfather in my pack. And, very nice he is too!

Really surprised that there wasn't more interest in him, thought evil-dwarf type things were 'in' at the moment!

 Azazelx wrote:

 Alfndrate wrote:

 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.

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

Really? Because.. they look awful. They were the first thing I'd be changing. The Mantic board with all the barricades that we keep seeing that picture of looks nothing like a real ...anything.

Yeah, I don't care much about the military training area look we've seen from Mantic, too. The components ware nice, but the way those tables look reminds me of those cheap Russian tabletop knockoffs you find sometimes on eBay...

After some deliberation I've decided to keep using my scratchbuilt terrain (which I've cunningly started to construct along multiples of 3") for normal gameplay (worked mostly fine while playing with the beta ruleset), and sing the Mantic sprues to build a set of 'Deadzone Mortalis' boards for interior games. Best of both worlds, I think.

You can get a tighter fit by cutting the pegs off the connectors and gluing everything together. There will be some long walls coming out soon as well that enable less "boxy" terrain and more in the way of octagonal shapes or buildings with bevelled corners.

 Pacific wrote:

 scarletsquig wrote:
All the mercs other than Boomer, Chovar and Helfather are included in Strike Team.

8 restic minis in their own bag.

The other three were paid add-ons and will be metal due to lack of demand in the first survey.

Can confirm that I got the Hellfather in my pack. And, very nice he is too!

Really surprised that there wasn't more interest in him, thought evil-dwarf type things were 'in' at the moment!

Doesn't necessarily mean he was unpopular, just that Mantic have to sell a certain quantity before they make it in restic. Judging by ~2500 dreadball backers and restic MVPs for that I'd say that figure lies somewhere around 2000-3000 minis for a restic tool.

They should have stuck with the Brian Blessed-ish head.

 Azazelx wrote:
The Mantic board with all the barricades that we keep seeing that picture of looks nothing like a real ...anything.

Actually, it looks like an urban themed paintball field to me. That is the only way I can explain the silly positioning of the barricades.

I have a miniature that came with my Kickstarter- not entirely sure what it is but it basically resembles this-

That's Riller, your random Dreadball MVP.

Pretty much this. Been looking at the original FedEx tracking number I was given that claims to still be in the UK, didn't even know it was supposed to come today :( Oh well, already digitally signed for now and it gives me a chance to finish a comission I'm behind on.

Yeah i got this issue too. Been sitting in the uk for like a week now.

Mine is listed as having gone out from Memphis, TN this morning at 5:30. Still says I should receive it later this morning. I hope they're right.

And my package is still anticipated to ship by 5 December.

 pretre wrote:
Assembled a couple dudes. A bit flashy, but not too bad. My kid is super excited.

I don't think I knew you were a Dad - I thought you were too young to have a 5 year old!

The things you don't know...

But then we often don't know what we don't know.

Anyway, I was impatient and sent a "What's up?!?" email to Mantic - I was told to not worry, and most likely my package would ship this week sometime.

So, it looks like next week will be the arrival time frame for me!


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Joyboozer wrote:
They should have stuck with the Brian Blessed-ish head.

Don't even think about trying to start that crap here!

Mantic is saving the best 'til last Alpharius. That's what I'm telling myself.
*cries*

I was one of the first for the final wave of Dreadball stuff, now I'm in the middle it seems for Deadzone. Maybe they're doing a rotation.

Also, just got an announcement my stuff is in Jamaica! NY, that is... It's practically down the street! Google maps says it is 45 miles away from me at the moment. Can hardly contain myself!!

Got mine, did a quick check and think I've got a number of things missing. Couple of terrain sprues and some of the boosters. Will have to do a more thorough check tomorrow. It's certainly a lot of stuff!

Alpharius, don't be so sure about next week, my package left Nottingham yesterday, and is now out for delivery to my house today by 10:30 am. (I'm in Pittsburgh by the way). So if it ships today or tomorrow you should have it by the end of the week

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
and an extra flamer from the Marauder booster.

I'm pretty sure one of the updates said everyone was getting an extra flamer.
Update #117 "We have added a Marauder Pyro to every Kickstarter faction starter free of charge."