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So they said that we are supposed to be getting four humans with the Rebs starter, is that what you all that have correct packaging are getting?

I got 4 humans (not including the commander).

 Riquende wrote:
I got 4 humans (not including the commander).

This pleases me. I'm planning to use them for something else I'm working on, so that's great news.

Hey

Just was wondering what you guys are doing for Glue. I've used 3 different type of plastic glue, model super glue, household crazy glue and model cement. Honestly I can't get anything to hold. The enforcers have been the worst offenders. I'd like to build the models but I need to find better glue.

 The_0perator wrote:
Hey

Just was wondering what you guys are doing for Glue. I've used 3 different type of plastic glue, model super glue, household crazy glue and model cement. Honestly I can't get anything to hold. The enforcers have been the worst offenders. I'd like to build the models but I need to find better glue.

I don't know how well it works on the new restic, but the cyanoacrylate (5-15 second curing) glue that I bought at Hobbytown works fairly well on the enforcers that I previously bought, as well as my Dreadball minis.

Well, my stuff arrived exactly when UPS said it would.

Haven't gone through it yet though.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Well, my stuff arrived exactly when UPS said it would.

Haven't gone through it yet though.

well, i hope you enjoy your box of wonder

i've almost finished building all my terrain (i didn't add any extra to my pledge, so i don't have the mountains some people do), but its still let me turn out a goodly amount of stuff

I haven't got the new restic stuff yet, but I tend to use dollar store superglue on anything that isn't a sponge. I may try my craftics #33 acrylic cement too... if it bonds restic to acrylic bases...maybe it'll do restic-restic.

 The_0perator wrote:
Hey

Just was wondering what you guys are doing for Glue. I've used 3 different type of plastic glue, model super glue, household crazy glue and model cement. Honestly I can't get anything to hold. The enforcers have been the worst offenders. I'd like to build the models but I need to find better glue.

I've just been using good ole Zap a Gap.

I've been using brown stuff and super glue for a while now for everything, seems to work like a charm.

So I endeavored to put some of the stuff together, and I must say I'm not super impressed with the models. There are lots and lots of mould lines and they may actually be more abundant than what we got with Sedition Wars.

This is my first Mantic purchase; are mould lines pretty much the status qup for their restic kits?

Mine should be here bright and early tomorrow morning! I feel bad for my girlfriend, I've been bouncing off the walls all weekend, annoying the hell out of her about it.

Big box... so much lewts. Looks like I got everything but still need to do a full check of individual minis, compare sprues for extra battlezones etc. Really happy with the quality of pretty much everything. Restic, antenocitii resin, dice, coloured dice, books, mats, terrain. No extras /shakesfist ; p

The acrylic counters I'm not sure I'm hugely sold on yet, but only had a quick look. Mantic does need to work on their "random" minis though. 3 FF MVPs in 3 strike teams isn't ideal, people were having the same prob with their christmas boxes too. My accessory sprues were delayed until second shipment too, must have been a lot of demand.

Super Glue brand super glue seems to be working just fine on the restic. I pick it up in packs of two at the dollar store. I used to spend $4 on a bottle of Zap-a-gap that would clog halfway through, this is just as much glue and it works just as well. for much cheaper and less clogging.

After playing around with the terrain all weekend, I'm less impressed than i thought I'd be. It's cool having hard plastic terrain pieces, make no mistake, but I just went with the basic strike zone package and I'm finding the clips provided and the 90° angles very very limiting. They're fiddly and break easily trying to assemble and disassemble (it usually takes some force to snap them in place, even just pushing them together with pliers/screwdriver) Mantic really should put an extra sprue of connectors in each battlezone, even if you don't break any you are pretty much forced to use the detail connectors in places you don't necessarily want them, and it would REALLY be nice if the 45° ones were included in the Core Worlds, even if they took the place of a few straight/90s.

Works out being superior to the Imex/Pegasus Platformer sets, but not as good as the Hexagon set. It does look more hi-tech than the hexagon stuff. I give it a solid 3/5 stars, but I'm not blown away by it

 cincydooley wrote:
So I endeavored to put some of the stuff together, and I must say I'm not super impressed with the models. There are lots and lots of mould lines and they may actually be more abundant than what we got with Sedition Wars.

This is my first Mantic purchase; are mould lines pretty much the status qup for their restic kits?

Yes, I call it the Mantic Aura.

It's extremely disappointing to see the mould lines are still this bad, it's not on everything but enough to be a pain.

So using the bag numbers from the update, can anyone tell me exactly what bags I should have if I'm expecting the Faction Starter + Faction booster Bundle for all 4 factions (except the delayed Enforcer booster ofc)?

I'm cataloguing everything that was loose in the big box before cracking open the retail box, and I'm feeling really light on rebs right now.

Glad more people are getting their DZ boxes, it really is an awesome game. yeah i got 4 humans, ive converted 2, so everyone is unique. I think the new restic is fine for wargamers, but abit trickey for those just wanting a board game, which tjhey have kind of marketed at.

NTRabbit wrote:
So using the bag numbers from the update, can anyone tell me exactly what bags I should have if I'm expecting the Faction Starter + Faction booster Bundle for all 4 factions (except the delayed Enforcer booster ofc)

There should be a list of the bags on the invoice paper.

 scarletsquig wrote:

NTRabbit wrote:
So using the bag numbers from the update, can anyone tell me exactly what bags I should have if I'm expecting the Faction Starter + Faction booster Bundle for all 4 factions (except the delayed Enforcer booster ofc)

There should be a list of the bags on the invoice paper.

There is, but according to the invoice paper I don't have a single bag of Enforcers in my shipment at all, so right now I'm either disinclined to believe the bit of paper, or worried that it's right and I'm missing an entire faction plus who knows what else.

Of course what I'm actually doing is completely misreading the invoice, and the bulleted items underneath Strike Team Package are not the sum total of the boxed game, but what is inside the boxed game in addition to the retail standard.

Back to counting. So far I'm down one head (see, those head counts are important ) and up and down some terrain.

I haven't done a full parts inventory of my pledge yet, but i did notice that i received an extra 'Marauder 3' bag. (The one with the captain model, 2 commandos and 2 mawbeasts.). I also received an extra female Rebel leader along with a second type 1 plague model in my booster bundle bags.

We're we supposed to get extras of those 2 models?

Aren't mould lines just a part of the hobby? Plastic, resin, restic (not sure about metals, I avoid them) all have them. The mould lines can be large on restic, but large or small they take the same time to clean since it's still covering the same surface area? Only problem is when they're in a bad location, like faces or other detail areas like cables.

Except the old restic which was spongey and a PITA.

 Yonan wrote:
Aren't mould lines just a part of the hobby? Plastic, resin, restic (not sure about metals, I avoid them) all have them. The mould lines can be large on restic, but large or small they take the same time to clean since it's still covering the same surface area? Only problem is when they're in a bad location, like faces or other detail areas like cables.

Except the old restic which was spongey and a PITA.

Normally I'd say yes, but they're sort of everywhere and are in plenty of bad locations, and some are multiple millimeters thick.

My box just got delivered today, and some of the models are fantastic. I'm particularly impressed with the Plague First Generation and the Plague Teraton.

Unfortunately, I'll have to echo folks above - the mould lines are absolutely appalling. It's taken me 3 solid hours to clean, de-mould, and put together just 4 models, and they'll need a good bit of greenstuffing.

In all honesty, though, I probably stuffed up my Plague Grenadier - he's got a huge one inch gap between the launcher and his wrist. I must've misjudged something when gluing him up.

Still, pretty happy. I'll put in an order to get some Microarts Studio Biotech bases, and then I can get to assembling the rest of the models and painting them up.

gohkm wrote:


In all honesty, though, I probably stuffed up my Plague Grenadier - he's got a huge one inch gap between the launcher and his wrist. I must've misjudged something when gluing him up.

You have to be exaggerating. No way you have a 1 inch gap.

Snark left at home, definitely a fish story.

Still waiting for my loots.

@yonan *all* of your accessory sprues? Holy god I will excrete multiple bricks forcibly and be inconsolable for weeks.

Somewhat worried that this will happen seeing how far down the shipping queue I am... =\

I got the ones inside my strike teams thankfully Grim, but none for the extra battlezones which is what, 4-8 I forget exactly. So maybe your 300 accessory sprues are being delayed too - or you have mine ; p

As long as I get some I'll live I guess. I'll hardly be able to process *everything* I ordered in one sitting anyway.

 Yonan wrote:
I got the ones inside my strike teams thankfully Grim, but none for the extra battlezones which is what, 4-8 I forget exactly. So maybe your 300 accessory sprues are being delayed too - or you have mine ; p

Exactly the same for me, only I also ended up with a bonus terrain 4.1 and 5.1 floating around the box, bonus 1st Gen because apparently the specialist booster in the bundle is everything in the Plague start bag minus the 1st Gen and I guess someone forgot to take it out, and didn't get a Dreadball MVP.

 Yonan wrote:
My accessory sprues were delayed until second shipment too, must have been a lot of demand.

Sooo.... Mantic's running out of stuff for the lucky 1% of us whose pledges haven't shipped yet?

Finally had time to assemble some Deadzone figs last night, started with the Marauders.

A few things I noticed:

- new restic is way better than Dreadball. easy to scrape off mold lines with my Z-series Xacto and can file it no problem.

- speaking of mold lines, virtually none. the Marauder with two rifles had a thin mold line, and there was a mold line on the commander's hat, but I got the whole team assembled in about 45 minutes including some head swaps (so the duplicated dudes don't look exactly the same).

- the models have great detail! not as great as, say, Mierce resins, but I also pay a ton of money for that level of detail. these guys are great. i looked at the completed team, realized i had three more teams to do, and then 30+ sprues of terrain, and i literally can't believe the deal i got on all this.