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Regarding head-bitz for Veermyn, Microart studios have some relevant bits. Although for some reason they aren't on their webstore so I had to use Cmon instead.

Gasmasks - https://www.coolminiornot.com/shop/nezumi-heads-chem-set-1.html

Bare - https://www.coolminiornot.com/shop/conversion-lab-1-1/conversion-lab-nezumi-heads-set-1-5.html

Ashigaru - https://www.coolminiornot.com/shop/conversion-lab-1-1/nezumi-ashigaru-heads-set-1.html

Samurai - https://www.coolminiornot.com/shop/conversion-lab-1-1/nezumi-samurai-heads.html

Ah because when Microart split apart, Basicks took the heads. Thanks for the, err, "heads-up"! Those chem heads look perfect.

http://basicks.eu/shop/index.php?id_product=211&controller=product&id_lang=1

 scarletsquig wrote:

 Vermonter wrote:
Everything the Marauders get wrong, the Rebs Teraton gets right. I hope Mantic give this sculptor a lot more work in the future, and that their other sculptors take notice and learn from his work.

Fairly sure it was Steve Saunders who sculpted the Rebs at this point. He's a Ral Partha veteran and his work for Mantic tends to be extremely good.

Edit: Confirmed by Jake here: http://quirkworthy.com/2013/06/15/deadzone-sorak-close-ups/

Interestingly he didn't sculpt the Teraton or Survey drone. Every other Rebs mini is is his work though.

He's doing all the restic forgefathers too (well, anything that isn't a 3d sculpt, anyway) so I think we'll be quite happy with that faction.

Thanks for that info Squig, it's very interesting. Unfortunately it makes it more likely that I'll want to buy an FF starter now, which doesn't exactly fit my budget plan.

http://quirkworthy.com/2014/01/16/some-new-deadzone-mercs/

3 of the named special characters from late in the kickstarter just got stats. Radgrad is brutal, catbacca seems interesting, and the dwarf is very interesting. The flight suit is a jump pack plus glide and also allows him to stop in mid air... crazy

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DreadBall is going digital!

On the 27 January, five new DreadBall e-books are being launched, alongside a companion app for your IOS or Android device of choice, and web browser.

"Mantic Digital is all about buying once and reading anywhere. That means every book and companion app will work as well on the web as on your tablet [and] smartphone."



Sounds cool huh? Read the whole story on the blog, and watch out for more coming in the month!

blog link
http://manticblog.com/2014/01/17/welcome-to-the-future-of-dreadball/?utm_source=Mantic+Games+Newsletter&utm_campaign=e36b0d8254-Mantic_Games_Newsletter_238&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_20fe4cf5a8-e36b0d8254-201384889

Looks like you buy it once it automactically updates and you can use it on any platform once you own it. Now for the price?

Better solution than GW currently has for their digital stuff.

Buy once, use everywhere is the way things should be done.

Assuming it works it sounds good

I saw it pre-demo-ed at the open day. It seems pretty neat. The possibility to manage your, for example, rulebook, rosters/armylists and your entire campaign forces, even going as far to rolling for what skills you get on the tablet seems great.

However, I'm less enthused about Dreadball Season 1, 2 and 3 being different products. I'd be more interested if they were all in 1 fully integrated digital thing, even if it cost more.

 Compel wrote:

However, I'm less enthused about Dreadball Season 1, 2 and 3 being different products. I'd be more interested if they were all in 1 fully integrated digital thing, even if it cost more.

If you look at the phone in that pic you can see that a dreadball compendium with everything in it is also being released.

Ooh, awesome.

For some reason, I thought the Dreadball Compendium was something completely different (the behind the scenes one)

Yeah the blog post mentions that there will be an all inclusive Dreadball compendium available as well.

This could be pretty cool. I'll have to let the people in the know digest the finished product and post up thoughts. Oh and I dontplay ddread ball... maybe when they do it for DZ and KoW... I could use a full sized KoW rulebook, and a compendium with the two newer books would be swell.

Deadzone is definitely on the cards. I don't remember them saying anything about KoW.

I'm also realising that I'm probably well out of date now, because I'm too lazy to read that blog post...

Wow. That looks awesome.

Truthfully, seeing all that Dreadball material displayed on a screen mostly makes me want a Dreadball computer game.

It may be too soon for Mantic, but they really should look at marketing some video game versions of their products. It's a huge additional market.

I understand that for people like us, part of the appeal of minis gaming is the fact that it's NOT on a video screen, and that is indeed a beautiful thing. But I also think many of us are hybrid creatures who are happy to get the best of both worlds.

 GrimDork wrote:
Sounds pretty standardly dwarfish, not badguys, but also not much kindness/softness/understanding. And then the even less nice downtrodden class, cool beans.

Sounds like humans in the real world, to be quite honest....


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nkelsch wrote:

 judgedoug wrote:


Off topic slightly - I love the Veer-Myn models (just bought a hundred of them actually) but I would like some variety - what specific GW heads are you using?

Due to the single-part skaven, your options are:

Stormvermin:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/WARHAMMER-BIN-BITS-SKAVEN-STORMVERMIN-24x-HEADS-/330914277826?pt=Games_US&hash=item4d0c0729c2

Nightrunners: (probably best)
http://www.ebay.com/itm/WARHAMMER-BIN-BITS-SKAVEN-NIGHT-RUNNERS-28x-HEADS-/350780587230?pt=Games_US&hash=item51ac26fcde

expensive gas mask heads:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/WARHAMMER-BIN-BITS-SKAVEN-WARP-LIGHTNING-CANNON-3x-GAS-MASK-HEAD-/360836494993?pt=Games_US&hash=item540387f691

What do you think of:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/WARHAMMER-BIN-BITS-SKAVEN-PLAGUE-MONKS-40x-HEADS-/360645203828?pt=Games_US&hash=item53f8211774

Honestly, I'll probably get a set each of the Stormvermin, Plague Monks and Night Runners heads. Considering the postage, it's only a few extra bucks to have a ton more options, and a well-stock bitz box has always been an asset...


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 judgedoug wrote:
Ah because when Microart split apart, Basicks took the heads. Thanks for the, err, "heads-up"! Those chem heads look perfect.
http://basicks.eu/shop/index.php?id_product=211&controller=product&id_lang=1

Hm, nice heads, five bucks for ten. Not bad, I guess. Oh wait, 5 bucks per five. More than I'm willing to pay to fix the Vermyn models. Back to plastic GW bitz it is!


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 scarletsquig wrote:
Better solution than GW currently has for their digital stuff.

Buy once, use everywhere is the way things should be done.

Buy the printed rulebook, get digital edition bundled is the way it should be done.

I agree that you should get the digital edition free with a printed rulebook. That or offer digital only for cheaper than the printed.

Adding extra value to the digital version that paper format can't offer is also a valid way of doing things.

The Dreadball one will be updated with any new rules amendments (Mantic are very good about regular FAQs), and include some game-helper apps and team builder/ league tracker apps.

From my personal perspective it means I don't need to bother with dreadball league files for battlescribe, there will be an official custom-made solution for that that will work out much better (same goes for deadzone, I've done files for non-campaign games, but campaign game rosters will need dedicated software).

If it all goes as well as it sounds I can see myself buying digital editions and not bothering with paper.

The pricing has been pretty reasonable so far on the digital stuff and it looks like they'll be doing bulk deals on everything.

It's nice to see them following Privateer Press rather than GW.

Re: Free stuff and the surveys vs initial pledges:

Hi Eben,

Thanks for getting in touch.

The hardback compendium is actually free at $750, the softback version is free at $300 and we will include second survey results when making this calculation.

Hope that helps.

Thanks,

Chris!

Gotta love digital.

Well, if the second survey counts I'm actually gonna qualify for the hardback...

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Well, if the second survey counts I'm actually gonna qualify for the hardback...

Yeah, I'm working my way up right now.

Just the softback at $300 for me, although I will be rethinking my Mars Attacks pledge and putting $75 of it on more deadzone terrain. I would have put more in if the alt Rebs commander wasn't pre-survey cash only, but since I missed that boat I'll leave it.

With Dreadball Extreme I might just get the KS exclusives then buy it retail, I don't feel the need to get loads and loads of teams for that.

With KoW 2.0 I will get a large Nature army (really looking forward to this and hope it doesn't go as badly as the Basileans did).

Then if Warpath appears later on the year, that's the one I'm going nuts with. $1k+.

Really at this point I think we need to start seeing some production sprue samples for deadzone. And good hi-res pictures of them, too.

Has Mantic started replying to everyone who had problems with their Deadzone shipments?

Or, maybe the better questions is, WILL Mantic be replying to everyone who had problems with their Deadzone shipments, or are we just going to get the replacements and/or missing items in our second shipment boxes?

Well they've just posted on facebook

We can confirm that Deadzone will be returning on 14th February 2014. Details are over at the blog, with more to come later in the week!

http://manticblog.com/2014/01/20/return-to-nexus-psi/

so they should certainly have enough of everything in stock soon to send out replacements

They have responded to my request for my missing parts from the Rebs starter I bought at a FLGS. They have sent the parts out about 5 days after I sent in my request. Take from that what you will.

I'm not sure what to take from that.

Has anyone heard back from Mantic on missing/damaged stuff from the Deadzone Kickstarter campaign?

I haven't yet...

 Alpharius wrote:
I'm not sure what to take from that.

Has anyone heard back from Mantic on missing/damaged stuff from the Deadzone Kickstarter campaign?

I haven't yet...

Message them through KS. I get good responses on that.