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 DaveC wrote:

New update confirms 2 for $20!

Holy crap again!

 GrimDork wrote:
@Squall if those peacekeepers go the distance and look good at production... my marines will be dead to me, terminators are the only *cool* thing the space marines do that I don't like something else better.

Holy crap! That peacekeeper on the bike is amazing I'm not sure what I was expecting, but it's so full of win. Zero-cheesecake, totally serious, sick-ass monobike


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Are these pictures in the survey or is my internet being wonky about registering the update?

I'm a huge fan too. Thats why these stuck out. I would use those in my 40k games and love every second of it. All that being said, we still need to see the final product before we get TOO far ahead of ourselves. Still pretty exciting.

The monobike is not for me. You are right on it not being cheesecake, but the idea of a monobike in a warzone has always struck me as silly. How stable can that thing be. I understand thats just as silly, coming from a man who plays with space marines, but its just a personal hang up. Its not bad looking for what it is though.

@nkelsch I think their fantasy zombie sprue has more packed in, although it *is* for a fantasy game where you tend to have movement trays and a bit of spare space to put casualties, extra shields, and the like.

Hey there was a page flip, did you guys notice this?

With the time/quality constraints we face, we are going to make both the Asterians and Forge Fathers in Resin Plastic as we first announced during the Kickstarter. We did suggest at one point they would go hard plastic too, but with the amount of hard plastic we’d need to do now we’ve seen the Zombies, the delays would be unacceptable.

 GrimDork wrote:
Hey there was a page flip, did you guys notice this?

With the time/quality constraints we face, we are going to make both the Asterians and Forge Fathers in Resin Plastic as we first announced during the Kickstarter. We did suggest at one point they would go hard plastic too, but with the amount of hard plastic we’d need to do now we’ve seen the Zombies, the delays would be unacceptable.

About par for the course at this point, unfortunately.

Is that not a reb on the monobike thing? looks very un-Enforcer-sh . Am loving the update, my wallet may not.

Edit, scratch that the biker has Recon's armour and boots.

I was in for "one of everything" as it was, so I ordered and intend to keep both faction starters and boosters, though I don't think I'll be getting any extras.

@ToT it is the enforcer recon on infiltrator bike. She's meant to be more along the lines of Recon N-whatever, than a standard peacekeeper in full body armor.

 GrimDork wrote:

With the time/quality constraints we face, we are going to make both the Asterians and Forge Fathers in Resin Plastic as we first announced during the Kickstarter. We did suggest at one point they would go hard plastic too, but with the amount of hard plastic we’d need to do now we’ve seen the Zombies, the delays would be unacceptable.

I get people are all about timetables, I suppose it is the only thing left Mantic can claim... But it seems wasteful to produce the same model in multiple processes and materials.

I don't know about you guys, but I would always choose 'delay with superior end product' over 'on time, less quality product'. I wonder if they gave people an option of 'wait for hard plastic' how many backers would choose that over restic?

 GrimDork wrote:
I was in for "one of everything" as it was, so I ordered and intend to keep both faction starters and boosters, though I don't think I'll be getting any extras.

I will probably end up buying them as well, but it would have been SO MUCH COOLER if they had done them in hard plastic. I kind of expected this though.

 GrimDork wrote:
@nkelsch I think their fantasy zombie sprue has more packed in, although it *is* for a fantasy game where you tend to have movement trays and a bit of spare space to put casualties, extra shields, and the like.

Nope, it's actually quite light on components, the warpath sprue has more with 5 different legs and bodies, 7 heads and 10 seperate arms:



Plague Zombie sprue is awesome, million times better than the men-at-arms.

Details are good, too:

I'd wait for sure. Besides the fact that it would let them have the hard plastic frames to sell at a later date (freeing up some space in the future WP kickstarter), I do prefer HP over restic.

@SS you are correct, maybe it was the ghoul sprue... or no.. probably the skeleton sprue that I was really thinking of when I said zombies. I clipped all of them out ages ago so I was remembering incorrectly, thanks for setting me straight

 GrimDork wrote:
Hey there was a page flip, did you guys notice this?

With the time/quality constraints we face, we are going to make both the Asterians and Forge Fathers in Resin Plastic as we first announced during the Kickstarter. We did suggest at one point they would go hard plastic too, but with the amount of hard plastic we’d need to do now we’ve seen the Zombies, the delays would be unacceptable.

Yeah, that is disappointing, but it just means I'll end up saving money here, and waiting to see what happens during the inevitable Warpath KS.

Oh! Oh oh oh! Those fugging zombies DON'T HAVE THE FUGGING INTEGRATED BASES!!! Zomg WIN!

I think the missing integrated bases alone have sold me on the 80 zombie bundle! And the 2 for $20 striders too.

Squall said

I will probably end up buying them as well, but it would have been SO MUCH COOLER if they had done them in hard plastic. I kind of expected this though.

I'm just glad the zombies and peacekeepers, and enforcers are going through. The other two kits would have been great, but at least they're doing 3 kits out of potential 5, instead of none.

Just need a close up on the zombie sprue heads now. Great to have payment open until June, many pay packets to come between now and then.

You're right Grim, I didn't even notice that. I wonder what the bases will look like or if they will expect you to just flip the regular base over and use the bottom.

Everything looks nice so far. Disappointing about Asterians/FF going back to restic, of course.

Also a bit worried about how sharp the detail on the Strider will be if it's restic.

My big mech is pretty sharp. I realize it's a new tool or whatever, but I'm not concerned about that point at all.

Holy crap at the new stuff not pictured yet:
Sorak Swordspawn
Plague enforcer (saves me the effort!)
fusion/thermal gun enforcer
couple of other things.

And I suspect you would just flip the standard mantic base, it's easy and doesn't require any more work.

Hey there's a thought, did we ever ask if the crazy 80 zombies for $45 included bases?

I think they did say, 'might' for those two, though. So, I, personally, am not too upset about that. I can certainly understand if others were miffed though. - They're coming right out and offering a refund though.

In other news... To echo a half dozen other people. HOLY CRAP.

An extract from my survey:

Light Support Vehicles
Female Enforcer Pathfinder on Infiltrator Bike and on Foot - $20: 1
Corporation Strider (usable by Rebs or Enforcers in Deadzone) - $20: 2
Plague Strider - $20: 1
Marauder Stuntbot - $20:
Forge Father Iron Ancestor (Deadzone Version) - $20:

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6 support vehicles. 6! And I already have 2 dreadball Big Mechs. Flipping heck.

Redacted. I thought it said the compendium was 3 books now, but I think that's only at release, I think the proper limited edition compendium is still all one piece.

I am just so happy with this update. Only downer is no hard plastic forgefathers/ asterians, which is a bit of a shame since that's $100 I was going to spend (on FF/ Asterian starters and boosters). I.. just can't deal with anymore restic piles right now!

Oh well, maybe the Warpath KS will make it happen.

 Compel wrote:
I think they did say, 'might' for those two, though. So, I, personally, am not too upset about that. I can certainly understand if others were miffed though. - They're coming right out and offering a refund though.

In other news... To echo a half dozen other people. HOLY CRAP.

An extract from my survey:

Light Support Vehicles
Female Enforcer Pathfinder on Infiltrator Bike and on Foot - $20: 1
Corporation Strider (usable by Rebs or Enforcers in Deadzone) - $20: 2
Plague Strider - $20: 1
Marauder Stuntbot - $20:
Forge Father Iron Ancestor (Deadzone Version) - $20:

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6 support vehicles. 6! And I already have 2 dreadball Big Mechs. Flipping heck.

Compel, the Plague Strider is 2 for 1 too.

@SS Yeah, I think for the FF, at least they were elite/limited units that didn't make the plastic cut. I would have really liked to see the cyphers in HP. I'm sure those we get will still be nice enough.

And someone with a better eye for words read over that compendium bit, maybe they just mean there will be three books for normal orders that didn't order the compendium, and the big book itself is unchanged. I got lost in the words, better go paint instead.

Woohoo, I'm totally going to get a free hardback book from going over 750. lol

The delay would be perfectly acceptable to me. Much rather wait for a better product.

So you double both strider variants but not the stunt bot or the iron ancestor? The bargain makes me happy to order the first two, but a bit reluctant to get a mech for the latter two factions =/

 GrimDork wrote:
So you double both strider variants but not the stunt bot or the iron ancestor? The bargain makes me happy to order the first two, but a bit reluctant to get a mech for the latter two factions =/

Yes. Corp/Reb/Plague Strider is 2 for 1. The rest are not. They said a lot of people ordered the Strider so they are able to do a deal.

Same with the bike, the render is great but $20 may be a bit too much. pretty much the worst value on the survey, but then again it is packed with massive value elsewhere.

The Strider is now being made in PVC restic where as the Stunt bot, Pathfinder and Iron Ancestor upgrades are being made from "premium resin" hence the prices.