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The DBX EB Rampage pledge manager issue is fixed now.

Starting to feel like the only person who hasn't received a PM invite yet

Just filled out my Pledge Manager with 50 Blaines.

Think episode 3 .Noooooo'oooooooo. Shrug.

Sweet space dwarfs.

I picked Brokkrs in DBX for season 5.. sweet sculpts by the same person who did the Deadzone ones, what's not to like?

Plus I named the things, so I should be the proud owner of a team of them.

Those Brokkr look great! Like the orange jump suit colour scheme as well, and the proportions are somewhat different from what seems to be the standard dwarf (where they don't have knees).

Also - is that a non-Caucasian sci-fi miniature I spy?! I thought that wasn't allowed?!

If I may be evil for a moment . . .

The fact that you're charged each time you add something new to the PM (beyond your original pledge) is great. If this PM will be open until November (really?), you could spend $30 a month on it instead of having to put down a whopping extra $180 in one go, and then having to explain that to the wife.

Not that I see myself spending that much more; stupidly, I front-loaded most of my pledge payment anyway. But it sure makes it easier to get the odd add-on you might have felt pressured to cut out of a large done-in-one payment. I could definitely see getting some more acrylic doors and windows for Deadzone.

Feels like an echo chamber in here! Let me be the next one to repeat the Brokkrs are fantastic, unlike the Crystal...whateverians.

Robots are good too, I think the large flat areas are good for painting loads of chevrons and other techy whatnots.

The FAQ says 30th of September for the closing date

http://www.manticgames.com/kickstarter/DreadBall-Xtreme-Pledge-Manager-FAQ.html

When is the deadline?

We will close off the Pledge Manager on the 30th September.

Still that's 4 months to add things. I've ordered what I want but I have a few things on a reserve list that if I have some spare funds in the next 4 months I might get as well. Plus they still have a few paid for extras to add later like the backer MVPs

It's a 40% Discount shopping cart for anyone to buy anything Dreadball direct from Mantic for the next year or so, essentially, with flat rate shipping of $5.

I may just make use of it, the $340 bundle is really tempting now that it includes the boosters.

So I got mine this afternoon and filled it out. Am I the only one who sprung for some of the Deadzone zombies? Also picked up the MA team. I didn't want the whole game, but I loved the movie. Dreadball team seemed perfect.

I think I'm set with 85 Zombies coming in wave 2 of DZ

Yeah... I think I"m there with you Dave. Maybe 90 for me, but same thing. Seems like a neat way to get ALL THE DREADBALLS, but I'm not sure how much I want that. Maybe the base game, though Xtreme seems more brutal and therefore more fun to me

Guess I've got some time to decide huh.

Those Brokkr are awesome. And kudos on the painter for remembering that people (even fictitious sci-fi dwarf people ) come in more than one skin tone. Overall, a great job on the sculpt and the paint job.

Hm. I'm still waiting for my Mars Attacks invoice. Anyone else still waiting for that one?

 Azazelx wrote:
Hm. I'm still waiting for my Mars Attacks invoice. Anyone else still waiting for that one?

Yep. I think quite a few of us are.

Good. Well, good that it's not just me or anything like that.

Yeah, I'm waiting as well. It would be nice to get it to just check it off the list and stop thinking about MA for a few more months.

I'm wondering if I should up my MA pledge by $300 to get that "all-in-one" set, actually. My current pledge is made of scenery.

I more or less opted for the autofill pledge, but I nitpicked a few things since I already had a lot of mats from Deadzone. Looking forward to seeing how well the two types of scenery mix.

Building the DZ buildings is pretty fun, as long as you've got enough clips or plan to glue. Painting is neat too, there are a lot of surface details, raised or flat, to paint or not paint. I'm finding the tiles and my buildings to be a good size to start working on my airbrushmanship.

That said, I'm having at least as much fun building scratch/found/junk terrain as I am making the DZ stuff :p

Personally, I still think the all in pledge for Mars Attacks was a great sandbox full of carnage.

I tweaked the all in pledge a bit (tossed out the extra mats since I've got DZ ones) and ended up with more Martians and a crap ton of giant bugs.

After binging on Walord's Bolt Action sprues, I'm thinking I'm going to have me a good old slice of 50s Americana Giant Bug Bash, with the Marines attempting to save Greenville from Communist science gone wrong.

If we have until September I may hold out just to see how much more crap ends up at the various pledge levels.

Still waiting for my Mars Attacks invoice AND my Dreadball pledge manager invite, beat that

 GrimDork wrote:
I more or less opted for the autofill pledge, but I nitpicked a few things since I already had a lot of mats from Deadzone. Looking forward to seeing how well the two types of scenery mix.

Building the DZ buildings is pretty fun, as long as you've got enough clips or plan to glue. Painting is neat too, there are a lot of surface details, raised or flat, to paint or not paint. I'm finding the tiles and my buildings to be a good size to start working on my airbrushmanship.

That said, I'm having at least as much fun building scratch/found/junk terrain as I am making the DZ stuff :p

A local online retailer had the mats heavily discounted a month or so ago. Cheaper than the KS prices. Boy did it make me glad that I pledged for several in the KS. I did order some extra clips sprues. We'll see if I got enough once the stuff arrives - when's the ship date for DZ and MA supposed to be again?

 Azazelx wrote:

 GrimDork wrote:
I more or less opted for the autofill pledge, but I nitpicked a few things since I already had a lot of mats from Deadzone. Looking forward to seeing how well the two types of scenery mix.

Building the DZ buildings is pretty fun, as long as you've got enough clips or plan to glue. Painting is neat too, there are a lot of surface details, raised or flat, to paint or not paint. I'm finding the tiles and my buildings to be a good size to start working on my airbrushmanship.

That said, I'm having at least as much fun building scratch/found/junk terrain as I am making the DZ stuff :p

A local online retailer had the mats heavily discounted a month or so ago. Cheaper than the KS prices. Boy did it make me glad that I pledged for several in the KS. I did order some extra clips sprues. We'll see if I got enough once the stuff arrives - when's the ship date for DZ and MA supposed to be again?

You and me both Azazel. I think I've snapped a good dozen or so of my clips- but managed to rescue a few that weren't beyond saving lol.

When it comes, the pledge manager email is actually going to say Dreadball Extreme Pledge Manager in the subject line, right? It's not going to be something I mistake for spam and accidentally delete, is it?

<FIRSTNAME> <LASTNAME>, DreadBall Xtreme - The Brutal Sci-fi Sports Board Game is ready for you!‏

From:
PledgeManager Support (support <at> pledgemanager <dot> com)

The email title is

[your kickstarter username], DreadBall Xtreme - The Brutal Sci-fi Sports Board Game is ready for you!

Those Brokkrs look really good. I am looking forward to using the ForgeFathers to make myself a modernized Squat force for games of 2nd edition 40K.

Unfortunately it will have to be retail, as the clinical-level of avoidance of posting any real Forgefather model images other than a blurry Brokkr pic made me stay out of the Kickstarter, as I could not justify paying the money for things sight-unseen, as Mantic has only a so-so record of following their artistic renderings.

What we really need now is a really good shot of a painted squad of the exo-armor.

I just hope that the new Deadzone forces (FF, Asterians, Martians, Humans) are all viable on the field. Too bad about the Rebs; from what I've been reading, some house rules may be required to make them competitive.

Think I'll be giving the Marauder team to my wife or young son to play, or to anyone with less of an interest in Deadzone than myself. Playing against the Marauders sounds like giving yourself a handicap.

As for playing as the Marauders vs. the Rebs, not for me. Sounds like a boring steamroll to victory. Hopefully at least one of the new teams will be able to give the Marauders a run for their money, as I've been modifying the heck out of my Orx and have actually started to like them. It'd be nice to field them against a challenging rival someday.

 Vermonter wrote:
I just hope that the new Deadzone forces (FF, Asterians, Martians, Humans) are all viable on the field. Too bad about the Rebs; from what I've been reading, some house rules may be required to make them competitive.

Think I'll be giving the Marauder team to my wife or young son to play, or to anyone with less of an interest in Deadzone than myself. Playing against the Marauders sounds like giving yourself a handicap.

As for playing as the Marauders vs. the Rebs, not for me. Sounds like a boring steamroll to victory. Hopefully at least one of the new teams will be able to give the Marauders a run for their money, as I've been modifying the heck out of my Orx and have actually started to like them. It'd be nice to field them against a challenging rival someday.

I find the main issue with the rebs is the scour(item grabbing) missions are pretty tough and easy to interrupt and it accounts for half of their missions.