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Just had an email about dreadball extreme, short version is that the main boxed game is on the boat and due in the end of novemmber.
There also some pics of production models for the mvps and sponsors, they look very nice and the new blaine in particular looks bad ass as normal.

Too bad Mantic scared away the normals with their delays and no-photo policies.

I'm actually really glad I did exactly what I used to mock scarletsquig for and ordered the Rebs and Sphyr teams sight unseen.

I can't remember what teams I ordered, but really wish it had been more Deadzone terrain instead, that stuffs awesome!

Well, turns out my stuff is in. I just shipped to the wrong apt. My old landlord called me last night. So it's 4 miles away. Time to go pick it up.


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Well, crap. I thought I ordered ruins and landing pad, I got a fortification and landing pad. No ruins. Already sent an email to check their logs and see whether I made an ordering error or if they put the wrong order together. I really wanted ruins.

And I retract my earlier statement of disliking the spider look. I'm just not a fan of the paint job they did, the model itself is amazing!!

Barzam got his Mars Attacks figures today, and I was both jealous and impressed.

Jealous because I"m still waiting on my goodies.

Impressed by the quality of the figures. Very nice. No noticeable flash that I saw on anything. He had human soldiers and all the bounty hunter/ tiger force guys.

The truck though! Why hasn't anything been said about this kit? It's basically Mantic's first honest to goodness plastic vehicle (at least that I can think of)! Very solid work on that.

My only minor gripe was that the wheels couldn't roll once the tires and axles are all glued together, because who doesn't want to roll their models all over the table making machine gun noises?

Eagerly anticipating the crate of plastic goodness that I'll be getting, hopefully soon! Bring on my robots, saucers, and insect legions!

The truck is hard plastic? You are sure?

Not 100% sure. Certainly feels like it. Came with a bunch of the parts on a sprue even.

I'm sure he'll pop up in this thread sooner or later and can confirm better than I can what the thing is actually made of.

I hope he tries gluing it with model glue, just to see if it bonds.

That truck was really crisp, whatever material it was.

Gave me VERY high hope for what they can do when it's time for Warpath and piles of tanks and aerial support (and hopefully some bigger mechs while they're at it).

I thought the Truck, Giant Stompy, and possibly saucer were all liable to be hard plastic, but I guess it may or may not have been written in stone.

My Edwyn model has mold lines. Everything else is clear of them though.

Every single model I got for Mars attacks had mold lines, they're models that came out of a mold...

They didn't have noticeable flash though, and many had mold lines small enough that a lot of people might ignore them and continue to lead a happy life.

I'm more concerned about Edwyn's bendy sword, I'm either gonna replace it with plasticard or give it one last chance with an overcorrection via hot water (bending it into place and setting with cold water saw it eventually bend back over a few hours).

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
Gave me VERY high hope for what they can do when it's time for Warpath and piles of tanks and aerial support (and hopefully some bigger mechs while they're at it).

If bigger Mechs are only an "outside chance" kind of thing on a Warpath KS, Mantic are shooting themselves in the foot.

That said, I'd rather they kept the tanks and dropships looking like tanks and dropships, and mechs looking like mechs. I'm not so thrilled with the combinations they previewed years ago:





Time to hire a new concept artist.

WOW those are a blast from the past there Vermonter.

Is it wrong I like the half wolf half tank thing.

 Vermonter wrote:

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:

That first drawing:

Those are all terri-bad.

I hope they've moved on from them...

What is that thing, I don't remember it from the cartoon.

It's the Trailblazer. It only appeared in one or two edpisodes.

Hell, if mantic got the Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors licence and made a White Line Fever style game I would sell a kidney.

They're ancient artwork from brainstorming WP 1. Sort of 'anything goes' territory before anything was properly established.

What would it take to get the cat/tank made? I still love it.

Wow, I haven't seen those photos in ages.

Or maybe I just intentionally blocked them from my memory. Wow.

Beyond words.

That cat with tread legs. What were they thinking?

But it's awesome, stick some skulls on it and it could be used in any GW army!
I do honestly like it.

Probably that they could sell it to kids based on the fact that CAT WITH TREAD LEGS LASERS PEW PEW!

Or something.

Stoked that they're busting out the shipping on MA, can't wait to get my big stompy robots etc.

Interesting that Ronnie wrote the Mars Attacks hardcover compendium could be the last one they do (in the latest Mars Attacks update.)

Some properties / games don't really need hardcovers; DBX didn't need one, even if I would have bought it, and I don't really think Mars Attacks needed one, either, although I'm delighted they did it and am looking forward to my copy. But when it comes to major lines like Warpath, I'm not sure we're far enough into the digital age that a nice hardcover isn't worth doing anymore. Maybe not a KS exclusive one - I don't really care about the exclusive aspect - but some sort of release. There's something about a weighty hardcover tome of lore and rules that says (to my generation, anyway,) "this is a game to take seriously."

I'd probably miss the opportunity to get the stories in print form most, since I'm not into reading pdfs and e-books and the limited Deadzone hardcover was the only print edition that contained the stories.

As for the Mars Attacks hardcover delay, I hope it's because the latest pdf rules (the points rules, mostly) will be contained in it too. If they aren't, there's going to be Hell to pay.*

*Nothing will happen.

I have KoW in hardcover, I'd kind of like Warpath in hardcover as well. Actually, I'd have preferred Deadzone and Dreadball core books hardcover too, as they hold up better to wear and tear.


Totally plugging my own thread here, but my painted Howlett model is up on display in the "show your deadzone" thread.

Seems like they're having trouble getting them produced in a timely manner which is probably why he doesn't know if they'll continue?

I wasn't too happy with the Dead Zone hard back. Maybe they realized the rules format they use (multiple small books) just doesn't work as well when combined under a single cover?

Wow I missed the cat tank , wonder if I still have that broken yellow lion downstairs, I know I still have a damaged leman Russ

Sorry I just had to.

Bionicle's Kane Ra - Cat with tracks

Okay so they're shipping people high quality hard plastic vehicles and not posting pics?

How fething hard is it to take a fething picture of your gak and post it? For feth's sake, Mantic!

Apparently pretty hard, because I haven't seen any backer recipients take and post photos of it either!