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Blocked out profile looks good (although the drum and other box on the far left and far right sides make the turret a tad too wide looking imo). I will keep an eye on the WIP thread

Paulson models will deserve much more than cardstock buildings...

Impudent Mortals did some 15mm or 10mm collapsible buildings for their last KS, might have to look into it.

Impudent Mortals doesn't have a website?

Those models are larger than I expected they would be. Should look really nice on the table.

Hawk Wargames is about to release their 10mm cardstock buildings pack, that may be worth looking at for inspiration. It's certainly going to be a lifesaver for those of us who needed terrain in that scale (as it is very building dependent) but didn't want / have the money to buy resin buildings.

 Alpharius wrote:
Apologies if this has already been brought up and I missed it, but is there going to be some readily available properly scaled terrain offered up as well?

There are a fair number of companies doing 15mm terrain and terrain parts now.
Proxie models (cheap plastic building walls..)
Khurasan
Atenociti's
Old Crow
Ground Zero Games
Sabol Studios
etc...

Tons of 15mm Terrain options announced and sometimes reviewed here
http://dropshiphorizon.blogspot.com.ar/

As mentioned, Train scale terrain can work well in some cases. Technically HO (20mm aprox) is too big, and N (10mm aprox) is too small but often times industrial themed models will be less scale specific than you might think. I've used a large HO scale engine shed with 28mm figs, and 15mm Proxy models buildings with N scale figures, so there are alot of possibilities for crossover.

*sigh* all these beautiful models are work blocked

The stuff I have seen has been awesome, and this will probably get some of my AdeptiCon or GenCon cash.

I doubt it'd launch by AdeptiCon (middle of next month) but I definitely think we'd see it before GenCon (which is 5 months away still).

 RiTides wrote:
I doubt it'd launch by AdeptiCon (middle of next month) but I definitely think we'd see it before GenCon (which is 5 months away still).

Lol, you mistake my words good sir... Cash is tight, those are cons that are coming up in the next year that I'm going to, any money I spend on a Mecha Front KS is cash I don't have for those cons.

Any idea when this kickstarter will hit?

I ask because it seems that every other kickstarter just hit, and Zombicide also wants my money.

I won't have any firm a firm date until after adepticon, so please go ahead and feed your zombie pledges.

I'll give about a 30 day notice before I put anything up on kickstarter, plus 30 days for it to run so that will give everyone at least a two month window if not slightly longer. I have some business ends I need to handle before I can launch things, if it goes as planned it'll certainly be worth the wait.

Impudent Mortal does not have a website yet, but he will soon. I'll post it as soon as I know. You can look at his KS page though:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1141913215/impudent-mortals-gaming-terrain

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
Impudent Mortal does not have a website yet, but he will soon. I'll post it as soon as I know. You can look at his KS page though:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1141913215/impudent-mortals-gaming-terrain

that is... interesting!

I'm also more than OK with print it yourself on cardstock terrain as well!

Nothing but the best for my Paulson stuff. I swung by Udisco today.

Spring break is not a good time to be there. The place was crawling with kids. But the N scale stuff is... pricey. I remember playing Battletech on a battlefield as big as, say, 16 loose leaves (8 1/2 X 11), would we be looking at much more than that?

A 4x4 table would be the default size.

(People can always go larger if they want)

A bunch of the Kato buildings are around $20 for a 4 story building which I don't think is too bad for pre-built stuff, although it's definately more expensive than card stock.

I have enough cardstock building to make a city large enough for a 6x8 table and I probably ended up spending about $100-$150 on it due to all the ink (And likely another $40-$50 on various PDFs) . There was several days worth of cutting and gluing involved as well. I used buildings from World Works which I resized in photoshop which took additional time but worked out really nicely. I left all the balconies and fire escapes off as they are fiddley at smaller scales.

http://www.worldworksgames.com/store/index.php?view=catalog&cat_id=1&genre_id=2

One huge upside of the paper terrain is they can be replaced easily if damaged and are strong enough to support stuff like Privateer Warjacks so they should be able to hold the mechs I'll be making. (although maybe not the quads). They also are light so I have all mine tucked away in a file box on a shelf.


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4x4 table game? That is good size to start. It is somewhat funny that I am downsizing my boards to that format. I can get more people into the same area, enjoying a game/tournament than 4x6's.

http://store.gcmshop.com/c/114/mdf-series?pagenumber=2

This stuff is gold. Cheap, Big, Many Floors.

Also playing stompy bot on a 15mm ikea is gonna be fuuuuun.

Wow, those do look good. Are you referring primarily to the top 2 buildings listed at the link?

Do you have some of them? Would love to see pics / size comparison shots / etc

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
Nothing but the best for my Paulson stuff. I swung by Udisco today.

Spring break is not a good time to be there. The place was crawling with kids. But the N scale stuff is... pricey. I remember playing Battletech on a battlefield as big as, say, 16 loose leaves (8 1/2 X 11), would we be looking at much more than that?

Remember also , that although N scale industrial stuff might look ok, N (10mm) scale residential stuff is going to seem small, next to 15mm especially things like doors, windows, etc on the ground floors.

Not saying it couldn't work -and if you're just using mechs, it's relative anyway- but if you're going to use infantry, you're going to notice a difference.

The gamecraft link mostly solved that, though, Eilif.

I'm waiting on two of their 28mm wild west buildings, so I'll have an idea of the quality of their product. If it's good, then I'll go for that and be done with it.


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And their foamboard series are even cheaper!

What will the game style be like for the Bloc and the NorAm? Will they generally play the same but with different weapon options or will they have a unique feel between the two?

As long as there isn't a 65 tons mech with a giant axe to ruin my day...

 RiTides wrote:
Wow, those do look good. Are you referring primarily to the top 2 buildings listed at the link?

Do you have some of them? Would love to see pics / size comparison shots / etc

Actually I don't. I have been trying to find some 15mm mecha to play on them with first. Dug that link out of my bookmarks.

But I do want blow up that ikea.

I'm a day behind for holding my planned "Mecha Front Monday" preview so I'll have to make up with it with an extra piece.


Medium Scout Class Mechs






Plus an extra special Blackfrost preview, a homage to one of my all time favorite mechs






The concept art has been fun but I'm reaching the edge of my inital budget, so I've altered my plans a bit in regards to the kickstarter. I toying with the idea of running two seperate kickstarters.

The first would be strictly for funding color art pieces for each mech (and all sub-variations) as well as rulesbook illustrations. The goal will be to raise $3,500 anything beyond that will be added into the pool for additional artwork to be used in making the PDF. Contributors will be listed as game contributors in the credits, and recieve a special advanced release of the rules PDF and a second PDF of high resolution artwork that won't be made available outside the kickstarters. The advance PDF's will also include files for printing out card stock mechs and buildings, both in full size versions or in half scale.

I'll also be making a special half scale model available for the kickstarter backers. I should be submitting the project for approval next week.


The second kickstarter will be centered around getting the models into production and will offer the full size models as rewards.


By taking this on as two seperate projects it'll let me speed up the funding for the art work and address rules much quicker.


Let me know what you guys think.

Jon

Honestly, I think it's a terrible idea. If you're going to build momentum for a game in a kickstarter go big.

No one wants to buy a rulebook and then wait for the minis to be released. If you have to pare back the initial number of factions to have models produced that's one thing, but from a momentum standpoint, there's nothing to be gained by splitting up the kickstarters.

Besides, if it's a good game, $3500 for the artwork should only be a fraction of your goal anyway. Take a look at the goals for most other kickstarters, $3500 is chump change.

I love those 2 concept pieces! Not sure about the split, it would depend on what's on offer in the first. As much as I love the art so far, I'm here for the models.

Edit: Ninja'ed, and yeah I agree with Eilif about momentum. Would be better to wait a bit longer than do piecemeal like that, I think.

Digging Blackfrost's Heavy there.

I think the split is a bad idea, but what do I know? Whatever you end up doing I hope it is a smashing sucess!

 paulson games wrote:


Plus an extra special Blackfrost preview, a homage to one of my all time favorite mechs




Let me know what you guys think.

Jon

I'm thinking I need to stark putting money aside for the kickstarter.

As for the rules vs models debate: make cool models first, and the rules can follow. See also: GW, Dreamforge, and Wyrd Miniatures.

I think it's a mistake,

1/2 scale models seem to be fairly pointless gameing wise (but still expensive for you to make)

by all means if you need to drop the number of initial units to add art into the KS budget do so (so 4/4/2 instead of 6/6/4 for mech numbers)

I too would say skip the half scale items. Just give you the good stuff. I know my next statement may have some backlash, but here goes... Why don't you hold off on the quads until ou reach a higher ks goal. That would allow you to get more o the smaller mechs out and people to get used to the combat system, then can add the quads later for the really big conflicts. I'd love to see the big dogs get out there, but if you get a good base system going then expand with the larger models, and additional factions then I think you might get further.