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The buildings look nice. The miniatures look awful. The sniper and engineer are fine, but everything else is Terminator-shaped instead of person-shaped.

I was hoping for something more Dead Space than mutant for the Plague. I am not sure I like the models or not.

Dan

 scarletsquig wrote:
Some better pics, courtesy of Matt Gilbert, here's a link to the full slideshow (which seems to have pics of the mantic booth babes in it too :p):

https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=21AFEBFC9F9B9322&id=21AFEBFC9F9B9322!1343&authkey=!AEsNxjtxKPBxdQM

Good to see better pics, not a huge fan of the proportions on these zombie-things, though.

I really want the big Plague dude...but thats about it. I dont have much use for the rest of them, dont need the Enforcers, and no use for 28mm scifi terrain.

Guess Ill either be waiting until the retail release or seeing if I can get someone to add him on to their pledge for me, if thats an option.

Is the caped Enforcer supposed to be a Forge Father?

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Is the caped Enforcer supposed to be a Forge Father?

No, it's an Enforcer.

 Cyporiean wrote:

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Is the caped Enforcer supposed to be a Forge Father?

No, it's an Enforcer.

He does look a bit stocky. Maybe it's just the angle from which he was photographed?

That plague guy standing on the wall reminds me of a Genestealer, especially with that paint scheme. I LOVE the big giant dude. I want multiples.

Those basic plague guys are alright. I hope we'll be seeing more Plague along the lines of the big guy aesthetically than the little ones.

Maybe I'm just spoiled on Sedition Wars' Strain models.

Space Zombies!

made from coral.

The terrain looke great

I reaylly like the small basic mutants, not such a huge fan of the bigger ones, and the enforcers look pretty good.

And since the games will be necromunda like, it will break my years long boycotting of mantic that I was doing since this horrible 8th race fiasco. I'll probably spend a few hundreds on this, and hopefully, theyll release some more original races with the planned expansion.

can't wait, everything looks great! my Walllet screams!

streetsamurai wrote:

And since the games will be necromunda like, it will break my years long boycotting of mantic that I was doing since this horrible 8th race fiasco. I'll probably spend a few hundreds on this, and hopefully, theyll release some more original races with the planned expansion.

What "fiasco"?

When warpath was released, The 8th race was promoted as this mysterious race that was so horrible and dangerous that nobody even talked about them. It was suppossed to be the race that define the warpath unniverse as an original setting, much like skaven in WHFB. Well it turned out to be skaven in space.
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streetsamurai wrote:
When warpath was released, The 8th race was promoted as this mysterious race that was so horrible and dangerous that nobody even talked about them. It was suppossed to be the race that define the warpath unniverse as an original setting, much like skaven in WHFB. Well it turned out to be skaven in space.
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Well come on. 40K doesn't have Skaven in space, or Dwarfs for that matter either

I'm waiting for Space Hobbits myself...

 Cyporiean wrote:

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Is the caped Enforcer supposed to be a Forge Father?

No, it's an Enforcer.

Uh oh. His head is the same length as his shin bone. Unless this is a case of "Mantic Photography [tuba fail sound]", then he's really out of proportion. I mean "makes GW termies look like scale miniatures" out of proportion.

Still, slap a spare forgefather head on there and he's good to go. Or throw some huge nipples on him and call him a Mantic Space Wolf.


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streetsamurai wrote:


I reaylly like the small basic mutants, not such a huge fan of the bigger ones

We should set up a trade when they come in, because I love "Kraka-DOOM" there.

The dude in the big suit looks really uncomfortable. Then again, I guess anyone would be uncomfortable if their arms were growing out of the side of their head.


These buildings interest me though. There appear to be frames they slot into, but they don't appear to be required. How modular are they really? We need details!

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
The dude in the big suit looks really uncomfortable. Then again, I guess anyone would be uncomfortable if their arms were growing out of the side of their head.

What has been seen cannot be unseen!!

The KS will focus on six races to start with (Enforcers, Plague, Corporation, Forgefathers, Marauders, Veermyn), and then after those are funded (we all know this one is gonna be huge!), they'll be looking to expand it further, possibly with an expansion book and another 4 races.

there are 6 but i was told no corp and no veer-myn... which leaves 2 open slots. thoughts?

Unless this is a case of "Mantic Photography [tuba fail sound]", then he's really out of proportion

FFS, you really do take any opportunity... this is a picture that someone has taken on their phone at salute and is NOT a mantic photograph!

Certainly looks interesting especially the terrain pieces. It does remind me a lot of the "Hexagon"terrain which I bought too much of to use with necromunda. looks like this will be a nice match.

What was bugging me was the Plague miniatures I had seen something like them before. Perhaps it is only me but I do see a resmblance between the big guy and the Spectrals from Living Steel. The little uns look a lot like genestealer hybrids - albeit no extra arms.

I wonder how nicely this would fit in with the plastic table top boards also being kickstarted at the moment?

Some snippets:

- Minis will be 100% restic. No hard plastic, but no hybrid metals either.

- Game will be played using a 3" grid on a total surface of 2'x2'. No tape measures. SW boards will work, but they'd have to have crosshair markers painted on to indicate the corners of the 3x3 tiles. Or terrain elements used to mark out the 3" space.

- Weapons (with the exception of some small arms) will not have a range stat in this game.

- No fixed config for the terrain in missions, arrange it however you want, and have as much as you want.

- Gameplay will involve different secret objectives for both sides to accomplish.

- Game will use d8's.

More of a Dust Tactics sort of game overall is the general impression I'm getting in terms of mechanics. Only with proper wargames terrain and interaction with it.

As for actual gameplay, very much Necromunda, Jake worked on that game for a while when at GW and has a good feel for what does and doesn't work with it.

So, not your average skirmish wargame, but not exactly what you'd call a board game either. Kind of in the middle, aiming for the spectacle of a wargame with the simplicity of board game mechanics.

is there an extensive campaign mechanic a la necromunda???

This will be the clincher for me, as if not, I might wait for sprawl ganger, wich is suppossed to have one

No tapes measures?

I don't like the sound of that.

Plus the miniatures themselves look...oddly proportioned.

Still, I'm curious about the terrain, so there's that!

streetsamurai wrote:
is there an extensive campaign mechanic a la necromunda???

There definitely will be, including the option to change gear between missions etc.

The impression I get is mission-based gameplay with an overall campaign where the various races are trying to salvage what they can out of the deadzone.

So, you'll play a scenario (often with randomized and different and secret objectives per player, so one side has to guess what the other is up to), see what salvage you can get, then buy new gear, get new skills etc. Very much like Necromunda in terms of that.

Interested to see what the other 2 races will be, if Corp and Veer-myn are out. Probably not Zz'or, but Rebs and Asterians sound very likely.

Wow, those models are simply not good.

Apparently getting promoted in the Corp requires them to brake your arms, extend your torso and cut your legs in half. I hope that armor is good as it doesn't look functional.

And 'the plague' is apparently a result of 'steroids' and 'a good workout jam'.

Live by the 'realistic proportions', die by the 'realistic proportions'.

So the rumours are true! Hordak and Skeletor did have a baby!
I really like the plague, well a bit iffy on the barrier jumping thing, but I love the big guy and normal guys.
Wasn't going to back this because of other projects, but this may change.

 Alpharius wrote:
No tapes measures?

I don't like the sound of that.

I do! Being a fan of Dust Tactics, most wargames seem a terrible fudge for line of sight and cover. It's one of the reasons Dust Warfare was a flop for me. So combine DT style LOS/cover, proper 3D boards and presumably Jake Thornton's usual simple but interesting rules and I'm looking forward to this game.

Of course, I'll mash the hell out of the rules and shoehorn in figures from my collection like I do with Jake's other games (God of Battles and DKH)...

Why do mantic legs never to be functional much less in scale with the rest of the miniatures?

Sure with aliens it's not as bad, as they could have wierd physiology, but most of the human models, have 8 stone man legs on a 16 stone torso.

I was starting to come around to mantic's sculpts with Dreadball, and while these aren;t terrible, i'd just like some kind of scale legs on them :(

HBMC has it right with that enforcer guys arms, poor chap.

Since Enforcers are (according to the background) are never seen outside their armour there is no certainty that they are still fully human

my bet is at least some degree of cyborging is involved, so questions about their legs/arms may not be valid

The Enforcers look ace, except the captain. I love that sniper. Am mainly in this for the terrain (and loads of it) but will love to get the figs. The Plague look interesting and I'd l ike to paint them up with glossy blackish ichor all over them.

Some good news about the terrain - it is going to be a set of hard plastic sprues.

So, basically, expect the terrain at least to be insanely affordable, really easy to clean up and build etc.

A "hard sci-fi" alternative to cities of death at a third of the price (or even less once this KS gets rolling).

I'm going to back this for the terrain mostly and lots of it I figure I need 120 to 150 3" panels! but I like what I've seen of most of the miniatures so far. True the Enforcer captain looks to top heavy and the arm pose is very static and I'm not mad about the cloak but it's not the only Enforcer captain they make. The plague will make good mutants just need to change the pink skin tone the big plague look great, the smaller one I'll remount on a smaller piece of terrain the barricade is to big on the base not mad about their paint scheme either but that's an easy fix. Roll on Friday. The actual game itself is actually the least interesting part for me if it's good all the better if not no great loss it's not something I'm focused on.