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The Mawbeasts are a bit weird but then they do go with the Marauders the rest is good, more terrain is always good just waiting until they announce the terrain as add ons then I'll really throw some money at this.

I just saw that they created another EB pledge saving people $4. Oh brother. That is so slowed it funny.

Wish the plague dogs had exaggerated proportions like the gen 3's.

Mawbeasts are a bit weird, and I'm not sure they actually do fit with anything from the Marauders. Definite room for improvement on the concept IMO.

Love the other two.

 squall018 wrote:
The mawbeast bombers look like they have chainsaws for tongues... I don't even know if thats cool or not, but its there. Really love the rebel drones.

Yes. Yes, it is.
It appears from the name that they may also explode, which means those things on their back are not speakers meant to blast 80's hair metal.
I'm really getting excited about this one.

i think the flying drones fit in more for the enforcers/ either way they look fantastic

And.. 1000 backers!

In less than 5 hours, to boot.

This thing is going to be *huge*.

I do like that they're getting the terrain sorted out properly, and really early on, complete with all the accessories, on proper hard plastic.

They're doing this early on so they can offer the terrain add-ons as a completed set containing all the walls, windows, bulkheads, doors, walkways etc.

Looks like it'll easily get to $175k in the first day, which is pretty awesome, since that'll be +12 free minis in addition to sorting out the terrain.

I guess if you really don't like the design of the enforcer captain, you can pay Mantic to create a different one for $350 lol

 scarletsquig wrote:
Rules for this are sounding great.

Terrain is destructible, you can loot new weapons and use them during the game by finding crates (which may also be booby-trapped!).

Sounds like a lot of fun.

I gotta ask: Where are you seeing this? Because if you have an alpha copy of the rules sitting around, I politely ask you to share the love

^ Either Jake's blog or the Mantic forums.

I really do not like mawnbeasts, rest is cool though.

They REALLY just started a $3 EB special....Good crimony. I wonder if they are actually gonna go down to $1

While the mawbeasts don't seem to fit with Marauders as presented by Mantic, they seem like glorious alternatives to Cyboars for 40K Orks, and if I can eventually get a Cyboar cavalry unit for Orks made from Mawbeasts like that, I will be very happy

Earth Dragon wrote:
They REALLY just started a $3 EB special....Good crimony. I wonder if they are actually gonna go down to $1

Eh why not? Even though the saving is tiny if it encourages more people to pledge it'll help the kickstarter campaign.

Earth Dragon wrote:
They REALLY just started a $3 EB special....Good crimony. I wonder if they are actually gonna go down to $1

Why not? Discount is discount, no?

This is going to be torture waiting to see how much junk we'll end up with over the next 30+ days. Wonder when they're going to let us start tossing money at add-ons. I'd imagine once the initial frenzy begins to slow down.

But if you are only saving a buck, wouldn't you have pledged anyways? Just seems a bit silly, but somewhat amusing. They really are only taking money from themselves at that point anyhow.


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All EB recon pledges are gone

$3 is $3 if you have to pay shipping of $5 on top of your pledge well it makes it a bit cheaper

"Early Bird" specials are just one of those Kickstarter things - it helps generate excitement and get early pledges and commitments.

And I'd bet that they generate invested and motivated backers who more often than not stay the whole way through too.

They do need to get add-ons up soon though. After the first day, many folks just stop paying attention until the end. Better to ride this momentum a bit more while they got it. Could break 400k by the end of tomorrow.

That Terrain Add On will see a MASSIVE spike in dollars pledged too!

I don't blame them for holding the terrain add on back for awhile the KS doesn't need it to push on the funds yet but it will later I have about $250 to put in just for the terrain when it gets added as a buy option.

I'm with you there - it is one of the things I'm most excited about on this one...

Can you imagine what admitted terrain junkie H.B.M.C. will pledge for terrain alone on this one?

Wow.

I'm not going to back this, I've not bought a miniature in literally years, but speaking as a senior investment professional and angel investor (my day job outside of the nerd realm of miniatures): Mantic are nailing this big time.

Tripling their initial investment requirement in a single day is a big deal. I see similarities in Mantic (versus Games Workshop) to Blizzard Entertained and their Starcraft and Warcraft franchise.

We will see big things over the next 5-10 years from Mantic, and I'm a corporate hobby hating sceptic, but seriously hats off to Mantic and good luck: as an outsider looking in they are the place to be right now (from both a customer and a career point of view). If they floated I'd buy.

Looks good so far. I'm going to hold on and see what else gets added in terms of pictures of the minis, rules and factions before taking any plunge. We've had top heavy Plague, I'm just desperate to dodge the nipples now.

C'mon Icesword, you now you at least wanna give that $65 scientist package a try.

Earth Dragon wrote:
C'mon Icesword, you now you at least wanna give that $65 scientist package a try.

Ha. If I didn't sculpt my own stuff then... yes absolutely, this would bring me out of my shell.

 IceSword wrote:
Tripling their initial investment requirement in a single day is a big deal.

No, it's not. They deliberately set the goal as low as they did to make people like you say things like that. That, and so that they could pretend that lowering their prices to Finecast levels was some kind of reward.

It's been established before that to bring a game like this to market costs $200k to $250k or more but every KS creator now knows that if you set a target like that no one will back it straight off until it's funded which it probably won't so you set a $25k - $50k target knowing you'll be leaving yourself short but once people see it's funded they'll dive in so you hit the $200k anyway.

The other thing that's common now is the so called fake stretch goals which run up to $250k or so basically projects hold back things that would be in the game anyway had they spent the full $200k to develop it and they put them back in as stretch goals. I'm not knocking it it works better than the alternatives.

 AlexHolker wrote:

 IceSword wrote:
Tripling their initial investment requirement in a single day is a big deal.

No, it's not. They deliberately set the goal as low as they did to make people like you say things like that. That, and so that they could pretend that lowering their prices to Finecast levels was some kind of reward.

True, very true.

But from an outsider looking in, they've just demonstrated they have a great fan base and existing customer support. Aiming low is the kickstarter method.

I'd say raising £150k in a single day is pretty significant in the miniature industry given the size of Mantic, no matter how they did it.

 IceSword wrote:

 AlexHolker wrote:

 IceSword wrote:
Tripling their initial investment requirement in a single day is a big deal.

No, it's not. They deliberately set the goal as low as they did to make people like you say things like that. That, and so that they could pretend that lowering their prices to Finecast levels was some kind of reward.

True, very true.

But from an outsider looking in, they've just demonstrated they have a great fan base and existing customer support. Aiming low is the kickstarter method.

I'd say raising £150k in a single day is pretty significant in the miniature industry given the size of Mantic, no matter how they did it.

It's not even been a whole day!

Also, as someone that hasn't been a big fan of Mantic's stuff in the past, seeing the art and concepts that I have seen drew me in, so all in all I feel this is a solid buy

Kicktraq has this ending at 5 mil hahahaha. Wouldn't that be somethin'. At that point we'd have our Nameless-Teraton hybrid plague beast included for free with every recon and above pledged!!!