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Cyporiean- is there any kind of partnership between Mantic and OTL... or do you guys just take an interest in what they do? Just curious

 RiTides wrote:
Cyporiean- is there any kind of partnership between Mantic and OTL... or do you guys just take an interest in what they do? Just curious

Just friendship and shared staff.

Ronnie/Mantic gave us a lot of advice when we started work on Brushfire, and we've been big fans of theirs since day one. We try to get together with the Mantic gang whenever we are at the same show for food and drinks and general comradery.

Honestly, most TTG companies get along great together. I just don't keep quiet about it.

 Rolt wrote:
Eh I dunno Squig his facial expression still looks like he just dropped his icecream sandwich.

Couldn't resist

Im liking it, pledged.

But i will have to see the rules.

The enforcers looks good, the free stuff look like it will build up, and the value for money is great right now. I hope they dont start to charge for new achievements...

And i want forge fathers...

@Darkprince

Utter genius.

So he's got a weird face. Plenty of GW open faces are weird/awful. The entire plastic IG head line is terrible (this is, of course, my opinion. You're just wrong if you disagree ). Big deal. Maybe Mantic will give options for a headswap on this guy-a current Enforcer head would easily work, and if the model is like the current metal hero, the head does not come attached.

Shouldn't the caption read "Why are my arms growing out of the sides of my head?".

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Shouldn't the caption read "Why are my arms growing out of the sides of my head?".

You know this is not true, the arms are even more improbably placed than been on the ears.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Shouldn't the caption read "Why are my arms growing out of the sides of my head?".

In the dark grimness of the distance future, there are only pixels.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
In the dark grimness of the distance future, there are only pixels.

Well, that's the only resolution I can find of an angle making him look grumpy. The pic from Matt Gilbert makes him look depressed, and everything else is too low of resolution or really washed-out.

Bit perturbed that they dont say exactly how much scenery you can build with 'A sprue' (or if they do i missed it. ) I also dislike their 'plague models' still ill keep an eye on if for the stretch goals and probably back it further down the line. I liked Dreadball when i played it (actually prefer it to Bloodbowl) so im sure this effort by Jake will be good too.

I'm curious aswell diabolicAI. Also its at 169k atm, so we are not that far off from hitting the 175 k mark.

Another thing that confuses me. The $65 Dollar 'Boxed Game' pledge say s it contains 18 models. The $100 pledge seems to contain less? I think the contents could more clearly described. Still exciting stuff.

 Bolognesus wrote:

I think he looks like Gru from Despicable Me. Now he just needs some minions. He's got a beak.

He's getting replaced with this guy when I get my stuff:

http://www.manticgames.com/Shop-Home/Warpath/Enforcers/Product/Enforcers-Captain-1-Figure.html

 DiabolicAl wrote:
Another thing that confuses me. The $65 Dollar 'Boxed Game' pledge say s it contains 18 models. The $100 pledge seems to contain less? I think the contents could more clearly described. Still exciting stuff.

Well, the pieces are also different in the $65 box. It says they're two different colors of plastic, so I imagine its board game piece plastic. Don't know if they're doing this to lower the cost for their entry level offering.

Besides that, the regular starters will get added to via more stretch goals; the $65 level probably doesn't get much in the way of that.

 Bolognesus wrote:
Besides that, the regular starters will get added to via more stretch goals; the $65 level probably doesn't get much in the way of that.

No that's true if you want the stretch goals you need to pledge $100.

Im looking at the $150 level tbh. 4 factions and an extra 2 building sprues. I'd just like to know how much each sprue makes.

They seem to be talking about each sprue having 6 panels a single storey building 3 squares by 2 squares would need 16 panels to make so your not getting much more than 1 or 2 buildings to start but they have hinted that they will add more terrain sprues to the pledge levels later

Incorrect; the extra models are added per faction starters, regardless of the pledge level they're in (so far, that is!) so the 125K and 175K stretches apply to the $40 level equally.
the $65 level seems to be the odd man out.

Alright, almost at $175k!

 DaveC wrote:
They seem to be talking about each sprue having 6 panels a single storey building 3 squares by 2 squares would need 16 panels to make so your not getting much more than 1 or 2 buildings to start but they have hinted that they will add more terrain sprues to the pledge levels later

That's what i was worried about. Oh well ill keep an eye on it, im sure the stretch goals will make it worthwhile but it is mainly the scenery i am interested in .


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Well that's 175k hit......

Next stretch revealed Kickstarter/con/mantic points exclusive Merc, fluff is he is the only known survivor of the plague looking for a cure before his body succumbs

That looks pretty awesome, think id be too tempted to paint him in Omega Supreme colours though....

Hmm very much S.T.A.L.K.E.R. meets pulp sci-fi. I like this guy. But man, I am chomping at the bit to see some Forge Fathers. Not being intimately familiar with Dreadball, how long did it take for new faction starters to show up?

for me, the rebels are wha ti always wanted the tau to be

I'm not liking that what they could do in $15k with dreadball is taking them $25k for deadzone. There is enough stuff I want, but this really is suspect......

I'm going to go ahead and repost this idea here, too. I'd like to see a survivors set. This could be done as a KS exclusive faction or something. It could be something that could be played as an actual force or be used as glorified objective markers. My idea would be, at its base a 6 figure set: x2 civillian engineers with modified mining equipment (ala Dead Space), x2 scientist types in Haz-Mat suits, x1 security officer with a heavy/special weapon (probably a flamer), and as a commander, a scientist in a lab coat. They could be used as the remnants of the excavation team from the Twitter storyline.

And as add-ons, they could have alternate engineers, lab personnel, or security officers.