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2013/05/08 15:36:06
Subject: Mantic Deadzone Kickstarter - $375k goal: Free terrain sprue. Terrain add-ons released in <2 hours.
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2013/05/08 15:45:11
Subject: Mantic Deadzone Kickstarter - $375k goal: Free terrain sprue. Terrain add-ons released in <2 hours.
From the comments and conversations on the kickstarter campaign it appears the gaming world would love some beautifully designed, hard plastic, hard core sci-fi scenery – and who are we to deny the hobbyist what they want? That is not the way Mantic rolls!
The Deadzone terrain was planned to offer a range of hard plastic 3” x 3” tiles that can be combined in infinite ways to create fantastic centrepieces for your sci-fi games to be fought over – naturally they will be ideal for Deadzone, but we knew they would work equally well for other sci-fi games – both Skirmish and full table top wargames!
Spoiler:
Our latest discussions with the tool maker suggest these will come with 6 tiles (with 2 Barricades/Half tiles counting as 1 Tile) to a sprue, with all the connectors you need on a separate sprue. We will be upgrading your pledge to include connector sprues in addition to the sprues you are already getting automatically.
To offer the most choice and flexibility we have come up with a ‘BattleZone’. A BattleZone will contain 3 sprues of tiles plus enough connectors to create varied and great looking designs. So far we have the ‘Core World BattleZone’ - the walls, floors and doorways. Going forward we can then fund new BattleZones – each with its own unique feel. Each BattleZone will have a theme or purpose that will add more kit bashing possibilities and more variety to the game play too. To see more about the tiles and the designs please have a look at the videos on the Kickstarter and the Mantic blog.
The One-Click Wargames Table!
We have now added 2 pledge options that allow you to go just for the scenery - so if you love the scenery but are playing a different game right now you can add just the buildings.
- The One-click Urban Battlefield ($100) will give roughly 4 buildings of various sizes to use in a normal wargame.
Spoiler:
- The One-click Urban Wargames ($285) will give you enough tiles, connectors and accessory sprues to generously cover a 6 x 4 gaming table with a wide selection of fantastic urban terrain.
Spoiler:
For backers of the Deadzone game itself there is more great news, you can now add a buildings upgrade to your pledge!
Please add $5 Shipping if not adding to a pledge of $100 and up.
We will soon be able to offer new BattleZones throughout the campaign, and at the end you just select the ones you want.
The first we are funding will be the ‘BattleZone - Landing Pad’. It will not only allow you to create a great looking place to drop your spaceships – but also various tiles to offer interesting angles for walls and triangular pieces to create your own unique terrain.
We hope this will allow us to continue to fund Deadzone to make a fast, tactical skirmish game that will offer more fantastic scenery to go with the choice of 4 (Or More?) factions, cool hero figures and lots, lots more!!!
Thank you for the incredible support we have received so far. I hope the terrain options will allow us to push this kickstarter to even bigger heights and bring in even more backers. I think we are creating something special here, and we could not do it without your support
Funding was at $355,215 when the terrain add-ons dropped, lets see how crazy it goes from here. Also 300 posts woot!, I deserve a title.
Enjoy.
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2013/05/08 16:07:04
Subject: Re:Mantic Deadzone Kickstarter - New terrain-only pledges. Grab your early birds NOW. :)
Yep just added those to my post, missed them at first. These extra battlezones are going to be interesting, I wonder how long before they become stretch goals?
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2013/05/08 16:10:18
Subject: Mantic Deadzone Kickstarter - New terrain-only pledges. Grab your early birds NOW. :)
Interesting development. I was a bit skeptical of the price at first, but if the sprues we are looking at are an example, then we're looking at about a buck per full panel section (less for smaller sizes, which is actually quite good when you look at what similarly sized scenery costs in resin.
I would like to see an add-on that allows you to buy just one battlezone. Some of us may not need 4 battlezones (the 95 buck level) to add too our pledges.
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@Alpharius - you don't need to add the Early Bird, you can just add the funds for the add-on, it's the same price for people who have already pledged for the game. Just add $95 or $280 to your pledge :-)
Official answer too, no less!
I think I'll be adding in a bit here...!
2013/05/08 16:15:46
Subject: Mantic Deadzone Kickstarter - New terrain-only pledges. Grab your early birds NOW. :)
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All Quiet on the Martian Front, from the guys that did Fanticide. I pledged to that one without dropping my Deadzone pledge.
Dude... I thought you were all KS'ed out for a while...
I owe you an email, BTW, so check yer inbox sometime in the new few days.
Valete,
JohnS
Valete,
JohnS
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2013/05/08 16:25:49
Subject: Mantic Deadzone Kickstarter - New terrain-only pledges. Grab your early birds NOW. :)
Good to see this. As it stands I've already set my pledge but the mats are definitely out in favor of more terrain. The price is solid. We've got 2 buildings already once the newest stretch gets funded so another 8 for $23 per full one story building is is excellent. Well, unless they get some good add-on models this is where all my additional funds are going. Forgefathers could get me above my $300 though
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2013/05/08 16:44:13
Subject: Mantic Deadzone Kickstarter - New terrain-only pledges. Grab your early birds NOW. :)
Presumably if I go for the $95 terrain option (covering 2x4), I will need to buy an extra gaming mat? Am I correct in assuming that each gaming mat is 2x2?
Otherwise this terrain looks great! Am already having some thoughts about accessorising mine.
$5 per sprue is perfect as far as I'm concerned, I was expecting it to cost around $8 or more. I intend to use this stuff for Deadzone, Infinity and maybe 40k (and thats a big maybe at this rate) if I keep playing it, plan on building an industrial shanty town similar to the helghast homeworld from killzone, its gonna be great.
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2013/05/08 17:09:45
Subject: Mantic Deadzone Kickstarter - New terrain-only pledges. Grab your early birds NOW. :)
urban batlle will give how much more terrain sprue compare to what we get in strike team?
From what I can see, it deosn't seem like such a good deal unless you go with the 285 add-on, cause, unless I'm missing something, for the same price (90$) I can get 3 Sanctum Imperialis from GW, and It doesn't seem like theyr is much of a difference in the size of the terrain you get.
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2013/05/08 17:12:56
Subject: Mantic Deadzone Kickstarter - New terrain-only pledges. Grab your early birds NOW. :)
