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I've got several of those advert kits, and can confirm as Alphie says they come with little printed designs you can cut out and stick on
Could you post some pics with figures next to them as scale shots please? Hard/impossible to figure out from the KS pictures.
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I don't have any shots next to minis unfortunately :(
Some shots of the stuff I do have. Can attest to it's quality, and very, very easy to put together/paint. I did most of this stuff probably in 15-20 mins tops.
Spoiler:
Showing their wall scanners (on left)
some crates (believe they are smaller than the ones on offer here)
one of the display boards
the standing boards, again knocked these up in about 10 minutes!
Love that they are sticker add-ons. The fact some companies act like we're all top tier expert painters is annoying when it comes to some of the detail of terrain and standards and such.
Earth Dragon wrote: Love that they are sticker add-ons. The fact some companies act like we're all top tier expert painters is annoying when it comes to some of the detail of terrain and standards and such.
I'm not a particularly good painter... actually I'm not even that good... so i design as much as possible so that painting is easy, so that you can do basic processes like base-coat+dry-brush or dry-brush + wash ... so clear panels lines, crisp edges etc to help make using washes easy, then stickers, decals etc to fill large areas and such like.
I would never actually be able to paint an advert or a computer screen for example...but i still want to have my scenery have the "wow" factor, so I like to find ways of doing that without needing to be a fabulous painter (which i will never, ever be).
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Re the scaling/size of the scenery pierces: I'm very concious of not wanting to tread on Mantics toes who will no doubt be putting out images of their own of their figures with various scenery bits.
So i would like to wait to check what they plan first.... but the pieces all fit perfectly with the figures, beds, scanner, GRID, adverts everything - Mantic didnt want anything that wasn't a perfect fit for their game and their figures, so we're re-master for the perfect fit.
(That gaming mat of theirs is fabo btw... i REALLY would like to steal that idea from them!)
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Fair enough - if you can let them know that you've had the request to see the scenery scaled with the minis that would be good. Mantic are pretty average at times at showing pictures (ie, the current KoWKS stuff).
I'm sure it's all lovely, but without seeing it for myself...
Forgive me for being a bit thick, but the wording mantic is using on the terrain parts seems a bit confusing.
What is a "battlezone"? How many sprues of tiles go in one Battlezone? Are there 6 tiles per sprue
Here's the full breakdown:
About BattleZones
To make things simple we’ve grouped together the Building Sprues and Connector Sprues into bundles known as BattleZones.
Each BattleZone contains 3 Building Sprues and 1 Connector Sprue from a set theme.
The current BattleZone themes are:
- Core Worlds (UNLOCKED)
- Landing Pad (UNLOCKED)
- Fortifications (LOCKED)
- Ruins (LOCKED)
- ?? (LOCKED)
- ?? (LOCKED)
Both the scenery pledge levels and the scenery add-ons allow you to pick a number of BattleZones to include in your bundle.
For example, the Urban Battle ($50) scenery add-on allows you to pick two BattleZones of your choice in any combination from the Unlocked themes.
This means you could choose two Core Worlds BattleZones, two Landing Pad BattleZones, or a mixture of the two.
At the end of the campaign we will send out a survey via email where you can make your selection.
We will be unlocking more BattleZones as stretch goals meaning the further the campaign goes on, the more themes you get to choose from so please spread the word and get your friends to pledge!
Azazelx wrote: Fair enough - if you can let them know that you've had the request to see the scenery scaled with the minis that would be good. Mantic are pretty average at times at showing pictures (ie, the current KoWKS stuff).
I'm sure it's all lovely, but without seeing it for myself...
^^ this.
And really, showing pics is the one thing they're horrible at; I don't see why they shouldn't leave it to others wherever possible
What are the thoughts on NON-Warpath players on the inclusion of tanks.
Definitely not a fan. Vehicles in warband skirmish games mess with many factors of a skirmish game as they normally have more movement, armor, etc than infantry, and tend to be an un-balancing factor. They also detract from the squad-level tactics.
The exceptions would be
-as objectives, in which case they aren't really vehicles, they're scenery
-Slow moving small walkers, which essentially function as large infantry anyway.
Leave Vehicles where they belong. That is, in engagements of platoon level or above.
Thanks DaveC and Black Nexus for the answers... I still think it would be helpfull if mantic put out a video or something showing what can we build with a single battlezone, just for clarity sake
Azazelx wrote: Fair enough - if you can let them know that you've had the request to see the scenery scaled with the minis that would be good. Mantic are pretty average at times at showing pictures (ie, the current KoWKS stuff).
I'm sure it's all lovely, but without seeing it for myself...
^^ this.
And really, showing pics is the one thing they're horrible at; I don't see why they shouldn't leave it to others wherever possible
well we do have some photos of the last game we played on our Urban board.. and that has a quite a lot of scenery on it ¬_¬
What are the thoughts on NON-Warpath players on the inclusion of tanks.
Definitely not a fan. Vehicles in warband skirmish games mess with many factors of a skirmish game as they normally have more movement, armor, etc than infantry, and tend to be an un-balancing factor. They also detract from the squad-level tactics.
The exceptions would be
-as objectives, in which case they aren't really vehicles, they're scenery
-Slow moving small walkers, which essentially function as large infantry anyway.
Leave Vehicles where they belong. That is, in engagements of platoon level or above.
Not sure why a slow moving wheeled or tracked vehicle acting as a support weapon platform is any different...
Personally I would like vehicle rules. I know modern forces use vehicles to support troops, even at squad level, in urban areas. Having that as an option which could be ignored by those against it seems to be a good idea to me. It also helps justify a lot of the heavy weapons we see some of the infantry being armed with. I could care less whether the vehicles are tracked/wheeled/legged.
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To help get you towards the full allocation of troopers you'll be able to include in your squad - as per Jake's Force Selection rules below - if we hit this goal we will add:
- 1 additional Enforcer with Assault Blade to the Enforcer Faction Starter!
- 1 additional Plague 3rd Gen to the Plague Faction Starter!
- 1 additional Rebs Sorak to the Rebs Faction Starter!
- 1 additional Marauder Commando to the Marauder Faction Starter!
Are we going to see the same issues that have gone on with the Kings of War KS, such as delays and changing figures?
All in all, they are selling these by concept art. Are these figures out and about? Anyone have comparison shots alongside other ranges?
Do the figures have those offputting preattached bases in there?
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Help me out guys- does Mantic operate under the usual "pledge as much as you can. hurl gobs of money later" type pledge manager?
I'm about tapped what I can use right now, but I'm sure there will be more goodies down the road I'd like. Not that I'm set in stone as to what my final purchases will be, but still.... it's nice to know.
Poorly lit photos of my ever- growing collection of completely unrelated models!
Grot 6 wrote: How does this project look as far as conclusion.
Are we going to see the same issues that have gone on with the Kings of War KS, such as delays and changing figures?
..What delays? there's two cavalry units which will be shipped a month or two late, the other, what'sit? 19 or so units? are quite perfectly on schedule. Not sure what you're on about there.
Changing figures well, as to the cat cav, that was a last minute (unplanned) inclusion in a KS where they weren't planning for even 20% of the success they had. that's not the case here, nor was it with dreadball. as to the trolls well, aside from the legs they're pretty damn close to the final concept shown (before the end of the KS, that is!) so it sounds to me as if you're on about a totally different KS here, mate
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highlord tamburlaine wrote: Help me out guys- does Mantic operate under the usual "pledge as much as you can. hurl gobs of money later" type pledge manager?
I'm about tapped what I can use right now, but I'm sure there will be more goodies down the road I'd like. Not that I'm set in stone as to what my final purchases will be, but still.... it's nice to know.
Mantic does tend to allow adding to pledges in the pledge manager, usually a month or so after end of KS. maybe a bit more.
In fact, the DB season two pledge manager allowed us to up pledges for more stuff months after the KS ended and the KoW second pledge manager has just come out; we can get stuff for KS prices again (just not add additional $225 pledges it seems, which might be just as well for my poor poor wallet )
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I don't suppose we might see more of your stuff on the Deadzone Kickstarter?
Specifically, I think if you bundled your planters set, with some of your little moss/shrubbery packs, you could make a one-click solution for a really nice aesthetic piece.
Or... you know... you could piggyback off Deadzone and add your drop-ship KS plans, to this one. ;-)
Black Nexus wrote: Lol... these two buildings (plus i calculate two more tiles leftover) can be built from one battlezone.
I think that is a little hopeful, that building looks to have 16 panels to it, so we would be looking at 32 panels out of 3 sprues. While I hope we get 10 panels to a sprue I would more expect around 6, since 6 x 3 would be 18 which is enough to make the building, with 2 spare or for use as walls inside.
Just come back from the open day and seen alot if Deadzone stuff. Most of the rebs starter pack was on show (very nice btw), I saw 2 goblin sniper greens and some orx in exo type suits that only had the head exposed the rest was all armour. I took a few photos that did not come out very well but Riquende did take loads and I'm sure he will link it to his blig like he did for the Salute pics.
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The Rebs look good, but if the Marauders weren't part of Strike Team I wouldn't pay for a single one of them and they went with the dancing Goblin Sniper WTF!, I like 3 out of 4 factions so that's OK the Asterian cyborg is cool and plague Teraton!
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I'm hoping there's alternate arms for those marauders, or the marauder arms are just redone in 2 hands on the gun poses (or two guns shooting forward if you want a 2 gun pose). Like the overall sculpts, but both the guns to the side model and the running model are terrible poses for the arms.
Wow, I was really excited about the marauders from the concept art, but the sculpts themselves have left me rather flat. The heads are way out of proportion, in my opinion, and make them look goofy rather than tough.
I guess I'll be dropping the extra marauder figures I was planning on getting and get some extra rebs because I'm really digging them.
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