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If anyone does not want an extra faction, I will buy it plus shipping; say $12 + Shipping.

I'm also a little sad that the FF starter is only 5 models to start when everyone else got 6

Maybe the forge fathers get less to start with since they've got heavier armor? I haven't really followed the Forge Fathers- do they already have any Forge Guard figures? Would I be correct in assuming they're a bit more thicker than the average Forge Father?

Maybe they'll have comparable/ better stats than the Enforcers since they're fewer in number.

At the moment I'm probably just going to get the Asterians, but if Iron Ancestors enter the fray that's going to be a tough decision. Really like the looks of those.

When extras start getting added to the new starters I'm sure I'll cave in for the EU bundle.

For those of you who've built an Iron Ancestor, what material are they made out of? Restic? Metal? Both?

I have one in a baggy at home. The regular Iron Acestor is restic. Can't speak for the dual cannon one but I assume it's also restic.

This goal is going to be great for our 4 way split of Strike Team.

-The guy who ended up with enforcers really wanted rebs, so he's adding the 5th faction share (bringing down the price of each shares about 8 bucks!) of rebs.
-The guy who got Mauraders also wants Asterians
-I wanted to add the Forgefathers to my order (rebs) so my Squats can have some proper exo-armor.

So one free faction and a 50 buck upgrade and we're all very happy with the results! Now I'm really interested in seeing what add-ons the Forgefathers end up with.

One thing is certain.. it won't be a dwarf smoking a cigar and riding a trike *


* I hope!

New update: You now need to add another $10 for shipping if any of you have bought the EU bundle or one of the new starters.

Yep, to simplify it they decided to charge everyone $10.....

As a fun side note this means that we're paying $6 per figure for the new starters (assuming you purchase them together).

Oh, and the add-ons still cost to much.

Wait, I'm wrong... you only add the $10 if you pick FF or Asterians as your freebie starter, you don't have to add $10 if you buy the EU bundle or a FF/Asterian starter and then pick one of the first 4 as your freebie.

So much for clarifying it - I've put in $10 even though I've picked Rebs as the free faction and added the EU bundle I can't be bothered with it any more if it's needed it's there if not I have $10 to spend later.

In update 38, it says

To celebrate achieving this goal we will add One Free Faction Starter Of Your Choice (Miniatures PLUS Faction Card Deck) to game pledges of Strike Team ($150 + Early Birds) and up*, and add the digital rules for the Asterians and Forge Fathers into every pledge!

Has there been any mention of whether the PDF rules will contain copies of:
-Battle cards
-Cards for each Faction

As for event cards, I'm curious about the ability of someone who get's scout (faction plus pdf) to play the full game, a requirement of which is event cards. For the Faction cards, I'm looking at the possiblity of getting clubmates who didn't get in on our strike-zone pledge to play the game with proxies from their own sci-fi figure collection. For both situations, I'd rather just be able to print them out than have to copy or scan them.

I was going to answer your question, Eilif, then I realised that I barely knew what you were meaning. - Clearly I need to read up more of the game.

The only thing I could suggest, is try to think of analogies with dreadball, like the "Kick-off" board game, and the 'kick off extra time" set.

Update from mantic comments

Hey guys - we are certainly not hiding! Sounds like you want some further clarification... so here we go!
The last update is in response to the questions we had to deal with this morning, rather than deal with each request piecemeal.We've tried to make it as simple as possible whilst covering all of the bases:-

$10 covers you if you want either of the two new factions as your free faction in your pledge level.
- If you want one of the four initial factions, you pay no extra postage
- If you add-on the EU bundle and pick one of the existing factions, you pay no extra postage, no matter where you are in the world.
- If you add-on the EU Bundle and pick one of the new factions, you need to add on $10, no matter where you are in the world.
- The new factions will get stuff added in, and Strike Team will get more second shipment stuff added in
- you will more than make that $10 back in the extra free stuff we can give you.

We can give you more stuff into Strike Team by having a single postage charge for second shipment than if the EU bundle covers the shipping, because the EU bundle is already heavily discounted, it puts a lower ceiling as to what we can include free in that faction starter - something we perhaps underestimated last night and reviewed this morning in light of some of the confusion.

Don't forget that you don't need to choose until the end of the campaign. If you'd rather see what extra Second Shipment stuff we're giving you before you dive in, then don't add the $10 for the second shipment. We appreciate what was said yesterday but as we say in the update, we feel this reviewed option is the smoothest best way to get you the maximum amount of stuff for the minimum amount of fuss. Want one of the newbies free? Add $10 shipping. Don't want to pay the shipping and want the newbies? Add $50.A free faction and 2 new factions is quite a big deal - and expense!

Such a confusing system. While it's better for us this way, wouldn't it have made more sense to say "If you're getting a second shipment, add $10 to your pledge, regardless of how much it is."

Well I finally got an extremely good tax return so it looks like some of it will be going to this kickstarter. Time to splurge!

My Dreadball season 2 stuff arrived today and I was very impressed with it so I think Mantic deserve more of my money.

 Commander Cain wrote:
Well I finally got an extremely good tax return so it looks like some of it will be going to this kickstarter. Time to splurge!

My Dreadball season 2 stuff arrived today and I was very impressed with it so I think Mantic deserve more of my money.

I got mine and it reminded me why I shouldn't be trying to get 150 miniatures. Now I just have to make myself believe that, because, I mean, it's such a great bargain!

God I'm stupid about buying minis. x.x

This just got posted in the last update comments-

I just noticed that it says "We looked at the Veer-myn and the Z’zor as possible candidates but they seemed to be the perfect protagonists for their own story".

Wiping out Humans makes you a PROtagonist......Hilarious!!

Sorry if someone said something similar here. Didn't read through all the new stuff


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 Lansirill wrote:

 Commander Cain wrote:
Well I finally got an extremely good tax return so it looks like some of it will be going to this kickstarter. Time to splurge!

My Dreadball season 2 stuff arrived today and I was very impressed with it so I think Mantic deserve more of my money.

I got mine and it reminded me why I shouldn't be trying to get 150 miniatures. Now I just have to make myself believe that, because, I mean, it's such a great bargain!

God I'm stupid about buying minis. x.x

This is gonna be my last KS for quite sometime. I'll have more then enough to keep me busy with all the WWX stuff coming in and then this stuff a couple months later.

Earth Dragon wrote:

I just noticed that it says "We looked at the Veer-myn and the Z’zor as possible candidates but they seemed to be the perfect protagonists for their own story".

Wiping out Humans makes you a PROtagonist......Hilarious!!

Yeah I just noticed that as well! Makes you wonder who the actual protagonists are. The Rebels perhaps? All depends on your point of view I guess...

 Commander Cain wrote:

Earth Dragon wrote:

I just noticed that it says "We looked at the Veer-myn and the Z’zor as possible candidates but they seemed to be the perfect protagonists for their own story".

Wiping out Humans makes you a PROtagonist......Hilarious!!

Yeah I just noticed that as well! Makes you wonder who the actual protagonists are. The Rebels perhaps? All depends on your point of view I guess...

It always does...

 Commander Cain wrote:

Earth Dragon wrote:

I just noticed that it says "We looked at the Veer-myn and the Z’zor as possible candidates but they seemed to be the perfect protagonists for their own story".

Wiping out Humans makes you a PROtagonist......Hilarious!!

Yeah I just noticed that as well! Makes you wonder who the actual protagonists are. The Rebels perhaps? All depends on your point of view I guess...

The Z'zor have invaded your wife's home planet, and slain everyone. This is great news because you'll never have to visit your in-laws again! (Although I tend to enjoy the company of my in-laws more than my own family so, well, go figure.)

Earth Dragon wrote:
This just got posted in the last update comments-

I just noticed that it says "We looked at the Veer-myn and the Z’zor as possible candidates but they seemed to be the perfect protagonists for their own story".

Wiping out Humans makes you a PROtagonist......Hilarious!!

Sorry if someone said something similar here. Didn't read through all the new stuff

Maybe the next game will be Z'zorkaM'morka or Veer-mynheim? That is pretty much all that is left to make

Earth Dragon wrote:


Maybe the next game will be Z'zorkaM'morka or Veer-mynheim? That is pretty much all that is left to make

Huh? What about Project Dwarf Kings of Warpath Quest?

I still say if we're cribbing from GW games, I want my Warhammer Quest!
Maybe we'll get that with the next Dwarf King's Hold?

I wonder if we'll get more add ons to get us to 500,000 faster.

^ I'd heard good things about "Mawbeasts in the pantry" as their next release. :p

Oddly enough, I'm totally fine with them doing new games in the same genres as the now-discontinued GW specialist games which have now been discontinued and will probably have their moulds destroyed soon.

I can't quite put my finger on why I'm fine with that, though.

Earth Dragon wrote:
This just got posted in the last update comments-

I just noticed that it says "We looked at the Veer-myn and the Z’zor as possible candidates but they seemed to be the perfect protagonists for their own story".

Wiping out Humans makes you a PROtagonist......Hilarious!!

Interestingly the original use of Protagonist (roots in greek theater) doesn't have anything do do with good or evil. It's just the character around whom the story is built also implies the Pro (first) or primary character.

It is interesting though that mantic thinks that Veermyn and Z'zor are interesting enough to be the center of their own stories. I wouldn't have pegged them as such.

 scarletsquig wrote:
^ I'd heard good things about "Mawbeasts in the pantry" as their next release. :p

I'd probably play that.

And they've already shown concept art/sculpts for the next game.

 Eilif wrote:

Earth Dragon wrote:
This just got posted in the last update comments-

I just noticed that it says "We looked at the Veer-myn and the Z’zor as possible candidates but they seemed to be the perfect protagonists for their own story".

Wiping out Humans makes you a PROtagonist......Hilarious!!

Interestingly the original use of Protagonist (roots in greek theater) doesn't have anything do do with good or evil. It's just the character around whom the story is built also implies the Pro (first) or primary character.

It is interesting though that mantic thinks that Veermyn and Z'zor are interesting enough to be the center of their own stories. I wouldn't have pegged them as such.

Same focus in the story as the Plague are here. And instead of Enforcers and Asterians trying to put them down, it might a Corporation Platoon, or local militia. I'm sure the standard looters and raiders would still be present as viable factions. And of course, if you wanted to say to hell with the setting, you could mix them all up (I'd personally prefer to play with faction restrictions 80-90% of my campaigns. Lizards in Mordhiem proper always wrecked the immersion to me)

Ellif wrote:
It is interesting though that mantic thinks that Veermyn and Z'zor are interesting enough to be the center of their own stories. I wouldn't have pegged them as such.

The Warpath fiction depicts them in another setting than Deadzone Planets.

Veermyn infest giant space haulers (Space Hulk) and Z'zor stick to their worlds and neighboring planets. While it's possible that Veermyn could end up in a Deadzone, or a Deadzone borders Z'zor space, those two races offer the possibility of expanding deadzone into other settings. Veermyn for indoor, battles inside vast space ships and Z'zor on alien worlds, possibly with organic structures and mobile man eating plants, etc...

 adamsouza wrote:

Ellif wrote:
It is interesting though that mantic thinks that Veermyn and Z'zor are interesting enough to be the center of their own stories. I wouldn't have pegged them as such.

The Warpath fiction depicts them in another setting than Deadzone Planets.

Veermyn infest giant space haulers (Space Hulk) and Z'zor stick to their worlds and neighboring planets. While it's possible that Veermyn could end up in a Deadzone, or a Deadzone borders Z'zor space, those two races offer the possibility of expanding deadzone into other settings. Veermyn for indoor, battles inside vast space ships and Z'zor on alien worlds, possibly with organic structures and mobile man eating plants, etc...

I read something as well that Veer-Myn "swallow whole planet", and just like how Norwegian Rats are all over Earth because of ship traffic, I'd imagine once Veer-myn were discoverd somewhere, you shut that place down to avoid spreading those buggers (creating the Deadzone)

Ships and Underground settings sound awesome for them though!! We'd need a lot more funding for them to go there.

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nkelsch wrote:

Maybe the next game will be Z'zorkaM'morka or Veer-mynheim? That is pretty much all that is left to make

Battle.

Fleet.

Profit.