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I think I'm going to go;

Strike
5 Mats
4 Battlezones - 1 Core, 1 Fort, 2 Damaged
Dual Scenery Pack - Military and Warehouse

That should put me at $400.

For the extra starter, you can pick any of them right? Don't think I'm too interested in the Forge/Ast guys at this point.

^ Yep, you can.

I'm thinking of the Asterians or Enforcers as my free one... Think the duplicate models won't stand out as much, as for the most part the faces are covered and they have a very homogeneous look - if that makes sense.

 DaveC wrote:
Jakes blog entry on plague zombies

http://quirkworthy.com/2013/05/25/deadzone-zombie-infestation/

Couple of interesting things from that
- the zombies being a kind of '3rd party' AI element that attack both players during the game.
- a plastic release, rather than resin.

Loving how much zombies seem to be driving the total up. And any extra game modes are gravy.

Well Nastanza is in at this point.

Can't make up my mind which will be the most obnoxious faction to get the extra one of.

Plague seem the natural choice to swarm the field, but since there's going to be more fleshing out the EU groups those could be a treat as well. Fielding multiple shield generators and swarms of robots with a single Asterian could be a recipe for annoyance. Only time will tell for what is still to come.

 GrimDork wrote:
Loving how much zombies seem to be driving the total up. And any extra game modes are gravy.

I agree!

And until the kids stop buying zombies, expect to see... lots of zombies!

At the risk of summoning an irate dragon of the earth, look at this:




Zombies, helping bring us the good stuff!

Yes, they are:

More Stretches Smashed - can we get a third today?
Update #58 · May 25, 2013 · 7 comments

Well well, would you look at that? That’s twice in a day ladies and gentlemen, and we’re well on our way to the third…

Just how many stretch goals can we break?!



Nastanza, the Twilight Huntress, has now been added to game-only pledges of Recon ($100 and Early Birds) and up! She is now available to add-on to your pledge for $8.

Next up:
$600,000 – Deadzone Compendium: The Ultimate Gamer’s Guide

If we hit this goal, we’ll write, layout and print this kickass soft cover book – the Ultimate Guide to Deadzone!


This mighty tome contains:

- The complete Nexus Psi Campaign: all 6 Narrative Scenarios, including the Recon Unit extraction, the hunt for Simmonds and the Trapped DreadBall MVP Missions - plus an additional scenario for every 500 Backers we get (and we’re now less than 40 backers from the next one - please spread the word!!)

- Detailed Assembly Guides for your miniatures and scenery

- Detailed Painting Guides for your miniatures and scenery

- Faction Strategy Guides

- Hobby Gallery of Scenery and Miniatures

- PLUS all rules expansions funded as part of this campaign – we’re aiming for Solo play, “Zombie” Rules and large skirmish games played on multiple boards!

If we hit this goal we’ll include a digital copy of this must-have book into every pledge!!

And then of course, there’s the Zombies…



Don’t think we won’t be returning to the core faction though, we’ve still plenty to add to them…



Dare we dream that we might just get the Compendium tonight? Let's find out!

With only $8K to go - they just might...

well, bumped my pledge to include 3 mats, extra terrain, and some mercs, and that'll probably be it unless they release something just unskippable

I want to see that mystery pile of leaves before I pledge my $500+.

It's a plague-infected space haemorrhoid.

 scarletsquig wrote:
It's a plague-infected space haemorrhoid.

Pass the eye bleach when you're done with it please ; p

My bet is that the leaves are some kind of vermin, like plague rats, that like to tear and rip, like darn little rippers they are.

Hopefully its a case of come for the zombies stay for the game!

The zombies have really given this ks a kick up the arse, hopefully the increase in pledges and backers will continue for the next few days

So I've got a question for anyone in the know about this, will the deluxe gaming mats be available for retail after the kickstarter, or are they kickstarter exclusives? I'm trying to decide on saving some cash on mats and extra terrain if they will be available later, else my pledge is going to go from under $500 to close to $600 and I'm not sure I can toss that much into this right now.

I'm pretty sure they'll be available later - no idea on what the post-Kickstarter price will be though.

I'm thinking the leaf pile could well be a plagued Nameless unit.

Not to fan the fire, but I also remember being on the KS comments thread earlier in the campaign when one person asked Mantic if they'd be doing BOGOF for the two new factions, as they did with the Dreadball teams. Mantic's reply was that they couldn't do that this time. It was very clear from the way it was phrased that they meant that in the negative, not neutral, and definitely not, oh no, it'll be BETTER this time!

Well, now they're giving away one faction for free (if you pick FF or Asterians), and selling the other one at the standard $35 price. That is better than BOGOF.

Also, they revised their shipping terms twice. As long as you pay at least $20 in extras, you don't pay the additional $10 for your "free faction". In effect, the "free faction" is now more free than it was.

I think Azazelx is correct - this was damage control. And it came at a good time. Things were getting tense on the comments thread with people getting wound up about the Orx, there were a lot of non-discounted add-on stretch goal figures, and I think people were starting to feel less assured they were getting the traditional Mantic 'good deal'. I remember how some people took the "moral high ground" and started trying to shut down anyone "whining", insinuating people were being greedy for wanting more stuff. I found that absolutely ridiculous. I said then, and will say again, if you want to take the moral high ground, take your pledge money and donate it to a worthy charity. Otherwise, if you're pledging in this KS campaign, you're buying toys for yourself, not setting a moral example. Don't throw stones in glass houses and all that. This is capitalism, and customers want more for their money. There's nothing wrong with that, it's how the whole system works. Some of these moralists got so turned around that when Mantic said they were doing the FF and Asterians for $50, they thanked them for "not giving away too much", or something very close to that.

Yes Mantic, give us less and charge us more, please! Otherwise we're like whiny children asking for candy, and we'll never learn to go out and earn it ourselves. (A poster actually put up a German saying stating exactly this.) I'm sorry, I'm really enjoying the KS and liking Mantic right now, but I'm a customer. You will never catch me arguing that I should receive less for my money, and I can't take such arguments seriously. What the moralists missed completely was that the "whiners" were beside the point anyway. It's nice that free stuff keeps the troops happy, but they're already there. You add more free stuff so that all those people on the fence who DON'T think the KS is worthwhile will be compelled to join. You can try throwing moralistic arguments at the holdouts and tell them they should join now because they're wrong, the deal is already good enough for any right-thinking, hardworking, patriotic person. Good luck with that sales pitch.

At any rate, if the truly free Asterian / FF faction starter was 'damage control', then the Orx fiasco actually accomplished something good. (Well, besides the tweaks which improved the Orx models.) Power to the "whiners".

Thanks for the answer. I had a feeling they would be available as the only thing labeled an exclusive right now is the Survivor model. It would also be good business on Mantic's part to sell them later on for those who want to expand. One of the things I might look at is maybe just getting one extra mat. I have a feeling that it would be easy to play slightly larger two player scenarios of my own devising on a 2x4 table. Just looking at the 4x4 table i played a game of 40K on today I realize it would be huge for Deadzone, definitely something more akin to team games, and I'm not sure how many times I'd be playing like that.

 tyrant of loserville wrote:
I want to see that mystery pile of leaves before I pledge my $500+.

My assumption is that it is some sort of homage to the Horta, from the classic Trek episode Devil in the Dark ;

Ah - forgot to tell you guys a tidbit of news we got out of the Mantic HQ guy on the comments thread today.

Somehow we all got to talking about Blaine, the convict MVP from Dreadball, and how we'd like to see him in the game. (I actually thought a Penal suicide squad would be fun, but that didn't seem to go anywhere.)

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1744629938/dreadball-the-futuristic-sports-game/posts?page=6

I said to Mantic, "you could even use the same concept art."

And Mantic replied - after commenting that indeed, Blaine would fit well in the Deadzone setting - that Blaine was so badass, they got new concept art for him anyway.

I take that to mean chances are excellent we'll be seeing some version of this guy as a stretch goal.

I can understand where people who don't like homage figures are coming from, but in this case I can't agree. I'm really hoping that we'll see this figure and break that goal before the KS concludes.

I'll confirm that Blaine is coming.

 edlowe wrote:
Hopefully its a case of come for the zombies stay for the game!

The zombies have really given this ks a kick up the arse, hopefully the increase in pledges and backers will continue for the next few days

Wait until you see what the multipart hard plastic enforcers do. >_>

That Blaine guy looks pretty cool.

I'm assuming he's from a new race we haven't heard about yet?

What else do you guys know of that you're keeping mum on?

Mechs perchance?

Mechs?

Glad you asked. We haven't had confirmation, but the Mantic guy was being pretty obviously coy when asked about the chance of the Dreadball Mech getting kitted out military-style and appearing as a stretch goal.

It was about as obvious as a humorous "I couldn't possibly comment" style comment can be, so take it as you will.

Scarletsquig, where are you getting this plastic multi-part Enforcer kit stuff? You've been very confident about it right from the beginning. Where does this intel come from?

^ Ronnie himself, he's talked at length about a full unit of hard plastic enforcers wearing the same heavy armour as the Enforcer Captain, multipart, with loads of different weapon options, reserved for the event that the kickstarter total gets really high.

The plague zombies were another endgame kit, but it seems that they've brought them forward a bit to drum up some interest going into the final week.

If one hard plastic kit can drum up that much interest, I'm looking forward to seeing what 20-50 hard plastic kits can do when the Warpath KS rolls out.

It'll depend on what they look like, obviously - and what they are. Zombies have a very special place in our current pop culture, especially with the geek subsets that we're a part of. I'm sure Enforcers would also do quite well.

On the other hand, the Basilean Men-At-Arms aren't exactly setting the world aflame.

 PsychoticStorm wrote:
Azazelx, I will have to disagree the announcement came exactly with the update that announced their streachgoal and the buy two for 50.

I've just had another look through the many updates, and you are indeed correct. 15th May. Regardless, I still hold my opinion on why the free faction was announced as (to me) it fits the way this KS has gone. Not that it especially matters at this stage, but the outcomes (Orks can now be considered non-optional, but "free" - so not worth stressing about) are the same either way.

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
Was it ever confirmed one way or another if that's it faction- wise for this kickstarter?
I'm still mulling over what I want to do with that extra bonus starter faction. Wondering if we might see a seventh faction before things are all said and done.

I imagine that there are contingencies ready if the KS were to go absolutely ape gak, including extra faction(s). There was no way to predict if it would hit, say $2m. They would be long-term goals though. If the fulfilment dates for Forgefathers and Asterians are a year away (2nd Quarter 2014) then factions beyond those would be a hell of a long way away.

I don't think it will, however. The timing of this KS coinciding with the end of pledges for the KoW KS has undoubtedly cannibalised a good amount of pledge money, and that's without getting into people's individual issues with the KoW models. To explain - If you have an (extra?) $100 or so to spend, do you buy that heavily-discounted KoW ogre army, or double down on DZ Factions and terrain? If you want both badly, you'll buy the ogres since the end date is now and Pledge Manager the DZ extras later - which takes away from the potential DZ KS total.

 Cyporiean wrote:

 Grot 6 wrote:
Do the current range selections work with this game?

No, these are meant to be 'elite' units rather then the few grunts that have been released.

Of course, you can freely proxy anything else in that fits. Mantic models or otherwise.

I hadn't seen that Blaine guy before. He's certainly interesting. I can definitely see some influence from the Kel-Dor from Star Wars. This guy actually looks cool though. So, is he the Riddick to Dead Zone's Pitch Black?

Okay, this is a rather cool screengrab from this KS:



Onwards, to zombies!

I had noticed that comment about the Dreadball mech, and then promptly forgot about it for some bizarre reason.

Good to see we've already cleared the 600k for the compendium. We may even get the zombie rules before the weekend is over!

In honor of such a momentous occasion I will purchase my first ever set of Warpath figures tomorrow. I'm thinking I'll get some Forge Father storm guards or whatever they're called with the leader dude.

Or an Iron Ancestor.

Or some Kings of War orcs.

Some day I may even get the gumption to post some pictures of the terrible paint jobs I splatter all over these figures!

 Barzam wrote:
I hadn't seen that Blaine guy before. He's certainly interesting. I can definitely see some influence from the Kel-Dor from Star Wars. This guy actually looks cool though. So, is he the Riddick to Dead Zone's Pitch Black?

He looks a bit like Predator goes Bane, really. Still, a good fit as a merc for a game like this.

Some hints of future stretch goals in the comments:

- 2 extra terrain sprues for strike team.
- Filling out the Asterians and Forgefathers more.
- Upgrading the counters to acrylic.

Plus, all the other stuff for the starting 4 factions (looks like there might be at least 2 more lots of those that they want to add), and maybe some more mercs.

Plenty more goals to knock down, hopefully not everyone waits until the last 24 hours.