Mantic Deadzone Kickstarter - Completed! - $1,216,482 final total.

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**Gitzbitah**

Alpharius wrote:
From the comments section:

scarletsquig 39 minutes ago

Also, maybe a super-bundle that has all 6 of the faction boosters... that kind of thing really worked well in the last 2 weeks of Dreadball.

Creator Mantic Games 8 minutes ago

@ Scarletquig - get out of our heads!

Creepy!

Also, what exactly would that entail, do you think?

Sounds like Scarletsquig would have be some sort of multilimbed, mind invading organism- I'm thinking something like Invader Zim's house, or a beholder/mindflayer hybrid. Then Mantic would have to extricate him without damaging the grey matter- it actually sounds like a fine game of Cthulu.

As far as a 6 faction pack goes, perhaps a terrain style booster, with levels of 3 faction packs, 4, 5, and 6 at progressively better discounts- they might not come with associated freebies so as not to devalue or encourage sidegrades of the Strike pledges, but would provide more raw models.

**Zweischneid**

I don't really understand why they don't throw in the odd pdf and perhaps even a mini with high terrain-only pledges.

Not the full thing you'd get with strike perhaps. But it would cost you nothing (pdf) or very little (the odd character mini) to throw in a little teaser for those guys pledging "only" for the terrain for their Infinity group or whatever. Who know's, you might tease yourself into a new customer in the long run.

**DaveC**

Here come the boost packs will that got another $40 from me.

Buy One Get One Free!
Update #64 · May 28, 2013 · 1 comment

It’s time for more stretch goal madness as we delve into the mysteries of what’s next – here we go again!
$700,000 – Enforcer Faction Booster

From the start of the campaign we committed to producing six fantastically varied Factions bursting with exciting troop choices, rather than producing many Factions that were lacking in support.

To this end, we've created the Faction Boosters, cool upgrade packs with fantastic new specialists to add variety and options to your Faction Starter - your squad will pack one hell of a punch with these great new choices! Whether you're playing through a campaign and earning experience (and accruing powerful heavy weapons) or just picking up and playing against a mate on a rainy weekend, these new models will allow you to tailor your force to the mission at hand.

If we hit this goal, we will tool the Enforcer Faction Booster – the first of these upgrade packs for your Factions full of brand new specialists:

Enforcer Medic

Enforcer Sergeant with Energy Gauntlet – can also double up as an alternate Assault Enforcer.

Enforcer Defender with Shotgun and Blast Shield - Pose 1 of 2 shown, 2nd still to come.

Faction Boosters are designed to fill out your squad with new and exciting figures including Sergeant level models, two-man weapon teams (or in the case of the Enforcers who probably wouldn't utilise this kind of unit, the Defenders) and new support characters, adding more variety and choice to your squad and offering simple one-click add-ons for you to get all of the latest figures coming out.

To this end we will also include the Enforcer with Burst Laser/Incinerator in the set as well (similarly we'll add the Marauder Hulk, Rebs Kraaw and Plague 3rd Gen with Grenade Launcher to their respective Faction Boosters as well!)

The Enforcer Faction Booster is available to add on to your pledge for just $20:

BUT WAIT!

We will be doing a Faction Booster for at least the first four races before the end of the campaign (and if we get into uncharted territory, we hope to be able to add the other two on as well!), so to make it extra easy to expand your factions, we've put together some mega deals!

Here comes the…
Buy One Get One Free!

Boost your faction!

In order for you to make your money go further we've put together some awesome booster bundles based around all of our specialists - a one-click purchase option to add on a whole heap of cool new troops for your squad.

To make the deal all the more sweeter, if you add-on any one Booster Bundle you can choose any second bundle FOR FREE! You can either pick two of the same Bundle or two different sets – the choice is yours!

This deal effectively includes 6 Booster Packs at a price of under $10 per booster - bargain!

Ships Q2 2014.

The Plague Faction Booster set is coming not long after the Enforcer Set meaning the choice of cool models available is set to get a whole lot bigger!

Right guys, let's start knocking some of these goals over - we're so close to the Plague Zombies we can almost - almost - taste them.

**Compel**

And here... we... go.

$50 buy one, get one free faction boosters.

First up is the enforcers at 700k.

**scarletsquig**

Looks like we're in luck! BOGOFs are back!

Think I'll go for Rebs and Enforcers boosters.

**Ronin_eX**

That Enforcer booster looks great! Hmm, I may have to grab one afterall. I hope this goes far enough to produce some Wave 2 faction boosters, but if not a Reb or Marauder booster would probably be of some interest. Well that's another easy $50 when we hit it.

**DaveC**

Just realised I only have to add $13 more not $40 for the the first 4 factions $20 boosters as I already had $27 in for their specialists but they are now oart of the boosters.

**pretre**

Ohh snap. I have no idea how much I'm going to spend now.

**Ronin_eX**

And that little announcement seems to have surged us closer to the zombies unlock now! Less than $1000 left.

**warboss**

scarletsquig wrote:
Looks like we're in luck! BOGOFs are back!

I dunno... the BOGOFs seemed to be the cause of much drama in KOW.

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DaveC wrote:

If we hit this goal, we will tool the Enforcer Faction Booster – the first of these upgrade packs for your Factions full of brand new specialists:

Enforcer Medic

Is it just me or does this guy look like the biggest badass of the whole enforcer lineup? Awesome looking mini.

**highlord tamburlaine**

So looking carefully at those boosters, it seems that's where some of our silhouettes are ending up.
Our carpet things looks like it's next to the base of the infected teraton.
It also looks like we're getting artillery in those boosters for the other factions- it seems the plague are getting a mortar while the marauders get their cannon.
Is that a 2 man heavy weapon team for the rebs?

This is more like i was expecting deal-wise.

Good on Mantic! Drive those numbers up!

**Alpharius**

Same here!

This one just got expensive!!!

**Riquende**

warboss wrote:

Is it just me or does this guy look like the biggest badass of the whole enforcer lineup? Awesome looking mini.

There's a certain Master Chief vibe going on with his helmet. I don't know if it's just the angle though.

**Compel**

I do have an visual image of Ratchet talking to Optimus Prime from that pic.

And dammit. Mantic now has me in for 500 frikking dollars. (In other words, I've re-hedged my bets upwards again).

It's a good thing that after this 40k campaign I'm going to is over, I pretty much won't need to do anything remotely GW related, except for buying a couple of books, for a long time...

**Alfndrate**

We all know medics are the biggest bamfs ever.

So lemme get this straight, I'm in for a strike team, I currently have the option of 1 free faction starter on top of the 4 I'm already getting yes? If I spend 20 dollars in addons, I can choose Forge Fathers or Asterians without the 10 dollar shipping charge? Feth me I think I might drop 50 bucks on this and grab me Enforcers and Rebs (love the little sebulba looking guy

)

**Compel**

Yup, Alfndrate, exactly.

Incidently, we just unlocked zombies.

**decker_cky**

Those booster add-ons also seem to increase a lot of the various models into small warpath unit sizes. If you want to play X faction in warpath, scout + BOGO booster bundle of that faction gives you a fair bit (lacking in basic troops, but a good number of specialists).

**Ronin_eX**

Stretch goal reached. We have zombies people! Now, lets get me some more dorfy goodness!

Can't wait for this thing to hit $700k so we can start knocking out boosters though. If we can send the total high enough, then we should be able to get Asterians and Forge Fathers in to the mix before the end. If not, the Enforcer booster is really doing it for me. I'm a sucker for riot shields and shotguns. I can foresee my Enforcers getting a lot of use in Tomorrow's War with the amount I have now.

**scarletsquig**

So, you can get either 30 minis for $50 or 60 minis for $100.

Using the enforcer booster bundle as a base, obviously other factions will have less if they have larger models.

That's some seriously good value there.

*and* if you add an add-on, you don't have to worry about the shipping thing and can pick up forgefathers or asterians with your freebie.

**highlord tamburlaine**

That Medic is pretty bad-ass looking. Especially for a medic.

He does give off a bit of a Spartan vibe.

I tossed another hundred in. Hell at this point with the booster and all the figures would I have enough figures for a starting warpath Enforcer army?

My brother will be happy his energy gauntlet Enforcer has finally made a formal appearance.

**warboss**

Riquende wrote:
warboss wrote:

Is it just me or does this guy look like the biggest badass of the whole enforcer lineup? Awesome looking mini.

There's a certain Master Chief vibe going on with his helmet. I don't know if it's just the angle though.

I didn't get that vibe but I could see where someone else could, especially with all the armor customizations options in Reach and Halo 4. I'm personally getting a nostalgic RIFTS vibe from him. Is there any way of picking up just single minis like this guy from the kickstarter?

**scarletsquig**

highlord tamburlaine wrote:
That Medic is pretty bad-ass looking. Especially for a medic.

He does give off a bit of a Spartan vibe.

I tossed another hundred in. Hell at this point with the booster and all the figures would I have enough figures for a starting warpath Enforcer army?

My brother will be happy his energy gauntlet Enforcer has finally made a formal appearance.

Yes, you do have enough for a Warpath army, easy. Probably around 1000 points or so, and with the nicer-looking DZ minis too.

**DaveC**

Just to clarify as I asked

Creator Mantic Games 1 minute ago

For clarity, the $20 Boosters are not BOGOF, only the $50 bundle

Looks like I'm in for $100 then makes more sense than $80 for 4 $20 sets.

**Ronin_eX**

Now that is a bit of a boost right there. Already a few thousand more dollars up and only a few minutes since breaking $635k. This could shape up to be a pretty good day.

**warboss**

Ouch.. so this newly revealed stuff is coming out in Q2 2014?

**highlord tamburlaine**

scarletsquig wrote:

Yes, you do have enough for a Warpath army, easy. Probably around 1000 points or so, and with the nicer-looking DZ minis too.

Awesome.
Only problem is he called Enforcers first. I guess for skirmishes between the two of us I'll let him use his guys. I'll just have to roll with one of the other factions.
Kids called Plague already so I guess I'll field Rebs until the EU guys (hopefully) get decked out as well.

Onwards and upwards until the eventual mecha!

**Saxon**

Yes, says it in the update!

**scarletsquig**

@DaveC: Yep. For $100 you get 12 of the $20 sets, saving $140 in total.

It's a stacked discount, which makes it even sweeter.

- $20 for one booster.
- $50 for 3 boosters. (so saving $10)
- Then the BOGOF doubles that to $50 for 6 boosters.

So, really, really insanely good deal and the pledge total has jumped by like $5k in the last 30 minutes.

And it's pick and mix, whichever factions you want.

**Ronin_eX**

warboss wrote:
Ouch.. so this newly revealed stuff is coming out in Q2 2014?

Yup, I figured most stuff at this point was going to be Wave 2. But I'm already waiting on FF's and Asterians, so this lot can keep 'em company on the way over. Too insane a deal to pass it up though.

**warboss**

It's a pretty good deal but I'm only looking for a few figs from the whole lineup. With all the drama surrounding mantic about variation from concept art (or renders in this case), I'm probably better off waiting to see the medic and recon enforcer guys in the wild (along with two other figs from different factions I like). If they were coming out quicker, it might be a different story though.