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Also about BG:EE

For the Enforcer Sergeant with energy gauntlet, I've been using my Dreadball The Enforcer

Still waiting. My estimated delivery has turned to N/A. :(

 pretre wrote:
Still waiting. My estimated delivery has turned to N/A. :(

Most people are - not sure how many they posted out last week, but this week is the "real" start of posting, I believe.

I didn't get in on the kickstarter but I did order a copy from The Warstore.

It arrived today and I was pleasantly surprised to see that it's a "limited edition" copy that includes the Survivor.

So huzzah!

Damn your eyes! Teehee, glad you got it, warstore is a good place.

Just in case anyone was wondering what 4 Mantic Battlezones looks like...

Hmm interesting. Also glad I ordered 14 or so. Oh wait, that is more than one mat isn't it?

Yeah now that I look closer that is some pretty nice coverage, and I"m jealous of your AW stuff, I skimped and didn't get any.

 Slinky wrote:

 pretre wrote:
Still waiting. My estimated delivery has turned to N/A. :(

Most people are - not sure how many they posted out last week, but this week is the "real" start of posting, I believe.

Mine is set for Monday now.

Compel, that's an impressive setup, and will look awesome painted up, and that many levels will give you some interesting gameplay as well.

As a general question to anyone who has received theirs (KS or retail), will the terrain that comes in the boxed game be enough for decent games on 1 2x2 board, or should I look at getting an extra battlezone as a priority?

I think it depends if you want all your terrain to consist of "believable" buildings, or if you are happy with the more abstract approach shown in some of Mantic's pics.

Yeah, what Slinky said. I think if you use every last bit of two battlezones you should be good for a standard 2x2 game. Should be able to have a lot of ground level walls and barricades with maybe a tower or two if they're smaller. When you try to make intact buildings is when you will run out of BZs faster, while having less meaningful cover for deadzone. Or when you want to build quite a ways up. And that isn't to say you won't be able to build some buildings, its just one has to be careful with that as they tend to leave less left over for filling up the blank areas around them.

I'm curious to see anyone do "intact" buildings that go along the edge of the mat to allow easy player access. From the middle of the board it would look like a complete settlement or facility, but go around the outside and it's all cut away and accessible, something I'm gonna see about for sure!

Yeah, that's the Deluxe mat at the back and the paper mat at the front.

I think the terrain that comes in the boxes game (1 battlezone, basically, right?) will be rather limited on its own. The two Core World battlezones you get in Strike Team will be perfect.

With my setup, the least useful pieces I had ended up with was most of the stuff from the Landing Pad battlezone. I've still got loads of Landing Struts left over, plus loads and loads of the angled connectors. They really just don't fit anywhere with my build.

The AW workshop stuff is kinda strange, I don't really know what to make of it. - It's going to take quite a lot of work to get it to fit in right, I think. Offhand, I'd just recommend buying more accessory sprues and the like.

I got more sprues. I'm excited to make big crate and barrel piles And stuff from Battle systems, that should mix in well ... although it'll take a bit on that stuff.

I was thinking two battlezones... I forgot people are getting the retail set now. Maybe get another battle zone for that then, yes, the retail version comes stock with an accessory sprue which is always nice

In what way is the AW stuff strange? Too big? Too heavy? Doesn't fit in well? I was thinking it was going to be awesome and was kind of sad to not get any, but you aren't jiving with yours?

Well, it's basically just shaped lumps of resin with detail on 4-5 out of 6 surfaces. That and I'll probably need to go and have a look at how they exactly fit together. - At the moment, it just feels like there's a lot of random shapes.

Thanks for the info, guys, I'll look at getting another battlezone soon then.

I've already thought about using non-complete buildings, leaving out parts that edge onto the board edge should make things go a little further.

I'm also wondering if, for complete building where the layout isn't going to change much, it might be worth trying to scratch-build some stuff. Basic 3x3 cubes shouldn't be too hard, and it might even be possible to mock up and print out some basic wall prints to save time painting.

I have a feeling even my 14 battlezones are going to get thin and stretched eventually, and for anything that is getting glued anyway, plasticard has always been on my mind. Most of these structures seem pretty simple to duplicate too. And floors. Floors are usually plain, I see a lot of floors getting made of plasticard for sure.

14 Battlezones? That should be more than enough for full 6' by 4' board of very tight Deadzone terrain.

That's what I thought when I ordered them all Of course now I'm getting stupid (or awesome) ideas like the Doomcube, and I want a lot of height in my scenery. Kind of like your outpost but with less defined structure and taller towers with walkways.

And the doomcube... I want to see if it's possible to construct a 2'x2'x2' cube out of deadzone tiles (and probably plasticard, and maybe something else to make a solid base for it... depends on stability!). Obviously the thing will be swiss cheese in one way or another, maybe an apartment block with the outside edges missing from everything so its like a couple of doll houses facing eachother with really accessible backs and therefore insides. The outside of the buildings would be connected with walkways, balconies, all kinds of stuff, such that someone falling would probably hit 2-5 things (pending scatter) on his way down... possibly even surviving instead of instasplat

Doomcube alone would probably eat upwards of 8 bzs, given the assumption that 2 battlezones will cover a 2x2 adequately 1-2 cubes high, and I'd need that x 4. This only leaves me 6ish BZs beyond that. Doomcube on the corner of a 4x4 board though. And I've got a battle systems stronghold set coming in to take up another 2x2 with beautiful interior

Oooh and some mars attacks stuff. Then I'm done with scenery forever! FOREVER.

 GrimDork wrote:
Then I'm done with scenery forever! FOREVER.

You sure? Maki are doing some interesting stufff...

Good deal, that one is over. But yeah, I think I may end up getting some more Battlezones, or some additional battle systems floors/walls or whatever they put up for retail... but for the most part I've got more than enough scenery to keep me busy for years Not to mention all of the models I'll have to paint to make the scenery worth it

Yep ditto on all counts. Will be nice once the battle systems terrain arrives to just throw it on the board and look amazing, not needing to paint it. Big part of why I was willing to go in big, my wall of shame filled with unpainted models wouldn't grow larger. At least Deadzone terrain should mostly be airbrush, so quick to get going. ~200+ Deadzone minis added to the wall of shame however... *cries*

I think I've just knocked out an enforcer scheme that should make that faction go quick. One base color+3-4 washes, and another 2 washes onto the primer for the other color, some fiddly stuff like assault blades or what have you. Most of the time is in drying. And I was already planning to dip my plague. I'm probably in the same 200+ models position but I plan to be optimistic

I've got at least 300, if not closer to 400 Warpath minis, plus all the Deadzone stuff coming. Who wants to paint my Marauders for me?! Also, still salivating at the thought of putting together my Deadzone stuff. The second survey is going to hurt. A lot...I may have to take my wallet out back and put it out of its misery.






No, seriously. It's falling apart. It's just real Italian leather and I'm not sure when any member of my family is going back there and can get me another one. But when it's held together by prayer, it may be time to let it go.

Did they mention when the rest of the stuff will ship? Stuff like Urban Battle (four ruined battlezones)?

That one is far off yet. Probably Q2 2014. Gotta have time to get all of the FF and asterian stuff figured out, and the hard plastic too.

I seem to have gotten double my terrain, too. I hope they don't think that fulfills my pledge.

Silly question. Where's the stat card for the mercs?

Pretre, they were just added to the library with the digital download for the rulebook.

Oh okay. Same site? I'll have to dig it up an download them.


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Will we get cards eventually? Or a book? Is that just second wave?