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Seems potentially great for display boards. I'll be following this one with interest.

 Bolognesus wrote:
...Not really. at 1' square you're going to need such a fethton of them whichever pack/bag/other thing you carry them around in is going to be as cumbersome as the RoB bag IMO.

You're going to have a taller stack of them, yes, but they'll also be easier to store and transport then 2'x2' squares, and will still weigh the same.

I'm all for 1x1 squares

New Pic:

Still not thrilled about having tires and sheet metal embedded into a landscape


At least Skulls are universal!

It's honestly rather par for what it is. The make-or-break will be pricing and variety. Considering Kickstarter's history, it's looking good for both pricing and the possibility of "stretch goal" variety.

Guys, you will not be disappointed with this, trust me. I have even privy to a few things, pricing and long term benefits are going to be awesome.

Note, Justin s already showing finished product, this isn't a smoke and mirrors ks where they only show renders and then figure out it can't be done later, that says something. Swm make really great product and as most of you know, Justin is very active member of the community who takes business very seriously. Hold off buying any boards til next week guys lol!

It looks not bad from the renders and printed model alone. Secret Weapon has a history of quality anyways, so it's doubtful anyone is worried about that. I have a ton of their metal Tyranid Bone Swords and the resin bug eggs that Navarro himself sculpted; all are great quality and I assume their venture into plastic will be no less than satisfactory.

You say pricing is 'good'. We'll see, of course. Making this a Kickstarter alone is looking good in terms of pricing.

 MajorTom11 wrote:
Guys, you will not be disappointed with this, trust me. I have even privy to a few things, pricing and long term benefits are going to be awesome. Hold off buying any boards til next week guys lol!

If your in the know, could you please tell us if there are sections for the fantasy type players out here? If there's not, I will probably be ordering GW's Realm of Battle at the weekend.

Does anybody have the link to the kickstarter for this. Both Facebook and SW's website are work blocked (apparently looking at websites classified as "weapons" is bad-think).

This is an excellent idea, I can see me dumping a fair bit on this.

Koppo wrote:
Does anybody have the link to the kickstarter for this. Both Facebook and SW's website are work blocked (apparently looking at websites classified as "weapons" is bad-think).

Coming Soon = Not out yet.

Major Tom implies it should be in a week or so though, so not too long.

Love the idea.

Have no interest in a pile of junk.

The printed board actually looks much better than the render, all the soft lines seem to have vanished and now look really good.

Dammit I said I would do no more kickstarters until Mantic's sci-fi one!

 Vain wrote:

Koppo wrote:
Does anybody have the link to the kickstarter for this. Both Facebook and SW's website are work blocked (apparently looking at websites classified as "weapons" is bad-think).

Coming Soon = Not out yet.

Major Tom implies it should be in a week or so though, so not too long.

Cheers, I could not be sure due to the over zealous thought-police at work. I will try and keep and eye on this.

How about a nice set of tiles that can be used as a fantasy football field? Could have the modular halves, a swappable center for team logos, and bleacher, dugout areas. It would save me from building my own. Sure there would be at least a descent following for he stuff

...which would be released just about when GW rereleases, as seems to be scheduled for september, bloodbowl.

Heh. I can just hear the veins popping

Love their bases, love the quality of the items I've purchased, and have never had a customer service issue with them so I'm thinking I'll be spending on this if the price is reasonable. It'd be nice to have a board to use at home that I can hide away.

I am need.


While I like the decorated tiles, I'd really need "plain" terrain tiles so that the board isn't limited to a single/few game systems. I don't think off road tires exist in Ulthuan.

 Aerethan wrote:
I am need.


While I like the decorated tiles, I'd really need "plain" terrain tiles so that the board isn't limited to a single/few game systems. I don't think off road tires exist in Ulthuan.

+1

Already said the same thing earlier. You do plain tiles and I will purchase.

I'm somehow convinced that they will hit the KS with more than 2 tiles with off-road tyres on them. Plain can't be that hard either way. A single mould ought to do the trick, with clever accessories locking into the texture, maybe?

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
I'm somehow convinced that they will hit the KS with more than 2 tiles with off-road tyres on them. Plain can't be that hard either way. A single mould ought to do the trick, with clever accessories locking into the texture, maybe?

With 3D printing they could very easily create terrain kits that "lock" into the natural texture of the board pieces and look pretty close to seamless.

 Denilsta wrote:

 MajorTom11 wrote:
Guys, you will not be disappointed with this, trust me. I have even privy to a few things, pricing and long term benefits are going to be awesome. Hold off buying any boards til next week guys lol!

If your in the know, could you please tell us if there are sections for the fantasy type players out here? If there's not, I will probably be ordering GW's Realm of Battle at the weekend.

The sloping hills on the RoB board make it less than ideal.

The problem with the RoB board(other than the world bleeding skulls) is that built in hills become a hindrance at some point. It also limits board layout significantly since you won't want hard edges in the middle of the table.

Theophony wrote:
I could definitely go for a generic spaceship decking sort of tile. Use it for necromunda o space hulk. Also wouldn't mind ones set with. Grassy field and dugouts for bloodbowl.

OMG this. Justin, if you make space deck tiles similar to your sci-fi ship bases, you will have all my money.

Maybe on the sci-fi tiles.

They're hard to do well - and a 4' x 6' table full of a shape, or even a few shapes, repeated over and over - it doesn't look good.

That's what sunk Games and Gears version, at least partially.

None of their 'Sci-Fi' stuff looked very good over that big an area.

Guys, you can look forward to multiple themes, with transitions and more... Full reinforced 12" plastic injection molding, scalable, with tons of other goodies too... Those two tiles in one theme you've seen so far? Tip of the iceberg!

Keep your an eye on this space, things are gonna start moving and shaking soon!

Seriously, you're gonna be impressed

 MajorTom11 wrote:

Seriously, you're gonna be impressed

Already am!

 MajorTom11 wrote:
Guys, you can look forward to multiple themes, with transitions and more... Full reinforced 12" plastic injection molding, scalable, with tons of other goodies too... Those two tiles in one theme you've seen so far? Tip of the iceberg!

Keep your an eye on this space, things are gonna start moving and shaking soon!

Seriously, you're gonna be impressed

They said that about the finecast! and now...




But seriously, I'm excited and stop teasing us Tom...

Have faith, this is a resin free zone, no resi-plastic, real deal machine tooled metal mold injection molded plastic just like Mom used to make

MajorTom knows something, clearly.

You dirty tease.