Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

Congrats, your project has been picked as a staff pick!

Backed for the mini war gamer although I may increase this if certain stretch goals look like being met.

 misterjustin wrote:
RE: TRENCH WORKS

There would be transition tiles to change the elevation of the board, and the trenches would then go DOWN from the higher elevation -- while there would be earthworks with raised detail for other tiles.

As long as the bottom of the trench tile is still lying flat on the table and not bending the rest of the tiles upward (in other words: As long as the trench is not deeper than the height of the standard tile), everything is fine.

The concept sketches for the Urban wasteland look great. I love girders. You can never have enough girders.

Ah, cool, 6x4 board option.

Now just waiting on the $200k mark (I give it a week) to see the generic fields.

After that my main want would be a "hills and rivers" expansion for the generic fields set.

Definitely make full use of your 3d tooling to add terrain elements which cannot be realistically added with scatter terrain.. natural-looking slopes is one of the main benefits of the RoB board, rivers would be great for similar reasons, there's that subtractive element that can't be represented by placing river pieces on to a regular board as opposed to carving it out of a regular board (and then filling it with clear resin for maximum sexiness).

Maybe a rocky chasms and sand dunes for the desert tiles, or canals for the urban board?

Trenches will be an excellent example of subtractive terrain since you'll have them built into the board, whereas with the scrap board it's kinda not as impressive since I feel like I could just take a desert board and throw some scatter terrain on it for a nearly identical effect.. and then still have a desert board to use for non-28mm and non sci-fi games (scrap board can only be used for those genres and scales, making it somewhat restrictive for your average joe, unless they only ever play 40k orks).

I'd imagine a lot of your pledges are currently placeholders who are looking for either urban, field, desert or trench to fund before their pledge will be serious.

Looking at the stretches, there's probably not much that can be done about having the niche-appeal scrap board first, but definitely consider having ruined temple board last and move up the trench and desert boards in the stretch goal list.

People will go *nuts* for the trench board and the desert board will be pretty popular too. Of course, don't take my word for it, ask your backers.

The generic fields will be awesome because you can then decorate them in any scale... I'm thinking stuff for my 15mm's and aliens stuff for 28mms.

GOOD LUCK Justin!

KIck some ass mate!

I was away from dakka most of yesterday and missed out on the early birds. Glad to see this is almost funded. Will definitely be getting in on this.

More then 3/4 of the way funded now. In less then a day. If this doesn't hit at least 300k i'll be very surprised.

 Kroothawk wrote:
As long as the bottom of the trench tile is still lying flat on the table and not bending the rest of the tiles upward (in other words: As long as the trench is not deeper than the height of the standard tile), everything is fine.

If the trench isn't deeper than the surrounding ground then it's not a trench.

My one concern with the trenches is how flimsy they might turn out to be. I'd imagine sufficent bracing could solve the problem but it might be something worth keep an eye on.

You should definately do an 8 tile river miniset

When I'm looking at the pictures (the ones under the "wat is tablescape" header) of the tile on the kickstarter page I think I can see the reinforcements on the back of the tile showing true on the front... Is this because of the lighting needed to get a clear picture, or because the plastic is verry thin, a combination of both, or worse case, because they are indeed showing true (saging - spelling?) on the topside as well.

Price includes international shipping? That's sweet!

Keep in mind that Only the first theme is slated for October, though. 6 months more for each additional theme?

No, that's if they weren't doing the work concurrently, which they are. Later, but not that much later.

But what is "not that much later"? I'm guessing they'll clarify once the initial goal is hit (which is not too far off) but that would be a pretty important factor in which set to select, I think.

... because I definitely would not have supported Dreamforge had I known they'd be a few months late.

How did I know you'd go there

I am not hating, I am just curious what their release schedule is! Knowing that it could slip, etc. Obviously I am happy with Dreamforge but he agonized over release date speculation (as Secret Weapon is too, I think) and still missed on his guess. So knowing what they think their dates are for the other themes would be good

With the elevation differences in the boards, will some of them not line up with others without having the hard edge drop off, or will they all start at the same level on the board edges?

 whalemusic360 wrote:
With the elevation differences in the boards, will some of them not line up with others without having the hard edge drop off, or will they all start at the same level on the board edges?

It would have to be the former. There wouldn't be any point in making a modular trench board if no trench system could extend more than a foot.

I'd imagine a lot of your pledges are currently placeholders who are looking for either urban, field, desert or trench to fund before their pledge will be serious.

Looking at the stretches, there's probably not much that can be done about having the niche-appeal scrap board first, but definitely consider having ruined temple board last and move up the trench and desert boards in the stretch goal list.

People will go *nuts* for the trench board and the desert board will be pretty popular too. Of course, don't take my word for it, ask your backers.

This is very true in my case,reading the Q&A it say 6 months per stretch goal that means we would not see trenches until the beginning of the third year.
If it got bumped to number two I'd probably go max,number 3 a 4x4

That's where I got my info from, but I'm wondering if the FAQ is accurate on that?

So, now the "kickstarter crowd" are behind this, how long until we see suggestions for a Serenity/ Firefly themed stretch....

Wut?

Even with the advent of the 6x4, I'm staying with the 8x4. A table and 2x2 two display trays sounds nice.


Automatically Appended Next Post:

 BrookM wrote:
Wut?

I second the lolwut

Most mini based kickstarters wind up with a Firefly homage character pack.

And yeah, even with the 6x4 it's worth the difference for me to go with the 8x4 for possibly two different looks and display boards.

It happens every kickstarter project, some damn fool always suggests a Serenity / Firefly themed stretch goal in the comments. Then a few pages later it'll come up again.

Ooh, using these as display boards, too- great idea!

Hey everyone, I'm just chiming in to say that I'm still watching -- but I'm now so crazy busy it's hard to keep up. A couple of points though:

DELIVERY -- it will NOT be six months per theme, meaning 2 years on the big themes, as the work can and will happen concurrently. The FAQ has been updated. For instance the "Scrap Yard" renders should be finished this weekend -- meaning we can start on "Urban Streets" next week. I will allow for a week on tile feedback before we send them to the factory, but we would be milling "Scrap Yard" the second we successfully fund, or pass the first stretch-goal. Six months for delivery from THAT point, which is why I'm saying October for "Scrap Yard."

TRENCH WORKS: The tiles will have to be elevated -- so we'll take advantage of the 1.25" total tile thickness and work down for the trench. There would be transitions on at least 4 tiles that slowly ramp up to the trench section and I have plans for a 4 or 8 tile "elevation set" that includes only the ramped tiles in a "generic" mud/dirt theme so that they can be used with any board.

The basic mud/dirt texture will be reasonably universal, as much as it can be, across themes so it's easier to mix-and-match. And now I'm off to Kickstarter land -- before jumping into some of the news sites to correct faulty math

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Kroothawk wrote:
As long as the bottom of the trench tile is still lying flat on the table and not bending the rest of the tiles upward (in other words: As long as the trench is not deeper than the height of the standard tile), everything is fine.

If the trench isn't deeper than the surrounding ground then it's not a trench.

Read again:
1.) A tile has a certain thickness, say 1 inch (it is not a paper mat after all).
2.) If the trench does not exceed the upper edge, it is not really a trench.
3.) If the trench exceeds the lower edge, it is not really a board (because you would have to cut into your table to get the board straight).
Okay?

 misterjustin wrote:
Hey everyone, I'm just chiming in to say that I'm still watching -- but I'm now so crazy busy it's hard to keep up. A couple of points though:

DELIVERY -- it will NOT be six months per theme, meaning 2 years on the big themes, as the work can and will happen concurrently. The FAQ has been updated. For instance the "Scrap Yard" renders should be finished this weekend -- meaning we can start on "Urban Streets" next week. I will allow for a week on tile feedback before we send them to the factory, but we would be milling "Scrap Yard" the second we successfully fund, or pass the first stretch-goal. Six months for delivery from THAT point, which is why I'm saying October for "Scrap Yard."

Thank you for clarifying