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Looks like we made some better than average progress overnight. Hopefully we'll hit both the 3200 pledger and 700k stretch goals Sunday. Onward men... the females are within reach!

 Alpharius wrote:
Infantry is fielded in unit size of 12, but sold as unit of 6 for $30.

Female power armor unit size is 3, sold as a unit of 3.

I know which ones I'll be buying!

Infantry Support units are size 6.

 judgedoug wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:
Infantry is fielded in unit size of 12, but sold as unit of 6 for $30.

Female power armor unit size is 3, sold as a unit of 3.

I know which ones I'll be buying!

Infantry Support units are size 6.

Actually according to the Org Charts, they are units of 12 for Core Units, so that's probably what he talking about.

 TalonZahn wrote:

 judgedoug wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:
Infantry is fielded in unit size of 12, but sold as unit of 6 for $30.

Female power armor unit size is 3, sold as a unit of 3.

I know which ones I'll be buying!

Infantry Support units are size 6.

Actually according to the Org Charts, they are units of 12 for Core Units, so that's probably what he talking about.

As long as it's a multiple. I mean, SM Assault Squads are units of up to ten guys and the box comes with 5, cause you can field a minimum size of 5.

The Zentradi actually work out mathmatically better than the UEDF do.

I was running some numbers and to get even squads of stuff across the board, it seems a person would have to buy more add-ons for UEDF than Zentradi. In most cases, you wouldn't even have to buy add-ons for Zentradi just making squads out of what comes with the main sets.

UEDF seems to come up 1 short or 1 too many a lot of the time.

I am weak...

In for First Contact ATM, will probably add a Monster (Monster #6 for me if you're counting) and fighters. Maybe super VTs and Female Power Armor.

Now to start lobbying for a Cat's Eye and conventional vehicles.

Oh and an out of scale SDF-1.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
I am weak...

In for First Contact ATM, will probably add a Monster (Monster #6 for me if you're counting) and fighters. Maybe super VTs and Female Power Armor.

Now to start lobbying for a Cat's Eye and conventional vehicles.

Oh and an out of scale SDF-1.

Don't forget the vf-4!

I really need to get of my a$$ and put my Star Trek micro machines on eBay.

Am I counting correctly that Battle Cry is now 75 miniatures for $140?

Right now, yes. By the end of today it should go up by 2 arty Battlepods.

New update. Looks like we'll get Miria at $725k. I'm thinking of parting with some of my BFG minis just to get moar FPA and get us closer to that goal.

I am quite happy all of the characters have been Bonuses for Battle Cry. I appreciate that they provide a separate pose as well (presumably). For that reason, I'd still like to get Valk Max and Miriya. Two more VTs for the Battle Cry set.

Looking forward to Miriya in her Zent armor.

I cannot wait until they add the Invid in eventually

Back for battle cry.

Will add in female zentaedi and super valk squad before it ends I think

This kickstarter is macross only so no Invid. If they go with popularity instead of order in the tv show order, the Invid could be in the next one.

Looks like we made the 3200 backer goal but the pulling out of a $3500 pledge overnight set us back a few hours on the 700k goal.

edit: gotta love bad mobile autocorrects.

Ah, I was wondering what was taking so long to get up there.

That'd do it.

Looks like we'll hit 700k today barring any further shenanigans, but that 275'ish backer run for decals will probably take a good 3-4 days. Be interesting to see if/what the next backer stretch is after that.

With as many voices as there were for Female Power Armour I'm suprised this goal wasn't reached over the weekend. As for stretch goals its prolly gonna be more models or dice for battlecry and above.

 Forar wrote:
Ah, I was wondering what was taking so long to get up there.

That'd do it.

Looks like we'll hit 700k today barring any further shenanigans, but that 275'ish backer run for decals will probably take a good 3-4 days. Be interesting to see if/what the next backer stretch is after that.

Fingers crossed for a non-scale SDF-1!

 dalsiandon wrote:
With as many voices as there were for Female Power Armour I'm suprised this goal wasn't reached over the weekend. As for stretch goals its prolly gonna be more models or dice for battlecry and above.

This is my first kickstarter and I assumed (incorrectly) that weekends would be a busier time than during the work week. Combined with a US holiday (Mother's Day), we had a good but not particularly eventful weekend. As for the pledger stretch goals, they've been following a pattern of one inexpensive core set boost followed by 2 back to back battlecry free model boosts.

Here's a quick interview with them at Adepticon.

There's far less units in Southern Cross, not even sure if a Kickstarter would be necessary.

Southern Cross mecha:
Veritech Spartas Hover Tank
Veritech Logan
Veritech AGACS
and maybe some of the destroids seen in the series, like the Salamander and Monocole.

As for the Masters, just the 5 Bioroids (Blue, Green, Red, Scout, and Invid Fighter) and a set of Bioroid sleds.

Plus, they'd be much smaller and cheaper, too.

They just released the next 95k in stretch goals!

725k: Miriya (which we knew).
750k: VEF-1/VT-1D 2 pack add on for $30 (can be built as either).
775k: Armoured Battloids (2 pack add on for $20)
800k: 3 Male Power Armour added to Battle Cry and above.

Not a bad series of goals. 2 freebies and 3 more of the figures becoming available.

I still do not understand the raging interest some people have for the Trainer though, unless they anticipate it being a super cheap (points wise) figure to field (buff up their numbers cost effectively) or expect scenario encounters to put them to use. I mean... it's a lightly/unarmed(?) 2 seater training fighter.

To each their own, sure, just don't quite get the thirst for what is likely a non-combatant unit.

Technically the VF-1D is not a trainer, it's just a two seat variant.

Now, because it's a two seater, it often gets used for the purposes of training.

I plan to use the VF-1D as a Wild Weasel for my Valk wing. In the WW role it could use a RIO.

Not that I know how the rules will work for it, but the VEF could be useful for adding or subtracting command points by way of better sensors and electronic warfare. That alone would make it an extremely useful unit. The two-seat version is just gravy on top of that.

 judgedoug wrote:
Technically the VF-1D is not a trainer, it's just a two seat variant.

Now, because it's a two seater, it often gets used for the purposes of training.

Addendum: or the purposes of marrying a micronized Zentraedi.

 judgedoug wrote:

 judgedoug wrote:
Technically the VF-1D is not a trainer, it's just a two seat variant.

Now, because it's a two seater, it often gets used for the purposes of training.

Addendum: or the purposes of marrying a micronized Zentraedi.

Or saving Lynn Minmei!

One comment made me sad...

The Ninjas recently announced that the license does not allow they to make any non-mecha minis.

It was from a poster and I can't find the original announcement but assuming it's true then no APCs, no tanks, no choppers, no fighters. I really liked the idea of putting a conventional force against the Zentradi.

There's plenty of 5mm armor out there but still...

I hope there will be the explosion that I have seen in other KS at the end.

They've said a few times that for various reasons they are unable to produce the Cats Eye Recon Plane that many desire, and that they are limiting the scope of this project to mecha of the show (apparently including the Lancers and Ghosts, but not including other standard vehicles of that era).

Which honestly, I'm okay with. As nice as it'd be to have some of those conventional aircraft/vehicles, there are enough appropriately sized miniatures that if I absolutely must get some on my tables, I can probably buy them elsewhere and tweak as needed. Some might see that as 'money being left on the table', but considering the cost of new molds I'm guessing they weighed out the risk/reward and decided to stick with the iconic stuff.

 Forar wrote:
They just released the next 95k in stretch goals!

725k: Miriya (which we knew).
750k: VEF-1/VT-1D 2 pack add on for $30 (can be built as either).
775k: Armoured Battloids (2 pack add on for $20)
800k: 3 Male Power Armour added to Battle Cry and above.

Not a bad series of goals. 2 freebies and 3 more of the figures becoming available.

I still do not understand the raging interest some people have for the Trainer though, unless they anticipate it being a super cheap (points wise) figure to field (buff up their numbers cost effectively) or expect scenario encounters to put them to use. I mean... it's a lightly/unarmed(?) 2 seater training fighter.

To each their own, sure, just don't quite get the thirst for what is likely a non-combatant unit.

No additional pledge goals were mentioned. I wonder if that means anything. Otherwise not bad. I'd still like to hear more about the battle foam bags. But they are closed lipped there.

If anyone wants to just get their feet wet, it appears people are likely upgrading to the $140 freebie pledge and opening up their early bird $70 pledges (which comes out $2.12 per model including shipping). Four early bird core set only pledges are open as I type this post.

Does anyone have any insight into why the license only allows mecha? It seems like it would be in palladiums best interest to make characters for the RPG in addition to the wargame.