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 Killionaire wrote:

 IceRaptor wrote:

 warboss wrote:
I can only afford to sport one anime robot game that I can't find local players and that slot is already taken.

Hey, there's always room for marginal games with no players, right? Right?

Aw man :(

This amuses me to no end

Tell me about it !

 Kyrolon wrote:

VF-1S: Commanders mech. Four head lasers, two on each side. Used in the show as Skull One, Roy Fokker's plane.

Also, it's the version that became Jetfire.

Oh man these line of sight rules are going to cause huge nerdrage. I wish they would have gone volumetric like warmachine.

A heads up to anyone interested in about 30 minutes, 10:00pm Central time, I will be dropping my Blitzkrieg pledge so I can move up to Showdown.

*thumbs up*

With the rate we're going, it wouldn't surprise me if we hit 1m tomorrow (maybe late in the day EST, an hour or two after the emails go out), Sunday at the latest most likely, which means I really need to weigh out that extra BC over my current add on plans.

Basically, if I'm willing to skip the MAC II and wait for retail, it'd be a simply staggering number of minis.

Just out of curiousity, does anyone know how many points the FPA occupies in a standard army? Thinking of just playing with a full army of FPA and curious how many that would require.

http://damommasboyz.com/sodapop/rtsquadrons/zentraedi-force-org.html

It's still being worked on, but that should be a rough idea on how you can build an Zent army.

The real question is "how big is a real game"?

We know that the Skirmish game uses Support Cards in the place of Core cards (basically halves the number of figures you field at once), and in the comments one of the ND folks said that, in their experience, once the players knew what was going on, a 300 point game could be played in about an hour, but that they personally preferred larger, epic scale games around 600 points.

It looks like a Battle Cry could cover 300 easily, but would need add ons and to field almost everything they owned to do 600'ish. A Showdown would have immense variety/versatility available, and any add ons just sweeten things for them. Edit: we also know that squads can buy upgrades that apply across the units within, which will probably further muck with any math done now.

Of course, that also assumes A) that the points will at least stay vaguely where they are now, and 2) that these numbers are remotely similar to the release numbers. Who knows, maybe in the end it'll be 400 standard, or 500, with epic games at 1000, or drop 'em lower and try to keep things truly fast paced. And obviously a group can tweak that as they see fit, up or down to meet their individual needs/time constraints/etc.

But I admit, it's another aspect weighing on me as I ponder that Showdown of my own. They tuck in a few of the right add ons over the next couple hundred thousand and I'd be hard pressed not to make the upgrade, but for now it remains a tough call.

 Killionaire wrote:
No love for the QF-3000 Ghost?

That's the one thing that hasn't appeared on any of the stretch goals

Honestly, the Lancer and the Ghost were the two models I have been looking forward to the most. I love me some space drones.

Double post, my bad.

Or not ?

Anyway, Ghost unlocks in 100K time (1,025 million bucks) and Lancer pack doubles 25K after that.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:

 Killionaire wrote:
No love for the QF-3000 Ghost?

That's the one thing that hasn't appeared on any of the stretch goals

Honestly, the Lancer and the Ghost were the two models I have been looking forward to the most. I love me some space drones.

Lancer II is manned

It looks droney enough for me. It definitely doesn't look like a jet or a robot.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
It looks droney enough for me. It definitely doesn't look like a jet or a robot.

The big ol' cockpit is a dead giveaway

I love me some space drones and giant non-fighter cannons.

Happy?

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
I love me some space drones and giant non-fighter cannons.

Happy?

NEVERRRRRR

Any news or info about the Battlefoam bag?

How much can we fit in?
Can it hold an entire Battlecry plus a few extras?
Will we get to design our own foam for it (Think not)

At $99 is the bag that much of a good value or should I just drop the bag and move up to Showdown instead and get a custom bag next year?

Opinions?

Its got a few tray inserts that look like SM sized holders so 36ish per foam rack (goig from memory not looking at the picture so I am likely off by a row or so)

I'd personally get more minis, battlefoam has apparently been a bit behind with deliveries of kickstarter bags in the past.

Plus, the bag is only a small saving vs retail, whereas a showdown is a never to be repeated amount of models for the money IMHO.

All you Robotech fans here on Dakka sure don't do too well in keeping this thread updated in terms of pictures!

That's pg1 AKA warboss's domain! The rest of us are here to make the place look good.

 Alpharius wrote:
All you Robotech fans here on Dakka sure don't do too well in keeping this thread updated in terms of pictures!

That was your niche before you abandoned us and Minmei! And for the record, the OP is always updated within an hour or two with the correct next stretch goal(s).


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 Evil_Toast wrote:
That's pg1 AKA warboss's domain! The rest of us are here to make the place look good.

Page 1 is current but adding the pics to the tail active end of the thread is something anyone can do while they're looking pretty.

Then that would lead to my biggest hate in the world of forum use: quote pyramids filled with pictures THAT GET REPEATED FOR PAGE AFTER PAGE! So, it's a health related issue...

Anyway, I'm having some trouble deciding on how to best spend my money on add ons.
So BC+shipping =$170.

Right now, want to add a squad of Gnerls and MPA to make complete squads. Then a Lancer pack and Armored Destroid pack and a decal sheet for RDF. Sadly the lone Super Valk is going to be display only, can't stump up another $70 to get 5 in total. Anyone care to add any input?

 Killionaire wrote:
No love for the QF-3000 Ghost?

That's the one thing that hasn't appeared on any of the stretch goals

They are actually the $1,025,000 Stretch Goal.



It seems awfully high with so little time left, but I'm hoping it still makes it.

 Evil_Toast wrote:
Then that would lead to my biggest hate in the world of forum use: quote pyramids filled with pictures THAT GET REPEATED FOR PAGE AFTER PAGE! So, it's a health related issue...

Anyway, I'm having some trouble deciding on how to best spend my money on add ons.
So BC+shipping =$170.

Right now, want to add a squad of Gnerls and MPA to make complete squads. Then a Lancer pack and Armored Destroid pack and a decal sheet for RDF. Sadly the lone Super Valk is going to be display only, can't stump up another $70 to get 5 in total. Anyone care to add any input?

Just that you don't need 5 total for a squad... they start at 3 so you'd only need one more @ $35 for a super squad. Also, you can actually upgrade a single veritech to super as well so the one you have already doesn't have to be display only. I've currently only got one via battlecry and I plan on using it in games.

 Evil_Toast wrote:

Anyway, I'm having some trouble deciding on how to best spend my money on add ons.
So BC+shipping =$170.

Right now, want to add a squad of Gnerls and MPA to make complete squads. Then a Lancer pack and Armored Destroid pack and a decal sheet for RDF. Sadly the lone Super Valk is going to be display only, can't stump up another $70 to get 5 in total. Anyone care to add any input?

You might want to look at the viability of bumping up to the Showdown level. I was originally planning on the BC pledge plus add-ons, but I realized that if I upgraded to Showdown, I could get everything I was planning to buy, plus more Valks and Battlepods, for less money. Admittedly, my original shopping list was topping out at over $400 so YMMV.

 mdauben wrote:

It seems awfully high with so little time left, but I'm hoping it still makes it.

If we didn't rise at all in the next 3 days in daily pledges, we'd still make it. I suspect we'll be getting alot higher than that in the end. I hope that the last 24 hours will be a multi-100k wild ride. I'm sure we'll get a few mediocre goals in between like 3 ghosts in a pack after they unlock but I'm excited to see what else pops up (especially freebies of course!). I'm personally hoping for a VEF/VT-D double pack and another super valkyrie added as battlecry freebies.

 warboss wrote:

Just that you don't need 5 total for a squad... they start at 3 so you'd only need one more @ $35 for a super squad. Also, you can actually upgrade a single veritech to super as well so the one you have already doesn't have to be display only. I've currently only got one via battlecry and I plan on using it in games.

This tells me a core squad is 4, support 2 and 1 special.

Having said that, from my understanding, a Support squad can only be fielded in the Skirmish rules as a stand alone unit, but in a large "normal" game you need to add them to a corresponding Core squad? Otherwise I could add say, 2 Lancers to my Core Armoured Valkyrie squad and that looks a tad silly.

The special I could see be able to add it to a Valkyrie (all flavours) Core now that you bring it up.

Correct. You can upgrade 1 to a super in both games. You can use 2-3 in the skirmish game as a squadron and 4-5 in the full wargame.

That's not to bad then. Still can't justify buying 2 boxes though. Then again there's always E-Bay...

@mdauben. I would love to upgrade to Showdown, but the $50 shipping kills it for me, seeing as I'm on my own in this endeavor. Plus all those models will probably cause my painting hand to fall off.

[Edit] In the immortal words of Prof Farnsworth, Sweet zombie Jesus, check out the new $5000 pledges!

◾1x Robotech RPG Tactics Boxed Game
◾10x UEDF Decal Sheets
◾1x Rick Hunter Valkyrie
◾1x Roy Fokker Valkyrie
◾264x Veritech Valkyries that can be built in Fighter, Guardian, or Battloid modes.
◾60x VEF-1 Valkyries that can be built in Fighter, Guardian, or Battloid modes.
◾12x VF-1D Valkyries that can be built in Fighter, Guardian, or Battloid modes.
◾120x QF-3000 Ghost Drone Fighters
◾60x SF-3A Lancer II
◾66x Tomahawks
◾66x Spartans
◾60x Defenders
◾60x Phalanxes
◾12x Monsters
◾12x Super Valkyries that can be built in Fighter, Guardian, or Battloid modes.
◾12x Armored Battloids

Or

◾1x Robotech RPG Tactics Boxed Game
◾10x Zentraedi Decal Sheets
◾1x Khyron Glaug
◾1x Miriya Queadluun-Rau
◾600x Regult Battlepods
◾38x Glaug Officer's Battlepods
◾12x Glaug-Eldare
◾90x Serauhaug-Regults
◾90x Gluuhaug-Regults
◾38x Quel-Regult
◾38x Quel-Gulnau
◾180x Gnerl Fighters
◾96x Nousjadeul-Ger Power Armor
◾96x Queadluun-Rau Power Armor
◾144x Serau-Ger Heavy Infantry
◾144x Gluu-Ger Light Infantry

Has anyone else seen the new $5k pledges. . . I WISH!!!!! I could get that. . . .I mean 264 Valks. . . WOW!!! Talk about painting for the next year or so. . . maybe 3. . .

Or the Zen's version with 600 Regult pods alone!