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My original point was that you don't need to actually get 2 add ons but rather that one plus the freebie gets you a full super Valkyrie skirmish squad as well as allows you to upgrade a Valkyrie in every veritech squadron in battlecry. That said, you are correct in that they'll be available on ebay as well for only $5 more as the super is one of the "worst" discounts in the KS. I'm personally planning on buying a box of them (among other things) at the local store to encourage them to carry the line.

Looks like the "buy a space marine chapter" option got added to the kickstarter. You can buy the full mecha loadouts of the SDF-1 or a Zentraedi destroyer for $5,000. I don't have the RPG book with me at the moment but the stats on the SDF-1 do look like the ones they had in the RPG last I looked.

Not to mention that you STILL get the basic box game as well on top. . .

warboss, your certainly twisting my rubber arm. I may pick up a box.

The amount of models in that mega pledge is staggering, thinking there's a niche for an intrepid E-Bayer available...

 Evil_Toast wrote:
warboss, your certainly twisting my rubber arm. I may pick up a box.

The amount of models in that mega pledge is staggering, thinking there's a niche for an intrepid E-Bayer available...

LOL, glad I could help. As for the mega pledge, I do find it a bit odd that they include only one core box. You'd think that for $5,000, they'd include more than one set of the rules, dice, and templates.

If my entire tax return wasn't allocated elsewhere, and I knew my wife wouldn't kill me, I would take one of each.

I'll have to settle for what is appearing to be something around $1000 now.

Don't worry Alph, I'm still dropping @ $275-$300 into AQotMF and $300 into Deadzone.

STRETCH GOALS

This deal's getting better all the time.

I'm just going to leave this additional $40 here and see what happens.

Anyone who isn't tempted off the fence once we break that million for a free Super VT and a trio of FPA at BC+ is crazy.

And I'd be sincerely surprised if there wasn't more added to it by the end.

Definitely curious to see what 1.075 is. Maybe a Ghost upgrade to a full squad of 3? Not super exciting, but at that point 1.1 and beyond can be unrelenting awesome, with pretty much all the bases covered.

It wouldn't surprise me if there were more goals that rounded out the number on a lot of units, both in the BC box and add ons. Bumped up Artillery to a full squad of 6, add another Super VT (2 in the box makes that 2 pack add on all the more tempting), etc.

While I do think they'll upgrade the ghost eventually, I don't think it'll be right after they introduce it. I suspect it'll likely be at the same gap as they had between unlocking and bumping the lancer II (200k?).

And everyone BC and up just got a free Super Valkyrie.

Out of curiosity, why am I seeing only 96 Boobytraps total? Dead sure it was 100 like Blitzkrieg. Says 100 again. Weird.

And Command tokens unlocked at 1,075 mil. Just like the decals, shouldn't this have been an earlier unlock? Not complaining, their useful and all but I find it bizarre that I got Miriya before this.

Boobytrap early birds do become available as people come back after several weeks and realize how much better the $140 deal is now.

And for those too lazy to check themselves...

Have noticed they free up quite often, but it said 1/96 available and now its 7/100 available. Meh, probably something similar to not displaying the prices that happened earlier.

Sadly, instead of studying for my exam Monday, I'm watching the Blitzkrieg counter like a hawk...

 Evil_Toast wrote:
And everyone BC and up just got a free Super Valkyrie.

And Command tokens unlocked at 1,075 mil. Just like the decals, shouldn't this have been an earlier unlock? Not complaining, their useful and all but I find it bizarre that I got Miriya before this.

Although I do agree that this is one of those "BS" goals.... it really just comes down to filling out the boxed sets with some "nicities" that may have killed momentum earlier on. These goals at this time are practically a given. This might have been scheduled earlier, but the backlash from the dice was pretty harsh. I mean, we've seen the dice and token in the pictures and videos, so we knew they were coming anyway. I'd rather see them here, where 25k is pennies in the pot at a million dollars, than where 25k was 50% of the KS total at the time.

[Edit] Oh yea, forgot to mention that the Reminder EMails go out in 7 hours also. That should start the 48 hours of backers pouring in as with the majority of Kickstarters.

Where's my SDF ONEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE stretch goal???

I don't think the 5k pledges are there for people who want to spent the rest of their natural lives painting battlepods, their' probably there for retailers who want to stock the game.

Anyone attempted yet to calculate the msrp (or rrp for brits) discount % on the 5k pledges in the comments?

Asmodai Asmodean wrote:
Where's my SDF ONEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE stretch goal???

Given comments that every model must be approved, I would guess it's been nixed. Because really if they were going to announce it Friday was the time.

These awesome Kickstarters need to calm the crap down. There's just too many things I want to support, and they just keep coming!

Finally in, at Showdown + Armored Valkyries, VEF-1/VF-1D, Monster, and Glaug Eldare.

So basicallly with showdown you get 168 minis for $260. Is that right?

Correct, yes. Comes in at $1.55 per model. If your on your own you can sell Khyron, Miriya, Rick, Roy for hopefully MSRP $60+.

Dammit, now I want to upgrade.

[Edit] And we hit ONE MILLION DOLLARS!


And the 1.1 million goal is another Super Valkyrie for Battle Cry and up! Sweet!

The force org charts have 2 new units for uedf and zentradi as well.

Consensus is orgus, and vf-4 for the uedf, and no idea on the zentradi units, possible ND/PB inventions.

What is an Orgus?

A Orguss seems to be a different type of Veritech that adds a "Tank Mode" to its shape changing abilities.

Ok then. Which show/movie is it from? Not seen that on any of the DVD's I own.

 Evil_Toast wrote:
And we hit ONE MILLION DOLLARS!

Spoiler:

And the 1.1 million goal is another Super Valkyrie for Battle Cry and up! Sweet!

Indeed we did! Mwuhah... Mwuahaha... Mwuahhahahaha!... Mwuhahha... Mwuhah... hah... ahem.

And apparently we know know we're getting experimental mechs that they added as a disclaimer in the $5,000 pledges. I recognize the UEDF ones as the orguss and vf-4 but I'm not sure about the zentraedi ones.

The Zentraedi ones look like FPA with different weapons attached.

People in the comments section seem to the think the one is the Z1 Battlepod from Sentinals.

Not sure on the other, still looking around.

Have to go get my art books.

I don't think the Orgus type can go in. The design's single appearance is an in-joke. It is actually from an anime for which HG do not have distribution or production rights. AFAIK, anyway.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Dimension_Century_Orguss

It'd be unwise to try I think.

The silhouette pretty much guarantees that it's an Orguss.

The other is definitely the VF-4

After grabbing my Art books, that is *not* the Z1 Battlepod.

Looks more like a Bioroid.

Still hunting!

[Edit] Thinking some sort of Zent Power armor. Can't find any pics to prove it though!

Robotechresearch.com has some interesting mecha on it, they may have some hints.

Bah... are we making things up now? These experimental designs sound stupid. I know that one of tye VFs was in the shie as a model but the rest?

The orguss was in one scene during the final battle for earth. The zentraedi mecha look like made up power armor variants though. The left one looks like FPA with a rifle whereas the right looks like mpa with maybe battle pod particle barrels on its shoulder instead of the glaug type single big gun.