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A few pics

Are they your models or Palladium's?

These were painted by someone else. The middle figures are Palladium Gencon versions and the ones on the sides are 1/250 mods. There is more discussion on the Tactics Facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1440349382851175/

Man oh man, those Quedluun Rau make me want to buy em by the dozen and use them as...somehting. Anything. Everything. Infinity TAGs? SM terminators or Centurians? Tau crisis suits? Christmas ornaments? Lawn decorations? Personal grief counselors?

Suddenly VERY impatient for this stuff to come out :(

 Rhelyk wrote:


Suddenly VERY impatient for this stuff to come out :(

Then good news! Everything is 98% done, and final approval from Harmony Gold is nearly done, about 98% in fact...

Dang you Evil Toast! We just got Forar to sober up!

Fat chance! He's been playing that game for the last 6 months, and been sozzled for 98% of the time since he started. He's been drunk for 98% of the remainder of the time!

Where did the transparent bases come from? Do they have the arrow markings on them like the standard bases?

Aren't they soda pop bases? I thought that's what they are.

I think he said they are Litko bases

I see thank you Mike.

The new update is up.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rrpgt/robotech-rpg-tacticstm/posts/692173#comments

They're 98% of the way there with the battle foam bag. And 98% of the way there with the engineering for the production run. Their rep had a 98 degree fever. (That was a stretch but I had to)

So.. the goal now is to just get the test run done by January which means that the real production run won't be for a month after that... add in slow boat shipping from china... a few weeks in customs and palladium's warehouse for packing... and we'll be lucky to get it at all in March.

rigeld2 wrote:
They're 98% of the way there with the battle foam bag. And 98% of the way there with the engineering for the production run. Their rep had a 98 degree fever. (That was a stretch but I had to)

Now Forar is going to have to drink 3 drinks and that will bring his blood alcohol level to .02 which means 98% of his blood will still be alcohol free. Oh wait, now 4 drinks........

 warboss wrote:
So.. the goal now is to just get the test run done by January which means that the real production run won't be for a month after that... add in slow boat shipping from china... a few weeks in customs and palladium's warehouse for packing... and we'll be lucky to get it at all in March.

What about Chinese New Year?

I'm thinking July.

And at that point you may as well call it Q4/Christmas 2014. I'm calling it now.

 Azazelx wrote:
And at that point you may as well call it Q4/Christmas 2014. I'm calling it now.

Optimist.

rigeld2 wrote:
They're 98% of the way there with the battle foam bag. And 98% of the way there with the engineering for the production run. Their rep had a 98 degree fever. (That was a stretch but I had to)

Are they doing custom trays, or just generic shapes?

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:

 warboss wrote:
So.. the goal now is to just get the test run done by January which means that the real production run won't be for a month after that... add in slow boat shipping from china... a few weeks in customs and palladium's warehouse for packing... and we'll be lucky to get it at all in March.

What about Chinese New Year?

I'm thinking July.

Add in the fact that for me it's

Test run - January
Chinese New Year in February
Full Production run - March
Slow boat from China - April/May
Customs & Packing
US customers are looking at June/July
Shipping to EU, further Customs, and UK postal system gouges, mean I'm thinking optimistically at end of Q3/early Q4 next year anyway and an increase in the costs of my pledge around the 20-50% level. And that's if they can actually stick to that timetable.

God only knows what the Australians are actually going to have to do. I certainly wouldn't trust them to get it right if they say that they'll send the Aus packages direct from China.

 Balance wrote:

rigeld2 wrote:
They're 98% of the way there with the battle foam bag. And 98% of the way there with the engineering for the production run. Their rep had a 98 degree fever. (That was a stretch but I had to)

Are they doing custom trays, or just generic shapes?

The images in the update were generic squares.

"In other news, a local man has been diagnosed with severe liver and kidney damage, allegedly after reading a single thread on a popular gaming website. When interviewed, he merely slurred something about the number 98 and then threw up on the reporters shoes."

But really, between the user generated squadron and the BF bag that I'm guessing only a comparative handful of people actually got, it's like they're now working from a 'things that affect the fewest people are big news' stance.

As for delivery;
Q1 is definitely not looking good.
Q2 seems possible for us North Americans, but truly international folks may be awfully cranky.
Q3 seems fairly solid. There is no way on Earth they are going to miss Gencon 2014.

The current game is really a question of when they (again) admit to the backers something we already know; they're probably not going to make the current target date.

As for the BF bag itself; I've been playing with the tray creator, and while I'll need to have actual models in hand to really get the exact measurements I'd need, it looks like a custom case will be able to carry a rather sizable force. The custom trays themselves are pricey enough that I'm leaning towards a new bag to go with them, either a PACK 720 if I just want to carry one force at a time, or an XL1520 if I want to carry my entire collection with room to spare. That said, a 1520 with custom trays and S&H would be a hell of an investment.

 Forar wrote:
Q3 seems fairly solid. There is no way on Earth they are going to miss Gencon 2014.

They don't want to, I agree. I don't believe they'll make it, however.

At first I thought you guys were just being overly shamefully negative in here, but...

Bottom line: We're darn close.

I know you're all wondering how we're looking with regard to a release date. We've been trying to narrow that down, but the manufacturing rep was travelling, then apparently fell ill. We're having another conference call with the Ninja Division folks tomorrow, when we hope to get more concrete info.

Good thing this wasn't a Force Five/Gaiking/Grandizer/Starvengers/Godzilla/Gamera/Kaiju Kickstarter!

I somehow avoided Robotech, so the Nostalgia was week for me here - good thing too!

PalladiumTM... You may lose your job if your productivity goes down to zero for weeks every time because "of a bug around the office" but we keep them 98% of the time!

rigeld2 wrote:

 Forar wrote:
Q3 seems fairly solid. There is no way on Earth they are going to miss Gencon 2014.

They don't want to, I agree. I don't believe they'll make it, however.

Given that we just watched Relic Knights get hit with a 6 month shot and a "more work is needed... good luck" chaser, it's possible, but that'd get ugly.

Man, if they thought the whole Gencon Max/Miriya debacle was bad, I can't imagine the response to "Whelp, remember when we said we hoped to deliver early? Yeahhh... so we're actually going to need twice as long as we thought."

'Oops, sorry' wouldn't cover that kind of bad publicity.

And yeah, Alph, if you're not familiar with Palladium from their RPGs, their loooong running reputation is to promise the stars and fail to get out of the atmosphere. I was a fan/consumer of their stuff in the 90's/early 00's and lengthy delays were par for the course. Some books they were super excited to have lined up in catalogs for the near future back then just came out a few years ago. There's a lot of reasons for this that I won't bore you with, but it's generally half negativity/disappointment, half tongue in cheek mockery of what is now a literally decades old running gag.

They've seriously had listings in a catalog as 'coming soon' that took 10+ years to hit the shelves?

 Alpharius wrote:
They've seriously had listings in a catalog as 'coming soon' that took 10+ years to hit the shelves?

In there "defence", they usually stop bothering to hype the books after they're a few years late on the initial delivery date. Of course... since they never create a new edition that would invalidate their dated books and rules, you can still see the full embarassing glory of the original hype in alot of the books on the shelf that still mention them coming soon (a decade later). Only one so far (Lemuria) has made it back from the Netherworld of being hyped for years in the 1990's.

Wasn't one of the NGR books (orange with blue mech-dude on the cover) also delayed for a couple years?

rigeld2 wrote:

 Balance wrote:

rigeld2 wrote:
They're 98% of the way there with the battle foam bag. And 98% of the way there with the engineering for the production run. Their rep had a 98 degree fever. (That was a stretch but I had to)

Are they doing custom trays, or just generic shapes?

The images in the update were generic squares.

I didn't know if that was just the weight test they mentioned.