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Part 8, still awake?

Part 9? Now I'm forgetting

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It I had given the Zen 6 Command Points instead of 4 they might have even done better. I'll have to think about that some more.

Nice game, deducting all your note taking for write up, how long would you say that took given two players?

Thanks for taking the time Mike!

I would say around 35 minutes. If that. I had to take pics, write stuff up, and hunt down a sharpie and it took me just over an hour to play solo. When you have 2 or more players that already have a decent grasp of the rules things will go much faster.

Did you end up finding an opponent or are they still solo games like in the beginning? Also, I like the laser MDF terrain like the bridge. What company is that from?

Terrain is from Burn in Designs. I have only 2 players in the area other than myself. There are others that are like 2 hours away. This was a solo game. With my Master's taking up time I have not had time to try a group game. I hope to do that soon though. There are 2 stores in the area that I can play at on a weekend.


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Maybe I can get a big game at the local shop set up for Spring Break weekend



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BUT Burn in Designs is revamping and on a 6 week Hiatus that started Jan 19.

http://www.burnindesigns.net/

http://www.burnindesigns.net/2013/08/new-products-federation-city.html

Thanks for the link. I'll have to look into them some time closer to the delivery (whenever that will eventually be). I was hoping you had found someone to play against locally for the test games you post with your promotion of the game. Hopefully you'll have an active scene at one of your local stores. I've got one person relatively local in on the game myself (50 miles away) and possibly one or two more mildly interesteted at the FLGS that didn't go in on the KS.

Same here. My friend is willing to try out the game and if he likes it will run a Zentradi army (Kind of another reason I want to pick up some Robotech; he will buy the Zentradi from me.). And as I have said earlier, a local store wants to run a campaign when the game hits (1st Robotech war, perhaps hahaha) due to player interest.

 Ironwill13791 wrote:
Same here. My friend is willing to try out the game and if he likes it will run a Zentradi army (Kind of another reason I want to pick up some Robotech; he will buy the Zentradi from me.). And as I have said earlier, a local store wants to run a campaign when the game hits (1st Robotech war, perhaps hahaha) due to player interest.

Yeah, I'll be in the same boat (except for the selling part). I didn't go hog wild with the KS due to lack of faith in palladium as well as a lack of faith in getting a local scene going. I'll in all likelihood have to use my own battlecry pledge for both sides in demos as I only know of a single person in the very extended metro area that got in on the KS and will have the models. That is part of why I'm interested and invested in having as strong and complete as possible skirmish rules instead of having to "house rule" them like with every palladium RPG right out of the figurative and literal box. I'll have to assemble them both relatively quickly but I'm a bit inclined to paint the zentraedi first. If space marines are any indication, the RDF will likely be the more popular faction as the powerful elite poster boys of "good" and I'm not visually a fan of same army on same army battles in minis games. Also, if I'm going through the trouble of painting 9 minis, I want to be able to use 9 minis... and not 3 max at a time like with veritechs! Assuming malcontents are still in as a faction, I'll likely add RDF stuff to my zents as malcontents if I want to play them until I get enough painted to use as an independent skirmish force.

Yeah, Mike do you have any info that you can glen to us on whether malcontents are going to still be a faction or not. You have contact with PB; so you would be the most likely to know. My future Macross Frontier custom force is hanging on that, and now I have doubt.

Malcontents are definitely in I just have not made the updated Stat Cards for them yet. At this point they are a more cut and paste deal so when I get around to it it should only take a couple hours.

PB released updated Malcontents force org charts a few months back with one of the updates, after they'd done the RDF and Zentraedi ones.

I'm lucky in that I have 4 friends interested in the game, so at the minimum there should be enough for somewhat regular 1 vs 1 and 2 vs 2 battles (or even 1 vs 2, which we've played to good effect with certain miniatures games over the years), and more than enough figures to do so in almost any combination we see fit to field.

Whether or not it's fun enough to keep us coming back for the next 2 expansions across however many years, however, remains to be seen. Definitely need to give it a couple of months of games (small and large alike) to get a feel for it, but hopefully the initial impression is good.

After the Malifaux 2.0 fiasco (within my group, that is), where a distaste for edition updates caused a splintering that's only recently begun to become less of a sore spot, I remain a little gunshy about spending quite so much on something that might just end up collecting dust after a year or two.

 Forar wrote:

After the Malifaux 2.0 fiasco (within my group, that is), where a distaste for edition updates caused a splintering that's only recently begun to become less of a sore spot, I remain a little gunshy about spending quite so much on something that might just end up collecting dust after a year or two.

I'm just a bit gunshy in general about getting into new games without established scenes (whether they're completely new or just new to me). I stumped really hard for heavy gear locally and got no takers and that left a bit of a bad taste in my mouth. That was part of the reason why I went with only a battlecry pledge as I didn't drum up any concrete interest (as in actual pledges) locally despite advertising it at my local store (you can see in some of my x-wing battle report pics a zent pod with the kickstarter info printed out next to it). I've already got a game filling the "can't find anyone to play big stompy robots" game slot in my hobby itinerary... but my love and fond memories of Robotech at least over came that partially (despite the added worries of Palladium's involvement).

So the weekly update is out on the Palladium site and in the almost two months since they got the prototypes NONE of moulds have been started. They mentioned just sending payment to buy the metal ingots to use for them. June is looking even less likely than last week. Any predictions on when they'll amend the current "no later than June" date? I'm going to guess that we'll only see the next official delay announcement in May.

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So the weekly update is out on the Palladium site and in the almost two months since they got the prototypes NONE of moulds have been started. They mentioned just sending payment to buy the metal ingots to use for them. June is looking even less likely than last week. Any predictions on when they'll amend the current "no later than June" date? I'm going to guess that we'll only see the next official delay announcement in May.

Oh probably the last week of May. I'm so fed up that my pledge will be going on eBay as soon as I get it at this rate after the way they treated me when I called.

@Red Starrise, I'm sure there are many that would alieve you of your pledge if that is truly your wish. Let me know what you have and your price and I might find a few buyers on the Facebook page.

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Hey, all. Just a quick Update.

I spoke to Romeo at Battle Foam today about the bags, and it looks like we’ll get them in July – right around the beginning of July as long as the customs process goes smoothly. That means they may go out with Wave One or just a couple of weeks after it. Bottom line: by the time most of you have many pieces assembled and painted, the bags should be arriving for you to pack them in.

Shortly before that, we heard from Ninja John that Destroid prototypes should be shipping out to us today or tomorrow. We’re all very much looking forward to seeing them, assembling them, and of course showing you guys some photos when they get here.

Jeff is done with all the mecha in the color guide, and is just finishing up a couple of odds and ends like missiles and the Destroid command module. I hope to start laying out the guide soon so I can show you a sample of what the finished pages will look like.

And now, as the title says, we have some photos of the bases, Command Point tokens, and scatter template. The bases are 25mm, for Zentraedi Infantry; 40mm, for most mecha; 50mm, for some of the larger ones like the Glaug and Queadluun-Rau; and the big one is 60mm, for the Monster.

Oh, and the scatter template will be molded in transparent blue plastic.

So destroids as well are definitely not done (as I suspected from the facebook post images) and yet another mold has not been started. Also, the possibly may definitely june date is now sliding into July from the wording. On a positive note though... the epic color guide that the guy was working on for two months is done. I'm curious to see how many pages that ends up being.

Yeah, the comment about the Destroids... If they have some error or sizing problem...

There's 4 months to go if June 30th still counts and some of the base game stuff isn't even prototyped?

Don't ask what game the bone bones for...

... it bones for Robotech.

Getting updates for RRT is like falling for the "singing telegram" line and opening the door for the Landshark...

I can't wait to see what it'll look like when complete.

It appears Soda Pop is no longer working with CMON on Super Dungeon Explorer as they're coming out with a stand alone follow up SDE product that doesn't require the previous ones and Soda is coming out with their own chibi anime board game product without Soda's interaction. It'll be curious to see if the same happens with this project (with Palladium dropping ND for future Robotech eras) as it'll likely be as delayed as Relic Knights. So... yes.. Ninja Division is working on yet another project before finishing Robotech even partially (with the waves it'll have now) on top of the already funded Mega Man and prior to Robotech but yet to be finished Relic Knights.

 warboss wrote:
It appears Soda Pop is no longer working with CMON on Super Dungeon Explorer as they're coming out with a stand alone follow up SDE product that doesn't require the previous ones and CMON is coming out with their own chibi anime board game product without Soda's interaction. It'll be curious to see if the same happens with this project (with Palladium dropping ND for future Robotech eras) as it'll likely be as delayed as Relic Knights. So... yes.. Ninja Division is working on yet another project before finishing Robotech even partially (with the waves it'll have now) on top of the already funded Mega Man and prior to Robotech but yet to be finished Relic Knights.

Yes, but someone who playtested this for SPM/ND said that the mini's are pretty much done. So I imagine they've been working on this, possibly neglecting their other things, since this was for themselves...

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Yes, but someone who playtested this for SPM/ND said that the mini's are pretty much done. So I imagine they've been working on this, possibly neglecting their other things, since this was for themselves...

So Ninja Division/Soda says the minis are pretty much done means something¿? *looking at the April 2013 Robotech kickstarter front page info*

A preview of some of the counters I'm going to finish this week. I have a bunch more pics on the Facebook page.

So out of interest, ND = Soda Pop, but are they a "studio of"
or just an alternate name for?

What about Cypher Studios? (Hell Dorado)

It's the studio they formed with cypher to make robotech. I'm guessing that it had to do with their previous deal/contract with CMON as publisher/distributor. Palladium has multiple times in the past mentioned how close they are with Alliance as a distributor to the point that Kevin S. devoted most of a weekly update to his Alliance rep's passing. There is also some shady backroom drama I heard about how Ninja got the deal as well that could factor into it.

What deal and what shady business?