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**MattRendar**

I did the $140 pledge I'm not sure if I got everything ? Does any one have a list of what that pledges gets . Is there a second wave coming ? Any help would be great and appreciated

**Forar**

MattRendar wrote:
I did the $140 pledge I'm not sure if I got everything ? Does any one have a list of what that pledges gets . Is there a second wave coming ? Any help would be great and appreciated

You didn't.

Things included in Wave One:

Core Box (5 VTs, 2 Tomahawks, 2 Defenders, 12 Battlepods, 1 Officer's Pod, 1 Recon Pod, 1 Recovery Pod)

4 extra Veritechs
2 Phalanx
2 Spartans

12 extra Battle Pods
4 Artillery/support pods
1 extra Recon Pod
1 extra Officer's Pod
1 extra Recovery Pod

Wave Two
2 Super VTs
2 Ghosts
2 Lancers
Rick (Limited Edition VT)
Roy (LE VT)

1 Khyron (LE Officer's Pod)
3 Gnerls
3 Male Power Armour
3 Female Power Armour
1 Miriya (LE FPA)

I think that's it. Note: there are other figures in the product line, as you probably know, but are only coming to you if you paid for them as add ons, which you didn't mention. I only note this for consistency, because otherwise someone else will point it out as though I've forgotten. Also, PTSD from dealing with certain anal retentive types in the KS comments. >.<

Long story short, you got 70 figures, and have 27 more coming to you when they deliver Wave Two.

... whenever that is.

**Jihadin**

Jebus. Making it sound like I am lucky to not do the pledges and paying just extra on the core set and squad add on's to build up

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**MattRendar**

Thanks forar . Sounds good to me .

**Forar**

Update #162
Oct 16 2014
Nothing Ever Goes Easy

Remember two weeks ago, when I said that Container #3 had arrived in port in the US? Well, things must be crazy at that terminal, because they didn't unload it from the ship until last week, and our trucking company wasn't able to pick it up for transport until today. The good news is, it will set out on its way to us tomorrow, and we should have it early next week. At which point we can get back to shipping as quickly as possible.

Container #4, even though it arrived at a different terminal at the LA port, experienced similar but lesser delays. It’s now on a train headed for Detroit, but we just learned that it’s been flagged for an exam by Customs when it gets there. Sound familiar? At least this time around, we’ll already have the stuff from Containers #1-3 and will be shipping away. Still, it’s frustrating; we had originally expected to get that container TODAY.

Container #5 arrived in port early this week, and has been discharged from the vessel. It should go on a train any day now, but it’s a couple days behind schedule so far. We’ll see.

Containers #6 and 7 have been at sea for a few days and are running on schedule.

Container #8 was sent to the port yesterday. Container #9, the last one for Wave One, was supposed to join it, but it will go next week.

Shipping has taken up much of our time, but in other areas, Jeff has gone through the current batch of 3Ds for Wave Two, but I still need to do another review of any remaining issues and pass them onto the engineers. Going to do that next week.

Some folks have been asking for a breakdown of what’s in Wave One vs Wave Two. Here’s a quick list of items shipping in Wave One:

Robotech® RPG Tactics™ Main Boxed Game
UEDF Dice Pack
Zentraedi Dice Pack
UEDF Token Pack
Zentraedi Token Pack
Combined Template & Token Pack
UEDF Decals
Zentraedi Decals
Battle Foam Bag
UEDF Valkyrie Wing
UEDF Tomahawk/Defender Destroids
UEDF Spartan/Phalanx Destroids
Zentraedi Regult Battlepods
Zentraedi Artillery Battlepods
Zentraedi Glaug Command
Homecoming two print set
Battle Hymn five print set
Wave One Battle Cry/Showdown/Reckless extras: Standard Valkyries, Spartans, Phalanxes, Regult Battlepods, Artillery Battlepods, Glaug Officer Pods, Recon Battlepods, Recovery Pods, and the exclusive Battle Cry Art Print.
Everything else is Wave Two. I’ll put together a complete list of those, and maybe some fancy graphics, and put them in the FAQ in the next few days. Some have suggested a breakdown by Pledge Level, so I’ll try to do that as well.

That will have to do for tonight. Have a good weekend, everyone.

Soooo... container 3 took a week to unload and just recently left, 4 is on a train but flagged for customs, and 5 just got off the ship and is en route.

The good news: they should have absolute gakloads of stuff to ship.

The bad news: unless they can ship ~4,000 packages in about a week (including those pesky International boxes), they're going to be dipping into November.

**Forar**

And here is the weekly Palladium propaganda.

I mean, newsletter. :-P

Snipped out the pertinent RRT info. Apologies if I trimmed something important, but this thing is like 20 pages long and a good 3/4 of it or more is copy/pasted week to week, so I'm not going hunting.

I will note that (not included) the estimated retail date is has finally been changed from September to November. That was pretty funny for a couple of months there.

UPDATE: Robotech® RPG Tactics™

Volunteers and paid helpers were plentiful last weekend. Christopher, who helped on both Saturday and Sunday, Jennifer, Nathan and maniac Todd were all awesome and a big help. In addition, we’ve had freelancers Mark Dudley, Ben Rodriguez, Charles Walton and Carmen Bellaire lending a hand, as well as paid helpers Diane, Jesse and Michelle, and the Palladium staff. Thank you, one and all. Several hundred Kickstarters were shipped out and close to 1,000 shipping boxes were constructed in anticipation of receiving containers #3 and #4, both of which were expected this week.

I also want to thank the couple dozen local Kickstarter backers who swung by the office to pick up their order. It was nice putting a face to some of our backers, chatting for a few minutes and being able to shake their hands to thank them personally for their support. Oh, and those of you who want to drive in to pick up your pledge AFTER we get Container #3 next week, you are welcome to do so – just call first so we know when to expect you. One of us will usually try to chat for a few minutes and show you what the pieces look like built and painted.

Remember that old Warner Brothers cartoon where Bugs Bunny kept tricking Daffy Duck into saying, “Shoot me now,” and he’d get shot over and over again? We are starting to understand how Daffy must have felt. Yes, I know he was a cartoon character. But aren’t we all?

Shipment of Robotech® RPG Tactics™ is stalled until we receive Container #3 or #4. I had originally written, “and we do not know when that might be. Whah.” But we just got the happy news that Container #3 is finally getting put onto a truck for delivery to Palladium Books. Barring anything else unforeseen, we should get it sometime NEXT week! Thank the lucky stars! It had been delayed due to a shortage of available trailer chassis, apparently resulting from the continuing congestion and backlog caused by the dock fire a few weeks ago.

Container #4 is on its way to Detroit (it is coming by rail), but has been selected for review by Customs in Detroit once it gets here, which suggests its delivery may be delayed another week. Hey, we’re just happy to be getting Container #3 so we can start shipping faster and in much larger quantities. We had been facing an impending shortage of main box games, but that all changes with the arrival of Container #3 next week. Woo hoo!

PLEASE NOTE: As a result, we do NOT need help this weekend, October 17-19, but can use plenty of help the following weekend, October 24-26. Once the product arrives, we are prepared to ship at a lightning pace – several hundred packages every day until they are shipped out to our Kickstarter backers!

Container #5 arrived in port this week and should go on a train any day now. Containers #6 and #7 are at sea. Containers #8 and #9 should leave China in a week or so. And that’s it for Wave One!

FYI: In order to speed up our shipping processes and get as many orders out as quickly as we can, we are shipping in groups of like combinations (one or two items, prints only, etc.), with the largest batches of identical orders first. So we are currently shipping Battle Cry rewards. Next will be Showdown, followed by Reckless and so on. We are shipping domestic orders/USA first because they are much faster to process (no Customs documentation to fill out for each package), and then Canada and overseas. We are hoping to have all Wave One Kickstarter rewards to have left the Palladium warehouse by the end of October or beginning of November. Robotech® RPG Tactics™ products should appear in stores around Thanksgiving in the USA.

REMINDER: Please get us any change of address immediately. With these stinking delays at port and Customs, there are a few days left for many of you to get us your address changes! Please do it right NOW! Seriously. Please check BackerKit ( http://robotech-rpg-tacticstm.backerkit.com ) and make sure your address is correct. If anything doesn’t look right, please send us your address in a Kickstarter message or via email at kickstarter@palladiumbooks.com or call the Palladium office at 734-721-2903 with your new information. TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE!!! Do not risk your reward going to the wrong address because YOU failed to update your address.

If your rewards go to the wrong address they might be lost and unreplaceable. NOTE: Palladium Books will NOT be liable for lost goods if you have moved and did not tell us in time (and the cut off date was weeks ago. MOREOVER, you will be required to pay the additional shipping to redirect the package to the correct address. Please save yourself time and money and make sure your address is correct right NOW. Thank you. This applies only to those of you who have moved (which has been several hundred people). If you have not moved and you submitted your correct address long ago, we have it and you are good to go. FYI: There are a couple dozen of you who still have NOT yet sent us your address at all. What are you waiting for? Product is shipping. Get us your address.

HELP Wanted: Volunteers wanted October 24-26 and probably thru November 2nd

We are looking for volunteers to help make boxes, pack boxes, tape boxes and ship Robotech® RPG Tactics™. If you live in the area and are willing and able to help, please contact us at the Palladium office (734-721-2903 tel.). Please do so even if you’ve already let us know you are willing to help. We are happy to trade some Palladium products for your help. Thank you.

So, yeah, totally going to ship out a good 80%+ of the backer kits in a week and a half. Totally. Especially those complicated International orders.

I, for one, feel confident that my box will be shipped out by the beginning of November. Totally.

(spoiler: not at all confident, already writing the overwrought and melodramatic FATE HAS FAILED US, WHO KNEW SHIPPING THIS MUCH STUFF WAS SO TIME CONSUMING!? message in my head)

**Haemonculus**

That's incredibly disheartening. Thanks for the sharing the update, Forar.

I think I have reached that point where I actually have lost all interest in Robotech Tactics. Mainly due to the fact that my copy will be delayed until they've done all the domestic orders, and who knows how far down the line my backerkit number is. Suffice to say I have no confidence I will be receiving a copy before the end of the year.

At the moment, Infinity has all my attention. Might just ebay by copy of RTs.

**Forar**

Apologies for the self important cross posting, but... food for thought. Stated in response to the usual "omg I've waited decades for this, what's a couple more weeks?" claptrap.

"Yup. Just a couple more weeks. Always a couple more weeks. Couple more weeks since August, when it was totally not a big deal for them to have sold at Gencon because we'd all be getting our stuff in a couple of weeks!

Now imagine if they had sold at Gencon in August, and 2 months later were just ramping up to essentially start shipping out possibly 80%+ of their backer boxes.
Yup. Always just a couple more weeks. Except... when it isn't. ;-)"

**Jihadin**

Someone should ask them to post the TCN's so I can track them

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Actually someone who has CAC card access

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https://national.rfitv.army.mil/login/Login.do

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its RFID tracking. Key word search base. I will not provide GTN access lol

**Desert Lurker**

judgedoug wrote:
Desert Lurker wrote:

I'm getting this to be safe
http://www.hobbylinc.com/htm/pls/pls00002.htm

That is the absolute best thing you can get, for any plastic model.

I like my Tamiya Thin (Green cap) for GW, and scale models. Gap filling super glue for resin. I know HobbyTown USA has Plasstruct otherwise I'd be ebaying the Tamiya stuff.

**Spartan-Kun**

Has anyone seen any battle reports pop up yet??

**deleted20250424**

Since I'm once of the Reckless people, I'd be very surprised if my stuff showed up before Christmas this year.

My wife always gives me a good laugh when a KS box shows up and it's never Robotech and always something like Wave 2 of Deadzone, Wave 2 of Myth, soon to be Wave 2 of AQotAF.

**Desert Lurker**

Nope no battle reports as of yet. one pic of a test battle among his laser cut terrani on Facebook. Very nice stuff buildings. But that's about it.

**Forar**

To be fair, it's possible that less than 1,000 people in the world have their boxes, and only around 200 have had them for more than a few days. It'll take time to build some figures and learn the rules sufficiently to play much more than a demo.

But I'm sure that'll change when over 5,000 people have their boxes in November. ;-)

**Desert Lurker**

November?! Optimist!

**Forar**

... hence the winky face.

;-)

**BobtheInquisitor**

judgedoug wrote:
Desert Lurker wrote:

I'm getting this to be safe
http://www.hobbylinc.com/htm/pls/pls00002.htm

That is the absolute best thing you can get, for any plastic model.

Thanks to you guys, I've just gone out and bought some. And some more Precision Poly Cement for HIPS models. And some Loctite Ultra Gel for any restic or metal Mantic might send me.

I'm turning into a glue junkie and I'm not even sniffing it!

**Desert Lurker**

and I just ordered this from amazon. Water clean up putty.
my scale modeler friends tell me its awesome.

Perfect Plastic Putty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stLzShlnrEk

**Spartan-Kun**

I might be enlisting in the marines in the very near future...I'd REALLY like to get my RRT before then >.>

**Forar**

Spartan-Kun wrote:
I might be enlisting in the marines in the very near future...I'd REALLY like to get my RRT before then

If they actually get all US boxes in the Mail by the end of the month, you could totally have it in hand in the next 3 weeks.

That is, however, a huge IF, that requires them to actually get container 3 and 4 this week.

**Jihadin**

Spartan-Kun wrote:
I might be enlisting in the marines in the very near future...I'd REALLY like to get my RRT before then >.>

You are not spending crap during your entire time at Boot. Actually just the basics. So you might actually have a flush bank account. There be times when you can call home and tell mom/dad to make a purchase for you so once all your training done. Including that advance infantry you all get regardless of MOS and get to permanent party (unit) you will have plenty to assemble and paint

**NTRabbit**

They just put a full list of what is and isn't in each wave for every pledge level, so that's nice at least.

Tell you what though, I'd be really amused if, after all of these continuing delays from Palladium, the Battlefoam bags still haven't been done yet

**Forar**

They have the Battlefoam bags in the warehouse. There was an update a couple of months ago showing off stacks of them.

I know those have held up other campaigns (and had this one delivered wave one even remotely close to their intended delivery date, it might well have held some orders up here), but that shouldn't be a concern.

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

Painting tutorial you folks might find useful (if it's not been on here already)

http://rpgandtactics.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/vermillion-squadron-part-1.html

**Major Headcase**

Great tutorial! I need to practice some of these steps before I risk a precious Valkyrie!

**Forar**

Woah. Guys, this may be of interest to you.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/616900694/24x24-wireless-power-board-game-terrain-and-miniat

Started a thread in News and Rumours about it here.

Obviously useful for more than just RRT. Only being a 2' x 2' section could mean it just goes to a small town/city section in a corner or middle of a table, but considering some of the sums a few of us dropped on this game, 4 to 6 mats to cover an entire table wouldn't shock me for a few of y'all either.

**Swabby**

Um. Can someone else read this thread?

This thread makes it sound like this guy ordered at Gencon and he is getting his stuff shipped prior to kickstarter fullfillment.

http://www.robotech.com/community/forum/read.php?id=2198126&forumid=10

No, that is exactly what it says. WTF!

**Kendachi**

Swabby wrote:
Um. Can someone else read this thread?

This thread makes it sound like this guy ordered at Gencon and he is getting his stuff shipped prior to kickstarter fullfillment.

http://www.robotech.com/community/forum/read.php?id=2198126&forumid=10

No, that is exactly what it says. WTF!

Yeah, that is exactly what he's saying.

Time to warm up the torch-fork ballista and drag it up to Michigan.

**Forar**

To be fair, the 'quote' is as follows;

Okay, I just recieved an e-mail from Palladium, informing of the RPG tactics shipping.

I feel better now. One, they definitely have my e-mail address. Two, product is on it's way.

The "product is on its way" could mean it's being shipped now (I'll get my coat, hat, and torch), or simply that they assured him that it'd be shipping soon (the "informing me of the shipping" line).

Probably worth double checking that he means that literally a box is on its way to him, and not just that they told him the timeline.

If anything, I'm going to guess that they still have some Core Boxes sitting around collecting dust and maybe fired off his while they wait for Containers 3&4 to arrive.

Which is still ire worthy, but considering the results of the "vote" where they were going to just sell hundreds of boxes to anyone with the money up front, somehow I don't find this at all surprising.

Hell, think of it this way; that guy spent $100 US for a core box. For another $40-70 bucks, most of us are getting like twice the stuff in wave one, and another pile of figures in wave two (usual caveats apply).

Basically.... mehhhhhhhhhh.

**Joyboozer**

We need a new poll, would all those people who dont mind waiting like their ordered left until everyone else has theirs?