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Thanks for the link, there was one picture of the Robotech asteroid table...

The article was a good read too, I've been that con in years past for the Flames of War tournaments and it is a good event.

That terrain is excellent!

Adepticon Pics

http://robotechrpgtactics.boards.net/thread/364/adepticon?page=1&scrollTo=2852

 Forar wrote:


They just want to love you!

And yeah, snapped over 250 pictures at the convention last weekend. Lots of awesome costumes, and the next big local Con in September will be even better.

Yum! Were there any robotech themed candies or confections as well?

 warboss wrote:
Yum! Were there any robotech themed candies or confections as well?

Yup! As often mentioned, 3 of us that help at the shop/booth are giant Robotech fans, and it has enough of a following that the woman who makes it all includes some Robotech images on cookies. If nobody else buys them I often snag a Rick or RDF one for myself.

Though with her setup, she can print anything she likes onto cookies, cakes or other snacks.

It's a pretty fun place to hang out.

Giving one of my Starcraft 2 pro player heroes a couple of Zerg cookies at the convention they held a tournament at was pretty awesome.

Anyone else thinking that today is the only day for the next 6 months at least that we can reasonably expect an announcement that wave 2 is in production and that the issues of unnecessarily high parts count and seams everywhere have been fixed?


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 Forar wrote:

 warboss wrote:
Yum! Were there any robotech themed candies or confections as well?

Yup! As often mentioned, 3 of us that help at the shop/booth are giant Robotech fans, and it has enough of a following that the woman who makes it all includes some Robotech images on cookies. If nobody else buys them I often snag a Rick or RDF one for myself.

Even if not hungry, I'd buy an RDF and Zentraedi emblem shaped and decorated cookies. Who am I kidding... I'm always hungry!

 warboss wrote:
Anyone else thinking that today is the only day for the next 6 months at least that we can reasonably expect an announcement that wave 2 is in production and that the issues of unnecessarily high parts count and seams everywhere have been fixed?

"Instead, we've decided to do all of Wave 2 out of stainless steel. Yes, even the Monster. Yes, that probably means you'll have to solder the minis instead of gluing them, but c'mon! Mouth watering!!!!"

 Albertorius wrote:

 warboss wrote:
Anyone else thinking that today is the only day for the next 6 months at least that we can reasonably expect an announcement that wave 2 is in production and that the issues of unnecessarily high parts count and seams everywhere have been fixed?

"Instead, we've decided to do all of Wave 2 out of stainless steel. Yes, even the Monster. Yes, that probably means you'll have to solder the minis instead of gluing them, but c'mon! Mouth watering!!!!"

You're actually not far from the truth!

Palladium Shames wrote: Hey, hey, Robotech fans! We at Palladium Shames have decided to continue our industry leading work in the field of game miniatures and decided to partner together with Metal Earth models to provide incredible conventional vehicle miniatures to accompany our mouth watering plastics line. Here today is the first sneak peak of the 1/285 scale Jeep miniature steel acid etched sprue that is just for the engine of the model!



Just look at all that detail that we fit on a model only 1cm long! We can't wait to see how satisfied you all are when you assemble all 214 pieces in the only static pose possible. Also, we have great and exciting news about the progress of wave 2 miniatures... the dice bag is done! Isn't that great? It's available for immediate purchase. We don't want to jump the gun but we're hoping the factory in China gets back to us this week as well about the Robotech themed pencils we've been working all month to bring you that we know all our valued Kickstarter contributors are anxiously awaiting news on.

 warboss wrote:

You're actually not far from the truth!

Of course I'm not! Great minds, dont'cha know.

 warboss wrote:
Even if not hungry, I'd buy an RDF and Zentraedi emblem shaped and decorated cookies. Who am I kidding... I'm always hungry!

Yeah, but to get the true Palladium Robotech experience, the packet won't contain cookies. It'll contain a promise that in 7, no 8, no 10, no 15 months, they'll send you your cookies. Then when the package arrives, it'll be a bar of butter, some flour, baking powder, an egg, and some poorly written instructions. There'll also be a note saying the icing won't be ready for another 12 months or so. Maybe.

And yes, I'm aware I omitted the sugar from the recipe. To truly be a PB RRT cookie, it's gotta be bland.

 warboss wrote:
You're actually not far from the truth!

Palladium Shames wrote: Hey, hey, Robotech fans! We at Palladium Shames have decided to continue our industry leading work in the field of game miniatures and decided to partner together with Metal Earth models to provide incredible conventional vehicle miniatures to accompany our mouth watering plastics line. Here today is the first sneak peak of the 1/285 scale Jeep miniature steel acid etched sprue that is just for the engine of the model!

Ha!
Took me a minute to figure out that was R2-D2, quite a challenge by the look of it.

Let us hope Mike's contact with GHQ does not make 20+ part vehicles for Palladium just because...


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Morgan Vening wrote:
And yes, I'm aware I omitted the sugar from the recipe. To truly be a PB RRT cookie, it's gotta be bland.

Do not forget that a baking contest will be held for the best cookies and they will need their customers to submit what they made on their behalf.
There would be a choice of peanut butter cookies and chocolate chip and everyone will only show up with peanut butter because you would have to make the chocolate otherwise.

@Morgan:

Incorrect... the actual recipe will be omitted from your package and replaced with an older type written version that includes no longer used ingredients. After several months of campaigning by Chef Mike Morpheus, the correct one will be available for download free on drivethrubakedgoods.com long after the ingredients sent have spoiled. Palladium will then put the cookies for sale under the table in the back of the booth to make prominent room for the dice bags when they join Forar at his next convention. Hungry fans from outside of North America originally who buy the cookies at the con will have to wait 4-6 months after the event to get their (now stale) cookies.

But despite all the claims of "mouth-watering-goodness" it will still result in dry-mouth.

Or bitter...like the cookies Ranka made for Alto's birthday in Macross Frontier....nevermind, you couldn't have seen that, I forgot it doesn't exist over here, thanks to HG.....

Yes, the kickstarter comments are winding down other than the usual suspects.
Wave1 is trickling it's way out to the further flung markets.
After the brief view of 3D models for Wave2 PB has gone dark again.
The latest convention games all were Zentradi most likely due to ease of assembly.
I see more active talk of builds for Battletech than for the actual game.
Is this the end?

If Gencon's tournament hits half capacity and is full of Zentraedi players again, I think we'll know something is up. :-P

I think Adepticon already sealed Robotech's fate. Gencon will just be reinforcing it - I'd be rather surprised if there are any RRT events at all, obviously PB won't be directly involved, as it would take time from sitting at their sales booth, twiddling their thumbs.

People only started getting their stuff 6 months ago.

But let's hold this game to standards that no others are held to.

...
6 months is enough time to build a huge army of both factions if the interest is there.

And no, I'd hold every game to that standard.

So the first 6 months of release shouldn't be the most full on part? Do we have to place RRT in the same category as wine?
I realise this isn't what your saying, but come on, where's the excitement?

My excitement (and I was seriously excited) is currently sitting in a box on a shelf unassembled.

Probably going to be there for a long time.

 n815e wrote:
People only started getting their stuff 6 months ago.

But let's hold this game to standards that no others are held to.

People build at different rates, but Wave 1 didn't have that many models. If you built 1 model a day, you'd have been finished in a couple months.

Another week, another meaningless PBWU. No KS Update, cause *reasons*, apparently.

Anyways, besides hawking the dicebag, there's really only two nuggets of "information".

So much going on. We continue to hammer out a number of projects and plans we think our Kickstarter backers and all Robotech® supporters will be excited about. We don’t have everything worked out yet, so we are hesitant to discuss them yet, but very soon.

I think he means "anything". Because as usual, these are the same "It's gonna blow your mind, we promise!" hyperbole he's been posting as news for at least the last two years now. Maybe, just maybe, one day he'll deliver.

Robotech® RPG Tactics™ has shipped to our Kickstarter backers in Europe and continues to ship to Australian backers, with the rest of the world to follow.

Well, RoW fans, there you have it. Your stuff should ship "soon".

But wait a minute, didn't he say something on the March 17th PBWU?

The other container arrived at port in Australia last week and we anticipate packages starting to get mailed out to our Kickstarter backers and the rest of the world by the end of this week and next.

So, we went from a firm date of "by the 27th of March" (end of the next week following the 17th), to the utterly meaningless "soon". So, buck up, kiddos, you'll get it sent whenever the hell PB feel like it, as you're obviously not a priority. Aren't you excited?

rigeld2 wrote:...
6 months is enough time to build a huge army of both factions if the interest is there.

And no, I'd hold every game to that standard.

I still haven't finished my Battlecry. I have a wife, a dog, and I am a manager. Between the 50+ hour work weeks, paying attention to my wife and pet, medical needs, and real world stuff in general, I get between 0 and 6 models done a week with an average of 3 because I did the Zentraedi first, and the UEDF stuff looks to be an average of 2 so far.

Then to top it off, the tournaments require painting. I just finished painting my Tau Empire army last year. I started it when Tau was first released. When was that 1998 I think? My Dark Edlar are almost all painted, I think I still have 1 squad to paint, and I've had them since before the Tau. My Eldar are about 10% started on painting. ie they are primed and many have a base coat down.

I like modeling, but hate painting, and like playing the games. If the tournament didn't have a painting requirement I would have played. Not looking good for GenCon either if they still require painting. I understand that it looks better, but some times people have more real world things to deal with than time will allow.

I'm closer to 0-6 minis in a month in a similar situation. I skipped the dog and picked up a child instead.

Edit: Also, Red Zents at Adepticon!

 Easy E wrote:
I'm closer to 0-6 minis in a month in a similar situation. I skipped the dog and picked up a child instead.

Edit: Also, Red Zents at Adepticon!

You are doing awesome then. Painting plus building.....AND a child. If he/she is under 7 or over 14 then that is more work than a pet.

 megatrons2nd wrote:

 Easy E wrote:
I'm closer to 0-6 minis in a month in a similar situation. I skipped the dog and picked up a child instead.

Edit: Also, Red Zents at Adepticon!

You are doing awesome then. Painting plus building.....AND a child. If he/she is under 7 or over 14 then that is more work than a pet.

I did zero minis in 6 months... does that count?

Yeah, this game is dead. D-E-D.

I spent 2-3 weeks putting the minis together, primed the UEDF and have painted 4 Valk battloids, most of 2 tomahawks and 2 defenders and had said 'eff it, I'll work on it when I feel like flagellating myself. The poor Zent force I have doesn't even stand a chance.

I haven't even played a game yet.

Meanwhile, in January, I bought 4 armies for Warmarchine/Hordes, painted 2 (Cryx & Legion of Everblight), have primed the others with intentions to paint some this weekend, have played 2 tabletop games and downloaded and played the Warmachine computer game.

Likewise, I've picked up a few hundred dollars worth of X-Wing and Star Trek Attack Wing. I've played numerous battles with them and have even made my own terrain (planets) for them - and even ordered some clone wars era ships off shapeways.

Then there's my 5E D&D game that's underway...

As you can tell, PB's kept me extremely interested and engaged in this RRT game.

I've managed to put together one complete squad for each side. I just need to paint them, eventually.

Are they that hard to assemble?