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http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/whip/zynvaded-by-we-have-issues-publishing

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Seems like an interesting concept. And from my neck of the woods too.

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Fun idea (although certainly not unique... Fairy Meat was also a 1:1 scale game) but the miniatures shown really don't do it for me. The sculpting is very soft.

I like the takeaway box packaging

 
   
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Three model poses across two factions with soft, blobby details, and a copyright infringement concept art model. Uh, pass.

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It looks like a print and play product, like CHEAPASS GAMES used to produce, but it comes with 6 figures, so they jacked up the price to $40.

WAY out of the BEER & PRETZELS price range it should have shot for.

I would have been in if it was $15, just for the noveltly.

   
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The sculpting does look rather "poofy" in many areas. Places that seem like they should be flat are, instead, puffed out a bit.

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Ive seen these before, a couple years ago. on The Miniatures Page or a similar site. I believe it had a different name, but its the exact same packaging, miniatures, etc. Looks like they are trying to get it going (again) this time via Kickstarter.

I will agree with those who posted above about the quality/quantity to price ratio.

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I bought all the models available for Zynvaded at Gencon two years ago. It was $40 for the starter set pictured in the Kickstarter, and then I bought three additional figure classes for each side for 5 bucks apiece (each side had a unique sculpt for it's fighter class, like the starter). There was also a large mech, and lately they put out a third faction that is totally unique whereas the original two "factions' were just two identical forces painted differently.

The look of the figures is intentionally cartoonish and WoW-like. It's supposed to be a fun, army-men styled game. No, the models aren't on par with my GW figures, but they don't have to be to for the game to be fun to play. I'm not elitist like that- I can still have fun playing Battlemasters.

I personally love it. It's something refreshing to paint, and I love to support garage companies (and this is one of those) who are making a go at things, rather than coasting on inertia build years ago like GW. The guys were thoroughly friendly to talk to at Gen-Con. I ended up spending over 60 bucks with them, and have been meaning to get back with them and buy the expansion figures they have for their other faction.

The rules are fun, and it's fun to play a game using everything on a coffee table as a battlefield. I have actually made 1-1 scale terrain for the game. For example, making the sterotypical pop-can storage tank for 40K, but leaving the can intentionally unpainted so it is literally a Coca-Cola can. I also made terrain for a table to simulate playing outside, with area "forest" terrain where the "trees" are tufts of fake aquarium grass, and a river is being fed by a chunk of watering hose instead of a spring.

Up until this kickstarter, these models were all literally sculpted and cast in a guy's garage. The bummer is that I would love to do this as a Kickstarter, but I already have what the kickstarter provides. I hope is can get them going again, though. It also sucks, because they have taken all the additional figures down off their online store, so I can't buy all the third faction figures I wanted to get.

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 ph34r wrote:
Three model poses across two factions with soft, blobby details, and a copyright infringement concept art model. Uh, pass.


Care to explain the "copyright infringement" accusation? I don't see it.

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 MagickalMemories wrote:
 ph34r wrote:
Three model poses across two factions with soft, blobby details, and a copyright infringement concept art model. Uh, pass.


Care to explain the "copyright infringement" accusation? I don't see it.

Eric


He is referring to Not-Samus:

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The models look like they're sculpted out of Starburst candies. "Soft" doesn't even begin to describe them. Not a fan of any of the designs either; the "not-Samus" is especially egregious. The idea of a game fought on your literal tabletop is cute, but I can't stand the models.

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 Cyporiean wrote:


He is referring to Not-Samus:


Ah. Thanks.

I'm not familiar with "Samus."
I guess I'm so used to GW and everyone else accusing people of copying GW IP that I was probably presuming that he meant GW copyright.

::does quick Google Images search::

Hmm. I think it's different enough that it would be safe from infringement claims, but if the guy said he wasn't at least INSPIRED by the design, I wouldn't believe him.

Eric

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Black Fiend wrote: Okay all the ChapterHouse Nazis to the right!! All the GW apologists to the far left. LETS GET READY TO RUMBLE !!!
The Green Git wrote: I'd like to cross section them and see if they have TFG rings, but that's probably illegal.
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Greebynog wrote:Us brits have a sense of fair play and propriety that you colonial savages can only dream of.
Stelek wrote: I know you're afraid. I want you to be. Because you should be. I've got the humiliation wagon all set up for you to take a ride back to suck city.
Quote: LunaHound--- Why do people hate unpainted models? I mean is it lacking the realism to what we fantasize the plastic soldier men to be?
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West Michigan, deep in Whitebread, USA

If anyone is shocked to see the non-Samus, and thinks it's copyright infringement, they are clearly new to miniatures games Kickstarters. There were probably thirty such instances between Sedition Wars and Zombiecide alone. At least this not-pop culture character has a reason for being such a thing in the game, so that's a neat way to go.

We should totally get more people in here just to talk about how they aren't interested in pledging and to post some negative reason, cause that's constructive. People are a little too quick to tell us what they all hate around here. Must be all the GW in the air.

I do think their stretch goals are set too high. Unless it's a KS for some sort of sure-fire thing, there should be a couple that help the pledging get to the goal value.

I know if the starter set could be swapped out for their other game set, called "Don't let the Zed bugs Bite", I would totally be in for at least the $40, as I don't have that one.

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Akron, OH

Honestly, the stretch goal points aren't an issue.. its not going to make it to the goal. They'd need to get 1,125 backers to plunk down $40 each for 6 models of questionable quality in an unknown material.

Why does this require $45k to get off the ground?

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6 models of questionable quality in an unknown material.


The resin they are made from is about the same as my Sedition Wars Restic models- surprisingly sturdier than I expected, actually. It's a little harder, enough that mold lines can actually be cleaned with a hobby knife like normal plastic models, rather than needing a file like Restic, and I don't have to worry about any of the thin weapons like swords either drooping in the sun, or breaking with normal handling. The only model I have had break was the standing sniper's rifle barrel, but only because my pitbull jumped on the little Battlefoam P.A.C.K. mini case I carry them all in (which is a cool element of the game too). Frankly, if GW used something as strong as this resin instead of Finecast, I would be MUCH more likely to actually buy Finecast.

I don't want to sound like a fanboy, but it looks like I am the only one on here who actually has these models to be able to comment on how they are in real life rather than a single picture damning the whole thing.

The photos of the colored resin do not display the detail very well at all versus painted figures, especially the white ones.

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Well, this is info that should be on the Kickstarter. It makes no mention of what material the models will be made of. (just one mention that they used to use resin)

45k still seems high for the tooling of 6 basic models.

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New Bedford, MA USA

I actually like the models and the concept.

My issue was entirely with the price.

Also, why do they need 45K to produce a game they already produce ?


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They "have" a professional painter, but all the pictures are of unpainted models.

The video has no game play example, or even shows the game at all.

The more I look into it the less I like about this Kickstarter.

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I like the concept. I don't like the price.

I'm reminded of Muscle men/ Kinkeshi figures. Had a soft spot for those types of figures for years in fact (which is probably what led me into mini gaming in the first place). Are they around the same size, or are they the usual heroic scale stuff?

I just wish the math worked out better. 40 seems like a lot for what I'm getting, and realistically I'm afraid this isn't going to hit its goal.

If the entry was a bit lower (or I got more figures) I might be able to talk myself into giving it a try.

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I always thought of the figures as somewhere between World of Warcraft and the Ratchet and Clank art-styles. It's fun to have something that's not grimdark.

I personally like the gameplay style. Each figure is in the range of 28mm heroic stuff, and has a stat card that is used to track everything, and the game format uses D10's, along with finite ammo tracking, which is not something that is often seen. Each figure also has a single-use unique special ability.

This is a link to all the stat cards and the rulebook for the base game, plus two other related games in the same setting.

http://www.wehaveissuespub.com/Downloads.html

I don't really get the price of the KS, either, though I see the point of raising some sort of capitol so that it doesn't take an hour to make each Starter Set.

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Looks like they updated the kickstarter and added more models.

   
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Not my cup of tea, but I have friends that would probably drool over the giant robot spider


Okay, we've managed to move a couple of things around, and have been able to add a Terra Starter set to all pledges that include a ZynVaded! Starter Box set! This will give players a chance to bring a 3rd friend into the fight, or allow for some variety for 2 players! This ups the figure count by another 3, making a total of 11 figures (3 Sav’m, 3 Kyll’al, 3 Terra and the Kickstarter Exclusive 2 figure set), plus the 3 Grubz tokens and all the supplies needed for 2-3 people to start playing right out of the box!



   
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The figures are cute, but the not-Samus is egregious and the figures look like they're sculpted outta bubblegum. I like the spidertank but the flash on the underside to protect the undercuts on the legs is horrible.

They do look like MUSCLE-figures, and if you're into that, and 1-1 scale games that's cool, but they would have been better off just makingbetter figures, than going to low-detail goofiness.

The giant figure bases don't really help. They could save some resin by not having those, and using plastic bases.

For $45k, that's a lot of cash for some one-piece blobby-detail figurines.

They really should have just shot for the moon, and asked for $100k to get a sprue of the starter set guys made, like the mixed figs in Black Reach or Dark Vengeance. Hire a guy to design them on computer, and get a sprue made.

For everyone who has the game already, what are the rules like?

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Models are lazy in design and execution and the 'not Samus' kinda offends me. There are a million ways they could have done that concept as a homage and not a copy with 2 extra arms....

Now if they release an alternate sculpt where she rolls up into a ball ill be REALLY upset.!!!

Seems overly pricey too. Outside of the impulse buy range even if it was in the UK

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Wow, lets all chime in to complain...............



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 AegisGrimm wrote:
Wow, lets all chime in to complain...............


Not every kickstarter is a Reaper Miniatures / Zombicide / Sedition Wars kickstarter. The sci-fi cars kickstarter failed, and the si-fi necromunda MDF-and-magnets terrain was pulled as well. Gates of Antares was yanked as well.

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Deal with it.

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These guys look like those old GUTZ figures from the days of old.

or these guys.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.U.S.C.L.E

Might have just done one better, cast up some soft plastic MARX army men and started a range of games in the old Caverns of Doom style.

Maybe a couple of soft plastic heros, and a bad guy set as an add on.

I don't know about this one. 50/50 I guess.

This one has a nice wacky look to it, though- but the cheese factor is going to kill it.



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I definitely think the goal is set way, way too high.



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Sorry for more negativity but is that a GW wheel on the Spider tank jobber?
   
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narkuk wrote:
Sorry for more negativity but is that a GW wheel on the Spider tank jobber?


I thought the same when I saw it. Good Old Gorkamorka Wheel sprue.

   
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narkuk wrote:
Sorry for more negativity but is that a GW wheel on the Spider tank jobber?


You know i hadnt actually noticed that. Would that infringe anykind of GW copyright? Afterall this is for business/profit and it IS obviously the same wheel (you can even see the join line down the middle)

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