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An update indicating they are alive would be good at the moment, wave one is a bit far fetched.

So, the last comment (not update, mere comment) was Feb 24;

@Mark Ofman: Coming very very soon now! I'm still trying to squeeze in a few more sculpts into it rather than concepts, so as to make your final selection easier But do tell: what are you thinking of picking up?
@Balgin Stodraeg: Cheers!
@Urroz Yohan: Merci pour le soleil des tropiques, c'est ce qui nous manque trop en ce moment!

The reference to Mark [Ho]ffman is a response to the question: "So... the Pledge Manager.... where are we on that?"

The last official update was Update #83 on January 31.

It's clearly possible to at least partially reverse apathy (see what happened when SPM started talking to their backers), but I have serious doubts that RH is willing or able to do so. This is the kind of communication that happens after hiring a specific team member for PR?

Ach.

 pretre wrote:
So I love SOB but am terrified of this thread. Should I be excited for this or not?

As much as the delays will make me weep, RH is going to take a SIGNIFICANT chunk of money of me with that KS.

I got in on TGG at $15 just to sample their product. The results have been damning, and there's not a chance in hell I'll back any similar campaign in the future.

The only way they're getting any more of my money is if they offer the basic infantry in high impact polystyrene. $4 for a 5 point model is just stupid.

Not gonna lie - GW's Dark Eldar are pretty damn detailed. I'm absolutely confident Raging Heroes could outdo them with the same medium. If the Dark Elves were plastic, I'd do everything in my power to buy a crapton of minis from them.

 AlexHolker wrote:

The only way they're getting any more of my money is if they offer the basic infantry in high impact polystyrene. $4 for a 5 point model is just stupid.

Isn't that though just the purpose you intend them for, so far we do not know their game system and their model count so their price can be logical if the model count is small enough.

I just sent them the following message:

Would you be willing to do the work to offer at least one of the basic units as a High Impact Polystyrene sprue as well as the restic you already have planned? This would be a way to test the waters with minimal investment, so that your miniatures may become a viable way to build an entire army. The price per miniature is very high for what would likely be a 5 point Imperial Guardswoman, so letting people bulk out their armies with HIPS Kurganovas or Jailbirds while buying restic and metal for specialists would make it a lot easier for people to collect TGG armies.

If Raging Heroes started working in plastic they would immediately become my favourite manufacturer, delays be damned.

 AlexHolker wrote:

If Raging Heroes started working in plastic they would immediately become my favourite manufacturer, delays be damned.

See, you say that, but you don't realize what the shocking twist will be: by the time RH have their molds prepared, the petroleum used to make their plastics will consist of your geologically-compressed remains.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:

 AlexHolker wrote:

If Raging Heroes started working in plastic they would immediately become my favourite manufacturer, delays be damned.

See, you say that, but you don't realize what the shocking twist will be: by the time RH have their molds prepared, the petroleum used to make their plastics will consist of your geologically-compressed remains.

Well played, Bob. Well played.

After a long period of silence they last updated their Tumblr five days ago, maybe an update is close by?

 BrookM wrote:
After a long period of silence they last updated their Tumblr five days ago, maybe an update is close by?

Feels like...

 BrookM wrote:
After a long period of silence they last updated their Tumblr five days ago, maybe an update is close by?

What was the update pic?

There were 13 posts on the 26th. None tgg related.

Aye, nothing related, but it does present us with hopefully an update soon. Not long now and we're a year out from where we started.

That last 20% is certainly proving tricky.

Just think, surely with all this experience under their belts now the Sisters will be 80% complete before they launch the KS...

Worked last time.

Oh boy! From Facebook:

Cleaning a 3D print for the new TGG Update coming up shortly, with new sculpts, new 3D prints, and more... ‪#‎TGG‬ ‪#‎ToughestGirlsOfTheGalaxy‬

Looks like they are 80% ready to post an update!

Maybe next week.

A comment from the official account on that same post Brook just linked mentioned that wereshewolves are close.



I am so fething pumped for those. I don't even care if I only get to see the sculpts and not get them for a bit. Gimme. Now.

I want to be pumped but I cannot.

Yeah.. I don't know exactly when, but at the moment, I'm more like "meh.. yeah nice... see you next year for wave one".

From what I'm reading, then, it's foolish to except Sisters to deliver any time before 2018? Kinda tempers the enthusiasm.

GW may even have released theirs by that time.

Actually maybe that's a good reason for them to do it. Use Sods Law to the advantage of the non kickstarter Sisters players

 Dentry wrote:
From what I'm reading, then, it's foolish to except Sisters to deliver any time before 2018? Kinda tempers the enthusiasm.

I know there's a fair amount of kidding around in here but that 2018 thing's got to be a joke, right?

 Alpharius wrote:

 Dentry wrote:
From what I'm reading, then, it's foolish to except Sisters to deliver any time before 2018? Kinda tempers the enthusiasm.

I know there's a fair amount of kidding around in here but that 2018 thing's got to be a joke, right?

Well, the way things are looking, it might take them a year to finish the last 20% of TGG. If they start the next KS immediately, it might take 5 years to get all 100% completed.

 Alpharius wrote:
I know there's a fair amount of kidding around in here but that 2018 thing's got to be a joke, right?

All joking and hyperbole aside, I think 2018 is the absolutely earliest you could reasonably expect to see the Sisters launch from Raging Heroes presuming their current work progresses at a similar pace. The first thread in which they addressed the idea of having a Kickstarter was Jan 26th 2013, and in that thread they said they had been working on it since last May (god help me, I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt and assuming "last may" meant 2012) - Still, 22 months ago.

I'm only half-joking with the 2018 thing, it's a bit of a cynical outlook. But that estimate is factoring in the KS planning, launch, design, manufacturing, freight, and utlimately distribution timeframes. Going by TGG I'm not sure that's such a ridiculous figure.

I was also under the impression that Raging Heroes would be launching three separate kickstarters; one each for TGG, Dark Elves, and Sisters in that order. It's safe to say TGG's estimated deliver on the KS of March 2014 has proved unattainable. Going on 8 months since its close. So assuming that the Dark Elf KS doesn't start until the TGG stuff is at least shipping (if not yet shipped), that's likely to be another ~1 year endeavor and another year for the actual Sisters KS from launch to fulfillment. So maybe 2016 until Sisters are in hand?

Who knows at this point. RH could streamline their operation with the experience gained from each successive KS and/or improve their production pipeline and staff.

Personally I think it is a realistic outlook. As others have said, concepts aside, the sisters and elves need to be done from the ground up, unless they have been diverting their time from the last 20% of TGG to get 80% of both those ranges done now, in time for the KS in the next two months.