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Whoa!

I couldn't help myself and took a peek at miniature market's sale, bloody hell there's some cheap gubbins to be had! Shame that international posting is such a mare these days.

Oh man, I always wanted the big vallejo set. I recently picked up badger's Minitare line from amazon ridicucheap though so I'm gonna be working with that for some time.

The MM KoW/Warpath deals are great! Just be sure to double check them and make sure they're actually in stock. I was ogling the enforcers but they seem to be out of a lot of those. I guess they'd still let you order them at that price? I didn't try.


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Oh also, I guess battle front has 25% off now for flames of war or whatever, also honored at the warstore.

And the warstore black friday thingie starts tomorrow at midnight their time.

$3 Alkemy starter boxes...is that worth picking up?

I saw those. Are those similar to the confrontation stuff or do I just have the entirely wrong idea?


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Holy balls, I just realized i'm only a couple hours away from MM, that's crazy I don't live by anything! (or so I thought)


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Damn this thread, out $45 now

piperider361 wrote:
$3 Alkemy starter boxes...is that worth picking up?

Yeah - those were nuts - picked up all the cat people just because.

piperider361 wrote:
$3 Alkemy starter boxes...is that worth picking up?

The figures are quite good and the rules are pretty good too if you feel like playing it on a lark. Whenever I need to add a few bucks to an order to get over the $100 threshold, I add an Alkemy starter set to my order.

snagged a couple Veer-Myn and Corporation army boxes and one player starter sets. thanks MM! you just got me into Warpath! sigh.

Muahaha judgedoug, it's a good place to be You'll have a good base for when that kickstarter shows up eventually

Doesn't Fantasy Flight usually have a clearance sale starting today? Haven't heard boo yet.

 GrimDork wrote:
Muahaha judgedoug, it's a good place to be You'll have a good base for when that kickstarter shows up eventually

i can't even remember what i bought... the site was so slow when it launched it was taking minutes between pages and over 5 minutes for it to check out and charge my card.... i think two Corp one player sets (the army was sold out already), the Veery Myn army and either one or two of the Veer Myn one player sets (since they had that other unit in it that's not in the army set).

Honestly the Battle Systems kickstarter made me want Veer-Myn and Corp a lot, and I'm going to order those clear acrylic bases too... haha.

I may go back and order a few more corp Ranger sets because they're pretty cool looking, and maybe some more Veer-myn infantry sets (I honestly love the sculpts, no idea why they get so much hate)

Shipping to Canada kills it for me, but if anyone from the US plays Malifaux and hasn't got the M2E rulebook and arsenal packs, they're all 50% off at miniature market. $4 per faction is much easier to deal with, and the big rulebook is only $2.50 more than Wyrd is selling the little rulebook for this weekend.

Do the sets that you ordered come with veterans? The veteran and ranger boxes come with 3x the special weapon sprues (1 each of 3 kinds of gun) and the normal marines boxes only come with 1x of the sprue. Its more important if you are looking into using them for pretend IG because as it stands the corporation only has one non-heavy squad upgrade and its a tactical flame unit. The rangers are awesome btw, they have cooler guns, beefier shoulders, neat backpacks and cooler (imo) helmets (like my avatar). If you end up painting scores of marines, its nice to break them up wit the similar, yet different, rangers.

I ordered the corporation Major General cause he's awesome looking (but he may become a traitorous rebs commander for deadzone ), a suppression team of enforcers (pretty sure they still come with the rifles too) to work out color schemes before deadzone, and the flamer and heavy weapon 5-man metal forge father teams to split up and buff up my current forge fathers to 4x steel warrior sections with flamer and heavy. Damn the bargains!

 GrimDork wrote:
Do the sets that you ordered come with veterans? The veteran and ranger boxes come with 3x the special weapon sprues (1 each of 3 kinds of gun) and the normal marines boxes only come with 1x of the sprue. Its more important if you are looking into using them for pretend IG because as it stands the corporation only has one non-heavy squad upgrade and its a tactical flame unit. The rangers are awesome btw, they have cooler guns, beefier shoulders, neat backpacks and cooler (imo) helmets (like my avatar). If you end up painting scores of marines, its nice to break them up wit the similar, yet different, rangers.

I ordered the corporation Major General cause he's awesome looking (but he may become a traitorous rebs commander for deadzone ), a suppression team of enforcers (pretty sure they still come with the rifles too) to work out color schemes before deadzone, and the flamer and heavy weapon 5-man metal forge father teams to split up and buff up my current forge fathers to 4x steel warrior sections with flamer and heavy. Damn the bargains!

the one player sets, which I got two of, each have 10 marines, 10 rangers, and 3 heavy weapon teams. I won't use 'em as IG - I already have an Eldar army that doesn't get played much - but as just generic sci fi soldiers.

The veteran set is 8 "normal" marines plus a heavy team, right? So there's really no reason to get more Veterans if I already have 20 normal marines and 6 weapons teams... but I might want to get more Rangers then?

We've got one going at Frontline Gaming! http://www.frontlinegaming.org/2013/11/26/black-friday-sale-2/

In general, the rangers are the coolest, although they cost a wee bit more than the marines. For warpath, I like taking 5 man ranger teams with 2 flamers its the most efficient way to get those (if not the most durable). If I were going to make a warpath list I would probably use marine sections to unlock vehicles/characters, and rangers to do some infantry hunting. Vets are kind of in a weird place, they can have a weapon team but that gives them long range invalidating their rifles. I could see a 5 man squad with burst laser team and a flamer in hard cover somewhere in the middle of the board as area denial... but yeah. And you could already do that 4x if you wanted so you likely don't need more. More rangers? Maybe. Depends on how much you like them. I think they look almost 2x as cool as marines, so I definitely won't tell you no

The vet box is the one that comes with 8 normal marines + 2 kneeling guys one with an 'at-ease' rifle and some binoculars, the other with a tripod burst/laser/cannon (2 barrel options). Both the vet box and rangers box come with 3x special weapon sprues, although you have to do some not-insignificant choppery to use the special weapons at all

cool GrimDork, thanks for the heads up! i might grab another pack of Rangers and maybe some Vets just to be on the safe side.

Be prepared to work on them, there are lots of little details to pick out

Fantasy flight sale is live. Looks like they're blowing out dust, but the discounts aren't as good as I had hoped to see on some things (like the core set). Expansions are only 20 and premium expansion are 32, so there are some good deals on there.

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Good deals on Dust Tactics Premium as well. Awful perfermance with their website today. .

Yeah. I had trouble logging in and just put my order through anyway to make sure I got the items I wanted. Then it said "You would have gotten points if you created an account." Very frustrating, depending on what these points do. I'll email them after things calm down a bit... does anyone know their super-secret "Stewart at Mantic"-style real customer service email?

piperider361 wrote:
$3 Alkemy starter boxes...is that worth picking up?

The Kingdom of Avalon make fantastic Brettonians - I've seen them used as a Mordheim gang - really characterful models. Some of them have mutations (mainly the heroes) but 4 out of 5 in the starter box and all three in the starter add on are untainted. Highly recommended. Empire of Jade are good eastern themed models, though not the best I've seen, and Khaliman republic are great if you like cat people (putting out fires). I've never seen the game played anywhere!

EDIT: Should point out they are resin figures.

Wow, any amount of resin figures for 3 dollars is some kind of bargain

I looked up Underworld Battle which Miniature Market are selling for $5

http://www.miniaturemarket.com/tcc6018.html

http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/91191/underworld-battle

It appears to be a weird reskin/retheme of 80's Ameritrash classic Dark World!

http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/31/dark-world

It looks like the figures have changed for the worse and no idea if the gameplay has improved any, but for $5 you get a pretty handy 3d terrain castley thing and some cool treasure chests, well worth it if you're the right side of the atlantic. And I bet you'll have fun if you play it with beer

 GrimDork wrote:
Damn this thread, out $45 now

Mission accomplished

Let's just say I spent enough for free shipping... and leave it at that.

That was a fun sale. Got in early enough when there were still good things available.

Picked up a few games to play with the kids, a confrontation box, enough Arcane Legions stuff to play all three sides, a few boxes of Warpath stuff for gifts, and of course that 5 dollar Chaotic/ Darkworld game.


I guess I can play Chaotic DarkWorld with the kids until my 25th Heroquest shows up. Darkworld always played second fiddle to Heroquest back in the day, but it should be a good primer for dungeoncrawling board games.

*falls to knees* interneeeeeeeeet!!!

 judgedoug wrote:
snagged a couple Veer-Myn and Corporation army boxes and one player starter sets. thanks MM! you just got me into Warpath! sigh.

Grrrrrr I looked all through the MM sale and there were lots of things I wanted....and they were ALL sold out....every one! FML

orkybenji wrote:
Last year KR had a nice deal involving a free card case with trays. I wonder if they will do something like that again.

KR multicase sale just went live today. It comes with the free custom card case with trays.

You can basically get the Kaiser 1 and get two custom card cases with the carrying bag for $88 including shipping in the U.S.

Case shows up when you click checkout.

 rosafari wrote:
I looked up Underworld Battle which Miniature Market are selling for $5

http://www.miniaturemarket.com/tcc6018.html

http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/91191/underworld-battle

It appears to be a weird reskin/retheme of 80's Ameritrash classic Dark World!

http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/31/dark-world

It looks like the figures have changed for the worse and no idea if the gameplay has improved any, but for $5 you get a pretty handy 3d terrain castley thing and some cool treasure chests, well worth it if you're the right side of the atlantic. And I bet you'll have fun if you play it with beer

I bought this because of your post. I needed a little more to make free shipping. Also threw in a couple of those alkemy boxes because 3$ is too cheap to pass up.

I already ordered but if the shipping for a couple alkemy boxes isn't too bad I may nab a couple.

 GrimDork wrote:
I already ordered but if the shipping for a couple alkemy boxes isn't too bad I may nab a couple.

It shouldn't be bad, but as cheap as the models are the shipping may cost just as much.