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Finally got my map

That's one hell of a LoS blocker Looks great.

Are any International backers getting their tracking info yet?

 FeindusMaximus wrote:
Finally got my map

Hows about some info on how you made the mushroom cloud? Those would be great LoS blockers on my tournament tables, and don't look too expensive to make either.

 gregor_xenos wrote:

 FeindusMaximus wrote:
Finally got my map

Hows about some info on how you made the mushroom cloud? Those would be great LoS blockers on my tournament tables, and don't look too expensive to make either.

This friend of mine makes them.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/bb-dawg/m.html?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEFSXS%3AMESOI&LH_Complete=1&rt=nc

Ping and ask him. I know he had a tutorial somewere in hte internet, but I can't seem to find it.

So how do you guys like the mouse pad texture? It seemed like an interesting idea when I first read it during the KS.

 gregor_xenos wrote:

 FeindusMaximus wrote:

 gregor_xenos wrote:
Must be nice... my tracker still shows no movement.

Ditto

I stand corrected, departed tonight, but will arrive too late to be of use this weekend (which was the plan)

Yep, same here. Slated for delivery on the 25th. I know they had a tournament during all this, but somehow that doesn't make it any better....
Really hope the mat is worth it. That's 2 tournaments down that It wont be used. As a Logistics manager, Its always been my policy to ship as soon as the item is manufactured or received. Tends to lead to future business... FLG is not impressing me so far.

The customer service desk must love you at the local Walmart.

 Kimchi Gamer wrote:

 gregor_xenos wrote:

 FeindusMaximus wrote:

 gregor_xenos wrote:
Must be nice... my tracker still shows no movement.

Ditto

I stand corrected, departed tonight, but will arrive too late to be of use this weekend (which was the plan)

Yep, same here. Slated for delivery on the 25th. I know they had a tournament during all this, but somehow that doesn't make it any better....
Really hope the mat is worth it. That's 2 tournaments down that It wont be used. As a Logistics manager, Its always been my policy to ship as soon as the item is manufactured or received. Tends to lead to future business... FLG is not impressing me so far.

The customer service desk must love you at the local Walmart.

Ok "Richard Cranium", but I prefer the target.

 Kimchi Gamer wrote:

 gregor_xenos wrote:

 FeindusMaximus wrote:

 gregor_xenos wrote:
Must be nice... my tracker still shows no movement.

Ditto

I stand corrected, departed tonight, but will arrive too late to be of use this weekend (which was the plan)

Yep, same here. Slated for delivery on the 25th. I know they had a tournament during all this, but somehow that doesn't make it any better....
Really hope the mat is worth it. That's 2 tournaments down that It wont be used. As a Logistics manager, Its always been my policy to ship as soon as the item is manufactured or received. Tends to lead to future business... FLG is not impressing me so far.

The customer service desk must love you at the local Walmart.

....and the Gortons fishermen do to. (Yes, I realize that comment had nothing to do with the above posts. Kinda like yours.)
If Walmart ( your example) sold me a rain check for something that was delivered to them in November and didn't bother to get it to me until the end of December; your damn skippy they would be showing me some love. Donkey Fedora

ON TOPIC
I have finally received my mat, and look forward to using it..... On the last Saturday of March.

I see the cityfight mats are all gone at their store


Any thought of another run of the various "Cityfight"type mats all three of them looked great

The standard parallel streets 4'x6'
The angled streets 4'x6'
And the 4'x4' Angled streets

 yakface wrote:

 RiTides wrote:
Hey now, just agree to disagree! I ended up halfway between on the camps, and with anything as polarizing as this I think that's about right. The logo is not ideal, but not horrible either... it just is what it is!

No tips on cutting mousepad material / mending the edge afterwards?

Do you really need a display mat ASAP? Because I'm sure down the road once they get all their orders fulfilled, etc, that a display mat might be something they end up making (I have absolutely no knowledge of something like this in the works, but I figure if there are enough interested people then it will certainly happen).

Yeah, for Adepticon

I took it to FedEx / Kinkos, they cut it for free and I bought a tube to hold it (although I had to cut the tube to size myself) and voila! Aprroximately 2' x 4' display mat for our Adepticon team that fits in my luggage

Aw c'mon, really? 15 pages in and people are still talking about the fething logo?


Reece - I want my giant logo mat now!!!

And that's all you got out of all the great posts on the last few pages, including pics of a number of mats in the wild? You're actually causing a problem that isn't there!

Oh jeez - really, the logo issue. Seriously. My mat turned up a week ago, 6x4. It is very good quality and the logo is small and discreet. It doesn't detract from the mat in any shape or form. This mat is worth every penny and looks great on the table.

And the reason why I like the logo. Senile ol'bastard here cannot remember who he bought it off and I want to get another one.

On Topic, anyone know if they do a sea one. Need one for Pirates of Spanish Main.


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 warboss wrote:
So how do you guys like the mouse pad texture? It seemed like an interesting idea when I first read it during the KS.

I like it. It really grips model bases well. The fact it rolls up and stores so easy with no crease is an added bonus. Call me impressed - I think they did some impressive work bring this to market.

I also have to say communication was great and the mat turned up in a reasonable amount of time. So, all in all, as far as I am concerned a big "well done".

I agree about the texture- I am much more impressed with the feel / finish than I thought I'd be!

Have any international backers gotten tracking info yet?

I'm not sure if I'm considered an international buyer. I live in England at a USAF base and my address is from New York's Port. I still havent received any information about anything concerning my mat. I even emailed them with no reply about 2 weeks ago. Hopefully, I'm just one of the rare cases :(

 RiTides wrote:
I agree about the texture- I am much more impressed with the feel / finish than I thought I'd be!

Played 5 games on these mats at the LVO. The thing I like most about the texture is that rolling dice on them is so much nicer than rolling on hard tables with a thin felt sheet over them! The die rolls well, but not as prone to flying off the table. These mats are amazing, logos or no, and to be honest I didn't even know about the logo until right now when I read HBMC comment.

Malik_Raynor wrote:
I'm not sure if I'm considered an international buyer. I live in England at a USAF base and my address is from New York's Port. I still havent received any information about anything concerning my mat. I even emailed them with no reply about 2 weeks ago. Hopefully, I'm just one of the rare cases :(

I don't think you're alone on the communication front, unfortunately... that's definitely an area they could improve.

Overwatch, that is great to hear!

Hey guys, all the Domestics shipped AHEAD of schedule or on time.

The only mats that are behind schedule are the international shipments as we hit unforseen issues with the shipping companies, not because of anything FLG did.

And you guys, we totally understand some folks are impatient to get their mats but holy smokes, lol, compare us to other KickStarters, we are MILES ahead of most of them. We will ship internationals 1 week late. We jumped through hoops to try and avoid that, but in the grand scheme of things that is hardly a disaster.

@RiTides

How has communication been an issue for you, I am curious? We answer every single email we get, and every phone call, as well as go out of our way to communicate what is going on through the KickStarter, our podcast and FLG's site.

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 pongo50 wrote:
I see the cityfight mats are all gone at their store

Yes, and as it says on the product description, they will be restocked in April.

Oh, and here are some awesome pics of people enjoying their mats!

And here are some reviews from very happy customers: http://billsravingrant.blogspot.com/2014/02/frontline-gamings-tablewar-mats-awesome.html?showComment=1393190979764#c791816274361251953


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Malik_Raynor wrote:
I'm not sure if I'm considered an international buyer. I live in England at a USAF base and my address is from New York's Port. I still havent received any information about anything concerning my mat. I even emailed them with no reply about 2 weeks ago. Hopefully, I'm just one of the rare cases :(

You definitely are, we answer every email we get.

What email address did you send it to? Did you try calling the store? We are very responsive.

And while an Air Base overseas is considered to be a part of the USA, your order was likely processed as an international order, and categorized as such. We have consistently updated our site, the podcast and the KS site to let people know what's going on with orders.

That said, your mat will be en route ASAP, we had to work through some issues with international shipping that came up in the middle of the process.

 Reecius wrote:
@RiTides

How has communication been an issue for you, I am curious? We answer every single email we get, and every phone call, as well as go out of our way to communicate what is going on through the KickStarter, our podcast and FLG's site.

Hey Reecius, I'm actually a satisfied customer, and posted a picture of my mat above and also elsewhere on the forum, and will be using it for a display mat at AdeptiCon! Did you see those posts in this thread?

I also did not say I personally had any communication issues- I have seen similar statements posted in the comments section on KS and was quoting a poster here who said he hadn't been replied to in two weeks.

This seems to contradict your above statement... quoting the relevant post from above:

Malik_Raynor wrote:
I'm not sure if I'm considered an international buyer. I live in England at a USAF base and my address is from New York's Port. I still havent received any information about anything concerning my mat. I even emailed them with no reply about 2 weeks ago. Hopefully, I'm just one of the rare cases :(

My saying that's an area you could improve on is hardly a scathing criticism, and for you to immediately reply that you answer every email without addressing the poster who says his email went unanswered is a little curious! I.e., rather than address my comment, you could mention that his email has been replied to now, or got lost in the shuffle, etc. (Edit: Although I see you did address it in a subsequent automatically appended post now, so that's good )

Constructive criticism ≠ barn burning . The communication on this campaign is about middle of the road from the 30+ campaigns I've backed... not super fast, but all relevant info is given. So again, a point of constructive criticism from following the comments on the KS page and ones here, such as the above which I quoted in my original post.

I'm very happy with the product, and look forward to seeing future designs and/or just picking up some of the existing ones I didn't get, if the need arises

I wasn't mad, sorry if it came across that way, I was just trying to address the issue. And I did respond to Malik, haha, reread my post.

And I do not know what happened with Malik_Raynor, that is why I was following up with him about how ht attempted to contact us so that I could find the source of the breakdown in communication and fix it. Maybe it was user error on his part, an email that bounced to the spam folder, maybe we just flat out missed it, who knows? I was trying to gather more information to resolve the issue.

But I am very glad you are satisfied with your purchase, that is great.

Yeah, I saw that you addressed his post after I typed mine, my bad there!

Also getting a headache from trying to paint 150 grubs in time for AdeptiCon, so excuse any crankiness on my part as a paint induced haze please

No worries, the feedback is appreciated =)

See you at Adpeticon!

Hate to be a total fanboi, but I was 100% happy with this KS. The communication was more than adequate, shipping time was pretty damn good if not spot on (compared to say Reaper who are still awesome and dare I say Defiance, AoW etc etc) and the product was 100% exactly as described.

So yes, I am very happy - I wish other companies were like this.

So, Reecius, having sucked up :-D is there any chance of a sea mat for navel games? Or darker earth matt with more dirt than grass?

The snow one looks way better than I first thought it would.

I replied on the Kickstarter Message Page option not the comments section. Trust me not an user error...I work the communications help desk in the Air Force, I'm actually in charge it lol! Ummm I'm not mad either but my wife told me if you don't ship it a certain way to APO boxes then it will take FOREVER to get to us :/ Did you send it priority? If you sent it international then I will never get it as the military PO is not an international address you ship too

I'm just curious which route you took as I'm currently deployed and can't call. Also, we move in 4 months so don't want the shipment to get lost!

**Just realized that in the Kickstarter Message Option it is going to TableWar. Not sure if you guys communicate together but I don't have access to your website from work or in the dorms as I'm in a country that doesnt allow it (I know weird) but anyways...I can PM you my APO address Mr. Reecius. Let me know if I can be of any assistance **

 fullheadofhair wrote:

 warboss wrote:
So how do you guys like the mouse pad texture? It seemed like an interesting idea when I first read it during the KS.

I like it. It really grips model bases well. The fact it rolls up and stores so easy with no crease is an added bonus. Call me impressed - I think they did some impressive work bring this to market.

Cool, thanks for the info. I might get in on the next KS if depending on the designs.

Frontline and TableWar are fairly connected, and the Kickstarter creator is "TableWar", so messaging them through Kickstarter should be sending the message to the right place.

You might try a private message to Reecius on here just in case (just click the "PM" button under his post). APO shipping is definitely something worth making sure about! I haven't had a problem shipping to them previously, but it definitely should be considered a domestic shipment (since the military are who take it the rest of the way, afaik).

@Full Head of Hair

Thanks so much for the kind words! Much appreciated. And yes, we have actually gotten a lot of requests for a sea mat, which surprised me as I didn't think that the market for that theme was that big. But we are talking about it for the next run of designs.

@HMBC

Thanks! Alpine and Barren Wasteland are our favorites.

@Malik

Yeah, Todd answers email on the KS page, but I am surprised he is usually 100% on the ball. But, I do not know exactly how your mat was shipped, we sent out 1,300 orders so it is not something I know off of the top of my head, unfortunately.

But, please email Frankie at Orders@FrontlineGaming.org and he will get you sorted out. He handles all of the logistics of shipping and customer service in that regard. We will get you hooked up, it sounds like your situation is a bit unique and as such more prone to have some kind of error at some stage. We will get it sorted.

As RiTides pointed out, the more you take any system out of the box, the more likely for a mistake to be made.

@Warboss

We won't be doing another KickStarter, actually, we sell them on our site at Frontline Gaming: http://www.frontlinegaming.org/product-category/gaming-mats/

We are currently low on stock, but will be getting fully restocked with additional designs in April!