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Made in gr
Thermo-Optical Spekter





Greece

Why would they do that? and why would a sports posed miniature become a fighting pose with just a simple arms swap, it makes no sense.
   
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Legendary Master of the Chapter





SoCal

The sports poses make them look like X-men or something. Simply giving them wrist cannons would do a decent job of it.

   
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Screaming Shining Spear





Adelaide, Australia

 AlexHolker wrote:
Only because Mantic lacks vision. As I've said before, it would have been trivially easy to expand the scope of the miniatures, doubling the market just by adding one extra arm per sculpt.


Why are you even still here? You're not a backer, and all you've done is post how much you hate it and why they're a terrible company every time they announce a stretch goal.

Hoping they reach the giant sharkman before the Frenzy weekend push ends, so they can launch into a fresh set of goals for the final week

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Incorporating Wet-Blending






Australia

NTRabbit wrote:
Why are you even still here? You're not a backer, and all you've done is post how much you hate it and why they're a terrible company every time they announce a stretch goal.

Of course I'm not a backer, they haven't enabled Paypal pledges yet. I criticise them because it's immensely damaging to their potential to just pretend that their mistakes are unavoidable Acts of God and not things that they should try to do better, and because I am still waiting for them to provide two very important pieces of information that will tell me whether it's worth paying a quarter as much again for shipping, eight months in advance, to buy their product.

"When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."
-C.S. Lewis 
   
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Pious Warrior Priest




UK

^ Actually you can pledge by paypal, you just have to send them a message on Kickstarter and they'll set you up with one.
   
Made in au
Incorporating Wet-Blending






Australia

Thanks, Scarletsquig, I didn't know that. I'll still be waiting to see what the Season Six teams are in the hopes that there will be another must-have like the Asterians, but it's good to know how to do things if there is.

"When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."
-C.S. Lewis 
   
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Foxy Wildborne







Honest question, why the insistence on Paypal? I'm very careful who I give my cc details to, but KS charges go through Amazon. Doesn't get more legit than that.

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The old meta is dead and the new meta struggles to be born. Now is the time of munchkins. 
   
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Decrepit Dakkanaut




UK

Sylvain on Frothers is the sculptor who did the convicts and has posted shots of the greens (greys) which show the figures really well





shots of individual players here http://area51minis.blogspot.co.uk/2014/ ... .html#more

 
   
Made in au
Incorporating Wet-Blending






Australia

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Honest question, why the insistence on Paypal? I'm very careful who I give my cc details to, but KS charges go through Amazon. Doesn't get more legit than that.

Because I don't have a credit card, and Kickstarter is the only site I've encountered that expects me to have one.

"When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."
-C.S. Lewis 
   
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Oberstleutnant






Perth, West Australia

Those are some nice lookin' minis Orlando, thanks for the pic! Lots of character, nice assortment of hard and soft lines... that hopefully come through in production models. That Orx MVP looks really good. Face has much more attitude than the similar GW 40k Orks imo.

Does anyone know of a good clear acrylic dreadball scoop type thing you can attach to models arms? My Greenstuffing ability falls far short, also I'd really like transparent ones for an energy field effect, but would also like some physical ones for less high tech teams.
   
Made in ie
Fixture of Dakka






The conversions I've seen tend to use pipettes as they can be cut tot he right size and are scope shaped.

http://deathwatchstudios.com/tag/dreadball-glove/
   
Made in us
Dakar





Pegasus Games

I go back and forth on this kickstarter. The universe they are putting together looks fascinating. I find myself wanting to know more about the races, and the rebellion. I would back a Dreadball/Warpath RPG in a second. Dreadball looks like a much more detailed rules set than Warpath or KoW. I am intrigued.

But...
There are just enough things about Mantic that I don't like that have kept me on the fence with their projects. The Warpath figures I have (corporation) are uninspiring and a pain to assemble. It is blatant that they are using Kickstarter for pre-orders, and don't NEED all the pledge money to make DBX a reality. Their actions to artificially prop up enthusiasm during this Kickstarter dishearten me.

It also doesn't help that I don't know anyone currently playing the game in my area.
   
Made in gb
Pious Warrior Priest




UK

They really should have just gotten Slyvain to sculpt the Deadzone Marauders from the start rather than having some other sculptor do them, and then leaving it to him to fix/ resculpt them.

Very capable sculptor.

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Dakka Veteran




 AlexHolker wrote:
 Yonan wrote:
But there's not much else Mantic can do to bring more cash to the KS I don't think, given the limited scope of the game.

Only because Mantic lacks vision. As I've said before, it would have been trivially easy to expand the scope of the miniatures, doubling the market just by adding one extra arm per sculpt.


Doubling the number of markets, but the board game market is way bigger than the miniature gaming market. And if they did alternate arms, then they wouldn't be pre-glued, and would less effectively serve the board gaming market that wants things ready to go out of the box.

It'd certainly be worth considering for Mantic to sell conversion hands at some point though.
   
Made in gb
Pious Warrior Priest




UK

Only 68 Frenzy pledge levels left, they're going quick.
   
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Oberstleutnant






Perth, West Australia

2081 backers, frenzy is looking good, time to drop the $140 spare pledge... and probably increase my $350 by that much in addons like shirts and Deadzone Crystallens : /

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Near Golden Daemon Caliber






Illinois

You so crazy! I did re-up to 140 after someone dropped their EB1 rampage. Unless I see something that I know I must have, I'll probably need to wait to add anything else for the survey. I know I'll *probably* want some more teams but I need to space the hit out further into this or next month than the KS close date.

This train has no breaks, the pacing is so much better than they got stuck with for Mars Attacks.

@yonan, ooooh you'd have to put the mat/pitch tiles/ whatever over the BS floor, but one could totally make a battle systems interior for the playing of DBX. Perhaps the inside of a prison/prison ship, or just the inside of a ship. Snap.

 
   
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Oberstleutnant






Perth, West Australia

Yes... yes we could do such a thing >:-)
   
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Fixture of Dakka







I ended up adding a T-Shirt and 20 dollars to my frenzy pledge. (Yes, I am fully aware of my 'rage' pledge level talk at the start of the campaign).

I figure the extra $20 will either be to pick up the 2 other dreadball giants I missed from the first kickstarter, or alternatively for the mars attacks team. - I imagine they're not going to be having actual printed rules though.
   
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Longtime Dakkanaut



Scotland

The convicts are fantastic, wish Sylvain sculpted it all at that quality.
   
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Dakka Veteran




London

I think the scenery add-on for $5 is a great deal - a fair few generic crates and boxes to either make a more dense game of Dreadball, or for skirmish games, and it'll give you enough additional strike posts to fully equip an original Dreadball pitch!
   
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Near Golden Daemon Caliber






Illinois

Yeah, I went nuts on the 5 dollar dead zone accessory sprues. They didn't manage to send most of them but... yeah good deal. Almost regret not packing in more mars attacks urban accessories sprues.

 
   
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[DCM]
Dankhold Troggoth






Shadeglass Maze

 Yonan wrote:
2081 backers, frenzy is looking good, time to drop the $140 spare pledge... and probably increase my $350 by that much in addons like shirts and Deadzone Crystallens : /

Are shirts and the like really such a big draw in campaigns like this? I don't think I've ever pledged for that type of item in miniatures kickstarters...
   
Made in gb
Fixture of Dakka







It's nice to turn up at an open day / tournament / gaming day / convention type thing in a relevant shirt.
   
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Fixture of Dakka






They were a good deal alright I ended up with 13 DZ accessory sprues although I've only got 2 so far, I'll have 8 MA ones bought mostly sight unseen as for $5 still worth it and I hope the chain link fence makes it on to the sprue as I should have 4 feet of it then. I'll probably pick up another 4 DBX crate sets in the survey and they did mention doing a second set if it gets far enough but i'm not sure that will happen.
   
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Oberstleutnant






Perth, West Australia

 RiTides wrote:
 Yonan wrote:
2081 backers, frenzy is looking good, time to drop the $140 spare pledge... and probably increase my $350 by that much in addons like shirts and Deadzone Crystallens : /

Are shirts and the like really such a big draw in campaigns like this? I don't think I've ever pledged for that type of item in miniatures kickstarters...

I've only recently started picking up a couple "nerdy" shirts. There are times where they're suitable to wear as Compel mentions. Or just whenever if that floats your boat, but I tend to save them for "relevant" occasions. Having a LAN? PC Polaris Blood Bowl tournament MVP "Lil Skittles" makes it rainbow!

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[DCM]
Dankhold Troggoth






Shadeglass Maze

Well that's just awesome I retract my semi-negative statement!

However, I guess I meant I don't really see kickstarters as the way I'd buy my nerd swag like T-shirts... since they'll be delayed along with whatever else I'm pledging for (or if not delayed, at least have a long lead time) even though they're really fast to make and obtain via any other avenue.

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Made in us
Fixture of Dakka






Akron, OH



Totally OT, but this is adorable and I'd wear it.

-Emily Whitehouse| On The Lamb Games
 
   
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Oberstleutnant






Perth, West Australia

Related note, the entire Polaris Blood Bowl tournament is available on their (Totalbiscuit, Crendor, Jesse Cox, Dodger etc) youtube channels, and they're running another tournament atm with 45 second turns which I'm enjoying too as it's much faster games. If Dreadball is your thing, PC based Blood Bowl might be too. I have the vids up on second monitor while I do other stuff. And damn straight lil' skittles is adorable, he's the skink that could!

I shouldn't say this, but this and this are nerd/geek/internet culture shirts I've been considering.... and now I've lost what little credibility I had.

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Loyal Necron Lychguard






Palm Beach, FL

Is Schnorkel the Avenger a reference to something?
   
 
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