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 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
I disagree. I think they look decent for board game pieces. Hopefully there's a few more odds and ends that aren't on display there as well. Need more heads!

I will concede the integrated bases though. At this point though, I pretty much expect every Dreadball figure to have them so as to facilitate using the hex bases.

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Have they confirmed that the 'Plague" shrinks your legs/elongates your torso then?

These really are some awful looking miniatures.

 Alpharius wrote:
These really are some awful looking miniatures.

I have to agree. The Plague zombies are great, the 1st Gen is great, but the 3rd gens, whose basic body type these mutants follow, were a huge mistake. I'll be getting these as part of my Dreadball Xtreme pledge fulfillment, but I won't be building them as intended. I hold out hope that some of the limbs and heads will be useful for converting other minis.

Too bad; most of the sculpts that have come out of DBX have been wonderful.

Wasn't planning on playing Mutants anyhow. Thought they were a sketchy idea from the start.

Sad the Crystallans got bumped all the way back to Season 6. Not sure how much "quality" substance Season 5 is gonna bring. We'll have to see.

I don't think it's as much of a problem Mantic tries to update all these systems at the same time, BUT the fact they have one guy tinkering with all the rule sets is a problem. There really is no reason DBX and DBO shouldn't have their own lead designer seperate from all the other games at this point.

Jake has put up Beta rules for some of the new teams on his blog - http://quirkworthy.com/

Crystallans - https://quirkworthy.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/crystallans.pdf

Mechanites - https://quirkworthy.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/mechanites.pdf
There's a lot involved in building Mechanites!

Koris - https://quirkworthy.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/koris.pdf

Do we know when the second survey goes out? I'd like to get a set of those energy dudes after seeing the MVP version.

Is there going to be a second survey? I thought they had mentioned it, but that was also before their switch in pledge manager systems as well.

Unless they go with the other company's PM rather than their own.

I want the energy and rock guys. Maybe some hobgoblins too.

Then give them all guns and let them shoot each other up in a Deadzone.

It's in update #57

The other thing it means is that there will be a second survey early next year as well - so you'll get a second bite of the cherry and the great Kickstarter prices!

That said things have changed since that update. That was before split shipping into 3 waves. They now have their own pledge manager where as DBX was done through PledgeManager (the same one used by Mercs) so they will either have to build a new admittedly smaller PM using their new system or pay PledgeManager for the use of theirs again one costs time and one costs money so it's wait and see time but with DBX wave 3 still on course to ship in May it's looking less likely that there will be a second PM.

Here's the Ada-Lorena rules
https://quirkworthy.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/ada-lorana-v2.pdf

Woof, robot team doesn't look bad, but nothing close to good. I want my dollar back :(

A picture of the Sho-Juun sponsor has surfaced:

Not bad, thanks for sharing

He kind of needs a light saber or something.

Is that a...

...Rage Fist®™?!?

Looks like he's just flipped the table after getting frustrated at waiting for the DBX KS fulfillment.

Clearly he's mad because he would have gotten away with it if not for those meddling kids and their dog.


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Wait--what are those things in the background? I want those!

Those would be the Koris. They were in yesterday's backer update. Dunno if this link will work for ya

https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/assets/003/828/827/2dfd69ba657cad48f67d800491abc03a_original.jpg?v=1432142734&w=700&h=&fit=max&auto=format&q=92&s=331021b48024bf9d269d9fda33a2422d

Those things are frightening. I hope they end up in Warpath.

They're Zee sized, though.

The Koris aren't Zee sized you can see them in the image above with Sho-Juun.

The Tsudochan MVP is Zee sized but it's not clear if they all are as we haven't seen the final miniatures next to other miniatures yet to establish their size.

The Koris MVP Slartibartfast (or whatever his name is) is about standard humanoid size as well.

I'd love to see a Koris force in Warpath, particularly with more weird beasties from whatever alternate dimension they originate from, but I doubt we'll ever see it, even in metal. Mantic won't do a number of off-the-beaten path sculpts in hard plastic because of the economics, so we get them in restic, or metal, or resin, or not at all. This is supposed to be practical.

So here's what I don't understand: if the economics of doing weird, limited interest models in hard plastic is completely unfeasible, how does Wyrd / Malifaux exist at all? I just bought and assembled a Razorspine Rattler, which will make a wonderful Plague beastie, the kind Mantic would never dream of releasing in hard plastic. I mean, there was no way they were ever going to make the Aberration, for example, in hard plastic, and I doubt we'll even see hard plastic 1st Gens. Hard plastic 2nd gens aren't exactly a given either at this point, though since they're willing to do not-Rat Ogres in hp, maybe they'll surprise us.

And the Razorspine is arguably one of Wyrd's less out-there sculpts (how many gamers are dying to buy hard plastic Cajun Bayou gremlins?) Mantic say it can't be done, Wyrd goes out and does it beyond the pale on a regular basis, making dozens of high quality, hard plastic minis that have little to no application outside of their own very niche game system. Is Malifaux really that much more popular? Is Wyrd about to go bankrupt, or is Mantic being too conservative?

I dunno man, I dunno. What I *do* know, is that I want my Koris ASAP. I'm ok with some specialists being in restic. You'll probably have less pull with the 40k crowd if you aren't 100% HP all the time, but I still think small units of specialists would be fine in restic, especially ogre sized stuff as the material works better there.

Also:

Dropship.

It seems like the panel lines get deeper with every render. Next iteration will look like a badass Rubik's Cube.