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 Azazelx wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:

H.B.M.C. one upped you on RK - he pulled his pledge AFTER they collected it!

How did he manage that?

Lets just say that CMON learned a valuable lesson about securing ventilation shafts...

 Krinsath wrote:
He's magical like that.
I'd really like to back this, having all of the current SDE stuff available at retail, but SPM's track record makes me very leery of doing so. I'll probably pass until it's at retail unless there's some sort of fantastical deal offered.
I guess you could say that SPM might have to start in damage control mode (just to complete all the KS Dakkamemes).

Well, it does seems that 100% of the project is already 80% complete!

 Azazelx wrote:
Well, it does seems that 100% of the project is already 80% complete!

Congratulations, you have now turned into Paul Rudd in my mind.

 Dentry wrote:

 Azazelx wrote:
Well, it does seems that 100% of the project is already 80% complete!

Congratulations, you have now turned into Paul Rudd in my mind.

Hey, 50% of the time we're right all the time!

Got some info on the KS, all paraphrased:

1. Production already has a scheduling slot locked up.
2. SPM has a definitive "end" to their stretch goals; this should help avoid over reaching and causing delays due to that.
3. Masters of models are done, but no tooling is.
4. Going to be expansion of the SDE "fluff" world.

#1 and #2 are incredibly reassuring to me.

#3 is to be expected as they're funding this solo, and isn't super concerning, especially since they already have a production time slot locked up.

All in all, the new info is a good thing, and I wanted to make sure I shared it.

I tried to pry the start day out, but was playfully rebuked.

Thanks for the info, cincy!

Do more prying cin. Find out of the RK SDE's are going to MIA for this KS.

OMG!

A little liquor will loosen those lips right up. Just invite them out to drinks.

 cincydooley wrote:
Got some info on the KS, all paraphrased:

1. Production already has a scheduling slot locked up.
2. SPM has a definitive "end" to their stretch goals; this should help avoid over reaching and causing delays due to that.
3. Masters of models are done, but no tooling is.
4. Going to be expansion of the SDE "fluff" world.

#1 and #2 are incredibly reassuring to me.

#3 is to be expected as they're funding this solo, and isn't super concerning, especially since they already have a production time slot locked up.

All in all, the new info is a good thing, and I wanted to make sure I shared it.

I tried to pry the start day out, but was playfully rebuked.

#1 was true for Robotech and they're now 6-8 months behind schedule (and counting). As for #3, the KS was ready enough to begin manufacturing within 40 days of the end of it supposedly and yet here we are over 300 days after that claim was made and not a single mold has been made yet. Don't believe ANYTHING soda pop has to say until they post pics of the progress.

 warboss wrote:


#1 was true for Robotech and they're now 6-8 months behind schedule (and counting). As for #3, the KS was ready enough to begin manufacturing within 40 days of the end of it supposedly and yet here we are over 300 days after that claim was made and not a single mold has been made yet. Don't believe ANYTHING soda pop has to say until they post pics of the progress.

I've seen the masters of every model that I know is going to be in Forgotten King (based on playtesting), so that's one I'm solid on. You're right that #1 could be an issue, but if it's scheduled and the masters are done, then it SHOULD be less of an issue.

I'm still cautiously optimistic, but the information I got definitely made me feel significantly better.

Any info on whether they will distribute from europe as well?
How did they do this for other kickstarters CMON was not involved in?

 Nicktor wrote:
Any info on whether they will distribute from europe as well?
How did they do this for other kickstarters CMON was not involved in?

No idea; I didn't back the card game so I'm not real sure.

Any more news on RK shipping out as it's been a while sine last update, or is this going to be, we ran out of money and need another KS to pay for the first?

I wonder how much they're going to charge.

100 at least seems to be about the going rate for a mini heavy game.

Considering I just found I've got another nice little treasure trove of old video games I can sell, I may as well jump in on this one.

I hope we end up seeing more than 5 heroes and a nice pile of extra minions.

Someone had a cool idea of turning those new minibosses into heroes as well. It's just one card after all- make it a KS exclusive or something and turn the herald and succubus into good guys!

At least I know with SDE that my heroes will handle a bit differently from each other compared to Arcadia.

Another cool suggestion I saw mentioned that I hope SodaPop considers is making add on tiles that fit the look of Roxxor and Von Drakk (especially this one). Variety is the spice of life, is it not?

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
I wonder how much they're going to charge.

100 at least seems to be about the going rate for a mini heavy game.

Considering I just found I've got another nice little treasure trove of old video games I can sell, I may as well jump in on this one.

I hope we end up seeing more than 5 heroes and a nice pile of extra minions.

Someone had a cool idea of turning those new minibosses into heroes as well. It's just one card after all- make it a KS exclusive or something and turn the herald and succubus into good guys!

At least I know with SDE that my heroes will handle a bit differently from each other compared to Arcadia.

Another cool suggestion I saw mentioned that I hope SodaPop considers is making add on tiles that fit the look of Roxxor and Von Drakk (especially this one). Variety is the spice of life, is it not?

Except they've already charted all of their stretch goals, and have limited the scope of their KS. Plus, all the new SDE pieces are going to be pre-assembled. So it will be very interesting to see exactly what they are going to offer to entice people to spend FLGS money on a box game on a KS, as they've pre-loaded us to expect a finite amount of stretch goals adding value to their product. Interesting indeed.

Well if they can put together some sort of decent shipping option just being able to get hold of this is a timely fashion would be attractive to me here in the UK (it seems to have taken an age for the sets to turn up previously)

but whether they will be able to do so?

but without significant extras FK as new (smaller in terms of figure numbers) starter would probably struggle to attract huge numbers at $100 when you could be fairly confident of picking it up for $80 or less at an online discounter

Yeah, after ready what Cincy put, it is going to be an interesting campaign.

There's also the elephant in the room- CMON's Arcadia (if they both happen to overlap).

Somehow I don't think CMON is going to sit idly by and let people pull their funds and switch to a different campaign.

I wouldn't be surprised if they pull out something big and fancy for that game to entice people to stay. Hell, with all the other mini games coming up, I wouldn't be surprised if CMON does that anyway.

I guess one option might be to offer the existing stuff at a decent discount as add ons

ks and completionist tend to go together

I'm guessing they may have bought out the existing stock from CMON (otherwise they risk CMON dumping it cheap risking people thinking of it as a dead game just when they can least afford this happening).... and they won't really want to sell boxes with a now defunct publishing tie up at retail

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
Yeah, after ready what Cincy put, it is going to be an interesting campaign.

There's also the elephant in the room- CMON's Arcadia (if they both happen to overlap).

Somehow I don't think CMON is going to sit idly by and let people pull their funds and switch to a different campaign.

I wouldn't be surprised if they pull out something big and fancy for that game to entice people to stay. Hell, with all the other mini games coming up, I wouldn't be surprised if CMON does that anyway.

Well, SDE has an uphill battle, as AQ has some awesome 3D counters in place of the punch out card counters. Plus, with 2 buy for $10 heroes, it brings the hero total up to 20 I believe.

And while SPM can offer the old stuff from SDE, as Orlando pointed out, it won't be to much of any gain...with a fixed number of stretch goals, raising more money doesn't then add anything to the campaign. That will probably turn away some backers. I hope their stretch goals are smoking good, and plentiful. I don't hold out much hope for either.

 Salacious Greed wrote:


Well, SDE has an uphill battle, as AQ has some awesome 3D counters in place of the punch out card counters. Plus, with 2 buy for $10 heroes, it brings the hero total up to 20 I believe.

Yeah, downgrade of Rattlebones and bone tokens say Hi :( People wanted 3D bone tokens like the shells from roxor like mad.

AQs tokens are spot on. We play a dungeon party game which calls for coins, skulls, life tokens and these fit the bill and will make appearances in other games... The expectation for 'tokens' has been upgraded. I hope to see a 3D potion token in some form.

SDE might be OK if the rumored 'boring' feel or Arcadia pans out to be true?

As well as this one having a co-op mode?

 cincydooley wrote:

I tried to pry the start day out, but was playfully rebuked.

Working the other way, I've confirmed it will end in April, which is good as our next one will likely be in May.

The power of Dakka always gets results!

Did they give the KS a launch date? or is it just going to be "whenever it's the last 2 days for AQ" ?

Miniature Market has the SDE Kaelly the Nether Strider. So no stretch goal on that...

So they do.. and..heh. Not on the SPM store I see. Guess that means I shall have to decide between ordering a single figure from the US and sucking up the shipping charge that's going to be more than the figure.. or hold out to see if Wayland gets a few of them in.

Ho hum.

Valiant games have got all of the recent SDE promos so you should be able to get it from them soon.

The promos might turn up as paid add ons in the KS anyway time will tell.

They're due to have Relic Knights production complete mid april,

so if this begins mid march as the press release said it will be over before anybody sees anything
(which isn't going to help)

 DaveC wrote:
Valiant games have got all of the recent SDE promos so you should be able to get it from them soon.

The promos might turn up as paid add ons in the KS anyway time will tell.

Oh nice, and I see they carry Ravage too. Cheers for the tip!

 Salacious Greed wrote:
Miniature Market has the SDE Kaelly the Nether Strider. So no stretch goal on that...

Yep - ordered mine the other day. Though I strongly expect we'll see her and Nyan Nyan and the other "singles" as optional add-ons/pledge boosters in the campaign.