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Well, now I know what I can use as a proxy for Gobogeg!

 Alpharius wrote:
Did the Pledge Manager for this one launch yet?

I was hoping to up from $1 to...quite a bit when it did, but now I'm not sure if I missed it or didn't get an invite or...something else.

No apparently its now the standard for every company to be shocked how difficult it is to make a pledge manager and have to employ someone to do it.

or I guess they could just get someone to fill in a spread sheet with what people want over a few weeks....

Fundafull?

With how much money KS makes off board games, you'd think they'd build a pledge manager into KS...

 JohnHwangDD wrote:
Fundafull?

With how much money KS makes off board games, you'd think they'd build a pledge manager into KS...

I'm pretty sure they do- it's just very simple. Also you can't add money to your pledge.

You would have thought someone would have kickstarted a compaign to make a generic kickstarter pledge manager full of bells and whistles

 Mr Morden wrote:
You would have thought someone would have kickstarted a compaign to make a generic kickstarter pledge manager full of bells and whistles

Such things already exist, like Backerkit and Pledgemanager.

Any idea on what costs are associated with using them?

And do those costs scale with the number of users...using them?

And do they also ask for a slice of the add on money too?

It seems Backerkit is 1% of your campaign takings, plus 5% of anything extra added during the backerkit phase of the project.

At $3 million, well, I can see why someone might try to do it themselves!

That's $30,000 + 5% of whatever gets added - and here I'd think that total would be significant!

So easily $80K+ to use it for them - ouch!

Yep. I wish I'd thought of it :/

Send them to Kenny at Skykadia,

he's done many complex pledge managers for Impact Miniatures etc and is much cheaper than backerkit et al

You should let them know - it might be very helpful to them!

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
Send them to Kenny at Skykadia,

he's done many complex pledge managers for Impact Miniatures etc and is much cheaper than backerkit et al

He did the Creature Caster one too. Great guy!

So the PM comes out July 25th.

In the meantime we get to watch all the hilarity in the comments section with people gakking themselves about Monolith allowing late pledging via PM

These folks obviously never backed a CMON or Mantic project...

As long as late backers pay a few bucks more, I think it should be OK...

I'd think it should really just be 'as long as they pay', period.

Make late backers end up paying the cost of the pledge manager. Problem solved!

So originally I backed for king plus one of each of the kickstarter only boxes, campaign book and a second box of black guard (since one scenario requires 10 of them from what I heard). But now I'm wondering if I should just go king + barbarian and skip the extras. The not red Sonja didn't look right to me, wolves can be bought later, the campaign rules will wind up on line and the sabertooth tiger looks disneyish. I looked at that and it's well over 300 figure , over 400 if you count all the tables, benches, chests and furniture as single pieces and as "figures". Plus that will give me a second storage box special to keep them in. Do you think that's over kill? Or do you guys suggest getting the exclusives even though they aren't that great.

I'm only in for the base game and bonuses, so I think that's plenty enough. I'm gotten much better about not needing to complete.

 Alpharius wrote:
I'd think it should really just be 'as long as they pay', period.

Agree.

I'll never understand the, "they should pay more" attitude.

 cincydooley wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:
I'd think it should really just be 'as long as they pay', period.

Agree.

I'll never understand the, "they should pay more" attitude.

Oh I think a nominal $1 late fee should be charged. After all most KS allow the token $1 pledge to be boosted later, but not even tossing the dollar in to begin with??? Though I've skipped some that I wish I hadn't because I didn't have the spare $1 to put down at the time.

 Theophony wrote:
So originally I backed for king plus one of each of the kickstarter only boxes, campaign book and a second box of black guard (since one scenario requires 10 of them from what I heard). But now I'm wondering if I should just go king + barbarian and skip the extras. The not red Sonja didn't look right to me, wolves can be bought later, the campaign rules will wind up on line and the sabertooth tiger looks disneyish. I looked at that and it's well over 300 figure , over 400 if you count all the tables, benches, chests and furniture as single pieces and as "figures". Plus that will give me a second storage box special to keep them in. Do you think that's over kill? Or do you guys suggest getting the exclusives even though they aren't that great.

I'm going to stick at $300 with shipping (which is pretty much king and exclusive minis, campaign book and a few non exclusive minis) and just get what I need for the campaign based scenarios since that is the only real games id probably play with this game. However where do you find out what models you need for the campaigns?

i actually hope there is a huge amount of late pledgers to this game because it would only ensure that this game receives several more expansions and minis for release. The whole entitlement for pledging is kinda absurd considering there is very little risk with kickstarters and most of the early bird pledgers get a discount regardless.

I think I've decided to get the king pledge and the kickstarter exclusive items and a second set of the black guard. Going king and barbarian would just get so many more duplicates and I could use each map on a single side, but I think between this, Blood rage and Zombicide bp I'm set for figures till....forever.

As for what figures you will need for each campaign I don't think they have a list out there just yet, but they mentioned during the campaign that one adventure would require Conan, his guard captain and 10 of the blackguard.

Did anything ever come of the early suggestions that the heroes might be made available in resin?

I only saw people asking for resin, but those requests were turned down pretty quick due to the expected sales volumes.

 Theophony wrote:
I think I've decided to get the king pledge and the kickstarter exclusive items and a second set of the black guard. Going king and barbarian would just get so many more duplicates and I could use each map on a single side, but I think between this, Blood rage and Zombicide bp I'm set for figures till....forever.

As for what figures you will need for each campaign I don't think they have a list out there just yet, but they mentioned during the campaign that one adventure would require Conan, his guard captain and 10 of the blackguard.

Did they ever post that list of what figures you'd need to do all the missions?

Because the Pledge Manager for this one is now open - and man is it expensive if you want 'everything'...

 Alpharius wrote:

 Theophony wrote:
I think I've decided to get the king pledge and the kickstarter exclusive items and a second set of the black guard. Going king and barbarian would just get so many more duplicates and I could use each map on a single side, but I think between this, Blood rage and Zombicide bp I'm set for figures till....forever.

As for what figures you will need for each campaign I don't think they have a list out there just yet, but they mentioned during the campaign that one adventure would require Conan, his guard captain and 10 of the blackguard.

Did they ever post that list of what figures you'd need to do all the missions?

Because the Pledge Manager for this one is now open - and man is it expensive if you want 'everything'...

I'm probably going to just pick up the boxed expansions and a few of the single characters. There is way too much stuff to go all in on this one.

 Alpharius wrote:
Did they ever post that list of what figures you'd need to do all the missions?

Because the Pledge Manager for this one is now open - and man is it expensive if you want 'everything'...

Ask in the Comments and Updates!

For me, I'm getting the Game and ignoring the expensive expansions. Maybe $20 worth of adders. But really, I think there will be more than enough gameplay in the base game and SGs unlocked.

Same ditto. I also believe that the simpler your order (ie. no add-ons) the less likely your order will run into problems.

OTOH, If you plan to do nothing but play Conan for the next few years, keep buying!

We went big on a bunch of other games (KD:M, SDE:FK, J:WoD, etc), so Conan came in where we were closing in on saturation point.

I just hope they focus on getting the base box (only) out for Wave 1 - if they can do that, the pressure comes off the expansions and other adders.