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Yeah, it literally looks like they stuck a shark in a big powered suit.

It's ridiculous in all the right ways for me at least.

Street shark of the future.

 Gallahad wrote:


I think it is disappointing, and will hurt the sales for the kit in the broader community a bit, but won't stop me from picking up the set at retail at some point.

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Really? I would think the broader community wouldn't care as much as the peanut gallery on the Internet. People will see big chunky badass Sci Troopers and buy a couple of boxes.

 RobertsMinis wrote:

 Gallahad wrote:
I think it is disappointing, and will hurt the sales for the kit in the broader community a bit, but won't stop me from picking up the set at retail at some point.

Really? I would think the broader community wouldn't care as much as the peanut gallery on the Internet. People will see big chunky badass Sci Troopers and buy a couple of boxes.

You don't think the broader community likes converting miniatures?

Is that shark thing actually a miniature in the game?!

If so, it's come late, but that has to be a leading candidate for miniature of 2014

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
Yeah, it literally looks like they stuck a shark in a big powered suit.

It's ridiculous in all the right ways for me at least.

Street shark of the future.

I'm not gonna lie. I want that mini. It reminds me of my favorite Battle Beast.

So, is there any one place where we can see pics of all the DBX minis?

No, but the new mission control page has everything finished so far that isn't in the base box.

http://www.manticgames.com/kickstarter/Mission-Control/DreadBall-Xtreme-Shipping.html

Hopefully someone can post photos of the actual miniatures from the base box - I'm actually quite impressed with them, although the slender true scale 28mm Asterians end up feeling tiny.

So have there been any updates from Mantic on when they might send W3 out? Because it's now mid-December, and with Christmas and such, it's feeling like they might be about to pull a "we started shipping in December" by getting one box out the door on New Year's Eve.

The latest update also had a picture of Schnorkel, Irsala and Grak - is that a Spogre with proper scaled legs!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1744629938/dreadball-xtreme/posts/1082162

Grak looks very nice cannot remember his fluff but he looks nice enough that I would not mind a faction for his race in warpath.

Those dreadball minis look great in all the right over the top, SciFi ways. Did they make a not-zoidberg?

 agnosto wrote:
Those dreadball minis look great in all the right over the top, SciFi ways.

Hey! No positive comments about Mantic products from you!

What race was Grak supposed to be?

He looks big, but not as big as the Ogre guys from the hobgoblin team. Plus his legs looks like they're more in proportion to the rest of his body.

Can't really fault Dreadball for its variety of cantina- like hodge podge of alien races.

I thought he was just a marauder or something, time to go dig through the updates I guess.

Grak is a Space Ogre (or Spogre for short). The Hobgoblin Guard is a Hulk

Where does it say space ogre though?

All I could find was

Grak the undisputed champion of the Furon arena, a hulking, dogged character that has spent his entire life playing for his Tsudochan task-maskers. In the arena, whether that’s the Furon games or the Tsudochan shipping him off to play on whatever backwater world is prepared to pay for his services, Grak is renowned for his immense strength, fully capable of picking up opposing players and hurling them across the pitch as if they were naught but a DreadBall...

But definitely not a marauder, that was Brickbat.

Somewhere in the comments I have a hazy recollection of it but I'm not digging through that lot again

Mission Control has a picture of Galdo - I prefer him to the regular DZ Kraaw I might swap on a set of undamaged wings and use him in DZ instead.

 Vermonter wrote:

 agnosto wrote:
Those dreadball minis look great in all the right over the top, SciFi ways.

Hey! No positive comments about Mantic products from you!

Hey, I don't hate everything that they do, I just thing their a group of well-meaning but largely incompetent people, in the business sense. For me, they're more miss than hit right now but maybe in 5-10years they'll be better at not hurting themselves...maybe some therapy in the form of hiring a real business manager would help them improve faster.

OT I like that Geldo too, put that on a plastic frame with weapon options and you have a better looking vespid than GW's.

 DaveC wrote:

Now those are some nice looking miniatures!

I was getting worried there for a bit - it was almost as if Mantic had jumped the shark...

I'll be getting that Properly Proportioned Space Ogre so that Mantic can see how well Ogres with legs will sell.

I like how schnorkel or w/e turned out. And Grak is cool, too bad he wasn't included in Rampage. I may have to get him at retail.

All the alien races in DB allow Mantic to make some truly awesome mercenary units for Warpath if they choose to, a la Warmachine. That shark in particular. It's gone so far into silly it approached awesome from the other side.

When can I buy the shark and green cephlapod dude?

Well mission control suggests Schnorkel or w/e will be in the second wave which is apparently in January (but I wonder...), but San-Gar (shark giant) looks more like wave 3 potentially in April or better.

And that's out to backers, not necessarily retail. But maybe gives you a bit of an idea.

The Saan-Gar (Shark) is wave 3 of the KS rumoured to be May/June to backers (some of wave 3 is still in design so it hasn't even hit production yet plus CNY and all that) so add 2 or 3 months for retail, Schnorkel is wave 2 in January so again add 2 or 3 months.

It's very true about some of these designs they've gone so over the top crazy with some them but it worked out great. Again their Sci-Fi stuff just seems to work out so much better than the fantasy stuff.

Awesome, Can't wait to get em. I love this route Mantic is going down. I am getting excited to see what Deadzone 2.0, then Warpath 2.0 Have in store for us. XD

I feel like this needs repeating in light of recent miniatures

new-cartoon style Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
http://mywayminiatures.com/catalog/creatures

Honestly, the biggest vibe I get from that power armored shark is the old Battle Beasts toys, in all the best ways possible. I will absolutely be picking one up in the near future, as I can't imagine a better not-teraton

I know the sculptor that made those turtles. the guy does amazing work.

 DaveC wrote:
The latest update also had a picture of Schnorkel, Irsala and Grak - is that a Spogre with proper scaled legs!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1744629938/dreadball-xtreme/posts/1082162

Spoiler:

I have to say - all three of those look really nice. The excellent paint obviously doesn't hurt, but the actual figures have turned out great. What material are those in?

 Azazelx wrote:

 DaveC wrote:
The latest update also had a picture of Schnorkel, Irsala and Grak - is that a Spogre with proper scaled legs!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1744629938/dreadball-xtreme/posts/1082162

Spoiler:

I have to say - all three of those look really nice. The excellent paint obviously doesn't hurt, but the actual figures have turned out great. What material are those in?

I believe that there boardgame plastic the same as the mvp's in the wave 1 package.

I wonder if those ones shown are resin masters rather than production boardgame PVC?

Mission control says Grak and Schnorkel are in transit, and if that's Israla so is she.

If they're painted though, they're probably still masters.

If the eyes come out that well on squidlady and spoger in BGplastic, I'll be well pleased. If I have any complaints about some of the MA stuff it's weak facial features on some of the humans.