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**lliu**

In the Sci-Fi modcube pic on the Kickstarter, are those Tyranids VS Space Marines?!

**Alpharius**

They are Troll Cast Alien Assimilation Counts As Tyranids vs. Dreamforge Leviathan (resin?) and then something else I can remember as the Counts As Marines (True Scale) - no GW miniatures were harmed in making that picture happen!

**weeble1000**

Anpu-adom wrote:
RiTides, I was thinking of printing sets at home... not in an industrial sense. My metal straight edge and X-acto knife would serve for the scale I was thinking about.
For many of the homebrewers, all you would need would be to produce a template in the 0.44x 0.44 size with cutting marks.

There are a few game piece producers online:
https://www.thegamecrafter.com/
http://www.printplaygames.com/

I expect that the easiest thing to do would be to print out your tokens on paper and put them on top of an acrylic Mod Cube insert. In other words, just cover up your vehicle tokens, for example, with whatever temporary tokens you need.

Edit: Lol, already suggested.

**Theophony**

$21,004. Stretch goal achieved.

Flawless Victory (commence mortal combat music)

**RiTides**

Yes it is, I'm very excited

. The next stretch goal is $22,500, and which set (and new color!) it will unlock will be revealed Monday morning! After I put together the results from the poll

(which will be posted in the update, so people can see exactly how the voting shaked out).

**Solar_lion**

Congrats

**RiTides**

New update is up, double stretch goal unlock!

Double stretch goal unlock, pics of 2 new sets!

We made fantastic progress over the weekend, and unlocked the next stretch goal before I could even reveal the poll results! So, I'll both show the new unlocked sets, then the poll results at the bottom =). Here's the two stretch goals we just unlocked:

$21,000 - Token set compatible with Malifaux - UNLOCKED!
$22,500 - Game Creator set, plus a new red color - UNLOCKED!

And some pics below! Note that both of these have just been finished, and if you have feedback on any of the token designs (or ratios in the set) we'd love to hear it!

Important note! There will be the option to select just a "Poison and Burning set" compatible with Malifaux in the poll, since these can get numbered so high and quite a few people requested it. We'll try to get up some pictures of that later! The base set will include enough tokens for two "poison cubes" (1 - 6) and one "burning cube" (1 - 6). If you run a gang that uses tons of poison, you may want to get the dedicated set for it.

In the Game Creator Set, there are six images numbered 1 - 6 with circles, and six images numbered 1 - 6 with diamonds. The final two images have question marks instead of a number inside their corner symbols (the corner symbols may be moved in just slightly from these pics). This way, you could assign values to these various images, and also use them as numbers or "suits". Let us know what you think!

Finally, here's the unlocked color that goes along with the Game Creator Set stretch goal we achieved - it's the red on the left of the image, Pantone 185C. Below it are the poll results showing how Red won by a landslide!

As you can see, the Game Creator Set ran away with the poll, so we were able to get started on it as this became clear very early! Our next two stretch goals are now locked in as:

$24,000 - Token set compatible with SW: Armada, plus military green ModCubes!
$25,500 - SciFi Mysterious Objective token set, plus grey ModCubes!

We'll also be going with a lighter blue based on the last image from the poll (the pie chart). Thanks for your amazing support, and if you have any questions or comments, please don't hesitate to post in the comments below or send us a private message.

**Vanguard-13**

Awesome update! keep up the great work! I hope we hit those gray cubes! I would love to see those.

**RiTides**

Thanks, Vanguard! The local Malifaux group really likes the way the Malifaux set turned out

I'd love to get feedback on the Game Creator set - I went this route because then people have the maximum amount of possible uses for these (with an image, a number, and a "suit" of circle or diamond on each). They would probably need to create a key if they wanted to use the symbols, but that would be true of any symbol.

I did consider going slightly more generic on the symbols, with just like a shield or a heart, but that's going to vary depending on what people wanted to use them for, so I went with what I though was a cool mix of art that could be useable for a variety of things (leaving off the rightmost two "?" images for a game that isn't scifi, but the rest can go either way, I think).

Let me know what you think, and if you have any suggestions I am very open to tweaking the set! Of if you like them as-is that's useful to hear, too

Edit: One suggestion I just got was to split the game creator set by theme, and have one that is what you would expect for fantasy symbols (shield, sword, fireball, etc) and one for scifi.

**Vanguard-13**

I think the limitless ability to make any type of tile is awesome. but At some point you have to limit yourself RiTides.

I know you spoke about letting other companies produce tiles for this. Don't try to do every tile set, Leave some for others to make.

I think a game creator set is an awesome idea. I like it because I can now turn these into actual D6's for use in other games. Personally I would make the game creator set a generic set, Mix in the fireballs, Swords, Guns, etc. Splitting the set into two may be a good idea, but I am curious if your single laser is going to be able to push out the production.

Otherwise, I think things are going great. What about a blank set? Something we can write on with wet / dry erase marker? With the ridges of the cube, they shouldn't wipe off to easily as long as you touch the edges.

Edit: I didn't mean to come off aggressively, just had to type that up quick.

**RiTides**

That's very wise of you Vanguard, and I will take that advice! I think I'll just keep it to a single set, but choose tokens that are more useable for a wide variety of things, rather than things like that cute alien

which look awesome, but can only really represent one thing.

I do have a blank set as one of the offerings, but I need to test it to see how well dry erase works on it - you're right that the recessed faces should really help keep it safer than it would be otherwise, but it will need a very fine tipped dry-erase marker to work well (I have some that I can try).

**Cyporiean**

ya know Tides, you're already half way to having tokens for an EFT set.

Blind - Infinite
Burn - Malifaux
Poison - Malifaux
Just need Fear, Sleep, and Stop tokens, and maybe a few dry erase blanks.

**RiTides**

I've already got a perfect one for Stop too, so even closer! I probably wouldn't get to it during the campaign (Vanguard's advice... must remember!) but that would be that kind of thing that's absolutely perfect to offer up for purchase at retail / on the website in the fall

They'd look very nice in use on your demo board, too - I'd be happy to send you a set early to try out and see what ratio of tokens would make sense in the set, although again probably once the campaign here finishes due to all the madness that's going on currently!

**overtyrant**

Have you got a brilliance insert for mallifaux? Hmm was hoping warmahordes was going to get in on the project, hopefully it does but I may have to drop to one set if it doesn't ☹

**RiTides**

Given how much time is left, I think Warmahordes is extremely likely, overtyrant. There's only 3 things in front of it: SW Armada, SciFi Mysterious Objectives, and SW Imperial Assault. It almost edged out that last one in the poll - came down to just a single vote!

Regarding Brilliance, could you describe to me what that does for Malifaux / what it represents? It might be best to post that suggestion here in the Malifaux thread, as I didn't get that as a suggestion there or from my local Malifaux group, so I'd like to see what others think about it. I'm not a Malifaux player myself yet, so I'm relying on the experts here!

**Ozymandias**

Ok, the Malifaux set got me. Backed!

**RiTides**

Fantastic, Ozymandias! You did so just in time to subject yourself to this

Suffice to say we had no idea they'd be doing this when we sent a sample over to the UK

but it looks like it's helping keep that peace in that unruly gaming club

**Jehan-reznor**

Sorry have to wait until they hit retail i hope there will be black versions because i want to use them for BGF(Battle fleet Gothic)

**Vanguard-13**

RiTides. That video cracked me up. I still can't tell if they were supporting the cube or making fun of it.

Still it was fun to watch!

**B0B MaRlEy**

How could I resist a product with such an ad?

**RiTides**

Jehan - I am very happy for folks to wait until retail too, I'd love to sell them to you via the website (or in some local stores) then

Vanguard - I know, right? Loved it

B0b MaRlEy - Haha, awesome! And while I know no one actually uses a banana to mark Jink, it does show all the funny things gamers do to mark statuses, that these can help simplify a bit!

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

Of course nobody uses a banana to mark jink,

they use bananas to mark functional void shield generators (and eat them when they get knocked out)

everybody knows that

**RiTides**

That actually makes more sense since the void shield generator model doesn't exist anymore!

**Vanguard-13**

I've heard rumors of a new Void Shield Generator in the works from GW.

Making a custom one is on my list of stuff to do XD

**Talking Banana**

Looks like Mantic's Deadzone won't be getting a dedicated set, but will any of the other Modcube sets work reasonably well with it anyway?

**angelofvengeance**

Vermonter wrote:
Looks like Mantic's Deadzone won't be getting a dedicated set, but will any of the other Modcube sets work reasonably well with it anyway?

Don't really need a set for them since you get all the tokens with the game and the acrylic set is pretty cheap as it is anyways.

**Theophony**

angelofvengeance wrote:
Vermonter wrote:
Looks like Mantic's Deadzone won't be getting a dedicated set, but will any of the other Modcube sets work reasonably well with it anyway?

Don't really need a set for them since you get all the tokens with the game and the acrylic set is pretty cheap as it is anyways.

But they're not cubes

**Vanguard-13**

Theophony wrote:
angelofvengeance wrote:
Vermonter wrote:
Looks like Mantic's Deadzone won't be getting a dedicated set, but will any of the other Modcube sets work reasonably well with it anyway?

Don't really need a set for them since you get all the tokens with the game and the acrylic set is pretty cheap as it is anyways.

But they're not cubes

There may be sets in the future.

Remember, RiTides will be making tiles as he likes.

And he is allowing other companies to make tiles for the Mod Cube as well. Given enough time there will be Tokens for all systems.

**Theophony**

Vanguard-13 wrote:
Theophony wrote:
angelofvengeance wrote:
Vermonter wrote:
Looks like Mantic's Deadzone won't be getting a dedicated set, but will any of the other Modcube sets work reasonably well with it anyway?

Don't really need a set for them since you get all the tokens with the game and the acrylic set is pretty cheap as it is anyways.

But they're not cubes

There may be sets in the future.

Remember, RiTides will be making tiles as he likes.

And he is allowing other companies to make tiles for the Mod Cube as well. Given enough time there will be Tokens for all systems.

**Vanguard-13**

I sure hope so!