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I want a stat compilation in the books as well as cards.

Hopefully that doggie gets a little longer legs.

I for one love the DOG drone.

The little doggy looks quite cool, I kinda imagine it waddling along with the peacekeepers.

 CptJake wrote:
That drone is awful. With so many real world designs being deployed and tested as examples of what really works, to go with legs like that is just bad.

Whoa? I love the dog design! very modern but not to the point of IP infringing, giveing the scale the actural leg detail won't be curcial. Check out Boston Dyanmics for real life examples.

I think the dog looks pretty stupid too.. and that one guy's waist.. someone get him a cheeseburger already..

That's the female torso hence the thinner waist

today's blog has a new image

My first thought upon seeing the DOG drone: "Has Sir Frazzled started working for Mantic?"

Yeah, I want to back this just out of completionism, but I'm not at all big on rat-men, and I have yet to paint a single DZ model nor finish cutting out all of the terrain from the first one (in my defense, there was so much of it last time I developed a blister on my cutting hand and just haven't circled back around).

Not sure about backing right now, though the terrain does look fairly nice.

 CptJake wrote:
That drone is awful. With so many real world designs being deployed and tested as examples of what really works, to go with legs like that is just bad.

I love the drone! I want more. Flying drones, too, please!

(So tempted to make a double-entendre about hard plastic...)



Anyway, the Veermyn minis look a lot better now, but the only way to save their fluff at this point is to bring in C.L. Werner.

Dammit, now I'm in for a dollar. Something tells me I'm going to be in big trouble when the DS pledge manager, the KoW2 pledge manager and the DZ 2 pledge manager all go out in the same month. It's the Triple Conjunction!

Stupid pledge managers. I can check out any time I like, but I can never leave.


PS: I have waited so long for Mantic to open a KS on a monday so I can bust out the line "Just another Mantic Monday." Looks like it will never happen.

I'd call the gun DOG drone Rowdy and the scanner one err... Pingu?

Like the drone, don't like the joints on it. Might kitbash mine to look more like the Dog series from Boston Dynamics/DARPA.

 judgedoug wrote:
Like the drone, don't like the joints on it. Might kitbash mine to look more like the Dog series from Boston Dynamics/DARPA.

As is, the legs are too short, especially for the body length, if it needs to traverse any rough terrain/be able to get over waist high obstacles (very common in an urban battlefield) and to keep up with the troops it is supposed to support.

 CptJake wrote:

 judgedoug wrote:
Like the drone, don't like the joints on it. Might kitbash mine to look more like the Dog series from Boston Dynamics/DARPA.

As is, the legs are too short, especially for the body length, if it needs to traverse any rough terrain/be able to get over waist high obstacles (very common in an urban battlefield) and to keep up with the troops it is supposed to support.

It might be easier to kitbash a gun onto the Dreamforge Mule than to kitbash new legs onto the Dog.

I was thinking of lopping off the legs and making it a hover drone, or finding suitable tracks/wheels to put on it.

I'd probably use these: http://www.anvilindustry.co.uk/AFTERLIFE/Republic-Taurus-Gun-Tractors

I'm actually surprised they haven't already shown a new Blaine variant yet. I wonder if we'll get one in this expansion?

Who is Blaine?

 BrookM wrote:
Who is Blaine?

A recurring character that shows up in every Mantic KS.

Prestor Jon wrote:

 CptJake wrote:

 judgedoug wrote:
Like the drone, don't like the joints on it. Might kitbash mine to look more like the Dog series from Boston Dynamics/DARPA.

As is, the legs are too short, especially for the body length, if it needs to traverse any rough terrain/be able to get over waist high obstacles (very common in an urban battlefield) and to keep up with the troops it is supposed to support.

It might be easier to kitbash a gun onto the Dreamforge Mule than to kitbash new legs onto the Dog.

On second look, it looks like the legs have two joints? Hard to tell. The main knee joint and then a rear ankle joint? If that's the case, it's conceivable it's just molded in "crouched" mode and can extend it's legs and add a lot more height.

I agree about the Dreamforge Mule, but that would require me to spend more money and this one I'm already getting with my pledge. So I'll make do

 Barzam wrote:
I for one love the DOG drone.

There will totally be at least one K-9 conversion of this at my house.

Do the names of the pledges bring back any memories for anyone else? Quarantine pledge? What, no Biohazard?

For BrookM

This is Blaine: (spoilered to not confuse people)

In the comments Mantic mentioned they would re-look the drone design.

I won't hold my breath, judging by what they've shown the sprue lay out seems to have been figured out.

We'll see.

So Blaine = not-Predator, okay.

I backed the original Deadzone kickstarter but think I will currently hang fire on this one. I am not a fan of the Veer Myn miniatures at all and they are a big part of pledge as it stands. I am also rubbish at delayed gratification, January seems such a long way away.

Of course there is every chance that the miniature count for the cost will make pledging a no-brainer. I shall be watching the next 17 days with interest.

 BrookM wrote:
So Blaine = not-Predator, okay.

Crossed with Dark-Knight-Returns' Bane. Mask and coat with fur was the original one, I believe.

Wonderwolf wrote:

 BrookM wrote:
So Blaine = not-Predator, okay.

Crossed with Dark-Knight-Returns' Bane. Mask and coat with fur was the original one, I believe.

Great, now I've got muted Sean Connery voice in my head again.

There was a Dungeon Saga Blaine as well. Tyrant King Blaine. Not sure if he got posted.

I want a Plague Blaine. I mean, why not? Eventually I'll have enough various Blaines to field an entire team of them in some Mantic game or other.

Terrainaholic interview with Ronnie not much new but he does say jetbikes when mentioning Pathfinder bikes and it sounds like the Giant rats are larger scale Veermyn. Also new mercenaries. Steel Warriors are possible if it gets high enough.




so maybe the Pathfinders are getting these jetbikes rather than monobikes?

 Alex C wrote:

 Azazelx wrote:
All about the Fake Stretch Goals, more to the point....

At least there's no restic, right?
Something to be happy about?
Are you capable of that emotion?

No restic is a good thing generally, yes. Really, though, the game being "funded" with 15+1 HIPS figures for $115 is so incredibly fake that it does bear pointing out. I know it should be decent value by the end, but at this point Mantic have gone so far down the rabbit hole of gaming KS, that it no longer bears much of a connection to reality in terms of the initial funding goal meaning anything at all.


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 Alex C wrote:
I tried calling them out on the SG "letting us make Stalkers from the sprue" when it's obvious that was always a choice from the initial images, they're trying to argue otherwise and change the subject, lol...

Don't be so negative, Alex?