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Mouse pad mats now available as an add on:

Update 8 wrote:Today we’ve got an optional deluxe option available for you to add-on to your pledge if you would like to. This deluxe mat is made of durable mouse-mat like material, and has a non-slip backing, making it resistant to the rigours of gaming. The mat is available in two varieties: singles for standard 2’x2’ games, and as a bulk deal for multi-mat and multi-player games.

I was hoping one would be included in the pledge.

Whoooosh!
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Short Version: Deluxe Gaming Mats now available, New Veer-myn Brood Mother Stretch Goal and whoooosh – a special Enforcer preview caps off the update.

Happy Monday everyone!

We are so close to those Industrial Accessories we can almost taste them! So we’re going to take a sneaky look at what’s next.

First up, the core pledges each come with a red planet Alien Gaming Mat representing the mining planet of Exham IV, or whichever planet you might be fighting your Deadzone games on.

Today we’ve got an optional deluxe option available for you to add-on to your pledge if you would like to. This deluxe mat is made of durable mouse-mat like material, and has a non-slip backing, making it resistant to the rigours of gaming. The mat is available in two varieties: singles for standard 2’x2’ games, and as a bulk deal for multi-mat and multi-player games.

The Deluxe Gaming Mat includes a printed 8x8 grid of 3'x3' squares for playing Deadzone

Note that Deluxe Gaming Mats are bulky, heavy items. Depending on where you live and what else you order, they may increase the shipping charge in the pledge manager.

Look out for Add-on Wednesday this week for new Industrial deals and scenery-only pledge levels!
The Veer-myn

One of our key focuses with this campaign is creating the Veer-myn faction. The Veer-myn Night-Crawler sprue is full of options, including components to build Stalkers with pistols and hand weapons and Night-Crawlers with rifles, plus plenty of heads and bits of equipment to make every soldier unique.

Also included on the sprue is a Malignus heavy-weapons specialist.

The Maligni pathology and chemistry permeate Veer-myn culture. It is thought that hormones play a major part in deciding what caste a Veer-myn will belong to, and evidence suggests pheromones are a central element in Veer-myn language. For this reason the social caste of the Maligni are one of the highest bands within a brood’s structure. It’s through the chemistry experts of the Maligni that the Veer-myn cultivate the viruses which act as their first strike weapons. Whether these are created artificially, or form part of the Veer-myn natural biology is not known. What is known is that the Maligni also act as the brood’s engineers, and are responsible for the creation of the Ray-Guns and Chem-Throwers, as well as the more esoteric machinery such as the armour worn by the Brood Mother.

A Malignus wields the Veer-myn’s more potent heavy weapons as well as other experimental devices in their arsenal.

As you can see, there is a great amount of choice on this sprue and we’ll be posting up a full list of contents in the week. Which leads us on nicely to our new stretch goal...

Later in the campaign we want to fund a brand new hard plastic sprue for the Veer-myn, in addition to the Night-Crawlers. The intention is to include anything we make in hard plastic free in Quarantine.

To supplement these hard plastic options, we’re will also be producing a range of leaders and specialists in metal, ensuring that there are plenty of options to choose from when building your faction - starting with the Brood Mother.

NEW! Stretch Goal: Optional Add-on $185,000 Veer-myn Brood Mother

Brood Mothers are the matriarchs, the one binding factor relating every member of a Veer-myn brood, for it is through her that every member is related. It is unusual to see a Brood Mother in direct combat. The purpose of conflict is usually to protect her at all costs, as without her there is no brood. However in the direst circumstances the Mother may take to the field, urging her brood onto feats of extraordinary savagery in their need to protect her, and laying into any enemy who come within striking distance with the ferocity of a mother bear.

If we hit this stretch goal, we will produce the Veer-myn Brood Mother, a Veer-myn Matriarch equipped with Maligni-forged armour and weapons. Her battlefield role is predominately defensive and based on buffing her troops.

This commander figure will be available in metal as an individual add-on for $10.
And finally – whooosh!

The next stretch goal is for a new set of hard plastic miniatures free in Quarantine – excited?


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Upping my pledge $20 for a mat.


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So broodmother will be $10 and jetbike hips will be free with quarantine.

Full text of update:

Short Version: Deluxe Gaming Mats now available, New Veer-myn Brood Mother Stretch Goal and whoooosh – a special Enforcer preview caps off the update.

Happy Monday everyone!

We are so close to those Industrial Accessories we can almost taste them! So we’re going to take a sneaky look at what’s next.

First up, the core pledges each come with a red planet Alien Gaming Mat representing the mining planet of Exham IV, or whichever planet you might be fighting your Deadzone games on.

Today we’ve got an optional deluxe option available for you to add-on to your pledge if you would like to. This deluxe mat is made of durable mouse-mat like material, and has a non-slip backing, making it resistant to the rigours of gaming. The mat is available in two varieties: singles for standard 2’x2’ games, and as a bulk deal for multi-mat and multi-player games.


The Deluxe Gaming Mat includes a printed 8x8 grid of 3'x3' squares for playing Deadzone




Note that Deluxe Gaming Mats are bulky, heavy items. Depending on where you live and what else you order, they may increase the shipping charge in the pledge manager.

Look out for Add-on Wednesday this week for new Industrial deals and scenery-only pledge levels!

The Veer-myn

One of our key focuses with this campaign is creating the Veer-myn faction. The Veer-myn Night-Crawler sprue is full of options, including components to build Stalkers with pistols and hand weapons and Night-Crawlers with rifles, plus plenty of heads and bits of equipment to make every soldier unique.

Also included on the sprue is a Malignus heavy-weapons specialist.

The Maligni pathology and chemistry permeate Veer-myn culture. It is thought that hormones play a major part in deciding what caste a Veer-myn will belong to, and evidence suggests pheromones are a central element in Veer-myn language. For this reason the social caste of the Maligni are one of the highest bands within a brood’s structure. It’s through the chemistry experts of the Maligni that the Veer-myn cultivate the viruses which act as their first strike weapons. Whether these are created artificially, or form part of the Veer-myn natural biology is not known. What is known is that the Maligni also act as the brood’s engineers, and are responsible for the creation of the Ray-Guns and Chem-Throwers, as well as the more esoteric machinery such as the armour worn by the Brood Mother.


A Malignus wields the Veer-myn’s more potent heavy weapons as well as other experimental devices in their arsenal.

As you can see, there is a great amount of choice on this sprue and we’ll be posting up a full list of contents in the week. Which leads us on nicely to our new stretch goal...

Later in the campaign we want to fund a brand new hard plastic sprue for the Veer-myn, in addition to the Night-Crawlers. The intention is to include anything we make in hard plastic free in Quarantine.

To supplement these hard plastic options, we’re will also be producing a range of leaders and specialists in metal, ensuring that there are plenty of options to choose from when building your faction - starting with the Brood Mother.

NEW! Stretch Goal: Optional Add-on $185,000 Veer-myn Brood Mother

Brood Mothers are the matriarchs, the one binding factor relating every member of a Veer-myn brood, for it is through her that every member is related. It is unusual to see a Brood Mother in direct combat. The purpose of conflict is usually to protect her at all costs, as without her there is no brood. However in the direst circumstances the Mother may take to the field, urging her brood onto feats of extraordinary savagery in their need to protect her, and laying into any enemy who come within striking distance with the ferocity of a mother bear.



If we hit this stretch goal, we will produce the Veer-myn Brood Mother, a Veer-myn Matriarch equipped with Maligni-forged armour and weapons. Her battlefield role is predominately defensive and based on buffing her troops.

This commander figure will be available in metal as an individual add-on for $10.



And finally – whooosh!



The next stretch goal is for a new set of hard plastic miniatures free in Quarantine – excited?

$10 for a single model seems like a lot . Oh well not very interested in veer myn anyway but I'm guessing we will see a few more of these options before the campaign is over. Kinda bummed about metal characters but I must be the only person who preferred restic to it.

All right. Mantic threw up some add-ons

$10 for a largish metal model isn't a lot imho. I pledged for it and 2 mats.

Enforcer jetbike?! In the words of Rocket Raccoon....

"Oh....YEAHHHH..."



Who wants to start a pool for how many I get?

 timetowaste85 wrote:
Enforcer jetbike?! In the words of Rocket Raccoon....

"Oh....YEAHHHH..."



Who wants to start a pool for how many I get?

$10 says you buy enough to fill a pool.

Looks like they updated the amount of terrain you get in the pledge as well.

 scarletsquig wrote:
Think the raised pricing might be a factor slowing things down, or at least preventing people from going nuts with it.

Kings of War Kickstarter: $15 for 20 HIPS minis.

Deadzone Infestation Kickstarter: $10 for 5 HIPS minis.

Bit of a difference in pricing there there (62.5% to be precise). The new KoW sprues have multiple build options just like the new Deadzone ones too.

I just can't see $10 for 5 being the price of the basic veermyn infantry when Warpath launches, even at retail pricing, never mind KS pricing. The restic ones are roughly the same price and you can buy them now (or cheaper from discount internet retail that wants rid of them).

Yeah, the pricing is really out of control. Last campaign, I didn't buy many minis at $10 for 5 because I was sure later discount retail would be pretty much the same. Then I saw their daffy MSRPs and pretty much gave up on the idea of building bigger armies.


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 pretre wrote:
Wow. There's a lot of entitlement going on. Yikes.

I, too, enjoy trivializing and belittling people with different opinions.

Can't believe all these whiners want rules and terrain instead of more dog drones. Talk about selfish spoiled brats. Am I doing it right?

 pretre wrote:
Wow. There's a lot of entitlement going on. Yikes.

Thank you for saying what I was thinking.

Either it's worth it to you, or it's not. But this brave new world has warped a lot of people's expectations.

BAH!!! The rubber mats are an add-on. I was hoping (and still am) that they were going to include them in the main pledge.

I'll go $30 for a metal rat and a rubber mat...

I'd be all over those mats if they didn't have the grid on them...

~iPaint

 -iPaint- wrote:
I'd be all over those mats if they didn't have the grid on them...

~iPaint

I was thinking the same thing - but then it was a bit unrealistic of us to think that would happen as these are for Deadzone after all!

 judgedoug wrote:
What we should clamor for is short $5k stretch goals for free restic models.
We all loved the Basilean Sisters and KoW Trolls right?

Oh and lots of add ons and ability to switch things around.
Because that's always worked perfectly!

That was their first KS quite a few years ago, Doug. Neither they nor we knew how it all worked. While I'm not involved in the commentary on this one, throwing in some irrelevant straw men doesn't help either way.

This is interesting . . . it looks like "free" personality figures bundled into Quarantine will be resin (at least the first 2 are, Blaine and Piper), whereas the add-on character models will be metal. I guess that makes some sense in terms of the economics of casting?

I'm pretty pleased with that pattern if it holds. I'd certainly rather have resin figures bundled into my Quarantine pledge than metal ones. If metal prices are pretty close to retail (i.e., if human-scaled figures are $8, as they were for Deadzone) I may just let those fall by the wayside for now.

I'm upping for one martian mat for now.

Interested in the Martian mat for Mars Attacks more than Deadzone.

Enforcer Jetbikes are looking great, I did know they were coming, but didn't expect them in this Kickstarter... the kit should be able to build variants with different heavy weapons and commanders too, so it'll be just as versatile as the peacekeeper sprues.

Not entirely sure, but think it might be 3 jetbikes per sprue.

The Enforcer bikes look great.

@Scarlet Squig - since you've been talking about KS price points, I'm curious what price point would make Enforcer jetbikes worthwhile to you as an add-on?

(I know Quarantine will get some free, but I think a number of us are considering adding more on after that.)

 timetowaste85 wrote:
Enforcer jetbike?! In the words of Rocket Raccoon....

"Oh....YEAHHHH..."



Who wants to start a pool for how many I get?

And don't forget extra scenery so you can build that racing track

Welp, after seeing GWs Mechanicus, I'm going down to $1 on this one. It has also been quite underwhelming so far, and I think the rat sculpts are ugly as sin compared to Skaven. Love the Pathfinders, but I can piggyback on a friend for those.

Enforcer jetbikes are 1 per sprue but they haven't indicated how many will be added to Quarantine yet.

The mats definitely won't be added to Quarantine paid add on only.

 .Mikes. wrote:

 timetowaste85 wrote:
Enforcer jetbike?! In the words of Rocket Raccoon....

"Oh....YEAHHHH..."



Who wants to start a pool for how many I get?

And don't forget extra scenery so you can build that racing track

^^^ Darn you!!! As if I don't get up to enough shenannigans on my own..
As my Pops would say, "don't encourage the boy."

Mymearan wrote:
Welp, after seeing GWs Mechanicus, I'm going down to $1 on this one. It has also been quite underwhelming so far, and I think the rat sculpts are ugly as sin compared to Skaven. Love the Pathfinders, but I can piggyback on a friend for those.

I also suspect you'll be able to just keep your $1 pledge and buy as many sprues of 5 as you want for $10 each.

I just noticed that the weapon on the Jetbike's undercarriage is different in the two scans, suggesting that it can be switched around. Nice.

Dammit, up to 185.

If jetbikes go $5 each, expect me to buy 15.

 timetowaste85 wrote:
If jetbikes go $5 each, expect me to buy 15.

Step 1: Admit you have a problem.

To be fair though, I think I'd go pretty deep if they did nice $5 jetbikes. If nothing else, that's a great counts-as setup.

$5 is my hope as well. I know they won't be that at retail, but they also will want to stay under GW at $15 a bike (which I just won't touch) for their retail price... so being less than that, and also kickstarter priced... hopefully.

Even if it's in a reasonably large bundle, like $30 for 6 bikes, I hope we see them as low as $5.


I'm a bit torn though, as cool as (jet)bikes are, painting them is about 3x as much work as a normal space trooper.... still pretty awesome though.