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 lord_blackfang wrote:
Yeah, that price tag killed all my interest in it.

I'm guessing the same will happen with this Plague Beast.

Yeah, I'm a pretty big 'gotta catch 'em all' guy for this project, but $25 for one model is just not going to happen for me. Disappointed. I guess I'll have to convert one of my extra marauder tracks.

PLAGUE BEAST PLAGUE BEAST PLAGUE BEAST!!!! WHEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!

I'd say the chem thrower is resin as it is a vehicle with hard lines the plague beast is more Likely to be metal as it's organic

Apparently they are throwing a Progenitor in with the Vermyn bubble chucker now.

if that Bubble chucker was restic, at least we'd be getting it for half the current price. Or hard plastic, and then we could be fielding artillery lines of them at a reasonable price.

Looking at my DBX guys on my desk here, that material seems like it would have totally worked for a project like this. Oh well. No use crying over spilled milk.

I fear what that Plague Beast is going to run. He looks large. Plastic plague beasts to compete with plastic jet bikes? That'd be nice...

NTRabbit wrote:Now you see the downside to a no-restic project! These are the tings that restic is best at

Ridiculous amounts of flash and warped casts?!

Alpharius wrote:So be it!

Death to Mantic's Restic!

INDEED!

Updated OP.

The Stunt Bot is great in resin, and worth the money for me - it is my favourite Mantic model. I've 2 of them, and the casting isn't perfect but nothing that takes a day to clean and build.

I'm happy with the resin bubble-thrower and plan to take it as my "free" faction starter. I'm very glad people complained about the price, though: getting the progenitor thrown in was very nice.

At least as far as retail goes, the bubble-thrower will be good value. The Stunt-bot went for $20 on the KS and now goes for something like $27 discounted retail.

That Plague Beast is going to be one heavy model if it is cast in metal, though. I expect we'll be seeing a fairly long period of short stretches for metal specialists for all the factions now, before momentum builds for the finale and Mantic get their courage back to put up the Forge Father HP sprue.

Sorely tempted by the Plague Stage 1

Its like a stage 1 stage 2... If its as tough as the s1 and isn't slow... Dag. Plus it'll shave points by not having command (likely?).

If they have progenitor with the space/future warplightning cannon I'll consider it. Would leave me with two of that guy but then he's got options so not the end of the world.

Hopefully several 5k goals like this till momentum builds (hopefully) and we can still see some more HP.

They're definitely making it harder and harder to choose what to do with my pledge.

Someone hypothesized in the comments that new Plague Beast might be a Plague equivalent of a Strider.

That'd be cool, but since they've already got access to Striders, I dunno. I do like the idea of an organic equivalent.

Guess we'll see what it's like soon enough.

It might be the plague equivalent of the Urban Jotun, Guntrack and Rat Wagon, except instead of firing a long range gun it rus up really fast and throws itself into combat for shredding and screaming

Sounds like its a dumb 1st gen from the last update. Possibly stronger or tougher, but not necessarily . Quadrupedal so maybe not slow. Still seems awful thick to count as fast though.


Also looks like weaponized kalyshi with traditional double glaives and bows but with space future tech.

lord_blackfang wrote:Man, if the ratmen Bubble Chukka is plastic and $5 or even $10 a piece... I will save a lot of money on a huge unit of Ork Mek Gunz.

lord_blackfang wrote:Yeah, that price tag killed all my interest in it.

I'm guessing the same will happen with this Plague Beast.

This sums up the campaign for me - every concept art tease is the start of another material and price lotto. A crazy way to run a campaign.

And the new plague beast is just a stage 1 that's been infected with Mantic Leg Syndrome - it had to happen at some point. It'll end up looking like a VOR Growler.

Nope, it's a plague gorilla. A very noble beast that....awe, who am I kidding? It's gonna tear gak up and take no prisoners!

 GrimDork wrote:
Sounds like its a dumb 1st gen from the last update. Possibly stronger or tougher, but not necessarily . Quadrupedal so maybe not slow. Still seems awful thick to count as fast though.

Quadrupedal motion is faster than bipedal motion, it's biology

I'm honestly not a fan of the whole Kalyshi story, and that's before getting to the exposed skin. I prefer my Asterians aloof and vanishing into black holes, not charging around pretending to be primitives.


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It really is amusing to see people complaining about the price of resin and metal minis, when most of the same people complained so hard about the restic material, that works very well for minis of that size and at half the price, that the material was pulled. It's also not remotely a material lottery - basic troops = HIPS, regular sized elites = metal, large sized minis = resin, special KS exclusives = resin

Have your cake and eat it too, honestly.

What are the Shredders then? And was 'all HIPS' just a false rumour that never got shot down?

Shredder says plastic, and they said it was a no-restic campaign, and an all hard plastic campaign within reason - they can't tool hard plastic sprues for the large stuff that gets sold in singles, they just won't sell enough to cover the cost over a mold lifetime.

I fully admit I was on the restic hate wagon. And now I regret it.

Yeah I know quadrupedal is faster, I just dunno if its enough to go from slow to fast, maybe just drop slow for normal speed. Even then 2nd gens are not fast.

This project isn't as crazy/awesome as I had hoped, but that just kinda lets me save some money in the end. We've still got add in Wednesday and the last day (maybe) rush so who knows really.

Kalyshi are.. OK... I'll probably just try to make some weapons for my dreadball team though, seem pretty similar.

It's also not remotely a material lottery - basic troops = HIPS, regular sized elites = metal, large sized minis = resin EXCEPT SHREDDERS BECAUSE REASONS, special KS exclusives = resin. And Jetbikes.

Right, gotcha

I forgot about the Jetbike, but Shredders are a basic troop unit

Whatever. Restic Knight and proud of it!

I needed a fix so badly the other day I popped a box of Basilean Palandins just for some mold lines to scrape.

I can't remember ever really complaining about the material.

I just hope the metal stuff is better than some of my current Mantic metals, where the halves don't line up, the details aren't sharp, pieces don't connect well... it almost sounds like the restic stuff!

Their quality control on the metals seems to vary considerably.

I'd prefer DBX plastic for anything non-HIPS at this point.

Great stuff, better than restic or Mars Attacks plastic, preassembled and I cleaned up a whole dreadball team in an hour earlier today. Really easy to work with and no warping. By comparison some DZ restic minis took an hour to clean and assemble alone.

 NTRabbit wrote:
I forgot about the Jetbike, but Shredders are a basic troop unit

They are a 2 for $10 HIPS kit, so I doubt it. (Please don't take this personally btw - as I said, from my point of view every reveal has been a material lotto - if you can see a logic good on ya! )

I like the Asterians as a remote / droid force, and I am not a fan of Kalyshi cheesecake. I don't care if it's just one or two metal specialists, but if it's going to be a Hard Plastic squad that's essential to Asterian forces, I'll probably substitute Eldar models.

I'm already drawing up plans to give my dreadball team twinglaives and bows

I'm not normally a big fan of cheesecake models either but, meh, i've already got them so I may as well weaponize them

Completionist pledge!