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 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Those Kovossian Mutants are everything wrong with Mantic's sculpting style. Long torsos, funky legs, pecs taller than their mohawked heads, and arms the length of whatever who cares? It's hard to believe they were sculpted this century. I guess "plague" is Mantican for "80's Chaos homage".

 mitch_rifle wrote:
If they don't make it for the FF and that extra sprue, hopefully they'll just shell out some money and make them anyway

At this point, they're committed. I'd be very surprised if Mantic didn't declare them 'funded' via the pledge manager if they don't get the money from the campaign. Now, a more pressing question for me ism "will they end up with the heavy weapons that have already been designed and planned for on the sprue if there's no stretch goal?"

I actually really like the mutants, but each to their own

Mantic have said in the comments that pm funds will go to any Anounced stretch goals from the ks.

Regardless of how much money the pledge manager brings in, I'm sure Mantic will say it was enough to make the full sprue, and pay out of their own pockets i need be. It just saves so much cost and hassle down the road.

Steel Warriors are funded then

When we break this stretch goal, we will be able to make the Steel Warriors into a dual kit that also makes five Stormrage Veterans, led by a Huscarl.

We will pack the frame full of heavy weapons including at least two hailstorm autocannons, two heat cannons and one missile launcher, allowing you to make a variety of heavy weapon troopers for your Deadzone Strike team.

Every Steel Warrior kit will be upgraded to make these models, opening up many new options for the Forge Fathers!

With this stretch goal broken, we will include a bonus sprue of 5 Forge Father Steel Warrior/Stormrage Veterans FREE in pledges of Lock Down!

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A Rebs Specialist is up next - which would you want to see, a Rin Nomad, Sphyr or a Zee Saboteur? Let us know in the comments!

I think stormrage vets should be easily unlocked, the real question is how much they'll want for the rebs specialist. 5k and they'll need another goal. 10k and they may be asking a bit much. If they put up another HP sprue they'd probably get even more funding but I don't see them running that way.

I've just notice the foot on rock missile launcher guy... NO!!!! I don't want rocks on my ForgeFather bases :(

Well I'm in for $1. No point in shelling out cash for something I won't see for 8 months (at least) when I can put that money in 2-3 months early like with the KoW kickstarter.

 Hulksmash wrote:
Well I'm in for $1. No point in shelling out cash for something I won't see for 8 months (at least) when I can put that money in 2-3 months early like with the KoW kickstarter.

Same here - and this trend might illustrate to Mantic the 'danger' in having multiple KS PMs open and the same time that you're running...another KS!

Yep, I just pulled back to a $1. Even with the unlocked SGs, this one never really managed to excite me much. I may not even bother with the PM.

Man, a bunch of selfish non-team players around here.




I may do the same thing. The 'All In' pledge, though a good deal has too much stuff I don't want. Quarantine (where I have an EB pledge) also has stuff I don't want but does not include some of what I do. I can pay about the same in the pledge manager and only get stuff I want, if I decide I do really want it closer to shipping time.

Dog the bounty Hunter makes his appearance, huh? Will we get his well endowed blonde sidekick as well?

I'm sure some folks will like it, but I'm not a fan.

Mantic confirmed in the comments that there will be a Corp vs. Z'zor DZ set in the future, possibly with "Alien Worlds" Battlezone terrain...

Squee!

Awesome. We will easily unlock Stormrage today.


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Updated first post. Damn, I'm strongly tempted to get a whole army of forge fathers now. What, $40 gets me another 40 and I've got plenty of forge guard and brokkrs. Covers me on Warpath AND Count-as space marines.

I know, right?

 pretre wrote:
Awesome. We will easily unlock Stormrage today.


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Updated first post. Damn, I'm strongly tempted to get a whole army of forge fathers now. What, $40 gets me another 40 and I've got plenty of forge guard and brokkrs. Covers me on Warpath AND Count-as space marines.

Pretty much why I went in. I can ditch my multitude of old bad FF and pick up all the infantry I'll ever need for a marine army/FF army for around $100. With the stormrage upgrade in the box it's kinda a no brainer.

 Hulksmash wrote:
Pretty much why I went in. I can ditch my multitude of old bad FF and pick up all the infantry I'll ever need for a marine army/FF army for around $100. With the stormrage upgrade in the box it's kinda a no brainer.

Yeah, my original thought was to go [MOD EDIT - Please find a different way to express that - thanks! - Alpharius] for jetbikes and make a new bike army, but I love the look of the FF. I have a ton of the plastic and metal hybrid ones that I got off someone and two of the quad-cannons, plus my deadzone stuff. I just can't resist. I think I'll wait for Pledge Manager to add them on, but still...

Ok, but if they do another Deadzone KS around Corp and Zz'or, what would they build a Warpath starter around? A lot of Mantic stalwarts will have filled up on Enforcer and Forge Father core units before that even launches.

They're going to start the Warpath KS with Marauders, aren't they?

That's really the strong pull for me right now; Forge Fathers look really good and much more in my line of taste than the Brokkrs. Other than that, like I said it's mainly the bikes that pique my interest and even then that wouldn't be for DeadZone so much.

However, since I have not put brush to model one from the first one (though I did assemble most of it) I'm leery about jumping in with both feet, especially with KD:M looming over my (decades long) painting queue between now and then like a 800lb pair of........gorillas.

Still, the prospect of a white/black scheme for the aforementioned "aren't they a little short to be stormtroopers?" gag is so very tempting. If Mantic doesn't have a couple painted up for the 4th of May as an update I will be sorely disappointed.

 Hulksmash wrote:

 pretre wrote:
Awesome. We will easily unlock Stormrage today.


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Updated first post. Damn, I'm strongly tempted to get a whole army of forge fathers now. What, $40 gets me another 40 and I've got plenty of forge guard and brokkrs. Covers me on Warpath AND Count-as space marines.

Pretty much why I went in. I can ditch my multitude of old bad FF and pick up all the infantry I'll ever need for a marine army/FF army for around $100. With the stormrage upgrade in the box it's kinda a no brainer.

FYI the old bad FF models are currently in the playtest army list as a militia unit, so unless the models offend you such that you don't want them on the table/in your house, they will still have a use in the game

 Baragash wrote:

 Hulksmash wrote:

 pretre wrote:
Awesome. We will easily unlock Stormrage today.


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Updated first post. Damn, I'm strongly tempted to get a whole army of forge fathers now. What, $40 gets me another 40 and I've got plenty of forge guard and brokkrs. Covers me on Warpath AND Count-as space marines.

Pretty much why I went in. I can ditch my multitude of old bad FF and pick up all the infantry I'll ever need for a marine army/FF army for around $100. With the stormrage upgrade in the box it's kinda a no brainer.

FYI the old bad FF models are currently in the playtest army list as a militia unit, so unless the models offend you such that you don't want them on the table/in your house, they will still have a use in the game

Thats good to know. I had also planned on using them as a base for more "human" allies for my SM army in 40k. I'm just glad to have good looking infantry for the main army. Assuming there is some customability and they look like what we're seeing in the photo. I was very impressed with the zombie plastics.

Well, I am old school, and have a locked in pledge plus I want some extra scenery. Don't have room for it but who cares!

I also have a ton of the old ForgeFather Steel Warriors and fully intend to paint them up anyway, I even built a couple yesterday.

 Vermonter wrote:
Ok, but if they do another Deadzone KS around Corp and Zz'or, what would they build a Warpath starter around? A lot of Mantic stalwarts will have filled up on Enforcer and Forge Father core units before that even launches.

They're going to start the Warpath KS with Marauders, aren't they?

It'l be interesting when it does launch. Possibly a $2-$4m campaign, IMO.

 Vermonter wrote:
Ok, but if they do another Deadzone KS around Corp and Zz'or, what would they build a Warpath starter around? A lot of Mantic stalwarts will have filled up on Enforcer and Forge Father core units before that even launches.

They're going to start the Warpath KS with Marauders, aren't they?

Enforcers and Forge Fathers are a shoe-in with the range of models available in plastic. I think they'll be hoping it works like the first DZ and start with 4 but expand to 6, but I actually don't think any of them will be Marauders. Plague, Asterian, Corporation and Veer-myn would be my bet - this is my own speculation though.

An interesting last few days here:




Where's Buzzsaw when you need him?!?

Perhaps the Corp Zzor DZ set will be based on models from the Warpath Kickstarter.

So the Stormrage Vets are in and The Rebs Rin should be along soon



It occurred to me earlier with enough kits and left over mjolnir missile launchers (1 per 5 minis) you can also make make Godhammer Vets from this kit as well. It would be nice if they could fit at least 1 Dragons Breath on a sprue so that Drakkarim could be made.

I've been trying to figure out what color paints they use to get that armor for the Forge Fathers. I like it and want to try it on my Forge Guard.

It looks a lot like Baneblade Brown, Karak Stone looks a bit too light but it can be hard to tell with different monitors showing slightly different colours.

EDIT: tested some on a spare mini and I'm going with Baneblade Brown.

I think I'm liking the Squats better than pretty much every other minis they have. Enforcers are mayhaps a close second.

@DaveC:

The way it works in WP3 currently, the Mjolnir ML has moved into the Stormrage Veteran Team, and the Hailstorm AC has moved into the Steel Warrior Support Team - both of which are optional components under the Steel Warrior squad.

Unlike the way GW units work for things like Devastators, currently units possess the mix of heavy weapons and choose which type they fire that turn, so you just deploy a mix of models and don't worry about bitz searching for 4 of the type of weapon you want.

It would be cool if they could add the flamer, though the way it's presented suggests they intend those to be a whole squad armed with that weapon, so I don't know if they want to squeeze it on - but I will have a word.