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Guys it is now live

Begin funding

And...pledged

Me too. Good luck guys.

Managed to be one of the first 10 backers. Everyone after me is a bandwagon fan!

Pledged - my first Kickstarter too, I broke my cherry!

Is it bad I pledged before I even looked at the stretch goals or even what comes in the box?

Someone tell me, by default is this "kickstarter" set to america money or does it auto-lock onto location? If the former, I'm sorry I'm not gonna be abl to back, if the latter, I may just have to go for the 90 pledge.

Hmm.. Wish there would be a smaller pledge level than 90 USD with some miniatures inside.

Excellent! Now to decide if I go for the $90 or $180 level. Just wondering if double everything will be a good idea down the road for list building.

Kickstarter campaigns are either Dollars, Pounds or Euro, depending where the campaign is being run from. This one is being run from the US, so it is in dollars.

damn it. That's me out then. Sorry dakka. I'll be waiting for retail though.

Thanks to everyone who has backed us so far. Please spread the word to anyone you think might be interested as well as it will help us immeasurably*

* well technically measurably since we'll see a direct dollar figure as a result of increased promotion, but immeasurably sounds better!

 ergotoxin wrote:
Hmm.. Wish there would be a smaller pledge level than 90 USD with some miniatures inside.

There's the $70 level that has some of the plastics, but for the extra $20 you're getting a lot more, so I'm a little curious as to what the $70 level is for.




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I've not seen them here, so here are the Epirian handler and the Karist Shadow Walker concepts from the kickstarter page. That handler looks super menacing. I'm really interested to see how these two character concepts translate into the plastics

Will there be plans for a named Epirian character as a stretch goal? Seems odd to have one for Karist but not the other faction.

I'm in! Went with the 'double' pledge...

Congrats for the KS going online. I'll follow it with interest.

One suggestion though: you should give the pledge levels a visual representation. "Text only" is really not that smart. In my opinion eye-candy is essential. A version I really liked was done with the first WWX KS (scroll a bit down to "Pledge Levels"). I guess that should be easy to do, and could be updated once stretchgoals get added.

Anyway, good luck for this.

 Alex C wrote:
I work with junction boxes every day. They are tougher to cut than you think. It's certainly possible, but be prepared to work at it. I wouldn't want someone slipping and hurting themselves because they thought it would be easy.

Thankfully the terrain sprues make even standard ones look cool for terrain!

The way to cut thick plastic is to mark out the path of the cut, drill pin holes in the corners, and thread the blade of a jeweller's saw through one on the holes. You can then easily saw the shape out, turning in the holes at the corners.

Nithoggr wrote:
Will there be plans for a named Epirian character as a stretch goal? Seems odd to have one for Karist but not the other faction.

'Kaddar Nova' is a rank, rather than a name. The Karists use the word 'Kaddar' as the title of members of their priesthood, and Nova is the specific role - Kaddar priests who have established their relationship with na-cybel communion enough to be deemed worth to carry a cybel reactor on their backs in battle. Other ranks include the Kaddar Alessi (seen in the books), who is the priest or priestess in charge of a Karist mission to a world.

In the Kickstarter forces, the Epirian Handler is the equivalent character model to the Kaddar Nova - you can use the Handler both to lead squads of bots and as an overall force commander. We do intend to have named characters in the future, but in the Kickstarter we wanted to stick with multipart, multipose character models so you can customise your own.

I like the Shadow Walker, as he doesn't have the stupid shoulder pads of the rest of the faction. I assume at some point there will be separate add ons available, might check back then.

 Riquende wrote:
I like the Shadow Walker, as he doesn't have the stupid shoulder pads of the rest of the faction. I assume at some point there will be separate add ons available, might check back then.

If you dont like the shoulder pads on the Karists, the upper arms do have sculpted cloth on them so they can be left off.

Got it, I'm slowly sifting through the background.

Wow, for just $2500 we can get a (future) female character model!

 legoburner wrote:

 Riquende wrote:
I like the Shadow Walker, as he doesn't have the stupid shoulder pads of the rest of the faction. I assume at some point there will be separate add ons available, might check back then.

If you dont like the shoulder pads on the Karists, the upper arms do have sculpted cloth on them so they can be left off.

Is there any pictures of said models, built and painted without the shoulder pads?

overtyrant wrote:

 legoburner wrote:

 Riquende wrote:
I like the Shadow Walker, as he doesn't have the stupid shoulder pads of the rest of the faction. I assume at some point there will be separate add ons available, might check back then.

If you dont like the shoulder pads on the Karists, the upper arms do have sculpted cloth on them so they can be left off.

Is there any pictures of said models, built and painted without the shoulder pads?

Not yet as it is not something we wanted to spend time and money on, as we want our models to match our artwork. I'm sure some hobbyists will get round to it at some point though!

Guys- will you be doing stuff like Mantic, where you can just buy various models on their own? If so I'd really be interested in those Karist flying beasties. I've been looking for some Razorwing flock substitutes and those things look suitably gribbly for my Dark Eldar!

You have my dice. Pledged!

 legoburner wrote:

 Riquende wrote:
I like the Shadow Walker, as he doesn't have the stupid shoulder pads of the rest of the faction. I assume at some point there will be separate add ons available, might check back then.

If you dont like the shoulder pads on the Karists, the upper arms do have sculpted cloth on them so they can be left off.

Yeah, I can see that on the sprue pics now. I'd be interested in a small pledge to get some of them and a shadow walker then if possible (and maybe some of the terrain sprues). No interest in the other guys or the game, sorry.

The terrain looks sweet! Can't wait to see you go further with that!

Sweet! Nice to see it's up. I am not sure yet if I'll pledge double or single, but for now I'll just put it at $90. Looking forward to this campaign developing.

Any chance the final starter will have multicoloured dice for different weapon types instead of all white? Just a little thing I think it would be nice to encourage out of the gate.

well I've pledged, let's see where this one goes