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Fantastic! Always exciting to see campaigns fund on the first day

Report back from Salute tomorrow, those of you who can go!

Welp, those karist look genuinely amazing. I just signed up to kickstarter and applied for a credit card just to back you guys and get some of those miniatures into my hands. truly awesome stuff.

I saw that this is EU friendly, but will you be able to ship to Asia? I ask because I plan on moving in a week.

On the Kickstarter page under the shipping section, it says shipping to anywhere in the world will not be more than $20 (and it will be shipping from either the UK or US depending on your location). Shipping will also be charged later, so you shouldn't add for it now (and the exact rate is not yet determined, anyway).

I was wondering... before pledging I would love to see you guys do a quick demo game on you tube or something? Just so I can see what kind of game it is before getting into it. I like the ideas in the setting and I like some of the models...

Sorry if its already been asked.

Anyone interested in splitting a $70 pack? I'm only really interested in the Epirian guys. Obviously it's gonna be cheaper to split if you're somewhere near Australia.

Count me in, because why not?

It'll help make more use of my more useless 40k models I'm sure.

legoburner could you tell me what size board the game will be played on?

Also i am thinking of getting the double up level, will it be useful having two squads?

Going to pledge after i hear back, just dont want to paint extra models i wont use much.

The ' normal ' sized game is best on a 4x6 board.

And from what I remember, yes, two sets is a good sized force.

Looks interesting, I might even be tempted to pledge (which I never do).

 insaniak wrote:
The ' normal ' sized game is best on a 4x6 board.

And from what I remember, yes, two sets is a good sized force.

Interesting.

Definitely going to be a game heavily dependent on terrain. Lets hope we unlock that terrain stretch goal.

Terrain is important, yes. Although models also move much faster than 40k players will be used to.

How fast are we talking?

I imagine movement is hampered by terrain in some way.

 Grey Templar wrote:
How fast are we talking?

I imagine movement is hampered by terrain in some way.

As Jon described it in the discussion on the D6 Generation, units move at a fixed reliable speed. If a unit ends its move in cover, the guys in the unit automatically make use of that cover and hunker down a bit at the end of their move. If you choose not to end a unit's move in cover, they can rush to cover more ground. But that extra movement is random. So kind of the opposite of 40k, where open ground movement is fixed, and movement through cover random.

 Grey Templar wrote:
How fast are we talking?

I imagine movement is hampered by terrain in some way.

The example in the rules pdf (contractors MOV 7)
Move on open ground - MV(7) value +D3 = 8-10"
Move end in cover - MV(7) value = 7"
Dash on open ground - MV(7) value double +2D3 = 16-20"
Dash end in cover - MV(7) value double = 14"

At least that was my understanding. If I am incorrect gentlemen please say so

 keltikhoa wrote:

 Grey Templar wrote:
How fast are we talking?

I imagine movement is hampered by terrain in some way.

The example in the rules pdf (contractors MOV 7)
Move on open ground - MV(7) value +D3 = 8-10"
Move end in cover - MV(7) value = 7"
Dash on open ground - MV(7) value double +2D3 = 16-20"
Dash end in cover - MV(7) value double = 14"

At least that was my understanding. If I am incorrect gentlemen please say so

That looks about right.

Movement rates do vary from unit to unit, with the Karists mostly being slightly slower than the Epirians, but they still get about at a reasonable rate.

Thank insaniak. I will be in for the double set then.

Really excited about this game and also the 4 other factions.

Thanks everyone! Amazing to see we've made it already

Just off to go finish setting up at Salute now, so while we'll be checking this thread on our phones, answers will be sporadic until quite late tonight UK time!

Looking forward to meeting lots of people today

Am I the only one who feels...uneasy about this game?

I'd be very interested in a more in-depth explanation of the game world. The synopsis made it seem very familiar.

 Jimsolo wrote:
Am I the only one who feels...uneasy about this game?

I'd be very interested in a more in-depth explanation of the game world. The synopsis made it seem very familiar.

What about it feels familiar to you( and to what I should ask)? If you are looking for more info the writers have made several posts in this thread which give us good amount of detail on things! They also have 2 books out (I'm currently reading the first one and it's very good!)

The backround certainly has a number of familiar sci-fi tropes, but it doesn't feel like a rip-off of any particular game or setting.

It is a little weird to hear them talking about being hard scifi, but then talk about space cults and a magical space vortex eating the galaxy. But that's the same for all scifi with fantastical elements.

I see this game as a direct fallout of the many years of GW's excess.

So it's trying to appeal to that and doing a pretty good job of combining the feel and look of that post-GW style, with a new setting that still feels grim, outlandish, and full of conflict.

The only reason why things feel familiar to some, and not to others, is that most scifi, fantastical or hard scifi, pulls from the same sources and inspirations.

Byte wrote:Can we get some sig banners? I like the purple one!

Yeah, that would be cool!

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Congrats on funding guys, seems like a great game and very good looking minis! :-)

 Jimsolo wrote:
Am I the only one who feels...uneasy about this game?

I'd be very interested in a more in-depth explanation of the game world. The synopsis made it seem very familiar.

I must admit it all feels very samey too, but, and this is what is bugging me at the moment - it is mentioned, several times, that it is next generation. How?

I was excitedly looking through the bumpf and even admitted to going onto kickstarter with an excited, apprehensive set of emotions - a bit like waking up on Christmas Day but it would seem it is exactly the same as every single tabletop game ever devised. You move and attack based on written rules and dice.

So how, exactly, is it "Next Generation" when there is nothing new here?

Don't get me wrong - I am absolutely loving the idea that esteemed folk from this website has gone into business to bring a complete game system to compete alongside GW, Mantic etc but the claim that it is "Next Generation" is kinda bugging me.

I like the suppression tokens.

I'd like to see more of them in the box in fact.

They will be useful as my reptile hoards burn and pillage the human villages on my dining room table.

They also give me even more of an excuse to make big explosion sounds.

I eagerly await seeing more alien races, at which point all the blue collar soldiers become conversion fodder and replaced with more interesting races.

 the shrouded lord wrote:
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Well.... Actually courtesy of Yakface.

I made one for myself, he vastly improved on it. As he is want to do.

 Snrub wrote:

 the shrouded lord wrote:
courtesy of snrub : {url=http://www.maelstromsedge.com/ks]{img]http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2015/4/24/707626_md-.jpg[/img][/url] Just replace the the two { with two [ for the banner in my sig.

Well.... Actually courtesy of Yakface.

I made one for myself, he vastly improved on it. As he is want to do.

*hisses loudly and tosses glitter in the air*

It might be a good idea to film some gameplay from Salute, gives the game a bit of hype?

Also, I'd like to see a gameplay video.