Dakka's Game - Maelstrom's Edge - First teaser from the Broken faction - pg 91

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**legoburner**

Thanks everyone, still early days though - a lot can happen between now and shipping, so it wont be done until it is out the door!

I should add to Spiral Arm Studios' post to note that the rulebook is now completed, so if you have a spare $10, you can grab a nice digital copy of it in the pledge manager too!

The rulebook is naturally full of rules, background fiction, pretty pictures, artwork, etc. Here are a few preview pictures:

**Tibbsy**

I had a good read through the fluff section the other day and I loved it

Not really been through the rules yet, but the fluff is good and got me really excited to see more of the other factions, particularly the Broken.

I know it's a bit early to ask, but have you got plans for models for these new factions? How long am I going to have to wait to properly put a group of rag-tag rebels on the table?

**Spiral Arm Studios**

Thanks Tibbsy, a lot of work went in to the fluff so we are glad you loved it!

Future models and factions are in active development at the moment, but it is a very slow process and we suspect 18 months is a realistic timescale for the broken in high detail plastic. We'd love to get them out right now, but had to put all our focus into the two launch factions or we'd simply not have been able to afford to create the game!

**the_Armyman**

Yeah, this is total BS. This is the first KS I've ever backed, and it's just not living up to my expectations. Other KSs have had threads that lasted for years, allowing backers to vent frustrations about delays. Then there's the complete lack of midstream design changes, leading to badly sculpted restic or PVC models. Lastly, the guys running SAS come on here constantly yammering about their successful post-KS execution plan and how they want to "keep us in the loop." Honestly, it's all very disappointing. I wanted the full KS experience, and I'm being let down by people I thought I could trust.

In other news, I plan on reading through my copy of the rules this weekend

**Dannicus**

If I preorder today, will I still get it in the first wave?

**legoburner**

If you do so in the next 2 hours!

**BobtheInquisitor**

Crap! Knew I forgot to do something this weekend.

**legoburner**

it's ok, we've been delayed a touch so you probably have another 3 hours left to go.

**BobtheInquisitor**

legoburner wrote:
it's ok, we've been delayed a touch so you probably have another 3 hours left to go.

Ha! I knew you would run into delays!

(That extra few hours let me squeak right in.)

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Vermonter wrote:
Hold on a minute, SAS. You're going to deliver this Kickstarter on time? I'm so disappointed in you. I really thought you understood the way these things work.

"By gamers for gamers," "we love our wonderful backers," and so on are supposed to be treacly, insincere sales pitches, with no reflection on actual service or customer satisfaction. Do you even know what insincere means? It means, "NOT sincere." As in, lying to customers to sell a product. Duh.

You'd better really let us down on the quality of your sprues, or switch your casting material to bendy PVC at the last minute, or forget to put drones in all the boxed sets. At the very least, make the game available in stores before we get our pledge rewards, and make sure it's selling at a lower price than we paid for it.

Something.

We wargame Kickstarter backers expect a certain standard to be upheld, after all.

They just delayed the shipping by 3 whole hours...and not an update in sight. What else are you hiding, Medge?

**malfred**

Oops. Not sure if I fixed mine in time. My address didn't autocomplete the way I thought it would when I first typed it in.

**legoburner**

If you got an email asking you to fix your address them you are still good until tonight.

**Seventyone**

So no free bonus sprue for you being late?

sadface

**angelofvengeance**

Seventyone wrote:
So no free bonus sprue for you being late?

sadface

That sort of thing does cost them money to do, you know.

**Azazelx**

This is shipping on time? Kudos, guys. Well done.

**darrkespur**

Azazelx wrote:
This is shipping on time? Kudos, guys. Well done.

Thanks! We worked really hard for a long time before going public to make sure this happened. It will be great to finally see the game in our hands - and those of our backers!

**SexierThanYou13**

When's the next shipping run for backers?

**legoburner**

The second wave of shipping will be around the 20th January. We are just finalising logistics on wave 1 right now, then should have a more precise shipping estimate out for everyone who made it in time.

**TP^DC Deputy Manager**

My order is being picked and packed - come on!!!!!!!

[doing a little dance of joy]

Cheers guys!

**bubber**

Hello achasz
Your recent Maelstrom's Edge order (487447) has been upgraded to picking/packing. This may only reflect part of your order, so please visit http://www.maelstromsedge.com then sign in and view your outstanding orders to see which specific items are in picking/packing. You will get a further email notifying you when they have been shipped.

Thank you very much for your support and continued interest in Maelstrom's Edge!

Yey - now this is how you run a KS (Prodos take note).

**Emperors_Champion**

TP^DC Deputy Manager wrote:
My order is being picked and packed - come on!!!!!!!

[doing a little dance of joy]

Cheers guys!

Same here!

... except for the little dance bit.. but that's mainly because I'm lying down!

**Thimn**

Very exciting, mine is on its way!

**legoburner**

Remember folks, these are picking/packing notices, not shipping. The last components get to the warehouse shortly, and you'll get separate shipping notice emails once they are packed and sent out. Thanks for your support

**BobtheInquisitor**

What are the last components?

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

from the update jus now the rule books that they decided to re-print to get better quality

**warboss**

DId they post pics of the troublesome rulebooks that they're replacing? Is this before any went out?

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

no pictures,

nothing had been sent out yet,

full update text

Hi everyone,

As most of you probably noticed, our picking and packing emails have gone out for all orders finalised in time. If you've not completed the pledge manager yet, the next wave of shipping should go out around Jan 20th, so you'll need to complete the pledge manager by Jan 17th or so,

It has been an extremely hectic week for us here, so our apologies for the lack of updates! The biggest news is that we suffered a delay with book production. We got samples back of our printed rulebook and it was just not what we'd hoped for in terms of quality. This meant adjusting the print options, and reprinting them all. As such, we incurred an extra 2 week delay on the print and they will not be in our warehouse until next week. A 2 week difference, while a total pain at this time of the year, was small enough to justify the big increase in print quality compared to the early proofs and still lets us get everything shipped out in December.

We also suffered a delay of a few days in customs, but all should be good now, and the last of the plastic should be in our warehouse tomorrow

The Maelstrom's Edge box set boxes are all done, are in our warehouse and are looking great! Everyone who has seen them so far has been very impressed with the vibrancy and we cant wait until you get your copies!

We'll be packing over the next two weeks most likely, and then shipping between Christmas and New Year. Terrible timing for assembling models during the holidays, but they will still be with the vast majority of backers before the holidays are over, and will be with everyone while the weather is bad outside so painting, modelling and gaming can keep you cozy!

For the 16 backers who have not been able to finalise their payment yet - we have space allocated in the packing queue for your stuff. We will sort it out this week with you. Your orders might go out a few days after the rest as a result, but will still be in the wave 1 shipping. If you failed to complete your transaction before, please try now as we've fixed a bunch of the things that were hampering people. If it still fails, we will email you within approximately 48 hours to follow up.

For the 2 backers who have non-standard boxes (cardboard contents only), these will be sent slightly after wave 1 to avoid risk of errors. We will have to manually process your orders rather than going through our shipping system like the rest of the orders, so are a bit more tied down around the holiday season.

For New Zealanders - anyone with multiple box sets in an order has had their order split into two distinct orders in our packaging/postal system to keep you below the NZ customs threshold.

Thank you all very much for your support and patience - nearing delivery is extremely exciting for us all! To be able to do it on time is especially rewarding and we cant wait to see what you do with your models!

**legoburner**

warboss wrote:
DId they post pics of the troublesome rulebooks that they're replacing? Is this before any went out?

The rulebooks were not finished, it was the mid-production proof which had too poor print quality, so there is no finished book to look at for the aborted version, just stacks and stacks of paper. The cover was nice but the interior was not good enough and the revised version will be a big jump up.

**BobtheInquisitor**

Will you be shipping USPS?

warboss wrote:
DId they post pics of the troublesome rulebooks that they're replacing? Is this before any went out?

"See page XXX"?

**warboss**

Thanks for double QA checking the books and for the various clarifications in the thread.

**Akaelus**

Damn, this is shipping already? I backed the kickstarter when it first started and forgot about it. Guess I'll have to wait until January