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I guess we can buy a house some other year?

 Da Boss wrote:
Interesting. I'll be watching this, but mostly for the rules I think. I'm not a big fan of Mantic's universe, and would probably rather kitbash minis. But I do like the idea of a squad based game.

I'm the opposite. Warpath rules don't interest me, but I lovelove cool generic sci fi stuff.

I still haven't gotten my KOW pledge (are any shipping notification of said pledge), so I'm not overly moved by the possibility of handing mantic another couple hundred bucks.

I'm excited about the Warpath rules as a 40k replacement. the models... less so... just because I already have a huge backlog of painting projects.

OTOH, as judgedoug correctly points out, the sweet spot pledge is an amazing value in these kickstarters.

Well I've already got the good part of a vermyn army coking through the dz ks, so I'll be interested in the warpath ks for the vermyn tunneler at least. I hope they have looked again at their ruleset since the multi basing beta left me cold.

still I think the warpath ks is hitting rather soon, I would have prefered to get my dz pledge first before they embarked on a new system.

I'm quite a mantic fanboy so ill be looking on with interest.

Considering that I still don't have my Dreadball stuff and they haven't responded to my emails about it, yeah, I don't think I'll be putting any real money into this until they've sorted that out.

I'm Kickstarted out for the year, and probably for a while into next year. I'll watch it, but I can't afford any new toys for quite a while.

 JoshInJapan wrote:
I'm Kickstarted out for the year, and probably for a while into next year. I'll watch it, but I can't afford any new toys for quite a while.

last 3 mantic ks I've gone in for $1 and pm the money when I can afford it. It also helps to wait and see the renders later.

I could say something unkind about them probably being out of money to fulfill the previous kickstarters. Seriously, almost nothing new from KoW2 has been produced yet and absolutely nothing from DZ2.

I shall be watching to see if there are any HIPS vehicles, robots or female infantry that might be competently designed and sculpted, that I might buy in two years when they are actually released.

In for a buck. They've been pissing me off here lately so I'll hold a spot in the PM to give them time to get off my @#$% list.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
I could say something unkind about them probably being out of money to fulfill the previous kickstarters. Seriously, almost nothing new from KoW2 has been produced yet and absolutely nothing from DZ2.

If this is indeed the case, that is rather...troubling.

Hopefully everything's OK over there in...Nottingham.

I think that's a bit reaching...

They still have several months before fulfilling those things.

They're spending a lot of resources to get Dungeon Saga out and get KoW restocked to take advantage of the massive increase in interest since the fall of WFB.

I wouldn't worry about it.

Ah, looks as if blackfang jumped the gun then?

No evidence of what he's alleging.

I'd guess they're anxious to get as much new stuff into design/production ASAP to take advantage of GW's slipping market share and the attention it's getting them.

Or it might even be that this just fits with when they could get slots with their sculptors and tooling/production facilities; those slots are not fungible commodities exactly.


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Besides, if they were in need of a quick cash injection you can bet your arse they would have made sure to have the KoW PM open for a second round if nothing else.

They had planned Warpath for late 2015 for a long time now. I just expected more notice for exactly when.

With their other projects getting near completion with regard to fulfillment, they probably need to get Warpath moving to secure the funds for a slot in their manufacturers schedule once Deadzone and KoW are complete.

I see no reason for doomsaying.

I want to believe...

...and I also want a plastic Space Dwarf army!

 Alpharius wrote:
I want to believe...

...and I also want a plastic Space Dwarf army!

I really want new Marauders, and an excuse to field the insane amount of Plague Zombies I own.

Hopefully they do away with, or provide an alternative to, all that hub nonsense.

Ah...I admit, I forgot about the Hub Stuff.

Feels a lot like a 'too clever by half' thing, but I'll give it a try if they end up sticking with it.

But I hope they don't.

Cripes, it's too soon. I'm in on KoW 2, DS, and DZ2. I'll keep an eye on it, but it'd take some real bells and whistles to get me to go in on a 4th Kickstarter when the first 3 haven't delivered yet.

And judging by the DZ2 KS, I'm not expecting enough bells and whistles. But we'll see.

After thinking about it (and getting paid for selling a different Kickstarter off to fund this one) I'm alright with the timing.

I got my first batch of KoW stuff, DBX is done, and all I'm waiting on is Dungeon Saga to arrive and for Mantic to actually start working on Deadzone.

I have a feeling we'll see some overlap in terms of plastic sprues on offer.

I had wanted more Forge Fathers but had stuck with just what was on offer from the Lockdown pledge (barring the double DZ Forge Father starters I have).
Seeing the painted Enforcer bikes, I guess I could be convinced to get a few more as well.

Maybe we'll see the Sphyr commandos/ shock troops I've been hoping for.

 Alpharius wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:
I could say something unkind about them probably being out of money to fulfill the previous kickstarters. Seriously, almost nothing new from KoW2 has been produced yet and absolutely nothing from DZ2.

If this is indeed the case, that is rather...troubling.

Hopefully everything's OK over there in...Nottingham.

Unless I'm dreaming we've physically had shipped a bunch of new KoW units, have seen the Water people and the Lizard dudes and the Abssal imp guys and gals as well as several DZ2 items.

We've seen the succubi sprue and a few metals, nothing else. 3D printed "masters" aren't product.

Warpath was supposed to be 2015 before they decided to do KoW2 and DZ2. They said there would be a breather after these two and hinted at a second licensed game in the meantime, I believe. Now all of a sudden there is a big hurry to start a huge new Kickstarter - the big one, the new flagship product, that people would really need a lot of forewarning to save up for. So it seems to me that they are knowingly sacrificing the total income of the KS for the sake of getting money sooner.

Day 1 I'm going to pledge the $150 sweet spot and then just check back on the last day to see how ridiculously it has grown

 adamsouza wrote:
Day 1 I'm going to pledge the $150 sweet spot and then just check back on the last day to see how ridiculously it has grown

If you can actually manage that kind of restraint I will personally exalt every post you make from then on.

I have too much fun watching the ups and downs. Though, towards the second half of DBX I just clocked out and stopped paying attention

 GrimDork wrote:
I have too much fun watching the ups and downs. Though, towards the second half of DBX I just clocked out and stopped paying attention

I'm the same. I enjoy the spectacle, the excitement, and the anticipation.

Reminds me of being a kid at the holidays and waiting to dig in to presents.

I like how it always stalls in the middle and then we throw fits and make threats until they double the value of the pledge.

I intensely followed Deadzone, Dreadball, DBX, and Loka and backed for more crap than I'll ever use for any of those games.

KoW1 and Dungeon Saga, I checked on day 1, was unimpressed, and didn't back, only to regret it later.

This time, I'll bid the sweat spot on day 1, which always ends up being a great value, but I won't get swept up in the KS fever and go crazy with add-ons.

I'll have to be careful. I assume we will be funding more hard plastic units and hopefully vehicles. If they do some corporation stuff and its closer to their original corp marines I'll want a bunch, especially vehicles. A few bits to cap off my enforcers and forge fathers.I've got to avoid getting pulled in on plague, asterians, and so on.

Little corp/rebs vehicles will destroy my resolve, anything like a scout atv, mini tanks, and big tanks/fliers...

Gotta watch out for frivolous 20 infantry for 20 dollars purchases as that wat leads armies... That and something like 5 tanks for xx monies, I surely dint need quite that many...


Wonder if it will have a dedicated starter box what can't be changed... Or if it'll be more like KoW where 50 ish gets you the books, sweet spot is for the books and two starter forces to make your own starter box, and so on.