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 Forar wrote:
Actually, I just scanned through 15 pages and I couldn't find the last time that video was posted. Maybe it was a link instead of the actual video and thus flew under the radar?

Little help? I want to check something. If nothing else, from the preview image here and the one I seem to recall, I think it's from a different angle/recording.

I just assumed that I missed the post with the pertinent info when you said we had the data already. The convention itself was only this past weekend and robotechX usually posts it fairly quickly.

http://longbeachcomiccon.com/

I skimmed through the videos and didn't see an actual mention of palladium as a licensor (although I may have missed it on youtube fast forward screens). I tried to stop and play when the powerpoint slides changed to see what the topic was. The first Q&A question was "So is Robotech RPG tactics still coming out?" or something to the effect and they said they were nudging palladium to finish wave 2.


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@Nesbet:

Are you still updating your hobby blog? I was curious if you pretty much were sticking to facebook and dakka instead now since I've seen you post a decent amount of stuff here but the blog hasn't been updated since January.

@warboss: yeah, pretty much just fbk and here. I keep lying myself about writing again in my blog :C
I keep failing at it though. Real Life TM sucks

@Swabby: those destroids look great! Congrats!!

Just finished assembling, cleaning and priming these beauties:



Gonna try to basecoat -at least- tonight

Are those the shapeways gnerls? Man I have been tempted to pick some up.

Yup. But those are the third version of Gnerl in Shapeways. At least as I know. First there is a 1/200 model. Then a 1/285 model, but with rough edges. Bought two of these to try. And then Jean Jacques Bocquet came with these Gnerls and Lancers and Nosjaedul Ger and Ghosts, etc. Their models are awesome. The gnerls are just great, way better than the other models.

https://www.shapeways.com/shops/rrt-1


PS: I just founf this
https://www.shapeways.com/search?q=Janx&type=
Seems promising

 warboss wrote:

I just assumed that I missed the post with the pertinent info when you said we had the data already. The convention itself was only this past weekend and robotechX usually posts it fairly quickly.

http://longbeachcomiccon.com/

I skimmed through the videos and didn't see an actual mention of palladium as a licensor (although I may have missed it on youtube fast forward screens). I tried to stop and play when the powerpoint slides changed to see what the topic was. The first Q&A question was "So is Robotech RPG tactics still coming out?" or something to the effect and they said they were nudging palladium to finish wave 2.


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@Nesbet:

Are you still updating your hobby blog? I was curious if you pretty much were sticking to facebook and dakka instead now since I've seen you post a decent amount of stuff here but the blog hasn't been updated since January.

Actually .. with the new president at Harmony Gold has anyone thought of posting complaints about Palladium on their Facebook page?
In the panel video he says he reads all comments... maybe make a big enough fire under Kevin's butt to see product in 2017

Woah, those Lancer II's and Ghosts actually look better than the ones that were previewed by palladium.

 Genoside07 wrote:
Actually .. with the new president at Harmony Gold has anyone thought of posting complaints about Palladium on their Facebook page?
In the panel video he says he reads all comments... maybe make a big enough fire under Kevin's butt to see product in 2017

That's a good idea. I don't personally use facebook except on rare occasions (read: a contest for free stuff makes me use the fluff account I set up) but it might be a good idea for folks to do so. I don't actually think it'll make a difference but maybe accurately stating just how bad it really is and (more importantly for them) the negative effect it has on robotech related purchases outside of palladium might convince them to do more than just nudge.

Flawed premise. With no money, they can't make anything. Doesn't matter if you nudge them or put a gun to their head.

 Genoside07 wrote:
Actually .. with the new president at Harmony Gold has anyone thought of posting complaints about Palladium on their Facebook page?
In the panel video he says he reads all comments... maybe make a big enough fire under Kevin's butt to see product in 2017

Merijeek wrote:
Flawed premise. With no money, they can't make anything. Doesn't matter if you nudge them or put a gun to their head.

IMHO, it would be worth the shot. PB probably or most probably blew all the money already, but we don't know that 100% sure (maybe 99%, ok) and this *could* lead to something. Anything. Anything would be better than this 3 year long wait (and counting).
Who is that guy? Can someone ponit me his profile address or where to harass him about wave2?

I would be happy if PB partners with Reaper to make wave 2 in bonesyum plastic. Better than nothing.
(I would kinda feel sorry for Reaper then, for their partnership choice xD)

Enough complaints and PB may even LOSE the licence. Then maybe someone who would actually Shive a Git could take it over.

Memory could be off, but didn't PB get the license renewed long after this project had gone bad?

Yes, they did. And honestly no other game company out there is going to touch the license IMO to make the game even if PB loses it.

HG said something like PB is their most loyal licensee.

I take that to mean that PB is the only one that has ever wanted it.

Small matter of the Macross IP versus the Harmony Gold north American creation that still has dubious legal merit.
Much like RRT it is a rather dead-end IP that will have no new content to speak of. Maybe the comic-books they expect to produce can do something new.
I just cannot see them drumming-up anything that my kids would be interested in.
Maybe if they make a Minecraft mod...

or a phone app where you can fight Minmei against Khyron, rather like Marvel's "Contest of Champions" or DC's "Injustice: Gods Among us".

On second thoughts, that would be silly, there's not enough characters to keep people interested. [so maybe that's exactly what PB have been doing with our money!

 Conrad Turner wrote:
Enough complaints and PB may even LOSE the licence. Then maybe someone who would actually Shive a Git could take it over.

you do remember that PB dropped the license for years then picked it back up, which means nobody else wanted it?

 Conrad Turner wrote:
or a phone app where you can fight Minmei against Khyron

I would seriously pay money for this, even if it was literally just Minmei vs Khyron.


Didn't HG take the license back? My understanding it was yanked from Palladium Books for a reason.

 Swabby wrote:

 Conrad Turner wrote:
or a phone app where you can fight Minmei against Khyron

I would seriously pay money for this, even if it was literally just Minmei vs Khyron.


Didn't HG take the license back? My understanding it was yanked from Palladium Books for a reason.

nah PB let the license lapse, and renewed it years later.

 Swabby wrote:

Didn't HG take the license back? My understanding it was yanked from Palladium Books for a reason.

Robotech was a dead property at that point and palladium chose not to renew it. After a few years when Palladium needed a "fresh" property/rehash something old (after the Crisis of TreacheryTM) and HG had come out with the first new Robotech anime in roughly 15 years (Shadow Chronicles), they picked it up again. I was going every year to gencon at that time and oddly enough HG actually had a rep there for a robotech panel that year (but never before for 10+ years) like the one in the video posted which I attended. When asked by someone else if they were going to let Palladium redo their rpg to include the new series, the rep responded that they were approaching various rpg companies. My impression was that they didn't necessarily want Palladium to do it. I can only theorize further why (did they hear about how crappy their rules were by that point? did they think they could get more money out of other companies not almost at the brink of closure? was any other company even interested other than palladium at all?) but Palladium ended up again with the license the next year regardless. Add salt as needed.

Robotech (1985) coming to NetFlix on Oct. 1st.

http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/768995-netflix-october-2016-movie-and-tv-titles-announced

Asterios wrote:
Robotech (1985) coming to NetFlix on Oct. 1st.
http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/768995-netflix-october-2016-movie-and-tv-titles-announced

Might only be available for the darn Americans...

Asterios wrote:
Robotech (1985) coming to NetFlix on Oct. 1st.

http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/768995-netflix-october-2016-movie-and-tv-titles-announced

I want wait for Kevin's Bleat tonight to do his crazy end zone victory dance about how this Will Turn It All Around.

Hell, he probably ordered another 10,000 starter boxes as soon as he found out about that.

Merijeek wrote:
I want wait for Kevin's Bleat tonight to do his crazy end zone victory dance about how this Will Turn It All Around.
Hell, he probably ordered another 10,000 starter boxes as soon as he found out about that.

I never thought of that.
I was commenting earlier of how the show has no relevance to my kids or anyone else pretty much under 30 or is into anime.

Now, the #1 reason we figure wave 2 is not happening is due to lack of funds.
Ordering 10,000 more starter boxes would be problematic.
I am sure they will spring into action.
Any day now the "Christmas in the fall" grab bag will go on sale.
To celebrate the release of Robotech on Netflicks, the starter box and a DICE BAG can be requested... for the easy price of $100 US (plus shipping and handling).
Oh it will be like the 80's all over again.

PBWU is up.

UPDATE: Robotech® RPG Tactics™

There is nothing new to report on this front, but ideas continue to fly on all fronts (including a cool idea for a new Character Card Wayne had yesterday). The PDFs of Wave 2 cards continue to be posted on DriveThruRPG.com at a rate of 2 every day until they are ALL posted and available to you over the next several weeks. We are still waiting on a couple of manufacturing quotes, as well as working on plans for upcoming releases like the Robotech® Ghost Fleet sourcebook and RRT scenario books.

So, at least some honesty in the first seven words. That's progress.

The rest is stock cut and paste wankery.

No mention that I can see of the recent HG con thing, or the Netflix thing. But both those require Kevin being on the ball with regards communication and technology. And we know that's not going to happen. Kevin might OWN the Robotech DVD's, but I'd bet a modest amount that if he watches them, the Luddite only watches them on VHS.

A new character card? I am totally hoping it is a full sized Zentraedi named Siem'bodolza that can dodge everything and anything for free but cannot attack ever. Instead you spend every command point you have, remove any other friendly character from your own team from the table along with their squad, declare a crisis of treachery, and are then allowed to slow play your opponent while repeating every ten minutes or so that your turn is 98% complete until they leave the game or die of dehydration.

Interesting idea. I would only add that the ability triggers only on the drawing of a red or black card from the yet to be announced RobotechTM RPGTM TacticsTM CardTM DeckTM (sold separately).

 Swabby wrote:
A new character card? I am totally hoping it is a full sized Zentraedi named Siem'bodolza that can dodge everything and anything for free but cannot attack ever. Instead you spend every command point you have, remove any other friendly character from your own team from the table along with their squad, declare a crisis of treachery, and are then allowed to slow play your opponent while repeating every ten minutes or so that your turn is 98% complete until they leave the game or die of dehydration.

I think it will be an officer with "Throw Under the Bus" ability. Every time the Siem'bodlza takes damage, assign it to another Zentraedi model.

(including a cool idea for a new Character Card Wayne had yesterday)

How much faith are we supposed to have in anything created by people who not only don't play the game, but don't even know the rules and have no sense of what balance is?

 n815e wrote:
How much faith are we supposed to have in anything created by people who not only don't play the game, but don't even know the rules and have no sense of what balance is?

How? That's NOT the question. Question should be WHO?
Who in his right mind would care or put faith in something like that, a special character, designed as you said, while not faving fulfilled the wave 2 rewards...
damn you PB, you piss me off every single week.

 n815e wrote:


I think it will be an officer with "Throw Under the Bus" ability. Every time the Siem'bodlza takes damage, assign it to another Zentraedi model.

Don't forget that if the other model is removed from play as a casualty that the Siem'bodlza player can spawn another model next turn to replace it at the cost of one integrity point. This new model has the "fan friend" downgrade applied (-1 to all attributes) but is fearless within 6" of Siem'bodlza. Please note that this downgrade is cumulative and stacks with previous respawns.

Robotech used to be on Netflix, along with Macross Plus (and I think it may have had Macross II on there at some time as well).

And they're still not finished putting up Wave 2 cards? That's ... Actually quite like PB, considering they could have done it in one fell swoop in an afternoon.