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 NTRabbit wrote:


e: Mantic could hire Dan Abnett to write it, I hear GW are having real trouble getting him to write anything for them anymore

Yes. Because, ya know, Marvel Comics.

If GW can't (wont) outbid Marvel for Abnett's time, I don't think Mantic would. It would be a nice coup, but probably expensive.

http://www.cosmicbooknews.com/content/first-look-dan-abnetts-hercules-1

http://marvel.com/comics/creators/1107/dan_abnett

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The new "The Beast Arises"-series on the BL-website is probably a smart way to do it. ( http://www.blacklibrary.com/ )

Buy Abnett for the first book to lure people into the series. Than (hopefully) sell them several more books by less expensive authors.

How are we doing for $235 total warfare pledges remaining? I want to upgrade my buck but the KS website is being a git on my smart phone

Wonderwolf wrote:

 NTRabbit wrote:


e: Mantic could hire Dan Abnett to write it, I hear GW are having real trouble getting him to write anything for them anymore

Yes. Because, ya know, Marvel Comics.

Having your name in the credits for one of the top cinematic releases of 2014 probably does put writing stories for Games Workshop into perspective.

I updated my quick reference sheet for the Warpath alpha rules:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/27484619/Mantic/Warpath%20Quick%20Reference%20Sheet%20v0.2.pdf

Currently has all the main rules summarized on a single page of A4 (including terrain, vehicles and orders), will add another page soon with special rules on one side and unit stats on the other.

 scarletsquig wrote:
I updated my quick reference sheet for the Warpath alpha rules:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/27484619/Mantic/Warpath%20Quick%20Reference%20Sheet%20v0.2.pdf

Currently has all the main rules summarized on a single page of A4 (including terrain, vehicles and orders), will add another page soon with special rules on one side and unit stats on the other.

Awesome! Thanks SS!


As for FF Trikes..... (Facepalm). Mantic was doing SO WELL.... I hope they don't ruin it with trikes. :(

I think the total is moving along nicely. I wouldn't be surprised if it ended in the 500 range, last days are always busy.

 Mort wrote:

 scarletsquig wrote:
I updated my quick reference sheet for the Warpath alpha rules:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/27484619/Mantic/Warpath%20Quick%20Reference%20Sheet%20v0.2.pdf

Currently has all the main rules summarized on a single page of A4 (including terrain, vehicles and orders), will add another page soon with special rules on one side and unit stats on the other.

Awesome! Thanks SS!


As for FF Trikes..... (Facepalm). Mantic was doing SO WELL.... I hope they don't ruin it with trikes. :(

You can always not use/buy them if you don't like them. Personally I am in favour since I want a squat army. I expect the autocannon reference in the last update refers to the corp troopers heavy weapon upgrade.

What's wrong with trikes?

 Taaloc wrote:
What's wrong with trikes?

Nothing. They are great minis to put in your A-Team lunch box, and look amazing on your Trapper Keeper. Paint the rider in dirty plaid flannel and he'll be radical.

 Thraxas Of Turai wrote:
How are we doing for $235 total warfare pledges remaining? I want to upgrade my buck but the KS website is being a git on my smart phone

80 or so to go

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:

 Taaloc wrote:
What's wrong with trikes?

Nothing. They are great minis to put in your A-Team lunch box, and look amazing on your Trapper Keeper. Paint the rider in dirty plaid flannel and he'll be radical.

I know you're mocking him but at the same time this sounds totally bodacious..

Jumping around a little: For the Tunneler, has their been any discussion about the bitz that look like fingers with curved fingernails on the concept? Will their be organic elements on the final design or am I just mis-reading the concept drawing?

Looking at Tunnelers as drop pod stand-ins.

Just popping my head back in here briefly. As I'm more interested in Warpath firefight and Deadzone I'm finding the £1 pledge a more attractive option right now. (I dropped my EB) I'll end up playing Firefight with whatever Deadzone units I have and may add some "20/20" deals to make up the numbers. Shame because I'd have liked a "taster deal" of each faction much like the 2player starter but that seems to be off the table.

I've upped to Tyrant just in case Mantic actually act on the suggestions they requested from pledgers in the comments thread.

I'll have to pull out of it later tonight, though, if they don't do anything. I'll most likely be out during the grand finale tomorrow, so any last minute revisions will be too late for me.

A few nice additions to some of the battlegroups, like 20 more marionette drones for the Asterian group, a Plague mule for the Plague battlegroup, etc., and Tyrant could become worth my while. Otherwise,it's back to Total Warfare for me, or even to a la carte. I can still beat Total Warfare's price pretty well if I cut out the redundant old stuff in the battlegroups that I don't need extras of.

 DaveC wrote:
The new Forgefather light vehicle is probably the trike that's been mentioned by Ronnie in the Facebook chat apparently it's Mule sized.

Individual 'whisker' bikes, or in a full 'beard' formation, lots of ridiculous places for this to go!

Plague Bursters (2nd Gens) at $430k

This art is illustrative of the concept we are aiming for, but is not final art - the final miniature will be more grotesque, with boils (that explode when shot!), tentacles and more.

These unstable Plague creatures are truly horrifying, and when we break this stretch goal you can add-on a set of 2 metal ogre-sized beasts for $12, or a pack of 6 for $30!

$450k - The GCPS/Plague Hornet




COMING SOON:

TEST SUBJECT ESCAPES (Plague Character)

 dragqueeninspace wrote:

You can always not use/buy them if you don't like them. Personally I am in favour since I want a squat army. I expect the autocannon reference in the last update refers to the corp troopers heavy weapon upgrade.

Well... yeah... I know I don't "have' to buy them. That's pretty much common sense.

I guess I had just hoped for a little more out of Mantic than to take yet another stereotypical GW theme and add it to their manifest. We already have Doomwheels, Valkyrie gunships... why not copy some more with Squat trikes?

/yawn

But, less for me to buy, is more money I can certainly spend elsewhere.

 scarletsquig wrote:
Mantic's hard plastic sci-fi models are excellent, details, extra parts and overall quality are just as good as GW.

Wow. No. Just.... no.


They're getting better, but... no.

So now the plague borrowed looting from 40k Orks judging by that drop ship?

That Dropship is lovely!

ArtIsGreat wrote:

 DaveC wrote:
The new Forgefather light vehicle is probably the trike that's been mentioned by Ronnie in the Facebook chat apparently it's Mule sized.

Individual 'whisker' bikes, or in a full 'beard' formation, lots of ridiculous places for this to go!

"We lost three Moustaches of troopers on that last run!"
"By Space Odin's Beard! Release the Soul Patch scouts, we must plan our next move before we are reduced to mere sideburns!"

The Plague version of things seems like it could be a lot more imaginative.

 MLaw wrote:

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:

 Taaloc wrote:
What's wrong with trikes?

Nothing. They are great minis to put in your A-Team lunch box, and look amazing on your Trapper Keeper. Paint the rider in dirty plaid flannel and he'll be radical.

I know you're mocking him but at the same time this sounds totally bodacious..

I am not mocking him. I am mocking Mantic's complete lack of originality or initiative. It's hard to lead the dance when you are trying so hard to keep in someone else's footsteps.

The Tunnel Runners might make decent not-Doomflayers.

 scarletsquig wrote:

Also, if we get 3000 backers, everyone gets a free book.

Hm.. was it a previous Mantic KS that reneged on a printed book? Wasn't there a CYOA for DKH? Or am I misremembering?

ArtIsGreat wrote:

 DaveC wrote:
The new Forgefather light vehicle is probably the trike that's been mentioned by Ronnie in the Facebook chat apparently it's Mule sized.

Individual 'whisker' bikes, or in a full 'beard' formation, lots of ridiculous places for this to go!

I can't wait for the goatee squads lead by the hero Van Dyke.

 pretre wrote:

 Vermis wrote:

 Taaloc wrote:
The other two concepts were far better and not doomwheely

The sketches on the previous page here, or something else? If the former, I know the monowheel vehicle is a popular thing in sci-fi and even some potential real world imaginings... but even the other designs, applied to space rodents, that are clearly based on GW's fantasy rodents who have their own highly distinctive and notorious hamster-wheel vehicle...?

but apparently the doomwheel is the one the community wanted when asked to vote via the comments on the ks. The cynic in me reckons they would have picked the doomwheel one anyway, but who knows.

I'll guess this why Ronnie or whoever allegedly feels confident in throwing anything out. (Honestly, a choice between these concepts is basically a choice between hamster wheels and hamster balls)
This is why we can't have nice things.

Or... This is why the vocal folks in this Dakka thread do not represent the actual target audience of the Warpath KS?

Sweeping generalities FTW! Especially considering that there are at least 3 members of the RC in here.


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 GrimDork wrote:
Total is molasses today. They're gonna have to do something or be content with a lower total. Hopefully last day shenanigans and the Hornet have enough of an impact to get the hornet locked. I think all that artificial scarcity/pledge pressure pulled money in that usually shows up on the last days.

There's not much they can do about that, because you're obviously right. There's a finite amount of money, and they pulled a lot of the last-minute fence-sitters in already with the passive-aggressive artificial scarcity. I wonder how many they put off with it, on balance?

 plastictrees wrote:


The Plague version of things seems like it could be a lot more imaginative.

Yes. The plague side borrows from Zombiecide, Firefly and GW orks. One more source and their method graduates into 'research'.

(I'm only half-mocking. I'm glad they are taking ideas from more than one source now.)




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 Azazelx wrote:
The Tunnel Runners might make decent not-Doomflayers.

 scarletsquig wrote:

Also, if we get 3000 backers, everyone gets a free book.

Hm.. was it a previous Mantic KS that reneged on a printed book? Wasn't there a CYOA for DKH? Or am I misremembering?

It depends on what you mean by 'renege', but yes. That happened more than once.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:

 DaveC wrote:
The new Forgefather light vehicle is probably the trike that's been mentioned by Ronnie in the Facebook chat apparently it's Mule sized.

....of course it's a trike....

I understand that this is a concept sculpt. It does fit in with the beard-tank aesthetic that they've established, though, as well as that Named character from the first days...




Jokes aside, I'd love to see something like the old-school Squat Bikers.

 Azazelx wrote:

 pretre wrote:

 Vermis wrote:

 Taaloc wrote:
The other two concepts were far better and not doomwheely

The sketches on the previous page here, or something else? If the former, I know the monowheel vehicle is a popular thing in sci-fi and even some potential real world imaginings... but even the other designs, applied to space rodents, that are clearly based on GW's fantasy rodents who have their own highly distinctive and notorious hamster-wheel vehicle...?

but apparently the doomwheel is the one the community wanted when asked to vote via the comments on the ks. The cynic in me reckons they would have picked the doomwheel one anyway, but who knows.

I'll guess this why Ronnie or whoever allegedly feels confident in throwing anything out. (Honestly, a choice between these concepts is basically a choice between hamster wheels and hamster balls)
This is why we can't have nice things.

Or... This is why the vocal folks in this Dakka thread do not represent the actual target audience of the Warpath KS?

Sweeping generalities FTW! Especially considering that there are at least 3 members of the RC in here.

I doubt that the ones I'm talking about are on the RC.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:

 Azazelx wrote:
The Tunnel Runners might make decent not-Doomflayers.

 scarletsquig wrote:

Also, if we get 3000 backers, everyone gets a free book.

Hm.. was it a previous Mantic KS that reneged on a printed book? Wasn't there a CYOA for DKH? Or am I misremembering?

It depends on what you mean by 'renege', but yes. That happened more than once.

Um, promise that a physical book will be a thing, and then turn around and say "sorry, no can do". How many times have they done it? And if more than once, why go back to that particular well?

At least this time I don't have to pay for the physical book that then gets dropped after the cash is handed over, unlike last time.