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Looking forward to this, not sure about it shipping before Warpath though.

Maybe part of their deal with Skybound? Surely there's pressure to get it out before xmas whereas they already have the monies for Warpath etc etc... They're also talking about only having the core stuff ship in the first wave so we may have a lot of that already set to go into tooling, who knows.

 scarletsquig wrote:
Looking forward to this, not sure about it shipping before Warpath though.

Wait.. what? When is Warpath supposed to ship? (the models, not their schizophrenic rules).
And wow - Boosters a lot more than I expected them to be at £12.50/$20. I guess they could come with more than 1 figure, as a single figure with card for that price doesn't stack up well at all next to X-Wing.

I can see the e pansion a for this being "why did the plague happen"

 Theophony wrote:
I can see the e pansion a for this being "why did the plague happen"

Spoiler:

Then have Mars Attacks add-ons

When Kirkman was selling the premise of the comic to the publisher, it was indeed aliens that caused the zombie apocalypse as a first wave to soften humanity up for invasion.

I believe the expansions were supposed to be a main character, secondary character, and unique zombie sculpt. And cards for everyone that needs them and more items/whatever.

That's kinda what I remember. Could be hallucinating.

That's a lot better than a single. I guess we'll see what they come out with in a week.

It's still a lot of money for not very much! Zombicide sold 4 models for $20 (2 characters, 2 zombies) + profile sheets, but that was for Kickstarter-exclusive stuff. This puts it as directly competing with FFG Imperial Assault miniatures (blister pack of unpainted models and cards for £10-15). Walking Dead probably has some very rabid boardgamer fans, but I wouldn't imagine as many as Star Wars does.

Equally, who knows! Licenses are powerful. Exploding Kittens did $9 million off the back of the Oatmeal, and Walking Dead is bigger than the Oatmeal...

Have we seen this model yet?

"Miniatures pending approval"

Been there before...

I don't think so, Grim. I've been following this decently close, and that's the first I've seen of her.

Love that model. Andrea right?

That's my guess but I dunno who's in the comics and who's not.

Is that Z-Ronnie on the corner of the artwork?

Surely must be Andrea, she looks good!

 Nostromodamus wrote:
"Miniatures pending approval"

Been there before...

.. This isn't anything to do with Fox is it? ..

It's approval from Skybound. I am pretty sure they will be much easier and quicker to get things approved than AvP approval from Fox.

A lot is approved already. The text is just being cautious...

Well after that whole not-whoever they were gonna do for Dungeon Saga that got made to disappear... I could see being cautious.

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
Love that model. Andrea right?

Yes, it's Andrea.

 GrimDork wrote:
Well after that whole not-whoever they were gonna do for Dungeon Saga that got made to disappear... I could see being cautious.

What was that then for the uninformed? Or does no-one know?

125 usd?

So all the stuff possible then. Because you shouldn't buy anything from those mean people that run retail!

I dint watch the show they were referencing s character from but I think it's fairly popular amongst various gamers. I'll just let someone else fill in the blanks because I never knew much about the show or character. Not enough to know the actresses name even lol.

 Pacific wrote:

 GrimDork wrote:
Well after that whole not-whoever they were gonna do for Dungeon Saga that got made to disappear... I could see being cautious.

What was that then for the uninformed? Or does no-one know?

Extra stuff promised was either moved to digital, changed without telling customers or just plain dropped.

Goal posts moved so much, Mantic moved from playing football in Nottingham to South America

Thebiggesthat wrote:
125 usd?

So all the stuff possible then. Because you shouldn't buy anything from those mean people that run retail!

Please take that back. Mantic have made a renewed effort to support retailers.

By launching another Kickstarter?

 Pacific wrote:

 GrimDork wrote:
Well after that whole not-whoever they were gonna do for Dungeon Saga that got made to disappear... I could see being cautious.

What was that then for the uninformed? Or does no-one know?

They had a stretch goal of Felicia Days character Codex from The Guild. I can't remember the name of the game but she had already stopped a character based on Codex appearing in another companies fantasy Kickstarter (it may have been Drakerys) and she took action against Mantic as well so they had to remove the stretch goal. At the time they said they would try to license the character but nothing ever came of it.

She keeps a pretty tight hold on her licensing (Dark horse have the comic rights to the guild and QMX the merchendice & statues). Felicia Day also appeared as herself as a playable character in the board game Dead of Winter for charity.

Thebiggesthat wrote:
By launching another Kickstarter?

They obviously lack the funds to do this on their own, amiright?

Thebiggesthat wrote:
By launching another Kickstarter?

They are leaving out quite a few expansions that will be retail only so Kickstsrter backers will not get everything. They also usually have a deal so that retailers can get all the Kickstarter products at a bulk discount.

I suspect at least the basic order will have been put in with their factory before the ks starts so that retial orders can be offered to the various distributors and stores

(i'm sure the licence will say they have to release the gsme however the ks goes)

then when the ks comes in extra product will be added to the runs to go to backers, and more for retsil too)

so can they pay for some copies of the game without ks? yes

could they pay for 20,000 units (or whastever printrun 1 turns out to be)? probably not without taking too much out of the business (in case it's a Mars Attacks mild success) or taking out an expensive loan (they don't seem to have a lot of what bbanks etc like as security)

Interesting that Warlord games choose today to announce their Zombie tabletop skirmish game Project Z which will use the Wargames factory Zombies and Survivor kits.

The license alone will carry TWD but now they have competition that will beat them to the market and use HIPS miniatures.