The Mantic's "The Walking Dead Miniatures Game - All Out War" Kickstarter Thread

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**GrimDork**

Yeah, I just looked at it myself. Definitely new male zombies to go with the bikers and soldiers. Cool, they look like they match the survivors and zombie vixens well enough.

Really excited to see this range.

Also, apologies for wildly off topic discussion today, although I think the WGF..or should we say Warlord now.. zombies would be a nice addition to anybody's TWD miniatures game

**judgedoug**

GrimDork wrote:
Yeah, I just looked at it myself. Definitely new male zombies to go with the bikers and soldiers. Cool, they look like they match the survivors and zombie vixens well enough.

Really excited to see this range.

Also, apologies for wildly off topic discussion today, although I think the WGF..or should we say Warlord now.. zombies would be a nice addition to anybody's TWD miniatures game

I certainly plan on mixing the two!

**GrimDork**

Both kits will probably be quite useful for sprucing up any duplicate zombies from TWD game too

**BobtheInquisitor**

GrimDork wrote:
I just trawled Amazon again. Found a few better options in the $7 dollar range. I haven't hit the order button yet but in my cart sits the WGF regular zombies box (not as good as the other kits but still fine I'm sure), a 5" dodge police truck, fire department ambulance, 8" school bus, USPS and Ice cream trucks. All for around 60 bucks which will be taken care of by a giftcard I've had languishing for ages. Could buy zombicide instead, but 5 metal scenery bits and 30 pose-able zombies is a nice alternative.

I think it will balance out well enough with the 6 cars and 1 SUV from my Mars Attacks collection...

Damn synergistic zombie games and enthusiasm...

I've seen the "Cars" cars and wondered if the eyes were raised or flat. Sounds like maybe flat.

The old WGF zombies are pretty bad. You might want to wait for the new ones. They were made around the same time as the Shock Troops, as an indication.

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Oops. Too late.

And clearly the preferred term is "Warlordgames Factory." Clearly.

**GrimDork**

Ahh that makes sense, warlordgames factory, heh. I've looked at them I think they'll mix in fine for now.

**Theophony**

I was considering this KS as I saw it's their version of necromunda with gangs and growth potential, but now with warlord and WGF....I can save myself a Kickstarter headache. Thanks Mantic

**scarletsquig**

I see room for both.

TWD KS for a bulk lot of characters, Warlord for extra zombies and survivors.

Then play whatever set of rules is better or (more importantly) what actually gets played locally.

**CptJake**

$125 for characters cast in board game plastic is a bit steep. I can probably source metal versions of anything Mantic releases from other companies.

**BobtheInquisitor**

Is anyone else seeing the big Page Not Found image in Mantic's latest facebook post?

It would be even better if Paige is the name of a Walking Dead character.

**.Mikes.**

GrimDork wrote:
Toy cars I'm finding tricky. I think 1/43 is the best scale but those are usually expensive as that seems to be the collector's fancy pants scale.

A guy from the Walking Dead Fanatsic FB page found these in Kmart Australia:

Which he did an awesome job on turned into this:

$7 a box apparently. I haven't been able to go in myself and see yet.

**lord_blackfang**

Unless the miniature is supposed to be an 8-year old, those cars are grossly oversized.

**PomWallaby**

1:50 tends to be my preferred scale for these sorts of things. I think 1:40 is too big and 1:60 too small. I probably should carry a figure around with me to help scale the "scaled to fit in box" models. Hotwheels do forklift trucks I think might work, their 1:50 elite range look awesome (the ATeam van, Batmobile and a Delorean).

**.Mikes.**

lord_blackfang wrote:
Unless the miniature is supposed to be an 8-year old, those cars are grossly oversized.

Nope.

Or even better:

Spoiler:

**Azazelx**

Alpharius wrote:

I do find WARLORD's timing on this one...curiously amusing!

To be fair, they've probably had this in the works since they bought out/took over distribution of WGF's stuff. Which puts it long before the Mantic TWD announcement or even their open day when it was secretly previewed. Makes sense to make an announcement - not somuch as a spoiler but to protect their own investment, especially if they have sculpted and tooled new male zombies.

**GrimDork**

Yeah, it *could* be that mantic is the one trying to one up them by being out first. Well kickstarter g before warlord factory debuts at retail.

If I recall, they were planning on deploying the licence last year and ended up doing warpath instead because of logistics/license/complications...right? So I guess it could just be a coincidence.

**bubber**

I bought a bunch of 1:43 from Amazon - got like 4 vehicles per set & cost next to nothing.

**lord_blackfang**

Well, I stand corrected. And also understand why we destroy entire nations over oil prices.

**CptJake**

1:43 is a bit big, but especially if you base your figures they look decent, especially for the price.

Here are a couple of my 1:43 vehicles with figures:

This is actually a resin truck, but it is the same size as some 1:43 stuff I have, I think it is based on one, armored up, then cast.

**scarletsquig**

TWD will be somewhat heroic scale, so 1:43 should do the job nicely.

**TwilightSparkles**

Just over an hour to go...... The big winner for me is this is preassembled , I have stuff I bought January 2015 because finding the time and weather to go outside and glue is difficult - not allowed to glue inside as the smell irritates everyone else!

**Bioptic**

Any word on this? Was supposed to go live a few mins ago, but I know there can be delays on Kickstarter's end.

**DaveC**

A bit late but live now

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1744629938/the-walking-dead-all-out-war-miniatures-game/description

**Theophony**

In for now with an early bird pledge. Still not seeing the value of this yet.

That retailer pledge is crazy

, Breaks down to $27.50 per for the same as the $115/$125 pledge as far as I can read it.

**Nostromodamus**

Terrible initial value, as expected.

Wonder if that will put off TWD fans who don't know how these usually work out?

Anyway time to break out the popcorn and watch the dog and pony show.

**Theophony**

For all the bragging about 120 sculpts for this project it seams silly that they start us with twelve zombies (doubles of 6 sculpts)

I asked the important question of how well they scale next to a zombicide figure, and asked for a side by side photo.

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

The retailer pledge doesn't seem to get the Atlanta expansion, sherrifs badge, dicebag and dice set

so (at present) $27.50 for a $50 retail value box

**Aeneades**

Yeah. Definitely not $125 of products in there even at retail prices. Would estimate it be a little under $100. Stretch goals will fix it but still not good form.

**Nostromodamus**

They're also charging shipping for each wave if they have to split it up.

WTF?

**CptJake**

Folks are already whining for a Blaine figure in the comments section.

Another interesting tidbit, if it takes 2 waves to ship, shipping and handling fees will be added for each shipment/wave.

**Bioptic**

I know that CMON has been going a little over the top with recent Kickstarters, by having final art for almost everything, sculpts for almost every stretch goal, and even production miniatures for a most of the base game. However...the prototypes here are really quite lackluster. Lots of silhouettes and duplicated art.

It also seems genuinely insane, to me, to include an expansion with the initial (overlvalued) offering and not include a third of the characters. As people have said, those not used to the usual Kickstarter trickery will be baffled/put off by the page as it stands.