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 kodos wrote:
As above, you really think Mantic can get away with LI quality infantry?

And for now, 3 people on Dakka being angry because "not final" 3D renders of vehicles being off scale has enough impact to completely redesign the full project?

I'm guessing it's more than 3 on Dakka, as they've already said they are addressing the issue.

And it's more a case of 6-spus per box for a 2000 pt base army instead of five, rather than two boxes instead of one. This doesn't seem to be a big deal, and they're aiming for a solution that, hopefully, will please all us scale-nerds.

they have said from the very beginning that they aim for larger vehicles if possible, but just don't know yet
so nothing really changed

the problem is that they have 1 base per frame for certain units, which gives 1 unit of 6 bases per box
changing the amount of frames per box will also change this and give not enough models per box to field complete units

and yes, if a single box ends up with models for 4 or 5 bases were you need 6, this would be much bigger issue for many more people
(and even with 4 bases and "just buy another box" people ending up with 8 and it will be an issue)

The other option would be to add another sprue to the box instead, I guess. That way you'd end up with extras.

I expect it would also impact the price, but it might be a good trade off. Time will tell. I'm personally an old Epic hand, I don't really mind if they fiddle with the scale xD

I'm impressed at how much they are responding and adapting to requests as the campaign goes on!

Now there's a new STL All-In Pack as an add-on for £125. This is every STL file for every non-plastic unit unlocked in the campaign.

This is also now included in the £375 High Command Pledge, which already had 4x cores, reinforcements and super heavies and £100 of terrain.

It does feel like every potentially-interested demographic is now being catered to, which is no mean feat.

Mmm nope I'd hoped they wouldn't pursist with that design, oh well I have 2 Aberrations that will fit the role of a Colossus and just about fit a 50mm base (although that looks bigger than a 50mm base)

That's very impressive.

8 factions of STLs, print as many as you want for £125 is really great value at about £15 an army.

They're really keen to get this one moving, I'm thinking 2x captain + STLs for £423 rather than the £475 pledge level though, to get everything I'll ever need for all 8 armies. The really nice thing is minimizing the pile of grey, whenever I need a new unit outside of the core hard plastics to try a new army build, 3d printer goes brrr and there it is, it doesn't have to exist until I want to paint it and include it in a game.

And 2x captain comes with 4 sprues of battlezone terrain too, which is a nice amount to sprinkle on the table and maybe even enough for travel deadzone...

Plague rhino is actually pretty sweet (IMO).

Agreed, that actually translated in to 3D better than expected. I think the extra apparent thickness on the legs helps a lot.

The proportions on the concept art seem mostly like a normal sized rhino. On the render, they're around as wide as three/four human torsos and give much better sense of bulk and scale to the thing.

Was starting to think I was the only one here that likes the giant plague rhino thing!

It's a meh concept but executed quite well, the pose looking down at tiny enemies sells it.

It's an 80mm base.

 mattjgilbert wrote:
It's an 80mm base.

whoa.

Now I'm waiting for people to ask for it in 28mm for Firefight with an old bin lid for a base.

 mattjgilbert wrote:
It's an 80mm base.

I hope we get something in between 25 and 80mm too, it's a big jump

80mm??? Huh...

I didn't have authority interest in Plague before....

Maybe not all super heavy things will be 80.

I guess also if vehicles do end up getting bases, then they’d be in middle.

That is unexpected, 80mm base for super heavies is massive
But this makes the design of the Enforcer and FF vehicles look better

More like Über-Heavies rather than super heavies

Not sure if it was shared here yet, but Mantic uploaded the Veer-Myn's core and reinforcement box contents:

Really good mix for the Core there

GCPS seems almost certain to unlock, but the next one up is an outside chance.

GCPS in the next little while.

The huge 48 hour end jump I think will be enough for 7 if not 8 factions to finish.

I have doubts they'll get to nameless, personally i had also hoped for more tunnel runners - assuming they end up 1 model pet base. Still seems pretty good as far as a unit selection goes

Looking at trends and projections, Nameless are not out but we will see what the last 24 hours bring

I’m intrigued by the Veermyn, but I’m a little surprised that they’re not further along in development. “Epic sculpts to follow”???

they have literally just started with the development and haven't even finished the first 4 factions yet

they have plans and ask for the money to turn those plans into a miniature wargame

I just realized that the veer-myn not-jezzails unit isn't part of what's on offer :/

Pretty great lineup for rats. Please remember to vote Technodrome

The math for veer-myn doesn't work, 238 is not divisible by 6

chaos0xomega wrote:
The math for veer-myn doesn't work, 238 is not divisible by 6

Yeah, 240 would make sense, can't see how they get to 238 (Tunnel Runners in 1s, other vehicles, Nightmares, Progenitors in 2s, rest in 4s = 240).

Lots of good insights including vehicle scale and pics of tanks on bases which makes them look a lot better when they don't lose out on that base thickness vs infantry.