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Quartermaster Logistics wrote:BattleTech: Mercenaries from Catalyst Game Labs has commenced packing and shipping this morning!

This is quite the undertaking, our largest single project to date, so we'll have updates on this and other projects that are shipping alongside in the coming weeks!

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That episode where Worf is crushed by a barrel, but it's Inner Sphere Assault Lances instead.

Man, I so excited but unexcited for my pledge to show up... I have to get so much room made in my hobby area very shortly for it all.

Ah yes, the inevitable time where we kick the unfinished Kickstarters of yesterday under the table and make room for a new pile of plastic with the hope that this time will be different.

It's okay Battletech Clans stuff, Warzone minis from the previous reboot, and original Deadzone KS minis... I'll get to you one day...

But for now, I have to make room for enough Devastators to fill out my next Lyran scout lance, their metal brothers have been waiting so long for friends.

Full pre painted Lance Packs would be nice.

 Ronin_eX wrote:
Ah yes, the inevitable time where we kick the unfinished Kickstarters of yesterday under the table and make room for a new pile of plastic with the hope that this time will be different.

It's okay Battletech Clans stuff, Warzone minis from the previous reboot, and original Deadzone KS minis... I'll get to you one day...

But for now, I have to make room for enough Devastators to fill out my next Lyran scout lance, their metal brothers have been waiting so long for friends.

Have you been spying my hobby corner perchance?

M.

Just got the email saying MY ORDER HAS SHIPPED!

Do we know anything about recordsheets for the Star League Command Lance yet or do these normally take longer after release?

I believe that they are including classic sheets in the new master unit list that is coming out soon™ and we should see the command lance ones there.

There's also Flects Sheets, which is where my gaming group gets all out sheets. It's made to be interactive for tablets, and such, but you can also save the mech sheets as PDF's. I think they are superior to the ones from Catalyst when it comes to listing weapons and having extras like the appropriate cluster table(s) for each mech included.

I use the Mech Factory app, their printed sheets are stellar since they include the many of the charts that are on the quick reference sheet.

Having all the attacker/defender mods plus piloting mods and cluster hit tables on every sheet is well worth it to me.

Not mine, but some have already received there pledges



And an almost two and a half hour unboxing video

Looks good!

Although, that's a Rookie Pledge, gotta pump those numbers up.

I am super excited for this now, We got a new campaign soon and I want tanks.

So, these should be hitting retail shelves in a couple weeks or so, yes?

Maybe a bit longer, but yes. They have 25,000 backers to get through and none of the parties involved seems to be particularly competent or efficient. It depends on what point through the fulfilment process CGL feel comfortable in releasing retail before backers have been serviced.

Catalyst will definitely be looking to not get yelled at more by angry fans, so I'd put my money on a September release at the earliest for this stuff into retail. Because I don't think they'll move to send it out until the last Wave 2 pledge has shipped, and given how slow they are to do anything, at least two months is realistic.

 schoon wrote:
So, these should be hitting retail shelves in a couple weeks or so, yes?

No. From the ICv2 interview of Loren Coleman from shortly after the Kickstarter launched:

Will the products from the new Kickstarter start releasing this year or next year?

Oh, it'll definitely be next year. We will fulfill to our backers end of this year/beginning of next year, probably. We predicted June 2024, but things are going so smoothly at the moment that it looks like we'll fulfill very early. Backers first, then the hobby trade will be somewhere within three months after all backers are fulfilled.

This is one of the selling points of the Kickstarter, that Backers get their product before it goes on sale to the general public. So, unless you have a FLGS that was a Company Store Backer of the Kickstarter (and they haven't sold through their stock) you'll most likely not be seeing anything at retail until maybe sometime around September or October.

Really excited that stuff is starting to go out, though I haven't even gotten my QML address confirmation yet, so I'll probably be waiting another 3-4 weeks minimum. Shame, because I wanted to bring some new painted plastic to GenCon for my events there.

I can't wait to get the Heavy Recon Lance for the Charger and Assassin. Man those mechs are crap, but I love them.

 AegisGrimm wrote:
There's also Flects Sheets, which is where my gaming group gets all out sheets. It's made to be interactive for tablets, and such, but you can also save the mech sheets as PDF's. I think they are superior to the ones from Catalyst when it comes to listing weapons and having extras like the appropriate cluster table(s) for each mech included.

I wish I’d heard of this sooner, I’ve been just using an art app to mark up PNGs of mech sheets on my tablet



Did the pack with the Hatamoto-Chi get funded through late pledges? I didn’t remember seeing it as an option, but certainly wouldn’t mind picking it up at retail

 Ghaz wrote:
... So, unless you have a FLGS that was a Company Store Backer of the Kickstarter (and they haven't sold through their stock) you'll most likely not be seeing anything at retail until maybe sometime around September or October.

Fair enough. Though I'm sure a few sets will show up on the secondary market in the coming weeks from backers who’ve decided to sell some for whatever reason.

 zend wrote:
Did the pack with the Hatamoto-Chi get funded through late pledges? I didn’t remember seeing it as an option, but certainly wouldn’t mind picking it up at retail

Iirc it was available as an add-on even before late pledges. I'm in the same boat, you can never have enough Bushwackers and while I don't play dragons the Mauler and Hatamoto are both really cool

Iirc with the previous campaign they dragged out retail releases of the KS sets over the period of about a year in several waves so as to not overstaying their sales channels. I would not expect all the sets to release to retail simultaneously.

I think the Clan Invasion stuff was spread over two waves due to production issues. Since everything is coming in one wave this time, I don't know Catalyst's warehousing capabilities, or that of their distributors, but I doubt they will have much leeway in just holding stuff back. But all the new boxes will give them a very impressive display in game stores that are selling Battletech.

 frankelee wrote:
I think the Clan Invasion stuff was spread over two waves due to production issues.

Part of that was CGL having not finalized the contents of some of the ForcePacks (and even had Backers voting 'Mechs out of the ForcePacks mid-campaign IIRC). The biggest problem was the pandemic of course, which hit six months after the Kickstarter launched.

 Shadox wrote:

 zend wrote:
Did the pack with the Hatamoto-Chi get funded through late pledges? I didn’t remember seeing it as an option, but certainly wouldn’t mind picking it up at retail

Iirc it was available as an add-on even before late pledges. I'm in the same boat, you can never have enough Bushwackers and while I don't play dragons the Mauler and Hatamoto are both really cool

Nah it was the 8mil stretch goal which wasn’t hit on Kickstarter, and I don’t remember seeing it as a selection when picking my rewards.

 zend wrote:

 Shadox wrote:

 zend wrote:
Did the pack with the Hatamoto-Chi get funded through late pledges? I didn’t remember seeing it as an option, but certainly wouldn’t mind picking it up at retail

Iirc it was available as an add-on even before late pledges. I'm in the same boat, you can never have enough Bushwackers and while I don't play dragons the Mauler and Hatamoto are both really cool

Nah it was the 8mil stretch goal which wasn’t hit on Kickstarter, and I don’t remember seeing it as a selection when picking my rewards.

The Somerset Strikers were added as an add-on via the pledge manager after the campaign closed.

An ingenious compromise wherein you could get the Somerset Strikers, but only in addition to a pledge, not with one. Not that it ultimately will cost me anymore money that I would otherwise spend.

 frankelee wrote:
An ingenious compromise wherein you could get the Somerset Strikers, but only in addition to a pledge, not with one. Not that it ultimately will cost me anymore money that I would otherwise spend.

If the Kickstarter would have reached the $8M stretch goal, Regiment backers and above would have received and additional ForcePack to their pledge and the Somerset Strikers ForcePack would have been available for pledge levels and as an add-on purchase.

Since the Kickstarter didn't reach the $8M stretch goal, they didn't have to release the Somerset Strikers ForcePack at all and saved it for release at retail at some future date, but they still went ahead with with allowing them to be purchased as an add-on.