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Wow are those looking great!

Heavy all the way

Heavy, Heavy, Heavy.

Voted. However, I'm unsure now if the crodfunding will reach 250k or 270k at all. But a man can wish...

The mutation sprue is rather Games Workshop-ish and not in a good way. Just a bit too cartoonish for my taste.

The gene-edited aren't really doing it for me either. I can't put my finger on what is wrong with them, but there's something kind of awkward about the legs. Maybe it's the combination of fully clothed upper bodies and bare lower which gives them a 'Donald Duck' kind of vibe. This is a real shame, because the gas-mask head with horns really looks very good, but I don't think the rest of the kit really meets that standard.

The heavies look pretty good though. They fit brilliantly with the rest of the range, while standing out just enough to make them distinct. So they get my vote.

 Smokestack wrote:
I do like the beastmen... They are also my second choice... but are really close to the Heavy Infantry in my preference priority. Having 1 catfolk on a sprue means 3 or 4 to a box though... So unless you get many boxes wont have a full unit of cat guys... Which is why the heavy infantry inched ahead for me.

You could be right but Wargames Atlantic are fantastic at putting a large number of head options into kits.

For example, 24 figures in a box could lead to six sets of 24 heads being included much like the Bulldogs.

 alphaecho wrote:

 Smokestack wrote:
I do like the beastmen... They are also my second choice... but are really close to the Heavy Infantry in my preference priority. Having 1 catfolk on a sprue means 3 or 4 to a box though... So unless you get many boxes wont have a full unit of cat guys... Which is why the heavy infantry inched ahead for me.

You could be right but Wargames Atlantic are fantastic at putting a large number of head options into kits.

For example, 24 figures in a box could lead to six sets of 24 heads being included much like the Bulldogs.

I am sure there will be plenty of cat man heads... but it looks like of the 5 bodies... 4 have hooves and 1 has paws...

Yes to all of them.

 Smokestack wrote:

 alphaecho wrote:

 Smokestack wrote:
I do like the beastmen... They are also my second choice... but are really close to the Heavy Infantry in my preference priority. Having 1 catfolk on a sprue means 3 or 4 to a box though... So unless you get many boxes wont have a full unit of cat guys... Which is why the heavy infantry inched ahead for me.

You could be right but Wargames Atlantic are fantastic at putting a large number of head options into kits.

For example, 24 figures in a box could lead to six sets of 24 heads being included much like the Bulldogs.

I am sure there will be plenty of cat man heads... but it looks like of the 5 bodies... 4 have hooves and 1 has paws...

And like every other thing we show it's not the finished version yet now is it? Calm thyself!

Nice. WIth my 3rd party LMRs/Chimeras/Sents, its looking like I'll have almost a complete (traitor) guard army when this is fulfilled.

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
Heavy infantry for me (with mutants a close second and gene edited beastmen a hair behind)

really i'll be delighted with any of them (and even more delighted if a few beastmen heads get added on to the mutations sprue if the full kit misses the cut)

That was my same order as well.


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 Wargames Atlantic wrote:

And like every other thing we show it's not the finished version yet now is it? Calm thyself!

NO. No calm only hype. Seriously though, it looks like the gene warriors are just heads and legs so far, so I curious where they go.

 legionaires wrote:
Seriously though, it looks like the gene warriors are just heads and legs so far, so I curious where they go.

Just curious, legionaires - what more would you want them to do? Hairy arms?

Given that GW stopped being creative with their beastmen species and just went all-in on goatmen ages ago, I have to say I'm impressed that there's a cat person in there. And with the paw feet and multiple heads, they could have even more species represented.

As soon as I saw that this vote included heavy infantry, I figured mutations and gene-edited were dead in the water. I hope both the mutations and gene-edited happen anyway, though. For me, they're the most interesting things to come along yet.

 Wargames Atlantic wrote:

 Smokestack wrote:

 alphaecho wrote:

 Smokestack wrote:
I do like the beastmen... They are also my second choice... but are really close to the Heavy Infantry in my preference priority. Having 1 catfolk on a sprue means 3 or 4 to a box though... So unless you get many boxes wont have a full unit of cat guys... Which is why the heavy infantry inched ahead for me.

You could be right but Wargames Atlantic are fantastic at putting a large number of head options into kits.

For example, 24 figures in a box could lead to six sets of 24 heads being included much like the Bulldogs.

I am sure there will be plenty of cat man heads... but it looks like of the 5 bodies... 4 have hooves and 1 has paws...

And like every other thing we show it's not the finished version yet now is it? Calm thyself!

Did my post seem agitated? On a kit that I referred to as "my second choice..but are really close to the Heavy Infantry in my preference priority." Not sure how that could be taken as not calm... but Ok.

 Talking Banana wrote:

 legionaires wrote:
Seriously though, it looks like the gene warriors are just heads and legs so far, so I curious where they go.

Just curious, legionaires - what more would you want them to do? Hairy arms?

That's what I'm, trying to say, WGA could isolate some core elements that identify it as "the Damned" and go hog wild. So pigs, fishmen, snake people, really anything. Get the torsos "right" and then you could kitbash with the Lizardmen box. If the torsos stay the same run with that.

 Talking Banana wrote:

 legionaires wrote:
Seriously though, it looks like the gene warriors are just heads and legs so far, so I curious where they go.

Just curious, legionaires - what more would you want them to do? Hairy arms?

Given that GW stopped being creative with their beastmen species and just went all-in on goatmen ages ago, I have to say I'm impressed that there's a cat person in there. And with the paw feet and multiple heads, they could have even more species represented.

As soon as I saw that this vote included heavy infantry, I figured mutations and gene-edited were dead in the water. I hope both the mutations and gene-edited happen anyway, though. For me, they're the most interesting things to come along yet.

Yeah, I don't see any of the two sets beating the heavy infantry, but I really like the gene-edited and I'd like them more the more species options they include. As you say, GW stopped at goat and just that, but more varied beastmen is something I'd dearly like to see.

New SP

modelhunter wrote:
I thought I would show my Harvesters as 6 legged versions, rather then the 'factory' 4 legs. Ignore the paint job, but I think the 6 legs look more 'biologically balanced'. I was able to assemble them from the one Sprue it just meant that I had to give two of them 'missile' arms. Anyway, I played with nature and I think it works!

Looks great. I had wondered about 4 legged versions with an additional gun arm and your work suggests that would work fine.

 Shadow Walker wrote:
New SP

Those look like Broadwell drums, and that's a ten-barrel Gatling gun, suggesting one of the 1874 models, such as the famous US Army M1874 or the British Gatling Mk I. But I don't remember ever seeing a Gatling with a gun shield like that, so it might be a more obscure variant.
19th century uniforms are a complete mystery to me, so no idea about those.

EDIT: It's a British gun. That isn't a gun shield, it's a box of either side of the gun with the lids open.

I wonder if those are naval troops rather than artillery (those look suspiciously like neckerchiefs around their necks)





so maybe Zulu wars (and did the British have some during the Opium wars?)

Often the artillery detachments in Britain's 19th century colonial wars were naval rather than the Royal Artillery. So yes, it would not be unheard of to have the Nordenfelts, Gardner, and Gatling guns* crewed by sailors. This was true of the Zulu War of 1879.

*All early machine guns, though technically the Nordenfelt is an organ gun with a gravity feed for its multiple barrels and only reloads rapidly rather than being capable of automatic fire.

32 backers from 1000 and another sprue. $907 from the head contest and another sprue. Kind of wish the voting on the sets was visible... to see what kind of following each set has.

Ummm I think now that Lost and the Damned are legal again to field would be a really good time to push for the campaign

Garrac wrote:
Ummm I think now that Lost and the Damned are legal again to field would be a really good time to push for the campaign

Oh they are?

 lord_blackfang wrote:

Garrac wrote:
Ummm I think now that Lost and the Damned are legal again to field would be a really good time to push for the campaign

Oh they are?

No they aren't ..still waiting until gw Releases the FW legends thingy.
Unless he means the fact that the 1:1 limit got removed, at which point we are still not talking about Post and the damned.

Not Online!!! wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:

Garrac wrote:
Ummm I think now that Lost and the Damned are legal again to field would be a really good time to push for the campaign

Oh they are?

No they aren't ..still waiting until gw Releases the FW legends thingy.
Unless he means the fact that the 1:1 limit got removed, at which point we are still not talking about Post and the damned.

Well, the name is not there, but the spirit is, and we even got more units than the original L&D army, with goats and the such. Only missing IG tanks that you can really proxy as predators anyway tbh

Garrac wrote:

Not Online!!! wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:

Garrac wrote:
Ummm I think now that Lost and the Damned are legal again to field would be a really good time to push for the campaign

Oh they are?

No they aren't ..still waiting until gw Releases the FW legends thingy.
Unless he means the fact that the 1:1 limit got removed, at which point we are still not talking about Post and the damned.

Well, the name is not there, but the spirit is, and we even got more units than the original L&D army, with goats and the such. Only missing IG tanks that you can really proxy as predators anyway tbh

the spirit he says

Listen, the campaign list has had more spirit / sould of the faction in it despite being from a far simpler time. And that list didn't hold a candle to IA13 at all aswell.
Sure you now CAN run a cultist list, and spam 3 PG / Melta / Sniper rifle blooded squads. But that to me is neither the lost nor the damned, that is a excuse for a shoddy state of the game.

Not Online!!! wrote:

Garrac wrote:

Not Online!!! wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:

Garrac wrote:
Ummm I think now that Lost and the Damned are legal again to field would be a really good time to push for the campaign

Oh they are?

No they aren't ..still waiting until gw Releases the FW legends thingy.
Unless he means the fact that the 1:1 limit got removed, at which point we are still not talking about Post and the damned.

Well, the name is not there, but the spirit is, and we even got more units than the original L&D army, with goats and the such. Only missing IG tanks that you can really proxy as predators anyway tbh

the spirit he says

Listen, the campaign list has had more spirit / sould of the faction in it despite being from a far simpler time. And that list didn't hold a candle to IA13 at all aswell.
Sure you now CAN run a cultist list, and spam 3 PG / Melta / Sniper rifle blooded squads. But that to me is neither the lost nor the damned, that is a excuse for a shoddy state of the game.

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Well, the campaign reached 200k! It's 4 days left for the end tho

All in all, this hasn't ended in a bad note for me cos they really unlocked the og plan, and 3 kits more with which I have variety enough for both a cultist army or a guard army. Wonder if the minds behind the project have some way in mind to release the sprues left given some time.

Really wish they had of brought in the Heavy troops earlier. I don't really want any of the regulars, but the Heavies would be amazing. I don't know if they'll make it to $250k, but one can always hope.

 Fenriswulf wrote:
Really wish they had of brought in the Heavy troops earlier. I don't really want any of the regulars, but the Heavies would be amazing. I don't know if they'll make it to $250k, but one can always hope.

I suppose it's possible as there is a typically a group of last minute backers. I think we'll at least get to the artillery.

GrosseSax wrote:

 Fenriswulf wrote:
Really wish they had of brought in the Heavy troops earlier. I don't really want any of the regulars, but the Heavies would be amazing. I don't know if they'll make it to $250k, but one can always hope.

I suppose it's possible as there is a typically a group of last minute backers. I think we'll at least get to the artillery.

I fear that effect might apply a lot less to Gamefound campaigns. Kickstarter only alerts non-backers who "saved" the project at the 48 hour mark so the email stands out. Gamefound bombards followers with daily updates so by the last day they've either already backed or tuned it out. My personal observation of course.