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 Tabletop_Magpie wrote:
I was initially put off by the price, it didn't look like good value at all, but I'm watching the Tabletop Titans sponsored paythrough and the buildings are massive, as are some of the mechs. Hmm I'll keep an eye on it.

This is something that threw me with their initial designs. These are all supposed to be huge stomping mechs, but many of the core mechs just look like your standard "guy in power-armour-marine" models.
I think the lack of plastering lots of photos hides this because renders are basically entirely scale agnostic. You just can't tell looking at a render how big something really is.

 lord_blackfang wrote:


Hard plastic made in house in the US, somehow.

Wargames Atlantic, I assume? Though IIRC Dream Pod 9 got their sprues made in the US too by someone else a while ago before WA moved to yankland. Though if it's either of those both were before this current situation.

EDIT: Hang on, looks like they own 3 machines to make molds and 4 to to make the mini, though it seems like the other components will be made in Europe or the western hemisphere.

Watched a quick Bat-Rep from Tabletop Titans, and the game-play seems ok. Fair amount of stuff to track for such a light game, and I suspect scaling up beyond small skirmishes could get unwieldy.

Wish the value proposition felt more exciting, as the $400 all-in feels really bad for what you'd get.

I believe Best Hobby has been investing in their own injection molding machines.

Longstrider wrote:
Though IIRC Dream Pod 9 got their sprues made in the US too by someone else a while ago before WA moved to yankland.

DP9 had their first three rounds of plastics made in the US (North, South, Caprice, CEF) but found someone in Canada to do their 2018 and later ones (Peace River, NuCoal, Utopia).

 lord_blackfang wrote:

Looks like so far there's 2 factions, each with 3 different hard plastic teams. Which is certainly a choice compared to opening with more factions, I guess?.

Looks like a playable force uses between one and four of those 'teams'... So, yes, having some options is definitely a better idea than having more factions with only a single usable unit choice.

Hoping the game does well, but I just don't see what it offers versus Battletech Classic/Alpha Strike or Heavy Gear Blitz

 NH Gunsmith wrote:
Hoping the game does well, but I just don't see what it offers versus Battletech Classic/Alpha Strike or Heavy Gear Blitz

I really see this as a different thing than that. Battletech, HG Blitz, Cav, etc games are meant to represent larger engagements.

I think this is more in the early Warmachine scope of a game. Small warband skirmish. A mech and just a few guys duking it out in a small space. It's actually a pretty good niche that we haven't seen much of in the sci-fi setting. I'm interested in trying Zeo Genesis and Arsenal. It'd be neat if one of them scratches this itch I didn't know I had until recently.