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Hmm. That could work! That could work indeed. I just want to use the Crisis because it's hands down my favorite 40k model, but I'd rather play a better game!
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We never got to an Asterian walker unit in the Deadzone KS, but I'm sure they were already thinking of one, even if they didn't have concepts for one. Hey, are the crisis suits you're talking about on 20mm bases? (Is it obvious I don't know Tau very well?) Asterians have a specialist jump trooper called a Black Talon, which I'm sure will be a squad type in full on Warpath, looks like this  Beefier Cypher, a smaller crisis suit maybe? NTRabbit fucked around with this message at 12:55 on Jun 16, 2014 |
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Alas, they use 40mm bases. Worst case I just display 'em or play some 40k on the side or whatever, but hopefully something'll come up I can counts-as them for!
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Hey guys, my FLGS has a Baldr's Armoured Battalion on clearance for $70  and I'm wondering if anyone has ordered spare metal parts from Mantic? I'm hoping to use them for an Abyssal Dwarf army and am tempted to get them if I can get the metal conversion parts.
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I just nip down to the warehouse whenever I want bits  From what I've heard they're dead good about sorting out bits orders. Contact them through the form here: http://www.manticgames.com/contact.html to work out a deal of some sort. It might be an idea to look up unboxings like this one to get an idea of what sprues there are.
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Daedleh posted:I just nip down to the warehouse whenever I want bits Thanks!
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Despite awaiting on a huge shipment of Battlezones in the Deadzone second shipment, I've also gone ahead and backed this Kickstarter, since I've noticed that the squares are 1.6" a side. This means the double-wide set is 3.2" and so would be very suitable for Deadzone. I can have regular missions with the Battlezone terrain and then occasionally some sweet indoor missions where smaller strike forces can perform custom infiltration/sabotage objectives.
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The next Kickstarter info dropped, "Drawf King's Quest" http://manticblog.com/2014/06/23/dkq-abandon-hope-all-ye-who-enter-here/ In short, its a Descent clone but grittier.
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LumberingTroll posted:The next Kickstarter info dropped, "Drawf King's Quest" Is it just me or does anyone else read Ronnie's updates in his voice? Glad to hear it's going to be wallet friendly, I'm in already 
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I'm pretty sure he means coloured plastic, like the mars attacks board game.
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It says coloured, so I'm assuming its like Descent, where all the heroes are one colour, the low level baddies another, and the high level baddies a third.
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If that's the case I'm OK with that. Still not convinced about the "preassembled" part, trying to paint preassembled Descent minis gave me fits.
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Yep coloured plastic like their Mars Attacks or Loka stuff (or Gears of War boardgame). I'm not a huge board gamer, much less dungeon crawlers, but definitely looking forward to this for all the Kings of War characters we get. I loved every one of the sculpts on show at the open day.
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Hero Quest was my first proper boardgame - I still have it, but while all the pieces are still good the rules don't really stand up anymore. Hoping DKQ assumes the mantle, the sculpts so far have all looked greatPierzak posted:Still not convinced about the "preassembled" part, trying to paint preassembled Descent minis gave me fits. Boardgame distributors would not have picked the game up unless they were single piece or preassmbled, harsh reality, and they really want this game hitting mainstream shelves for mainstream money. Think of it as the better Mars Attacks sells to the general public, the more money they have to spend on making Warpath awesome, and maybe the simplified Deadzone ruleset becomes a popular license like Wings of Glory/War with X-Wing and Attack Wing NTRabbit fucked around with this message at 12:03 on Jun 26, 2014 |
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Yeah, Preassembled helps people who are just looking for a boardgame - think of it as a gateway drug to the hardcore gaming scene - first they play a few board games, then you give them some games with minis, then BAM! their trying to figure out the paint scheme to their new awesome army!
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Didn't a lot of board gamers think their (unassembled) Deadzone figures had broken apart in shipping? I remember a lot of "everything is broken!" comments, and their plastic is near unbreakable.
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Grey Hunter posted:Yeah, Preassembled helps people who are just looking for a boardgame - think of it as a gateway drug to the hardcore gaming scene - first they play a few board games, then you give them some games with minis, then BAM! their trying to figure out the paint scheme to their new awesome army! This is called the heroquest strategy
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Have we gotten anywhere with our Goon Dreadball Vassal league? Also AgentF, any movement on the Deadzone campaign?
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NTRabbit posted:Have we gotten anywhere with our Goon Dreadball Vassal league? Nothing really happened. We got a spreadsheet and I have it installed, but nothing really happened with scheduling it.
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The Dreadball Xtreme pledge manager is now open for non-ks backers to jump in and get the KS packages, presumably minus a couple of exclusive minis Also the Mantic webstore has been running a World Cup related promo based on eliminated countries and the goal difference for England - you have the rest of the day to get 20% off orders over $50 if you're in a country eliminated/not attending, and they'll have new discounts going forward as further countries are eliminated, ie the US made it to the next round. Plus if you spend over $25 you get a free battlezone sprue. Deals galore. NTRabbit fucked around with this message at 21:00 on Jun 27, 2014 |
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NTRabbit posted:The Dreadball Xtreme pledge manager is now open for non-ks backers to jump in and get the KS packages, presumably minus a couple of exclusive minis Everything's there except you can't get Dreadball Original stuff. I know because I got almost all of it 
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NTRabbit posted:Also AgentF, any movement on the Deadzone campaign? Key players will be free soon, so fingers crossed we might have an introductory session sometime in a month or so. It's been slow goings but there's no rush as a few of us are waiting for the second shipment anyway.
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Figured I'd crosspost this here I'm getting better at gluing, but hey. I'm still happy with these at the end of the day. Much better than the slot/hex bullshit they come with in my opinion. I hate the opaque/transparent contrast way more than any excess glue.
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I'm planning on painting my circles flat black so they just look like part of the base. A part that's a flat black circle for some reason.
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Not the best photos because I was in a huge rush to finish them on time, but cross postin' from the Oath threadNTRabbit posted:
Continuing my Ripper Suit independent character theme Also I've decided some Goblins come from families and clans with old histories and traditions - when a Goblin ascends to command of his own heavy weapon position, they shed their birth name and take on the name of the gun until their death. Should the Goblin fall in battle and the gun survive, as often happens, then the apprentice Goblin - normally assigned to carry ammunition, fuel and parts - then takes on the position and the name in turn. Any gun without a name is anathema to these Goblins, and no matter how perfect the condition they will not salvage one that has none.
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Kings of War question: What's the point of taking spears in a ten man unit? Just the anti-calvary/flyers effect?
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moths posted:Kings of War question: What's the point of taking spears in a ten man unit? Just the anti-calvary/flyers effect? Yeah, although the primary benefit of the anti-cav stuff is to be able to receive a charge from them with a relatively cheap unit and survive it and I wouldn't trust a troop to do that every time. And flyers, who would probably be hampered, can just ignore a lone troop. Basically, you want regiments.
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Does the new rulebook have all the awesome stuff from the kings and legends (is that right?) supplement? I'm looking on their site and I only see the rules and the hellfire and stone book.
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TarDolphinorShark posted:Does the new rulebook have all the awesome stuff from the kings and legends (is that right?) supplement? I'm looking on their site and I only see the rules and the hellfire and stone book. No sorry, the K&L and Basilean Legacy supplements are out of print at the moment. Mantic are looking into doing a reprint of a combined book, but the print run has run out and at the current rate of sale they'd be unlikely to sell a 2nd print run of either before the next edition of KoW where they might become invalid. The PDFs are up on the Wargame Vault: http://www.wargamevault.com/browse.php?manufacturers_id=4117 K&L is $8.55 and Basilean Legacy is $4.99. Sucks that there aren't any physical copies available (except for 2nd hand) but they're kind of in limbo until something can be worked out that's financially viable for Mantic. Ronnie is keen on printing a Kings of War 1.5 edition with all the combined supplements so it is likely to happen, but I don't think it'll happen before the end of the year. My honest review is that you're not missing out on a whole lot with the Kings & Legends supplement. Basilean Legacy is awesome though.
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Got this email from Mantic. I assume it's ok to post here as well: "To commiserate the USA not quite reaching the quarter finals, today’s discount code is a massive 25% off on the website, the biggest of the competition so far! That’s right, 25% off. If your country is out of the World Cup, or indeed, never actually managed to qualify – Scotland, Ireland and Wales we’re looking at you  - you can use this code in the webstore* for 24 HOURS ONLY.The code is HEROHOWARD25
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Muppetjedi posted:Got this email from Mantic. I assume it's ok to post here as well: Yeah, I've been thinking about getting two Kings of War army deals from Mantic because of this, looking at dwarves and undead. Any recommendations?
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I recommend you do it.
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I decided to go for some terrain since the discount handily helped cover the shipping! The savings on a full army deal should be pretty fantastic. All of the Undead army deals are fantastic, this is the most expensive one but it has essentially everything you'll need aside from standard bearer/necromancer characters and every unit is useful. 25% off of that is crazy.
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moths posted:I recommend you do it. Okay, I laughed. Anyway, I was meaning more anyone have particular recommendations for specific army deals. That Ilona's Black Wolf Templars is tempting but it might be out of my price range; I was thinking more along the lines of getting two of the $175 army deals like Baldr's Armoured Battalion and the Bloodmire Legion or something. Either those two (or a different combo) or maybe just the BWT.
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