Neoscream's Life: 13th to 19th of May 2013

The Invasion Begins

Welcome to the Neoscream's Life post. This is a weekly post of some of the things I have done last week and news on stuff from Crooked Dice Games, Mantic Game, the Geek Goddess AJ Lee and ROBOTECH RPG TACTICS.

Monday was my birthday and was eventful. I went food ship with my mum. Go birthday wishes from friends, work colleges, ex-work colleges, the MFC model CandyWhisper and the deviant KittyStar. I also found that my Twitter account got suspended during the latter half of the week before. I managed to get it unsuspended, but it has been very buggy, many on my phone apps.

Coming back to work on Tuesday was a big shock. We now do Smoothies and Frappés, and we now have a new Boiler to cook the meat with. Also one of our Supervisors got a new job during the work and has left us at the end of the week.

On Friday night Simon and Lucy were in Milton Keynes celebrating Simons 30^th, which was of Tuesday. The plan was to meet at Colette at about 8pm before heading out to bars and clubs. Due to work and transport I had to leave at about 10:20pm to catch the bus home. When I left they were all still at Colette’s, but were planning on leaving to a bar very soon. There was a good turnout (sadly on Jake) and it was great seeing everybody.

Now for the Mantic news. I forgot to state last week that Mantic’s estimated plan for shipping the second shipment of DreadBall KickStarter stuff over ran by a week. Also there have been several mistakes done. For example, my extra Robot teams and others have been getting two Anne-Marie Helder, BUT everybody who got Z’zor a second guard instead of a fifth Jack. Mantic have stated that they will be sending the missing Z’zor Jack to people in the third shipment. For leagues and tournament, Mantic have posted alternate starter teams based on the mistake. These rules can be found on their forums and will be discontinued on the 1^st of December of this year. Next month will be the start of the Summer of Kings of War, Mantic’s fantasy army game. This is where they be released the new stuff they had made from their Kings of War KickStarter from last year. Also Mantic as teamed up with Topps (former owners of Wizkidz) to produces a Mars Attacks wargame that will come out next year. I bet their will be a KickStarter for it. Oh and Monday just gone was the third League event of the DreadBall league I am in. I will report about it next week. With the Deadzone KickStarter, during the week the extra goals that were unlocked were: the Fortified Defence Line BattleZone; a Chovar Mercenary; two new Faction Starters who are the Asterian and the Forge Fathers which you can get your choose of one in the Striker pledge level for free; and an additional Building Sprue has been added to each BattleZone. Also the active goals for the Deadzone KickStarter when I went to bed on Sunday night were: Doctor Gayle Simmonds special character added to Recon level and above (not including terrain only levels) at $520,000; free digital copy of the Deadzone Short Story Compilation with every pledge; and a new scenario to the Nexus Psi Digital Campaign for every 500 backers.

Next is Crooked Dice Games news. There was nothing this week sadly. There has not been a May newsletter yet, ever.

Now for the RoboTech: RPG Tactics news. Well the KickStarter has just ended and in the last week and Monday of this we have manage to unlocked: the Queadluun-Raus as an add-on plus an Experimental Upgrade Kit; Miriya’s Queadluun-Rau in the Battle Cry level; two more Artillery Battlepods have be added to Battle Cry level; the VEF-1 and VF-1D Valkyies as an add on plus the ability to upgrade one of them to a Super Valkyie; the Armoured Valkyries as an add on plus they were doubled in number from two to four; decal sheets added to the Starter Set; and three Nousjadeul-Ger have been added to Battle Cry level; Zentraedi Light Infantry have be included with the Heavy Infantry add on making six of each; SF-3A Lancer II as an add on plus they were doubled in number from two to four; all Valkyries now include a R type head as well; two objective packs as add ons; the Glaug-Eldare as two different add ons; two Super Valkyrie was added to Battle Cry level; new high end pledge levels which makings me wish I had $5,000 to spent on one; three Queadluun-Raus have been added to the Battle Cry level to celebrate hitting $1m plus an Experimental Upgrade Kit; the QF-3000E Ghost drone fighters as an add on plus they were doubled in number from two to four; Command Points tokens have be added to the starter set; resin bases based on the SDF-1 flight deck as an add on; a resin 70-80mm tall SDF-1 as a KickStarter and convention exclusive add on; command upgrade parts added to the standard Destroids Sprue; two SF-3A Lancer II were added to Battle Cry level; the Quel-Gulnau Recovery Pod was added to the Starter set and Battle Cry level (basically Battle Cry level will have two of these as it will be part of the Zentraedi Battlepod command sprue); the VF-4 Valkyies as an add on; the VF Orguss Valkyrie as an add on; two QF-3000E Ghost drone fighters were added to Battle Cry; the Artillery Battlepod add ons now included an upgrade kit to make Experimental Heavy Particle Cannon Variants; the Spartan pack add ons now include an upgrade kit  to make an experimental Phalanxes. I decided to include the stuff from Monday and very early Tuesday morning as when I first started writing this post I thought is ended Sunday and it would be easier to post as well. The last eight days of the KickStarter was epic. It has beaten DreadBall, Kings of Wars and Loka all put together. It has made Deadzone look crap, even though it is doing well. At the end the Robotech RPG Tactics made $1,442,312 and had 5,342 backers. Sadly the goals we did not do by the end of the KickStarter were: the Artillery Battlepod Experimental Upgrade Kit would have been included in Battle Cry level at $1.455m; an experimental NousJadeul-Ger would have been added to the add on at $1.48m and to Battle Cry level at $1.525m; the experimental Phalanx upgrade kit would have been added to Battle Cry level at $1.5m; and two VF-4 Valkyries would have been added to Battle Cry at $1.6m. The only one I really upset about is missing the VF-4 Valkyries from the Battle Cry level.

So in December I should be getting in my Battle Cry level shipment: nine standard VF-1A/J/R/S Valkyies in all three modes, Rick Hunter’s Valkyie in all three modes, Roy Fokker’s Valkyie in all three modes, twenty-four Regult Battlepods, two Glaug Battlepods, Khyron’s Glaug Battlepods, eight Destroids, two Quel Regult Battlepods, four Artillery Battlepods, three Gnerl Fighters, three Nousjadeul-Ger, two Super Valkyie in all three modes, three Queadluun-Raus, Miriya’s Queadluun-Rau, two SF-3A Lancer II, two Quel-Gulnau Recovery Pods, an Experimental Upgrade Kit for the Queadluun-Raus, two QF-3000E Ghost drone fighters, Laminated Cards for all the units, a softcover Rulebook, an Art Print, twelve UEDF faction dice, twelve Zentraedi faction dice, an Artillery Template, a UEDF decal sheet, a Zentraedi decal sheet, ten UEDF faction Command Point tokens and ten Zentraedi faction Command Point Tokens. That is about £1.20 a figure including postage. I also up my pledged to include the Mk II Monster, Objective Pack One and the SDF-1. I might also add the Armoured Valkyies and extra UEDF faction Command Point tokens during the survey. I might also buy a pack of VF-4s to paint one red and make its gun more guitar like and maybe alt the head to be more human like (Macross 7 all the way).

Now for what AJ Lee has been up to this past week. AJ was on Raw three times last week. The first time was when Teddy Long had to make a decision over the triple threat ladders match for Extreme Rules. The reason was because on Smackdown the week before, Dolph Ziggler suffered a concussion at the foot of Jack Swagger and now is not medically cleared to wrestle by Extreme Rules. Teddy decided to change the match into a Number One Contender I Quiet match between Swagger and Alberto Del Rio. The second time she was supporting Big E Langston in his match. His opponent was chosen by the fans. Their chooses were Swagger or Del Rio and they chose Swagger. Big E dominated the match, but lost by countout  The third time we saw AJ was in her match against Natalya where AJ revealed a new move, a submission move she called the Black Widow. The style and name fits AJ perfectly. Love the way the opponent has to tap her fantastic ass.  AJ was not on Smackdown this week.

AJ using the Black Widow on Natalya

I will be posting results for Extreme Rule is next week’s post and sorry for the lack of a my pre thought of the pay-per-view, I have been forgetting to do them.

We now move on to the Watch, Listen and Read section of the blog post:

Monday

Watched: Last week's episode of BBC’s Click, last week’s episode of Doctor Who, episodes 4 to 6 of Game of Thrones and episode 2 of Vicious.

Brought and Received: Dredd.

Kickstarter: The One Piece Podcast Goes to Japan.

Tuesday

Watched: Episode 3 of Vicious.

Dredd

Wednesday

Watched: Episode 1041 of WWE Raw and episode 234 of the subtitled version of Naruto Shippuden.

Thursday

Watched: Last week’s episode of WWE Superstars and episodes 235 and 236 of the subtitled version of Naruto Shippuden.

Received: My DreadBall Stadium.

Friday

Listed: Episode 8 of the Mantic podcast.

Read: Finished chapter 10 - Power Supply of CompTIA A+ Certification.

Brought and Receive: Two cans of spray paint.

Saturday

Watched: Episode 675 of WWE Smackdown.

Listened: Episode 363 of Anime Pulse.

Sunday

Watched: The last of the current series of Doctor Who, episodes 27 to 29 of the dubbed version of Naruto Shippuden, episodes 237 and 238 of the subtitled version of Naruto Shippuden, Dredd and episode 145 of the dubbed version of Bleach.

Until next time, armour up.