Welcome to “Gaming News from Neoscream”. This is my
weekly gaming news post for miniature games, RPGs, some card games and computer
games.
“Gaming News”
First off is the Cool Mini or Not news. The
Zombicide Season Three KickStarter Still going strong. It has moved up to tenth
place in the top twenty non-computer KickStarter game. Let us look at what were
the two main pledge level looked like after last week’s post.
Infected: Rue Morgue; the
V.I.P. (Very Infected People) walkers box set one; a Purple Storage Box with
all the promo survivor Dashboards from Season One and Two; eight more Skinner
Walkers added to both pledge levels; four Skinner Runners; eight more Skinner
Crawlers; two more Skinner Fatties; three copies of the Exclusive Slave Princess
Leia and Elvis Presley V.I.P. Zombies; nine more Seeker Zombies added to both
pledge levels; two more A-Bomb Abomination (one is an Exclusive female
version); both the Human and Zombie versions of the survivors Lucius, Cat, Doc
and Jesse; two set of six dice, one yellow and one brown; a dice bag; a set of
Pimp Weapon Cards; eleven more V.I.P. spawn cards; two sets of two 3D Barrier
tokens; two copies of the Police Officer, Sailor and Construction Worker V.I.P.
Zombies; and the Team Building Deck.
Patient 0: Everything
from Infected plus Angry Neighbours and both the Zombie and Human version of
the LE Survivor Audrey.
The stretch goals that have been unlocked since they
started have been: Five Storm of Crows figures were added to both pledge
levels; and a set of Storms of Crows spawn cards were added to both pledge
levels; the Oksana add-on now includes the Zombie version of her; both the
Human and Zombie versions of Benny as an add-on; two copies of the Punk V.I.P.
Zombie were added to both pledge levels; the Human version of Seth added to
both pledge levels; the V.I.P. walkers box set one as an add-on; a set of
fifteen Storm of Crows and a set of spawn cards as an add-on; title packs of
both set as add-ons; and the Team Building deck as an add-on. Please note I am
not listing old stuff being added as add-ons.
The stretch goals that are still going as I post
this are: The Zombie version of Seth will be added to both pledge levels to
$1.35m.
Still no sign of Zombie version of the Rue Morgue
survivors, but we did get information about all twelve characters.
Next is the HeroClix news. There is a major print
error on the convention exclusive Black Lantern Anti-Monitor. The printing error
shows the piece to have an attack value of 2 on it number 7 click of his combat
dial. The correct attack value on that click is 12.
Now for the Mekton news. The artwork is finally all
done now. The digital version of the rulebook is plan to be out to backers and
to the printers by the end of next month. After that it will take the printers
about a month to print the physical copy. The books will ship as soon as
possible (maybe even strait from the printers). Due to some problems with
Sculptors the figures are nowhere near done. With the other bits like t-shirts
and dice, they are waiting for some of the stuff to arrive from oversea
vendors. These will ship when all the extras are done.
Next is
the Kingdom Death news. The new update
has just been post and man in is massive and is filled with great stuff. This
(as well as Robotech and Privateer Press) were the reason why this post is
later than normal. First let us get the BAD news over and done with. There is
still not ETA for shipping and there will not be (maybe when things are closer
to finish e.g. shipping from China to them). This is because the date kept on
being pushed back over and over again. Also due to having so meanly small parts
on the armour kit sprues, it is harder to control the flow of plastic and will
course mold lines to happen. This is a problem they cannot control sadly. There
is a Hard Plastic Production List on the update high lights were everything is.
I will not be going into too much detail on this (it is on their update), but
the major delays are: The Green Knight armour kit, the Sunstalker armour kit, the
human version of the Dragon King, Spidicules with six Spidicules Spawns and the
Silk armour kit.
Now to the good news. First of new goodies being
added. A white D10 is being added to the five black for the D100 chats, two
extra hit location dice and card dividers have been added to the main box set.
A current final count of the cards, page of the rulebook and terrain tokens for
the main set have been revealed and it is MASSIVE. The rulebook went from a 100
page book plus story book to a 223 page book. Both the Hand/antelope and the
human version of the Dragon King sprues are listed to have extra. The
Hand/Antelope is listed as a surprise while the Dragon King one is listed as
People of the Dragon.
We got hard plastic images of both the Unarmoured
and Rawhide Armour kits, the Sunstalker, the Lion Knight with his court, Snow,
Anna, Aya, Adam, Paul, Candy with Cola, Allison (fully clothed female Twilight
Knight) and Twilight Knight. They are all looking great. The only problem I
have with the Unarmed kit (other than the mold lines that can be cleaned up) is
that there is far too many chooses of great heads (especially the female ones)
and not enough bodies for them. A nice touch they have done is made the Lion
Knight body compatible with the heads and weapons for the armour kits. We also
got more previews of pages from the rulebook, art work and cards. I cannot wait
to get a hold of the rulebook just for the amazing artwork. Oh and the Pledge
Manager should be back on-line soon (if it is not already back up). I have include pictures from the update however you might want to open them in a separate window as they are for too large to have at full size here.
There was also some none KickStarter news on the
update. First they have some art work for their first male Pinup figure and
there is an image of a very large 3D printer print of the Halloween Pinup
Twilight Knight that is being planned for release on Halloween. The release
will be 35mm scale like their other standard figures. I might pick up the
Halloween figure if I can get to it on time.
On personal news I have ordered the Naked Experiment of Death deal. That is two sets of Experiment of Death with out boxes for less than half the price of one in box.
Now for the Privateer Press news. We got a bunch of
new releases on Wednesday. These were the general public versions of Lieutenant
Allison Jakes, Initiate Tristan Durant, Kovnik Andrei Malakov, Aiakos, Elara
and Gastone Crosse, as well as the Cryx Unit Bile Thralls.
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| Kingdom Death Male Pinup |
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| Halloween Pinup Twilight Knight |
Like normal there is
no word on when the second wave of July releases will be out, however these will
be: the Protectorate Epic Warcaster Battle Engine Servath Reznik the Wrath of
Ages, the Trollblood Character Heavy Warbeast “Dozer and Smigg”, and the Hordes
High Command expansion pack “Gargantuan Might”, the Zombiez Keep Out expansion
“Night of the Noxious Dead” and issue 55 of No Quarter Magazine.
Lastly there is the Ninja Division news. With
Robotech RPG Tactics, production is going well and stuff will start shipping
from China to their warehouse next Thursday and should start shipping to
backers around Gen Con time (14th to 17th of August).
Sadly the game will start selling to the public at Gen Con with over 100 copies
and backers mostly likely will not be able to pick their stuff up from the
event. I am not have that it is being release being release before KickStarter
backers get their stuff, but sadly I am use to companies doing this to their
backers. Mantic being the major cuprite. However Mantic had always aloud
backers to pick up their self from conventions.
Also on some non gaming Robotech news. Harmony Gold
Production have started a new KickStarter for a pilot episode of a new Robotech
show called Robotech Academy. I have backed it at Corporal 3rd Class
level.
“KickStarter Dates”
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Both “Kingdom
Death Monster” and “Mechabrick” have been delay due to problems and currently
have no dates on when these will start shipping.
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“Zombicide
Season Three” KickStarter will end on the should start on the 27th of July 2014
·
Both “Interface
Zero 2.0” and wave two of “Deadzone” should begin shipping in July 2014
·
“Battle Systems
Sci-fi Modular Terrain” should ship in July-August 2014
·
“Dwarf King's Hold”
KickStarter” should start in August 2014
·
“Bubblegum
Crisis Ultimate Edition Blu-Ray Set” (comes with a digital copy of the old RPG
rulebooks), “Shadows of Brimstone”, “Mars Attacks”, “Dust Operation Babylon”,
the digital copy of “Mekton Zero” rulebook and wave one of “Robotech RPG
Tactics” are all currently planned to ship in August 2014
·
The "Battle
System Fantasy Dungeon Terrain" KickStarter should start sometime between
August and November 2014
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“Arcadia Quest”,
“Pop-Up Miniature Terrain Kit”, and the physical copy of the “Mekton Zero”
rulebook are listed to ship in September 2014
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At a wild guess
“OVA” main rulebook will ship in September 2014
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Wave two of
“Robotech RPG Tactics” should hopefully be shipping in September-October 2014
·
Wave one of
“Journey Wrath of Daemons” is set to ship in October 2014 at the earliness
·
“StarCrawlers”
is listed to be done and out by November 2014
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Both wave one of
“DreadBall Xtreme” and “Last Saga” are listed to ship in November 2014
·
“Super Dungeon
Explore The Forgotten King”, “Guild Ball” and “Mechadrome” are all listed to
ship in December 2014
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Wave two of
“DreadBall Xtreme” is meant to ship sometime in 2015 and I am guessing wave two
of “Journey Wrath of Daemons” has be push back to this time too
·
“Zombicide
Season Three” should ship February 2015
“Painting and Converting”
This week we have Pinup Architect, Pinup White
Speaker, the Menoth Journeyman Character Initiate Tristan Durant, the Menoth
Warcaster Feora priestess of the flame and the Menoth character Heavy Warjack
Blood of Martyrs.
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| This week's figures front view |
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| This week's figures rear view |
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| This week's Kingdom Death figures. Pinup Architect is based on the alternate version Scott Hockley did for the Salute 2014 painting contest |
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| This weeks Warmachine figures |
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| The two Warmachine Tactics Exclusives I own |
In next week’s post there will be Iron Man Dio, Emma
Frost, another Loka Ice Queen, two more Judwin players, another Judwin prone
token, a Goblin prone token and the Backer MVP The Veteran.
Until next time, Keep Rolling.
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