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2013/11/08 19:19:04
Subject: Alien vs Predator Miniatures Game from Prodos Games
You just go to the page and select the amount of money you would like to pledge. For example, if you pick "Pledge £75 or more" you will just get the base game, the next one down is the game plus £60 that you can spend on add-on items.
When you select your pledge Kickstarter will take you to the billing screen where you put in all your info, but you won't be charged until the campaign ends.
After the campaign is over, they will set up a Pledge Manager web page and you can use that to finalize your order and purchase add-on items with your extra add-on credit if you picked a higher pledge. Then they make the game and ship it to you when it's done
Should have mentioned the 6 month to one year wait for the product...
T
2013/11/08 19:23:27
Subject: Alien vs Predator Miniatures Game from Prodos Games
So.... call me crazy, but why would anyone take one of the $15 models as their freebie, when you could take a $25+ squad-box?
I mean... i'm gonna end up buying everything anyway, but just for efficiency-sake... :-p
I do wish the "free add-on" goal scaled though. I feel like it would be a nice show of appreciation for those who already threw $500 at this thing, to get a little more beyond what someone at $150 is getting.
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2013/11/08 19:27:18
Subject: Alien vs Predator Miniatures Game from Prodos Games
This is a board game and not a wargame? If so, why is there a $400 pledge level - what I am missing? Who spends more than $100 on a board game?
2014 will be the year of zero GW purchases. Kneadite instead of GS, no paints or models. 2014 will be the year I finally make the move to military models and away from miniature games.
2013/11/08 19:30:08
Subject: Alien vs Predator Miniatures Game from Prodos Games
"If successful this KS project will allows Prodos Games Ltd to produce the AvP The Hunt Begins Board Game (which will be produced in standard plastic 1 piece format for late 2014 release) in a bespoked and limited (to KS) fashion specifically for the model connoisseur and collector alike. "
As someone who is only interested in the game and not how detailed and posable the models are (I hate modeling), I am glad to see that the game will have one piece figures available this time next year for a wider release. That allows me plenty of time to save up for multiple copies.
2013/11/08 19:30:30
Subject: Alien vs Predator Miniatures Game from Prodos Games
This is a board game and not a wargame? If so, why is there a $400 pledge level - what I am missing? Who spends more than $100 on a board game?
$100 is no longer out of the question with board games- FFG in particular has a ton around the $100 mark, and IIRC Kingdom Death is expected to come in at around $150 when it hits retail
Basic set is the board game. Part of kickstarter funding goes to making the wargame (read the part about commanding a BN of Marines agains an alien nesting site...)
The KS version of the boardgame will have multipart high detailed resin figures. Late in 2014 a retail version with simpler plastic figures will be released. It should come in under what the KS version does as a result.
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Every time a terrorist dies a Paratrooper gets his wings.
2013/11/08 19:58:23
Subject: Alien vs Predator Miniatures Game from Prodos Games
Dunno what I want for the freebie either. I'll probably get more bugs. Still holding onto my addon credit in hopes of APCs or drop ships or queens .. guessing the queen will be the last goal in the graphic since it's got a queen head...
2013/11/08 20:03:01
Subject: Alien vs Predator Miniatures Game from Prodos Games
We'll see won't we? Almost at 90k now, things are going nicely for a first day. I'm sure things will dip a bit soon, but we've got a nice start on things at the very least, kinda curious to see what that last USMC unlock will be.
Fatum Iustum Stultorum
Fiat justitia ruat caelum
2013/11/08 20:03:38
Subject: Alien vs Predator Miniatures Game from Prodos Games
Aw, was hoping for a better pic of the Alien Warriors that are unlocking at 100K. Well, shouldn't be too long to wait (I'm guessing late tonight, but they don't always update immediately so might have to wake up to the update)
2013/11/08 20:38:23
Subject: Alien vs Predator Miniatures Game from Prodos Games
Manchu wrote: But if anyone wants to extensively debate the merits of the movies qua cinema, please start a thread in the OT Forum and be sure to link it here. Thanks!
Also, great to see Prodos being clear about the material they are using! Future KS campaigns, take note
Prodos wrote:@Jake Young: We only say it is Polyurethane Plastic so that we don't mislead you guys. We are NOT using what is referred to in this industry as 'restic' as we believe it is a secondary material to Polyurethane. What is normally referred to as 'Plastic' in the infantry is Styrene Plastic and 'Resins' can be a huge variety of plastics, styrene based, urethane based and Epoxy are all very common.
Polyurethane is great because it captures detail, is easy to clean up and assemble, can be heated for reposing, be cut for conversions, mouldlines are easily removed with a scalpel or file, it is non-toxic and simply great to assemble, paint and play games with! Forgot to say! It is very sturdy, and snaps cleanly if it does snap (but it has to undergo quite a lot of stress for that to happen!).
I think it would be a great idea for us to show you guys by making a video of us working with some castings.
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2013/11/08 20:51:39
Subject: Re:Alien vs Predator Miniatures Game from Prodos Games
RiTides wrote: Aw, was hoping for a better pic of the Alien Warriors that are unlocking at 100K. Well, shouldn't be too long to wait (I'm guessing late tonight, but they don't always update immediately so might have to wake up to the update)
At this rate, maybe in the next hour or so we'll hit the 100k. Right now we're at 91,5k, not bad at all for a first day, especially one using a non-US currency.
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2013/11/08 21:00:48
Subject: Re:Alien vs Predator Miniatures Game from Prodos Games
Aw, was hoping for a better pic of the Alien Warriors that are unlocking at 100K. Well, shouldn't be too long to wait (I'm guessing late tonight, but they don't always update immediately so might have to wake up to the update)
LOVE the look of the Alien Warriors! I'm currently sitting at the £75 level, but might up it if more and more awesome paid add-ons get introduced. At the moment I'm only really interested in the Predalien and USCM Sergeant (one of which I'll get as a free add-on), but if Warriors are paid add-ons then I'll definitely pick up a set of those. Some Berserker Preds and Hellhounds would be epic too.
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I hate to be That Guy about this, but that's clearly a monster from AvP:R, not Aliens, as was indicated earlier. I know most people won't care or will call me out as a pedantic fanboy (like seems to have happened to many people earlier in this thread), but seriously, this is wrong. Sure, they're similar, but to use an example most of you will get, if someone told you that you were getting a GW kit full of Mk IV armour, but then it turned out to be Mk VIII, wouldn't you at least be a bit confused?
I love the Preds and Marines, but I'm genuinely curious as to why Prodos are only using the modern* (and IMO inferior) designs for the Aliens... Is it something Fox has insisted on, maybe?
*Except for that A3/Stalker figure, that one is pretty nifty.
2013/11/08 21:22:14
Subject: Alien vs Predator Miniatures Game from Prodos Games
I hate to be That Guy about this, but that's clearly a monster from AvP:R, not Aliens, as was indicated earlier. I know most people won't care or will call me out as a pedantic fanboy (like seems to have happened to many people earlier in this thread), but seriously, this is wrong. Sure, they're similar, but to use an example most of you will get, if someone told you that you were getting a GW kit full of Mk IV armour, but then it turned out to be Mk VIII, wouldn't you at least be a bit confused?
I love the Preds and Marines, but I'm genuinely curious as to why Prodos are only using the modern* (and IMO inferior) designs for the Aliens... Is it something Fox has insisted on, maybe?
*Except for that A3/Stalker figure, that one is pretty nifty.
I have to agree with you, it's annoying they continue to use the inferior design when they have a better choice.
God Prodos.
(also Fox and Giger never got on, so you may be right...)
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Little orphans in the snow
With nowhere to call a home
Start their singing, singing
Waiting through the summertime
To thaw your hearts in wintertime
That's why they're singing, singing
2013/11/08 21:36:43
Subject: Alien vs Predator Miniatures Game from Prodos Games
overtyrant wrote: Can anyone who has pledged please ask in the comments whether they will do a £1.00 pledge lvl for anyone who wants add ons but NOT the rules, thanks!
I already campaigned to get the 10 pound pledge to apply to international shipping, so I think that's the best I can do!
It would be a little more complicated (although not much) for them to add a 1-pound pledge because then they would need to specify what to add for UK backers versus international backers onto that pledge, which they haven't had to do up to this point (as UK shipping is obviously more than 1 pound).
2013/11/08 21:40:55
Subject: Alien vs Predator Miniatures Game from Prodos Games
warboss wrote: Really, we didn't cover that enough in the previous 10 pages of discussion on alien taxonomy??
I was reticent to bring it up, but this isn't just "muh feet", this is them claiming to be producing a specific creature from a specific film, and then making an entirely different (albiet quite similar) creature from an entirely different film. It's fine if you don't mind, but A) Prodos should have things labelled and advertised correctly when working from such a famous licence, and B) I was asking a valid question about whether this design choice has come from 20th Century Fox or Prodos themselves.
2013/11/08 21:41:58
Subject: Alien vs Predator Miniatures Game from Prodos Games
Maybe they want us to pledge more money to unlock the earlier / original movie Alien designs? Prodos have said all along that they're planning to release models from the entire Pedator / Alien universe...
Slightly OT, but atm you can get Aliens: Colonial Marines for $4 on Gamefly with this code "GFDNOV20", 75% off +20% off from code. Includes "Hell yeah!" too supposedly. Cheapest I've seen it, steam key.
Broken game, but $4... I'm sure that much value can be had heheh, so I finally picked it up.
2013/11/08 21:46:03
Subject: Re:Alien vs Predator Miniatures Game from Prodos Games
Well if the Alien warrior sculpts are gonna be this abysmal, then I've really got no interest in this. Real shame.
Little orphans in the snow
With nowhere to call a home
Start their singing, singing
Waiting through the summertime
To thaw your hearts in wintertime
That's why they're singing, singing
2013/11/08 21:46:34
Subject: Alien vs Predator Miniatures Game from Prodos Games
Ruglud wrote: Maybe they want us to pledge more money to unlock the earlier / original movie Alien designs? Prodos have said all along that they're planning to release models from the entire Pedator / Alien universe...
That's what they said, that the 100k unlock would be the version of the Alien as seen in Aliens. That one's from AvP:R, which while having similar ridges to the skull, is very different in all other regards from James Camerons' version of the beast.
Again, for those of you who don't see the problem here, look to the different versions of GW space marines. There is literally no difference between this and releasing a new Black Templars box full of wolf icons and with no crosses. But they're all space marines right? Who cares?
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