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McPherson

More realistically this is the thread which will be deleted in a day or so like the other threads that have brought this question up recently.

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Very nicely done. I'm guessing you've had some prior experience as a TO. Have you thought about forwarding this stuff onto Palladium themselves? Perhaps they can incorporate it into an official organised play pack to get things jump started on their end. Or even put it in an issue of the Rifter to d...

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A very comprehensive list of tweaks there Skull011. I haven't played many games with my stuff but I would automatically lean towards your rule for flying off the table anyway, it has the appropriate risk/reward value and allows better strategic options for Fast Movers (Plus when Wave 2 hits there ar...

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That I got to spend 8 glorious years living in the US.

That I am born British and got to return back to the good old UK afterwards

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As a fellow UK resident I would say that at least from my perspective he's expecting a level of professionalism from the company he's dealing with. If they have spent the time and effort to build and maintain an online presence complete with contact options available for people (m) then the least yo...

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Both good suggestions Tiree but I know from personal experience here in the UK that no FLGS carries Palladium stock and there is rarely an occasion where I can find a group of people interested enough in splitting shipping over several books. I'm sure tmbn is facing similar problems, my only suggest...

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Alas TagsPB that thinking has also somewhat led to the situation at hand, nobody has been saying anything nice (or in some cases anything at all) and all its done is left people resentful and worried on both sides of the discussion. Palladium promised to restart the dialogue in their 19 page mega-up...

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Nice, i started basing my assembled UEDF, need to do another coat of sand and gravel then its to the spray-booth.

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Well Premier I hope Palladium are looking at whats being said by people because a lot of people are stating that 15mm is quite simply too big of a change, many are accepting a smaller change and many are saying stick to whats already available. I hope this wider feedback is being listened to instead...

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Exactly Bielmics sliding scale works for the idea of making the units 'look' right. They are not accurate to printed information but as long as they all look right in comparison to each other on the tabletop I think a lot of gamers will forgive PB, after all they forgive GW scale sliding when dealin...

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I agree with you Bielmic that a sliding scale would definetly be the most elegant and visually appealing solution. As it stands the whole problem arises from Robotech's mashing of three separate source series together, but look at each series by itself and tell me that scales don't seem to shift fro...

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I'm contemplating it but international shipping to the UK is currently making it too costly.

I've got till July to see if I can put aside some pennies though so who knows?

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Thanks for that NMI, I'll hold off on PM'ing people yet and the email addy is probably full of other emails which may be more important. For the time being if we keep the discussion here and then we can just PM Alex and Wayne a link to the thread and they can see what is being discussed and digest w...

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I agree Kryptt that i'd like Palladium to stay with or stick near to their current scale, to be honest I am not a purist like some others in my minds eye a Alpha was always around the same size as a Valkyrie from when I watched the series as a child so if they played with the scales a bit (10mm for ...

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Lastly, disregard all the vulgar and infantile haters on the Kickstarter comments page as their posts do not follow the ‘be respectful and considerate’ rule. Their rants are tiresome and do NOT contribute to any discussions. Just a small comment BlackStar but even if they are going about it a poor ...

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Hi all, I just finished reading Kevs 2 part update on Kickstarter - not going to go into what I thought of it as I'm sure there are going to be plenty of internet arguments abrewing about it and I don't want to start one here. However I do want to ask a question to NMI or anyone in the know. Multipl...

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Inside the pods I have 2mm thick rare earth magnets that are just a touch larger than the recess in the pod (I don't have measurements near me atm) And in the central connecting arm i have sunk in smaller (2mm diameter) rare earth magnets. Seems to work ok, only time will tell As for no support, yea...

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With the light missile pods what I did was use my larger magnets and actually glue them inside the pod when assembling it onto the half that was there (who thought having half the joint missing made a mistake!) Only problem with that is you have to be 200% sure you have your polarities right before ...

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Well I have finally recovered enough from my shoulder operation to continue assembling my RRT. Had a look at everything i've got put together today, 2 Glaugs, 24 Regults, 4 Artillery Regults magnitised so I can switch loadouts out (Not a fun process I dont suggest it unless you have the patience of ...

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I have been trying to keep quiet about this issue (hoping its nothing but more shouting at shadows but given the lack of solid info who can blame people for worrying?) Regarding FoxFang's comment on the scale, yes 6mm cyclones would be around the same size as Epic Space Marines, and there is nothing...

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I wouldn't worry so much about perfect matching colours. From personal experience I've found you generally need to paint a half shade lighter than you want the final product to look due to lighting and the size of miniatures. And that's without going into more advanced colour theory involving differ...

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Open House is a a no-no for me sadly.

A. I'm the UK.
B. I'm having to look after my disabled Fiancee full time so taking a long weekend to visit Palladium is unlikely

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Keep up the good work, I had to take a break as my shoulder still isn't fully healed and sitting down to assemble minis was killing me.

Hoping to get back to the construction next week tho.

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I am trying my best to refrain from commenting but I can't help but say it is more than a little worrying its been 3 weeks since a Kickstarter update and nothing really has been said since Adepticon by the guys at PB. Seems like the promises of keeping people in the loop with more regular updates fr...

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I don't have the RPG rules to hand (left my copies in the US when I moved to the UK) however the RRT rulebook doesnt have anything for converting stats from RRT to the RPG, that aside I think there are a couple of players who have done the math and could give you good estimates. Because I don't have...

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The miniatures would work easily enough for the RPG. The rules themselves are probably not something you'll want if your not interested in playing a miniatures game. It does have a nice section at the back for converting your RPG characters into characters for the Miniatures game if you want to reso...

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Well the magnets I had already were a bit big so I've ordered these : m They look small enough that it'll be easy enough to sink them into the joints, obviously I need to try them out to make sure that they're big enough but normally you don't need a huge amount of strength to hold the pieces in pla...

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So far i've only assembled A's and J's though I have put together a few R heads to put in my ever growing Bits Box. Like the S its a bit fiddly putting them together (whoever though pieces that small needed to be separated must have the smallest hands ever) but otherwise no. However the delay on bui...

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Well if its just the case that the pods are much quicker to assemble and paint (I agree with this statement, I'm getting through 3 pods in the time it takes me to do 1 destroid/battloid) then as time progresses things should balance out hopefully.

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Very true Mike. Having some experience being a booth worker at Gencon and the like (before returning to the UK and working several booths at several local UK cons) and the most important thing is generating buzz and hype for the product, and you do that by engaging the audience. Obviously I wasn't a...

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I think Jefffar is interested in plastic so they would match the rest of the RRT range.

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Yeah the bent leg is a bit of a weird one.

I'm a bit more experienced so I have used it to model a Battloid kneeling but i've only assembled 2 out of however many Battloids I get ina showdown so I think after a while i'll run out of creative options

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Congratz, I got my wave 1 yesterday and have managed 3 pods and a battloid so far (battloid last night took just over an hour, pods i got all three done in a hour easily this morn.) I can defiantly see where people are complaining about the piece count of some of the models, it does seem a trifle ex...

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the legal issues though, not to mention the extra logistical issues, would make such a deal difficult though. How so? I would assume legal issues wise is how the license that Palladium has works with Harmony Gold, a company who - lets face it are famous for being aggressive in the defense of their ...

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Personally I voted no, while I do think GHQ's models are good I think Palladium starting to get involved with another company would possibly complicate things further. I'd like the range to expand as per Palladiums latest update but diluting control of the range will only cause problems in the long ...

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Thanks for the info Rosco, I dont follow Mike or Wayne on Facebook so I dont have access to what was said. However it still hasn't really answered either mine or Wily's question. Did PB pre-pack everything so it's just ready to mail on once it arrives at Battlefoams UK Warehouse or did they just put...

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Good question - and to second that. If there are problems with what arrives in RoW shipments - for instance parts damaged or missing whom do we chase up, Palladium directly or Battlefoam UK if they are doing the final packaging and shipping out? Hope to hear soon - thanks for your help. - End of Lin...

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I am no where near a PB White Knight or Apologist but lets face it Tzeentch - your approach to asking causes more harm than good.

I would like to see the thread reopened but insulting people is hardly the way to get it done.

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As an EU backer thanks for your concern Kryptt.

I'm just wondering if there is going to be any official comment about this or not. Only time will tell.

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I would argue Pepsi-Jedi that any company that is willing to trade internationally over the internet should have at least a minimal amount of staff dedicated to answering any web based inquiries. It isn't practical for people in other countries to constantly have to adjust for 5+ hour time differenc...

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Well I think a big company like Wayland wouldn't lie in their public email which they sent to all their customers now would they?

After all it's bad business to lie to your customer base.

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Warning: User warned for baiting another forum user/entity. In this case, Palladium Books. - NMI

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Well my friends who ordered it in the UK have received their boxes today while we backers still sit around knowing we wont be getting anything this year.

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I agree with Khelthros that a starter box benefits from the GW style snap fit minis. A nice easy springboard from which you can then contrast with more complex pose able miniatures in the rest of the product line. However GW also benefit from having such long product lines and can afford to create s...

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Well good news - there has been a weekly update...

... Bad news - not a single mention of RoW backers. Just a lot of sunshine and rainbows about US and Canada!

And still nothing actually posted on the Kickstarter.

Joys - back to the no word at all routine.

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I'm pretty sure I paid the full price agreed upon with Kickstarter/PB when backing the project as did everyone else Internationally.

Why is it the international communities fault if the company agreeing to provide and ship a product to them miscalculates what that would cost?

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I'm not going to get into an argument about this - despite my obvious disappointment on how this is being handled I will say this TagsPB. Even if they dont have their stock (the stores) until Black Friday (which is this week if memory serves - sorry I'm in the UK now so I cant be expected to keep tr...

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From what I understood of the 'plan' for UK shipping was the shipping partner would be paying the import-duties (as the product was being shipped to them) After which the shipping partner would be shipping locally to the backers. Why a partner would agree to do that I am unsure not being involved in...

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Already signed up - just waiting for my stuff to arrive, hopefully with enough time for me to assemble and paint some demo forces for release day

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Multiple models on a base is what I was thinking as the best solution for ground convoys.

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I have applied to be a MA to run Robotech here in the UK (Still waiting for the response) I haven't read the rules yet - waiting for my copy to arrive instead of trying to sneak a peak on some scanned copy etc. Does the scenario specify that it has to be on a 50mm (large) base, because from what I r...

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