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Grabula

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to be wrong about this but there's just too much to indicate we won't be seeing anymore Robotech from palladium. Hopefully maybe someone sense can pick up the pieces and give the franchise the run it deserves.

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Here's the deal ladies and gentleman. It wouldn't take anyone this long to get anything figured out of they were serious. For example, unless they're stuck in a contract with the model designs that's too easy. I've seen and bend in my hand pieces of equal quality made at home by gamers with decent c...

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I always found the unit cohesion model of other games like 40k unrealistic as you have a full unit of guys fighting in a lump; for defending a fire base maybe, but offensively, it doesn't make sense. Depends on the situation. In afghanistan where we didn't have to worry about artillery or airstrike...

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Eric, take your time, use the assembly guides they give you for reference. There are a few inaccuracies ( I can only think of a couple on the scout regult) but overall they get you where you need to go. It took me about an 2 hours to assemble my first 3 regult pods but after that I got it down to ab...

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What phaze said. They're close enough in size not to be a big deal. If you plan on tournemant play it may bite you down the road though.

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Hey everyone, finally got my stuff in today! Managed to start assembling some miniatures and I'm recording everything for posterity on my new blog:

http://robotechtotalwar.blogspot.com/

I'm getting ready for bed but I'll come back tomorrow and let you guys know my thoughts!

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I don't see why you couldn't post them though it doesn't appear you can embed images here. You'd have to link images unless I'm missing something.

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I did saturday afternoon. Tracking says my package will arrive on time thursday end of day!

I know some people have received their stuff without getting the notification.

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Considering their current price I think the best we could hope for would be in the 70 range. I think 40 considering they are around 37 on sprue is a little unrealistic though. I must say grabula you have been fun to talk here thank you! haha thanks slaaneshgod. After seeing a couple of games do the...

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Yeah, AT43 died when Rackham did. Too bad too the miniatures were awesome. Great prices, and good quality.

If you're mass producing prepainted mechs and selling in packs to fit battlegroups I bet you could get them for under 40$

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glitterboy, I get what you're saying, and true most people go to the cheaper plastic but again as a good reference AT43 used hard plastic. Certainly the price is higher if you add steps in manufacturing - creating molds and pouring plastic is definitely cheaper then doing those steps, then having pe...

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There's an impression that prepainted miniatures are somehow more expensive and this generally isn't the case. For example XWing miniatures run around 12-14$ for the standard fighter and are painted relatively well. Mechs at 1:285th don't occupy much more volume. MW:DA ran around 12$ a pop for a box...

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I started playing D&D back when it was in the Red Box set and had the dice you had to color in with a crayon, late 70s I think. Spent my high school years running D&D, Star Frontiers and Gamma World. marry me? Seriously though my dad bought the pink box set, I think it was the second iterat...

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So I see a lot of talk about things I don't usually see on typical gaming forums. I know robotech has a huge fanbase,and of course some people are coming from the RPG side of things. I'm just wondering what people's backgrounds are as far as gaming goes? I'll start: I'm a huge gaming nerd. My dad in...

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slaaneshgod, you've hit on the critical points I don't think are necessarily valid, against prepaints. Again, hear me out! 1 - it's going to take less time for most people to convert a pre-assembled miniature than it is to assemble one. A couple of cuts, some glue, maybe a little filler and you're d...

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slaaneshgod, you have some good points. I think everyone can agree this product isn't perfect, but what product is. I feel like if the community continues to support the game things will come around. I don't know how responsive Palladium is with their RPG's but it's possible they may hear reasonable...

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{Repost from the unofficial RRT Forums} These threads always get a little crazy but hear me out. First, RRT isn't just a wargame, it's also to provide models to the guys who play the RPG. There's a high probability that alot of those guys and girls might want to just buy them ready to play. Right no...

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I'm curious why'd you'd hang around Larry A if all you can see is negative? I'd imagine you'd have better things to do with your time then haunt the forums here if you've decided it's such a travesty? It's pretty obvious you're unhappy with the product, though I take some umbrage at your implication...

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Sounds about right. BT is nominally 1:285th but as you say, they're kind of all over the place with no consistency. I imagine they may have tried to be consistent with the Robotech/Unseen minis back in the day. I think they're all at least in that sweet spot anyway and shouldn't really stick out as ...

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GHQ military models are all 1:285th so perfect size for this game. Great guys too, I used to live a couple of blocks from where they are located in minneapolis - they showed me some of their sculpting tips at that scale (the secret is layers...shhhhhhh) and always gave me free crap when I went to pl...

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Yeah, I don't think it's as important in a game like this where models that look alike perform basically the same and only have a few modifications. In games with larger miniatures counts or models that can have a lot of variation I can see why some people are sticklers about it. I tend to be as wel...

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I think it's worth the wait. I get that some people get upset when things don't work out the way they were told but, I mentioned in an earlier thread that I think a lot of companies are still adjusting to using KS. I haven't seen one reasonably sized KS hit their dates. I've participated in 3, all t...

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Thanks Jaymz! I'm hoping to have some cool stuff started in the next few days and I'll share when I do!

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Got my shipping notification today, finally! I'm ridiculously excited about this game lol. The waiting hasn't really bothered me, I've gone with the attitude that I can't really miss what I don't have and it's worked for me. I downloaded the digital edition of the Robotech book series yesterday and ...

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I'd planned on ordering about 50 stands anyway, I think we have more stuff coming in wave 2 for battlecry? Either way I have a lot of collecting to do so will need stands down the road. I'm going to skip magnetizing. I know it can save a little money but really these models are small enough for it t...

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Boom! m The cool thing is they have different heights all at reasonable prices. Two questions, first does anyone know what size the bases are offhand? Second, to confirm if I bought battlecry I'm getting 7 valkyrie (2 modes can use flight stands) for 10 flight stands, a Quel-Gulnau that will need a ...

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I'm just going to laminate my cards. I've got a friend who is talking about doing his own cards (he's a graphic artist so should be a pinch for him), he feels like he can make them a little more efficient than they are now. If he does that I'll laminate those and use them!

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Shouldn't be a problem for me, I don't really do competitive events these days. I plan to do some big spectacle/storyline events at local cons so I need a ton of miniatures anyway. I figure I can spend the next 6-12 months building up my collection, terrain and getting the rules down and maybe strea...

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I feel ya glitterboy. I ended up pinning all my battlefleet gothic stands and they held together pretty well after that. As for magnetizing small parts, they have some pretty small magnets - it might be a pain but you could probably pull it off with some work. I'm not going to bother personally. If ...

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sure, I assume some modification of course. I'll most likely just drill a hole into the gun pod for any stands I use, that's too easy. I typically pin flight stands anyway since they have a tendency to break and I don't like magnetizing them.

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I'm just wondering what people are using for flight stands and where they are getting them? I don't like the supplied stands and like many people plan to replace them with clear stands.

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So this afternoon I went on a quick shopping spree to buy materials for my RRT project. Since RRT is a particular scale and has a particular look, I plan on scratch building a lot of my terrain to be robotech appropriate. I'm watching episodes of Robotech to get the feel for the architecture and so ...

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LIST STARTS HERE:

USA, Milwaukee, WI - James M (unclebob)
USA, Pittsburgh, PA - Don M (Axoid) + 4 other players in the area
USA, Rochester, NY - DocTom
USA, Great Falls, MT - slaaneshgod(me), and Roslinwolf(other half)
USA, Denver, CO - Jason B. (Grabula)

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I bought these today in preparation for my scratchbuilt RRT cityscape.

http://i827.photobucket.com/albums/zz19 ... 211948.jpg

They're a little larger then the RRT scale but they're passable and cheap! The trucks and buses would make good convoy objectives.

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jdarr5000 wrote:Well got mine today now for 2 weeks of assembly

Congrats! I heard from Palladium thursday, my address was coming up funny in their system but sounds like they worked it out and my stuff ships monday! Hopefully I'll see it by friday!

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I probably won't do the MA thing but I'll definitely support the game in my local area!

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as an aside, is there a matrix to tell what we get with the battlecry level? I can't quite remember and couldn't find much detail on KS.

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Sure there were setbacks and some let downs, but now that we are in the final stretch I simply saw no reason for a post to try to stimulate negative assumptions that could mislead sincere, supportive and anxious Backers. I think I can sympathize on both sides lol. On the one hand I've been pretty p...

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Didn't they just post some painted robotech pictures by pythdamion? I feel like ND was engaged to operate the miniatures side of things for palladium which has a lot less experience. They have their own games to push and RRT is a palladium game but designed by ND so it might make sense that they lea...

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That valkyrie is one from a set of toys I got years ago. I ordered a couple of boxes of valkyries and destroids with the intent to put together my own robotech game but didn't get around to it lol. They're a little bigger than the mechs for the game unfortunately but they transform! I figured I'd te...

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I love what you've done, it looks great. You appear to work backwards from how I would do it - large areas first, details later but whatever works for you!

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Here's a couple of shots of a building I'm scratchbuilding for another game system that will probably work for RRT as well:

http://i827.photobucket.com/albums/zz19 ... 232001.jpg

http://i827.photobucket.com/albums/zz19 ... 231955.jpg

I have to start watching the series again here so I can get the classic robotech architecture down, shouldn't be too hard.

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I think most of them will have the black tiger stripes to make the paint jobs simpler but I'll do the heroic pilot planes in the more colorful stripes, should be fun! I did a test paint job based on some concepts posted to the other forum a while back: m m I might change the green to grey and the bo...

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I don't have the models in my hand yet but having watched some unboxing videos, and perused some hobby blogs of people who've got their stuff it looks to me that the models are fairly well done. I agree there were some pieces that didn't' need to be separate and so makes these kits somewhat more com...

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Some good stuff! I like to keep things simple, I've been scratch building and modelling for years and I've sort of simplified everything so I can work faster and cut down on clutter. I have a bottle of the plastruct bondene - I do a ton of styrene scratchbuilding and this stuff is fantastic for form...

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good stuff! I plan on doing some pretty heavy modifications myself, same basic techniques though I'll prob use regular green stuff since I have a surplus. More importantly you're paint jobs solved an issue for me. I was trying to decide on realistic paint jobs or more cartoon like paint jobs. The he...

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Hey all, have spent a little time browsing the forums - I was signed into another forum for RPG tactics but I guess that folded? I haven't received my KS yet and probably my luck I'll have to wait on container 3 lol. What's the latest on the last of the KS shipping? I'll be setting up a blog shortly...

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