(KICKSTARTER) Robotech Tactics

[stone-cold-lead]

I like the value in the Showdown tons of mecha but would totally kill any add-ons...that is my hard choice. I still think Battle Cry and a few add-ons will be what I go with in the end.

Yeah the Battle Cry pledge level is great and it's one of the main reasons I've finally pledged to something on Kickstarter. Plenty of models for a very reasonable price considering everything. I think the higher levels are for gamers who are thinking really big and want to field vast armies of battlepods (which is very tempting but not practical for me - that's more for Inso or Akula  ).

[Elbows]

The Southern Cross actually had quite a few options.

Bioroids of several different flavors, the skimmer pads they use, and the large command drop ship which should be do-able at this stage.  They'll also likely do the armoured infantry you see in the mothership.

The Southern Cross had the Hover Tank, the small fighter, the space...helicopter (!?) and then tons of fighter aircraft, some land vehicles with launchers etc.  They also had numerous types of infantry (though at this scale, infantry will be pretty damned small) and their own Battloids (such as the police one seen in the show).

Personally I'm not too stoked about the Southern Cross or Invid...though I do think the idea of running some Invid/Zentraedi wars would be cool. According to American cannon/fluff that's where Breetai got his fancy faceplate.  I do think the scale will ruin the Invid game a bit.  Unless they change the scale for that particular era (and I hope they don't).  You definitely won't be playing a small band of 4-5 cyclone riders...it'd just be impossible at that scale really.

For me, Robotech IS Macross.  The others are just icing on the cake. 

[Booboo]

Bioroids of several different flavors

Yeah, they had red ones and blue ones...  .  JK, seriously though, as much as I would like to see alphas alongside macross stuff, and the possibility of Zen vrs Invid.  I'd REALLY love to see a scale change for that particular one. Something akin to gladiator games like detail.  Anyway they do it, major credit bill will be on it's way, and the wife will certainly be dialing a lawyer.

[styx]

Well, I upped my pledge some to push the male power armor to the free stuff pile. Looks like there is no further backer rewards and free stuff is getting scarce.

[kalamadea]

See I'm the opposite, for me Robotech is all about MOSPEADA and SC. Macross was always my least favorite of the three shows and it's by far the most prevalent, there's already been so many Macross kits in numerous scales over the years. Not that I dislike Macross at all, but of the 3 it was only good, not OH MY GOD AMAZING like MOSPEADA was. And while there's been a few MOSPEADA kits, it was mostly the human mecha, the only invid I've really seen were the matchbox/playmates toys (which were AWESOME!).

I personally can't wait for New Generation/Shadow Chronicles stuff. Invid/Zentraedi war would be fantastic, especially considering how little info about that period exists (and all of it has been rewritten between the novels and comics and new official timelines). Now that you mention it I'm a bit surprised Palladium never expanded on that at all, you have decades (or centuries or millenia, depending on which timeline you read) of history that just ripe for an RPG book. There were some comics, Comico had the graphic novel about Zor sending the SDF-1 to earth just before the invid attack and kill him (injuring Breetai) and the humans exploring the ship that was retold as the prologue in the novels. You also had the 6 issue history of Zor arc Comico did. Academy did a few about the Zentraedi called Warriors, but there's hardly anything for Robotech before the humans come into play. Heck, I'd love to see some Sentinels stuff too, but I think most of that has been retconned out of existence.

[Booboo]

Here here Kalamadea.


This and the other inorganics in 28mm please.

[Elbows]

Huh, I had actually forgotten about the Sentinels...that could be cool.  I enjoy the other eras of Robotech (Southern Cross being my least favourite).  I'd love to see Sentinels and Invid fully fleshed out (no pun intended).

[kalamadea]

Southern Cross was my favorite when I first started reading the novels. SC is a great story and I really loved the characters...until I saw the show. The squeaky voice and poofy hair on Dana Sterling was NOTHING like what I saw in my head when I read the books and Zor Prime is a FAR less interesting, far less menacing, far less sensical character in the show than in the books. Everything seemed so much less silly and felt so much more important.

It's always been my problem with Robotech, that old "I read the book and it was WAY better" issue that ruins so many otherwise great movies. I don't see how anyone that saw the show first could take the story seriously since even for me it's now hard to look at SC without seeing Dana as this ditsy goofball instead of a badass soldier or seeing Zor Prime as a condescending jackwad instead of a tortured soul trying to fight between his sense of self, his false memories and the Robotech Master's mind control.

[Jaeger]

I will be shocked if they break more than half a million to 600k at most...

Are you in shock now?

I think the Lancer II's are a sure thing now, but 925K for the Glaug Eldare? Going to be exciting.

[Elbows]

The boosted Glaug would be nice (actually doing an awesome conversion of one for 1/200! myself...) but I am see some cannon/fluff gaps in their game systems now.  A squadron of boosted officer pods?  Some of this stuff doesn't gel with me.  But...then again I'm not planning on using their rules. 

[styx]

Are you in shock now?

I think the Lancer II's are a sure thing now, but 925K for the Glaug Eldare? Going to be exciting.

I am pleased...I am just floored at the silly pledges (some of those are unexpected) i have heard some people throw out on the table, as I said before I would love to own the debt they are racking up on their credit cards and that interest is going to suck in the long run. I also feel some people will ramp back their pledges (I have heard of this) at the end as they only pledged higher to hit goals and then pull back once they see they have overspent their budget.

I think it will curve down in activity until the last day or two. Some of the latest stuff isn't that amazing. I could care less about the Lancer II right now or the Gluag Eldare just too damm expensive for a squadron and a single is pricey. I still think the holding back of freebies is going to kill some forward energy and they won't squeak past 900k.

[Jaeger]

Now this stretch goal really ticles my fancy:



Hope we make it.

[styx]

If the FPA are a free upgrade I may have to ditch my  MAC (sadly) and upgrade to Showdown...now I have to sell my soul to the devil. 

[Jaeger]

They are. Bonus for Battle Cry and above.

[Jaeger]

3 more miniatures for Battle Cry+



The million and the 3 FBAs are suddenly very much in reach.