Rogue star ,osprey sci fi skirmish rules

[Timbor]

I caved and bought the book along with some of the figures... no real price incentive for the whole lot, so I just picked the ones I liked most 

[palaeomerus]

I preordered the book from Northstar.

[Longstreak66]

I've already got Starport Scum and Void Pirates, both of which I'm very happy with.  I've decided to order Rogue Stars too as it can't do any harm to compare.

[beefcake]

I just ordered some Loor scouts from CPmodels. They should fit nicely as some grunts for a space pirate type gang.

[eilif]

I backed the Kickstarter for those. Ended up with mostly good figures but some with dreadful mould misalignment problems.
Also the metal Johnny used was extremely brittle, the figures will not stand even the smallest amount of bending without snapping (or in the case of one of mine shattering). Was brittle enough that head swaps can be done by pressing with your thumb on the side of the figures head and it snaps off cleanly at the neck!

Interesting.
I hadn't noticed misalighment or brittleness, but I can't say it wasn't at all the case either.  I also pledged for the KS and was pretty happy with what I got.  I painted and modded a couple a buddy painted a few for me and about half were traded away as I already had purchased them from Megaminis.

I was pretty pleased with the quality of the figs but there were a few rough spots, mostly places where the figures had been modified from their earlier sculpts.  The Dominatrix figure in particular had some odd chunky figs where old weapons had been removed.  I replaced her forearms with a set from a heroclix Electra and a necromunda pistol and she works great in my Escher gang. http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=82218.0


A few that I modded and my buddy painted ended up in my Orlock gang.
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=70480.msg1158292#msg1158292
Can you find the 3 in this pic?

[JollyBob]

Well I caved and went in for the Pre-order with free figure, since it was discounted...

Bloody silly idea since I'll never play it and I have next to no time to paint these days, but it really is ticking all my boxes so far and I'm looking forward to it. 

[Cultist of Sooty]

I'm in the same boat as JollyBob (the jolly boat?). But I like a good skirmish game.

I only added a couple of miniatures - a couple of bots - but if I'm a very good cultist and get them painted, I'll let myself buy more.

Anyone know if it will come out early or late in December? I set it to deliver to my work address, as the post office often seems to consider that my home is invisible. But I'm off work from before Christmas to new year so I might need to make arrangements if it looks like late in the month.

[Hummster]

Osprey has the publication date as 15 December, so mid month if it comes out on schedule.

[Cultist of Sooty]

Cheers. That would be cutting it a bit fine, but ought to be okay. Fingers crossed.

[robh]

From previous Osprey releases the Book Depository always seems to ship first, they post early for it to be with the buyer on release day. Osprey themselves send the book out on release day (or a few days after)

[Hummster]

Northstar tend to send out  the books and miniatures pretty much as soon as the Nickstarter ends so it though 4 December is a bit ahead.

[hubbabubba]

I ordered the deal, the book wth all the figs, together with a couple of other figs I'd been after.
Then I saw the second release of 5 figs, which I thought I might as well add.
Turns out that to add the second batch of 5 figs to my original order, I'd have to pay another £5 postage for Europe on top of the £12.96 I've already paid.
Now I thought £12.96 was kinda expensive, but that's a total of  £17.96 in postage from England to Spain, I'm guessing standard delivery, for 27 minis and what I guess is the standard Osprey sized paper back rulebook?
In comparison, someone like Element games will ship a similar package standard first class post for £4.95, tracked for £10.95.
 I emailed Northstar to see if there was a way to combine the postage charges and was told 'The packs are currently discounted to take into consideration the extra postage.'
So the 5 new figs are discounted from £15 to £12, a saving of £3, to compensate for an additional shipping charge of £5 ?
Is it just me? Am I just being tight or is this not such a great deal for a pre-order?

[Juan]

I had the same doubts when I was ready to order the five new figures, because there was no way to combine both P&P in a reasonable one, so no new order.

[Dentatus]

I didn't add the extra figs either - No way to combine them with my original order. Have to add I felt played when the extra figs showed up during the Nickstarter campaign but after the early bird discount period with no apparent way to add them to an existing pre-order.

[Earther]

From the bottom of the Nickstarter page (small print):

Also, if you make a small order, then choose to add more later, we’ll make sure you are only charged the right amount including postage