My Heavy Gear Blitz Kickstarter Arrived Today.

[palaeomerus]

I got two starter sets.

The starter rule book looks like it was printed by ink-jet on printer paper and many of the pictures look like they were at web resolution.It's seriously home-made junk like the old TW Hour Wargame books were. So that's disappointing. And they expect you to xerox or scan their counters page.

The Iron-On patches (or sew on? Patches anyhoo) will come in handy if 1978 ever comes back. (Fingers Crossed!) They say Heavy Gear Backed 2014.

I got everything I was supposed to for two sarter box orders. 8 Hunters, 8 Jagers, 8 Jaguars, 8 Black Mambas, 4 Grizzlies, 4 Spitting Cobras, 4 Cheetah's, 4 Iguanas, 2 King Cobras, 2 Kodiaks, 2 Ferrets, 2 drone sets, 4 F6-16, 4 F2-19, 4 F2-21, 4 MHT-95, 12 flailstroopers, 10 Acco-mounts, Parts for any 10 of Bashan, Meggido, Aphek, Kadesh, Ammon mounts  all of them with alt weapon/equipment options to build other variants (such as the white cat cheetah)

The minis are surprisingly decent! Not seeing major dimpling. The Iguana's legs look a little soft. But paint, y'know? They are molded in a flat black and sprues have title tags so you know what they are (none of the abstract Sprue D-2 crap). The hover tanks are a little disappointing as they have no bottoms, just a hollow that the stand is supposed to hide.

I'd say these sprues are comparable to the Warlord/WarGames Factory stuff like the Great Coat Troopers, Post Apocalyptic survivors, Orcs, Zombies Skeletons, etc.

The models come with lots of appropriate flat surfaced black plastic bases, hex and rounded.

They are supposedly 1/144 so they should work with most HG gundam models? It will be fun using some of my IBO mobile workers and my Tanks, Hover-bike things, and Hover-Trucks from the 08th MS Team "Ground War" model diorama sets.

[beefcake]

Cool. Nice write-up. I got mine also. Agree definitely about the rulebook. It looks quite subpar. I was expecting it to be a boxed set game, not just a rulebook and miniatures in plastic bags so was a little disappointed on that. My only gripe about the minis is that the hands look a little funny.
The quadruped walkers will be good for many different purposes as well, they'd make good drones in 28mm.

[Rhelyk]

I've been following all the KS and post-KS news and now I keep eyballing pledges as they hit ebay, probably next paycheck I'll pick one up. Heard a lot of people are upset with this or that or the other, but it sure looks to me like a whole bunch of awesome plastic robot mecha! I don't mind if the details are a bit soft, you can fix a lot of that with proper painting. Rulebook is a shame tho.

[Elbows]

Pretty much echo the original post.  I actually sold mine on ebay last night.  For a bit over what I paid.  The rulebook was indeed crap.  I realized I had no interest in the actual rules (they look terrible and clunky as hell) and I'm sitting on too much Robotech plastic to justify starting or building these guys anytime soon.  I do think the models are quite nice, so this should be a successful line of products for DP9.

I was a little put off by the packaging etc., but I fully understand that money is tight and they didn't have a ton of backers/start-up money.  I think they could benefit from a genuine boxed starter game.  I'd say it was enough plastic to warrant the cost of the KS, so no harm no foul.

If I was a Heavy Gear nut I'd probably be pretty pleased.

[rwwin]

The quadruped walkers will be good for many different purposes as well, they'd make good drones in 28mm.

I'm not into heavy gear so I didn't back the KS, but I've been thinking the same thing since I saw the pics during the campaign.  If anyone could post pictures of any of the Caprice walkers next to some 28/30 mm figs that would be much appreciated.

[beefcake]

I'm not into heavy gear so I didn't back the KS, but I've been thinking the same thing since I saw the pics during the campaign.  If anyone could post pictures of any of the Caprice walkers next to some 28/30 mm figs that would be much appreciated.

I'll see what I can do. I have the big one and the little one built and understated so will snap one next to something for you
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[beefcake]

[rwwin]

Mmmm, those do look pretty tasty.  That box will definitely be on my list.

[tnjrp]

Yep, those are indeed very suitable for drones/remotes in 28mm. Assuming a person can fit even in the big one might be a bit too much of stretch but I guess you could extend the front hull a bit upwards to provide a sitting space in severe discomfort.

Will have to see what the retail price on those is. Not expecting them to go for small change tho (since, aside of end-of-stock sales, DP9 stuff has always been a little on the pricey side on this side of the pond AFAIK) so maybe I don't need them enough

[YPU]

I'm still not sure if I regret not jumping in on this. I know the rules got updated a lot, simplified I believe, was there anything actually wrong with the old system? I know it was complex but I really liked the way you could have a low priority force of run down border guards and the game would adjust its expectancy of that force compared to the elite international space ninjas trying to overcome them. But I never actually played, so maybe stuff didn't actually work out in the end.

[rwwin]

Yep, those are indeed very suitable for drones/remotes in 28mm. Assuming a person can fit even in the big one might be a bit too much of stretch but I guess you could extend the front hull a bit upwards to provide a sitting space in severe discomfort.

Will have to see what the retail price on those is. Not expecting them to go for small change tho (since, aside of end-of-stock sales, DP9 stuff has always been a little on the pricey side on this side of the pond AFAIK) so maybe I don't need them enough

I'm definitely thinking drones along the lines of ghost in the shell/Appleseed.  DP9 has the box set up for pre-order for $60 for 10 walkers (5 big and 5 small) so even at retail that's not too bad. 

[tnjrp]

The part of the problem is, I already have something like half a dozen GitS Tachicoma capsule toys that are about the size of the big HGB thingy (shorter of course but the "abdomen" is big enough to accommodate a 28mm scale human standing so I think they aren't quite correctly scaled for 28mm ). While I'd still like to have the more angular-looking versions as well, I'm not interested in paying very much. While $60 sounds reasonable, it could well be £60 by the time it goes on sale closer to home. Add p&p on top of that and it makes me pause for a moment.

[Inso]

I have long been a fan of the Heavy Gear mecha but I have never felt that the pricing was fair (especially when having to order from abroad for specific items). Those pictured mechs look great but I would want multimples of the same mechs to put an army together and they are just a little too small ad would probably end up being over priced (when buying specific miniatures)... HOWEVER... I will be keeping an eye on this because those sprues are very tempting

The part of the problem is, I already have something like half a dozen GitS Tachicoma capsule toys that are about the size of the big HGB thingy (shorter of course but the "abdomen" is big enough to accommodate a 28mm scale human standing so I think they aren't quite correctly scaled for 28mm ).

Do you have any pictures of these and also which capsule toys they are please? I would be very interested to find out