Funnily enough, considering the situation at this time, shipping TO China could be considered mostly free. It's the way back that is expensive as hell. That being said, if they could get the worm make in resin or PVC or Plastic in Europe and then send the finished boxes to Australia and USA, I think they could save quite the amount of money. The problem is simply to make numbers of Cardboard + Worm + Man hours to assemble all Vs the full container from China.
Ironically shipping things to China is actually getting harder because companies are trying to get ships full of empty containers back to China as fast as possible. Even shaving a day off the turnaround is worth it due to the amount of money they're making on the outbound journeys.
While the last big plastic was a mostly assembled model (which some of us then disassembled from the base), the metal minis as made by CB were not assembled. I assume TagRaid will be similar. A sprue might be a little disheartening to boardgame folks, but the metal minis will be enough to make them complain in the kickstarter either way. Optimally they'd do something like a push fit. I'm also not sure why they can't have a pre-arranged cutter to slice things off the sprue and have a bag of parts, but oh well.
I agree, but I doubt that CB will send whatever they need to before the next summer. If they do, at all. If the worm is a "one per box", and they print the cardboard in Europe, they can simply have the worm made, packed and sent in a box like that of the Megalodron, which they simply add to the core box. A sprue demands a cnc machine to make the mold, the design, plastic injection machines... I'd bet that, if CB tackles the worm "problem" in house, it will be a resin cast, which is similar to metal casts. As for parts, the Megalodron was split because of size issues (and I assume, casting issues as well), being easy to bry-fit and a permanent solution being the use of some glue; I think the worm might come in 3-4 parts (the base with maybe some body, the head in one or two pieces, and the body itself).
So, Corvus can now make plastic in his own house... https://forum.corvusbelli.com/threads/official-announcement-injected-thermoplastic-miniatures.40092/
Now we just need to hope that it's all made in Europe. I assume now they'll have plastic TAG's with it as well. It'll also be late enough that we'll get a good view of the quality of the plastic before the kickstarter.
Hopefully done inhouse, that would be great. And announcing up front in the KS were it will be made eventually would also be great ;)
I've missed all this talk about TAG Raid, so I would like to ask: do we know anything about the game itself yet? On a side note, I see some posts discussing Raid minis compatibility with Infinity, but is it just me who is more interested whether the game will have an ability to support more people coming to join with their Infinity TAGs?
Think that depends a lot on the rule set that we don't have much information on aside from playing out on a hex grid and that at least one of the TAGs has a fairly basic statline for a TAG with a wound attribute and a single digit for MOV value. Supposedly the TAGs in TAG Raid are industrial TAGs with guns and that might affect whether Infinity TAGs are compatible compatible or just as compatible as an Ultramarine Knight. What I mean is; if we can modify the guns then it might not be very welcoming to N4 miniatures and if there's no system in place to make our own TAG then they'd simply be proxies which means anything bipedal in a 54mm scale would work equally well. 'cause a sleek Tikbalang or a stoic Wraithlord are both gonna look about as jarring next to industrial jury rigs we've seen so far.
Still concerned about materials. Imagine how disgustingly bendy that thin fist-thing in thermoplastic will be... Might as well just clip it off right away.
From what they've shown, the material does bend but snaps back into shape, doesn't deform. It's also more stiff thank you think. It's not the "rubber" cheapo "board game mini" PVC you're thinking of.
Yeah, from what I've seen I'd trust the polyamide/nylon to survive more bumps, knocks, and hits than a metal or styrene version of the same
Painted TAGs! The Ariadna and the Yu Jing are my favourites. PanO is a no go...It's just too weird. Ariadna TAG with proper weapons would be perfect, I'm digging the design. Also the paint job on these is off the charts!
I actually like the designs more and more, but the point is moot, they will be Siocast and it's looking worse and worse with every review or user pic that comes up. Bloody shame that, I won't be backing a full price Kickstarter of TAGs and free money for a few years just to risk iffy or crap quality product.
The ariadna one has a distinct "Fiddler" vibe (cf "Flyingdebris" on deviantart - Alex Iglesias). Which the big mech in "Chappie" also took a distinct vibe from, too. That said, KS release means a hard pass from me. Not because I doubt CB's ability to deliver, it's more that in order to usually get what I wanted out of it, I'd have to spend the equivalent of my *YEARLY* gaming spend. On the ONE product. And then I'm still waiting for it.
They look a lot better with the paint jobs. I really like the goofiness of the Pan-O TAG. It looks like something designed purpose first, and aesthetic dead last. I think the price point and stretch goals will be a deciding factor for me, but only having a handful of tags to paint is kind of appealing now that I am staring down the second wave of Defiance.
DIRE, DREADFUL, SHOCKING, ABHORRENT! Why are you showing so much restraint?! Did they get to you? Wink twice if you cannot truly speak your mind!
I like the YJ and the Ariadna ones. Now I just have to figure out if I like them enough to justify that purchase. Anyone interested in splitting?
