Episodes
Monday Dec 22, 2014
Deadzone The Podcast 27.0 - Happy Xmas and Merry New Year!
Monday Dec 22, 2014
Monday Dec 22, 2014
Welcome to episode 27 of Deadzone the Podcast. Jack and Rob look wish everyone a Happy Holidays with some news, Shout Outs and More!
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Mantic Blog
Background on FF
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Background Enforcers
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The Army Painter tutorials featuring Battlezones scenery.
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~Chop Shop
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Feb 14-17 in Los Angeles, CA
For the west coasters, Mantic will be at OrcCon in the dealer room. Chopper will be there. We also have a Deadzone tournament and a Dreadball tournament scheduled for the weekend.
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Adepticon News
March 19-22nd in Schaumberg, IL
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Quite possibly the Deadzone tournament could increase 2-4 players…not set in stone yet.
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MANTIC NIGHT!!!!!
- Saturday night 8pm start time.
- there will be a nominal fee of most likely $20
- finger foods and a cash bar
- live podcast recording of Mantic North America
- Q&A session with Ronnie, Chopper and possibly Joe Neet.
- raffle and other cool give a ways
- GAMES!!!
- Special Stridor scenario run by Mantic North America’s own Jonny P.
- Deadzone 4 player scenario.
- The Xmas zombie scenario will be there.
- Open game tables and just all around fun
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~Fan Stuff
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Deadzone Windows Phone App
Lindsay Spare.
Deadzone quick reference app that I have built for Windows Phone
The app is both free to users, and free from ads.
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The latest version features data for all published material so far for abilities, items, mutations, actions, units - including Contagion & Mars Attacks. It also has an in built Strike Team builder, with the ability to save Teams to the phone.
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It was originally built it as a hobby project for personal use, but Mantic were awesome enough to approve publishing it to the wider masses (as long as it was free), so it now has a bit more polish and work put into it than the original iteration.
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Features;
- general user interface for this app will be quite familiar to most windows phone user’s
- starts off presenting the user the available quick reference categories; Abilities, Actions, Factions, Items & Mutations.
- once the user has tapped on a category, they are taken to the alphabetised list, by name, of the relevant category. A tap on a name here will load the relevant detailed information.
- The ‘Factions’ category will list each of the factions available in Deadzone, including mercenaries, and when a faction is tapped, will load an alphabetized list of all the units available to the faction, which in turn, will load the the ‘stat card’ for the unit.
- Very straight forward, very easy to use, and much easier than trying to remember which rule was in what book, where in said book etc
-Swiping to the side brings the user to the Strike Team builder
-another swipe will take them to a quick launcher for recently saved Strike Teams
-user can view (and edit) all saved Strike teams, or create one.
-When creating, they choose a faction, set the points limit for the team, and set a name, and are taken to where they choose their units.
-select from all available units to the faction, including mercenaries that will work for them, from a selector box.
-Once picked, they press the add button to include it in the list.
- unit can be deleted, by pressing the select button, then marking a unit and pressing the delete button.
-Strike Team is validated against the normal composition rules, which is displayed across the top of the screen.
-Running points total, number of Trooper models, leaders, specialists etc.
-If the points total exceeds the set limit, or the trooper count is too low, then then errors become highlighted at the top as well.
-While a team is legal, it can be saved at any time. As soon as it becomes illegal, it is no longer able to be saved.
-list of up to 8 of the most recently saved Strike Teams are shown on the quick launch section, showing the faction, team name and points total of the list.
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The app is only for Windows Phone at this stage, but who knows what the future will bring.....
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Fan Campaign ideas
Zlurpcast
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Leon Chapman in Containment Protocols Group on Facebook
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~Shout Outs
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TacCom
@TheTacCom
NYC Pathfinder
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~Review
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Mantic Open Boxes
Video here http://youtu.be/hXV2Z_qy96U
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Warpath
Raptor = $20
Marauder Command = $4.50
Joutan Forge Father Tank = $20
Forge Father Stormrage Veterans = $18
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KoW
Elf Spearman = $24.99x1/2 = $12.50
2 x Basilean Sisterhood Panther Lancers = $35x2 = $70
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Mars Attack
6 Dead Mars Attack Minis = $2x6 = $12
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Battlezones
Connector Sprue = $6
8 x Assessory Sprues - $8x8 = $64
BATTLEZONES: SCI-FI RUINED OUTPOST = $25
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Dreadball
2 x Dozer = $10x2 = $20
The Praetorian = $10
Mee`kel Judwan = $10
Ludwig = $10
2 Void Siren Keepers = $2x2 = $4
Ref Bot = $2
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Deadzone
2 x Plague Stage 1a = $18x2 = $36
Chovar Psychic = $18
3 x Helfather = $10x3 = $30
4 x Mawbeasts = $4x4 = $16
2 x Marauder Grunts = $4x2 = $8
2 x Goblin Sniper = $4x2 = $8
5 x Plague 3a = $4x5 =$20
8 x Rebs = $4x8 = $32
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Paid $160
Worth $466
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~Battle Report
Adepticon Mission 1
Plague (Dave) vs Rebs (Jack)
Plague Wins
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Adepticon Mission 2
Marauders (Rob) vs Enforcers (Jack)
Enforcers Win
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~Contact us at DeadzonePodcast@gmail.com and Follow Us on Twitter @deadzonepodcast~
Tuesday Dec 09, 2014
Deadzone The Podcast 26.0 - Mantic Open Day
Tuesday Dec 09, 2014
Tuesday Dec 09, 2014
Welcome to episode 26 of Deadzone the Podcast. Jack and Rob talk about Mantic Open Day and other interesting things!
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~Shout Outs~
Thanks to our unofficial field reporter Fisty Glue Man for the great coverage.
Follow him at @FistyGlueMan on twitter and check out all of his picks include Dreadball, KoW and Dungeon Saga stuff at http://imgur.com/a/D7VX9
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GmortsChaotica was also there with great pics!
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And also thanks to the Terrain Tutor Mel who took some great terrain shots and Phil Atherton on Facebook for the shot of the Male Pathfinder
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And thanks to Tony and Rafal Maj for contacting us.
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The Beasts of War BattleZones Contest can be found here (http://www.beastsofwar.com/community-challenges/battlezones-terrain-challenge-extended-january/)!
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~News~
Enforcer Sprues
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New Community Manager
Luke Watson luke.watson@manticgames.com
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Mantic Open Day
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Mechanites
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Boards
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New Terrain
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Concepts - DZ Kickstarter 2
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Concepts - Warpath KS
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~OurStuff~
Rob
Mars Attack's Corvis Bounty Hunters/Tiger Corp
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New Battlezone Piece
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Jack
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~Review~
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~Contact us at DeadzonePodcast@gmail.com and Follow Us on Twitter @deadzonepodcast~
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