Deadzone The Podcast

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The First Podcast Dedicated to Deadzone The Miniature Board Game

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Monday Dec 22, 2014

Deadzone The Podcast 27.0 - Happy Xmas and Merry New Year!

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!

~News

Mantic Blog

Background on FF

http://manticblog.com/2014/12/09/inside-the-forge-forge-guard/

http://manticblog.com/2014/12/10/inside-the-forge-iron-ancestor

Background Enforcers

http://manticblog.com/2014/12/12/who-are-the-enforcers/

http://manticblog.com/2014/12/15/the-councils-hand-peacekeepers/

http://manticblog.com/2014/12/18/the-councils-hand-corporation-striders/

http://manticblog.com/2014/12/19/the-councils-hand-pathfinder-snipers/

The Army Painter tutorials featuring Battlezones scenery.

http://www.thearmypainter.com/

http://youtu.be/9kXpRiPM28Y

~Chop Shop

OrcCon (https://warhorn.net/events/orccon-2014)

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.

Adepticon News

March 19-22nd in Schaumberg, IL

Check Adepticon site (http://www.adepticon.org/) for event listings

Quite possibly the Deadzone tournament could increase 2-4 players…not set in stone yet.

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

~Fan Stuff

Deadzone Windows Phone App

Lindsay Spare.

http://www.windowsphone.com/s?appid=66d2f023-cd1f-496e-8ab4-1f377b4c9514

Deadzone quick reference app that I have built for Windows Phone

The app is both free to users, and free from ads.

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.

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.

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.

The app is only for Windows Phone at this stage, but who knows what the future will bring.....