What a Rush!

After some exciting weeks the Dreadball Kickstarter journey is at an end, finally settling on an amazing total of $728,985!!!  The last 48 hrs saw some huge activity, unlocking even more great stuff, including not one but two new teams:

And new MVPs too:

Personally, I am very excited on one hand and relieved on another that this is over...for now.
These models are like some sort of drug: I know I have enough already, but I NEED these new ones!
Man Cave readers can look forward to some Dreadball related modelling and game reports in due course.

Last Hurrah for Dreadball

Only four days to go on this amazing Kickstarter.  If you've missed the last few updates, there is now yet another alien team and a few MVP funded - the elf-like Asterian team (pictured above), their MVP Mellisadra, and another Forge Father team MVP - Yurik "Painmaster" Yurikson.  And now there are also  hints about the DreadBall Mech pictured below...

The current total of $463k pledged is pretty amazing!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1744629938/dreadball-the-futuristic-sports-game

EDIT: Just cracked half a million dollars! 3 days to go...

Undead Team

Introducing our Undead Blood Team the Cheese Eating Monkeys.  This team was conceived, designed and named while we were in Paris for a week last year.  Each player is named after a famous French General which the Lad had to research while we toured that various monuments and museums, which was pretty cool.  Here they are:

I mounted the Mummies on double bases to make them that bit more imposing on the pitch - as 5ST players they should tower over the others!  Here is the Team Captain in the number 1 jersey, Bony-Parts, and his offsider deGoul.

The Wights - these guys always remind me of Judge Death!

Agile but Fragile: The Gouls

The Zombies just love Cheerleader Braaaiiinsss....pity there isn't much!

The Skeletons

The Gang all ready for Kickoff!

Stay on Target!

I'm not immune to the new hotness and ordered a set this week - reckon this might even tempt the Lad away from Blood Bowl for a bit too!

I ended up ordering the base set (shown here, comes with 1 X-Wing and 2 TIE fighters) and one of each expansion: X-Wing, Y-Wing, TIE Fighter and TIE Advanced. I got to see the models first hand and they are just beautiful!  Sadly I have to wait for my starter set though.  Comrade James got a set too so we will be able to have a good dogfights together!

Here is the FFG Tutorial Video:


[EDIT] Sadly, this went horribly wrong. No stock, waiting, waiting...no more coming...but at least I got my $ back