Getting close to another planetary alignment . . . any rumblings or sightings?
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Getting close to another planetary alignment . . . any rumblings or sightings?
:dazed::dazed::dazed:
The only thing 'red' around here are my eyes - ah, the sadness of no Martians!:cry: Looks like this will be Year Two of Origins without our Kickstarter...:p
Holding out hope, but my arms are getting a bit tired...
All the best,
Matt
It could still happen, hang in there! A good invaision is a surprise one, remember the Spanish Inquisition . . .
Phoenix awaits . . .
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Got here and went to the Store. Shows April as release for orders (not Keith's fault). Went to the Miniature Market and they have pre order for June. Then checked ARES and they have July as release date. Wasn't sure if I was going to get this but now very tempted to jump in on this. Saw that here in the store there are counters to use with WW2 planes so another addition to the game.
I remember those advertisements, Dave. :) I even think that I have a tea-towel somewhere with a picture of them on it.
I presume from what Ares had to say, that I won’t start holding my breath until Aussies start reporting activity. Interpolating everything that Ares has said and didn’t say, their US warehouse probably will get the goods in two to three weeks time, assuming their shipping times are accurate (they didn’t actually say when the container ship actually left port - two weeks if it left the next day, but it might take a week to finish loading). So...download those rules and read them while you wait.
From personal experience with containers arriving at Long Beach/Los Angeles harbors (which get something like 40% of all containers entering the US by ship), the container could be offloaded that day, or buried under a numerous layers of other containers. It could then fly through customs, or marinate on a palette in some warehouse awaiting inspection for days. Where the heck Ares’ warehouse is is a mystery to me, but probably where shipping it there is cheaper than paying California property rates.
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Alas . . .
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. . . from the cleaning of the deep freeze . . .
This was fun, hadn't seen it before, free on Prime . . . had it's moments . . .
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Thank you for telling us about this movie, David. :thumbsup:
Just received the latest update from Ares on the Tripods & Triplanes shipment schedule, and it looks like it will be at the Australian, US, and European warehouses at the end of June - at least that's what they estimate - 27 June for Rival Sky, 29 June for Fort Wayne, IN, and 30 June for Ludopackt in Germany...
Perhaps we're looking at mid-July for some tripods on the doorstep?!?! This bodes well for having T&T for games at next year's Origins...;) Still, I am happy to receive the update and somewhat more definite info:sAprvd:
All the best,
Matt
It‘s a little bit disappointing now...
:sleep:
Just in!
People of the Earth!
Yes - finally, it does. Here's what's going on, as Tripods & Triplanes journeys through sea and land to their destinations...
- The China warehouse (VFI Asia) received the shipment, and they are shipping this week (tracking notifications sent directly from them as they ship).
- The Australian vessel is scheduled to land in Melbourne on June, 19th. The ETA (estimated time of arrival) at the warehouse (Rival Sky) is scheduled around June, 27th.
- The US/Canada vessel is scheduled to land in Prince Rupert, BC on June, 1th 15. The ETA at the Ft. Wayne, IN warehouse (AGS) is scheduled around June, 29th.
- The European vessel is scheduled to land in La Spezia on the 20th. The ETA at the German warehouse (Ludopackt) is scheduled around June, 30th.
IF YOU HAVE AN ADDRESS CHANGE, CHANGE IT NOW! The China warehouse already received the addresses of Chinese and Rest of the World (outside of Australia, New Zealand, USA, Canada and Europe), so they are locked already. If you are serviced from any of the other 4 hubs, you are still in time to do an address change at http://ks.aresgames.eu/my-account until the end of this week - then all other addresses will be locked, too.
See you at Origins (if you are there!)
If you have been at UKGE, last week in Birmingham, you already had a chance to see Tripods & Triplanes in action. If you are at Origins, in Columbus, OH, later this week, you will have another chance to see the "real thing" on the gaming tables at our booth - we're doing demos, but not selling product there, as we will wait the Kickstarter fulfillment.
Thanks for your support,
Roberto/Ares
That’s June 15th for making port way up in Prince Rupert. Hmmm - importing from Canada to the US rather than China to the US? Hey, if it beats a certain politician’s latest fit of xenophobic tariffs, I’m okay with it. However, two weeks from Rupert to Fort Wayne - probably on the bottom of the stack of containers. Anyway, sounds vaguely like somewhere in the second week of July to get into my hot little hands. A little quicker to make landfall than I expected (I was thinking the 18th), a little longer to reach Ares than I thought (I was guesstimating the 25th-28th). The light at the end of the tunnel...but always a chance for one last train wreck (literally).
I hope I get my hands back by then to help ward off the invasion . . . sadly all my Mars Bars have more than expired and turned a gooey caramelly substance that is not edible . . . might make good ballistic cores against the Martians though . . . mid to end of July I should think if I were a betting fan . . .
Glad I checked and hanks for the update. I placed my order here yesterday so now I have an idea of when to expect them. Looks like they might be here for Historicon in July.
Seems to be some action in the desert . . .
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hmmm . . .
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. . . I wonder what the elves are up to . . .
The sad part of this information is that Prince Rupert, BC is the north Pacific port in Canada, but still closer to me than the warehouses in the USA. Then, they will have to ship it back to me. Probably with Customs charges, to add insult to injury.
So, tomorrow, they will be passing north of Vancouver Island.
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PS: TransCanada Highway 16 from Prince Rupert, British Columbia, through Edmonton, Alberta, through Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, to the TransCanada Highway 1 in West Manitoba to Winnipeg, then South to hit the Interstate 29 into Grand Forks, ND. From there, Interstate 94 through Minneapolis, MN, through Chicago, IL, and down to Ft Wayne, IN. The way truckers drive, this should be no more than 4 days, driving under the speed limit all the way.
I live near Fort Wayne. Where can I get them?
I meant Fort Wayne locally.
A new type of Martian machine has captured the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. :)
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Coolio . . . could be Luna based, there have been sightings of flashes from the moon for weeks now, most from the dark side . . . I've never been to Spain
Nice one Dave! :clap::DI'll get Spider-Man in to deal with it.
Rob.
“The US/Canada vessel is scheduled to land in Prince Rupert, BC on June, [15], The ETA at the Ft. Wayne, IN warehouse (AGS) is scheduled around June, 29th.”
And of course, the container ship (Cosco Africa) left Prince Rupert yesterday, and now they are talking about it arriving in Vancouver. If it was supposed to unload in Prince Rupert, who cares, if it was supposed to unload in Vancouver, why mention Prince Rupert? So now, is the T&T container unloading in Vancouver, or are we going to get more announcements as it works it’s way down the entire west coast of the US? Grrrrrr. I did ask them to be specific on their Facebook post, but in the meantime, they at least have given me that rare opportunity to use “peripatetic” in a sentence.
Of course, this better explains why it will take so long from the port to the warehouse (because it won’t actually take two weeks), but still, they couldn’t figure out this would be aggravating inaccuracy?
Edit in: Unloading in Vancouver.
Hmmm... Well, that answers a few questions. As best I can recall, previous shipments have run into problems in San Francisco. Which makes sense for a warehouse in the USA. So, yes, mentioning all the intervening ports of call was probably not ARES best way to impart info to an anxiously awaiting crowd.
Also, that explains the delay in the port arrival and the warehouse arrival. No way the trucks would take that long, as I noted above. The ship doing several port stops getting to San Francisco and then the arrival at the warehouse would account for the delay. All speculation on my part, though.
Yesterday's Quote of the Day:
Now, if only we had someone like Spock:Quote:
"The error which arise from the absence of facts are far more numersous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting true data."
Computer Pioneer/Mathematician Charles Babbage
Quote:
"No, Spock. He means that he feels safer about your guesses than most other people's facts."
Dr. McCoy - Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
One can use the word “pathetic” all the time in a sentence. It’s a common thing. Now, peripatetic, there’s an obtuse and obscure word:
Peripatetic: traveling from place to place, in particular working or based in various places for relatively short periods.
"the peripatetic nature of military life"
synonym: nomadic, itinerant, traveling, wandering, roving, roaming, migrant, migratory, ambulatory, unsettled, vagabond, vagrant
"his peripatetic way of life"
So, the container ship is wending a peripatetic path through Pacific Ports (ramping it up with alliteration is always fun).
I have received an e-mail in French from Meeple Logistics stating that they are shipping a package to me. Could this be the Kickstarter?
Ares: “Waiting for the Tripods & Triplanes shipments to arrive in Port! Asia&RoW is shipping out now from China; Australia shipment is in port tomorrow; and both USA and EU shipments are on the water right now. Cosco Africa will dock in Vancouver tomorrow, while Yang Ming Wellbeing will be in Europe next week.”
Alas, it would seem unlikely with the Euro T&T not reaching port until next week that your copy is in the mail.
Yes, you must be right, Bruce. I have remembered that I have another Kickstarter from a different company that is long awaited. It may be that one.
I was being obtuse I'm afraid Bruce. I knew "peripathetic" teachers whom I had to employ when any of my staff were off. Woops!:confused: there goes the predictive text again, or does it?;)
My "very pathetic" attempt at a joke using your statement to voice my feelings about the state of supply from Ares in the past. Let us hope that the new regime will be a vast improvement.
Rob.
I figured that - I just wanted to use it in a sentence rather than just quote it in a sentence. I think I can find a good one for pathetic...
“Alone” is a pathetic predicament, “lone” is an aesthetic choice.”
-BatManuel
“I fly a peripatetic path on my lone dawn patrols.”
Ares - see what happens when we have time on our hands rather than our hands on Tripods?!?
Bravo Bruce.
Rob.
The MarineTraffic ship locator thing is very cool. The Cosco Africa is rounding Victoria into the Haro strait, will dance along the US/Canada territorial water line, making 12 knots, and will slip back north to Vancouver. Which doesn’t mean a whole lot one way or the other, beyond big brother is watching!
Or cousin Mars is stalking . . . : )
This conversation is starting to put a smile on my face every morning gentlemen. And by Jove I certainly can do with one on this subject.;)
Rob.