Love It! Now you're talking!
I can hear the elves scurrying about now...
Did you see the gallery shots with the working lights ? Feel the heat !
Sapiens qui vigilat... "He is wise who watches"
Those definitely look better for the WGS variant.
It is wonderful! Kind of a cross between the Ares tripod and the 'floating' version from the 1956 WotW movie - love it
Great find, Dave!
All the best,
Matt
Ho!, ho!, ho!
This morning I got a message from DPD service that a parcel from:
Ares Games Srl
Hauptstrasse 105
89343, Jettingen-Scheppach, DE
has been dispatched to my place.
Hope to see the Martians around here tomorrow.
Don't you think the delivery has something to do with the August Perseids' nights?
"We do not stop playing when we get old, but we get old when we stop playing."
Another last minute email from DPD PL partner: Cylinder will land tomorrow at my door.
"We do not stop playing when we get old, but we get old when we stop playing."
Yay - received e mail from Ares with DPD tracking number - can't use it right now, however, as tracking not currently available I'm advised Fingers crossed - the Martians are getting closer
The latest message from Roberto at Ares Games:
People of the Earth!
We just sent to about 90% of the European backers their tracking number. The list we received this morning from our warehouse in Germany included all the shipments they sent out or prepared for shipping between Friday 9th and August 12th. In fact, some of you might already be receiving your rewards now!
We expect the warehouse to complete the remaining 10% of the shipments very soon, and we should be able to send the tracking number to the remaining backers - most likely, tomorrow.
If you did not get a tracking number yet - before thinking you are in that last 10%, check your Junk/Spam folder. Even if we use a reliable mass-mailing service, this is always a possibility, when doing a mass-mailing to hundreds of people.
We hope you all will be able to enjoy your rewards very soon!
Thanks for your support and patience,
Roberto/Ares
Think I might borrow from The Rock...
Sapiens qui vigilat... "He is wise who watches"
Glad to see that Poland is finally under attack, Andy! Best of luck sorting out those little three-leggers!
All the best,
Matt
Well played Andy.
Get those Tripehounds in the air.
Rob.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
I must confess I am totally taken aback and in love with the design of the machines and quality of the figures themselves. Very steampunky and sooo Victorian. Moreover the Locust is kind of...Egyptian in style as well...
Now have to check the rules and prepare the first encounter...Tomorrow we have a holiday so I think the coming Friday may be the M-Day!
"We do not stop playing when we get old, but we get old when we stop playing."
My box arrived this morning in the UK. I haven’t got time to do anything with it for now apart from admire the components!
Regards
Edward
I PM’d Keith today and he said that acrylic replacement bits are on the cards once he has his mitts on the starter set. I’ve suggested the death ray and smoke rulers, the smoke templates and counters for the Martians. Anyone think of anything else?
Run for your life - there are stupid people everywhere!
I know Keith has done his sets of ACE counters for WW2 planes, where he has a 'set' of all the counters one would need per plane to indicate speed, etc...
Perhaps a Martian set would work, with recovery counters and the other Martian-specific counters a tripod would need to wreak havoc upon Earthlings? I wonder if he could produce the black smoke range stick and cloud template in a smoke/translucent plastic... That would look pretty cool...
All the best,
Matt
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Roberto's latest message:
People of the Earth!
Is with great joy and relief that today we can officially announce that the fulfillment of the TRIPODS & TRIPLANES is completed.
All the parcels are now on their way out of the German warehouse and we sent out individually to each of you your tracking number.
The last parcels are picked up today by the couriers in Germany (DPD or DHL, depending on the destination): if you did not already get your rewards, this is due to happen very, very soon.
Starting next Monday, we will start handling all the customer care requests we are receiving (fortunately, not too many) - any error in packaging, missing or broken pieces, or any other issue you may have with your rewards, let us know! Please send us a KS message or an email to customercare[at]aresgames.eu with your request.
It has been a long, long journey. There's no way I can thank you enough for the incredible amount of patience you had in continuing to support us and wait for your rewards.
I really hope that you will find what you now have in your hand is worth the wait, and that you will see with your eyes that our long fight to achieve a high level of quality was real, and that what I wrote in these updates were not empty words or lame excuses.
Now, it's time to get those Martian invaders to your gaming table and find out yourself if the Peoples of the Earth, united, can stand against the merciless waves of Tripods, fighting gallantly from the air as true Knights of the Sky!
Again, thanks for your support and your patience,
Roberto/Ares
It is due to land sometime today here in Nottingham.
I will keep HQ informed of any developments.
Rob.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
Martians due to land in Devon today too - we are ready
The day before yesterday my T&T box arrived in The Hague
Good old Cats Eyes (aka Lex) picked it up for me and delivered it to my home...
But, alas i'm not in The Hague but in Germany till August 24th ...
So, I'll just have to keep looking at the picture of the box whilst Lex already has unpacked his box
cheers,
Guus
"zet 'm op ... witte muizen !" (strijdkreet van 1e JaVa, Luchtvaart Afdeling, Nederland 1940)
"let's go get them ... white mice !" (battlecry of the 1st Fighter Group, Army Air Force, Netherlands 1940)
I have finished sorting out all the goodies I got yesterday in the big box.
Apart from the 6 planes which were placed elswhere on the shelf, I managed to store all 8 tripods (without paper boxes, but in plastic bubbles) and their decks in the bigger yellow box.
The rest (doubled rulers, tokens, doubled damage decks, WGS stuff, rulebooks, paper map, leaflets etc.) is palced in the smaller starter box. Of course the plastic insert is thrown away at the very start.
This way the complete invasion is compacted to a storable form.
"We do not stop playing when we get old, but we get old when we stop playing."
Just notified that my Cylinder will land between 13.00 and 14.00 hrs today.
Rob.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
I was fortunate to win an Invasion copy which had arrived today. The Martians have brought friends with them as has Earth
Received my Martian pledge yesterday.
I was surprised how big the delivery box was but once unpacked I found the 'printed' elements of the Martian stretch goals (Solo rules/templates) and some of the Invasion goals such as Map and WW2 counters had been put into an Invasion box which more than doubled the capacity. I have since put everything inside the standard game box and been left with a big empty yellow box. I guess I can use it to store some of my other Glory stuff or more foolishly for my pocket add further T&T stuff from retail if it becomes widely available.
It's here! unloaded, cooled down and will be cool enough to handle tomorrow.
Rob.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
I see on the ARES site that for us who didn't get the KICKSTARTER the release date is 23 Aug. So not long.
Deck Strips for T&T: Deck Strips for the T&T Starter Set, Etc..
Mike
"Flying is learning to throw yourself at the ground and miss" Douglas Adams
"Wings of Glory won't skin your elbows and knees while practicing." OldGuy59
Nice one Mike
Run for your life - there are stupid people everywhere!
I look forward to your results Andy.
Rob.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
Here we go, Rob!
https://www.wingsofwar.org/forums/sh...336#post509336
"We do not stop playing when we get old, but we get old when we stop playing."
Just received my starter set from Keith today. Can't wait to learn and get to play. Looks like fun.
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