[Linkdeath]

If they do come out unpainted, grab two cans of undercoat spray paint, and just colour the two sides different colors. 
Regardless, mini painting doesn't have to be art, it just has o be 'enough' and 'enough' is whatever you say it is.

Black, this may be the best suggestion and most helpful thing I've read on this Thread. That's an awesome idea and awesome advice. Thanks!

[AJCarrington]

Fair points Mara...forgot about CMoN involvement.  I guess I just expected we'd have started to see some snapshots of the minis by now...something that CMoN is very good at.  However, we still have 6+ months, so issue is moe likely *my* expectations...

[Mara]

Fair points Mara...forgot about CMoN involvement.  I guess I just expected we'd have started to see some snapshots of the minis by now...something that CMoN is very good at.  However, we still have 6+ months, so issue is moe likely *my* expectations...

They might be keeping things as tightly under wraps as they can, to avoid some issues seen from other games that preview
things too far in advance.

[Critias]

*and, in the meantime, another flurry of emails off, full of stat lines and assorted goodies*

Muwahahahahahahahah!

[Wakshaani]

You tease you.

(Reminds me: I need to get stats together myself! Meep!)

[Mara]

*and, in the meantime, another flurry of emails off, full of stat lines and assorted goodies*

Muwahahahahahahahah!

Ha! Randall said (on twitter) some of the things he is needing to re-write are for him to work on Monday! Looks like he is getting
some good feedback from the playtesters.

[Sipowitz]

Fair points Mara...forgot about CMoN involvement.  I guess I just expected we'd have started to see some snapshots of the minis by now...something that CMoN is very good at.  However, we still have 6+ months, so issue is moe likely *my* expectations...

They might be keeping things as tightly under wraps as they can, to avoid some issues seen from other games that preview
things too far in advance.

But they can't wait too long either.  Rick Priestly's Gate of Antares Kickstarter fell victim to that.  He got a third of the money asked for by basically saying "Hi, I'm Rick Priestly gimme your monies." 

[Critias]

*and, in the meantime, another flurry of emails off, full of stat lines and assorted goodies*

Muwahahahahahahahah!

Ha! Randall said (on twitter) some of the things he is needing to re-write are for him to work on Monday! Looks like he is getting
some good feedback from the playtesters.

Yeah, from all that I've heard, the volley of artillery-feedback from playtesters was really awesome.  I'm not QUITE in the middle of those back-and-forths (I hear about them after the fact, when we roll up our sleeves and scribble out new stuff in response), but I know Ross and Randall are sifting through it all and got a lot of awesome stuff to work with.

So, any playtesters reading this -- keep it up!  We love you guys and gals.   

[Wakshaani]

In contrast, I'm not part n parcel of the playtest at all. Anything I talk about here is pure speculation. WHee, freedom! But also, aww, no insider knowledge sadness.

[Mara]

In contrast, I'm not part n parcel of the playtest at all. Anything I talk about here is pure speculation. WHee, freedom! But also, aww, no insider knowledge sadness.

Yeah. Can you imagine how it must be for the playtesters wanting to talk about the game, but having to restrict themselves only to what is publicly known? Oh..right..you are one of the freelancers, so likely have all sorts of awesome you want to talk about but can't.

That said, I am glad the Playtesters are giving great feedback. I hope that, as the playtest goes on, they also start finding those edge cases that break the game like we see pop up in the BattleTech rules questions forum that end up taking several months for an answer.
Better to find those situations now, during playtesting, then after the game is out, quiaff?

[Wakshaani]

Absolutely. There's always little things that slip through that make you go, "Wait, why is this this, but this is THIS? That makes no sense!"

Catching those before they sneak out is a good thing.

[Mara]

Absolutely. There's always little things that slip through that make you go, "Wait, why is this this, but this is THIS? That makes no sense!"

Catching those before they sneak out is a good thing.

Oh..you mean like in the initial release of Total Warfare, how HAG's could target specific location, but no other cluster weapon could?
And it took them, like, almost a year and, I think, about 5 or 6 people asking about it to get it errata'ed?

[Mara]

Well...this is cool: if Sprawl Gangers is 28mm, I am going to recommend Armorcast's Modern Terrain scenery stuff for it,
found here: http://armorcast.com/store/index.php?cPath=122&osCsid=f0972b135c454f188257af0b2139ec00.
It looks like a good range of scenic bits for your Barrens Wasteland.

[Black]

Well...this is cool: if Sprawl Gangers is 28mm, I am going to recommend Armorcast's Modern Terrain scenery stuff for it,
found here: http://armorcast.com/store/index.php?cPath=122&osCsid=f0972b135c454f188257af0b2139ec00.
It looks like a good range of scenic bits for your Barrens Wasteland.

Nice find Mara.  I'm liking the burning dumpster and the candy machine

[Mara]

Well...this is cool: if Sprawl Gangers is 28mm, I am going to recommend Armorcast's Modern Terrain scenery stuff for it,
found here: http://armorcast.com/store/index.php?cPath=122&osCsid=f0972b135c454f188257af0b2139ec00.
It looks like a good range of scenic bits for your Barrens Wasteland.

Nice find Mara.  I'm liking the burning dumpster and the candy machine

I can't take all the credit. Tabletop Gaming News put up the russian sub-compact(which, apparently, is new), and I just wanted
to see what other stuff they had..and I realized that it all looked very useful if Sprawl Gangers ends up being 28mm(most likely,
I admit, given that 28mm is the scale most gaming minis seem to be made at) instead of 54 mm(which often seems to be more the
'aesthetic and painting minis for people who really like to paint').