For Sale: Large Deadzone lot... cheap!

It pains me to do this, but I need to sell Deadzone. I just don't have the time or space for this game. It's super cool, but it requires a commitment that I can't offer. I spent a ridiculous amount of money on the kickstarter 2nd wave, and spent more time assembling and painting than I did playing. So... what am I selling?

• Deadzone base game
• 2nd edition rulebook
• veermyn faction
• Pathfinder faction
• Orx starter faction
• various extra figures for all factions, from the 2nd wave kickstarter
• mars-like surface rubber playmat (the grey one is in the base set)
• a bunch of terrain from the 2nd kickstarter
• the cool resin loot crates

I didn't buy any of the extra figure or terrain sets from the kickstarter. I can tell you I spent $340 plus freight. That's a lot of Deadzone. A lot of it is assembled, some of it isn't. Some of it is painted acceptably... some of it isn't. I can take some pictures if people are interested, but I'm only asking $180 plus actual freight. This freight will likely be $20 to most places, I'd expect.

UPDATE - SOLD

That game looks amazing.

My paint jobs are not quite to that level

Okay... so is the lack of interest because of the price or because no one wants this game? I can only work with price, I can't make you want the game.

Just a bump.
My friends adore Deadzone 2nd edition. But they already have a ton of stuff.
I have none, and think it's probably best that way. I got too many minis to paint already if you know what I mean.

DZ 2nd ed. was edited but the same guy who's editing DreadBall 2nd edition. I have high hopes!

hotseatgames wrote: Okay... so is the lack of interest because of the price or because no one wants this game? I can only work with price, I can't make you want the game.

Response to add a bump to help a fattie sell a sweet game and for feedback to the question.

For myself, I would buy it if I could get people to play it. The space skaven are helluh sweet. So, not so much the price as being an old grognard seeing games come and go and getting sick of trying to convince people to play.

My last successful attempt was convincing a large portion of the local group to get into GW's War if the Ring (formation based lotr game) and ultimately died out when GW decided to drop the line after they released the plastic Nazgùl on fellbeast.
I doubt I can convince others of such a broad feat again. That took a lot of work.

It's an EXCELLENT game, actually. The mechanics are fun, the gameplay is really good, and it is great with the plastic terrain and all. It's also very playable with a small number of miniatures and you just need a 3x3 space. I like it a lot, I played it and enjoyed it greatly while I had it.

My issue was really the minis and the game setting. Compared to GW, it is like the Pro Wings/Payless Shoes version of GW's Air Jordans. Mantic, sadly, has bought too much into this idea that they can sell proxy 40k units- which is why they have the Forge Fathers (Squats) and the Veer-Myn (space Skaven). It just kind of feels lame, and you wind up wishing they'd instead come up with some better concepts. The narrative is pretty bleh too.

You wouldn't think that this would matter too much, there are plenty of games with bleh narrative and lame-y/same-y settings. But with miniatures games I think it does matter more, and especially when you are comparing it to the rich GW world. Of course, if that isn't important to you, it doesn't matter at all.

I also found that I did NOT like modeling/painting the Mantic stuff nearly as much and in fact actively did not like some of the figures. Especially the Enforcers. Mantic just recently stopped using that god awful "restic" plastic/resin compound. The figures made with this junk are a pain in the ass to deal with. Plus, their casting and sculpts are mostly pretty poor. The Veer-Myn are really good though, so it's not an across the board condemnation of quality.

On the flip side, Deadzone is really quite inexpensive- it's like half the price of GW. You can get a starter box and a booster of a faction for like $60, and it's like 30 models. The Deadzone starter is only like $65 (on ebay or from a discounter) and you get two factions and ample terrain to play with. Or you can buy Mark's lot and get literally all you might ever need.

What it comes down to is that if you are looking for a miniatures-based skirmish like Necromunda or Mordheim but want something that costs less and you don't want to wait to see what GW does with those, this is a GREAT buy. I would have kept my set despite my misgivings, but I wanted to roll that investment back into GW stuff because I like the modeling and painting so much better.

Deadzone is a great game! I'd be in for this if I didn't already have a bunch of the stuff from the first kickstarter and your postal service didn't insist on crazy prices to cross the northern border to the land freedom and prosperity. They'll probably triple the rates once we get that wall built.

I might be interested, I also might be interested in just the terrain.

Okay, I'm dropping the price to $160 plus freight. If there are no takers I'm probably going to eBay with it. Let me know!

I will bid $1 if it gets to that.

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Cool. Reply sent as well.

I'll trade you labor. I'll come strip and paint your deck. Or better, replace it and stain it.

I appreciate the offer.... but this wonderful game is SOLD. Thanks all!