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Expect to receive an e-mail in mid-April and to be charged 7-10 days afterwards for shipping after entering your payment info. per one of the adepticon live streams from thursday, I believe it was the final session with Randall and Loren at the table.

Almost forgot to add, they said all kickstarter stuff is on the water.


What the Merc KS is on the water!?


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What the Merc KS is on the water!?

The Merc Kickstarter is on a boat!

REJOICE, THE BLESSED BLAKE COMMANDS YOU TO REJOICE.
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Failure to rejoice will result in a visit from Precentor Sparkles and his melty stick.
"We have made of New Avalon a towering funeral pyre and wiped the Davion scourge from the universe.  Tikonov, Chesterton and Andurien are ours once more, and the cheers of the Capellan people nearly drown out the gnashing of our foes' teeth as they throw down their weapons in despair.  Now I am made First Lord of the Star League, and all shall bow down to me and pay homa...oooooo! Shiny thing!" - Maximillian Liao, "My Triumph", audio dictation, 3030.  Unpublished.

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REJOICE, THE BLESSED BLAKE COMMANDS YOU TO REJOICE.

I didn't get a harrumph from that guy! *Menacingly* Give the Precentor a "harrumph!"

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The Merc Kickstarter is on a boat!

Are you TRYING to jinx it?!?

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I am suddenly reminded of when the first shipment of Games Workshop's plastic Falcon hovertanks fell into the Atlantic Ocean, so...

KEEP PRAYING TO BLAKE.
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I am suddenly reminded of when the first shipment of Games Workshop's plastic Falcon hovertanks fell into the Atlantic Ocean, so...

KEEP PRAYING TO BLAKE.


THE GOOD BLAKE GIVETH AND THE GOOD BLAKE TAKETH. BLAKE BE PRAISED!

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And so the circle is complete ...
* No, FASA wasn't big on errata - ColBosch
* The Housebook series is from the 80's and is the foundation of Btech, the 80's heart wrapped in heavy metal that beats to this day - Sigma
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That may have already been taken in to account.  If it takes 8 weeks to transport anything from China right now, that means its already half-way in transit.  So that means it's already on the Pacific somewhere, if its heading to the American West Coast, or nearing Cape Horn or Cape Hope if its hitting the Atlantic.  There's also all the outside-America delivery locations that should be receiving their allotment in a similar time frame.  Fluentcargo.com predicts about a 37 day travel time for a cargo ship to go from Hong Kong to London, and 21 days to Seattle.  That's a bit shorter than 8 weeks.
Yeah, it all depends on where it is going. I guess all the cargoes go to the US to then be distributed to diferent hubs. Or do they go directly to the hubs? I guess the first one.

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Yeah, it all depends on where it is going. I guess all the cargoes go to the US to then be distributed to diferent hubs. Or do they go directly to the hubs? I guess the first one.
Last time it was straight to each hub, shipping to the US first and then shipping it out again would cost a lot more and be slower.

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Yeah, it all depends on where it is going. I guess all the cargoes go to the US to then be distributed to different hubs. Or do they go directly to the hubs? I guess the first one.

also depends on the route. the panama canal is only usable intermittently right now because of water level issues, the suez is risky due to assorted Rule4 related issues. so a lot of ships have had to be rerouted over the last weeks.

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The email for shipping payments is said to sent out mid April.
An update about the shipping email is meant to go out in the next 2 weeks ish.

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Was there any news one how distribution will be done for Europe? As in, will the shipping point be from inside the EU? Because that would be lovely.

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Was there any news one how distribution will be done for Europe? As in, will the shipping point be from inside the EU? Because that would be lovely.

They're working with QML again, who have European distribution partners
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Mix mustard, vinegar, gasoline, and lemon juice(not lemonade).  Be sure to let it sit in the sun for a while. 

Disclaimer: This is a joke.  You should not drink anything with gasoline in it or any of those ingredients after they've sat in the sun.  Still, it would taste better than the Malort...

Back in the late 80's the grocery store I worked in sold this concoction called Jogging in a Jug. Basically prune juice and vinegar. The older customers would buy that stuff all the time. If they ever dropped a jug, there would be fist fights over who had to mop up the mess.

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It might have been easier to simply burn the store down.
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that sounds worse than the time i broke most of a case of molasses jars. it took five hours to clean up.

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Try a pallet load of bolognese sauce jars, dropped from fourth level pallet racking onto concrete, during a heatwave.
* No, FASA wasn't big on errata - ColBosch
* The Housebook series is from the 80's and is the foundation of Btech, the 80's heart wrapped in heavy metal that beats to this day - Sigma
* To sum it up: FASAnomics: By Cthulhu, for Cthulhu - Moonsword
* Because Battletech is a conspiracy by Habsburg & Bourbon pretenders - MadCapellan
* The Hellbringer is cool, either way. It's not cool because it's bad, it's cool because it's bad with balls - Nightsky
* It was a glorious time for people who felt that we didn't have enough Marauder variants - HABeas2, re "Empires Aflame"

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Does anyone happen to know where the canadian distribution hub will be? I assume somewhere around Toronto or Vancouver?

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Does anyone happen to know where the canadian distribution hub will be? I assume somewhere around Toronto or Vancouver?
So far there has been no announcement of a Canadian hub. For the Clan Invasion Kickstarter Quarter Master Logistics packed all of the Canadian orders in the US and then trucked them to Canada, since Catalyst is using them again it will probably be the same process this time.

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I know they'd LIKE to get a Canadian hub going to solve issues with shipping costs. but don't think there has been anything happening on that front yet
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Oh, when I saw the Canada-Friendly Shipping icon I assumed they would have a canadian hub. I wasn't in on the Clan Invasion KS. Guess we'll see how it goes this time.

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Oh, when I saw the Canada-Friendly Shipping icon I assumed they would have a canadian hub. I wasn't in on the Clan Invasion KS. Guess we'll see how it goes this time.
9 times out of 10 Canada-Friendly shipping on a crowdfunding campaign is shipped from the US with duties included in the shipping fees so we aren't charged on delivery.

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Do we have a picture of the new Flea's rear?
Wondering if it represents FLE-16 (from TROSW) that has no rear guns, or FLE-17 (TRO3050) that does have rear guns?

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Do we have a picture of the new Flea's rear?
Wondering if it represents FLE-16 (from TROSW) that has no rear guns, or FLE-17 (TRO3050) that does have rear guns?

According to Anthony's Patreon post (which is over a year old at this point) it's the FLE-16.

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According to Anthony's Patreon post (which is over a year old at this point) it's the FLE-16.
Thanks.
Would explain why the RecGuides created the FLE-21 as it is, since RecGuide models are WYSIWYGs and it has no rear guns.
Does cause me some headache for force building, the FLE-16 desperately needs wider availability than just Wolf's Dragoons.

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