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Wave Three For DUST’s Operation Babylon Kickstarter To Ship Soon
September 23, 2016 by stvitusdancern
Great news came in today from an email by Battlefront Miniatures. The ship containing the final items in wave three of the Operation Babylon Kickstarter has finally arrived in port.
This means those of us who still have items to receive will finally be getting those missing items. This will end the turbulent saga that this Kickstarter has become and now all parties involved will be able to put it behind them and move on to bigger and better things.
As far as the game is concerned, I hope the ill feelings can be put to rest and we can concentrate on the game and re-grow the community. Any way you shake a stick at it, it is good news for all!
Are you happy about the resolution of this Kickstarter?
"...final items in wave three of the Operation Babylon Kickstarter has finally arrived in port..."
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Well, I’ll be darned. This might mean I can sell all my SSU in one go!
Thought I’d be more excited about this news as it was my go to game before the KickStarter.
Glad to see this finally getting resolved. It’s credit to the Dust community that the game has survived this. Its a great game and range of miniatures, I hope to see it make a return to form.
I have mixed feelings about this. I am happy for the backers who are finally getting all the stuff they paid for. However, I feel bad that they now have a bunch of miniatures for a game most people seem to have ceased caring about because the companies took a dive. Everyone I know has moved on. I hope the figures can be repurposed as I don’t know anybody who is playing with the stuff they have now let alone what’s still in the mail. If the whole thing can be resurrected it might take awhile, most likely leading to a whole new product line.
I’m going to try and re-purpose the minis for Konflict as I will now never play any of the multiple version of Dust .
In fact, after this debacle, Dust is a very apt word for this game.
“great news”? really? “put the ill feelings to rest”? really? why after all this s… we had to go through while beeing lied to and told to shut up about it the mere possibility of getting what i paid for after the game killed itself and making people sell their walkers for 5 bucks a piece should make me feel anything but sad resignation is beyond me. Maybe the thought of finally beeing done with it carries some form of relief. As i can’t sell without much loss i will continue my path of making conversion rules for k47, i hope to have time to update the forum thread with allies and ssu walkers soon.
Wow this sounded angrier than i meant to be, and no personal attack against the messanger is intended! I guess its because all the joy i one associated with the game has now turned….nough lying, false information and blunt contempt for backers will do just that.
You are of course correct, it has been a royal pain in the arse for everyone (players, companies, hell even us reporting on it!) and everyone will have their own point at which they can draw a line under it.
I just hope for everyone’s wellbeing that that point is not too far away 🙂
@warzan, A reread of this thread has raised a question about other companies. Specifically mentioned were Prodos and the AVP Kickstarter. My question is why BOW still supports this company? At least the Dust people have had the decency to go away for the time being. But even this very week Prodos is being promoted. As a backstage member, I find it unfortunate that my coffee money is being spent creating promo content for a company that has treated my compatriots so poorly. The thought of Prodos taking money from people without securing rights from FOX first was idiotic enough, but their idea of ” give us money for new stuff and forget we didn’t give you your old stuff ” is enraging.
I realize I am only a small cog in the big BOW machine, but I would like to think that as a community, we are better than just blindly promoting any company with a product to push. The companies supported here should respect the community, not just flog to them. Just a thought.
I am with ya @ratata I just want this to be over but that doesn’t mean that I still feel a but hosed by DUST. This completely killed my interest and as such K47 has me more interested. My Bolt Action 2 stuff just arrived this morning and with it a Grizzly walker so at least I have that to get me through the long Sa(turd)ays of watching my Alma Mater play football like crack …ore.
Once my stuff gets here I may pull it all off the shelf and look at it and then wait for it to gather more DUST.
@stvitusdancern We don’t want to shoot the messenger and I hope everyone knows that, it just seems that we pick off the scab every 6 months or so and it seems like it still hasn’t healed.
I spent over $300 on this kickstarter and was miffed went it ran into trouble. I have continued to play the game with friends, though, using the models I already have: and, I did receive some parts of my order in Wave 1. There’s no way any company will stop me from playing with models I already own if my friends and I continue to enjoy it.
Will I buy new models? There’s a big question mark over that. Will I continue to have Dust-flavoured fun with my mates. Definitely.
same here mate. I like game and still planning to play it, thx to many upset people I have a lot of models really cheap too. But there will be probably few years before I will buy anything from Dust and Battlefront ( excluding Tanks skirmish new releases)
I do hope that the game can recover, I always liked to board game aspect of it rather than the tabletop. I think the whole thing was definately a mess and I still don’t know who was to blame, but it does look like they are making sure everyone gets what they ordered, despite how long it has taken. This has to count for some goodwill? Bad as it has been, and I was a backer, this isn’t as bad as my experience with the AvP game, still not recieved my pledge and any email I sent was met with an automated response.
I never stopped playing and this year more of my friends are looking to buy Dust minis and playing more than we have in the past two years. I’m happy everyone is getting what they ordered. More toys on the table 🙂
or me, I will buy Dust models but only cheap 😛
I really enjoy the game still, but in the same camp as several above in that unlikely to buy new stuff. I also really hope this is the end of this, still need to see if BF can fulfill all the pledges from what they have as DS will not be making them any more.
I stopped playing Dust when the Dust 47 pdf. came out. My gaming group immediately starting using the new rules with the old unit cards which I felt was going be mess. I am not necessarily against those rules, I just think we should have waited until the actual rule cards came out. However, I have become far more interested in Bolt Action to the point I am with several people here and would rather play Konflikt 74 using my Dust models more than the current rules.
I put out a small fortune on minis & terrain and managed to get ten guys with me into Dust. We thought it all was so I´ll handed with the KS and “Break-up” so the joy of playing somehow died. Instead we whent forth with FoW & Bolt Action.
I dont feel I want to support Dust no longer, though I really liked the game and even went of to and won a tournament. I guess its the same as with most GW specialist games (and Fantsy now) When the game is no longer supported, I cant plan ahead and imagine what to get next. As most wrote above, I hope to get us of the fantastic walkers for other games.
Konflikt 47´ – Please make “custom mech/armor – rules” so I can feel all my wierd war creations xD
I thought this happened 2 weeks ago? Or was that just a way of keeping things calm before it actually happens? Candidate for top 10 dumbest KS:s ever, for sure
Like many people, I thought the joining of Battlefront and Dust Studios, was going to be a magic matching. Two small companies making a joint play for the big time. What they came up with in the rules revamp and the new settings/models was/is great.
I jumped on the kickstarter and invested in what I thought was going to be the “next big thing”.
I was quite startled when it all went South so badly and the level of abuse heaped on both companies was beyond anything this old gamer had ever experienced…
Being a Kiwi myself I can only express the view that NZ is not a litigious culture and many deals are still done on a hand shake. This is not the way to conduct yourself in an international setting.
At the end of the day, I think both companies and the backers/supporters have learnt valuable lessons and I truly wish both companies all the success for the future, in their separate ventures.
I have kept all my previous Dust models and have even kept an eye on what comes up second hand. Although I am leaning more towards using them in Konflict’47, being an avid Bolt Action player for many years. I may even get out my old AT 43 gear…
I haven’t stopped backing other kickstarters since this one, and (touch wood) I haven’t lost any money yet!