I just wanted to Say Thanks >G

I have been lurking these forums for a while, not posting much, but wanted to come out say thanks to everyone that works hard at this Great company. I found you guys about a year ago while researching more games to buy, thought Sentinels looked awesome so I picked it up, I was right. Withing two weeks I had all 3 expansions that were out at the time. I couldnt stay long at the Gathering of Heroes event earlier this year beacuse I had Friends waiting anxiously to play, but if you guys hold another one I will be there all day. But what I really came here to pose is about Sentinel Tactics. As with most people here I kickstarted it and was happy to here the news of it shipping out recnetly. I was happier to hear the Fedex truck pulling up to my complext this monring. Granted I live in St Louis about a hour from where you guys are, but damn, didnt know shipping was that fast. Thank you for everything you guys do, and sorry to make everyone else little jelous.

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Thanks for posting! Do it more!

I want to, I am just more of a lurker personality. The only time I have to post is at work, rest while be learning tactics now.

You are possibly the first person here to get their shipment - that's awesome!

On behalf of 99% of this forum, "friggin jealous..."

I hope that my shipment arrives tomorrow, but that may be optimistic (Minneapolis, MN...not sure what the shipment time would look like)

I never got any sort of notification from Kickstarter regarding a shipment, so right now I'm just assuming it went out.

Anyways, enjoy Tactics and breath in that fresh New Game Smell.

That's so awesome! I leave for a trip today and had to warn my roommates not to start playing MY game without me, hahaha.

Is it Friday yet?

Nah, I got my shipment earlier today, too. I've just been unpacking and organizing it, rather than posting.

I also live in Kansas, though, so it's not exactly a long delivery drive.

You should read my sig.

Come on now package. You've been in Memphis long enough. 

Apparently we got ours earlier today, which was a pleasant shock. Looking forward to getting home and checking it out!

I got my hopes up when I saw the Fedex truck turning down my street but it didn't stop. I kinda knew it wouldn't seeing as how living in Texas, it would take more than a day but that didn't me from being dissapointed. And a wee bit jealous of everybody who has theres

I live in Illinois and mine came in today as well. Pretty cool. Is there a good spot for questions? I was wondering if when playing a skirmish you could mix and match heroes and villians?

Try the Sentinal Tactics rules thread.

Pretty sure the answer though, is you can mix and match whomever you want in a skirmish.  Who's gonna know?

Mine's in transit. 

Where’s Transit?

All the characters, heroes and villians, are designed to be able to be played in skirmishes, at relatively equal power level. Of course, some characters may have natural advantages against specific foes, but that's for you to discover!

Congratulations on receiving your copy! Hopefully mine will be in soon.

My experience with previous GtG shipment is Texas takes 3 days (at least my part) so I am expecting Thursday (and secretly hoping for tomorrow)

All I know is it's not in Memphis. 

At least you have some way to track it.  I never received any e-mails with shipping info, so I have no way to track my package.   I live in California, so I'll be amazed if it shows up this weekend.  Monday or Tuesday is more reasonable.

I remember reading somewhere on these forums that for some reason, not everyone is getting a tracking number e-mail.  That's fine and I accept that on a shipment of this scale, everything can't be done right away, but that hasn't stopped my anxiety issues from screaming "YOU DID SOMETHING WRONG AND YOU'LL NEVER GET YOUR THING AND IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT!"  Stupid anxiety.  I'm thrilled about this game, doubly so because it's arriving four months early, but now I'm worried that I'll worry myself into an ulcer, which makes me worry more because I don't have health insurance and can't afford any medical bills.

Life is fun.  And before anyone asks, I just re-checked Kickstarter; my e-mail for my account is correct and I didn't say anything in the survey or any messages to change it.

Stupid anxiety.  Stupid brain.

I apologize for the rant.

I got mine! Just 5 minutes after walking out the door to go see my boyfriend. I'm cursed. Lol

Haha! Now you have to join the Ronway club!

Well I can help with one of your worries at least - gastric ulcers are no longer thought to be stress-related. Most are caused by infection of a bacteria called Helicobacter pylori, but that's really not that common.

And I'm sure Tactics will be here soon.

I'm going to be out of town for a few days this week I'm really hoping it doesn't spend 4 days out on my porch like it has the potential to, especially since it'll probably rain at least one of those days.

Is it Friday yet?

No: http://www.isittuesday.co.uk

Dammit! I blame Ronway. 

Anyway, that site is wrong. It claims that it's Tuesday, but actually it's almost 2am and therefore Wednesday. 

I blame setback

As in "Setback your clocks you limeys!"

amiright?

Hmmmm…that was a UK website.

Its maddening sitting at work, waiting for 11pm to roll around so you can go home. I wish I had called off so I could play today, but I need money to buy more things. DAMN ECONOMY!

It still says Tuesday. And we're four hours into Wednesday now. The site lies!

The internet is always right, your clock is wrong.

This one is correct. http://isitfriday.org/

Are you saying the sun is also wrong?

The internet is always right, if that means the sun is wrong, then the sun is wrong.

But the Sun is on the Internet. . . Paradox!

I also never received any email with a tracking number, but I was able to locate a tracking number through fedex.com and eventually track mine. I also live in California and mine is expected to arrive on Thursday! So you just may be amazed too. Anyway, below I've written how I was able to track down tracking info. Not sure if it'll work for you, but hopefully if it does, it can ease some of your worries.

From my Kickstarter post:

"Try this. It took me less than five minutes.

Go to fedex.com … find the set of links under "Quick Access" … click "Customize Your Delivery" … this will take you to a page about FedEx Delivery Manager. Then you can sign up for an account, by providing name, address, etc. (no credit card info needed). This will allow you to set it up to be notified of future deliveries going to your address.

However, since the shipments have already gone out, you likely won't get an email with a tracking number (I didn't). You will just get the email confirmations about signing up for fedex.com and FedEx Delivery Manager. But, if you go back to the website, click on Customize Your Delivery, then login w/ your new account information, it should take you to a page where you can see any pending deliveries, get the tracking number, etc.

At least this worked for me. I can't guarantee it will work for everyone… "

Good luck!

If we're having paradoxes, can it be Friday already?

It can, but then a lot of people miss the first day of GenCon.

 Don't care about them.

Well, I asked the Captain if we could take you to Friday, but she plans on being at GenCon for the next 16 days. Once Sunday ends, she plans on going back to Thursday a couple of times.

Well she'd have to time travel to be able to introduce herself to any more than about five people. 

I would ask Ronway for help, he can turn you into a zombie to help past the time. Although, I hate playing games with zombies, they are so prone to AP.

Would he have to bite me?

shrug

It's just... those sideburns look scratchy. And I have sensitive skin. 

Well, after a double-transit it seems to have just left Memphis. Whoehoe!

It's now at Stanstead. And that's in England! It's only a few hundred miles away from me!

*twitches*

Came home to find my box on the front doorstep!

I was sorely tempted to do an unboxing video, but tomorrow's the first day of school and I have a bit of lesson planning to do before they arrive.

Not so much, though, that the wife and I won't try out a few skirmishes!  

Lesson 1: How to film an unboxing video of Sentinel Tactics.

Lesson 2: How to play Sentinel Tactics.

There is no lesson 3.

Lesson 3: Figure out how to put it all back in the box

Yeah, I'm running into that problem already…so many components, and they just don't fit into the box inserts properly!

For now I've just put all the components in small bags, and then put them into the Uprising box, then put the tiles in on top of them, with the scenario books above theat, and the Uprising insert in between to help protect the books. I put the cards into another box, then put it all into my Sentinels bag.

I bought 1000 small bags a while back, of 2 different sizes, 500 each. They help me organize my games. Still used some of the bags that came with Tactics for the larger groups of tokens/minis.

Once I take out the plastic insert in the big box and put everything in baggies it fits. It's a tight fit though almost no wiggle room. But for a great game like this that's okay I've had worse storage problems

I haven't received emails for the last four or five Kickstarter updates.

I didn't get an email from FedEx telling me my order shipped or when it would arrive.

Instead, FedEx just rang my doorbell and dropped off my package.

Honestly, that's good enough customer service that I don't mind a little confusion.

This is what I ended up doing, though I was able to fit in a plastic Sterilite container to hold all of the minis (separated, even!)

One question, though:  did anyone else not get a scenario book in their Uprising box?  I got the three that came in the base game, and all of the necessary components in both boxes, but no Uprising scenario book.

I got a Beacon/Operative scenario book with Uprising.  I'd email >G and let them know; according to a few posters on BGG, it seems like a few people have had some missing or mixed up stuff (multiple/missing bases for the mini's; someone unluckily was missing the character board tokens).  Hopefully these issues are in the minority, though it would help immensely if the rulebook contained a components list with the number amount of each token and piece.

Counters in baggies in the Uprising box. Everything else in the core box.

Trying to figure out which figure goes to which base is a PITA. Missing bases for Citizen Dare and Swift Bot. Got an extra for The Wraith and Stealth Bot. I think Maia was involved...

I had an extra Citizens Assault and Battery base and missing the Citizens Blood, Sweat, and Tears base. Legacy and Assault also don't fit in their bases very well, one peg is too large or the hole is too small. Had same problem with one of the Proletariets until I tried a diferent base.

I've dropped them a message via the "Contact Us" form on this site, but I'm not anticipating actually hearing back from them until they're back from GenCon.

Hell, I might just ask them while I'm there this weekend and see if they have any to spare…

Got home from picking my wife up from work and I'm complaining about how my game hasn't arrived.

As we are parking she says, "I'm sorry your box hasn't arrived yet."

My Response:

"I'm sorry about tonight if it came while we were out."

So of course there it is on our steps.

Best Day Ever.

Just checking: You mean you got an extra Beacon/Operative book, correct?

OMG FAT EYES IT'S IN SHEFFIELD AND THAT'S LIKE ONLY 10 MILES AWAY

Excuse me. I think I may have just had a mini geek-out for a second there. I'm fine now.

SHEFFIELD!

*twitches*

Mine is in Dublin.

Mine is still listed at Stansted… but when it says delivery on Friday, I know I shouldn't complain

Mine has just arrived! Wooooooooo!

Eh, had a couple of these, also, but I expect that. They all ended up working.

I really didn't have too much of a problem figuring out where to put the figures, personally. I thought it was an entertaining puzzle.

…and that was last time Silverleaf was seen…

I have an extra Assault and Battery and no Blood Sweet and Tears base, will be emailing. But I managed to fit all of BST itno the Assault and Battery base

But as for pegs (Why i quoted) Its part and parsel of this kind of product. such things so small always have a little bit of weirdess, extra flash, ect - just get an exacto knife and shave a little off if you have to to get it in, and a very very tiny dot of glue (get dries clear model superglue) will keep it down if you need to.

Holy Cats!  My FedEx tracker shows that my box went from St. Louis MO to Champaign IL (a side move), then Sacramento CA (closer to me), then to a town even closer to me, but now shows it's arrived back at St. Louis again!  And the timestamp is six hours in the future.  I can't keep up with this time travel shipping technology.

They better not be sending my box back to St. Louis, that's for sure…

I just received a tracking e-mail that says the same thing.  FedEx's system said that my packages on "on truck for delivery" at 3:15 this morning; now it says it's "arrived at FedEx facility" in Saint Luis, MO, at 4:08 this afternoon.

I'm assuming that it's a glitch in their system.  I hope so.  I was all geared up to have it on my doorstep when I got home from work today; if the whole thing was a SNAFU and it hasn't left St. Louis yet, I'm going to be very annoyed.  There may be loud swearing at the cats, because they're obviously to blame for everything.  Sneaky little bastards…

I just got my fedex tracking email today but I received my box yesterday.   

Spiff I got a similar weird thing. I recieved my box yesterday but I just got a message this afternoon saying that there's a package with the same tracking number that's suddenly shown up in St Louis. I think Fedex may have just had a hiccup in it's tracking software. 

Either that, or I'm somehow getting two copies XD

How can it get across the Atlantic and not to California yet? Curses!

Yeah, me too.

I got a 2 tracking emails, one that it was delivered yesterday to my old address and one that it's on its way back to St Louis and won't get there til Monday. I already sent an email to Jodie

It's a glitch in FedEx's tracking system.

I just got the e-mail that says it was delivered.  Texted my daughter to make sure she brings it inside (I kinda live in the hood) and she says she answered the door when it was delivered.

This day just got three times longer...

Want to know something funny? I just received a tracking number for Sentinel Tactics within the last couple of hours, but the game was delivered on Tuesday! Now I know for sure my box is here.

Jodie responded to my email to assure me that my box is almost certainly not teleporting from Sacramento back to St. Louis today, and I should be fine.  Could be more time travel-related obfuscation on GtG's part, but I have decided to be reassured... for now.

FedEx reports that my box has been delivered.  Not sure if that means it's been delivered back in St. Louis via teleportation technology or if it's actually been delivered in Calif. (you can never be sure, when time travel is involved).  Will find out tonight after work.

Ah, who am I kidding?  Time to "work" from home!  I should be up to my elbows in counters and minis soon. :)

The power of planes!

 Me as well. What's up with FedEx?

Mine's still listed as being in Chicago. I guess it's waiting for it's plane?

Despite confusing orders from the Mother Ship, the FedEx elves did indeed deliver my Tactics as originally planned.  Good times.

So I'm thinking that mine got delivered to my mom's house in Colorado, eventhough I changed my address to where I'm living now. Unfortunately my mom is in Texas with her dying mother and I don't know when she will be back. 

Mine is still stuck in Stansted (customs)…

Oh, that's unlucky.

Mine's got to Alexandria! So it's in the same country and same city as me! Now I just have to wait out the weekend...

Whoehoe!! This morning everything arrived nicely, completely and looks absolutely awesome!! Thanks for another wonderful kickstarter / event!!

Mine apparently got labeled "wrong address" despite having the right address, then was promptly shipped to my parents' house.

Tactics has arrived in Canada! I seem to be missing all of the bases from the core mini pack, though. Emailed Jodie and I'm sure it'll get sorted out! The game is simply gorgeous.

Got my package of Sentinel Tactics awesomeness last Thursday, and haven't really stopped playing it yet.  Getting a lot of skirmishes in, trying out all the characters and getting a solid feel for range probabilities, line of sight, and movement.  The only reason it gets put away at night is so the kitten won't decide it's a playground in the middle of the night and I have to spend half of every morning finding the pieces.

My copy was, thankfully, 100% complete.  The only hang-up was that some of the miniatures didn't quite fit onto their bases (mainly The Wraith, Swift Bot, and a few Citizens), or some wouldn't hold on to the base at all without glue (all the single-peg figures).  Gave me an excuse to pick up a file set and some model glue, which will come in handy in a few months since I Kickstarted an extremely miniatures-heavy game that should be arriving soon.

I considered leaving them off the bases in case I ever get them painted, but reality won out: I have no skill at painting miniatures, I sure as Hell don't want to use these to practice on, and I'll never be able to afford to pay someone to paint them.  They'll just have to look monochromatically awesome, which they do.