Dreadball Season 4 - Unboxing and Review - Part 1

When I pledged to the Dreadball Xtreme Kickstarter I went for the 'Just send me everything' pledge as I figured that would save me having to think about it...this pledge level also included the next few seasons of Dreadball...

After a few Facebook posts about my assembly of these models I was asked about what particular models were, whether the quality was any good and other enquires of that nature, I decided to cover the questions by my usual method of creating an unboxing/review article for them. This part will cover the rulebook and new teams and the rest of the additions will be covered in part two.

There's been a bit of a rearrange of which teams go with which season over the Kickstarter process and in the most recent update I could find the breakdown currently is this...

Season 4: Brokkrs, Sphyr, Rebs and Hobgoblins
Season 5: Asterians, Convicts, Mechanites and Plague Mutants
Season 6: Koris, Ada-Lorana, Crystallans and Tsudochan

Rulebook.
The season four rulebook follows basically the same format as all the others with information on the various new teams, free agents and any new abilities that they might possess. There's also rules for the Martians from the 'Mars Attacks' which were available as an add-on for the Mars Attacks Miniatures Game Kickstarter. Here's some sample pictures...

The Models.
Season four so far consists of four new teams, a number of free agents and a few misc. other models. If your receiving season four in one go as part of the Dreadball Xtreme Kickstarter then you may have two of each team depending on your pledge level. We'll look at those four teams then in both their unassembled and assembled forms.

The fifth team is a Mars Attacks Dreadball team which is in the same material as the rest of the Mars Attacks stuff so there's a significant difference in the material used so we'll look at it separately right at the end..

Most of the models are single piece with the odd model here and there having a choice of heads, arms, etc. These all slot in simply enough and there were no assembly issues that I encountered. The material Mantic Games use for such models has had some criticism in the past as it's not the most simple to work on though in my personal experience I'm yet to find any problems that a sharp scalpel and a couple of files couldn't sort out...

Brokkr Team

Brokkr Team - Unassembled

Brokkr Team - Assembled

This is the only model from the Brokkr team that requires any assembly. You have a choice of two heads and two arms and I've shown both options below...

Hobgoblin Team

Hobgoblin Team - Unassembled

Hobgoblin Team - Assembled

Rebs Team

Rebs Team - Unassembled

Rebs Team - Assembled

This is the only model from the Rebs team that requires any assembly. You have a choice of two heads and two arms and I've shown both options below...

Sphyr Team

Sphyr Team - Unassembled

Sphyr Team - Assembled

This is the only model from the Sphyr team that requires any assembly. You have a choice of two heads and two arms and I've shown both options below...

Mars Attacks Team
These pictures are the ones from this blog here that I've trimmed down a bit...

We'll look at the new Free Agents and other bits and pieces in part 2...

Thoughts and comments are (as usual) most welcome.