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Say, I did fill the PM, but I didn't get any prompt, mail or anything to pay up the difference... should I be worried, or is it just that it has not been sent yet?

Once submitted, there should have been a pop-up window on page 3 showing up "Order has been submitted successfully" or something like that. If it didn't appear or if it did but you missed it, don't worry about it. ;-)

We will be processing each and every pledge and sending a message to every single one of you to let you know all's OK and your submitted PM has been verified and now in line for fulfillment.
This verification is going to take place in the coming weeks, so please don't expect a message in the next couple of days ;-)

If for some reason you do not receive a message stating that your PM went through OK, send us a message (preferably on KS but you can also choose to do it via our FB page).
There will be an update (maybe May, stating this) dealing with any issues that might exist.

Edit: For clarification.

Ah, no, I did get an "Order has been submitted successfully" pop-up. I just thought I was expected to pay the difference there ^_^

Took me a bit longer, but I finally sent mine.

I wanted a starter set all the time, but said screw it and got the starter army 2. Who knows when I'll need x number of female warriors, so better get a few more NOW when I get the deluxe boxes with SGs and not unknown retail contents. Total overkill, but whatever.

@Binabik15
I was discussing this same thing with another one of the backers that chose Starter Army-2, she was asking us which studio colors we were thinking of painting these and after some interaction with us has decided that she would be dividing her troops in 3 ways:
-First part she would use all models without "bare midriff/exposed belly" and paint them as the heavier armored unit in greyish+black.
-Second part she would use models with the "bare midriff/exposed belly" and paint them as the light armored unit in bluish+cyan.
-Third part she would use models for the Rangers and paint them as the skirmish unit in dark green+brownish colors.
All of her units will have commands and she wants to convert some not to look like the others.
(just dropping an idea...) ;-)

These above are all compilations we are trying to fit in the retail version, which as you have pointed out is not definitive yet. It will be definitive only after July/August probably.
Since we have earned the trust (and mean to maintain it!) from a very respectable number of backers (most of which wargamers), you can count that all KS backers who actively supported us when we were in need for their assistance will get for their Silver/Gold reward levels a lot more for each plastic kit they pledged for compared to the retail version, which will in our opinion still remain great value for money. :-)

Something I just realized: the miniature count has ballooned a bit with some of the stretch goals, hasn't it? If I'm understanding right, from each set of sprues I should be able to (for example) make one set of figures with armored midriffs plus the original backs and a set with bare midriffs and the ranger backs, basically doubling the box of 20 into 40. Would I have enough parts for that?

Shieldwolf, everything I get my hands on will be hacked apart and converted, anyway

I have three basic ideas formulated:

1) Alt version of the Blood Rage Serpent Clan with covered titties for my girlfriend.

2) A small warband of swan maidens with a huge white knight as a (male) wrecking ball.

3) A third one I had the idea for today but can't remember anymore. I hope I do in the near future, because the first two warbands can be made from a single box. D'oh.

I know I don't want to do big blocks of models though. My time is way too limitesbthese days.

Binabik15 wrote:
Shieldwolf, everything I get my hands on will be hacked apart and converted, anyway
I have three basic ideas formulated:

1) Alt version of the Blood Rage Serpent Clan with covered titties for my girlfriend.

2) A small warband of swan maidens with a huge white knight as a (male) wrecking ball.

3) A third one I had the idea for today but can't remember anymore. I hope I do in the near future, because the first two warbands can be made from a single box. D'oh.

I know I don't want to do big blocks of models though. My time is way too limitesbthese days.

I think others mentioned this idea before, I don't know how you intend to convert the "swan-look" but we are very interested and willing to see what people will come up with by using this kit! :-)

 TheWaspinator wrote:
Something I just realized: the miniature count has ballooned a bit with some of the stretch goals, hasn't it? If I'm understanding right, from each set of sprues I should be able to (for example) make one set of figures with armored midriffs plus the original backs and a set with bare midriffs and the ranger backs, basically doubling the box of 20 into 40. Would I have enough parts for that?

That's (partially) a negative. :-)
A lot of minis and options have been unlocked but your count is a tad errored however, every box pledged for (and eligible to the free SGs) does allow enough parts to create 20 full-armored (i.e. without midriff showing) or 20 Rangers but not 40 total per box, more likely 28-30 (if you are willing to do a little conversion work) per set for $25.
The Shieldmaiden Army Starter-2 for example comes out at less than $1 per mini ;-)

Retail is probably going to follow same Policy we had from the start (i.e. infantry 20 models per 25 euros), so with rough calculations (and without counting all the extra discounted resin goodies the KS funded) a backer should be saving something like 45% per box.
We were offering a great deal from the start, we think the final deal for all those who backed our KS is definitely an awesome value for money and the co-funding from our help sure helped out in this.
(And if this project had funded another 18K, it would have been +40 Warmaiden HIPS models for every pledge of >100$. We will work out what still didn't work out before launching any future KS, we cannot understand why more people didn't jump in :-( Hopefully after the succesful completion of this project we will have even better luck next time? Who knows. Constructive comments and suggestions are always welcome)

I think partially because the models were kinda specific. Armored female soldiers isn't something most people really need a lot of. Orcs are also something people probably already have loads of. For me the pledging was also a little more complicated than it probably needed to be but it didn't stop me from backing That said.. the structure of the KS meant I wasn't actually able to get what I wanted and ended up settling for a bundle of the ladies who will largely go unused just to get some free stuff.

Mostly got these on a whim; don't particularly need them, worse ways to spend $100, SW seem like nice guys, etc. Just not a look I needed. Looking forward to shieldmaidens tho they seem more my kind of ridiculous:-)

 Shieldwolf Miniatures wrote:

Binabik15 wrote:
Shieldwolf, everything I get my hands on will be hacked apart and converted, anyway
I have three basic ideas formulated:

1) Alt version of the Blood Rage Serpent Clan with covered titties for my girlfriend.

2) A small warband of swan maidens with a huge white knight as a (male) wrecking ball.

3) A third one I had the idea for today but can't remember anymore. I hope I do in the near future, because the first two warbands can be made from a single box. D'oh.

I know I don't want to do big blocks of models though. My time is way too limitesbthese days.

I think others mentioned this idea before, I don't know how you intend to convert the "swan-look" but we are very interested and willing to see what people will come up with by using this kit! :-)

No, all the fuss about swans was made by me

https://daserwachendervalkyrjar.wordpress.com/2014/08/17/der-schwan-und-sein-bedeutungen/


One of the 13 valkyries was the swan queen. And there're swan women in the accompanying mythology.

My GF is totally in love with this concept and I had to make a Vemetian mask with swan wings and the body of a swan curled around the eyeholes. Something like this, flowing white clothes and winged helmets for more armoured models are what I'm planing to do. There is a very cool group of white knights with swan imagery in a graphic novel about Siegfried. That's how I'll do the knight, based old Archaon.

Well, we are curious to see what the final result will be like, probably more will try something similar anyway. Conversions are a great part of what the hobby is about after all. :-)

We promised and we unlocked a number of options to put on the sprues, this kit is being designed by us to outclass anything similar could ever enter the market for many many years to come. If ever. :-D

Btw, our webshop closes down on Monday 11th and will probably remain closed for the entire week, due to much needed (and postponed) maintenance, we are also upgrading our CC payment methods and some other issues we had with the 60 euros free shipping option. (main delay will be caused due to the checks the bank wants to make to our gateways)

April's Update #25 is up! :-)

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1273312680/war-is-coming-shieldmaidens-army-reboot/posts/1550097

 Shieldwolf Miniatures wrote:
Once submitted, there should have been a pop-up window on page 3 showing up "Order has been submitted successfully" or something like that. If it didn't appear or if it did but you missed it, don't worry about it. ;-)

We will be processing each and every pledge and sending a message to every single one of you to let you know all's OK and your submitted PM has been verified and now in line for fulfillment.
This verification is going to take place in the coming weeks, so please don't expect a message in the next couple of days ;-)

If for some reason you do not receive a message stating that your PM went through OK, send us a message (preferably on KS but you can also choose to do it via our FB page).
There will be an update (maybe May, stating this) dealing with any issues that might exist.

Edit: For clarification.

Still haven't got anything, nor been asked to pay the additional amount... should I start getting worried?

@Albertorius

We have over 400+ PMs and still waiting for another 20% or so.
We will be contacting everyone, and "no, there is no reason to worry", we have some 240 days before starting to ship!

Great War Mammooth scenic base now available! :-)



http://www.shieldwolfminiatures.com/index.php?dispatch=products.view&product_id=101&sl=EN

Just dropping this here, our Talliareum Ogre Mercenary army is also going to be completed by end of this year and we can then move on to even more races! :-D

Here's a small round up of what's to be released for our characterful fellas with their slight obesity issues!
-Anvilsmashers (unit of 4)
-Army Banner Bearer
-Mansion Overlord
-Warbull cavalry (unit of 3)
-Ogre Cannon

Hopefully you like them as much as we do! :-)

That Ogre needs himself a fancy hat. Or a sprue of fancy hats from an Ogre haberdashery!

I'm assuming they'll be in resin? Or is it too early to hope for plastic ogre kits?

As much as I like big smashy Ogres, I like slow clunky tank Ogres covered in armor. Any chance we'll see some variety like that?

Plastics for Ogres is way too early to hope for, we are aiming for plastics where a lot of troops may be fielded.
Whatsmore, in our game Talliareum Ogres are mercenaries so they are not a stand-alone army, they can be recruited up to 25% of armies that are allowed access to them.

Ogres get completed this year, and along with the Shieldmaidens and Orcs we will be in grade to field our first three armies, although we are looking forward to reinforcing a lot more their army choices.

If things work out as we hope for, a smaller KS-3 will be ready to launch on August/September this year, so maybe we can focus on a larger KS-4 in Q1 of 2017.

Lots lots lots to do! :-D

 Shieldwolf Miniatures wrote:
...a smaller KS-3 will be ready to launch on August/September this year...

Warmaidens and spider monsters?

@Micky
Negative, KS-3 will be T9A dedicated.

So given the link up with Warhammer 9th ed - are you still bothering with your own rules?

Will all your sculpts designated for plastic production (so basically all your units, rather than heroes) be sculpted by the digital sculptor who is doing the Shieldmaidens? I really love their work

 Mr Morden wrote:
So given the link up with Warhammer 9th ed - are you still bothering with your own rules?

We have spent way too many resources (in terms of both funds and effort) to allow "War is Coming" not to continue. Angelos has decided however to currently shift weight in the actual production of miniatures to both augment the range and show support to T9A game. We know that this will cause delays in the development of our own game but we are currently OK with that, trying to do everything at once is probably going to end up with us doing very little of anything.

Beware of "The sunk cost fallacy" here though:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_costs#Loss_aversion_and_the_sunk_cost_fallacy

I realize it might feel like failure to stop pushing and working with a game system that you've put a lot of work and I'm sure love into.

However. I recommend that you think hard about whether putting more resources into the game system going forward is the best use of your limited time and resources.

Do there actually exist a fanbase for the game at the moment? Are even a fraction of your KS backers even remotely interested in yet another fantasy rank n' file game system? I assume most are interested in your miniatures and not much else.

I do think the collaboration with 9th age is a good move to give you more exposure, but any backers you get from that will be after models for use in that system.

The problem with launching any new game is that not only do you need to have a better game than the competition. You need to be significantly better in order to have people even consider trying out a game other then the one they regularly play, have already learnt the rules for etc.


The money is in models rather than rules anyway.

@Zywus
I hear you. We strongly believe the support we are showing towards T9A is a win-win situation regardless of what happens to War is Coming. We are also proud to have taken this decision and will stick by it. Also, with our game in mind we will be pushing forward releases that can be used in both systems, although yes, we will have to tweak a few things to make them exist in ours, but we think it's going to work out.

The additions to our 2016 release schedule were decided last week and this week we complete the 2017 lay-out.
We plan to not only heavily augment our current range but probably test a regular monthly release schedule, something we have currently failed to establish.
We still have some issues to solve, I'm not sure how to call them, "fluid" might be a good term, so we will have a more solid idea in the coming months.
If things work out alright, KS-3 should be succesfull since Shieldwolf is going to heavily cofund it in order to make it happen.

The Warmaidens, aracnomaidens, yetis and anything else that wasn't funded in KS-2.5 will be launched only after we have delivered to our existing support base; we trust it's the best way for people to witness the quality we currently produce.

@RiTides
Sorry, missed that. TMK if future demands remain at these levels and don't start flying sky high, the same sculptor(s) will be recommissioned, affirmative.

I think making things for 9th Age is a great idea - but don't discount the amount of interest Kings of War players will have in them, too! Some of these are the same people, but since KoW specifically expanded to cover the same armies covered by 9th Age (i.e. former WHFB armies) your models should be a fantastic fit for both systems

Sounds great about the sculptor, cheers!

I'm very interested in what that next Kickstarter's theme would be. Are we talking more hard plastic stuff? Can you tell us anything about what factions it would be?

The mistake we did on our KS-1 is not going to be repeated and each KS we launch will have a funding goal for at least one new plastic kit. It is going to be either a "make it or break it", no middle way.
Since I am very interested to see this through, I am going to be cofunding it even more than the Shieldmaiden project,
As for the faction(s), I'm afraid I am not at liberty to reveal that atm.

Angelos.

 Micky wrote:

 Shieldwolf Miniatures wrote:
...a smaller KS-3 will be ready to launch on August/September this year...

Warmaidens and spider monsters?

So no spider monsters till like 2018? That's... unfortunate. And kind of mean to tease them this early.