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Someone in BGG pointed me to this forum, saying you might be interested by this game.

It's a boardgame with miniatures, designed by Frederic Henry (Rush'n'Crush, The Adventurers) and published by Monolith, a new publisher created to publish this game by Frederic Henry and Erwan and Loïg Hascoët, who already run Bombyx (Takenoko) and ran Hazgaard before that (Okko).
Adrian Smith is the lead artist, and there will be also a participation from Kekai Kotaki, Georges Cl4renko and Xavier Colette.
The sculptors are Stephane Simon, Yannick Hennebo, Gregory Clavilier, Jacques-Alexandre Gillois, Stephane N'Guyen, Thomas David and Mikh.

In this scenario based game, the players will play Conan and his allies, except one who will be their Opponent and will play all the enemy troops.

This game should be kickstarted in January 2015, for a release date at GenCon 2015. It will include at least 101 miniatures (of the 7 heroes: Conan, Shevatas, Hadrathus, Belit, Valeria, Zelata (and her wolf) and N'Gora, of unique enemy bosses: Thog, Thak, a necromancer, a giant serpent, a colossus, a mummy, Captain Zaporavo, Zogar Sag... and other more generic enemies: guards, bowmen, skeletons, pirates, picts...) of Zombicide quality plastic. The scale is 32mm.

There is a possibility, if there is enough interest, to have an add-on in the kickstarter with resin miniatures for the heroes and unique monsters.

Here's some of the art and the first sculpted miniatures:

Belit:



Shevatas:



A Necromancer:


Thog:


Captain Zaporavo:


The first board: a Pict Village


You can find more information on this game on its BGG page and on the official Monolith Facebook page.

The sculpting and artwork looks amazing, i can´t wait to see what this turns into.

I really hope you can manage to offer resin versions of the miniatures as the talent you've got in the way of scultors deserves to have their work show in the best possible way

and I'm prepared to pay what that sort of quality costs

I'm also keeping an eye on the game itself as a big Robert E Howard/Conan fan, especially if you get the campaign side of things more solidified

I am a huge fan of Conan and I'm really looking forward to this KS. I'll also pay extra for resin.

Oh yes. All over this.

I would definitely be in for resin or HIPS plastic production. I can't get into PVC, even though I really love Conan and the look of the sculpts so far.

I'm a huge Conan fan so I am really looking forward to to owning these minis and playing the game!

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
I really hope you can manage to offer resin versions of the miniatures as the talent you've got in the way of scultors deserves to have their work show in the best possible way

and I'm prepared to pay what that sort of quality costs

I'm also keeping an eye on the game itself as a big Robert E Howard/Conan fan, especially if you get the campaign side of things more solidified

I agree with this. The quality of the art and sculpting deserves to be done in a high quality medium.

As a huge R.E.H fan I'm really excited by what this could become. I hope this project stays focused and doesn't turn into one of the bloated X low quality minis at each stretch goal campaigns.

I'd be far happier paying a premium for a boxed game with everything made to a high standard.

I agree with the resin crowd I get that 101 figures probably will be PVC, but at least make a premium version that offers the Heroes and some of the more awesome sculpts in resin.

Marrow's "Journey" did this quite well.

+for resin.

If your game mechanics are solid this could be a home run. The Mini's look great.

That list of artists and sculptors working on this project is absolutely mouth-watering.

And, set in the Hyborian world? I am all over this, like 110%!

Thanks for posting this here itai, very, very excited about this!

Looks very interesting!

Interesting. It seems like multi-player co-op GM'd games are becoming more popular.

I have high expectations on this project, especially seeing the artists that will be involved in it.

PVC (pre-assembled?) probably is the best way to go to make the boardgame most saleable in the future,

but to get the most out of KS offering resin versions of the minis would help to bring in the mini addicts (and those who want to 'pimp out' their games), and I'm sure your sculptors can suggest quality resin casters to use

and more people = better KS (as long as you've done your sums right)

Adrian Smith art? Color me interested.

Adrian Smith, Karl Kopinski. Mikh and a bunch of other awesome sculptors. Yeah, great line-up. It will be a hit no matter what.

Wait.

MIKH is attached?

Engines in reverse! Engines in reverse!

 cincydooley wrote:
Wait.

MIKH is attached?

Engines in reverse! Engines in reverse!

What's the problem? His work for Arena Rex is quite nice and this project should share quite a few stylistic similarities with the gladiatorial types he did.

 His Master's Voice wrote:

 cincydooley wrote:
Wait.

MIKH is attached?

Engines in reverse! Engines in reverse!

What's the problem? His work for Arena Rex is quite nice and this project should share quite a few stylistic similarities with the gladiatorial types he did.

Sure, when it's done I'm sure it will be.

I trust him to sculpt something on time about as much as I trust the US government to be honest.

He's a brilliant sculptor,

but he's oh so slow (and apparently has to be paid in full in advance so you have no real leverage to speed him up) EDIT: the last bit is wrong, thanks to grefven for setting me straight on this)

I would be (very) worried about delivery happening anything like on time if he has work still to do

(look at Arena Rex, very delayed, and MIKH still hasn't finished any of his stuff)

It won't stop me pledging (I really don't mind waiting for quality), but he is a red flag for those who expect delivery (roughly) on time

Okay. Didn't know he's that slow.

Really nice look, but I've had nothing but poor experiences in the "co-op vs. one player" structure, not having a 1v1 or co-op vs. game mode would be a deal breaker for me...

Co-op vs game would be a big winner for me too. Co-op vs 1 isn't a deal breaker, but makes it harder to sell to some people I might play with.

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:

[...] apparently has to be paid in full in advance so you have no real leverage to speed him up

Not true, speaking out of own experience.

grefven wrote:

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:

[...] apparently has to be paid in full in advance so you have no real leverage to speed him up

Not true, speaking out of own experience.

Ah, I've been mislead in that case, I'll edit in a disclaimer, thanks

Oh, hell, yeah!

I'm not interested in the boardgame, but you have so many talented sculptors onboard, it would bea crime not to release the resin collectors' editions.

I'd buy all the resin sculpts in a heartbeat.

grefven wrote:

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:

[...] apparently has to be paid in full in advance so you have no real leverage to speed him up

Not true, speaking out of own experience.

I think this may be a variable. I've got it from another gentleman in the industry that he does require payment up front.

But it's all good. He is a brilliant sculptor, regardless.

I think this has potential to be a better, more awesome version of HeroQuest.

I owned 5 copies of that at one point. SO I might throw money at this Kickstarter.

 cincydooley wrote:

grefven wrote:

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:

[...] apparently has to be paid in full in advance so you have no real leverage to speed him up

Not true, speaking out of own experience.

I think this may be a variable. I've got it from another gentleman in the industry that he does require payment up front.

But it's all good. He is a brilliant sculptor, regardless.

Perhaps so. But I've commissioned him myself, and without being "known" in the miniature industry, if there is someone a full payment would be required from is from someone like me, i.e. a person with no track-record.

Anyway, while an awesome sculptor, he does indeed take his time to complete his sculpts. Which I guess is both a good and a bad thing. Good because he obviously takes his work quite seriously and does extensive research. Bad because there might be delays. I don't mind waiting a bit longer if I know that the result will be so much better.