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Divergant Paths campaign seems to be going nicely. Each of the characters has been claimed the first week by a faction. Neverborn grabbed the girl, Ressurectionists grabbed the woman and Arcanists grabbed the guy. There's a downloadable pack with a writeup for what's happened to each of them so far. Abridged versions:
Spoiler:
Girl was chased by Witchling Stalkers and a Teddy came out to protect her but died defending her. The Widow Weaver took pity on the girl and taught her how to save it, and she now has a little Wicked Doll sized Teddy.
The woman was chased down by Guild Guard and shot through the heart. McMourning resurrected her and due to her remarkable retention of her cognitive abilities he is keeping her as his new assistant, since Sebastian keeps fobbing off doing his own thing.
The man was cursed by Marcus and is a Werewolf.
The writeups also have a quick version of what will happen to each of them depending on which faction grabs them next.
Also Chronicles 26 is out. October promotion is alternate Francisco for spending $60 at an FLGS. That's a rather nice reward, since he usually goes for $40-$50us.
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Yeah, I'm disappointed too. I feel their earlier special editions of Aionius and the Tortoise&Hare were experiments in pre-built miniatures. They're not bad, but I feel like I'm overly critical because I can do better. That being said, it'll increase accessibility to the game.
Mid-december Kickstarter is also a terrible terrible idea for not only Christmas but because it'll overlap with Kingdom Death which is set to be one of the biggest board game / miniatures game kickstarters of all time.
highlord tamburlaine wrote: If it's all prebuilt, then I expect the prices to reflect board game style pieces.
I'm sure they won't.
The quality of the PVC miniatures is well above board game quality. Not up there with HIPS or metal/resin, but still better than board game peices. I'm guessing the prices will be lower than Malifaux, but not that low.
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I don't know if I'd get into the game but as usual, the art and style of the models will surely sucker me into a few purchases..
..and maybe the KS. But as Absolutionis said, the timing of the KS is super awful. Woe betide and KS that runs alongside KD or ends right before the KD Pledge Manager goes up.
highlord tamburlaine wrote: The Gibbering Hordes could probably find a lot of uses outside of this as well. Everyone loves giant monsters!
Amen! Totes my faction of choice already, though all of them have their attractions.
The most exciting part of this for me is still that Wyrd is making it. As a rules set I have a lot of respect for MFX but often want more carnage / a touch less complexity, which I'm assuming TOS is all about. Curious to see it going to KS, going to be a struggle to not jump in, despite swearing off doing another mini-based KS
Like the Giant Monsters on the bridge and the Kings Empire - rest is a bit meh for me
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I'm already planning going as deep as possible on Gibbering Hordes. Not a big fan of the Kings Empire, but Gibbering Hordes seem to be channelling Tyranids in the right ways, but seem to still be giving them individual personality.
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highlord tamburlaine wrote: If it's all prebuilt, then I expect the prices to reflect board game style pieces.
I'm sure they won't.
The quality of the PVC miniatures is well above board game quality. Not up there with HIPS or metal/resin, but still better than board game peices. I'm guessing the prices will be lower than Malifaux, but not that low.
Given the advances we've seen in PVC with the likes of Blood Rage, Black Plague and Conan, I'm not entirely convinced HIPS is always superior. The lack of undercuts and shallow detail are consistent weaknesses in Wyrd's minis you have to hide with painting tricks to add shadows, cloth folds, etc that arent there. Plus everything is just so smooth.
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Bossk_Hogg wrote: Given the advances we've seen in PVC with the likes of Blood Rage, Black Plague and Conan, I'm not entirely convinced HIPS is always superior.
Given the PVC I've seen come from Wyrd, I'm pretty unconvinced that it's anything better than, say, Recic Knights, WM/H overpriced board game material. Unless that price is great, I'm probably passing.
Was the newer dead zone stuff a significant improvement over the original stuff? I hated the stuff I got with the KS the detailing was soft as...something...and the model lines were the worst I have ever had to deal with. I ended up binning it.
And years of PP''s pvc has only cemented my hatred for it.
The material is my only concern about this KS. I love Wyrd''s art style, the background sounds interesting as does the multi-basing of units, etc.
Depending on the pricing scheme, I can see myself getting a decent a,ount of those models just to paint up. Hope the detail stays, some of that stuff is great.
We haven't seem much in the way of variety between sculpts, so I hope that each 'regiment' eon't be a blob of clones.
Ernster wrote: This looks Fantastic. I like all of the Factions. I wish they released the KS after Christmas.
So many people are saying that, and I agree.
Maybe the continued success of KD:M 1.5 will make Wyrd think twice. Alternatively, they could just release the kickstarter anyways and watch it do so-so like TTB.
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