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 DaveC wrote:

 lord_blackfang wrote:
So a model the shape and size of a $160 Be'lakor free with a $99 pledge, hmmm.

Yep, and that’s what I’ll count him as, plus he’s not 1 per backer so each SG set gets one. I just hope they stop upscaling it soon, Be’lakor is 170mm so that or 180 would be fine.

On this, he will be 1PB and we've updated his description on the Gamefound page to mention it.


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 Shadow Walker wrote:
@Szymon_Archon - is it still possible to have a demon lord with an alternative option for a left hand, like open one with just claws?

We'll see if there's any additional space on the sprue and we'll add additional parts accordingly, although it's not something I can guarantee at this point in time.

Balor will have sword and whip options, in clear plastic. And they'll try to make wings optional, but no promises.

The community goal has been reached and 1 of the Ettins will be included - Gervase (on the left) is currently winning the poll with 64%

Voted for Gervase as he's designed similar to Pepe the Giant, but wouldn't mind either, Gervase with the club and cyclops skull base from Protase would be a good mix.

Just noticed that the Cave core set has "Rocky Hills" which I hope are freestanding, so can be plonked in the middle of your generic wargame mat, and used as generic hills.

More versatile than the Elven Woods rocks, which were a PITA to paint all those frickin' leaves on.

I'm assuming the walls have pegs on them, which sorta keep me from using them as unnecessary boardgame bling.as freestanding walls. I have some WizKids prepaints, and their walls stand up by themselves.

In one of the live streams they show how hills/enclosures very lightly clip into tile floors using shallow pegs, so you'd need to trim those. I think the curved walls would also be free standing if you trimmed the pegs, and the normal walls would only need a thin base added!

Yea hills lock into 6 floor holes, but you can just snip the pegs with a flush cutter and you're good to go. I'm campaigning for them to put just the hill sprue as an addon for that reason. They are quite small, mind you.

Thanks.

Just got Deuslair and *geez* there's a ton of plastic in even the 189 pledge level. That's only 300 miniatures plus ten huge models.

Archon should have teamed up with Ganesha Games (Andreas is easy to work with) for a Song of Blades and Heroes and Sellswords and Spellcasters ruleset, instead of going RPG!

 DaveC wrote:
The community goal has been reached and 1 of the Ettins will be included - Gervase (on the left) is currently winning the poll with 64%

Left one is superior IMO. Hopefully he will get a retail release.

Yes left one looks like an actual Ettin, right one is a chaos giant or something. Cyclops skull looks rad af tho.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Yea hills lock into 6 floor holes, but you can just snip the pegs with a flush cutter and you're good to go. I'm campaigning for them to put just the hill sprue as an addon for that reason. They are quite small, mind you.

From watching the video, it doesn't look like full size pegs like under the walls, but rather little nubs ~2mm. When it's sitting flat on the table it doesn't look out of place.

Bal'or gets a flaming sword option in the updated concept art



and he gets his own gate at $1.5m. Some of the upcoming SG are doubling up on previous elements like the stone bridges and stairways



sample layout from the mine tracks SG (2 sprues) - should be available as an addon later



Legacy prepaints WIP

Balor's Gate? I see what you did there Archon

Now into the final 12 hours, only 50k from 2 Million now.

Stretch goals as they currently sit:

Yeaaa I think a second set of stretch goals is gonna be better value than 3 subthemes. Especially as none of the subthemes look better than the core sets...

Less than 9 hours and 50K from the choo-choo train!

The train is comically small tho, poor choice for 2M

I actually like it as something which can fit inside a dungeon, and serve as a reasonably compact accessory rather than being a massive building kit in its own right! Then again, people complained about the airship and they made that massive, so...

I am also enjoying that so many of the stretch goals benefit from having multiplies, and agree that multiple stretch goal sets give so many options.

Wouldn't mind an additional platform, or a handcar, so I could use it as an outside train.

Anyway, we got it...!

Supergrell is next...

I am usually not into such things but that big brain looks awesome.

Is Archon more known for figs or terrain now in the gaming community? No shame with either but I'm just curious as He-Man is the only figure based property that I can recall coming from them as a mostly passive outside observer. I only own a couple of their figs mainly from the Starfinder line that to my knowledge hasn't been updated for a while.

 warboss wrote:
Is Archon more known for figs or terrain now in the gaming community? No shame with either but I'm just curious as He-Man is the only figure based property that I can recall coming from them as a mostly passive outside observer. I only own a couple of their figs mainly from the Starfinder line that to my knowledge hasn't been updated for a while.

It depends on who you ask. If you're looking at games that we make minis for, then we're known for minis. If you're looking only at our D&L campaigns, then it'd probably be terrain, but there's still a decent chunk of minis in there, especially in our last campaign (D&L V, over 350 new minis iirc).

They said they will alternate mini campaigns and terrain campaigns from now on (or rather have started so with Deuslair)

@Szymon_Archon - any news about your mass battles game? Especially miniatures, some concepts art maybe?

Interesting they only planned to $1.5m and they didn't want to keep stretching the SG totals beyond around $30k each so that explains the doubling up on some prior SGs - they had pretty much run out of new SG to add.

New render

Pretty excited for my first Archon project pledge!

 DaveC wrote:
Interesting they only planned to $1.5m and they didn't want to keep stretching the SG totals beyond around $30k each so that explains the doubling up on some prior SGs - they had pretty much run out of new SG to add.

I honestly prefer this in general for certain items you want a lot of.

I do think they really screwed over Belly of the Beast as a theme. There should have been tumors, acid squirting growths, membrane doors, biomechanical fixtures, parasites to stick in the walls, etc. We got like 3 pieces total.This was a fantastic campaign otherwise, super pumped to see the pre-painted options. I'm in for a miner and king of the mountain, may add a bit more in the pledge manager.

 Bossk_Hogg wrote:

 DaveC wrote:
Interesting they only planned to $1.5m and they didn't want to keep stretching the SG totals beyond around $30k each so that explains the doubling up on some prior SGs - they had pretty much run out of new SG to add.

I honestly prefer this in general for certain items you want a lot of.

I do think they really screwed over Belly of the Beast as a theme. There should have been tumors, acid squirting growths, membrane doors, biomechanical fixtures, parasites to stick in the walls, etc. We got like 3 pieces total.

Yes, I won't be getting it as a core set (though I'm in for Maw and Carnage, but not bothered about needing much in the way of props, as I plan on the subthemes essentially being props themselves.) That said, I think more in the way of 'fungal' props (and not just more mushrooms, but like the fungal arch) could have pulled double duty, fungal in normal caves, fleshy veins BotB.

Man the prismacast stuff is so neat, I wish I had an actual reason to get into this stuff. I've been wanting to run stonehell for instance... but that'd be online anyway. I could run something in person but I get way too in my own head about that kinda thing.

After being on the fence through the campaign, in the last hours Mrs. GG and I decided to back. The stretch goals were just too darned tempting.

> Man the prismacast stuff is so neat, I wish I had an actual reason to get into this stuff.

I play solo miniature games, and the caves look like something I can plonk onto the table, even if outside.

$80 to paint roughly five sets is still money, but I guess it gets the terrain faster to the table.

Sorta wish that they had a separate campaign six months apart for a Prismacast crowdfunding. I'll be bumping up my unpainted pledge to a painted on in the PM as it is.


> I do think they really screwed over Belly of the Beast as a theme.

Yep. GF has you choose which sets you want, and maybe this data was available to creators, so creators would know which sets were in high demand, so they knew which direction to go with the SG's. Not only was Rocky most popular, but the bits sorta overlap with Demonic. BoB is so niche, though, that we're lucky it's offered at all. :/