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re: FANTASY RACE VILLAGERS

Perhaps a mix of demi-humans or even goblinoids? While I suspect it is a minority interest, I can't be the only gamer who'd like some non-human denizens in their fantasy townships.

For Guards of Traitor's Toll I purchased two non-human civilians: a female orc blacksmith, and a female Halfling baker. There's a female elf head in the Guards of Traitor's Toll starter (1 per civilian sprue for total of three), and I've a few spare elf heads from WHFB so there will be a few more elves and half-elves in my version of Traitor's Toll. The GoTT rulebook mentions some kind of aquatic humanoid species that resides near the city and who trade frequently, so that's another source of non-human civilians; I'll use the couple of Snakemen I bought from Northstar Ghost Archipelago metals.

These three caught my eye

DEATH FIELDS ARENA TERRAIN SET
SHADOKESH FERALS/WARRIORS
DEATH FIELDS N'GLONHGK

Terrain could either be very useful or unimaginative and repetitive. I've had my eye on the Shadokesh for a long time but had basically given up on them ever getting made. Finally, I have no idea what N'Glonhgk are, but they sound non-human, possibly Lovecraftian by way of Ramsey Campbell (is it a take on Y'Golonyac?,) so I'm interested to find out.

 Smokestack wrote:

 Gallahad wrote:
Dang, it is a bummer to see only a single 28mm scale fantasy set on that list. Their fantasy sets must not be selling as well as other kits.

The goblins and lizardmen suffer from poor weapon selection, and the werewolves are too small, so some of the tepid reception are from self inflicted wounds so to speak. But the villagers and guards seemed to be very well received. Hopefully they release more thoughtfully designed fantasy sets in the future.

I wonder what FANTASY RACE VILLAGERS will do that the other villagers set didnt.

Given that in most fantasy games "race" (species honestly would have been a better word probably, but it's now convention) is used to refer to human, elf, dwarf, orc, etc and this set is still in DESIGN; it could be that they're undecided on which race to pick or are even planning multiple sets.

It'd actually be pretty cool to have a set of Elf Villagers wearing robes and doing non-war related things like baking bread or playing a harp

 Smokestack wrote:


I wonder what FANTASY RACE VILLAGERS will do that the other villagers set didnt.

No need to SHOUT we can hear you

I imagine it will have Elves, Dwarves, Halflings and such. Maybe some of the funkier races that have popped up like Cat Folks and Turtle Folks and whatever.

 Talking Banana wrote:
These three caught my eye

DEATH FIELDS ARENA TERRAIN SET
SHADOKESH FERALS/WARRIORS
DEATH FIELDS N'GLONHGK

Terrain could either be very useful or unimaginative and repetitive. I've had my eye on the Shadokesh for a long time but had basically given up on them ever getting made. Finally, I have no idea what N'Glonhgk are, but they sound non-human, possibly Lovecraftian by way of Ramsey Campbell (is it a take on Y'Golonyac?,) so I'm interested to find out.

Death fields terrain is something I can get behind

A reasonably priced grimdark scatter set (32mm tank traps, sandbags, barrels, crates, power cells etc) would be lovely. An actual value-for-money take on that ancient 40k scatter set.

And I say that as someone who can theoretically print as many of those as I like in fdm.

The N'Ghlonk are the Deathfields frogmen that are going plastic having first been digital (digital version pictured below)

This timeline may have the plague, murder hornets, full blown fascism, and a housing crisis, but we have plastic power armoured frogmen going for us so that's nice.

Andy continues to refine the rules and there has been a lot of playtesting behind the scenes here

Any hints of the mechanics of the game?

Wow ogres coming!!!

Have to say I'm really excited for the frog men. Alternative aliens are great for a lot of different settings. Was already considering getting some 3D printed of these but I shall patiently wait for the plastic goodness.