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Alpharius wrote: I'm on the opposite side from you - give us the option to mix and match and smash up all Pantheons ever!
Hell yeah That will be great
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Yea, lots of people in the comments are eating up the idea of a Norse Pantheon game, and several are throwing in votes for an Egyptian one.
I say make them all and do cross-overs.
Who wouldn't want Odin and Ra fighting it out? I'm drooling over the prospects of all the minis that would come out and could be used over any number of games.
Norse feels played out to me. Given the depth of deities we saw with this iteration of the game, at least a Norse one would possibly have a bit more than the usual token gods we see.
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They should do all out different and do Indian (India, not Native American) or African Lore. Though I'd be down for Asian or Egyptian in that order.
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Theophony wrote: They should do all out different and do Indian (India, not Native American) or African Lore. Though I'd be down for Asian or Egyptian in that order.
India would be interesting, but it is a bit problematic considering the Hindu pantheon is actively worshipped. I mean, there's probably a few random guys who still worship Zeus, but not the billion+ people who are Hindu. Imagine if they announced a project where Jesus and Moses fought. Regardless of what you believe, you can understand the issue.
Egypt seems the likely next step. Plus maybe we could get Babi, the baboon god of destruction and virility. You know you want a this guy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babi_(mythology). He uses his boner for a mast on his ship! No mini collection would be complete without him!
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Theophony wrote: They should do all out different and do Indian (India, not Native American) or African Lore. Though I'd be down for Asian or Egyptian in that order.
India would be interesting, but it is a bit problematic considering the Hindu pantheon is actively worshipped. I mean, there's probably a few random guys who still worship Zeus, but not the billion+ people who are Hindu. Imagine if they announced a project where Jesus and Moses fought. Regardless of what you believe, you can understand the issue.
Egypt seems the likely next step. Plus maybe we could get Babi, the baboon god of destruction and virility. You know you want a this guy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babi_(mythology). He uses his boner for a mast on his ship! No mini collection would be complete without him!
India would be awesome - they have a HUGE number of Gods. Also, there are more than a few non-randoms who deliberately worship Wotan. I think the active Wotan-worshippers are potentially more dangerous than the billion Hindu worshippers. Bringing Jesus & Moses to the table would be pretty good. I wonder if Bartleby and Loki would be on team J, esp if the big cheese happens to look like then-Alanis Morissette...
I tend to agree with the Celts bringing a lot to the table, building off Bisley's Slaine, the Horned God series.
highlord tamburlaine wrote: Or go in a totally different direction and hit up some of the Meso-American deities. The Aztec pantheon sure has some fun ones.
Or Hawaiian/ Pacific Islanders would be another interesting choice.
Honestly, with their crop of talent they can make any group of Gods look awesome.
Meso American would be boss, and you'd get some REALLY colorful and intersting troops with the headdresses/masks etc. They were faves of mine in Smite.
There is a HUGE difference between the suggestions here and the greek mythos. The greek mythos is well known amongst a large part of the boardgamers that visit KickStarter, as said by the team.
Looking towards Asian mythos is interesting, as this is also known by the above group. There is as mentioned in this thread an active following, some of which could be offended.
I would not show much interest in a game with a mythos of which I have little insight.
TalonZahn wrote: Yea, lots of people in the comments are eating up the idea of a Norse Pantheon game, and several are throwing in votes for an Egyptian one.
I say make them all and do cross-overs.
Who wouldn't want Odin and Ra fighting it out? I'm drooling over the prospects of all the minis that would come out and could be used over any number of games.
Oh. My. God. That would be the most awesomest game ever!
We could have gods and creatures from Greek, Norse, Egyptian, Aztec, Indian and Japanese mythology all battling it out. It would be epic.
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Waaargh wrote: There is a HUGE difference between the suggestions here and the greek mythos. The greek mythos is well known amongst a large part of the boardgamers that visit KickStarter, as said by the team.
Looking towards Asian mythos is interesting, as this is also known by the above group. There is as mentioned in this thread an active following, some of which could be offended.
I would not show much interest in a game with a mythos of which I have little insight.
You wouldn't want to use it as an opportunity to learn?
I have to admit I'm pretty board of the same pantheons showing up again and again.
Norse was confirmed at the end of the KS, and since Benoit has said if Pantheon does as expected, they think the Norse KS should be up by the end of 2018.
I imagine that they like money and a wide appeal - as opposed to potentially offending people worshipping active religions, those just out of circulation, (sorry JW, but rofl at your Wotan>Hindu comment) or pantheons that most people know nothing about.
The team seems to have been pretty good about communicating. For a better estimate, by how much was the Conan set delayed beyond their expectation? A half-year or so?
If they do additional pantheons, I wonder if they would create a campaign map to have the different stories intertwine.
I'd like Norse and Celtic. I'm sure Egyptian will get done, not super excited about that, but if the price point is similar I'll probably grab it. I'd like something a little more out there too, like maybe a Sumerian/Babylonian, Tengri or African.
Osorios wrote: The team seems to have been pretty good about communicating. For a better estimate, by how much was the Conan set delayed beyond their expectation? A half-year or so?
Conan was a year later than their initial estimate, but their initial estimate was completely unrealistic. Kickstarter ended Feb 11, 2015 and they gave an estimate of 8 months (October 2015). It shipped October 2016.
Yeah, Monolith was pretty foolish. During the campaign, when it blew up, people were asking "are you sure October 2015?", "really?" and Monolith was like, "sure, yeah, we'll be on time".
Wait a little, and Monolith was finally saying "uh, it'll be late".
Then I think it got pushed to mid-2016, which then pushed to October, a full year later.
I suspect this will be a little late, but hope not as late as Conan!
I'd say this has a much better chance of making it on time. Benoit seems a very different guy than the Conan team, and was always candid about all the ways this specifically wouldn't be like Conan.
Likewise he's specifically said the very short Pledge Manager window in January/February-ish, is because the production is literally waiting to go, modeling complete, game tested, etc... with production simply needing order numbers to be finalized.
With some rare exceptions, GW's recent plastic offerings are well down my list of preferrred minis.
Using HIPS on the spears is not an acknowledgement that HIPS is superior to PVC, only that it is superior to PVC for spears and other such castings that are prone to warping when done in PVC or resin. PVC has come a long way in the last five years (back when Mantic were calling it restic).
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