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Sticking with resin is really good, imo... but for people to adopt the game the buy-in has to be reasonably priced.

For myself, I have a hard time telling what I would need to play a "standard" sized game. Having bundles for each faction with just enough minis to play (like PP's battle boxes, but of course more expensive due to resin, which is totally acceptable imo) would be great for people like me who are still on the outside but thinking of dipping a toe in.

Mierce Miniatures wrote:

The Albainn will get Gairlom (spearmen) fairly early and Oghurithne (think Rackham Giant Barbarians) not much after that; and possibly Oghur (er, Ogres) and if we get far enough Oghureach (Ogre-centaurs).

SQUEEEE!!!

I mean, sounds jolly good, I am looking forward to seeing how they turn out.

Just read that battle report that was linked. I'm not exactly enthusiastic to play this now. :-S

Zond wrote:
Just read that battle report that was linked. I'm not exactly enthusiastic to play this now. :-S

Agreed, and that isn't a commentary in the rules, that's just a dreadful, dreadful advertisement for any game. I mean...pictures of dice? Arranged in flow diagrams? Yeesh!

Hahaha, blame me for that one. I wanted to be as clear as I could about dice rolling in a way that made sense. I'll see if I can find time to do another game in the next few weeks, and no dice photos.

Props for the enthusiasm, but that really didn't excite the casual reader, best of luck with the next attempt!

Zond, you're better off watching the video (as poor as it is) on the First Edition kickstarter project page. As Razor says, he's gone into great detail!

It plays pretty quickly once you get used to it, like any game system really.

The purpose of the battle report I did was to show how the mechanics of the game worked, rather than drumming up excitement. At the time, I think there had only been two games played outside of Mierce Towers, so there were a lot of questions about how Parry Dice and Swift Strikes worked, that could only be shown by emphasizing the actual dice rolls.
Now that we are trying to make it exciting, I can try another with spells and shooting and magic and stuff! I just need to read the latest version of the rules...

 razormage wrote:
Now that we are trying to make it exciting, I can try another with spells and shooting and magic and stuff! I just need to read the latest version of the rules...

And sound effects! Don't forget sound effects

(Which are even better in text-based bat reps, by the way!)

"The Drune bowmen take four shots at the Sronax. Pew pew pew pew!"
[Edit: took the silencer off two of the bows]

That's only two.

Shouldn't it be a meatier "creaaaaaakkk........ thunk!" for bow shots? Admittedly the thunk is the arrows bouncing off thick rhino hide. :-P

Do any of the published videos incorporate the revisions from the newest rules release (1.05 right?)

@Doug - no mate, but when KS2.5 is up there'll be another.

"Somebody" got upgraded to 'packing' in the last couple of days....



Squeee!

Pff, got mine last week, thereby making me better than you...

 plastictrees wrote:
Pff, got mine last week, thereby making me better than you...

Pfft, when we've both got them painted and based, we'll post some side by side pics and let Dakka decide!

How are you fixed for 2016?

 azreal13 wrote:
"Somebody" got upgraded to 'packing' in the last couple of days....

Squeee!

Sweet, me too! (Also Krull, Malacant, Uuthull, Shaaroc and the Sronax......So. Much. Sexy. Resin. *faints*

Uuthull and Shaaroc are my two favorite Mierce models, I believe.

Just picked up a big box full of resin from the post office:
-Kthones starter set
-Petroyos
-Angrislaug
-Ygandr
-Aradae Mawr
-Cormoragg

Was missing Beowa (probably got confused since this wasn't my first shipment, but this was my first started for the kickstarter), and still have an outstanding Chaagmuth on foot, but very happy with all the resin I got.

If someone would be so kind as to take some photos of a Khthon's armored snake leader dude Ssybrios (or however you spell his name), I will give you an internet cookie. The site photos aren't doing it for me, and I'm wondering if he looks better in person.

Also, thank you Mierce for sending me those bases that were missing from my presents!

I would share my horrible paint jobs with you all, but I'm afraid it would make many of you just plain sad seeing how I've manhandled those poor resin creatures.

Also, my seven year old wants you to make things in plastic so he's allowed to play with the monsters and make scary monster noises, just like his father.

Baragash wrote:

 azreal13 wrote:
"Somebody" got upgraded to 'packing' in the last couple of days....

Squeee!

Sweet, me too! (Also Krull, Malacant, Uuthull, Shaaroc and the Sronax......So. Much. Sexy. Resin. *faints*

highlord tamburlaine wrote:
I would share my horrible paint jobs with you all, but I'm afraid it would make many of you just plain sad seeing how I've manhandled those poor resin creatures.

I'll post up my Krull, albeit not for the first time in Dakka, if only to let Baragash know what he's in for (seriously...book holiday leave) and encourage Hl Tamburlaine!

Nice.

Much nicer than the ramshackle lot I've painted so far.

I shall take your encouragement as a challenge and try to put some photos up this weekend, when I can have my wife translate all the options on the camera and manage to actually take a picture correctly!

I have a Brass Scorpion, so far I have invested approx 14 hours just cleaning and assembling it, and the legs still need to be attached to the body. Whilst I expect Krull to be time-intensive, I don't think he'll be as bad

(Also, Krull is not a big priority, I got him because I knew I would eventually get him and I wanted to beat the price rise and get the 20% backer discount by acknowledging my lack of willpower at the cheapest opportunity )

My three favourite models in order are:
The Terror
Uuthull
Ygandr

Unfortunately snakes and lizards that aren't dragons (or related) have never appealed to me so I couldn't really justify getting the hydra.

Andrislaug and a photo finish between Krull and Shaaroc would round out my top 5 so having 4 out of 5 (or 5 out of 6!) still leaves me in a happy place..........at least until I start losing sleep about the paint job doing them justice

Well, that pic is up to date for Krull, I still don't consider him finished, I have tidying to do on the base and I wish to do a bit of weathering on the weaponry, perhaps some special FX like drool or something, and I bought him from Maelstrom, so he has currently been WIP for the best part of two years!

A large percentage of that was on a quest to gather dust though...

 plastictrees wrote:
Pff, got mine last week, thereby making me better than you...

Oh, you only got one? That's so cute...
Just opened a box with the pair I'd ordered inside.

azreal13 - that Krull is amazing!

Well done!

Why, thank you!

It was love for this model which catalysed my starting to collect daemons (it won't come as a great shock he is my counts as Bloodthirster, despite the ludicrous size) and consequently I put a lot of time and effort Into getting him right. A pleasant side effect of which is that it seems to have shaken something loose in my style, and has been a real watershed point in terms of the final quality of what I've been producing.

Just in time to tackle my Fomoraic this year!

 azreal13 wrote:
Why, thank you!

It was love for this model which catalysed my starting to collect daemons (it won't come as a great shock he is my counts as Bloodthirster, despite the ludicrous size) and consequently I put a lot of time and effort Into getting him right. A pleasant side effect of which is that it seems to have shaken something loose in my style, and has been a real watershed point in terms of the final quality of what I've been producing.

Just in time to tackle my Fomoraic this year!

I have Krull, and the FW Bloodthirster, they are pretty much the same size.

 azreal13 wrote:

 plastictrees wrote:
Pff, got mine last week, thereby making me better than you...

Pfft, when we've both got them painted and based, we'll post some side by side pics and let Dakka decide!

How are you fixed for 2016?

Whoa there speed racer, let's not get carried away. If the internet still exists I'll see you back here in 2020.


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 razormage wrote:

 plastictrees wrote:
Pff, got mine last week, thereby making me better than you...

Oh, you only got one? That's so cute...
Just opened a box with the pair I'd ordered inside.

I only bought my copy so that my real dragon would have something to play with.