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Not surprisingly, if you liked his work in Zombicide: Invader, etc. you'll like it here. If not, then you won't. I didn't like ZI, and I'm not impressed here. At least we have a clear idea of what his style of monsters look like.

ecurtz wrote:
It is becoming clear that I just don't like Adrian Smith as an art director, which is too bad, but I guess it will save me a bunch of cash on future CMoN games.

He's the guy that did art direction for The Others, right? I thought that game had great art design. Wasn't impressed by Zombicide Invader though. This one seems closer to The Others in style though. I'm not feeling it as much, but I think the problem is encountering all the miniatures by themselves, devoid of the game elements and art. By themselves, they are okay, even good, but they lack the impact they would have within the greater context.

 Sqorgar wrote:
He's the guy that did art direction for The Others, right?

Yeah. The problem was most of the Others monsters were very samey, out of 7 flavors, maybe only 3 distinct designs. These look more Invader than Others, heads are almost an exact match in style.

 JohnHwangDD wrote:
Yeah. The problem was most of the Others monsters were very samey, out of 7 flavors, maybe only 3 distinct designs. These look more Invader than Others, heads are almost an exact match in style.

I thought the monsters were fine - there were three different designs for each Sin and they were thematically distinct, not to mention the apocalypse expansion and the hellfire club characters. Plus, he also did the heroes and acolytes, which I thought were awesome.

I dunno. If we were to pile all of the different Others, Invader, and DmD monsters together, and ask a newbie to sort them into the various piles correctly, I think they would fail pretty badly.

OTOH, if we were to ask the same of a pile of GW 40k and AoS, I think a newbie would do fine. Aside from sub-flavors of Spaz Marinz, which are kinda samey.

 JohnHwangDD wrote:
I dunno. If we were to pile all of the different Others, Invader, and DmD monsters together, and ask a newbie to sort them into the various piles correctly, I think they would fail pretty badly.

OTOH, if we were to ask the same of a pile of GW 40k and AoS, I think a newbie would do fine. Aside from sub-flavors of Spaz Marinz, which are kinda samey.

In 40K and AoS they share chaos daemon miniatures...so, not a very good example to use, imho

Others/Invader/DmD -> tentacles a common theme
40K/AoS -> skulls a common theme

Looking forward to see how this game turns out. I don't have a game set in this "time period" yet.

Heroes have already gone mad and are fighting hordes of invading monsters? I have this game already with Planet Apocalypse (or will have when it deliveres).

Will check the KS, but not holding my breath.

Pretty sure Chaos Daemons are a separate alllied force, and sortable separate by power from CSM, Cultists, Warriors and/or Beastmen.

Death May Die is a terrible name! Sounds like a crappy Bond movie or a sequel to Naked Gun.

Well, blame that Howard for it.

“That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.”
― H.P Lovecraft

 Davespil wrote:
Death May Die is a terrible name! Sounds like a crappy Bond movie or a sequel to Naked Gun.

Not sure if you're trolling here...

It is truly a famous quote from the Cthulhu mythos...

 JohnHwangDD wrote:
Pretty sure Chaos Daemons are a separate alllied force, and sortable separate by power from CSM, Cultists, Warriors and/or Beastmen.

Oh, to separate monsters within its own game line? Then that is pretty easy to do that within these CMON board games, imho...

What on Earth...

I guess they are trying to one up Mythic...

Ain't nobody got space for that...

They call him Moon Diaper.

What you--

Hush! Just talkin' 'bout Moon Diaper.

I can smell it.


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Someone needs to paint one of those teal stripes on the front that tell you it's wet.

 Sqorgar wrote:
Ain't nobody got space for that...

I would make space.

 Nostromodamus wrote:

 Sqorgar wrote:
Ain't nobody got space for that...

I would make space.

If you use non-euclidean geometry you always find space!

On a serious note, I hope that is an add-on. I would hate to see all the value of the core box taken by a statuette, no matter how awesome it is.

It's a better 3D rendition of Cthulhu than I've ever seen, but the whole point is that Cthulhu isn't entirely there in the traditional four dimensions, and occupies space in a few others. Granted, that's tricky to sculpt, but I've seen plenty of glass-makers doing klein-bottles and the like so there's less excuse for doing it right.

Also, learned some cool things in this thread about the designer.

That is just large for the sake of being large. How does that fit on the game board?

I hope the game comes with a smaller version of that so that it is actually playable.

I wonder how much that thing will cost. $100? $250? My wife would kill me, but it could probably double as a lawn ornament for Halloween. She has Garden Gnomes, So I could have a Garden Cthulhu... right?

That thing probably fills a 1' cube all by itself.

Well, Cthulhu is supposed to be big, right?

 Mysterio wrote:
Well, Cthulhu is supposed to be big, right?

Yeah, but if I wanted to game against a model that (relatively) huge, I'd be better off doing it in 6 or 15mm, not 32mm.

I will admit it is very visually impressive, and a cool sculpt. I'm just not sold on it as a gaming piece yet.

Many Kickstarters with minis these days seem to feel like they need that mega-showcase model.

That may be what this is - and it may represent the 11th hour, because honestly, if Cthulhu is stomping about, it must be close to "Game Over" time!

 Mysterio wrote:
Many Kickstarters with minis these days seem to feel like they need that mega-showcase model.

That may be what this is - and it may represent the 11th hour, because honestly, if Cthulhu is stomping about, it must be close to "Game Over" time!

I think this goes past even that mega-showcase model scale though. The base seems to be thicker than a human sized figures height?

How is this figure used in the game? "Ok guys, looks like we failed to stop the ritual and lost the game. Put the big Cthulhu on the table and we can all go out and grab something to eat. gg."

I know this figure is meant to grab my attention and make the game a must buy, but it actually seems to have an opposite reaction for me... I still will check the KS though. Maybe this was just a joke and that figure is some kind of 3 up figure and the real figure will be there times smaller. Still big, but not way too big.

I'm of the same mind as a lot of you.

I like big figures, but that's just too... big. I hope it's a three up or something.

It doesn't look like it would even be manageable to fit on a board, or anything really, besides a shelf where it will most likely reside if it's included with a pledge.

Is it wrong of me to hope for some sort of 7 Sins crossover rules though?

Much as it looks cool shipping on that isn't going to be friendly so I hate to say it but I hope it's an optional extra

I wonder how our current trade war with China will affect prices and availability to find a manufacturer.