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Interesting to see TC become a fully formed game with plastic box sets, etc.

We've got a few members of the club who have been playing, though so far, I think it's all been proxies or extensive kitbashes. One might be prints of the official models.

For myself if I do anything it would be via proxy or kitbash. I'm on the fence as whether or not to join in.

They've gone from resin STL sales to plastic in 1 year. I don't think some people realise just how insanely well that means they've done to advance that fast. Normally to build up the sales to even consider plastics you have to wait years even after a major campaign to have built up the resources to achieve that.

Granted plastics are generally more accessible now than ever before, but it's still a huge step in a VERY small timeframe.

The KS made 5 million, at that point you either go plastic or take the money and run, there's no in between, you can't be a part time garage company.

Will it succeed? I have my doubts, I think, like most influencer projects, TC is all style no substance and won't survive leaving the instagram art scene.

As lord_blackfang says with the volume of minis needed (and the clear evidence their print farm partners who said they'd cope with the load not able to do so)

they could either pivot into plastic

or go metal if there are any good volume contract casters left (?) which isn't conducive to a growing game any more anyway

the usual question here is what is the market and does the target audiance already have everything they want

so assuming that with a KS that made 5 millions that everyone who wanted a pre-made resin print or the files to print at home bought them already with the KS is not far off and there is no real long term buisness left here

hence going after the part of the market that does not participtated in the KS which are LGS and people without printers and/or who like plastics
a physical rulebook that needs to look ace and the plastic box with iconic but not over the top models that hits the shelf at the same time (I would have gone with anything but the Prussians but I can see why the first models going twith the book are those)

the problem I see here is if content creators predict it as 40k Killer
is also a GrimDark alternative WW1 setting, like classic 40k, but GW left that space some time ago and the current version of 40k is nothing like that
so it might be the thing the "old" people are missing from current 40k and that is why it is popular, the same way other games get popular with those who fall out of the 40k bubble, but to be a 40k killer it needs it misses not just in models (like a starter box for all factions on release) but also on rules

the Kingdom Death comparision isn't a bad one here