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Beastsofwar.com has some pictures and info on the upcoming kickstarter launch.




Game Components
◾46 highly detailed miniatures
◾52 colored plastic bases
◾99 cards
◾4 clan sheets
◾36 cardboard tokens
◾4 plastic glory markers
◾1 game board
◾2 support sheets
◾1 rulebook

They confirm that the campaign will run for about two weeks and have one pledge level of $75 (including Early Bird limited time offers).

Read the full article here.

It looks ok as a board game, and the price is decent for the number of figures. Depends on stretch goals as to my interest now versus waiting for retail. Right now I'm really enjoying Cthulhu Wars game play and miniatures, and I am more tempted to add expansions for it over buying Blood Rage, but a good collection of stretch goals could win me over.

Got an early bird because I might as well get the better price if I decide to back it until the end.

I don't know, the stretch goals so far are really lacking.

Sculpt variety is nice, but it appears that this will be something that is added to the retail game as well. Nothing mentions it being kickstarter exclusive and the models are not extra's. The latest stretch goal of the saga token is something I feel I could sculpt in less than an hour with no sculpting experience.

There is nothing so far for me to recommend to people over waiting for retail.

I wish they would have done sculpts of the various Norse Gods for use as the tokens instead of the lack luster tokens they have come up with so far. The miniatures are great over all, but the tokens are mediocre at best.

I agree that the gods are rather disappointing as a whole so far. Thor looks like he is 50 years old and balding. Odin looks ok, the rest are mediocre or worse. Granted not all of them are finished yet, but I was hoping for something more impressive.

Maybe I will use the Marvel versions for Thor and Loki:

It's interesting that they have this 6th free faction with no plans to have it be a 6 player game. There is much less incentive to buy the 5th player faction add on if you get a 5th faction for free. Different models for sure, but they all seem to play the same, and as far as the game is concerned at least one faction would always be sitting in the box.

 DaveC wrote:

Karazax wrote:
There is much less incentive to buy the 5th player faction add on if you get a 5th faction for free.

You don't get any of the extra cards with the Boar clan to play 5 players you still need to buy the 5th player expansion to play with 5 players - even when the Boar clan get added it's still only a 4 player game you need the extra 24 cards in the expansion as well.

Ah, well I still would be more inclined just to print out my own 24 cards rather than pay $30 for the 5th player expansion. I'm assuming I could just scan one of the existing decks and print it out since all the factions play the same.

Finished Fenrir Sculpt:

In case anybody missed the kickstarter, or didn't have the money then, you can still late pledge for Blood Rage and get all the stretch goals:

http://www.cmon.com/pledge/store/products/blood-rage-late-pledge/

Game is on sale for cybermonday at www.tabletopnow.com

http://www.tabletopnow.com/search?q=blood+rage

Blood Rage: Mystics Of Midgard Expansion
Blood Rage: 5th Player Expansion
Blood Rage Core Box
Random Mayday Sleeves

Subtotal: $ 100.86
- $ 15.00 (CYBERBLACK discount code worked for me)

Total: $ 85.86 including free shipping.

 DrunkenBoxer wrote:
Anyone here have both Cthulhu Wars and Blood Rage? I was a backer of the Cthulhu Wars Kickstarter and love the game. I've been hearing great things about Blood Rage, and have been considering picking it up when it hits retail later this month, but want to know that it plays differently enough that it would be worthwhile owning both games.

I have both and they are significantly different. Cthulhu Wars, the factions all play different from the start with predetermined options. This can make it easier to pursue a particular strategy from the start of the game. Blood Rage you customize your faction with your card drafts and have to adjust your strategies based on those drafts rather than going into the game with a preset plan. Cthulhu Wars can have games which are heavily influenced by bad or great dice rolls, where everything is card based in Blood Rage, so it has more consistency when using a particular strategy. The card based combat system, the three rounds of card drafts, and the fact that you all start off with identical factions and customize them with your drafts is what really stands out as different to me.