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Holy crap these guys can create some scene-setting videos, that is monster cool! 1:30 minutes, and I feel like I know who the Nords are. Same with the great Kingdoms video from a few pages back.

Update for the Spires and 100K!!!

Vanguard Clones (+ Infiltrators), Militia (+ Bows) and Preceptor / Veteran



Look rather awesome, love the infiltrators and the preceptor.

However, I do think it is weird to sell a unit upgrade as (probably) an individual character, I'd think it would be smarter to make a sprue with all the upgrade options instead. The Preceptor could however work as a better looking Assassin or Executor.
It doesn't make much sense when you can just swap a few pieces. The Seasoned Veteran of my men-at-arms is a regular dude with the head + shield of the Household Knights (the extra bits are nice )

I'm not going to sugarcoat things: those Militia have idiotic looking helmets.

Those characters look nice, the troops look so stiff and awkwardly posed it is hard for me to appreciate the better elements. Those vanguard clones look like they made a really strong effort to do dynamic posing but ended up in an 'uncanny valley' of not-quite-there. The humans look decent because the stiffness doesn't stand out as much with their standing poses, but to me they still look like something I could get from Perry Miniatures at a cheaper price.


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Those characters look nice, the troops look so stiff and awkwardly posed it is hard for me to appreciate the better elements. Those vanguard clones look like they made a really strong effort to do dynamic posing but ended up in an 'uncanny valley' of not-quite-there. The humans look decent because the stiffness doesn't stand out as much with their standing poses, but to me they still look like something I could get from Perry Miniatures at a cheaper price.

That'll be a four armed preceptor for me please.

The Spires need to kick it up a notch and let their biomancy run rampant.

More mutants, more abnormalities, more weird body shapes- don't hold back!


I know they've got some centaur looking cavalry coming as well... that's what I'm talking about!

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
That'll be a four armed preceptor for me please.

The Spires need to kick it up a notch and let their biomancy run rampant.

More mutants, more abnormalities, more weird body shapes- don't hold back!


I know they've got some centaur looking cavalry coming as well... that's what I'm talking about!

I think we're just seeing the mostly tame stuff. Looking at the full roster, they've got some weird things that look like they will fill the mutant, abnormal, and weird body shaped varieties you're asking for.

I really like the Clones, and the character. He's a decent upgrade for a unit (between 15-25 depending on the unit), and multiples might be worth getting. Maybe they will have multiple sculpts of them? The same could be said of the Seasoned Veteran.

I think the best is yet to come. The concept behind the Orders of the 100K or the Avataras for Spires make them sound like some potentially crazy miniatures. Not to mention big monsters like the Desolation Beast or the Siegebreaker.
The only bad thing is they can't come soon enough

VBS wrote:
Not to mention big monsters like the Desolation Beast or the Siegebreaker.
The only bad thing is they can't come soon enough

That's true- we're still waiting for our Dweghom cannon dragons!

 AegisGrimm wrote:
I'm not going to sugarcoat things: those Militia have idiotic looking helmets.

Yeah, they're not great. In the art they look fine, but the models aren't right.

Agreed!

Major misstep there.

I wonder if there are 3rd party helmets options that could help save the kit?

It looks like the helmets are separate from the heads. I'd bet you can make them look less stupid by shaving off some of the top of the head to have the helmet sit lower on the head.

The helms look fine in the art but clearly weren't sculpted well. Gallahad is probably correct they'd look better lower.

For those who may have not taken the plunge yet, the core box (normally $68 on miniature market) is on ‘the drop’ at Miniature Market right now.

https://www.miniaturemarket.com/pbw1001.html?utm_source=bronto&utm_medium=email&utm_term=%25%25$product.

I’m not sure I NEED another starter, buuuuuuut I will be watching this one...

That's a little surprising. The abomination was on the Drop not that long ago....

If it comes down a decent amount, I might buy it just for the Force Grown drones, as I could always use more of those. The rest as conversion fodder perhaps? I already have two starter sets worth of Spires and two sets of marksman, as well as the additional characters.

Loads of new pre orders ul on MM

Dweghom steel shifter, nord shaman, ogres, vanguard drones and militia to name a few.

https://www.golddist.com/index.php?m=search&mfg=PAR&s=&pre=1

I'm still looking for good head swap options for those Hundred Kingdom Militia kits...

The Dweghom stuff is ace though!

Yep. Lot of good stuff coming out.

 Alpharius wrote:
I'm still looking for good head swap options for those Hundred Kingdom Militia kits...

The Dweghom stuff is ace though!

They actually look pretty good without helmets bit my favourite is sticking the men at arms helmets on them. Mmm mmm mmmm

Good point - maybe just the 'no helmet' option will be the nest option?

The more I see about this game, the more I realize it has all the things I love about ASoIaF (minus the convenience of preassembled minis), but manages to actually have both steady releases, and avoid supply issues.

I think once faction starters are available, my wife and I will go all in.

Despite my initial disappointment with the details on the plastic models (the resins are great though) and no real interest in painting and building big blocks of similar models, I really do like everything that continues to be released.

I'm still trying to figure out what's up with that Dweghom Steel Shifter. Is his arm a cannon, or a shield, or some other weird contraption?

The Dweghom are just weird in general. Some of the flame berserkers almost look like cyborgs. I dig it. I can't make up my mind if I want to give them real pallid grey flesh and dark armor or make them more normal.

So Spire Vanguards, 100k militia and new characters on sale, Dwegom dragon hunters and hold Thanes up for preorder.

More exciting though. Para Bellum have announced their organised play kits containing OP exclusive minis and card arts.

This month starts the first Para Bellum official painting competition as follows:

What do all mighty armies have in common? Colors flying high, striking fear to their enemies’ hearts of course!

As the official launch of Organized Play draws near we decided to give you a taste of the full scope of our O.P. program. Starting now, we will hold a monthly painting competition with a different theme each time.

The winners of the monthly painting competition will receive the Organized Play kit’s miniature as prize!

This month's theme is "Single Infantry Miniature" starting today!

Prepare your army's mightiest warrior and post your entry on your social media by February 29th with the handle #colorsofconquest

https://www.para-bellum.com/what-is-new/colors-of-conquest/



Aaaaaaaand theres rumours of a full lore filled, hard back, collecectors rule book. Exciting.




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News just in

Militia and militia bowman have been added to the Theist Priests warband as mainstay units

Definitely buying the book(s).
Not too much into organized play, but if it's a yearly thing (season) I'll look into for the exclusive minis (if nice). The fact there are engaging events is cool though.

Makes sense to add more units to the Theist Priest. Can't even be played otherwise, and lore wise, I'm sure filth illiterate peasants are easily influenced by the Church.
I'm only sad coz this maybe means the Sicarii are far down the queue (and I'm very interested in seeing them!).

VBS wrote:
Definitely buying the book(s).
Not too much into organized play, but if it's a yearly thing (season) I'll look into for the exclusive minis (if nice). The fact there are engaging events is cool though.

They giving the exclusives minis away as prizes for their monthly painting competition too if that tickles your pickle

Aaaaaand news just in.

The history of Ëá is ser in stone and due ri be part of a collectors rule book, that much we know but it has been revealed that The Fate of the Legions will be a story line in Conquests living world where players will decide the worlds fate.

https://www.para-bellum.com/what-is-new/the-fate-of-the-imperial-legions/

Wait. Is the lore only going to be available in print as part of a collector’s rulebook?

No, its all free online anyway

I really want to see what kind of extra art they'll add. I recall a while ago seeing some art depicting the different "Gods". Have full color pages of those would be awesome.

Any news of a French release? I have yet to see it in stores here. Or any activity of it.

There has been no news on a french release. There is a lot of french activity though, we have three or four french vanguards in the discord channel doing demos.

Also make sure you check our Conquest thread in the "Other games" section of Dakka.

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/778825.page

There are also now two battle reports put up that can be found in there.

Discord Link to their official discord:
https://discord.gg/veVpp2Z

The competitive kit is supposed to drop anytime now (season 0). The limited edition mini was I believe a vanguard thing for them running the event since they can't win anything, but those things could change (I am only going off of bits in discord that we have seen). I don't know what you win from the painting competitions but yes they want to do everything in their power to reach out to the community in a variety of ways.

The living campaign world is something I am looking very much forward to and this is the first game I'd ever consider tournament play in in over 13 years now since I gave that up because the GW systems burnt me out and pay to win burn and churn.

On lore: its all on their site. I am making a wiki that consolidates it all as well in addition to my version of an army builder that has stats and probabilities baked in to the output. The collectors book will also be available with their lore, and they publish snippets and stories regularly and publish to their site (look under "whats new")


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Also preorders are up for DragonSlayer/Thanes, and the Nord ogres (ugr)