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I dropped my pledge down to a £1 in the end.

I might pick a team or two through the pledge manager later (I'm hoping the Titus gang is available seperately), but I just wasn't interested in most of the base set.

From my understanding, the champions have already started their "ascension" to godhood, thus they are bigger than their counterpart followers. It reminded me of Mythic Battle: Pantheon in which gods/titan miniatures are larger than the regular sized humans.

I enjoyed their guild ball game and the plastic quality of their miniatures; I enjoyed mythic battles ; and I enjoyed smaller scale skirmishes and MOBA-style video games. So it seems to be the right product for me.

I think price combined with 'do you have a group of players to play the game with" are the main reasons to support and not support the Kickstarter.

Edit: The Kickstarter supports the production of 15 champions. They have mentioned in the campaign that the core retail game box set will have 4 champions not in the Kickstarter. The 15 champions from Kickstatrer will get a staggered retail release after fulfillment.

Really excited to see the game funded, playtesting is really enjoyable and I believe the game has a lot of promise.

The big champions thing always bothered me as well. It’s sort of a glass half full/empty thing where it never looked like a bunch of regular dudes around a large guy, but rather a bunch of tiny people around a regular sized leader to me. They redid the elves from their original concept art to make their leader less larger, as that one in particular just initially looked like someone bringing their kids to war.

I can see why people could look it at this way and it's valid, Rhodri & Lorsain are essentially just bigger version of there races.

I just see them as much bigger versions of there races due to there exposure and consumption to the Godtears but I can see how you can see it the other way.

Yeah, that was one of the criticisms of my gaming group, too. I think it's more noticeable on champions like the dwarf and elf, where their followers are exactly the same type as the champion, but smaller.

I don't think it's an issue with the monsters that have different kinds of minions, though, which are the ones I liked most

Yeah Lorsain & Rhodri are probably the weakest sculpts, in terms of pose and design. Raith Madrid, Rangosh, Landside & Blackjaw all feel unique.

The KS poses makes Blackjaw & Raith madrid a lot more appealing.

Dwarf and Elf are best tho!

I think my favourite model is Raith Madrid and my favourite champion is Rangosh for sure.

I'm not a huge fan of the giant champions either. It feels more like an excuse to have a game with 50 mm models and trash mobs without having to make 50 mm trash mobs.

That said, if you want something to appear large, you do need something small to give a sense of scale. This is why I think its really important to have IG in Space Marine armies:

Not to be contrary, but I happen to like the huge champion guys. They are a selling feature for me that will likely get me to buy some expansions at some point. And I much prefer for them to look like normal people blown up out of scale than the cartoonishly proportioned giants sold by other companies.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Not to be contrary, but I happen to like the huge champion guys. They are a selling feature for me that will likely get me to buy some expansions at some point. And I much prefer for them to look like normal people blown up out of scale than the cartoonishly proportioned giants sold by other companies.

Nah I’m pretty sure I’m being the contrary one here lol.

Tried to wait until campaign was done to say anything. Big dwarf and my friends not playing pretty much decided for me.

I mean if no one locally plans to back / play it, it make 0 sense to back it your self to be fair.