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I like the ant encounter in the Core Set. The Queen with transparent wings should be fun. I kind of wish the ants were bigger (ie Them!) but I suppose they could be worker ants and if I find bigger ants I like they could be soldier ants.

What is Ariyln carrying?


Oh and like the houndmaster.

I'm not really sure how they can reach saturation. It's a generic fantasy line mostly for RPGs. If Bones reached saturation so has pretty much every fantasy line as it means there's nothing new that isn't already available and we know that's not true.

I think the issue is the core sets are too scattershot for what the current availability of cheap minis are -- they're trying to cast a wide net with the core box but the randomness of what they're offering just isn't enticing due to what's already available. When they announced the Inn theme I figured the core box would just be a giant themed inn interior and possibly exterior -- Which I think people would eat up. I think future bones campaigns should be 100% themed.

It's Snaptooth and the Redcaps that sold it for me.

I'm in....



Again.

Beefolk? I don't recall personally seeing that in fantasy until going back to classic He-Man figs. Nice!

Extra Ants add on



They’ve also previewed some of the Denizens expansion on Twitch (Salamanders might be an encounter pack instead)

Love the new ruler dude!

He's the giant tortoise herder recast as a scale guy.

Lobsters and ants... Elden Ring approved!

Hakir expansion is something I desperately need. I really hope we unlock it all.

You would almost certainly be better off just buying Ankh or one of its expansions if you need Egyptian style creatures rather than this bones expansion.

Ankh has truly amazing miniatures.

This campaign has been such a dud for me I realized I haven't even put in a dollar yet...

Glad that it is doing something for many other people, different preferences and all, but it is just not working for me.

Pretty much every 3d print artist has an egyptian set also.

Core set looking good, but still waiting for CMON level of price per mini. China's still under lockdown, so am on the fence.

If you're looking for desert tiles, take a look at the Terra Tiles project on Gamefound! Not cheap because of world supply chain and shipping issues.

This campaign is still very meh, and only plodding alone.

It really needs some really good add ons to boost excitement and pledge levels. They keep teasing stuff but it all seems too far out that the campaign won’t hit the numbers needed to unlock stuff.

> I'm not really sure how they can reach saturation.

Made some heroes for Lasting Tales, and dug through my Bones I-IV collection.

IMO, Main problem is that, unless you go for 3D or interchangeable parts (eg. Osprey's Frostgrave sprues), a company may not have a demand for a particular unusual loadout. Specifically, I have two Elven Rangers with a Crossbow and Spear. Yeah, good luck with that. At the same time, the "classic" poses, such as an elven ranger with a sword and bow, have several versions with the same loadout (although two of each gender makes sense).

I figure we have three audiences for miniatures, at least for the "I want my miniature to look like my character" gamers:
* RPG'ers: I want one miniature that looks like my character.
* Miniature skirmish: I want a few miniatures that match these stat blocks.
* Army: I want many miniatures that I can afford.

Since I've backed Bones I-IV and other miniature KS, I can field five or ten elven rangers with bows and swords. So not only have I reached saturation, but I also don't have miniatures I'm looking for, unless I pay $5 plus shipping for a specific model or sprue set.

I can definitely proxy (saves me a paint job) so this, of course, is the firstest of the most first world problems but it also means I'm not backing Bones VI yet, since I have plenty of "classic" pose models.

I own Ankh, yet I’m still hoping the Tombs of Hakir expansions makes it. The Reaper versions of Anubis and Wadjet are different enough (better even) from the Ankh versions to make them worthwhile, while the gateway and scorpions will make their way into Shadows of Brimstone or something, and the sarcophagus has a date with with the Tau’ri.

Currently at $1.1 million, 7 days to go.

30th anniversary Dragon added as a $1.5 million goal.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/reaperbones5/bones-6-tales-from-the-green-griffin

They added that Tawaret miniature at a good time!

 lord_blackfang wrote:

 Bossk_Hogg wrote:

 Albino Squirrel wrote:
Yeah, even at kickstarter prices, $14 for 6 multipart models that are pretty bland and only have a single body and three head choices, that just doesn't seem like a good deal at all.

Even the fireforge northmen, which are similarly basic but have a lot more options, are less per figure. And these reaper ones will presumably be even more expensive at retail.

Fireforge are like 25mm tall though. So useless for people who mainly collect Reaper.

You must be thinking of a different Fireforge, Fireforge is GW scale.

GW has different scales in use. Human Imperial Guard are, last i checked, still basically 'heroic 25mm', but newer releases are trending taller and taller.

One annoying thing is that GW tends to repsent stronger/more important characters -even just the captains/champions in a unit- as being slightly larger. This can be seen a lot in the warcry boxes.


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I've decided to back it (my first for a reaper kick starter) because i am curious about those multi parts guys, and i would really love if they make they not-Conan minis available as add ons since it seems like 2 out of three wont make it into the core set. (which I'm not getting any way)

Carlovonsexron wrote:

One annoying thing is that GW tends to repsent stronger/more important characters -even just the captains/champions in a unit- as being slightly larger. This can be seen a lot in the warcry boxes.

The "scale by rank" in Warcry is indeed obnoxious

For Bones, I think that the target audiences are collectors and GMs. The collectors just want piles of minis that look nice and as a GM, you're mostly looking for minis for encounters. There of course is a lot of overlap between the two, but I think that GMs are the majority of the big buyers.

> and as a GM, you're mostly looking for minis for encounters

That's true. Reaper said the personalities attract attention, from painters, but it's the minions who sell.

Which makes the Bones VI core "free" sculpts of zombies an odd choice. Not only did Reaper offer the same miniatures in their last core set, but any GM who's been collecting miniatures (eg. Zombicide: Black Plague) already has a ton of zombie miniatures, Not everyone, but CMON. I count four different sets of zombie sculpts in their previous Bones KS -- and have three of them, plus zombies from CMON and Mantic. At least with humanoid and skeleton sculpts, you can differentiate them with weapons (and armor). An orc with a hand weapon is different from an orc with a ranged weapon is different from an orc shaman. A skeleton in full plate can represent a more powerful skeleton (eg. elite in Gloomhaven). But zombies don't wield weapons or cast spells (and only modern zombies run), so a fantasy zombie is pretty much the same as another fantasy zombie.

If you want a bulk set of mini's, oriented towards towns, the Archon Village late pledge should still be a good price.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/archonstudio/dungeons-and-lasers-third-edition/description

 ced1106 wrote:
> and as a GM, you're mostly looking for minis for encounters

That's true. Reaper said the personalities attract attention, from painters, but it's the minions who sell.

Which makes the Bones VI core "free" sculpts of zombies an odd choice. Not only did Reaper offer the same miniatures in their last core set, but any GM who's been collecting miniatures (eg. Zombicide: Black Plague) already has a ton of zombie miniatures, Not everyone, but CMON. I count four different sets of zombie sculpts in their previous Bones KS -- and have three of them, plus zombies from CMON and Mantic. At least with humanoid and skeleton sculpts, you can differentiate them with weapons (and armor). An orc with a hand weapon is different from an orc with a ranged weapon is different from an orc shaman. A skeleton in full plate can represent a more powerful skeleton (eg. elite in Gloomhaven). But zombies don't wield weapons or cast spells (and only modern zombies run), so a fantasy zombie is pretty much the same as another fantasy zombie.

If you want a bulk set of mini's, oriented towards towns, the Archon Village late pledge should still be a good price.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/archonstudio/dungeons-and-lasers-third-edition/description

I agree with your points.

For sure the zombies were a misstep. Reaction to them so far everywhere I have seen has been cold. Dead cold. Pardon the pun. So many other, better, options for a large group of mooks.

I like the zombies.

They are unbusy, simple, clean sculpts of peasant zombies in heroic scale.

In every Bones KS the bonus mooks are multiple repeats of earlier minis, we have seen dungeon Vermin, Goblins, kobolds, bugbears, ghasts. Zombies are ok for mooks. It's a mook type you need many of.

The problem is rather that this style of generic RPG miniatures have become pretty common from many sources these days, and that the whales already have bought into earlier Bones KSes.

This sixth KS is, well, more of the same and many are meh because of that.

$1.2 million with 3 days to go.

Not a flop by any measure, I'll take $1.2 million if anyone's asking, but nowhere near the last 2 Bones which got over $3 million each.

I'm betting we won't get a light house .

I was waiting for the last few days to see what other items have been reached and some interesting stuff has popped up, but nothing that super compels me to expand my already enormous collection of Reaper fill-in minis from the last couple of Bones KS purchases.

Sure, if I had a burning desire to create or run an encounter based on the super specific minis in one of the expansions, then I might get that, but the core set just has so many of the usual characters (with many I could care less about) that I will not spring for it. I do think the lower turn out on this is due to the audience just saying, "I think I might have enough Reaper minis" from the previous Bones KS's.

They still expect $50 for 1/3 of the Tombs of Hakir expansion? Either put it all up for sale or don’t put any of it up. This is insulting.

They’ve said big reveals today which will probably include unlocking all of Hakir and Denizens in one go.

There’s bits here and there that interest me but not enough to get full sets I might just wait for retail see what happens in the next 3 days. The $10 minimum for PM access means I probably won’t let that carryover like I would $1.

Light house looks cool. Maybe I'll go in for a dollar.



Turns out after asking around that $10 is looking like the minimum to access pledge manager..

Not sure there is that much here to risk $10

I'm having some trouble understanding the hesitancy on putting down $10 for a $30 dollar item?

Like when the pledge manager comes out just put in the remaining 20 bucks and enjoy your lighthouse. It's Reaper so there's no real risk of non-fulfillment.

I'm guessing risking forgetting to cancel the pledge and be out $10 if there's nothing else worth getting?

I'll likely get the Lighthouse (probably 2), the Anniversary dragon and ants. Don't think I'll get anything else since all the other items I like are in sets that I don't care for anything else in and am fine waiting for retail.