Mierce Miniatures Darklands Ongoing News and Rumors Thread! Darklands Rulebook ships on April 18!

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**Alpharius**

Funded at £20 in right around 3 hours!

Update #2

Sep 15 2014

£20,000 - We're Funded! Thank you!
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Amazingly, we're funded in about three hours - that is some going guys. Fantastic!

Not only do we get the Alternate Warriors and Generals, and of course the New Kindred Generals, the project is now a reality! - give yourselves a pat on the back!

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

I try to be ruthless and close them they day they appear

(just to make sure I don't overspend..... I reserve that for the magic Mierce 'add all you want' post KS buffet)

**Alpharius**

Alternate fiend spotted:

Info given to the question asked by our resident lizard-lover:

Jibboom 6 minutes ago

@Highlord It's an alternate version of Drubal (a fiend) wielding his axe two-handed, without the standard.

**Elemental**

The Atalantes do look really nice, but I'll keep my wallet shut till the big beasties come out.

**Alpharius**

Apparently I'm the Leader of this particular branch of the Mierce Militia - or was that The Miercenaries?

Update #3

Sep 15 2014

£25,000 - More Extra Infantry Warriors
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Okay... £20,000 has been and gone... it's time to bring you our next stretch goal, set at £25,000, so just a stone's throw away!

These four sets round off our "alternate infantry warriors" quest, meaning that every single infantry unit can now field at least four different warriors - meaning they shouldn't all look the same when you put them in the field!

Starter Hosts

What's that you say? Will there be Starter Hosts based around these guys? Well... there just might be... more details on that tomorrow!

**Barzam**

Hmm. Blind, topless bondage women, or dead guys? That's a tough choice. I think I will be backing this one for sure, but I'll only be going in for a £25 infantry squad. I gotta save the rest of my cash for Infinity.

**Bossk_Hogg**

in for an infantry starter. If you could mix and match the triple starter I'd likely up to that, but it seems locked into just the three new ones. I may cave anyways at some point in the add on phase.

I do wish the starters didn't auto include dice/tokens. I (and likely many, many others) have a ton from the previous campaigns and they're basically just raising the price for little added value for me.

The Jutes and Atalantes basic troops look totally awesome.

**skullking**

Bossk_Hogg wrote:
in for an infantry starter. If you could mix and match the triple starter I'd likely up to that, but it seems locked into just the three new ones. I may cave anyways at some point in the add on phase.

I believe Mierce said that it could be mixed with the existing kindreds, but I'd double check with them for sure. If so, I'd go for the triple, as you'll save some money, and get the Mounted sell sword girl (I can't spell her name, so I'm not even going to try

)

**decker_cky**

skullking wrote:
Bossk_Hogg wrote:
in for an infantry starter. If you could mix and match the triple starter I'd likely up to that, but it seems locked into just the three new ones. I may cave anyways at some point in the add on phase.

I believe Mierce said that it could be mixed with the existing kindreds, but I'd double check with them for sure. If so, I'd go for the triple, as you'll save some money, and get the Mounted sell sword girl (I can't spell her name, so I'm not even going to try )

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mierceminiatures/darklands-new-kindreds/comments?cursor=7873802#comment-7873801

@Ehren - and others - you know what, sod it. Use the "NEW KINDRED INFANTRY STARTERS" for any mix of three as well as the original purpose... I'll worry about the drain on my time later ;o) @Jordan - I totally understand where you're coming from, and that's why we've put the infantry first... monstrous infantry opens wallets, and wallet opening is good mid-project ;o) @Eric - some interesting thoughts, but you're wrong about the Jute monstrous infantry size...

That looks like the deal of the day....now, which 3 to go with?

**Barzam**

Well, I've gone and done it. The werewolves were hard to resist, but I managed. The armored undead though? That was the final straw. My resistance is broken. Let's see if I can at least keep things reasonable. I can always add on during the pledge manager, right?

**highlord tamburlaine**

There's no real pledge manager to speak of. You can basically add to your order until it ships.
I've been bad and added a figure or two every month.

You'll crack and get werewolves. Don't worry.

I think our dad needs a bog monster though! Maybe I do too...

**Zond**

Hrm, any three. So tempting...

**Alpharius**

Barzam wrote:Well, I've gone and done it. The werewolves were hard to resist, but I managed. The armored undead though? That was the final straw. My resistance is broken. Let's see if I can at least keep things reasonable. I can always add on during the pledge manager, right?

highlord tamburlaine wrote:There's no real pledge manager to speak of. You can basically add to your order until it ships.
I've been bad and added a figure or two every month.

You'll crack and get werewolves. Don't worry.

I think our dad needs a bog monster though! Maybe I do too...

Can I start a rumor about the Jutes having Undead Skeleton Liazrdmen?

Then can you imagine the fight between the Highlord and Barzam if Undead Skeleton Lizardmen where to appear here?

It would be the biggest civil war/brother on brother battle the galaxy has ever seen or will ever see!

It would make the Horus Heresy seem like a simple misunderstanding!

**grefven**

Now, if we only could persuade Mierce to do the zombies, too.

**Undead_Love-Machine**

The Morranach is a must-buy, especially as it will be sculpted by Allan C.

The Jutes look cool, but I'd like to know who the sculptor is before investing in them.

Also, I'm still waiting for my existing miniatures to be shipped from the previous kickstarter, I'd feel a bit uncomfortable investing in this one before they arrive.

As a side note, the Blind Exposed-Breast Woman are, IMO, the weakest sculpts in the Mierce range; it will be interesting to see if Stephane Simon can do a good job with them.

**zedmeister**

Undead_Love-Machine wrote:

The Jutes look cool, but I'd like to know who the sculptor is before investing in them.

Aragorn Marks is doing most the sculpts revealed apart from the Jute Warlord who is being done by Stephane Simon

**Fenriswulf**

Haha, what a surprise, on the same day I get my copy of the Darklands Quickstarter rules

Ophios looks so much better with his helmed head than he does normally. So much more improved.

I like the concept art, but as above I need to know who is sculpting what first. Unfortunately, as these are also grouped into starter factions, I can't buy separately what is my most desired unit (the undead Barrow Whitgar Unit). I might need to wait until they are sold separately to pick them up. Ignore, you can pick them up as units, it's just an add-on, d'oh.

The Kythones faction is looking incredibly enticing though, now Ophios is less Schwarzenegger looking, and would fit in nicely with my Rackham Ophidians.

Edit: And seeing that you can buy add-on units... so tempting...

**zedmeister**

Ignore me - Fenriswulf found out before my post!

Though, most of the concepts have sculptors allocated

**Alpharius**

zedmeister wrote:
Undead_Love-Machine wrote:

The Jutes look cool, but I'd like to know who the sculptor is before investing in them.

Aragorn Marks is doing most the sculpts revealed apart from the Jute Warlord who is being done by Stephane Simon

Which pretty much means they're going to be awesome!

**Undead_Love-Machine**

zedmeister wrote:
Undead_Love-Machine wrote:

The Jutes look cool, but I'd like to know who the sculptor is before investing in them.

Aragorn Marks is doing most the sculpts revealed apart from the Jute Warlord who is being done by Stephane Simon

Ah, thanks for the info. I think I might have to wait 'til I see the sculpts then, some of Aragorn Marks' stuff for Rackham were awesome, some others; not so much.

**Alpharius**

Really?

What are his 'bad sculpts' - I'm genuinely curious, but also know that clearly these things are subjective and relative!

**grefven**

The melusine, with Stephane Simon as a sculptor, will be awesome. While James van Schaik is a good enough sculptor, his style just don't do it for me when it comes to Darklands. So this is only good news in my book.

**RiTides**

That Morannach art is awesome

I won't be pledging here but if the sculpt ends up like the art I'll definitely be picking that up down the line!

**Undead_Love-Machine**

Alpharius wrote:
Really?

What are his 'bad sculpts' - I'm genuinely curious, but also know that clearly these things are subjective and relative!

I was never a fan of his Celt stuff, but yeah, a lot of it is subjective. Except for Drac Mac Syro (the barbarian dude), who is, objectively, a bad sculpt.

Which is strange, as Razheem The Insane (also by A.M) is one of my absolute favourites.

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

grefven wrote:
The melusine, with Stephane Simon as a sculptor, will be awesome. While James van Schaik is a good enough sculptor, his style just don't do it for me when it comes to Darklands. So this is only good news in my book.

Remember these are conversions of the existing models, swaping out the standard and muciacal instrument, so you're probably just looking at new arms/hands rather than whole new minis

**Alpharius**

Giant picture repost with out spoiler tags?!?

Thanks!

**decker_cky**

grefven wrote:The melusine, with Stephane Simon as a sculptor, will be awesome. While James van Schaik is a good enough sculptor, his style just don't do it for me when it comes to Darklands. So this is only good news in my book.

He's just doing alternate arms for them, isn't he? So you keep the by and large weak sculpts. When I saw the art I was hoping they'd be new models - the concept isn't my cup of tea so I probably wouldn't buy them, but they're a definite weak spot in the range.

**Alpharius**

Good catch Orlando - makes them a safe no-buy/no-interest for me.

Though admittedly I'm not a fan of the entire Ysian range, for the most part.

Undead_Love-Machine - Razheem is one of my all time favorite Dirz miniatures too! I didn't know he did that one - that's a big plus in my book right there!

**zedmeister**

Oh god, my wallet bleeds

**Alpharius**

Adding them into the NEW KINDRED starter hosts pretty much guarantees I'm staying in for...all three of them!