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

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**Darth Bob**

So, I'm a little confused and I'm hoping someone could clear this up for me. I'm not a big Kickstarter person so I'm not super familiar with how shipments work. The last update on Mighty Monsters says that the War Demon was going to be in Wave 7. Now, when I go and check my order on the Mierce site, my shipment option says that it's set at "Wave 9". Is this just a minor snafu or should I contact Mierce because I selected the wrong shipping option?

**plastictrees**

Definitely worth contacting them over. Generally very quick to respond to backers.
I'm still not sure if I've paid for the right shipping waves...

**Mymearan**

Just watched the (one and only) Darklands battle report I could find. Looks great fun to be honest! It looks very fiddly with both tokens on the board and laminated unit sheets to mark the bazillion wounds each unit has, but I hope it'll be manageable in such a small-scale game. Would I be correct in assuming 1000 points would be an average battle?

Really love the concept of units getting weaker the more wounds they take, it really nails that feeling of slowly whittling down the large creatures until they've got gashes all over, breathing raggedly and trying to get one last swing in before they fall to the ground. Also like the charge mechanic. Since charges are better the longer the charge distance, it makes sense to move in close to deny your opponent the charge advantage. This cleanly solves the problem of two melee units "hanging back" because no one wants to be the one getting charged.

Overall I really want get into this now. Has anyone here played it or could point me to more in-depth reviews?

**zedmeister**

Mierceday is upon us!

Rhyfelwr and Shadows

The Mierce Friday is here once more! As stated previously, we are now updating you every other Friday (bi-weekly if you will) to ensure we can spend more time getting the Darklands rules done.

This week we have...
•sculpt work in progress images from Yannick Hennebo and Stéphane Simon;
•a list of what miniatures are currently being sent in their various waves;
• an updated list of sculptors and sculpts for this project;

...and anything else you can expect from us over the next few months.

Let's begin!

This week there's something new from Stéphane Simon and something completed from Yannick Hennebo...

Rhyfelwr

The awesomeness of Yannick Hennebo knows no bounds... check out Cefin to see what we mean!

The herald of the unit, Cefin, gets the treatment, and he's blimmin' awesome! Check out that moustache!

Now, he does have a right arm, but the only shot of it we have is for Efan, which is Cefin's alternate warrior from Darklands: New Kindreds. I'm sure you can see that Cefin will look awesome with that right hand, shield and bow too!

These guys will be a Wave 9 shipment; there's no way Yannick can get them done in time for Wave 8.

Shadows of Carn Bran

There's been a bit of a break but Stéphane Simon is back on track with the Shadows of Carn Bran, for Santoc is looking great so far...

Santoc is a warrior from the unit and he's either tracking an enemy warrior or trying to find his contact lenses... you decide!

The Shadows of Carn Bran will no doubt be a Wave 9 shipment now!

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Monstrous Mounts update!

Krekkek

The Mierce Friday is here once more! As stated previously, we are now updating you every other Friday (bi-weekly if you will) to ensure we can spend more time getting the Darklands rules done.

This week we have:
•sculpt work in progress images from Roberto Chaudon;
•a list of what miniatures are sent in what waves, and that Wave 6 shipments have begun;
• a list of sculptors and sculpts for this project;

•...and anything else you can expect from us over the next few months.

Let's begin!

As always, Roberto Chaudon's speed is faster than a fast thing eating fast berries and so Krekkek is not only awesome, he's also almost complete...

Krekkek

The very lizardy Krekkek is a Bull Sávrakh of the Khthones and is a powerful monster in his own right, as well as a mount for Ágriosávra...

Krekkek is pretty much complete, but he will be a Wave 9 shipment now.

Next up for Roberto is Vaenhildr, and then - when Krekkek is moulded and cast - he can pop Ágriosávra on his back!

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!!! Edgar Skomorowski, previously of Forgeworld, now sculpting for Mierce!

Flesh, Wood and Bones

The Mierce Friday is here once more! As stated previously, we are now updating you every other Friday (bi-weekly if you will) to ensure we can spend more time getting the Darklands rules done.

This week we have:
•sculpt work in progress updates from Didier Fancagne, Yannick Hennebo, Aragorn Marks and Edgar Skomorowski;
•an updated list of sculptors and sculpts for this project;
•...and anything else you can expect from us over the next few months.

Here we go...

We've got a lot to show you today, for the Brythoniaid (Yannick Hennebo), the Érainn (Didier Fancagne) and the Jutes (Aragorn Marks and a newcomer to Darklands, Edgar Skomorowski)!

Yannick Hennebo is performing wonders for these guys, and we can't wait until the full unit is done and in our grubby little hands...

Efan

Yannick Hennebo has completed work on Cefin / Efan; we've shown Cefin on Darklands: First Edition II, so here's his alternate warrior, Efan...

The Warriors of Dyngonwy should be a Wave 9 shipment, we hope...

Beasts of Síleann Fen

The lovely Didier Fancagne has been busy with other things but can now turn his attention to the Beasts of Síleann Fen for the Érainn!

The first Fen Beast to be tackled is Ollmhór, and whilst it's early days - the limbs are not quite in the right position - he's definitely getting there...

https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/assets/004/277/075/899870edd9c122f98a51205abd115480_original.jpg?v=1438944094&w=639&fit=max&auto=format&q=92&s=dc7df97bed719e571419233d755615a7

Here's a scale shot...

We hope that these guys will be a Wave 9 shipment, but we shall see.

The Dead of Black Barrow

Ahhhh... thank you, great sky wizard, for we have finally been able to secure the services of the amazing sculptor known as Edgar Skomorowski. Until recently Edgar worked for Games Workshop but he now works for Third Man Studios, an independent sculpting company that also includes the services of one Aragorn Marks...

Thankfully Third Man assigned Edgar to us to digitally sculpt The Dead of Black Barrow, and the first results look amazing...

Cynemund is one of the Wihtgār warriors and if the rest of the unit looks like him, we're in clover!

We're hopeful that The Dead of Black Barrow will be a Wave 9 shipment!

Gol Gul

We've had a few issues with Gol Gul, the massive Barrow Spider of the Jutes - he was too small, basically - but Aragorn Marks has re-worked him for us and he's looking much better.

Gol Gul should definitely be a Wave 9 shipment now.

**cromagz**

the Wihtgār looks awesome, would have loved to gone for Jutes from the Metal Age kickstarter but I don't have the patience to wait until feb, rules look great and I can't wait that long to start playing!

**Alpharius**

Good stuff, as always!

I'm liking the mini-treemen more than I thought I would too...

**cincydooley**

Baragash wrote:
tommse wrote:
Is the game any good anyway? It's kinda hard to get some decent info.

Given the nature of the game in terms of scale, round bases etc, Darklands is the sort of game Age of Sigmar should have been IMO.

Eh.....

I think they're aiming for two very different audiences.

I like Darklands. Very, very much. But the ruleset is a bit crunchy and takes a bit to really get the most out of. It's a very GOOD ruleset, but I'm not sure it's the most beginner friendly.

AoS is a pick up and play, beer and pretzels, dice roller. It's audience is, IMO, completely different.

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Alpharius wrote:
Good stuff, as always!

I'm liking the mini-treemen more than I thought I would too...

He's a really talented sculptor. I should take some photos of the Kaha minis I have by him.

**Alpharius**

Please do - I would like to see them!

**Fenriswulf**

Those undead Jutes... Oh my lord! I am so glad I will be picking some of them up. They are amazing and a half! Really, really well done!

And yeah, that Treeman has grown on me as well. He'd be a fun piece to paint I reckon, and field as well. If I ever need something big for my Kings of War stuff which has a nature theme to it (don't play either Forces of Nature or Elves just yet), I'll be sure to give them a good look. I like their look a lot more than GW's last iteration of Treemen.

**Alpharius**

Mierce Miniatures 1 day ago

@Alpharius - the rules should be ready at the end of August to download (probably not many diagrams there though), and September will be where it's hopefully set into book form and then chucked to the printers - but we'll see. I really don't know how long that will take me, and some fluff needs to be written too, and some photography needs to be done.

Once the rules are ready for download you'll at least be able to play the game properly... it's within touching distance, let's put it that way. I've just put the finishing touches to the terrain rules, along with weather, time and positioning terrain and hosts, and then it's just a matter of tidying up the Darklands Host section and job's a good 'un.

**highlord tamburlaine**

Someone remind me please.

Were the musters going to be in the physical book, or will we always have to download them?

I know I have a fair amount printed but I'm sure they're all out of date.

**Alpharius**

I'm fairly sure they'll always be 'outside' and printed book, as they are the most living of Living Documents.

I do hope they do up proper unit cards so we can laminate them - just like in the demo videos!

**highlord tamburlaine**

My school is supposedly getting our own laminating machine on campus, and using it to make updated musters would be the perfect inauguration of it.

**GiraffeX**

Has anyone had their drinking mini added as an order on the Mierce site from the Metal Kickstarter?

**Taaloc**

Not me!

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

Not yet,

but I would suspect it's not going to happen until the metal KS orders close as if anybody adds any of them (which they can still do for all but Rollo who's sold out) Rob would have to go back in an manually adjust things again

far easier to wait till the numbers are fixed then do it all at once

(plus he's busy trying to get the rules locked down)

**Bossk_Hogg**

GiraffeX wrote:
Has anyone had their drinking mini added as an order on the Mierce site from the Metal Kickstarter?

Not me, but as Orlando said, he's wrapping up the rules. I think its easy for us to forget just how small these operations are in terms of full time employees.

**GiraffeX**

Thats cool I just wondered as I'm sure I read somewhere they would be added after the kickstarter finished, I just expected it sooner than later.

As Orlando says submission for the first lot of metal minis is at the end of this month so I hope they will be added then.

**PirateRobotNinjaofDeath**

Any idea when the Darklands forum is going to be up and running?

**Alpharius**

PirateRobotNinjaofDeath wrote:
Any idea when the Darklands forum is going to be up and running?

It got fried in the Great Server Crash of 2015.

Given all the backed up production due to multiple Kickstarters, Tim's surgery and working on the long over-due full rulebook, I'd say the answer to that question is:

Not any time soon!

If ever!

It wasn't exactly what I'd call 'active' back when it was up and running though...

**PirateRobotNinjaofDeath**

Alpharius wrote:
PirateRobotNinjaofDeath wrote:
Any idea when the Darklands forum is going to be up and running?

It got fried in the Great Server Crash of 2015.

Given all the backed up production due to multiple Kickstarters, Tim's surgery and working on the long over-due full rulebook, I'd say the answer to that question is:

Not any time soon!

If ever!

It wasn't exactly what I'd call 'active' back when it was up and running though...

That's a shame. I suppose once the kickstarter rewards start shipping, and people are actually painting minis and playing the game, there'll be more demand for something like that.

For my part I'm just so fething stoked about these minis, and this amazing game world, that I'm really starving for *any* kind of content on it. Can't wait for my rulebook to arrive so that I can dive headlong into the lore.

**cromagz**

PirateRobotNinjaofDeath wrote:
Alpharius wrote:
PirateRobotNinjaofDeath wrote:
Any idea when the Darklands forum is going to be up and running?

It got fried in the Great Server Crash of 2015.

Given all the backed up production due to multiple Kickstarters, Tim's surgery and working on the long over-due full rulebook, I'd say the answer to that question is:

Not any time soon!

If ever!

It wasn't exactly what I'd call 'active' back when it was up and running though...

That's a shame. I suppose once the kickstarter rewards start shipping, and people are actually painting minis and playing the game, there'll be more demand for something like that.

For my part I'm just so fething stoked about these minis, and this amazing game world, that I'm really starving for *any* kind of content on it. Can't wait for my rulebook to arrive so that I can dive headlong into the lore.

This is exactly how I feel. Sure I read Rob saying somewhere that a new forum without all the old posts might get done in a few weeks, but it was only tentative and with the current focus on getting the rules done I'd assume it's unlikely.

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

Creator Mierce Miniatures about 1 hour ago

Morning all. Just a friendly warning that on Friday I will be starting the countdown to removing the first few hosts from this project, so by the end of August the Anglecynn Duguth, Brythoniaid Teulu, Byzantii Legionarius, Érainn Tuanagh, Fomoraic Gabrax, Norse Holumenn and Ysian Ax-Drune infantry starter hosts will be removed.

We've some cracking updates for Friday too...

**PirateRobotNinjaofDeath**

OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
Creator Mierce Miniatures about 1 hour ago

Morning all. Just a friendly warning that on Friday I will be starting the countdown to removing the first few hosts from this project, so by the end of August the Anglecynn Duguth, Brythoniaid Teulu, Byzantii Legionarius, Érainn Tuanagh, Fomoraic Gabrax, Norse Holumenn and Ysian Ax-Drune infantry starter hosts will be removed.

We've some cracking updates for Friday too...

<Squee>

So out of curiousity, does anybody know why all of the Ysians are effectively blind? Super curious about that one.

**highlord tamburlaine**

I think the Ysians blind themselves since they aren't worthy of seeing their goddess in the flesh, if I remember correctly.

**PirateRobotNinjaofDeath**

highlord tamburlaine wrote:
I think the Ysians blind themselves since they aren't worthy of seeing their goddess in the flesh, if I remember correctly.

Mmmm. So I guess I shouldn't expect much out of the accuracy of my bow-drunes

**Alpharius**

Indeed!

You know the goddess in particular too, right?

She's...impressive, and fairly NSFW too!

**Alpharius**

(Thanks to "Rick B" over in the comments section!)

Mórannach is huge!

I guess I will be collecting Érainn too!

**Baragash**

Devastated I could not afford to add the NK deal to my order now!

**Bossk_Hogg**

Baragash wrote:
Devastated I could not afford to add the NK deal to my order now!

It's still up on the pledge manager section. Not sure for how long, but you can still snag the Erainn infantry and monstrous infantry, as well as the "any three new kindreds" deals.