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

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**greywulf**

What else will JAG be doing then I wonder...

**RivenSkull**

Too many Jutes. I'll put in 10 to have access to the models at a later date.

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

Timmy's leaking Jute 3D prints of Dreaguth and Whitgar

**Joyboozer**

feth it, I was hoping the skeleton troops wouldn't look that cool, now I need Jutes...

**zedmeister**

Now they are NICE! Time to order some metal Dreaguthas...

**Slinky**

Looking great!

**RiTides**

Those skeletons look by far the best on the market... I just don't need any, but if I did the metals would be perfect.

**Alpharius**

Yup, that's me starting a Jutes Kindred now.

Damn!

Also, can't believe this wasn't posted yet!

Updated Sávrakontarartwork:

**zedmeister**

Norse love

**decker_cky**

Love norse.

**NAVARRO**

OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:

Timmy's leaking Jute 3D prints of Dreaguth and Whitgar

Scale will be corrected right?

**zedmeister**

Nope, they are correct. The wraith is meant to be that big

**NAVARRO**

And the skelly? Looks way to big.

**RiTides**

From the comments:

Creator Mierce Miniatures about 2 hours ago
@Zach - it looks like there will be SH2, although I'd like us to get at least half-way to £55k. SH2 would happen in late January I would expect.

Might not be a bad thing in the end - get several hosts funded now, but not all of them adding a ton to the queue (as there's so much unlocked here already!). Then fund the other hosts in January when hopefully some of the queue backlog has been brought down.

Fits the timing of how frequently they've been running campaigns lately, as well.

**Bossk_Hogg**

NAVARRO wrote:
And the skelly? Looks way to big.

Yeah, I see he's a bit bigger than the Duguth warrior. Looks roughly the same size as the drunes and the bigger humans. I'm not sure if that was intentional or not.

**Mierce Miniatures**

Tim matched the Wihtgar to the Duguth exactly, the blu-tak on the base is skewing things; and I don't think the photo is the best (sorry Timmy).

Believe me, we had a big conversation about matching the skellies up to our humans, and they're perfectly matched, or I'll eat RiTides' hat.

**RiTides**

Oh man, where did my hat come into things

and I totally didn't say anything about the skelly, I figured as much with the blue tack!

I was also thinking about it and kind of think I'd like my skeletons beefy... honestly, your latest factions (Érainn and Jutes) are mostly jaw dropping stuff, really love them. And the metal prices even make them attainable... so I am a big fan of the latest releases

. If money were no object, I'd have them all...

Actually think I probably can't resist pledging here anymore - just one question, what models will I have access to adding on, and for how long, or is that a really fluid thing? Most of my purchases have been at retail or through the webstore, so my only backing experience is Monstrous Mounts and I just got the model I pledged for (which was fantastic!).

Hoping for an official answer on this, if it's on the KS page somewhere please just point me to it, or if Mierce has said what will be available in the comments, etc.

Basically let's say down the line I want to up my pledge to include a chosen faction that I pledge for a starter or unit from here, such as Jutes / Érainn / Kthones / Fomoraic, would I be able to add on models from past Kickstarters for those factions too, or only what is visible here?

**GiraffeX**

If you go in on this kickstarter and say are interested in the metal Jutes starter from the Metal Age kickstarter all you need to do is send them an email or pm via the current kickstarter and they will add all the existing kickstarters to your account on their website.

The models will be present until you receive an email saying they are going to be removed, they always keep you updated on whats going on.

There will always be a few minis that are in transition between being removed from the kickstarter and being added to the normal side of the website.

You also have to wait in the long queue for the Kickstarter resin minis due to Tim's Op which has delayed things a bit but this shouldn't affect the metal minis as they aren't cast in house.

Hope that helps.

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

You'll get access to this KS's stuff at KS prices up until they are sculpted (or in the case of metal stuff until Rob needs to finalise the casting numbers)

You'll also get access to all of the existing stuff on general sale on the website at discounted prices for a limited time (I think it was about a month last time, and offered 20% off most items and 10% off some First Edition and First Edition II (lower discount there so that new backers didn't get a better deal than original KS backers), I'm guessing the same terms will apply this time round

the only stuff you won't have access to is stuff from previous projects that have not yet been released, but Rob will usually let you at those too if you ask nicely

**RivenSkull**

OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:

Timmy's leaking Jute 3D prints of Dreaguth and Whitgar

If I didn't already put in for this KS's jutes, that would have done it for me.

**RiTides**

I went ahead and backed after making the above post

. For Chaaruch for now, although the hosts are certainly a nice deal. Cheers for the answers guys!

**Slinky**

Another size comparison for the Jute skeleton:

**ulgurstasta**

The skeletons look lovely, although a bit large (especially the head). Could just be the photos though.

**RiTides**

It could be a bit big overall, but the head doesn't bother me - I know realistically, a skull should fit inside a human head and thus be smaller, but this looks nicely proportioned to the body to me. Doesn't mean the overall sculpt couldn't have been shrunk by a few percentages, but if using these for anything else I imagine they would be an elite unit anyway and thus could be a bit on the large side.

**Alpharius**

It's not like the skull is that big - or too big at all.

"Adding" skin, hair, ears, etc, isn't like adding on a helmet!

**RivenSkull**

I concur that the skull seems to be a tad bit oversized. But only barely.

**decker_cky**

Beards are just slimming.

**zedmeister**

New available hosts and metal conversions! One of these plus one of the new support hosts conveniently equals approx 1000 gold. Handy

More Infantry Hosts

Due to popular demand, we've worked long and hard to bring you some fantastic Infantry Hosts to bolster the armies of every kindred out there!

Here's all the Infantry Hosts you can go for in one graphic:

Led by a commander that's not yet been produced in metal, each Infantry Host features a unit of infantry (usually ten strong, with full command) and a monstrous beast to batter your enemies to death with.

1,000 Gold with the Support Host

We've thought long and hard about what's in each infantry host, and they'll compliment your Support Hosts extremely well. Suffice to say, if you have an Infantry Host and a Support Host for the same kindred, you'll have a host of at least 1,000 gold ready and able to take on the enemy!

Host and Individual Costs

Increase your pledge by £60 to purchase an Infantry Host in metal (although the monster will always be resin), or £90 to purchase the Infantry Host in resin.

You can purchase the units within the host individually, and these are their prices:
• £6 metal (£7 RRP), £10 resin (£13 RRP) - Dúngal, Timoth, Aldhelm, Ceonwulf, Kyros, Rudraige, Urien, Geraint Nerthol, Quintus Crito, Mananaan, Chaagmuth, Eormanræd, Knútr, Crom of Carn Wrach, The Rose of Ker-Ys (30mm bases)
• £9 metal (£10 RRP), £12 resin (£15 RRP) - Hrōr (40mm base)
• £54 resin (£60 RRP) - Erebius on Behema (100mm base)
• £27 metal (£30 RRP), £58 resin (£70 RRP) - all the 10x man infantry units (30mm bases)
• £22 metal (£25 RRP), £60 resin (£80 RRP) - 8x man Legionarius Contubernium (30mm bases)
• £36 metal (£40 RRP), £60 resin (£75 RRP) - 5x man Frēawulf Unit, 5x man Werwulf Unit, 5x man Demilegionarius Contubernium (40mm bases)
• £27 resin (£30 RRP) - Creoda, Leaping Creoda (80mm bases)
• £36 resin (£40 RRP) - Talos, Mórannach, Thacaldān (80mm bases)
• £45 resin (£50 RRP) - Cormorágg, Aradae Mawr, Glaun, Ulmons, Vaak, Maallolvór, Druc, Torku (100mm bases), Stígr (80mm base)

Note that you are only given 10% off the individual RRPs - we want to make you purchase the hosts!

Shipping

Now, many of these hosts are similar to the ones produced in Darklands: Metal Age, and so it may well be that we can ship them earlier than June 2016; but we cannot promise anything and it is better to understand that your hosts may only ship in June 2016 than have hopes for earlier.

Watch out for more updates soon...

**Mymearan**

Wait, so they removed some infantry hosts for the Metal Age Kickstarter but now they're bringing them all back (and more) for this KS except they changed out a few bits here and there? Mainly it looks like they swapped out the monster groups for single monsters.

Edit: actually these have less heroes as well and are not as good deals as the Metal Age starter hosts. I guess you could easily get a Metal Age starter host and add a Support host from Savage Lands and have a pretty great deal all around.

**Baragash**

For my wallets sake I hope the "pledge manager" closes before December, when I can actually afford to throw money at this.