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Did you get the boxed game? It comes with Two plastic watchers.

Link to the "visual" pledge guide: http://img850.imageshack.us/img850/6669/kingdomdeathvfinal.jpg

Here is what I'm putting in for... (somebody please doublecheck my math)

Kingdom Death Pledge Breakdown

129.00 - BF Survivor

+25.00 - Dung Beetle Knight Expansion
+30.00 - Dragon King Expansion
+15.00 - Flower Knight Expansion
+40.00 - Gorm Expansion
+45.00 - Lantern Festival Expansion
+25.00 - Lion God Expansion
+00.00 - Lion Knight Expanison
+30.00 - Lonely Tree Expansion
+00.00 - Man Hunter Nemesis Expansion
+25.00 - Slender Man Nemesis Expansion
+40.00 - Spidicules Expansion
+45.00 - Sunstalker Expansion

+15.00 - Allison the Twilight Knight
+00.00 - Green Knight Armor
+20.00 - Holiday White Speaker Nico
+15.00 - Messenger of Courage
+15.00 - Messenger of Humanity
+15.00 - Messenger of the First Story
+15.00 - Messenger of the Spiral Path
+25.00 - Spider Silk Assassin (resin)
+15.00 - Survivor Candy & Cola
+15.00 - Survivor Kara Black

+50.00 - 5 Pack - Lantern Armor Miniature Kit

649.00 Total

 Breotan wrote:
Link to the "visual" pledge guide: http://img850.imageshack.us/img850/6669/kingdomdeathvfinal.jpg

Here is what I'm putting in for... (somebody please doublecheck my math)

649.00 Total

Checks out in my calculations.

For the last 9 hours of the kickstarter my internet was down. I didn't get to up my pledge to include all the new stuff. :(

Ughhhh so much want.... And I think i missed a few of the KS specials....

Bah. Gotta get creative then xD

So far they got me for 408-

Snagged a deluxe BF special
+Lantern Festival
+Flower Knight
+Dragon King
+Dung Beetle knight
+Messenger of the First Story
+one of the Pinups.... Probably the Phoenix dancer in resin.

Though.... I may yet drop the flower knight/ the pinup in favor of more of the KS special ones

Kingdom Death Pledge Breakdown

129.00 - BF Survivor

+50.00 - Dung Beetle Knight Expansion (x2)
+30.00 - Dragon King Expansion
+15.00 - Flower Knight Expansion
+45.00 - Lantern Festival Expansion
+00.00 - Lion Knight Expanison
+00.00 - Man Hunter Nemesis Expansion
+25.00 - Slender Man Nemesis Expansion

+15.00 - Allison the Twilight Knight
+00.00 - Green Knight Armor
+20.00 - Holiday White Speaker Nico
+15.00 - Messenger of Courage
+15.00 - Messenger of the First Story
+25.00 - Rawhide Dame (resin)
+29.00 - Flower Knight (resin)
+15.00 - Survivor Candy & Cola
+15.00 - Survivor Kara Black

$443 Total

Problem is that I'm pledged for $475. What should I spend my final 30 bucks on? Thoughts?

I'd try to find a way to take out $15 and get the sunstalker, 'cause I love that armor

 cincydooley wrote:

Kingdom Death Pledge Breakdown

129.00 - BF Survivor

+50.00 - Dung Beetle Knight Expansion (x2)
+30.00 - Dragon King Expansion
+15.00 - Flower Knight Expansion
+45.00 - Lantern Festival Expansion
+00.00 - Lion Knight Expanison
+00.00 - Man Hunter Nemesis Expansion
+25.00 - Slender Man Nemesis Expansion

+15.00 - Allison the Twilight Knight
+00.00 - Green Knight Armor
+20.00 - Holiday White Speaker Nico
+15.00 - Messenger of Courage
+15.00 - Messenger of the First Story
+25.00 - Rawhide Dame (resin)
+29.00 - Flower Knight (resin)
+15.00 - Survivor Candy & Cola
+15.00 - Survivor Kara Black

$443 Total

Problem is that I'm pledged for $475. What should I spend my final 30 bucks on? Thoughts?

Maybe drop a pin-up down to plastic and pick up Spidicules? ($40) Or The Lonely tree ($30)?

 spiralingcadaver wrote:
I'd try to find a way to take out $15 and get the sunstalker, 'cause I love that armor

Sorta thinking the same.

Also... That's 89 minis. Zoinks.


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The resin flower knight is for a buddy. I could just get him the plastic one and then toss in the Sunstalker. That could certainly work.


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Also...I'm thinking of simply selling my extra Phoenix and watcher. Anyone else thinking of doing that?

 cincydooley wrote:

Also...I'm thinking of simply selling my extra Phoenix and watcher. Anyone else thinking of doing that?

Planning on selling my extra Phoenix. Watchers are all mine!

 cincydooley wrote:

Kingdom Death Pledge Breakdown

129.00 - BF Survivor

Problem is that I'm pledged for $475. What should I spend my final 30 bucks on? Thoughts?

Verify that you pledged at this Survivor level. There were several of these at different dollar amounts.

All I know is Kingdom Death better be a good game. I spend more on Kingdom Death then I did on Zombicide and Sedition Wars combined. Zombicide was a huge hit with my board game group. Verdict is still out on Sedition Wars since haven't received it yet.

 Avariel wrote:
All I know is Kingdom Death better be a good game. I spend more on Kingdom Death then I did on Zombicide and Sedition Wars combined. Zombicide was a huge hit with my board game group. Verdict is still out on Sedition Wars since haven't received it yet.

That's what did me in. I finally snagged a BF survivor yesterday but ended up backing out of it with 2-3 hours to go. I realized late last night that it wasn't sitting well with me spending 400+ on a game (and expansions for it) that I knew I'd never play.

Watching the second video with it's estimate of 2-3 hours a turn, and 15-20 turns per game. It's not something I even have any hope of ever getting anyone to do with me. I think it was watching the Rivet Wars gameplay video where they play a whole game in ~45 mins (while stopping to explain a lot). "That's something I have a chance of getting someone to try," I thought.

So I ended up dropping from $431 to 200 something and just choosing from among my favorite models/exclusives.

Though in the last few hours it went up close enough to 300 that I just pledged $300 to get the freebies to sell. (Damn you lonely tree!)

 cincydooley wrote:

 spiralingcadaver wrote:
I'd try to find a way to take out $15 and get the sunstalker, 'cause I love that armor

Sorta thinking the same.

Also... That's 89 minis. Zoinks.


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The resin flower knight is for a buddy. I could just get him the plastic one and then toss in the Sunstalker. That could certainly work.


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Also...I'm thinking of simply selling my extra Phoenix and watcher. Anyone else thinking of doing that?

My phoenix, watcher, twilight knight, snow the savior and white speaker are all going for sale. I am only after things that actually are useful in the game.

 Breotan wrote:

 cincydooley wrote:

Kingdom Death Pledge Breakdown

129.00 - BF Survivor

Problem is that I'm pledged for $475. What should I spend my final 30 bucks on? Thoughts?

Verify that you pledged at this Survivor level. There were several of these at different dollar amounts.

Yup. I did. :-).

 cincydooley wrote:


Also...I'm thinking of simply selling my extra Phoenix and watcher. Anyone else thinking of doing that?

For how much?

Anyway, someone had to keep down the average pledge.

$61

I got 5 King's Men and the Dragon King expansion (since it was only slightly more than the armor), both because the models remind me of Wayne Barlowe's artwork. Also, I guess I'm getting a couple of freebies, which is nice.

primalexile wrote:
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My phoenix, watcher, twilight knight, snow the savior and white speaker are all going for sale. I am only after things that actually are useful in the game.

I thought he said that the Savior did have an in-game use? Something about survivors having a small chance to being born a savior, which had special powers.

Plus the Twilight Knight and White Speaker might not have a use for Kingdom Death: Monster, but what about Kingdom Death: Hero? I'd hang on to them just in case.

Especially since they're such amazing miniatures. Seriously, the Twilight Knight is by far one of my favourite miniatures to paint, and is absolutely beautiful.

Well, I got a bit of of cold feet on the game in the end, and the Survivor add-ons remained (to me) a bit lackluster compared to other offers, even at my initial 130,- BF. So I decided to give the game itself a pass till I see some reviews.

1. Resin Explorer (70,-)
2. Intl. Shipping (25,-)
3. 9x Resin Pin-up (225,-)
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Total Pledge: 320,-

1. Survivor+ shipping - 176
2. All pin-ups in resin - 275
3. All promos - 180
4. The watcher in resin - 35
5. Sunstalker, Dragon King, Spidicules, Lantern Festival - 160
6. Undecided extra - 100
Total - $926

 Avariel wrote:
All I know is Kingdom Death better be a good game. I spend more on Kingdom Death then I did on Zombicide and Sedition Wars combined. Zombicide was a huge hit with my board game group. Verdict is still out on Sedition Wars since haven't received it yet.

Zombicide is a great game and I wish I'd got in on the kickstarter :(

For this, I dropped my pledge at the $1.8M mark as I only really wanted one limited edition and was buying the rest just because they were limited, and was put off by the shipping. Had I been about when the white speaker was added I'd probably have re-pledged. Ah well.

Well, the point is that even if you don't like the game itself, you'll have a pretty large collection of absolutely spectacular minis to use for whatever else might spark your interest.

 Zweischneid wrote:
Well, I got a bit of of cold feet on the game in the end, and the Survivor add-ons remained (to me) a bit lackluster compared to other offers, even at my initial 130,- BF. So I decided to give the game itself a pass till I see some reviews.

1. Resin Explorer (70,-)
2. Intl. Shipping (25,-)
3. 9x Resin Pin-up (225,-)
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Total Pledge: 320,-

You are aware that international shipping is $45 dollars right? (Or $30 to Canada)

Stranger83 wrote:

 Zweischneid wrote:
Well, I got a bit of of cold feet on the game in the end, and the Survivor add-ons remained (to me) a bit lackluster compared to other offers, even at my initial 130,- BF. So I decided to give the game itself a pass till I see some reviews.

1. Resin Explorer (70,-)
2. Intl. Shipping (25,-)
3. 9x Resin Pin-up (225,-)
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Total Pledge: 320,-

You are aware that international shipping is $45 dollars right? (Or $30 to Canada)

Not for the Resin Explorer pledge. If it is, I'll re-allocate or save it all by getting it shipped to a U.S. Address. But check the "below-Game" pledges on the Kickstarter or the Death-Toll. They are lower.

Ah yes, so it is - somehow I completely missed that.

As a long time KD fan I'm not overly bothered if my gaming group doesn't like the game, I get nearly 100 KD minis to paint, model and be grossed out by! Heres my miniatures budget blown for about 6months

129.00 - BF Survivor

+25.00 - Dung Beetle Knight Expansion
+30.00 - Dragon King Expansion
+15.00 - Flower Knight Expansion
+45.00 - Lantern Festival Expansion
+00.00 - Lion Knight Expansion
+00.00 - Man Hunter Nemesis Expansion
+25.00 - Slender Man Nemesis Expansion
+40.00 - Gorm Expansion
+40.00 - Spidicules Expansion

+15.00 - Allison the Twilight Knight
+00.00 - Green Knight Armor
+15.00 - Messenger of Humanity
+15.00 - Messenger of the spiral path
+45.00 - Int'l shipping


$464 Total

I originally wasn't going to go with Gorm or Dung, but the Green Knight armour persuaded me to go for them (I don't like the Dung Bettle knight, but the ball is cool!). Still debating on what else I could change them for - I don't like the Sunstalker so that's out, any ideas? I dropped the bases too since hopefully they will be on sale normally via KD website later on.

for nearly 100 minis I think my pledge works out around £3 a model - £3 for a KD model, hells yes!

That was one hell of a final day!




Hard to believe that some relatively obscure Anime inspired character models could whip everyone into a frenzy, but apparently they helped!

Of course, the Lonely Tree and Slender Man had a bit to do with it too.

I'm excited to get this game and dive in, and to see where this successful launch takes the KD game going forward.

The potential for expansions is almost limitless, as is the potential for other games set in the same world!

That is a great cost-per-model, KoganStyle, assuming he can deliver on the material. I really hope these models don't look like Zombiecide's! What people are expecting (and paying for) is far, far better.

Also, I put the money I would have pledged into a current game (DzC) and a soon-to-be-purchased airbrush with my several months of hobby budget, as you mention! I have a pile to paint already and don't need a large number of new minis for a board game (not much of a board gamer) unless they could be used for some other skirmish game, which these couldn't be for me.


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What's also crazy, Alph, is that I think the "final day" on kicktraq was actually only like 18 hours?

 Alpharius wrote:

Hard to believe that some relatively obscure Anime inspired character models could whip everyone into a frenzy, but apparently they helped!

In all fairness, niche anime/manga tends to to be fairly close to RPGs and miniature gaming as far as commonly regarded 'nerdy' pass-times are concerned. Especially something like Berserk, which is somewhat iconic amoung the medium.

What's more, Chrono Trigger has one hell of a reputation as far as classic videogames are concerned. I didn't have the good sense to be born in time to appreciate the era of the Super Nintendo, but for those who managed to, Chrono Trigger was probably one of their very first, and most impacting RPGs. And I don't think I even need to make a proper statement to account for The Legend of Zelda.

The potential for expansions is almost limitless, as is the potential for other games set in the same world!

Hell, I'd argue that there's also the possibility for a lot of homebrew. The rules for monsters look like they're a solid framework to fit just about anything in. Imagine if KD were to start a community page where users could create and share their own custom monsters/expansions built on the KD:M ruleset? Hell, they could even take the best ones and turn them into official expansions.


On other note, with the Kickstarter good and most certainly done, what will happen to Kingdom Death between now and November? Will Poots and crew lay low for the better part of the year, while putting all the pieces together, or will they continue to release new models in their original line of miniatures throughout the year? I really do hope for the latter to be possible, even if at a slower pace.

Homebrew monsters is a cool idea, but I doubt Adam would take the ideas onboard- he's got a very specific vision for his world, I think (although clearly willing to diverge a bit for promo / $$$-making figures ).

But for "canon" I don't see him taking fan monsters, but as a "living-rulebook-esque" idea (a la the old Bloodbowl rules) I think that'd be awesome. Possibly cheaper, too