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If I recall right, Hes going to be distributing the extra cards after W1 and 2 are done... Though I think I remember reading that theyd be pdfs, not proper cards... Thatd be a bit unfortunate.

And definitely let us know about expanding W3- I'd be up for adding some more kits to mine

I believe he said they'd be available as PDF before everyone got printed ones.

I'd be a bit irritated if they were only PDF, and given that there have already been cards distributed with individual models, I'd be surprised if the new ones bucked that trend.

Has anyone who sent an email over missing miniatures in an order had their email answered or are they waiting for the shipping waves to be done before they get to those?

I am assuming they are saving fixes until after first cut is done, that is typical for large KS.

 RivenSkull wrote:
Has anyone who sent an email over missing miniatures in an order had their email answered or are they waiting for the shipping waves to be done before they get to those?

Said they were packing mine, but that was like 2 weeks ago.

 RivenSkull wrote:
Has anyone who sent an email over missing miniatures in an order had their email answered or are they waiting for the shipping waves to be done before they get to those?

I had an email the day I emailed about missing wave 1 items and the missing figures turned up about a week later. There have been people discussing getting replacement rulebooks quite quickly as there was a batch without some pages.


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 Ramos Asura wrote:
If I recall right, Hes going to be distributing the extra cards after W1 and 2 are done... Though I think I remember reading that theyd be pdfs, not proper cards... Thatd be a bit unfortunate.

He has said that initial release will be via pdf so that they can be tested/used. IF you want physical copies, you will need to pay postage costs only. I kind of hope that for sanity's sake they just do a promo pack of cards that include all of the cards in one bundle, otherwise it will become a nightmare for them to try and pick each set of cards for each person based on what they originally ordered.

 endtransmission wrote:
I kind of hope that for sanity's sake they just do a promo pack of cards that include all of the cards in one bundle, otherwise it will become a nightmare for them to try and pick each set of cards for each person based on what they originally ordered.

That'd be the smart approach. I'm sure anything saved in materials would be eaten multiple times in time/labor.

 Rainyday wrote:

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
If that's the female 'intimacy' figure the FB group are suggesting there's a really small feather (2-3mm) on the sprue that looks like it fits,

not seen a picture yet

I'm pretty sure the feather thing is a hair ornament that goes in the hole on top of her head (see the intimacy event page in the book). I couldn't figure out what went in the hole on the back either, and I didn't have any spare pieces left after assembling them.

Where did you put the thin strip of hair? i have no idea where that goes for the intimacy figure

It sort of wedges into the main bit of hair. Theres a void that you can just slide it into once its assembled.

Heres mine, with an incredibly high tech pointer indicating the part.



(yeah i realize that I didnt trim down the feather enough xD Its something Im gonna go back and fix before painting)

That last strip of hair and the weird cape thing on the girl's back are all that are keeping me from finishing up my Intimacy models.

That high tech pointer certainly will help me finally figure that out.

Still got to figure out where all the lanterns go on the Watcher. Anyone have a good guide on how to put it together?

Quick question on Staring Gear. In the first story, 2 Survivors lost their founding stones after throwing them. We are about to start our first hunt. Do the Survivors receive new stones (starting Gear) or are they now gone for good?

 TheSecretSquig wrote:
Quick question on Staring Gear. In the first story, 2 Survivors lost their founding stones after throwing them. We are about to start our first hunt. Do the Survivors receive new stones (starting Gear) or are they now gone for good?

Gone. Thats it.

Throwing them is a real weighty decision!

The more I read, the more I think Kingdom Death is actually Monster Hunter crossed with Dwarf Fortress.

And a dash of Dark Souls.

Yeah I got a nice email from the team.

As assumed, it's hectic there, so when my replacements show up, they show up. Not like I'll be wanting for mini's to paint for a while.

Joy of Joys............................ Wave 1 arrived today with all my resin pin-ups. Spent stoopid amounts on this lot, dreading the Cusoms Bill. Every model I've bought from Kingdom Death I've been stung by UK Customs..........


No Customs Charges - It doesn't get much better than that!


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More Game questions............

Setting up the Hunt Board. Where do you place the Monster. The book says place it on a space according to its level, but I can't see which spaces are for which level????

If you have armour, than take a damage, your armour is reduced by 1. What happens to the armour when reduced to 0? Is it lost from your gear grid, or does it remain in play and replenish for the next hunt / showdown?

Look in the story events for showdown:your monster. It'll show you the hunt board setup.

When armor goes to 0 it just doesn't protect you any more that fight. It gets 'repaired' when you finish the showdown.

Exceptions to that being gear like the skull helm, which tells you if it drops to 0 you archive the card(settlement loses it).

My brother had two of his friends over today and we rolled up a new settlement, with a few minor additions to keep things fun and going. We're three years in, with three hunts per lantern year, which yes, is not how it is supposed to go, but we'd rather hunt a lot in the few hours we can play. Casualties have been staggering though, we've lost about six, though thanks to two love potions we managed to get two sets of twins, though sadly the mother of the first pair died during her second hunt, her head knocked off by the lion. We ended it with the hunt of a level 2 lion, who nearly did us all in, despite one guy having a bow and special arrows, my brother having a pair of katars and the other guy having a nice big hammer. I was stuck with the Twilight Sword again and while I managed to hit every time it came into range, despite it being a 9+ to hit thing, repeat after me.. anything but a 1.. We almost got wiped out by that fether, until it was decided to just end it with a well-aimed Founding Stone.

I don't know if this has been adressed on one of the last few pages and I'm not going to look for that particular bit, but maybe I can be of help with the assembly:

Finding where everything goes is quite finicky no doubt and I can't help with that (actually I enjoy that kind of puzzle and I'm looking forward to my final model to assemble, the watcher), but to anyone who has trouble with gaps and visible joints, I can only say (no offense intended) you're using the wrong product of glue, or you're doing it wrong.

With plastic glue you're supposed to thoroughly dissolve the joining surfaces and than mash them together just enough to have molten plastic fill any gap. You will have a perfect weld if you do it right.
If you use too much pressure a weld line of little bubbles will form, but fret not. These can be removed after fully curing or be pushed into shape with a hobby knife right away.

Use this method and with some practice you get perfect seams on almost every sculpt.

btw, the ideal tools for the job are "same stuff" from Micro Mark and the godsent "capillary applicator". With those you don't need to apply cement to both surfaces of the joint, instead you just hold the pieces together and then just gently touch the seam with the applicator. Capillary action will do the rest and spread just the right amount of glue evenly to the whole surface, weld it together immediately and with some practice perfectly.

I can try to provide pictures if need be.

Well, we just had an encounter with the King's Man and.. my one guy got head-stomped, my other got the trap card and well, ceased to be, not much you can do against an attack with ten damage.

 BrookM wrote:
Well, we just had an encounter with the King's Man and.. my one guy got head-stomped, my other got the trap card and well, ceased to be, not much you can do against an attack with ten damage.

Oh man, yeah, I think the King's Man was my group's first trouncing too. F that guy.

We fought a Phoenix the other day, and, other than one of our guys' brain exploding, we pretty well wrecked it. We probably won't hunt one again this settlement, though. All the Phoenix gear seems pretty resource intensive, doesn't really seem worth it unless you plan on farming the Phoenix, much like we've been doing with White Lions (one of my characters is a bare-handed critting machine, the other wants a full set of Lion armor because of daggers).

Next up for us is our first encounter with the dreaded King's Man. We're thinking about just red-shirting it, but we're also at only nine population, so it's getting scary.

Ouch, that's a tough one, as you're one population over their "HELP / RAPE" ratio. We had a population of fifteen ourselves, but my brother had to roll the "they kill the bravest person" result, meaning that either my aspiring Twilight Knight or his main would die, so we had no choice but to step up and give it a go.

As for armour, my brother has a full set of Lion armour and a pair of katar, he is pretty much our lightning bruiser who can dish out quite an amount of attacks, especially when he uses the set bonus to pounce his opponent. Great alpha-strike, but not a lot of staying power once the opponent gets a few good hits in.

 BrookM wrote:
Ouch, that's a tough one, as you're one population over their "HELP / RAPE" ratio. We had a population of fifteen ourselves, but my brother had to roll the "they kill the bravest person" result, meaning that either my aspiring Twilight Knight or his main would die, so we had no choice but to step up and give it a go.

As for armour, my brother has a full set of Lion armour and a pair of katar, he is pretty much our lightning bruiser who can dish out quite an amount of attacks, especially when he uses the set bonus to pounce his opponent. Great alpha-strike, but not a lot of staying power once the opponent gets a few good hits in.

The problem with choosing to fight back against the King's Man is that you then have to fight a Level 2 King's Man on his encounter a few years down the road. We decided to suck up the loss and spend our next couple lantern years getting intimate.

I was never a huge fan of the Lion armor, but I loved the Screaming Antelope armor. The slam and move after ability was key for ranged attacks as you could slam the monster and then sidestep before attacking, so reactions where the monster moved straight line would have no efffect.

Triple9, cool use of the screaming set- we'd never gotten very interested because of only thinking of it as a follow up move.

And I'd agree, it's probably worth taking the loss to avoid the 1st the KM 'cause that's a mean fight.

Yeah, the Screaming Armor really comes into its own when you get someone with Bow Mastery. Between the ability to move and activate in the same turn, Luck +2 with bows and rerolling misses (from the specialization), the slam and follow-up makes for an awesome first strike.

I tried to position my characters for my damage sink (in full leather armor/shield/monster grease and with dried acanthus as backup) to be directly in front of the monster and my bowman to be in his flank. Usually, the sink would be the initial target and he could weather that hit, then on my activation; slam with the bowman, sidestep, attack, surge with the damage sink if a crit is scored. Then the sink would move around to the blindspot and repeat the process, basically auto-hitting with a Butcher's cleaver at that point and the bowman surging if possible. The Leather Armor allowing a sidestep at the end of the turn as well as impervious to Bash made getting out of the reaction lines pretty effective too.

I found it to be an especially effective strategy against Lvl. 2 Antelopes, so I'd tend to bring a couple newbs along with me and have them running around harvesting the board while the other two dismantled the antelope over just a few rounds.

As this is the only KDM thread, do we need a new one for game Q&A's? Until then, I'll keep spamming the "Official KS Thread" with my game questions

Few more questions from the games we've had......

1. Monster Levels. When do you up the moster levels? E.g., we've hunted and killed x3 Level 1 White Lions. When do we up it to Level 2. Is it our choice, or is this driven by the game?

2. Just done the Butcher for the first time, returned to the settlement with 3 Survivors. Drew the 'Cracks in the Ground' Settlement Event Card. The Wife rolled and got the Survivor with the lowest movement falls into the crack and is dead. After randomly picking, this was our toolled up tank, the strongest Survivor. Do we also loose all the gear that was on their grid during the Showdown? Or, does all the gear remain available for the other Survivors to use?

3. Really confused how Innovations work. To innovate, you need to spend an endevour, and then bone, hide, organ.Draw 2 cards, pick 1 to keep. Understand that bit. Don't understand on how you build your innovation deck from the available cards.

Thanks in advance fellow geeks.

1. It's your own choice when you want to hunt a regular tougher monster.

2. Unless gear specifically says so, no, you do not perma-lose it. As has been said before, get attached to your gear, not the meat bag wearing it.

3. Each new innovation has one or more keywords listed. You add the cards with those keywords to your innovation deck. The more innovation cards you "develop" the more your deck grows.

1) Whenever ya feel like it! Benefit to the stronger monsters is increased loot from them, but be warned... they HURT!

2) I checked the card in question, and it doesnt say to archive all gear cards...
hmm...
Well, i'd play it as the survivor is dead, but you keep the gear. Just like if you died during a hunt.

3) Each of the Innovation cards will have a certain subtext on it like so:



When you innovate something new, in this case Paint, you go through the innovation cards and pull out all "Paint consequences" and add them to the settlement's innovation deck.

When you first start out, you will have only the "Language Consequences" in the deck. Thats what you innovate from


EDIT: Curse you ninja Brook!

When I said we were about to encounter the Kingsman, I actually meant where you're forced to fight him, that's why we were all nervous! The result of the Armored Strangers was them executing my wife's favorite character, Morrigan...