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not sure if that is gods layer or god slayer

http://www.megalith-games.com/eng_index.php?id=&pid1=P1_1

ran across this via BoW

Not everyday you see Greco-Roman theme mixed with Dwarves and other fantasy stuff.

Dwarves look great.

Nice looking models. They've got good sculpts. Shame I prefer sci-fi over fantasy...

Just done some reviews of their starterkits and great miniatures especially the Trologdytes!

Cheers

I think the Wyldfolk look pretty impressive. Damn you alternate games that my LGS doesn't stock!

We like it a lot.

I tend to say it plays like Warmachine without the bits I don´t like like Caster focus, Warjacks necessity or the Igo-ugo. Kind off. ;-) And I prefer the models by far. The rulebook is super nice (and cheap) and well worth a read. The models are slightly a hassle to put together at times. Well, I used historical Hoplites for my Halodynes anyways so that part worked fine for me. 3rd quarter is supposed to see the next wave of models, until then all 6 factions of the rulebook are supposed to have all their units. The guys are really receptive on the forums and are taking in suggestions for wave2. I´ll play on next friday again, this time against Wyldfolk. New army, this will be interesting.

A kickstarter has commenced, the official announcement will be coming tomorrow methinks: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1948302892/godslayer-rise-of-legends

I was tired yesterday, the announcement is on their site: http://www.megalith-games.com/eng_index.php

Looking good, but aren't they just offering what they have already?

I'll repeat what I said in the (apparently) duplicate thread: I frigging LOVE quite a lot of these minis, but I already play Warmachine; I don't know if the alternative activiation instead of IGOUGO and the lack of Warcasters/Warlocks and Focus/Fury is enough to actually get me to play the game, as unless the Quickstart rules are deceptive, it looks like it's exactly that; non-UGOIGO Warmachine without Warcasters.

Thats what makes me play instead of Warmahordes. ^^ So I largely agree. I like the world/figurestyle better as well and such I went for Godslayer.

Yeah, new things are the Cerberos and Hulking Brute of the Troglodytes. They want to finance the german rulebook and want to make the game better known. So I think teir approach is not too bad. I´d like to have one of those special edition figurecases. I am sucker for such goodies. ^^

Only 12 h into the KS and already 3500 of the 25000 punds plegded.

And that´s the KS-video: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1948302892/godslayer-rise-of-legends/widget/video.html


The KS will finance the translation of the game into German, but also the quicker development of the missing miniatures already depicted in the rules. And if enough money comes tegether it will surly invested in writing new books.

The game is quite different from Warmahordes, where Warmahordes relies heavily on combos Godslayer goes more in the Confro/Alkemy direction but with some new rule twists. I don´t have the time to memorize all the combos and would get my backside handed to me most of the times though I am rather a good TT-player, but I rather tend towards traditional strategy/tactics. So, yes, Godslayer may compete with Warmahordes on some levels, but the rules part is different. Also the miniature design is scaled down when it comes to over-the top equipment, there are no toilet sized shoulder pads .

My personal view:
Since this game relies on the goodwill of shops to carry it, I am quite happy that they decided to offer some advantages to pledgers but do not go overboard with it.
Another KS went overboard with its rewards of miniatures that are already sold in stores and now some of those shops stopped carrying the line which hurts tze game big time. I can understand the shops, since they never got informed about it though they were among the first to support this line.

Looks ok, the pledge to get a rulebook and a starter box is reasonable enough so I'll probably chip in 50 pounds when I get paid.
Also I have a soft spot for spartans >.>

My sentiments exactly, Duncan. Thank you four concise post.

Our store is interested in carrying it and was sceptical due to the news of the kickstarter. That should be mostly a non-issue now.

I'd kickstart this, but I hate the shipping fee :/

Problem is that KS does not allow you to set different shipping fees for different countries.
And btw. it is still cheaper than getting stuff from the US after the postal price rise.

Some very nice models that would make excellent stand ins for WHFB.

This is the official permanent thread on Godslayer releases.
I think it should not be filled with the usual kickstarter spam ("Hey, we hit 30.000$" "I am now pledging as well." "Has your package arrived yet?").
And this thread should not be dumped after the kickstarter. So I vote for having a separate thread on the kickstarter campaign as all other companies have.

Makes a lot of sense. I already suggested Megalith to do so.

 Kroothawk wrote:
This is the official permanent thread on Godslayer releases.
I think it should not be filled with the usual kickstarter spam ("Hey, we hit 30.000$" "I am now pledging as well." "Has your package arrived yet?").
And this thread should not be dumped after the kickstarter. So I vote for having a separate thread on the kickstarter campaign as all other companies have.

Somebody already tried to open a KS specific thread, but the MODs closed it and refered them here so I think you're stuck with it

They added a new pledge tier for people who just want to expand their existing collection and get a carrying case.

I have a question though, why does it seem that this game is quite popular in Germany? I don't mean any slight, just simply curious what about it appeals to the German gamer. (Might just be a perception thing on my behalf).

Maybe for the same reason why Fantasy seems to be more popular in Europe than in the States: it's a cultural and historical thing. In Europe, they've got thousands of years of history whilst the US doesn't. A game like Godslayer appeals to the European market because it's heavily based on historical themes. The company is also German or something.

I may be wrong.

Company is half UK, half Germany.

And yes, historical games got quite an push during the last few years and a game that tackles fantasy and the time of the Romans and Greeks....

Oh, here is the pic of the new pledge level:

 ExNoctemNacimur wrote:
In Europe, they've got thousands of years of history whilst the US doesn't.

Well, North America is settled for maybe 15.000 years, but only 500 years of white settlements and wars (if you disregard the Vikings).

That said, no idea why this is popular in Germany. Godslayer is a UK company, one of its two founders is German.

*looks at Native American history* Uh-huh...

I didn't realize they were in Germany, I thought they were in the UK. They are just registered in the UK and released the game in English to hit a bigger market. Part of my confusion was caused because this Kickstarter is to translate everything into German. That's my fault in not doing more research into the company.

Close connection to the german community and being a good product + no shipping costs. That seems to help. ^^ For me it was the perfect occasion to use the historical plastic Hoplites I had an eye on for some time. The background of fantasy + history is really appealing to me personally as well. But as far as whether this is specific to Germany, I can´t really tell.

 kilcin wrote:
*looks at Native American history* Uh-huh...

Well, for the history of the major occupants of the country. There's like 2 million NAs in a country of more than 300 million. And most tribes didn't exactly write much down either, or what was was destroyed by invaders.

 ExNoctemNacimur wrote:

 kilcin wrote:
*looks at Native American history* Uh-huh...

Well, for the history of the major occupants of the country. There's like 2 million NAs in a country of more than 300 million. And most tribes didn't exactly write much down either, or what was was destroyed by invaders.

Well, before Columbus there were 1-18 Mio Native Americans (in a "country" of 1-18 Mio.) before the killing began. West and East coast were already densely populated with occasional military conflicts among the First Nations. BTW the Amazon rain forest was also densely populated at that time. Not being interested in those times is okay, but saying they haven't been major occupants or had no history is not.

Currently there aren't many Native Americans, and their records are either destroyed or lost and are only being dug up now. To say that I'm not interested in them is false. But if you're talking about the history of the major occupants of a country, in Germany you have the ancient Germanic tribes, in Britain you have the Saxons and Celts and Romans, in Ireland there's the Celts and Vikings, in Italy there's the Romans and Ostrogoths but with the States they don't have much. The White Nationalist groups there don't go for ancient history, they go more for "We're white and we're awesome herp-derp".

I don't follow you: In the times you mention, USA had 100% First Nations with as said 1-18 Mio people (according to different estimates). And it took centuries for white people to become equally numerous in the USA as Native Americans. Also a lot is known about some of them like Iroquois http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroquois . You will find more people in USA calling themself Iroquois than people in the UK calling themselves Romans or Saxons.

But then again, this is off topic in this thread.

I don't think you get my point:

The history of White People (the current majority) or people in the US is very short, and for blacks it's even shorter. The history of majorities in other countries is a lot longer. Hence there may be more interest in fantasy in these countries because a lot of fantasy is based on their cultures whilst in the States there may be less interest.

Would be interesting to include some of the indian nations in Godslayer... there are quite some continents left.