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Being traditionally a lurker, I still thought this might be of interest;

Cipher Studios has announced imminent Kickstarter for a Hell Dorado expansion, titled Inferno. Looks like each faction gets two new officers and introduction of themed sub-factions, among other things.
Here is a piece of concept art for a Saracen mini





And you can read more about the expansion and see another spoiler here.


Personally, I'm glad Hell Dorado is getting some love from Cipher as well, the original miniature line (by Asmodee) is still fantastic and I find the theme/background of the game quite unique.

This one is a really fun game with a really good look to it, glad to see some more going for it.

I have always been a big fan of Hell Dorado. I am lookign forward to this one.

Love hell dorado, hate cipher studios. Pass

Who knows maybe if this KS goes well we might see an Anima Tactics KS soon after, there has been rumours of a second book (saga 3&4) and the Tol Ranko faction floating around for a while now.

 Rolt wrote:
Who knows maybe if this KS goes well we might see an Anima Tactics KS soon after, there has been rumours of a second book (saga 3&4) and the Tol Ranko faction floating around for a while now.

They already hinted towards a Anima KS almost a year ago.

 Rolt wrote:
Who knows maybe if this KS goes well we might see an Anima Tactics KS soon after

Good. Maybe they can improve and maintain consistency in their sculpts.

They are already in the works on an MMO.

Not much to say about the consistancy, though. In complete agreement.

I picked up a couple of the guys/ gals, and they are .... ok. Not the worst, not the best. After seeing them in the flesh, it's hard for me to want to get more of them.

Hard for me to get into the background, but T and A is a good motivator.

It's up and running.

Good chance to pick up some of the Limited edition minis that were given out at cons and stuff.

Backed. Looks pretty damn cool.

In for the $160 level. The trade-ins make it totally worth it.

In this thread

Piston Honda wrote:
It has never seemed to to make a name for itself. The French company blamed its over the top horror theme.

Perhaps with the kickstarter and Cipher's actions to tone down the gore a bit, first by removing the angel rape image from the rule book it will get some attention.

Rules themselves are rather enjoyable.

It took Asmodee (the original French company) ages to release the English translation of the rules, which was rather poorly done. And while there are still tons of support material on the original page, such as "Chronicles" series of narrative campaign, fluff and hobby articles, none of that was ever translated into English.

The angel pic has been taken out for the Cipher's edition of the rules. Personally, I like that the setting is violent, but remains mature; it doesn't glorify the bad stuff, I'd say it even criticizes it. That's one of the things that for me personally really set the setting apart from most of the games on the market, it really is multidimensional.

It's a shame they're charging shipping for non-US pledges, I played a fair bit of Hell Dorado back in the day.

Riquende wrote:
It's a shame they're charging shipping for non-US pledges, I played a fair bit of Hell Dorado back in the day.

Again, KS FAQ states they have found an option to send from Spain. That was added only after the KS was published and IIRC you can't edit the text under pledge entries. So (while I can't promise anything) with ha little luck the EU shipping will be lower than what's currently up there.

Never played this much, is it safe to assume the minis are metal?

Lucas Blackwolf wrote:

Riquende wrote:
It's a shame they're charging shipping for non-US pledges, I played a fair bit of Hell Dorado back in the day.

Again, KS FAQ states they have found an option to send from Spain. That was added only after the KS was published and IIRC you can't edit the text under pledge entries. So (while I can't promise anything) with ha little luck the EU shipping will be lower than what's currently up there.

"With luck" being a very big if. Hopefully someone gets it clarified.

I'll certainly keep an eye on it and if the stretches make it worthwhile then I might go in, but to be honest I still have all my stuff from before, have no interest in a second faction, don't need duplicates of what I do have, and I'm not really happy with the direction the game is heading in (the flamethrower guys' concept art posted months ago was a major warning bell).

I am quite surprised this got funded so quickly though, given that Hell Dorado stuff in general doesn't move that much on ebay (compared to Confrontation at least). Hopefully it does take off, I can finally shift that old-style Saracen starter I've had sat around for years!


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 squall018 wrote:
Never played this much, is it safe to assume the minis are metal?

They used to be. I haven't heard anything about a change but then metal to resin is a recurring theme in the industry, so maybe that happened under Cipher at some point.

Damn, if I had the the 125 $ that pledge would be a nice start into the game me thinks. I like the models a lot for quite some time now.

 squall018 wrote:
Never played this much, is it safe to assume the minis are metal?

Yes they are metal

I'm interested in this one - the miniatures are mostly quite nice, and it is a skirmish scale game.

Anyone have any experience with the game, and how it plays?

Can you compare it to anything to help me know what it is like?

Having played only a handful of games I can say it's quite fun actually. Even deployment though it can take a while if you follow the book offers a lot of tactical possibility.

The miniatures are very unique to what's out there which is what attracted me to the game. Also you only ever need 5 dice at a time.

With that said I pledged at the hell gate level as I have most of the starters but I may go higher to trade in things for those limited ed minis

@ Alpharius: One example: The skirmishes are heavily defined by scenarios. Terraforming of the table begins by blind bidding on the terrain elements, where having miniatures with scout subtype can be to your advantage in placing the terrain. The terrain elements interact in various ways with the miniatures (ranging from simple obstructions to fields of decomposing bodies and allies trapped in ice that can be freed and join the company) and thematically correspond with different areas in Hell; Icy Wastes, Burning Hell, Necropolis and Howlning Plains.

 Alpharius wrote:
I'm interested in this one - the miniatures are mostly quite nice, and it is a skirmish scale game.

Anyone have any experience with the game, and how it plays?

Can you compare it to anything to help me know what it is like?

It is like warmachine but much more refined and not so over the top. Activation is every other models so you go I go. Models function more like multi wound independent models. It uses command instead of focus and the really strong abilities(like feats) make you use permanent command points. It has mentalists with Auras for buffing/debuffing and infernalists spell casters that use lemures tiny familiars to cast spells. I like it better then warmahine. Smaller level and not so over the top.

You lot are convincing me to join in!

27k Down

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1188790300/hell-dorado-miniature-skirmish-game-inferno-expans/posts/410318

35k is a free minis

anyone have a guess what the mystery minis is?

In at 2x Hell, sad I missed the discount price :/

Pic of the stretch goal. Those are some awesome models.

 squall018 wrote:


Pic of the stretch goal. Those are some awesome models.

Balgin from the KS speculates the mystery mini is alternate sculpt based off the picture of Sister Eloise in the core rulebook. It does look like a pretty close match.

Do you have a pic of sister Eloise?

The new models coming out certainly look to be high quality sculpts. Great models + awesome artwork + adult setting = win, win, win!

How could you ever run out of ideas with a game set in Hell?