MYTH (MERCS Minis) - Kickstarter 2 starts March 9!

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**lucasbuffalo**

ced1106 wrote:
Well, here's what's in the first wave...

First Kickstarter Shipment Bonus Items

6 - Packs of Card Sleeves with Art Depicting Female and Male Heroes; 50 Acolyte Sleeves, 50 Apprentice Sleeves, 50 Archer Sleeves, 50 Brigand Sleeves, 50 Soldier Sleeves, 50 Trickster Sleeves

If you bought them as addons there are also 50 sleeves for the Spriggan and Skald Characters

8 Metal Hero Tokens (Show Male/Female on reverse)- 1 Acolyte, 1 Apprentice, 1 Archer, 1 Brigand, 1 Soldier, 1 Skald, 1 Spriggan, 1 Trickster

52 Metal Treasure Tokens (Note: these so not match the colors used in the Rulebook and on the Item Crads. The symbols embossed on them do match. Also, there are more Copper/White Tokens than the carboard version in the game, you need to remove two right off when setting up your treasure bag.)
- 32 Copper Colored White Treasure Metal Tokens (possibly only 30) my 32 may be the fluke
- 15 Silver Colored Green Treasure Metal Tokens
- 5 Gold Colored Blue Treasure Metal Tokens

1 Torchbearer Metal Follower Miniature (1 Figure, 1 Backpack, 1 Plastic Base)

1 Kickstarter Exclusive Story Quests Booklet, 18 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches

http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1142189/a-complete-component-breakdown-for-the-base-game-

Were the card sleeves for Spriggan and Skald optional add-ons, or were those supposed to come if you bought the heroes?

**spiralingcadaver**

Thanks, Ced

**yamato**

You had to add on the sleeves for either the skald or spriggan

**nkelsch**

More Myth Stuff! Pretty happy with the models!

You can see all my Myth stuff here:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.229604120563884.1073741834.229102460614050&type=3&uploaded=6

Acolyte

Archer

Brigand

Soldier

Orcs

Arachnids

**Azazelx**

Aren't the sleeves just non-functional card covers?

**Ahtman**

nkelsch wrote:
More Myth Stuff! Pretty happy with the models!

You can see all my Myth stuff here:

Well I'll just go throw my stuff away and cry in the corner now.

**nkelsch**

Ahtman wrote:
nkelsch wrote:
More Myth Stuff! Pretty happy with the models!

You can see all my Myth stuff here:

Well I'll just go throw my stuff away and cry in the corner now.

The crawlers are literally 2 colors + wash. Zanduri Desert, Bleached bone sharp parts and then agrax earthshade brown wash. Black dots for eyes with white dots for shiny spot

The blue arms are just fenersian grey with azureman blue wash

The poison sacks are goblin green with a dot of scorpion green, washed in thrakka green then white parts added.

All the heroes are just 'color within the lines' washed completely in agrax earthshade. Most heroes are only 5-6 colors.

Yoooooooooo Can Dooooo Eeeeeeeeeet!

**BobtheInquisitor**

@CincyDooley

Are you still interested in selling two of your arachnid minions?

**RogueRegault**

Azazelx wrote:
Aren't the sleeves just non-functional card covers?

A lot of us would consider "Protecting cards from wear and tear" a function.

And the fact they have the character art on the back makes them look nice.

**Azazelx**

No need to be a dick. I obviously meant in game terms. While I'm sure they look lovely, as they're non-functional, it means they're far from an essential KS purchase like additional characters - and it means they can easily be repped by aftermarket ones for those who don't especially care about the official ones.

**plastictrees**

The Soldier continues to be one of the worst minis I've seen in the last few years.

Definitely a little worried about having backed this now. Was hoping to have a game to play with my boys down the road but I may have to look at some chibi stuff instead.

**Ahtman**

A big shipment came in today, so hopefully the wave 2 stuff will be going out soon which will also mean our International friends won't be waiting much longer either.

**Alpharius**

Really?

All the wave 2 stuff just arrived?

That's a lot quicker than I expected - especially as I'm really looking forward to the 'corrected' rulebook that's due to ship with Wave 2!

**Ahtman**

Alpharius wrote:
Really?

All the wave 2 stuff just arrived?

I don't know, I just know there was a big shipment that arrived. This is why I said it was 'hopefully' second wave.

**nkelsch**

FAQ out:

http://megacongames.com/wp-content/uploads/dlm_uploads/2014/04/FAQ_v1_rgb.pdf

Woof... I thought GW FAQs were large... This is giving me a headache reading...

**yamato**

That's the first FAQ,... They also have a much better walk through "first game" document as well.

The best news that we have is not a total reprint for wave two, but some of these additions should be included as hard copies.

They are now working on the full redo on the rule book, and they said that it will be available initially as a download, but that it would be printed and sent out to all backers as part of the expansion. KS (maybe later this year),....

The most interesting to me was that they indicated that they would be doing some card reprints at that time as well,.... Not bad.

**Alpharius**

Right...

Anyway, anyone have any idea is it really was the WAVE 2 stuff that just arrived and is being prepared for shipment to all?

**yamato**

I never heard anything about a shipment arriving,... Maybe they said something in the comments section,.......

Automatically Appended Next Post:
From yesterday:

We are still on schedule to receive wave 2 end of april. I will tell you if we don't get them or they are delayed. If everything works according to plan (and why should it, nothing has so far) we will fill all international first, then finish up with domestic.

**usernamesareannoying**

fyi if anyone is interested.
they put up a pdf of the rulebook.
the new walk through is also really nice. it explains a lot of stuff.

**Alpharius**

usernamesareannoying wrote:
fyi if anyone is interested.
they put up a pdf of the rulebook.
the new walk through is also really nice. it explains a lot of stuff.

I think we're all pretty interested!

Links?

**usernamesareannoying**

sure...

im sorry but im not sure how to link the files directly.
here is a link to the page that they are on though.

http://megacongames.com/games/myth/

**yamato**

The walk through and FAQ on that page are new,... The rule book is the same as before,... But that is in process of being gp changed now.

But the best and most valuable download in my mind is actually the Card Reference,... Check it out.

**Alpharius**

Still no word on if that 'big shipment' was the MYTH WAVE 2 stuff?

Though really, what else could it be?

**yamato**

I never saw any mention of a "big shipment" other than what Ahtman said above,....

I'm not sure where that is coming from.

**Ahtman**

yamato wrote:
I'm not sure where that is coming from.

I speculated the shipment might be wave 2, since they were both set for April. It was just speculation, and I didn't mean for it to came across as anything more than that.

**yamato**

I think the question is,... "What shipment?" Where did you hear that there was a shipment received?

**Triple9**

Had a quick conversation with Mercs at Pax and asked about the second shipment. A little hazy from memory, but either wave 2 just finished production and was about to leave or had just left China.

There were only about 500-600 European backers, so shipping to them should only take a few days and it shouldn't cause any undue delay for domestic shipping to start.

Doing the math and assuming no holdups in customs, looking at probably mid to late May for domestic shipping, but that's with my rough math rather than anything they said.

Take my 2nd hand information for what it is. As an aside, Recon seems like a lot of fun and everyone was really nice.

**yamato**

Did you get to do a demo of Recon,.... What did you think?

**Triple9**

I did and liked it quite a bit. In fact, my non-board gaming friend I was with said he could see buying it and having a lot of fun. It's different enough from anything else that it seemed overly complex at first, but after a few minutes of sitting down and asking questions everything just kind of clicked. I think Mercs will take the lessons learned from the Myth rules and really get this one right.

Even though it's very different and shares almost nothing in common, I keep thinking of it as Gears of War on Steroids.

I was in for $120 and playing it definitely solidified my pledge. I'm toying around with bumping it to $200, which I wouldn't have thought to do the other day.

**spiralingcadaver**

managed to get a Captain level... blogging in the painting blog section, but was particularly happy with the Terror: