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2015/02/02 17:45:34
Subject: Sneak peek at the super duper secret next Red Box Games project
Kirasu: Have we fallen so far that we are excited that GW is giving us the opportunity to spend 58$ for JUST the rules? Surprised it's not "Dataslate: Assault Phase"
AlexHolker: "The power loader is a forklift. The public doesn't complain about a forklift not having frontal armour protecting the crew compartment because the only enemy it is designed to face is the OHSA violation."
AlexHolker: "Allow me to put it this way: Paramount is Skynet, reboots are termination attempts, and your childhood is John Connor."
2015/02/02 20:46:21
Subject: Sneak peek at the super duper secret next Red Box Games project
Heavy Aenglish with visors down. Yeh I really should have made the recent Aenglish more modular with optional closed helms. I do plant to expand the Aenglish again with closed helms but I am not sure exactly when I will be able to get to them. First I must get the new Armoured Elite HelsVakt and Mounted hero done and my " Mercenary of Reknown " done as well for the next KS. I am open to expanding any line from the RBG catalogue that people want to see funded! We shall see.
That would be awesome Tre! I definitely wouldn't mind seeing some new HelsVakt either- I love my hordesmen!
2015/02/02 21:01:04
Subject: Sneak peek at the super duper secret next Red Box Games project
Gallahad wrote: Extremely useful Weeble. Some of those are larger than I thought. So basically if I stick with the Njorn and the Helsvekt I will get guys on the bigger side of Tre's line?
Yea, absolutely. Tre's miniatures are basically the same general scale as Hasslefree miniatures. They are pretty big, they're just finely detailed and more realistically proportioned. You'll find that the Aenglish will fit comfortably on their 25mm round bases and stand as tall as a neighborly 30mm+ miniature.
The Njorn are usually a little taller and more muscled, so they look less dissimilar alongside more 'heroic' miniatures. The Helsvekt are a bit taller and more heavily muscled still.
Now, the Aelfar will potentially look weird next to more 'heroic' miniatures. This is because they are like D&D elves, shorter, slighter, more delicately proportioned. They have thin faces and supple limbs. Consequently, the differences between this style of sculpting and exaggerated 'heroic' proportioning are more glaring.
What models are you wanting to put Tre's next to?
I'd say (if you have them) the Njorn with Chaos Warriors, Chaos Marauders, Empire Guys, etc. And the Aelfar with various flavours of Elves from whichever manufacturers you have.
Automatically Appended Next Post: And a Space Marine.
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On Topic..........This new project is the ultimate beneficiary of the other RBG KS projects to come before it. I have learned a LOT about the KS process and refined my goals and plan for this new project. I admit I do have some rather grandiose plans for it ( minis, rules, terrain, cards ) but I am keeping the first offering as realistic as possible and I am focusing on fast delivery first and foremost.
The success of Monolith's Conan has galvanized my dedication to this project. Not that it will be another " Conan" but that obviously there is sufficient interest in the genre to warrant special focus.
2015/02/09 21:30:18
Subject: Sneak peek at the super duper secret next Red Box Games project
  Sorry I have been out of pocket lately. I have been in the midst of a cross country house move. It did not go smoothly to say the least. We were unable to rent a truck of appropriate size to carry all of our belongings so we had to prioritize what we carried int eh first and will have to go back for the rest. Then the house we were going to rent had issues that made it unacceptable to live in so we had to spend a week living out of a hotel room looking for a place. We did find a house to rent but it is smaller than the house we left ( not by much but just enough ) so now we are trying to settle in with less space. it has been difficult but we are OK now and getting back to work.
  I have gone through my messages and noted any mispacks and will be spending the rest of this week correcting those issues. I assure you that that won;t happen again. Undertaking fulfillment AND a house move was clearly more than I should have been trying to handle at one time. I imagine that correcting the mispacks will be finished by friday.
  Now that I am back to work I am gearing up for my next KS effort which I plan to launch by Monday the 9th. This time around I am seeking first to finish out the Helsvakt army with the most requested units. The first goal will be to fund a mounted Champion and 5 armored elites. The armored elites will all be single piece castings and will be available as a themed set of 5 and the Champion will have both mounted and afoot versions. After those I would like to fund a Helsmaiden hero both mounted and afoot. After her a unit of helsmaidens afoot. After that war staff for the Hordesmen, and after those a couple of Jotunn.Â
 Beyond those?? Well who knows? We shall have to see what comes.
 Oh and I feel the need to also create a sullen eyed, black haired hillman, mighty thewed and iron tempered to do battle against the hordes, so expect that as one of the early offerings as well.
 Cheers everybody and thanks for backing again!
 tre'
I'm guessing Tre's still recovering from his move.
I dont mind it being a bit late, hopefully it'll run till my next payday (27th)
I got my ks figures last week, their really crisp sculpts and I'd love to jump in again on the next one.
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2015/02/09 21:45:43
Subject: Sneak peek at the super duper secret next Red Box Games project
See this post from last page, he's got another standard RBG Kickstarter launching shortly, and this project will be his next after that I believe:
Spoiler:
RiTides wrote: These two quotes from Tre (taken from the last two updates on the most recent campaign, but only the parts dealing with what's coming next) indicate that another project for his existing line will be up first:
Tre Manor on Dec 19th wrote: In the mean time I am working on getting my next efforts together. I took the last month off to gather my wits a bit. I still have the energy btu I am not quite certain what to do with it first. I still need to finish out the Njorn but I get a lot of calls to brign back the Helsvakt Armoured elites and Horsemen and then there are other aspects of the HElsvakt that could o with expansion...namely the craven and HelsMaidens. Then I also have been thinking a lot on expanding the Infernals as well. The old armoured Helsvakt elites ( gynnade krigare ) were just too expensive to produce and sell for a reasonable amount to make units with so if I were to revisit that idea the figures woudl be less modular and probably slightly less bulky. And I have been wanting to make some Njorn Equivalent figures as well.
Right now the next KS will be structured a bit differently to previous campaigns. I am going to open the campaign with a bit higher of a funding goal to cover the initial offerings but those initial offerings will be a bit " bigger ". I want to open with two factions, and have a monster or mounted champion for each and a set of character / elite troops for each. You will be able to buy any of the figures as individuals but you will also have the ability to pledge for " full sets " including the champ / monster and troops for each faction or for both factions together, and you will be able to pledge for sets of the troops separately as well. I am going to plan to make one mounted champion or Monster champion, one set of " regular " ( probably 4 with limited modularity maybe ) foot troops, one set of " brutes" ( probably 2 or 3 ), a set of ranged troops ( probably 4 ), a Special troop type ( like 1 monster or 3 elites ) and one or two additional characters ( probably a mage and a melee or missile character ) per faction for at least 2 factions....at least that is the ambition. I can do it if I have you all behind me. I am still working out the pricing for the sets but I want to try to keep the Full Monty ( Champ + 3 troops + 2 characters ) at or below $100 per faction.
This will be a 20 campaign and will launch in early January.
Right now I am most inspired to create some Helsvakt and Njorn BUT the Infernals could always use a little expansion as well.
So what do you all want to see?
Tre Manor on Jan 7th wrote:Now.....on to KS 6......as of now I am working on Hordesmen war staff and a mounted Helsvakt Champion. I would like to open the next campaign offering the Champion, the hordesmen Warstaff ( captain, musician, and standard bearer. ) and new set of 4 or 5 armoured elites.....which I have yet to chose a name for as Gynnade Krigare never really rolled off the tongue well. These will be offered as individuals and in sets. I won't be launching the next KS until i ave these first figures sculpted and ready to go to the moldmaker so do not expect the next KS until sometime aroudn the end of January.
So, sometime soon will see the launch of another campaign for RBG miniatures. I'm not opposed to this at all just noting it here since it does mean this project isn't up next, although perhaps it's still being worked on in the background.
Edit: Whoops, ninja'ed twice
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2015/02/10 21:32:18
Subject: Sneak peek at the super duper secret next Red Box Games project
yes.... I PROMISE the " Other " world project is next up. I just wanted to get the HelsVakt wrapped up as I get a LOT of emails about it. So I will fund whatever I can sculpt over 30 days and then move on to the Other Project there after.
And yeh I am still in the settlign in phase of the mvoe trying to catch up to the order back log and settling mispacks from the KS fulfillment.
2015/02/10 21:50:43
Subject: Sneak peek at the super duper secret next Red Box Games project
I know this project here is making me seriously consider not pledging for that other Conan project...
Well, I'm pretty sure that the Conan KS will deliver at least 12 months late and wind up not meeting folks' expectations. It smells just like lots of other KS campaigns that promised big and failed to live up to the hype. What amazes me is that people keep saying, oh but it will be different this time. Shadows/Sedition/Relic/etc. failed for reasons. This one is going to be different.
Well, I'll believe it when I see it. Delivered by October...what are they smoking?
Kirasu: Have we fallen so far that we are excited that GW is giving us the opportunity to spend 58$ for JUST the rules? Surprised it's not "Dataslate: Assault Phase"
AlexHolker: "The power loader is a forklift. The public doesn't complain about a forklift not having frontal armour protecting the crew compartment because the only enemy it is designed to face is the OHSA violation."
AlexHolker: "Allow me to put it this way: Paramount is Skynet, reboots are termination attempts, and your childhood is John Connor."
2015/02/11 03:23:34
Subject: Sneak peek at the super duper secret next Red Box Games project
Well all I will sayis that OCtober IS a VERY optimistic delivery date for Conan.
As for this project......the Mutants are a special pleasure for me btu to be honest there are goign to be LOTS of things that will spur the imagination here..... If Wobble's reaction to a few of the prototypes was anything to go by anyway.
2015/02/11 04:23:52
Subject: Sneak peek at the super duper secret next Red Box Games project
RiTides wrote: I love that your device always changes his name to wobble
And this means he's seen prototype pics... and held out on us! Get the tar and feathers!!
I saw them in person, actually. I didn't take any photos.
They're ridiculously cool though, and I think the models will make great sets for skirmish games. I saw several unique sculpts for the same 'type' of miniature, so if the game size is modest, there should be few, if any, repeats.
One of the things I really liked about the mutants, for example, was that the three 'ranged' mutants, armed with the same type of weapon, were wildly different.
Kirasu: Have we fallen so far that we are excited that GW is giving us the opportunity to spend 58$ for JUST the rules? Surprised it's not "Dataslate: Assault Phase"
AlexHolker: "The power loader is a forklift. The public doesn't complain about a forklift not having frontal armour protecting the crew compartment because the only enemy it is designed to face is the OHSA violation."
AlexHolker: "Allow me to put it this way: Paramount is Skynet, reboots are termination attempts, and your childhood is John Connor."
2015/02/11 14:47:18
Subject: Sneak peek at the super duper secret next Red Box Games project
I cannot help but think " Weebles wobble but they don't fall down. "
Yeh my goal is to try to keep repeats to a minimum in the game. I also want to create a wide enough range of models for each faction that two players could play the same factions against each other and have a very similar make-up of abilities in their warband but still each have a unique ( or mostly ) warband. This will make it more expensive on my end but oh well. I want to create something truly special. Making a ton of money is great and all but I do truly prefer to create something truly spectacular with longevity and presence.
2015/02/11 15:32:19
Subject: Sneak peek at the super duper secret next Red Box Games project
Any update as to when the Helsvakt KS will launch? I need more horde to hoard.
I'm also very excited that the special project will kick off in the near future. It will be great to have RBG minis that have a game designed around them. I still haven't settled on a skirmish game to use with the Njorn and Helsvakt I already have.
Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur
2015/02/11 17:44:57
Subject: Sneak peek at the super duper secret next Red Box Games project
I AM working on getting rules and fluff ready for the existing RBG line. Just one of the MANY things on my plate right now. Patience.
The new Helsvakt KS launches between friday and monday depending on how much work I can get done between now and then. I have three of the new Armoured elites just abpotu finished and 2 more under way but I also want to get the mounted hero in there from the beginning as well.
2015/02/11 18:24:55
Subject: Sneak peek at the super duper secret next Red Box Games project
Sounds great about the multiple sculpts per unit type on the next project! That definitely has me more interested, as I dislike using repeat sculpts unless they are modular... but for something like your bonebacks, there were enough variants that repeats were hardly necessary, which makes modularity unneeded. So, looking forward to seeing more when the time comes!
2015/02/11 18:30:06
Subject: Sneak peek at the super duper secret next Red Box Games project
tre manor wrote: I AM working on getting rules and fluff ready for the existing RBG line. Just one of the MANY things on my plate right now. Patience.
The new Helsvakt KS launches between friday and monday depending on how much work I can get done between now and then. I have three of the new Armoured elites just abpotu finished and 2 more under way but I also want to get the mounted hero in there from the beginning as well.
Why not use the same rules and "world" - with the existing RBG stuff simply located on a different continent? Kind of a Warmachine/Hordes arrangement?
.... Well when you see the world and read the fluff you will understand why very clearly. The worlds are very very different and one could never exist along side the other without both losing their identity and plausibility.
In fact where the current RBG line is very much a world based on historical and physical plausibility this new world is anything but on both accounts.
Teh rules also reflect the character of both worlds. Magic for instance would function very differently in each world and play different roles in the character of the worlds.
2015/02/12 12:18:29
Subject: Sneak peek at the super duper secret next Red Box Games project
Hopefully you can write up or have written some background to explain that when seriously getting into the next project, as I'm sure a lot of people would be wondering similarly otherwise. I'm up for a new world, I just need to know what that world is
