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Hi everyone,

Representing Haste Games, I would like to introduce to DakkaDakka our new project titled 'The Empire' which is a medieval fantasy faction with an aesthetic of Spanish Tercios, which will be shown little by little through our facebook page simultaneously with this thread.

https://www.facebook.com/hastegames

We are pleased to announce the first project of Haste Games which will come out in the form of a crowdfunding campaign from the Kickstarter platform in mid March and will give life to our massive battles medieval fantasy board game.

'The Empire', a faction of humans consists of modular plastic miniatures in 28mm heroic scale, with 9 main regiments, including heroes and special units.

We will offer the latest information, news and exclusive unreleased material on the Empire and its background through our fanpage. So if you are expectant to know more about us, feel free to follow us and share with your friends.

'The Empire' Kickstarter Campaign is now LIVE !
Back us on Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/haste/the-empire-28mm-heroic-scale-medieval-fantasy-huma

We will appreciate all your comments and stay tuned for new updates

These look pretty good - I look forward to more info, and pics!

Looking very promising!

Exciting stuff! Hoping one of your planned regiments has full plate legs, for reasons.

Full plate would be nice on the legs. The current fabric looks like thick rubber for some reason.

I like it!

As I've said about Mantic's attempts, I think it's a mistake to try to beat the Perrys at their own game. These look a lot better than Mantic's, but they're still just pseudohistorical men.

They look very promising! Lovely piece of artwork as well, very evocative.

These look nice and interesting; looking forward to seeing more!

If like you've said these are 28mm heroic and compare well to GW I'll just hand you my bank card now.

Looking forward to this!
Regards,
Howie.

Following on from my last comment, do you think you could pick the most ahistorical of your plastic kits to show next? Whether it's angels, spellsword regiments or women, something that can't be found in a historically accurate range?

Looks like the bases are integrated, is that the case, or is the round disc they are on just part of the design system?

Alpharius wrote:These look pretty good - I look forward to more info, and pics!

Manchu wrote:Looking very promising!

Blackhoof wrote:I like it!

Pacific wrote:They look very promising! Lovely piece of artwork as well, very evocative.

Trodax wrote:These look nice and interesting; looking forward to seeing more!

thanks for your compliments, soon there will be more information and pics

plastictrees wrote:Exciting stuff! Hoping one of your planned regiments has full plate legs, for reasons.

I can not disclose much information yet but you will not be disappointed

BobtheInquisitor wrote:Full plate would be nice on the legs. The current fabric looks like thick rubber for some reason.

It may be because of color of the renders but Im sure that you will change your mind once you see a painted mini.

howie wrote:If like you've said these are 28mm heroic and compare well to GW I'll just hand you my bank card now.

Looking forward to this!
Regards,
Howie.

Thats right, I assure you that them will be fully compatible with gw's

AlexHolker wrote:As I've said about Mantic's attempts, I think it's a mistake to try to beat the Perrys at their own game. These look a lot better than Mantic's, but they're still just pseudohistorical men.

Them are not historical exactly. Units are fantasy, but we rely on historical clothing to create them.

AlexHolker wrote:Following on from my last comment, do you think you could pick the most ahistorical of your plastic kits to show next? Whether it's angels, spellsword regiments or women, something that can't be found in a historically accurate range?

We will be releasing more content, but most of the ahistorical material will be saved for the release of the kickstarter campaign since special units and heroes are the most fantasy units.

Theophony wrote:Looks like the bases are integrated, is that the case, or is the round disc they are on just part of the design system?

Bases are not integrated, in fact all pieces comes separated, we will include regular squared bases apart from the units in each regiment's boxes. What you see in the pictures are just part of the design system.

http://i.imgur.com/IJFdW1P.jpg

I'll need a set of Victoria's Spanish Inquisition for this game.

Because... nobody will expect it.

Can we expect pikemen? I really hope so. Do love me some pikemen. What type of plastic is it that you're planning on using? PVC like PP and AOW? Or plastic as in hard plastic that GW use?

I asked about the heroic scale as when I look at the sizes of the hqnds the looked more in scale to historical models I have rather than the empire line that GW produce.

I'm really looking forward to this release I've always wanted to do an estalian esque army.

Kind regards,
Howie.

 howie wrote:
Can we expect pikemen? I really hope so. Do love me some pikemen. What type of plastic is it that you're planning on using? PVC like PP and AOW? Or plastic as in hard plastic that GW use?

I asked about the heroic scale as when I look at the sizes of the hqnds the looked more in scale to historical models I have rather than the empire line that GW produce.

I'm really looking forward to this release I've always wanted to do an estalian esque army.

Kind regards,
Howie.

Hi Howie,

I was not supposed to disclose that, but since many people are asking me about that, yes, you can expect them. we are using hard grey plastic for regiments and high quality resin for special units and heroes.
Measures compared to gw are quite the same, we wanted that if you place one of our minis beside one of them you can't notice that it is from another manufacturer apart from the aesthetics of the units.

 Haste Games wrote:
We will be releasing more content, but most of the ahistorical material will be saved for the release of the kickstarter campaign since special units and heroes are the most fantasy units.

 Haste Games wrote:
we are using hard grey plastic for regiments and high quality resin for special units and heroes.

Is there any overlap between the fantasy units and the plastic units? Or are the plastic units all just men with pseudohistorical equipment?

Thanks for getting back to my questions. I can't wait to pledge to this.

Kind regards,
Howie

AlexHolker wrote:

 Haste Games wrote:
We will be releasing more content, but most of the ahistorical material will be saved for the release of the kickstarter campaign since special units and heroes are the most fantasy units.

 Haste Games wrote:
we are using hard grey plastic for regiments and high quality resin for special units and heroes.

Is there any overlap between the fantasy units and the plastic units? Or are the plastic units all just men with pseudohistorical equipment?

All units remains to fantasy, clothes from regiments are more inspired into historical clothes, but for special units such as generals you can expect a different touch.

howie wrote:Thanks for getting back to my questions. I can't wait to pledge to this.

Kind regards,
Howie

Thanks you for supporting us, if you have any other question don't hesitate to ask me.

We just released some pictures of a painted swordsman, hope that you guys enjoy it.

Swordsman soldier - 28mm heroic scale
Painted by: Arsies studio

That's pretty epic, the paintscheme is nice and the model itself looks great.

 Paradigm wrote:
That's pretty epic, the paintscheme is nice and the model itself looks great.

Thanks for the compliments

That swordsman looks absolutely lovely. Hope the other models look as good once they're in hand!

What type of plastic will you be using?

Sweet mother of.
That swordsman looks great. I can't wait to see the rest of the range. The painting is a far higher standard than mine will do them.

I know I keep harping on about it, but for me and probably others scale is a big thing. Would it be possible to get a scale shot with other ranges... like GW.

Do we have any word on money costs yet?

Can't wait.
Kind regards,
Howie.

 Haste Games wrote:

 howie wrote:
Can we expect pikemen? I really hope so. Do love me some pikemen. What type of plastic is it that you're planning on using? PVC like PP and AOW? Or plastic as in hard plastic that GW use?

I asked about the heroic scale as when I look at the sizes of the hqnds the looked more in scale to historical models I have rather than the empire line that GW produce.

I'm really looking forward to this release I've always wanted to do an estalian esque army.

Kind regards,
Howie.

Hi Howie,

I was not supposed to disclose that, but since many people are asking me about that, yes, you can expect them. we are using hard grey plastic for regiments and high quality resin for special units and heroes.

Should have kept on reading the comments.

Since they will not be that horrible crap called "restic" I will strongly consider kickstarting this.

I love the look of the swordsmen Haste games. My only critique is that it appears that the detail on your render is very shallow. The chunkier and sharper that detail is, the easier it will be to paint. A master painter can take very shallow detail and bring it out, but details as shallow as the rivets on the shield, the stacked armor plates, etc. will disappear under most painter's brushes.

Is the name a big middle finger to Warhammer? Because I'm in if it is.

If you check the Discussions area, I did a post about a week or so ago about companies constantly doing zombies, orcs, orks, nazi's, nazi zombies and 781687168238236 female figures and that we needed more guys in platemail in 28 heroic scale.


A week later you post this...exactly what I wanted. I shall endeavor to help you kickstart this. Huzzah!!!!!




Automatically Appended Next Post:

 AlexHolker wrote:
As I've said about Mantic's attempts, I think it's a mistake to try to beat the Perrys at their own game. These look a lot better than Mantic's, but they're still just pseudohistorical men.

Except th Perry's stuff is 25mm truescale and doesn't match well with GW stuff.

Brother SRM wrote:That swordsman looks absolutely lovely. Hope the other models look as good once they're in hand!

Ty

howie wrote:Sweet mother of.
That swordsman looks great. I can't wait to see the rest of the range. The painting is a far higher standard than mine will do them.

I know I keep harping on about it, but for me and probably others scale is a big thing. Would it be possible to get a scale shot with other ranges... like GW.

Do we have any word on money costs yet?

Can't wait.
Kind regards,
Howie.

We will not show any comparison directly for reasons but I think our painter will do in his blog. Anyways, we are the first ones who want our minis have the same measures as gw's, we still have to make a bit changes here and there so we will make sure that the scale and dimensions will be really similar.

Piston Honda wrote:

 Haste Games wrote:

 howie wrote:
Can we expect pikemen? I really hope so. Do love me some pikemen. What type of plastic is it that you're planning on using? PVC like PP and AOW? Or plastic as in hard plastic that GW use?

I asked about the heroic scale as when I look at the sizes of the hqnds the looked more in scale to historical models I have rather than the empire line that GW produce.

I'm really looking forward to this release I've always wanted to do an estalian esque army.

Kind regards,
Howie.

Hi Howie,

I was not supposed to disclose that, but since many people are asking me about that, yes, you can expect them. we are using hard grey plastic for regiments and high quality resin for special units and heroes.

Should have kept on reading the comments.

Since they will not be that horrible crap called "restic" I will strongly consider kickstarting this.

Thanks!

Gallahad wrote:I love the look of the swordsmen Haste games. My only critique is that it appears that the detail on your render is very shallow. The chunkier and sharper that detail is, the easier it will be to paint. A master painter can take very shallow detail and bring it out, but details as shallow as the rivets on the shield, the stacked armor plates, etc. will disappear under most painter's brushes.

Hi Gallahad, excellent critique, let me explain this.

As you can see on this sample, this was not about the paint job, we already enhanced all the details as you mentioned:

We come from the videogame industry and our first set of regiments were made in human being proportions, then we adapted all the pieces to an heroic scale, sculpting all the details way more prominent after we contacted with some of the best miniature painters in Spain to analize our products and tell us about their weaknesses, so right now we are sculpting all the miniatures this way but we find out that renders in heroic scale look really bad and its hard to appreciate how it will be the model after its printed, thats why we thought that the best idea would be show the first renders before they were scaled, since they show better how the product is after the printing and painting process. So you can be sure that all pieces will be perfect for the painting process.

Scipio Africanus wrote:Is the name a big middle finger to Warhammer? Because I'm in if it is.

General Hobbs wrote:

If you check the Discussions area, I did a post about a week or so ago about companies constantly doing zombies, orcs, orks, nazi's, nazi zombies and 781687168238236 female figures and that we needed more guys in platemail in 28 heroic scale.


A week later you post this...exactly what I wanted. I shall endeavor to help you kickstart this. Huzzah!!!!!




Automatically Appended Next Post:

 AlexHolker wrote:
As I've said about Mantic's attempts, I think it's a mistake to try to beat the Perrys at their own game. These look a lot better than Mantic's, but they're still just pseudohistorical men.

Except th Perry's stuff is 25mm truescale and doesn't match well with GW stuff.

Thanks for supporting us !