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Should I just have my salary paid direct to you, Kaine? Saves messing about then, doesn't it?!

I am, and have quite a few of both. My concerns stand.

What kind of bases are these going to have? Are they going to be round for skirmish style as illustrated above or thick warhammer type bases (Or even better both round and square in order to choose from)?
I think Renedra has some but they are for neither type of the ones really needed (skirmish or WHFB).

Another question, if your funding goal is 60K in order to get to the plastic goblins and then start unlocking the metal characters, what figure are we looking for concerning the zombies, and yet later on what will it take for the plastic lizards? I mean plastic tooling sounds good and all but I'm getting dizzy trying to imagine what it would take to bring this to fulfillment.

I have a further meeting with Renedra soon so I am not in a position to confirm anything at the moment suffice to say that I am looking at reducing the costs if possible. When it comes to basing I will provide the Warmachine style lipped round bases although I am looking at supplying warhammer style square bases to give pledgers the chance to pick. The problem with this is that the more bases I buy the cheaper they get. Splitting styles means they cost more money, but either way I will do what I can to make this accessible to everyone!!

Trust me on this please. Pick ONE base style and supply only that. I made the mistake of using of too wide a range of bases and it has really been a problem for various reasons. Keep it simple is always the best way forward.

I don't think Azazelx has been keeping up with this thread, maybe?

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How so?

Not angry enough?

 tre manor wrote:
Trust me on this please. Pick ONE base style and supply only that. I made the mistake of using of too wide a range of bases and it has really been a problem for various reasons. Keep it simple is always the best way forward.

I don't think he can do that, we've seen two sculpts so far and they both need round bases since there is no way in hell that these would ever rank up. Also, goblins and zombies for WHFB need square bases, I doubt anyone would enjoy having to buy new bases only because the ones provided in the set are of the wrong type. Thus probably both should be included at this point, it will also help him differentiate from the rest of the competition.

Since im mostly looking at this for the skirmish campaign, would it be possible for the mass battle game to use movement trays similar to the lord of the rings mass battle game? Then you could keep the round bases for skirmish and plug them I the trays for the big battles. Oh course people will still base their figures as they desire.

Skirmish for me as well. I prefer rounds, but I honestly could care less what they end up on. Not going to be bothered much if half my force is on squares, while the rest are on circles, and maybe even a few cavalry rectangles, because why the hell not?

I gotta agree with Tre- pick one style and save yourself the headache. People will base their stuff with whatever they want in the end anyways.

It's also worth noting that you can get all sorts of bases at retail cheap, so it's not a massive cost for people to rebase their own models once they have them. Pick the ones best for your system.

Personally, I like 30mm lipped bases (Malifaux/Warmachine style) for Skirmish games.

I have checked pricing and I should be able to do both during the kickstarter.

The zombie Hulk is here. A mountain of flesh, bodies and parts of Underdeep dwellers formed into a single form. These creatures are lumbering behemoths, unstoppable hulks that only the mightiest, bravest foes can resist! Again Our artist has made the Zombie Hulk come to life with the details, I particularly like hands in its stomach holding its guts in its stomach and the humanoid form guiding the Hulk to its next victim!

Kaine Larson wrote:
I have checked pricing and I should be able to do both during the kickstarter.

Any reason you've chosen to go for the WM-style round lipped/rolled instead of standard 25mm round? More skirmish games (such as LotR, etc) use the standard bases.


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Nice hulk artwork!

Awesome artwork for the hulk

It's simply a personal preference and the preference of my gaming group. I think the lipped bases look great for skirmish games.

loving the hulk as well. I'm getting pretty excited for this KS.

Great artwork, and it looks bigger than I expected!

Kaine Larson wrote:
It's simply a personal preference and the preference of my gaming group. I think the lipped bases look great for skirmish games.

It may be sad to quote Joe Dirt but,

You need to give customer what they want, not what you want.

And that's what I have done. Almost universally the people I have asked preferred the lipped warmachine style bases. Any evidence to the contrary and I will re think this. So far I have had only one request for the 40k style bases. I am very happy providing these bases for people if they order them. But I will only be supplying one type of round base and one type of square base.

Shoot, I was all set to post that photo as soon as I saw it, and Kaine beat me to the punch this time!

How big of base will the hulk sit on?

From the artwork it looks BIG. I like BIG models.

How many limb attachment points is that thing going to have?

As I've said before, not a huge undead fan, but I'm a sucker for things with multiple extra limbs.

It will be 40k dreadnought big!

Kaine Larson wrote:
And that's what I have done. Almost universally the people I have asked preferred the lipped warmachine style bases. Any evidence to the contrary and I will re think this. So far I have had only one request for the 40k style bases. I am very happy providing these bases for people if they order them. But I will only be supplying one type of round base and one type of square base.

That's fair enough. I'd suggest that you run a poll before (or during) the Kickstarter campaign with as wide a range of your backers (potential, or better yet - actual) as possible. Anecdotal stuff isn't as useful as hard numbers for something like this.

Warhammer are almost the las game to have THEIR special kind of round bases.
Most other games don't care/give you the choice or use the lipped base.

Kaine does a grand job batting off the awkward Annie's. If I ran a KS I'd not have the patience to come on to the forums and remain so calm and level headed*

The Arcworlde stuff looks great on lipped bases, and WM/H look well too. I think GW have the visual identity with the 'standard' round bases.

But that's just my two pennorth!

*Im being flippant, such is my way. The other side of the coin though is there really are a some knowledgable and passionate people on here and they all just want something they're interested in to do the best it possibly can.

You're a good bunch.

Edited for ipad autocorrect shenanigans.

RoninXiC wrote:
Warhammer are almost the las game to have THEIR special kind of round bases.
Most other games don't care/give you the choice or use the lipped base.

And Warhammer/Mordheim/etc are so insignificant, right?

As I said, a poll would be the way to go.

Loving that Zombie Hulk! Are there going to be a few different styles of these with interchangeable arms? Would be great as you could modify them to look different across the group. But I am loving the designs thus far! I thought I would be mostly about the goblins, but I think I am now more for the Undead!

The hulks will come in a boxed set of a single model. We will probably have one body with a couple of heads and different arm combinations to make them look different.

Here we hjave the Bugbear Ironsheild, my favourite concept so far. He is armoured and equipped to be an armoured bulwark against invaders. There are often smaller tunnels and caverns that can lead to Goblin lairs and Hobgoblin strongholds. These "weak spots" are often defended by Ironshields. The biggest and braveest bugbears usually peroform this funtion as they are powerful enough to wield the enormous towershields and inch thick armour plates their calling requires.

Thats pretty darn sweet, how big is he going to be?