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Yeah look at MA. Boat load of retail sales apparently, biggest game yet even though the kickstarter was more modest than DZ.

Could end up with something like that here. I mean... won't they technically make more money on the long road if they do a modest KS, and punt a crapton of copies to retail down the road?

Itching to snatch one of these early birds before heading to work.

From Mantic facebook:

Mantic Games
1 min ·
Thirty minute warning guys! Be ready to check out the goodness that is Dungeon Saga in t -30 mins!
We'll get the link posted here as soon as it goes live!

I'll be jumping on an early bird. I loved Heroquest growing up and this looks like it'll be a great dungeon crawl. I'm especially interested in the booklet for creating your own scenarios, as well as rules for all the models in the Kings of War range.

I'm sure that's the case. Most casual boardgamers aren't going to drop $200+ on a game sight unseen and not delivered until 6+ months from now. The KS doesn't have to fund molds for more than a base game and two or three expansions.

7 minutes!

Phew! Somewhere between backer 2 and 103.

Have they said there will be rules for ALL the models in the KoW range?

I saw the bit about rules for all the UNDEAD models, but nothing about the entire KoW range...

 Alex C wrote:
Have they said there will be rules for ALL the models in the KoW range?

I saw the bit about rules for all the UNDEAD models, but nothing about the entire KoW range...

Ronnie said it somewhere, I think in the Beasts of War interview, that there would be rules to use all the models in the Kings of War range. I'm guessing it'll probably be a stretch goal type expansion thing, but I remember him saying it. I could be wrong but I don't remember him saying it was only the Undead range.

Hmm, that'd be cool. I've got enough random fantasy figures to sub in for any of that stuff.

It is live, and the EB saves you a whopping $5, so no rush, really.

link?

I went ahead and got the EB. 5 bucks is 5 bucks and all that. Now to actually read the page and see what I pledged for.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1744629938/dungeon-saga-the-dwarf-kings-quest

At $30k already.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1744629938/dungeon-saga-the-dwarf-kings-quest

And what it contains right now is...unimpressive.

Clearly it will grow, but it has to be chock full of 'fake stretch goals' at this point.

Found it:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1744629938/dungeon-saga-the-dwarf-kings-quest

EBs goin' quick but yeah only $5 off.

22 minis at the start?

Ha!

Funded in 4 minutes!

I am a little surprised they have the delivery set to next August. Giving themselves PLENTY of time on this one.

 Alpharius wrote:
22 minis at the start?

Ha!

Likely to be more than double that by the time the stretch goals are done.

Edit: EB goals are gone, and it's still growing by $100/second (1 regular pledge), makes for quite interesting watching. Now what do we do for the next 27 days?

Yeah a full year is unexpected for this.

$25 shipping for Australia seems a bit steep, about the same for the much larger previous kickstarters.

 Alpharius wrote:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1744629938/dungeon-saga-the-dwarf-kings-quest

And what it contains right now is...unimpressive.

Clearly it will grow, but it has to be chock full of 'fake stretch goals' at this point.

They're really going to add quite a bit to make the $100 attractive when compared to Descent.

Interesting that they are board game plastic and not miniatures typical plastic.

Wow. Four minutes and it's funded. That's pretty sweet.

And now with the EBs gone in 5 minutes there's little point for too many people more to jump on board day 1, since what you get as listed so far is solidly unimpressive, especially for tha sking price.

Roll on the typical Mantic fake stretch goals to get it to the base value you pledge for, and see where we go from there.


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 cincydooley wrote:
Interesting that they are board game plastic and not miniatures typical plastic.

Not really. They've been pretty upfront about that sort of thing. They're going for boardgame-with-miniatures like MA rather than miniatures boardgame a la DZ.

Hmmmm. Well, I was hoping for a larger number of miniatures to be available from the start, to be honest, but I'll throw a pledge on in a few days when I've got some money on my pre-paid visa.

 Azazelx wrote:
Roll on the typical Mantic fake stretch goals to get it to the base value you pledge for, and see where we go from there.

Yep pretty much.

First stretch goal is a whole three miniatures.

Well, due to an incredibly slow internet connection, I missed out on the early bird pledges.

Now I'm just annoyed and can't be bothered pledging right now anymore.

Well, I grabbed an EB, but I'm a bit undecided. We'll see what happens.

3 miniatures is fine, $25 000 for them isn't! Not for a single pose. That rings out as the 'fake' part - I can easily understand how it might take $50 000 for the base game - a lot of design, model types, specialised printing.