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Early reports seem to indicate that CMON's WoK KS seems to have 'solved' many of PVC's 'problems', so there's certainly more hope now than before, right?

 Alpharius wrote:
Early reports seem to indicate that CMON's WoK KS seems to have 'solved' many of PVC's 'problems', so there's certainly more hope now than before, right?

Well, the bar hasn't been set too high previously. So while I'd certainly say the problems (greatly?) alleviated, I'm not sure I'd categorize it solved.

 Alex C wrote:

 Vermis wrote:
So this basically looks like Space Wolves with a wee bit less of the WOLF WOLF WOLF obsession. But with added chainmail bikinis to make up for it.

Vikings were a thing before GW put them in space, you know...

Don't be silly. Everyone knows that Valhalla is in the Segmentum Obscurus, that it is the fourth world orbiting the star UrSurtre and was liberated from the greenskin in M37 by the Scathatch 824th along with Astartes allies from the White Scars and a Ravenguard sucessor chapter called the Nameless Ones. It now hosts a Space Marine fortress monastery from the Scaegh Ni Thradgh chapter of space marines, sometimes called the Magma Vomiters.


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 cincydooley wrote:
I really must be the only person on earth that is pretty darn happy with what he got with sedition wars.

And I'm the only other person. Oh well.

Is there a release date other than February?

No CMoN don't reveal exact dates for their KS until very close to the time (as in few days before) in case anything changes. Even then it's not widely publicised beforehand some KS have gone live and that's the first heard of it.

palaeomerus wrote:

 Alex C wrote:

 Vermis wrote:
So this basically looks like Space Wolves with a wee bit less of the WOLF WOLF WOLF obsession. But with added chainmail bikinis to make up for it.

Vikings were a thing before GW put them in space, you know...

Don't be silly. Everyone knows that Valhalla is in the Segmentum Obscurus, that it is the fourth world orbiting the star UrSurtre and was liberated from the greenskin in M37 by the Scathatch 824th along with Astartes allies from the White Scars and a Ravenguard sucessor chapter called the Nameless Ones. It now hosts a Space Marine fortress monastery from the Scaegh Ni Thradgh chapter of space marines, sometimes called the Magma Vomiters.


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 cincydooley wrote:
I really must be the only person on earth that is pretty darn happy with what he got with sedition wars.

And I'm the only other person. Oh well.

There are three of us. But all my sets came from clearance at miniaturemarket.com or off of the swap shop for even less than that.

I'm still a bit confused about this game. The explanations of the game and the pictures of the maps and cards in this thread kinda make me think the game is like Vikings of Catan, battling for resources and whatnot but not really requiring miniatures. Then there's the pictures of the minis that look very nice but I'm not sure what they're for. This isn't a Viking clan skirmish battle game right? Is it going to be some sort of dungeon crawler through the wilds of Scandanavia? Can somebody tell me just what kind of game this is going to be?

Prestor Jon wrote:
I'm still a bit confused about this game. The explanations of the game and the pictures of the maps and cards in this thread kinda make me think the game is like Vikings of Catan, battling for resources and whatnot but not really requiring miniatures. Then there's the pictures of the minis that look very nice but I'm not sure what they're for. This isn't a Viking clan skirmish battle game right? Is it going to be some sort of dungeon crawler through the wilds of Scandanavia? Can somebody tell me just what kind of game this is going to be?

From what I've been told it's more similar to Chaos in the Old World.

Which would make sense as it is a Eric Lang design.

KS pushed back to March

Painted Frost Giant

Production Miniatures

yeh they have definitely delivered the quality. Kudos to them and Dust as well.

Those are 'production miniatures'?!?

Wow!

I'm in!

How certain are you those are production models? They look good, but almost too good... what's the scale?

They posted them on facebook as production miniatures so that's the real deal. Scale is 32mm sculpted at 35mm to shrink. There are 46 miniatures in the box including the larger monsters. http://cmon.com/blood-rage-is-coming-to-kickstarter/

Closer look and the Bear clan standard

Hrm... I am interested, though a bit skeptical on material at the moment. The detail level says "HIPS" but a box of pre-built models says "restic."

The models are PVC not HIPS those production models are PVC.

Is it a comparable process and plastic that what you guys are using with The Others ? (it looks great)
5 hrs

Blood Rage - exactly the same

That's some impressive detail for PVC. I wonder if anyone will see them in the field before the KS. A reliable third party seeing them in person would go a long way towards me wanting to back this.

If nothing else they will fit in nicely with my Conan figs.

Curious how much the entry level price will be.

CMON commented on Facebook somewhere that it would be reasonably priced...

I'm not sure we all have the same definition of what reasonable is.

Any idea Dave? I'm sure it'll be under 100, maybe somewhere between 50- 75?

46 figures in the box with big monsters sounds more on the high end of the spectrum. That's just me though.

No idea sorry but I'm expecting $100 including stretch goals following previous KS pricing for similar games

I'm thinking the 'sweet spot' will be in the $100 - $150 range, and that there will be tempting add-ons that will drive the 'gotta get 'em all' amongst us to be spending around $350...

I'd be surprised if it gets up that high. It is a board game in the vein of chaos in the old world. Maybe there are some add on factions and whatnots, but I'm not sure I could see it getting upwards of $300.

This is the point where I'd love to be a pompous gloater and say, "I told you so" regarding the minis, but that would be classless and tacky.

Holy crap those are looking impressive.

 cincydooley wrote:
This is the point where I'd love to be a pompous gloater and say, "I told you so" regarding the minis, but that would be classless and tacky.

Ha, ha, yeah, if this is the quality that Monolith manages to churn out for Conan I admit I'll probably feel a pang of regret for not backing that one.

Well the thing is that none of us knew until now because the Monolith guys did not bother paying off a tool and test run before they launched the KS. It would have been as easy as that.

 cincydooley wrote:
I'd be surprised if it gets up that high. It is a board game in the vein of chaos in the old world. Maybe there are some add on factions and whatnots, but I'm not sure I could see it getting upwards of $300.

This is the point where I'd love to be a pompous gloater and say, "I told you so" regarding the minis, but that would be classless and tacky.

Ha!

I'd be happy if this one tops out well under my predictions - because I love everything shown so far!

Wow! I wasn't a fan of the frost giant at all, but those "production" human sized models look fantastic. Like Wehrkind said, I hope they send some out for review! Because it certainly looks like they knocked those particular models out of the park.

Those look...noticeably better than my Dust Babylon minis?! Those have still problems with small details like eyes being vague and teeth blending into the surrounding lips, which doesn't seem to be the case here. The sculpts themselves don't have super exagerated deep cut lines, though, so it can't be just the sculpting. Is the material a different blend from that used for the Dust line?

Is the Rum and Bones stuff produced by Dust? With the same material? I think it isn't, right?

I'm tapped out, though, between SDE:FK, Rum and Bones, Fireteam Zero and now Conan (damn you for getting a Conan done by JAG) I'll get more minis than I'll ever be able to paint even disregarding my "real" tabletop minis. I don't have space for it as well, so at most one more and that has to be The Others. If someone had told me that after 2009 Space Hulk tbere'd be even more board games with good models I wouldn't have believed it.

Frost Giant Production miniature





One pledge level $75 - 2 Week campaign, there will be some EBs probably $70

A lot cheaper then I expected I wasn't sure if I was going to back as there are other KS coming up and The Others is of more interest to me but if I can get away with $100 (inc shipping) then I'm tempted.

$75?!?

And we're seeing 'production' minis that look this good?

Impressive!