[Kickstarter] Blood Rage- Viking minis board game by CMoN, with Guillotine Games and Studio McVey!

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**Triple9**

I'm kind of torn with this one. I read the rules last night and they didn't interest me in the least. Not really seeing this one ever getting put on my table for gaming. I'll probably pull the plug on my pledge and pick it up at retail if the production figures are worth painting.

**Nostromodamus**

Triple9 wrote:
I'm kind of torn with this one. I read the rules last night and they didn't interest me in the least. Not really seeing this one ever getting put on my table for gaming. I'll probably pull the plug on my pledge and pick it up at retail if the production figures are worth painting.

Reading the rules is a borefest.

Seeing the game played really shines a light on the nuances. Though the players in the gameplay video are barely tolerable, it's worth a watch if you can filter the maniacal laughter out.

**Triple9**

I'll check it out. I've been conditioned to not even watch the CMON videos after the Wrath of Kings ones with the incessant 45 minute drumbeat.

**Dujek**

Heimdall unlocked.

Next up is Thor at $500k along with a box for the gods - apparently if all the gods are unlocked then it will be considered its own expansion.

Once we manage do unlock Thor, the Gods of Asgard expansion box will be complete! All backers will receive this in its own box, as part of their Ragnarök pledge!

So basically they used stretch goals to build up the roster of gods for an expansion, and backers get it for 'free' as part of their pledge.

**Alpharius**

Thor is OK, but I was hoping for something a bit more...Thor?

Maybe a bigger hammer?

Still, I guess that's somewhat easily modified later on.

I still like it though.

**Necros**

dreamy chris hemsworth he is not!

Wonder what they have planned next? fenris? elves? 6th faction?

I would have liked to see a whole list like some other campaigns do, even if they left off the dollar amounts

**Nostromodamus**

They just put a link in the comments showing a more impressive Mjolnir from their Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/bloodragegame/photos/a.737353909674649.1073741828.639521432791231/786784001398306/?type=1&theater

**JohnHwangDD**

Thor is a lot less buff-looking than I had expected.

**Trodax**

I've got to say I'm completely underwhelmed by the gods. There is just something odd in the posing of Tyr, Heimdall and Thor, and especially when compared to some of the awesome rank and file vikings from the core they're just looking like pretty weak sculpts to me. I understand some of it might be sculpting to take into account plastic shrinkage, but I didn't see that for the other vikings so I'm just not quite getting it.

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

It's probably just the sculptor, whenever you have two or more tackling pretty much the same material (Viking warriors) you risk one being significantly better than another

**Undead_Love-Machine**

Yeah, it certainly looks like a different sculptor (with a "different" sculpting skill level) did the gods.

At the moment I'm on the fence about backing this, it seems like waiting for retail might be a better option?

Perhaps towards the end of the KS I may see things differently...

**Alpharius**

Hopefully the Gods are a bit bigger in size too - have they posted any scale comparison shots?

**Nostromodamus**

Alpharius wrote:
Hopefully the Gods are a bit bigger in size too - have they posted any scale comparison shots?

No, but they have said they will be the same size as the human figures.

**Karazax**

I agree that the gods are rather disappointing as a whole so far. Thor looks like he is 50 years old and balding. Odin looks ok, the rest are mediocre or worse. Granted not all of them are finished yet, but I was hoping for something more impressive.

Maybe I will use the Marvel versions for Thor and Loki:

**BobtheInquisitor**

JohnHwangDD wrote:
Thor is a lot less buff-looking than I had expected.

Looks alright to me.
He could easily be a mechanic in Chicago.

**CptJake**

BobtheInquisitor wrote:
JohnHwangDD wrote:
Thor is a lot less buff-looking than I had expected.

Looks alright to me.
He could easily be a mechanic in Chicago.

He does look like one of the mechanics at a bike shop I used to go to when my old bike needed work, but that was in SE Georgia.

**Prestor Jon**

BobtheInquisitor wrote:
JohnHwangDD wrote:
Thor is a lot less buff-looking than I had expected.

Looks alright to me.
He could easily be a mechanic in Chicago.

God of Thunder and patron saint to babysitters everywhere.

**DaveC**

I thought that Serpent Priest looked like Remy's work alright - http://remytremblay-sculpture.blogspot.fr/2015/03/blood-rage-serpent-shaman.html

**BobtheInquisitor**

Prestor Jon wrote:
BobtheInquisitor wrote:
JohnHwangDD wrote:
Thor is a lot less buff-looking than I had expected.

Looks alright to me.
He could easily be a mechanic in Chicago.

God of Thunder and patron saint to babysitters everywhere.

You definitely don't want to spread rumors about him.

**Gomez**

I have to say that while I think this game looks really interesting and (most of) the models are quite well done, the escalating stretch goals are starting to bother me. There was a reasonable gap between them originally ($15K-$20K) and now they're up to $40K for unlocking comparable (or less) product? I'll be the first to admit I'm not privy to all their budgetary and production info., but that just seems like it's a reach and is a little off-putting IMO.

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

As more people back you have to pay for more product as everyone gets them,

and more time and effort in shipping etc

so as you backer total grows they tend to increase the stretches total to account for it whenever they are adding stuff to a sweetspot pledge

**Trodax**

Gomez wrote:
I have to say that while I think this game looks really interesting and (most of) the models are quite well done, the escalating stretch goals are starting to bother me. There was a reasonable gap between them originally ($15K-$20K) and now they're up to $40K for unlocking comparable (or less) product? I'll be the first to admit I'm not privy to all their budgetary and production info., but that just seems like it's a reach and is a little off-putting IMO.

Do you mean that you're annoyed that the stretch goals are coming with wider and wider gaps? That's just a natural necessity. Remember, in the beginning, when they had say 1000 backers, a stretch goal for an additional mini had to be financed so they could produce that mini and send it out in 1000 copies. But now, with 6000 backers, every extra mini added means 6000 copies to be sent out, i.e. more money is needed.

EDIT: Ninja'd by Orlando!

**CptJake**

DaveC wrote:
I thought that Serpent Priest looked like Remy's work alright - http://remytremblay-sculpture.blogspot.fr/2015/03/blood-rage-serpent-shaman.html

I saw this mini and for some reason started hearing 'Aqualung' playing in my head.

**Gomez**

Yeah, I understand that level of economy, I've just always assumed the majority of cost was in setting up the molds rather than pouring the plastic - so that making multiple sculpts or a large number of models was what jacked up the stretch goal amounts. I guess considering the quality of the (majority of) the sculpts and the rep of the sculptors they probably have to recoup more money from each one...

**greywulf**

I think some of the unimpressiveness of the gods sculpts is simply due to the fact that the sculptors are sculpting with the end product in mind, ie. single piece PVC figures. How many pieces do those Knight Model figures come in? The only thing i would change, if i were a famous sculptor being employed to do this, is to increase the size of the god figures. But the creators might be directing the artists otherwise.

**Azazelx**

Dunno. I thought the initial batches of figures looked damned impressive, and they're obviously going to be in the same material.

**DaveC**

There's the 6th clan and all backers get it at $710k

If we reach 710k, all backers will get the complete Wildboar Clan! All pieces pertaining to this clan are Kickstarter Exclusive, and so will never be available at retail. It is important to note that this will not be a 6th player expansion, as the current incarnation of the game was not designed and tested to be played with 6 players. This special gift is meant to add more variety to your games, giving you an extra option of an exclusive clan to play as!

This Stretch Goal will include everything needed to play the Wildboar clan:

8 Warrior figures - including two different sculpts!
1 Leader figure
1 Ship figure
11 small colored bases
2 large colored bases
1 Clan Sheet
1 sculpted Glory marker
4 sculpted Clan tokens

Bear Shamans next up

I'll admit I was wavering but the extra clan means I stick with and for $70 too.

**The Division Of Joy**

Really hope we get to that stretch goal, I was wavering too but I love those models

**Binabik15**

They look good, but Raven and Ram warriors are still a cut above the rest. Shamans are half-half and gods are blergh.

I'm impressed that this got so high in the end, I thought it'd pull much lower numbers than an add-on fest like Rum and Bones.

A dollar pledge would work, yes?

**DaveC**

It's the number of backers driving this 7028 so far at an average of $90 versus R&B 4417 $167 average.

the way they have added the Gods, Shamans and Boar Clan it looks like they didn't expect to get this far either.