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Graveyard is coming- and it is magnificent.

And the big guns.

It's awesome, but $60 is pricey.

Graveyard is awesome, really strong out of the gate. I was expecting the crypt to be a whole third of an expansion but there's a lot in that first chunk.

Ma'aldrakkar is very neat but I can't justify 60 bucks on a model right now even if its gonna retail 100-125, I guess I'll pass. Good news that Graveyard is so awesome so far. May get goremaw and or a smaller dragon/shub instead of Ma'aldrakkar.

Well, the pledge manager is going to be open for months, so plenty of time to save. That crypt looks great! Tiamat seems totally worth it. I kind of wish they'd cool it on the big scenic base pieces, but that really isnt a figure you're going to be moving around the game board. on the upside, it looks like the sphinx and manticore are separate from their bases.

Bossk_Hogg wrote:
that really isnt a figure you're going to be moving around the game board.

Speak for yourself

I bought a GW Garden of Morr when it was still being made. It wasn't $50. Hopefully they add more to that so the value is really there for you guys. Everyone deserves a good graveyard terrain piece.

$60 for the 5-headed beast. That's more than the biggest two from the last one combined. o_0 I know it's massive but the point of this whole thing was supposed to be "affordable" miniatures IIRC. When that thing goes retail it'll be $120+ without a doubt. That means the $90 Ultraforge Dragon, Vermithrax is available at $47 and maybe just a tad smaller, DnD Attack Wing Tiamat is definitely smaller but about $47 on Amazon, but the retail will be cheaper than GW's Smaug at $450 or whatever and the Heresy Dragon at 250 GBP. This isn't meant as a bash, just a bit of perspective for people who might not have done any research into it.
There is also this.. available right now. http://www.amazon.com/Design-Toscano-Lysander-Five-Headed-Sculpture/dp/B004AB71H0/ref=sr_1_49?ie=UTF8&qid=1437610190&sr=8-49&keywords=5+headed+dragon

I kinda like the worm and I do like the hobgoblins. The look is a bit more asian than I might've wanted but the designs are very nice. Also not sure multiples of that pack would work very well as those are extrmely characterful designs.

Looking again, the ruins on the 5-headed dragon are massive but they kinda look generic. Also, take a look at the placement of the mold lines.. That'll take a bit of work.

Judging by the total ticking up at a visually measurable pace, I'd say this update is pretty well received.

No interest in the dragon, but I would love his base...

Just in for stone henges....so many stone henges...right now. Hoping we get some more of the graveyard expansion.

anyone looking for a wave 3 pledge, mine just openned up. I decided to step out of the campaign because the current US to CAD exchange rate is terrible. I just can't justify paying for something now at the current rates that I will get in a year. I could deal with the high shipping or the exchange rate. But together it's just to much of a one two punch for me.

Bossk_Hogg wrote:
Well, the pledge manager is going to be open for months, so plenty of time to save. That crypt looks great! Tiamat seems totally worth it. I kind of wish they'd cool it on the big scenic base pieces, but that really isnt a figure you're going to be moving around the game board. on the upside, it looks like the sphinx and manticore are separate from their bases.

If we add money after the campaign ends do the prices go up?

Pester them for Ma'aldrakkar's base as an add-on, they broke up DDS last time.

 MLaw wrote:
There is also this.. available right now.

What drives me nuts is that sometimes you get a good paintjob, and sometimes you don't. That's why I don't buy these figures or prepaints. I can do a better job, although I'll probably be dead before I get around to painting these things.

The not-Tiamat is taller than Dragons Don't Share II, but only a little above 12", which is the height of the painted resin figure you linked to.

Graveyard expansion looks like the most versatile set of mini's. Hope the gamers who dropped out early find out about it.

Four big figures would set me back $100+, which I'd like to save for Cthulhu Wars and Oathsworn MIniatures. Still picking up the expansions, dragon with mount, mouselings, and weird puppet guy with BATTLE PUGS.

I keep reading this as "Hobogeddon".

Usually the big pre-painted collectors fantasy stuff that's intended to be decorative has a more consistent paintjob. I really think that thing is intended as a end table piece and if you look at their other products, they really are more focused on quality. Now, if we were talking about big pre-paints from Wizkids, Paizo, WotC, etc etc.. then yeah.. absolutely, it's hit or miss. I just bought up a bunch of giants that are pre-painted and fully expect to go over them with my airbrush and do a bit of touch up. On the smaller pre-paints, I think stripping them is the way to go. A lot of people don't realize exactly how much paint is slopped on top of those heroclix, etc.. It's a lot. Many of those actually have very nice sculpts underneath. As a matter of fact, one of the guys that has sculpts in this (James Van.. Something..) did a lot of stuff for Heroclix. If you get that paint off it's like a whole new figure (look up stripping heroclix on youtube).

Either way, they put on their rocket skates now, so it's interesting to see how this develops.

 plastictrees wrote:
No interest in the dragon, but I would love his base...

Just in for stone henges....so many stone henges...right now. Hoping we get some more of the graveyard expansion.

I was thinking the same thing!

Can't justify $60 for that thing, but I might have thought about it at a lower, Bones Friendly price.

Would add in for just the base though!

$60? Not if it's popular.

We meant "$90".

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
$60? Not if it's popular.

We meant "$90".

I told them they needed to triple check it's pricing before the reveal

Besides, they know it will be popular.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
$60? Not if it's popular.

We meant "$90".

lol, they admitted to adding in premiums on figures they assumed would be more popular. I believe it was ReaperBryan posting on the @Reaper account manager profile. He just casually put it out as part of an explanation about how they figure out what bones will cost. It followed the phrase "it's all part of a complex formula".. which in my experience usually means we don't really want to answer that because you won't like the answer..
I'll be honest.. $60 is higher than pretty much everyone was expecting.. I know they were watching what people's guesses were and it seems like they are using pawn shop owner logic.. if you can get it close to that.. then you can get it a little over that.


I'm still not in, but I'll admit, I've got a friend adding some small stuff to his order for me. The lycanthropes.. man.. too many years of Werewolf the Apocalypse..

Yay! More terrain. As long as there is another building or two I'm so in it's stupid. Especially if they eventually break up that big dragons base.

Goremaw the Devourer is a keeper, but I hope they aren't going $30+ with his retail price. He seems much more simple than Mousharff.

The graveyard expansion looks great so far. I can't wait for the reveal that the third section is filled with minis of grieving grandchildren.


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To show I'm not all snark, though, I really will be buying hundreds of bones minis over the next few years. Heck, I'll be buying lots of CAV minis...depending on how they turn out.

Love the concept art for the hobgoblins. Should be quite the treat. The not-tiamet is jaw dropping gerogues. Even thow I dropped my core set, I might go back in for $1+60 just for that beast. I would imagen the retail on that sucker to be like $120 and not be able to get free shipping when it goes to the webstore for general sale. lol

(Or at worst, it would end up like the clock-work dragon. For-ever out of stock on their website....)

 Alex C wrote:

Bossk_Hogg wrote:
that really isnt a figure you're going to be moving around the game board.

Speak for yourself

Lol, fair enough. I gave up on that when I realized that in 1 inch = 5 foot in 3rd edition, my colossal red dragon had a fly speed of 40 squares (inches). At over 3 feet per standard move action, my table wasnt big enough to do a combat of that scale justice unless the participants were simply standing still trading blows. At that point I would just narrate the combat. I'm totally getting one regardless of in-game use.


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 Risible wrote:

Bossk_Hogg wrote:
Well, the pledge manager is going to be open for months, so plenty of time to save. That crypt looks great! Tiamat seems totally worth it. I kind of wish they'd cool it on the big scenic base pieces, but that really isnt a figure you're going to be moving around the game board. on the upside, it looks like the sphinx and manticore are separate from their bases.

If we add money after the campaign ends do the prices go up?

They didnt the last 3 campaigns. They actually get more money, since Amazon/Kickstarter doesnt take a cut. Just be sure to pledge a buck now.

Gonna squeeze him in to one of my KoW armies

Not sure if he should count-as a Slasher or some sort of Abyssal...

I'm wondering if that previewed graveyard golem ends up in the cemetery expansion.

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
I'm wondering if that previewed graveyard golem ends up in the cemetery expansion.

Most likely.

Bossk_Hogg wrote:
Lol, fair enough. I gave up on that when I realized that in 1 inch = 5 foot in 3rd edition, my colossal red dragon had a fly speed of 40 squares (inches). At over 3 feet per standard move action, my table wasnt big enough to do a combat of that scale justice unless the participants were simply standing still trading blows.

Oh, right. I'm also dropping $120 on this stuff this week. Each of those tiles is 9" across and this is what you get for $60.

TerrainTiles KS: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1376478938/terratiles-coasts-and-rivers-tabletop-terrain-syst

And only 8K to the next Reaper SG...

I'm a bit disappointed with the current core pledge offerings; it's a bit underwhelming. The only models I really like from it are the Ogres, first three Lycanthropes, and the Eastern Legends Ogre with his fabulous gourd.

Seems like all the good stuff is by way of add-ons this time. Maybe I just need to wait for this thing to get closer to $3M?

Eh, I think in Bones I and II, Reaper went through their supply of the most in-demand models. So now they're doing the fringe stuff. I figure if you were in Bones I and II, you have the mainstream models, but if you weren't, you're not getting the staples.

Their upcoming prepainted Legendary Encounters should return back to the bread-and-butter mini's.

Anyway.. FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT

Sir Forscale has balls of steel to go raising his sword in that room...

I don't think i know a word for how much I want that hideous, giant, multi-headed dragon in my life.

the undead dragon form Bones II, I always thought I wanted, but having seen it in person, it strikes me as sort of out-of-scale due to being very simple and very large. It breaks the barrier between toy and miniature for me, in the wrong direction.

But this? I want two. One to sit and stroke, and the other so I can attempt to bring it down to one head with an awful lot of sculpting. I'm not sure that'll work without seeing a front-view.

Wah.

At $60, I really think Sir Forscale should be included.

I have to disagree in Bones 2. I went back to look and that KS was all garbage. This one is much better. Bones 1 was epic of course.

Bones II core set was still better than this one, imho. Ced's probably right about them scraping the bottom of the barrel here. The lack of Sophie doesn't help (with that impression) either.

But, again, maybe it'll be more attractive Saturday afternoon.