The Ongoing Mierce Miniatures Darklands New & Rumors Thread

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**RiTides**

Zed - Thanks for the list

. Is there a reason the remaining sculpts for Metal Age are all listed as unassigned - that seems like a typo?

**Bolognesus**

That's mostly the drinking champions, I don't think there's been that much motion on those so probably not a typo (but OTOH it's a couple relatively minor conversions so hardly something that would weigh them down enormously; it's not something to worry about too much)

**decker_cky**

Just received one rulebook in Canada (another on order hasn't shipped yet).

**zedmeister**

Updates!

Ax-Crom

For the first time in a while, It's Mierceday here at Darklands: First Edition II - possibly even the second-but-last update for this project, at least in terms of new miniatures to show!

This week we have:
sculpt work in progress images from Martin Lavat;
a list of what miniatures are currently being sent in their various waves;
an updated list of sculptors and sculpts for this project;

...and anything else you can expect from us over the next few months.

Let's begin!

There's just one miniature to show today, and after that there'll only be two left; so don't expect many updates from this project from now on...

The alternate of Crom, Ax-Crom, has been so long in coming we thought he'd got lost: but here he is, thanks to Martin Lavat - and he's definitely been worth the wait!

Ax-Crom should be a Wave 12 shipment.

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And more!

Bulls and Wocors

Wowser! It's another Mierceday, everyone - and, as always, we have some superb miniatures to show you...

This week we have:
sculpt work in progress updates from Duncan Louca and Bob Plociennik;
an updated list of sculptors and sculpts for this project;
...and anything else you can expect from us over the next few months.

Let us begin!

This week we have miniatures from three kindreds to show - something old for the Atalantes, courtesy of Duncan Louca; and something cool for the Brythoniaid thanks to Bob Plociennik!

Duncan Louca has worked wonders on the Atalantes fellows so far - and Dynatos follows that trend brilliantly. Imagine this guy smashing into your enemies' battleline...You'll need an HTML5 capable browser to see this content.

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He will probably be a Wave 13 shipment, thanks to printing times; but we'll see...

Gungonn's Brood is finished, thanks to Bob Plociennik's hard work!

The last remaining warrior of the unit - the alternate of the banner bearer - is Cob ap Mab, and here he is!

That's the unit done - but again, these guys may not make it into Wave 12 due to printing times. Let's hope so though!

**zedmeister**

Valenin Zak...!

Crossbows and Slings

We have more Darklands: Savage Hordes miniatures to show you this week, and they're utterly awesome, even if we do say so ourselves...

This week we have:
sculpt work in progress updates from Valentin Zak;
an updated list of sculptors and sculpts for this project;
a list of what ships, when;[*]...and anything else you can expect from us over the next few months.

Here we go...

The Albainn and Érainn get some treatment from Valentin Zak this week, and what treatment it is!

Valentin Zak's work on the Albainn Gairlom is amongst some of our most amazing human miniatures, and we're hoping the Crossbows of Dun Durn will be just as good. I say hoping, I mean expecting - Valentin is awesome!

Galan is the champion of the unit and a tough old git...

Early days, but the pose is there.

The first warrior of the unit, and a female, is Wurgesta...

Her pose has changed a little from the artwork, so we'll see if it works!

Cimoith is loading his weapon.

Bend that back! Put some effort in lad!

Another lassie, Unen has already shot some unlucky beggar and is reaching for another bolt...

Bolt, not bolter.

A hoary old warrior, is Calorc!

These guys, we're hoping, will be ready for Wave 12 - but we'll see.

Ahhhh... the Fir Bholg Hurlers. Valentin Zak does it once more, and these guys prove to us that he should do all our Albainn and Érainn miniatures!

Dougal is the champion of the unit, and pretty ugly, although that goes without saying for the Fir Bholg.

Just don't get in the way of his dinner!

Feargal looks a bit glum, and we don't know why.

Maybe it's because he's not had some ale recently?

A mighty big fat Fir Bholg, is Feargus, and we love him and want to cuddle him, wierdly.

These guys are complete, so they should be a Wave 12 shipment!

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Watch out for that bell end...

The Bells!

Here's the one you've been waiting for... the third update for the Darklands: Savage Hordes II project, and one in which a certain Hippo-Man will knock you off your feet!

Here we go...

We have something for the Byzantii, thanks to Allan Carrasco and his amazing work!

No words required here. Except one: ONUMO!

A shot of his back frame and secondary weapon...

...and a look inside the bell of doom!

Onumo will definitely be a Wave 15 shipment...

**Ian Sturrock**

Some really nice minis coming up, there. I especially like the Fir Bolg -- very characterful! -- and the varied poses on the crossbow unit.

I have to say, as a fairly recent convert to Mierce, that I am MUCH more likely to buy the metals than the resins. The resin stuff just seems to be too fragile. Mierce are very good at replacing stuff that arrives broken, but my minis with spindly parts like spikes have pretty much all had some stuff broken off by the time I've carefully finished assembling them. You can glue them back together... if you can find the bits... but, yeah. Metal for me, from now on, I think, much as this stuff is gorgeous.

**Alpharius**

Same here - I go metal for anything I can among the kindreds I collect!

Of course it's only resin for the big beasties, but I'm ok with that too.

**zedmeister**

For the Angelcynn, a boar beast. Meant to be mounted on a 100mm base!

**Azreal13**

**RiTides**

Ah... now That, that I need

Looks like it's a possible option for £45k, I really hope it's chosen as that's pretty much the sweetest looking boar ever! There actually are very few good ones on the market - and several of the ones that are are from Mierce

(but not of this size and ferocity!)

**Baragash**

**Alpharius**

Update #16

May 7 2016
£33,750 - Marzaon, Chimaera

Huzzah! The Ysians have joined the party with the fantastic Marzaon, a Chimaera of ferociousness set at £33,750 to unlock, which is not far away... get pledging!

Marzaon is based upon the Ungefelic miniature - a Mantichora - gaining the head of a bull and the head of an eagle for a chimera of smaller proportions than The Terror of Fortriu, and thus more likely to be seen on the battlefield.

Increase your pledge by £45 to purchase Marzaon, who will only be produced in resin. Marzaon is a MIGHTY MONSTER and so can also be included as a monster within in the FIVE MIGHTY MONSTERS reward!

Watch out for more MIGHTY MONSTERS soon!

I've asked if this smaller Chimera also has a breath weapon attack - I hope so!

But based on the heads, maybe not?

**Joyboozer**

No, I am alphabets!

**Alpharius**

Joyboozer wrote:
No, I am alphabets!

Ha! I just saw that!

(I'll fix it for him here!)

Anyway, sad news!

Does the new Chimera have a breath weapon?

Creator Mierce Miniatures 5 minutes ago

@Alpharius - no

**Joyboozer**

Why can't it have a fart weapon then?

**GiraffeX**

Update #17

May 8 2016

£37,500 - Trolls of Gunnheim, Great Cleaver Troll Unit

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Here's something for the Norse. They've been coming for a long time, and we thought this project would be the ideal opportunity to unleash them - so here's the Trolls of Gunnheim, a Troll with Great Cleaver Unit! Set at £37,500 to unlock, which is not far away...

The Trolls of Gunnheim comprise three existing miniatures - one of which will convert into a great cleaver variant, Vörtun; Gjöll and Unnolg are fine as they are - and two new Trolls, Gando and Valdr. There's also an alternate warrior of the banner bearer, Jöllu!

Increase your pledge by £75 to purchase the Trolls of Gunnheim unit, or - with Jöllu - £85. The unit of five or six can also be purchased within the "FIVE GARGANTUAN MONSTERS" reward, comprising one of those five choices!

Update #18

May 8 2016

£36,250 - Murderous Cúlaítar

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With the almighty strength of Crémharunc the Earth Beast now unlocked, let's give the Érainn something more to deal with their enemies... the awesome Murderous Cúlaítar, set at £36,250 to unlock!

Murderous Cúlaítar is an oak beast based upon the original Cúlaítar miniature, now armed with high crosses - the better to batter an enemy to death with! He is a Wild Monstrous Beast of the Érainn and will stand on a 120mm base.

Increase your pledge by £60 to purchase Murderous Cúlaítar, who will only be produced in resin. Murderous Cúlaítar is a MIGHTY MONSTER and so can also be included as a monster within in the FIVE MIGHTY MONSTERS reward!

Update #19

May 8 2016

£45,000 - Schyrós, Venerable Khelon

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It's time to bring you another MIGHTY MONSTER, and something totally different, too. Here's Schyrós, a huge and implacable Khelon for the Khthones - set at £45,000 to unlock!

Schyrós is of the Khelones realm within the Khthones kindred and is a Wild Monstrous Beast. Used as a beast of war in the armies of Ophios, Schyrós is invaluable to his cause and a terrible enemy of the Atalantes.

Increase your pledge by £60 to purchase Schyrós, who will only be produced in resin. Schyrós is a MIGHTY MONSTER and so can also be included as a monster within in the FIVE MIGHTY MONSTERS reward!

**RiTides**

Turtle's great, but hope the boar can get slotted in somewhere before the end, too! Will need a big day Monday but should be possible

**Joyboozer**

That turtle is awesome.

**Alpharius**

RiTides wrote:
Turtle's great, but hope the boar can get slotted in somewhere before the end, too! Will need a big day Monday but should be possible

I think this one will end up between £40K and £50K - maybe.

The problem here, if there is a problem (and I don't think there is!), is that the 'good deal' is already out there and available, but for some reason people aren't jumping in on it!

The '5 Mighty Monsters' pledge for £250 basically is a 'buy 4 get one free' thing, but only IF you want 4 or 5 of the big beasts on offer this time around.

It looks like people don't really know this, or it isn't resonating enough with them, or it isn't 'obvious' enough - not like the "Alix Bonus" or the "Spend (x) to get (y) Free!" bonus from SH2?

This campaign feels a lot like the "Monstrous Mounts" campaign, which was intentionally limited in scope - but with a bit more variety this time around as a bonus.

I think maybe the timing of this one is a bit off too - maybe if the hardcover rulebook (which is just making its way to backers now) had been out for a bit longer, and with the 'general public' too?

Either way, there's a lot of fantastic stuff on offer right now, and I hope we get to at least £50K - even though that will mean a lot more damage to my bank balance!

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

It's a lot harder to get people to throw in £60 for a fantastic monster to help the unlocking,

comared to a£60 host where even if they can't afford the full thing people might manage £10 for a commander, £30 for a unit of people or £35 for a smaller monster which keeps the total moving

(and once you've thrown in that £35 you start thinking about how much better of a deal the full host is, and a few days later give in and stick in another £25)

I've also seen quite a few people who now they have the book are consolidating to 2-3 kindreds in preparation for actual play, where before they were spreading themselves more widely, so there's less choices they will actually want

(and no doubt coz I can't add anything this time and just threw in my max on day 1, sigh)

**GiraffeX**

The problem some people might have is that £250 is a lot of money to spend to get a free model, Alix was cool as you could choose how much you wanted to add depending on what monster you wanted.

Unless you're in the Infernii boat there's only one or two monsters per kindred as well so depending how many you are in for already its quite limiting.

Most of the models aren't really grabbing my attention either which is a first to be honest. Athena is nice but I'm not in for Atalantes at this point in time which only leaves the Peat Beasts and Howling Cnebba. Schyrós is rather amazing though just a long way off.

**zedmeister**

He's rejigged the offers available:

New Reward Deals!

In response to many requests from you, our loyal backers, we've decided to give you two new "deal rewards" that give you much more flexibility than the "five monster" deals - and a bit more of a discount too, with the bigger one!
MANY MIGHTY MONSTERS

With this reward you can choose any number of monsters or monstrous infantry from this project, as long as their total Kickstarter price (in purple) does not exceed £300 - all for just £250 ($375), effectively giving you £50 worth of monsters for free!

So, for example, you could choose five MIGHTY MONSTERS at £60 each, or maybe five MONSTERS at £45 each and Great Axe Krull at £75... any combination you like!
MANY GARGANTUAN MONSTERS

This reward allows you to choose any number of monsters or monstrous infantry from this project, as long as their total Kickstarter price (in purple) does not exceed £500 - all for just £400 ($600), effectively giving you £100 worth of monsters for free!

Remember, you can choose any monster or monstrous infantry unit shown in this project, including those from the "MONSTERS" or "MONSTROUS INFANTRY" graphics!

Important Things To Understand

There are two important things to remember about the "MANY MONSTERS" rewards, however:
1 - THE "MANY" REWARDS WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE POST-PROJECT - i.e., you must back this project, and choose one of the "MANY" rewards, to get that deal. Restricting this to backers only ensures we hit those stretch goals that everybody wants - purchasing them post-project doesn't unlock anything!
2 - To choose what you'd like, simply tell us your choices when you manage your pledge after the project, in the "Special Instructions" box when you go through our website's basket.
3 - If your choices do not reach the total Kickstarter price for a reward, that's it - you will not be given the remainder in Moneyback. It's up to you to extract the maximum deal!
4 - Do not choose anything from previous projects as part of these rewards - you will simply be asked to choose something else if you do.
5 - You can go for both "MANY MONSTERS" rewards if you wish, or choose multiple amounts of either. If you go for either "many" combination reward, you will have access to both post-project.

That's it Miercenaries - we've given you the flexibility, now use it!

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The big beetle is unlocked and there's a new concept: Ograx warrior

**RoninXiC**

What a concept!

**Alpharius**

Update #21

May 9 2016
£42,500 - Trolls of Vartheim, Leiptroll Unit

The Kickstarter commenters have spoken... put out to a vote as to what would be the £42,500 stretch goal, the Leiptrolls won!

The Trolls of Vartheim are Wild Infantry of the Norse on 40mm bases and around 40-50mm tall. Able to devastate their enemies with lightning strikes, these guys come a bit keen and no mistake - so don't miss out on them!

Increase your pledge by £36 to purchase the Trolls of Vartheim in metal, or £54 to purchase the Trolls of Vartheim in resin.

Watch out for more stretch goals shortly!

**zedmeister**

Norse need them, for sure. But can't help feeling that the Boar would have been a better goal for drawing in random backers...

**RiTides**

Yeah, I agree - but of course polling current backers isn't going to result in that usually! Really hope the Boar gets slotted in somewhere, the art is just awesome

**Bolognesus**

Haven't Troll units generally been quite a draw to Mierce KSes in the past anyway?
Besides, I'm not so sure what crowd an OMGfethuge boar model would suddenly pull in, tbh... It's not like it's something all that iconic like a dragon or demon or chimera or somesuch.

**Alpharius**

And that kind of underscores why the performance of this KS is what it is - and that's not saying it is 'bad' or 'underperforming', just that it is doing about what it should be expected to do.

The "Monstrous Mounts" template, vs. a campaign with lots of 'hosts' and such, for lots of Kindreds.

Mierce is a self-professed Kickstarter Company, with 4 a year being the usual for Darklands.

There's talk of running another campaign IMMEDIATELY after this one when it doesn't hit £50K, in order to 'unlock' everything that isn't unlocked now - not sure how much I like that idea though...

Also:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mierceminiatures/darklands-mighty-monsters/posts/1570570

Update #22

May 9 2016
£34,000 - Maatmäg, Gigantic Mammox

He is already being produced of course, thanks to a previous mailshot and project, but we thought it would be remiss not to give you the option to grab him as part of this project. So here he is, the mighty Maatmäg - a Gigantic Mammox that will be yours at £34,000!

Maatmäg - a huge monstrous beast for the Fomoraic which will probably be bigger even than our biggest so far, Krull - will be sculpted by Dan Cockersell, a master sculptor who has sculpted a number of our amazing monsters, most of which are our best miniatures! The mighty Krull, for example; or our amazing Chimaera, The Terror of Fortriu; or Blood-Maw, or Uuthüll, or many, many others.

In short, Dan produces masterworks for Mierce, sculpts that would dominate any host as its centrepiece and that beg a fantastic paintjob - but don't take our word for it: have a look at the work in progress shots of the mighty mammoth below...