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Much like the Game of Thrones terrain, I don't get why you'd tool HIPS terrain and not sell it retail. These seem like they'd be solid evergreen products.

I agree. Stuff like huts, hills, trees... that stuff goes beyond a specific game and can really get a lot of mileage on the tabletop. Kinda like Mantic's terrain, which they figured out would sell pretty decently unattached from any specific game with their Terrain crates.

CMON has form for it though, there was strong demand for the Plastic inserts from WoK (?) and they never bothered releasing them to retail (well their own webstore)..... well except the one design they didn't follow the art on, the Goritsi if I'm not mistaken,

although they did do some with microarts studio a year or two later,

but not releasing the original ones was just daft as they'd already been tooled

Weren't the Mico Arts the same as the Wrath of Kings inserts though? Or incredibly similar?

they were designed for the same deep bases, but the designs weren't the same, and they were about a 12-18 months after CMON could have been selling their own (more limited range)

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
and the clearly feel the speed is good enough again hence the uninspiring

I have no interest in those tokens.

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
Weren't the Mico Arts the same as the Wrath of Kings inserts though? Or incredibly similar?

They were based off the Groundwerks line, which was for Dark Age. The exception was the "graveyard" ones, which CMON cheaped out on and instead gave us just basic dirt bases (and later gave out refunds on). The setup was very similar to the CMON basing system however, with the deep well.

I had issues with them, as the inserts are smaller than average. A regular 30mm round lip base has about 25mm of "base" area to stand a figure on. The CMON ones have about 21. If you're working with a wide stance figure, they're even more of a PITA to base than normal. I am surprised CMON seems to have just scrapped them entirely. You'd think with them chugging along on Dark Age they'd bring them back.

New stretch goal is a mercenary...





Plus a painted one-



These models would make great roaming monsters in Massive Darkness...

So to improve mediocre game with more plastic, you buy even more mediocre game,l...good thinking.

 smurfORnot wrote:
So to improve mediocre game with more plastic, you buy even more mediocre game,l...good thinking.

If the base game isn't worth getting on its own, neither are any of the expansions.

 JohnHwangDD wrote:

 smurfORnot wrote:
So to improve mediocre game with more plastic, you buy even more mediocre game,l...good thinking.

If the base game isn't worth getting on its own, neither are any of the expansions.

Well, most of CMON, especially retail versions of the game, ain't.

 smurfORnot wrote:

 JohnHwangDD wrote:

 smurfORnot wrote:
So to improve mediocre game with more plastic, you buy even more mediocre game,l...good thinking.

If the base game isn't worth getting on its own, neither are any of the expansions.

Well, most of CMON, especially retail versions of the game, ain't.

Indeed. That's why, of all the CMoN stuff, I've KS'd, I've only kept the Rue Morgue core. Also Sedition Wars, but that's because it's not worth selling, and none of my friends want it. But it neatly illustrates the point about core games needing to be good before spending even more money. All that said, I do have high hopes for Smog, which should be arriving before summer, but even so, I only got a core.

I strongly disagree.

Arcadia Quest was solid out of the box. Black Plague as well. Masmorra was entertaining for a light dice chucker. Dogs of War caused some wonderfully serious butthurt arguments over scheming and backstabbing.

I'd almost argue the opposite- all the superfluous kickstarter stuff isn't even necessary for *most* of the games they've released, unless you play them nonstop. Xenoshyft I thought greatly benefited from the stretch goals and gave you much more of a fighting chance.

FYI, I didn't back any of those games. I guess I chose badly.

More terrain for those that liked their board games blinged out or are too lazy to scratchbuild decent looking forests themselves (like me).



Obligatory size comparison-



The way they're supposed to work is they sit in the center of 4 squares, with the roots branching out to keep the spaces on the board usable still.

10 of them for 13 dollars certainly isn't a bad deal, and at 8cm tall they'd be decent for most tabletop games besides this.

They should help unlock these guys, who are about 5k away currently-

Daaaamn! That's a really good deal on trees!

At this point I think they should run a HIPS terrain KS...

Terrain from their Song of Ice and Fire KS: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cmon/a-song-of-ice-and-fire-tabletop-miniatures-game/posts/2072378

Thiago clarified it’s 8 trees and that is what is shown on the campaign page.

Threw in a buck incase I want Chaos Marauders and huts/trees whenever the PM hits.

Just went in for $1 as well. If I can scrape together enough for all in then I’ll back, otherwise they’ll get the$1.

trees correction, the pack has 8 (not 10 as originally written)

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The Extra Terrain tiles are an unplanned SG, due to Backers wanting to play parallel games, so CMoN did listen. I suspect CMoN left a little money on the table, as people definitely would have paid for a 2nd playset of tiles, dice, etc.

Anyone know if they're doing $1 pledges with the option to PM it up later? I'm going to be out of town all week next week with limited internet, and not in a situation where KS will be a feasable thing - and I'm not yet fully sold on this project.

It would be shocking if they didn't do that.

 Azazelx wrote:
Anyone know if they're doing $1 pledges with the option to PM it up later? I'm going to be out of town all week next week with limited internet, and not in a situation where KS will be a feasable thing - and I'm not yet fully sold on this project.

Yes, as per the FAQ on the KS page.

Indeed!

Can I make just a $1 pledge now?

You can make a $1 pledge now, and when the Pledge Manager goes live after the campaign has ended you can add more funds to get a full pledge and any add-ons you'd like.

stretch again

Oh and you can buy extra RED dice

SHAKTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR









So yeah, we all know what I'm spending money on.



4 armed giant lizard people! This highlord is certaingly going to be highlording, even if the tribe is missing their named characters...

The lizardmen look great, but what's up with the regular guy on the white base? Why is he a person instead of a lizardman?

 JohnHwangDD wrote:
The lizardmen look great, but what's up with the regular guy on the white base? Why is he a person instead of a lizardman?

Lizardmen are people too!

Maybe he identifies as a lizard-person.

Lizardmen, eh? I could get behind that. I wonder if there's plans for other beastman factions?