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As much as I love my Exalted I find that rather uninspired. I was hoping for a statue of a mythic creature or the like.

Trolls work by scaling the basic Trollbloods up or down but usually add interesting features ( or comedy elements which thematically fits trolls).

Without knowing that it is a battle engine...i don't get any secence of scale from the picture. It's just a slightly more ornate AG.

Just saw this render for Sorscha0 on Facebook, she looks great!

Baby Frostfang is adorable.

These are supposed to be from their early days, right?

How come nobody posted some of the minicrate sculpts for L5R? I'd do it but the site doesn't work at work.

Going to need me some samurai...

At which con is Sorscha0 going to be released?

 oomiestompa wrote:
At which con is Sorscha0 going to be released?

Warmachine Weekend seems probable.

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
How come nobody posted some of the minicrate sculpts for L5R? I'd do it but the site doesn't work at work.

Going to need me some samurai...

https://privateerpress.com/community/privateer-insider/legend-of-the-five-rings-minicrate-subscriptions-live




VIP exclusive mini:




And the rest of the previews:









Except for Hida Tomonari's render's horribly oversized otsuchi (why, oh why, didn't they go with the scale on the drawing... ) I quite like everything else, and I'll probably get a vip subscription, sucker as I am.

EDIT: Also, kind of weird to see Uji without some kind of polearm and doing a niten stance, being Crane and all.

I was a bit surprised by the stances and weapon choices as well, but I'm in the same boat. Probably going to get the VIP.

I'm sure I'll have something to use them with.

I feel like we're going to see a lot of samurai properties popping up real soon. Much like how zombies and Cthulhu had their day in the sun on Kickstarter, I feel like sengoku- era styles are going to be seeing some increase in popularity.

Now if someone would just do some really nice plastic samurai, be they fantasy or historical in modern scale representations with weapons that aren't paper thin...

Are the samurai miniatures ever going to be widely available?

Of course not, that would make too much sense.

They're part of that silly loot crate nonsense and they're destroying the molds afterwards, because why have a nice and steady extra income source?

At the least since these are 3d renders I guess they can churn a few more casts out, especially if they're resin.

Am I the only one that they PP is doing a better job with the L5R concepts then they do with their own minicrate?

 Monkeysloth wrote:
Am I the only one that they PP is doing a better job with the L5R concepts then they do with their own minicrate?

Maybe... but then again, doing well with this might mean more work with FFG, an actual L5R game...

 Albertorius wrote:

 Monkeysloth wrote:
Am I the only one that they PP is doing a better job with the L5R concepts then they do with their own minicrate?

Maybe... but then again, doing well with this might mean more work with FFG, an actual L5R game...

I would hope they do a L5R miniature game, but they would do it on house and make it a stupid scale with tons of tokens and more cards than the CCG.

I'd prefer seeing Privateer do something L5R.

Although if FFG did do a minis game at least I could count on getting it at clearance prices shortly after it launches...

So Privateer just announced a kickstarter for a 2nd edition Level 7 Omega Protocol

http://privateerpress.com/press-releases/privateer-press-announces-kickstarter-special-edition-of-level-7-omega-protocol

pertinent info from link:

Oct 15-31 with expected shipping June of 2019

Bonus contents will include a brand-new miniature, new game cards, new room tiles, and more. Backers who already own a copy of the original OMEGA PROTOCOL will be able to acquire these bonus contents as a separate tier while backers who are first-time players will be able to acquire the second edition of the game as well as the bonus contents in a different tier.

 Monkeysloth wrote:
So Privateer just announced a kickstarter for a 2nd edition Level 7 Omega Protocol

http://privateerpress.com/press-releases/privateer-press-announces-kickstarter-special-edition-of-level-7-omega-protocol

pertinent info from link:

Oct 15-31 with expected shipping June of 2019

Bonus contents will include a brand-new miniature, new game cards, new room tiles, and more. Backers who already own a copy of the original OMEGA PROTOCOL will be able to acquire these bonus contents as a separate tier while backers who are first-time players will be able to acquire the second edition of the game as well as the bonus contents in a different tier.

That's... odd. I didn't get the impression Level 7 was all that popular and definitely not that it was OOP due to "demand."

Level 7 itself was trash, but Omega Protocol was fairly well received.

None of the Level 7 games were related gameplay-wise, the first one you play as civilian nobodies, trying to escape from an X-files type secret government testing facility before aliens kill you or some other generic nonsense.

Omega Protocol is a co-op dungeoncrawl where you play the government/military kill-team sent in to cleanse the facility of escaped experiments and alien baddies.

 Theophony wrote:

 Albertorius wrote:

 Monkeysloth wrote:
Am I the only one that they PP is doing a better job with the L5R concepts then they do with their own minicrate?

Maybe... but then again, doing well with this might mean more work with FFG, an actual L5R game...

I would hope they do a L5R miniature game, but they would do it on house and make it a stupid scale with tons of tokens and more cards than the CCG.

LOL! Sounds like you played the original L5R miniature game! I still have the rulebooks and tons of the Dragon clan miniatures myself.

I've never seen anyone play a 'Level 7' game at a gaming store, much less heard of anyone I know first hand owning it. Not saying it's bad, I just seriously don't see or hear about it outside of PP's own feeds (or Dakka sometimes). Seems like a feasibly popular concept, seeing as people love X files and X com. And I don't know of anything else miniature game related with a similar theme.

Some of those 5 rings figures look pretty good. Not sure if I'd be in for any other than possibly the Naga, but I like her, and the other female characters.

Young Sorcha's looking good, hopefully I can pick her up.

Omega Protocol is held in pretty high regards on Board Game Geek, like Kalamadea said. Especially with dungeon crawler fans. I've heard more than a few people refer to it as their all time favorite in the genre, and there's quite a few big names in that pretty crowded genre.

Haven't played it myself, as it was always more than I wanted to pay for what was included. It's been on my radar for quite a few years now.

Not sure how I feel about the KS. I'll have to see just how updated it is.

Plus with the updated Project ELITE coming along with a handful of others... I hope they run it a bit better than Widower's Wood at least.

http://titan-forge.com/92-dragon-empire

Entire eastern army of 28mm fantasy including samurai, ashigaru, ninja, geisha warriors, monks, oni, artillery, cavalry, chariots, a half dozen characters on foot of various classes, a samurai hero on kirin, a geisha hero on giant flying koi fish, and samurai lord on one hell of a dragon.

I have some Titan Forge Dragon Army stuff. I thought the poses were a bit stiff. Still designed for rank and file. I may copy the studio style since I'm bad at coming up with my own patterns.
Liked the Oni and KomaInu which I sadly can't find now. Dragon was pretty cool. Some day if I see it reasonably priced.

The oni pulling the shrine was a cool unit too.

Still not plastic though!

I have a feeling the L5R figures are going to be a lot bigger as well. The Titan Forge stuff always seems thin and small for its size. More truescale 28mm. Privateer tends to be more 32mm.

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
Liked the Oni and KomaInu which I sadly can't find now.

(Did you try page 2?)

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
http://titan-forge.com/92-dragon-empire

Entire eastern army of 28mm fantasy including samurai, ashigaru, ninja, geisha warriors, monks, oni, artillery, cavalry, chariots, a half dozen characters on foot of various classes, a samurai hero on kirin, a geisha hero on giant flying koi fish, and samurai lord on one hell of a dragon.

Are they resin, restic or metal?

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
http://titan-forge.com/92-dragon-empire

Entire eastern army of 28mm fantasy including samurai, ashigaru, ninja, geisha warriors, monks, oni, artillery, cavalry, chariots, a half dozen characters on foot of various classes, a samurai hero on kirin, a geisha hero on giant flying koi fish, and samurai lord on one hell of a dragon.

Are they resin, restic or metal?

Resin.

They're trading the short term ability to sell anything to everyone that signs up for a crate, not just the people that might want that particular miniature.

Only problem is, there's a lot of Warmachine stuff that's needed updating for a long time.

I can't fault them for remaking Omega Protocol, because I think PP has needed to successfully diversify it's portfolio for a long time, but most of their boardgames are kinda junk. Glad to see people liked this one.

I'd love to see Privateer continue to offer up resculpts of various warcasters and warlocks. Zerkova and Grissel turned out quite nice.

They could start with Xerxis and his hunched over squat! I want the Tyrant in all his majesty!

@Ninthmusketeer- I meant I can't find the Komainu in stores I usually buy from, besides Titan Forge directly. Also really wanted their Shuten Doji figure but I missed my chance on it sadly.

I literally have never seen anyone give a crap about Level 7 games. God I wish PP would actually use Kickstarter to improve Warmahordes.

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
http://titan-forge.com/92-dragon-empire

Entire eastern army of 28mm fantasy including samurai, ashigaru, ninja, geisha warriors, monks, oni, artillery, cavalry, chariots, a half dozen characters on foot of various classes, a samurai hero on kirin, a geisha hero on giant flying koi fish, and samurai lord on one hell of a dragon.

Some of those look pretty cool, most of it looks a bit too out there or too chinese for what I'd like to see for L5R.

Personally, I like Kensei and Perry miniatures a bit more, for most stuff.

Still nice, though!

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