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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1938947175/dusk-arena-of-shadows

This looks mighty interesting, mainly for the insanely enormous, gorgeous "miniatures" (more like statues honestly). You get 4+possibly more with stretch goals with the base game ($120 without stretch goals and $160 with stretch goals) and there are 3 packs at $99 each with 3 new models. Expensive, but considering a single 75mm model usually costs $40-50 dollars... even if you're not interested in the actual tactical arena combat game (which could very well be great for all I know), the models are probably worth the cost of the base game at least. If they manage to pull it off that is, seeing as they are a company of video game folks doing their first physical game, AND they aim to do the models in HIPS rather than resin or PVC. Still, one to keep an eye on.

Using as a banana as a scale reference is a first to me! Some great "minis" here, good luck to them.

Yeah I can't think of many fruits that vary in scale as much as bananas so it's pretty pointless!

I think the "banana for scale" is a meme?

What is the point of giant models, gameplay-wise? Or are they just giant models because they wanted to make giant models?

Usually, when a boardgame includes giant models (Dark Souls, Kingdom Death, Cthulhu Wars and so on...) it is because the big monsters are wanted to be shown as big boss monsters. The heroes are usually 28mm or so to show the size difference between normal and big'un...

When everything is equally big, what is the point (as far as boargame is considered)?

Not saying those models don't look good, they do.

EDIT: I'm approaching this from a boardgamers perspective, so I wonder why.

I do understand that if approached from miniature painters perspective, one might actually like this scale.

Well yeah, it's for painting and display purposes. Mechanics-wise they could've used cardboard tokens and sold the game for $40.

 Col Hammer wrote:


I do understand that if approached from miniature painters perspective, one might actually like this scale.

As a modeler, no, I have no interest in this scale. Too big.

This is entering into the too big to justify zone.

I thought Nexus' scale was better. Bigger than usual but not too big.

Regardless some of the sculpts are cool. I'm keeping my eyes on it. With the initial funding level being pretty high it's going to be a tough climb.