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 Psychopomp wrote:
Are there PDF-only options for the card packs? After trying to keep up with FO:WW in the early days, I think I'm done buying physical cards and would prefer to print them.

Not right now no. There probably will be once things are in general distribution as you can get the unit cards in pdf form if you've pre-ordered the boxes.

They have said they don't plan on releasing free cards like for FWW as well. My guess would be as to why is two fold: Elder Scrolls is a bigger property and FWW has already established Modiphius mini game line so they don't need to give away all the vs mode stuff for free.

 Psychopomp wrote:
Are there PDF-only options for the card packs? After trying to keep up with FO:WW in the early days, I think I'm done buying physical cards and would prefer to print them.

It should be easier than FWW as there will be just one card pack per chapter. If you pick up that card pack, you'll get everything.

G.

Modcon News:

Dragon shown. Bigger then liberty prime

Steam and Shadow includes (Chapter 2):

Dwemer
Dark Brotherhood
The Blades
Theives Guild
Nightengales

Chapter 2 Card pack
Histories of the Empire Volume 2: Steam and Shadow (campaign book)
Tales of Tamerial: Thanehold Saga (settlement campaign)
Dice set (finally)
Token and Scenery pack
Dwemer Terrain Pack
More 3d print files

Chapter 2 Set List:

Dwemer Centrurion and Ballista
Dwemer Spheres and Spiders
Frostbite Spiders
Council of the Dark Brotherhood
Dark Brotherhood Aspriants
Flame Atronachs (in orange resin)
Adventurer Wanderers
Adventurer Delvers
Imperil Vanguard
Stormcloak Shieldbreakrs
Trolls
Giant Frostbite Spider.


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The chapter 3 looks to be DawnGuard based off of talk on discord.

Couple more shots for you all.

Again, superb work from Castle Brush here, they get better and better.

Nice. I really like that frost paintjob. really good use of color temp to do the contrast.

I got my chapter 1 card packs and I'm really hoping for future chapters that the events and quests are themed around what's in that chapter so if, for example, you wanted to play in some Dwemer Ruins or were doing a Dwemer themed mini-campaign you could just go to the chapter 2 cards and easily pull out some events and quests related to those and not have to search through random chapters to find them.


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Scale shot of dragon from Gavin on discord

Updated release schedule. As always with this game COVID had really thrown some wrenches in Modiphius's plans.

https://www.modiphius.net/blogs/news/elder-scrolls-call-to-arms-updated-release-schedule

I added the original release month

Our current plan for releases is as follows:

First week of December (originally October) – Stormcloak Chieftains and Imperial Officers

End of December (originally November, except dragon which was December) – Draugr Ancients, Draugr Guardians, Dragon and Secret Bonus Set.

End of January (originally december) – Imperial Reinforcements and Stormcloak Skirmishers

End of February (originally January) – Skeleton Horde

End of March (new for this release) – Dragon Priest and Word Wall

We knew both the Dragon Priest and World Wall were coming but this is the first date we have. Since the Dragon Priest isn't in Chapter 1 pack it's safe to assume it will be print and play card as even with FWW the card packs are coming out months after the first release of a wave.

Also word is the Dragon will go up for Pre-order this week (maybe tomorrow) and could be shipping by the 18th of December (though even if it does you most likely won't get it until late December or early January).

No! Bad dragon! I don't have room for you! And my Liberty Prime isn't painted yet!

Such a cute little lizard, though...

 Monkeysloth wrote:
End of February (originally January) – Skeleton Horde

I like this.

So the Dragon pre-order got rescheduled to the 18th. Cost is £100/$140/120 Euro. Remember you can get 10% off if you download the most recent Modiphia digital magazine for free.

US might also have a delayed order as they want to make sure about stock at that hub.

Secret bonus got pushed back to January. There's also some new scenarios coming around some of the new releases recently which is good as this game has very little support there atm.

The reason the Dragon got pushed back is some Fallout WW pre-order that hasn't gone live yet as they didn't want to have 2 starting at the same time. I guess we'll find out Friday.

Anyone that has been thinking about picking up the Ruined Fort STL, its currently on offer at DriveThru RPG.

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse.php?keywords=Modiphius&filters=0_0_0_0_0_45883&

Just got an email about Mirmulnir, fabulous model.

yep. Debating on it. I really like it, but it's the paint job that sells it to me and I have many dragon's that I've never painted up before. Maybe I should try one over the holiday and see if I want to invest $100.

Also of note. Gavin has stated that the rules, and card(s) will be print and play only and that they will be available at a later date without the dragon. Price TBD but probably in line with other recent PDF supplements they've released for FWW.

Link https://www.modiphius.net/products/elder-scrolls-call-to-arms-mirmulnir

 Monkeysloth wrote:
yep. Debating on it. I really like it, but it's the paint job that sells it to me and I have many dragon's that I've never painted up before. Maybe I should try one over the holiday and see if I want to invest $100.

Also of note. Gavin has stated that the rules, and card(s) will be print and play only and that they will be available at a later date without the dragon. Price TBD but probably in line with other recent PDF supplements they've released for FWW.

Link https://www.modiphius.net/products/elder-scrolls-call-to-arms-mirmulnir

The dragon rules will be sent for free to all customers who ordered the dragon :-)

New interview with Chris and Gavin on ES:CTA:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0N5Fm2R4d4&feature=youtu.be


Miniatures, separate from the games, have been selling pretty well across the industry according to Chris but retail hasn't been where most of the sales have been.

Due to Brexit shipping is going up 4.5 pounds per 1kg in extra fees ontop of shipping between Europe and the UK.

They're waiting to see the final trade deal before they decide if they need to open a european warehouse. (obviously recorded pre-deal)

Still not making plastics due to shipping/reliability issues from China and the cost makes those shipping issues a risk.

It took about 3 years to get the contracts for FWW. ES:CTA was added when they renewed the license. Bethesda is one of the easier licensers Chris has worked with as people there are table top gamers.

The only real feedback they get back are typos or usability issues (text being hard to read for example).

They actually started with ESO before switching to Skyrim early on with the game's design.

There are lots of figures people want that don't fit into a wargame that people want. An example is Cicero and the Night Mother of Vivic. While that doesn't mean they won't make them, they would need to make them playable which is difficult.

Stormcloak rebellion campaign book is still in approvals.

Non-human Dragonborn Variants are planned. They're planning around 2 Dragonborn variants per Skyrim chapter.

Currently planning chapter 4 set. May create a dragonborn box set to get lots of variety out in this chapter.

There's a new Delve scenario available from the Imperial Library https://www.imperial-library.info/stories/call-arms-interview-and-exclusive-scenario?fbclid=IwAR2DObi9iwnPFjOVgwiphYqYP6wunzIYCVCfHFYdVXDXIr3OwnYFAl50hsM

Chris teased it over the summer but there is a set going up for pre-order with the ESO cinematic trailer and Mannimarco. This appears to be the special secret release that was also teased around Modcon. They will be much more powerful then any other Heroes in the game with Mannimarco designed to fight the 3 cinematic characters.

From Gavin on Discord about the dungeon Crawl mode called "into the dark".

Its modular in 12"x12" sections which are aligned to one another. You might end up with 2, 3 or 4 tiles in a line, square, L or T shape. Scenery is then placed on the tiles, but all the tiles are considered one chamber, so you could get long lines of sight in them.

So that makes it sound very similar to how a map is set up for FWW Into the Wasteland. On one end I this makes a lot of sense to still be fully playable on a table. On the other side I was kind of hoping for a more traditional dungeon crawl set up with halls/corridors and such but I do understand why this is the way they're going.

Wanted to run a game based in a Tavern or Jael's longhouse. Found the Wizkids Deep Cuts Vikings set (WZK90175, around £25.00 in UK) perfect with a seated and standing Jarl, various NPC figures, a long fire pit, long table and benches, very large beer barrels, etc.

Oh hey, those are nice. Odd that there's only partial images of the figures included though.

Sorry if this is a dumb question...but do the duplicate cards in the Chapter One set replace the ones in the original ruleset box?

 weasel_beef wrote:
Sorry if this is a dumb question...but do the duplicate cards in the Chapter One set replace the ones in the original ruleset box?

Errata cards from the core box were included in the Chapter 1 card pack, so basically yes.

 JonWebb wrote:

 weasel_beef wrote:
Sorry if this is a dumb question...but do the duplicate cards in the Chapter One set replace the ones in the original ruleset box?

Errata cards from the core box were included in the Chapter 1 card pack, so basically yes.

Thanks!

Slightly later than planned, its time for some new Elder Scrolls releases.

https://www.modiphius.net/collections/the-elder-scrolls-call-to-arms?page=1&sort_by=created-descending

This month the Stormcloaks and Imperials are reinforced with a new kit each.

Adding archers and some variant combat troops, you can use these boxes to bring new options to the tables, or new adversaries to fight if delving is your thing.

We've also started our January sale, with some great prices on RPGs and miniatures. No Elder Scrolls in there, but if you like Fallout or Achtung! Cthulhu there are some bargains to be found.
https://www.modiphius.net/collections/january-sale-2021

Dang, was kind of hoping for a big Imperial or Stormcloak bundle like you do with Fallout. Probably for the best as I just spent my money on the sale and need to save up here to get my Markarth faction on and not be tempted to overspend.

Markarth faction?

Getting a bunch of storm cloaks and painting them up as guards/soldiers from there. No difference in rules, just color scheme.

Cool! The Stormcloaks make for a potentially modular kit in that regard. Modiphius could make city-based character packs to go long with them and then we could do battles between the settlements.

for sure. I suspect that at some point these reinforcement packs were also intended to be HIPS as they could sell the required numbers pretty easily.

Also just got my Dragon delivered. Looks to be a much easier assembly then the Mirelurk Queen which is great.

Surprisingly big for a 100mm base. Probably should have been on a 120mm and just done a base insert instead of a full resin base (in fact all their figures should be this way as it's nigh impossible to cleanly remove the resin tab from casting off of their bases cleanly). I'll get some photos of it assembled next to some other stuff this weekend. I recently went on a Mierce painting spree and have some good comparison shots for similarly priced items.

Got Mirmulnir all put together last night and it's very big, much better then it would lead you to expect and for 100 pounds (around $135) as it's got quite a heft to it. The base is 100m and the wings go below the top of the base to also support the model on the ground. Not sure how much I like that as the wings aren't flat and have detail so you'll probably just end up painting the whole thing and some of the paint might scrape through use. I placed it on a 120mm base and the wings do sit on top just fine (but the feet won't touch the base due to that height). I do think having a bigger base and the wings edges + feet touching the base as opposed to the wings a centimeter below the base top/feet and dragging on the ground.

It went together quite well. only had an issue with an awkward tab on neck where the head joins as there's a small bit that was easy to cut off, which I did, that leaves a small gap on the bottom of that part once it's joined to the head which I had to fill.

Now some photos, pretty much everything here is only 10 pounds ($15) less then the dragon and it's way bigger an heftier which is surprising as there are licensing fees. But all I really have to compare it against are Mierce minis which are on the more expensive side of figures this size. While I didn't take a picture I did pull out the dragon from Joan of Arc and it's wing is the size of Mirmulnir but I'm not sure PVC is a fair comparison (and I don't have any assembled anyway).

First off with the Mirelurk Queen (85 ponds) and selkilias from Mierce (90 pounds) who's on a 120mm base (not sure the queen's base size)



Next is some photos against a few Mierce minis I'll be painting around the same time as this tyffaggahw and kaairioc-cró (both 90 pounds) which fit on 120mm bases.

Dwemer stuff has shown up for pre-order in some places.

https://www.ozziecollectables.com/pages/search-results-page?q=Elder+Scrolls+Call+to+Arms

Oh cool and Frostbite spiders too!

ya, there's some great detail on the Dwemer and they should paint really easily for those of us that won't want to go super NMM.

The spiders do look great as well. I appreciate that they're all unique sculpts (even if the arms are the only thing different on two of them).

Awesome stuff. Glad theres more stuff for dungeon delving, I still have bunch of stuff to buy but I promised myself I wont until I finish my Imperial box