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The three being LI, Epic Warpath and that Epic scale Historical thing from Warlord Games?

 mattl wrote:
The three being LI, Epic Warpath and that Epic scale Historical thing from Warlord Games?

The third being

I mean, not sure how you can say it's looking to be the best when the 3rd hasn't even released anything but a few pictures yet

I'm most EXCITED for Armored Clash. But I'll probably grab an army of forge fathers on the KS if the value is good and they look neat.

Oh I think Armored Clash will blow Warpath out of the water on sculpts. Distro will be about on par with Dystopian Wars tho, so getting varied forces for 8 factions out will be a bit of a wait. It was at least 1.5 years for DW to start resembling something like its full form.

scarletsquig wrote:
The editing process can be really great for a game, a similar thing happened with deadzone, with the complexity, counters and clutter reduced massively from 1st to 2nd edition.

It's nice to see a game system going through that process pre-release.

+1

"less is more"

I am eager to try those mechanics (and I will probably set some army lists for HH...).


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 lord_blackfang wrote:
It's looking up to be the best of the three contemporary Epic systems.

It is only superior to Epic Armageddon in simplicity, but yeah (it still played and alive).


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 lord_blackfang wrote:
Oh I think Armored Clash will blow Warpath out of the water on sculpts. Distro will be about on par with Dystopian Wars tho, so getting varied forces for 8 factions out will be a bit of a wait. It was at least 1.5 years for DW to start resembling something like its full form.

Also agreed. Miniature style is completely different and way more appealing. + the retro thing

With all of these games, it might start to feel like the 'age of Epic'. Not to mention the Warlord Games releases, they are apparently working on an ancients/Roman set and I'm really looking forward to that one.

Is the KS due to start today yes? I guess they will send around an email or something, Mantic usually seem pretty good with their comms.

Warlord Games has the problem of not really having an Epic ruleset in addition to the models but you are just using more models per base for Black Powder

and yes KS is today and we should get a message when it starts

14.00 GMT

It makes sense for this to be the "age of epic", 28mm models are ludicrously expensive for mass battle games and 6x4 tables are too big for many peoples' homes. If a Hasbro type come along with an epic scale, sci-fi type game with light rules and coloured single piece miniatures they will absolutely clean house I think

Additionally plastic tooling has come a long way, so it is now possible to get plenty of sufficiently detailed infantry and small tanks on sprues, and to have more than 1-2 sprues per army.

I know DropZone commander managed this for a few units per army (but minimal build options), but I'm confident that Mantic plans for more of this with Archon. And based on Archon's DeusLair production models, I do think they can achieve a comparable level of detail to GW if they want to.

How sad for Dropzone that it's been holding the Epic scale sci-fi torch alone for like 15 years and usually doesn't even get remembered in Epic scale topics.


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Live

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/manticgames/warpath-the-game-of-epic-scale-sci-fi-warfare/description

Ah, how embarrassing, I'm backer 1.

Just backed at Captain level. Really liking the look of this.

Went for Captain for now in the hope that Veer-Myn get reached can always double up on Enforcers or Plague as they are the 2 sets I want. Pity there’s no 2 faction equivalent of the High Command pledge.

Need to think about the terrain and reinforcement add ons might be something for the PM.

I feel like a slacker, only being backer #173... Didn't even read the page yet, and just went in at the highest tier. This game is a damn near "Holy Grail" rules-set for me, so there is no way I was going to miss it.

And.... we're funded already? Wow.

Captain for me too... that they're selling extra plastic armies with 200~ models (including vehicles) for 35 GBP is amazing. Roughly double what GW is selling for LI.


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Fully funded in 26 mins.

...wait. STL Upgrades? Stop, I can only get so hard.

Ok, they got me already at Captain, but that means I'm even more interested.

Captain Pledge currently looks like a wild value, so I will admit, my "All-In" tier will be highly dependent on seeing more of the Resin Reinforcements, and Super Heavies. It's weird to think in exchange for those, you could triple your core-army boxes.

That said, seems like the armies will have nice, fleshed out lists of units right out of the gates!

Reasonable prices. I will back this.

I think once we see more of the reinforcements and super heavies people will increase their pledges too.

Plus that terrain looks very nice and again, amazing value.

I've never been tempted by 3d-printing, and know no one who does it which further diminishes the allure, but I have to say, I suspect I will already want more than one of some of those Reinforcement boxes, making stls clearly super tempting for those who can leverage them.

NewTruthNeomaxim wrote:
I've never been tempted by 3d-printing, and know no one who does it which further diminishes the allure ...

You know me And I'd be down to whip you up some smol superheavies and cute colossi.

Anyway, I'm in for probably Forge Fathers unless we can somehow hit rats

I would say rats are pretty much a given, taking all into account.

A couple of the new designs need to go back to the drawing board tho, especially the Evil Rhinoceros.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
A couple of the new designs need to go back to the drawing board tho, especially the Evil Rhinoceros.

Agreed. those additional eyes put where they are now look stupid.

"Our first extra faction, due to just how many of you have requested them in the run-up to the campaign, will be the Veer-myn once we hit £250,000 in funding."

From the first update on Kickstarter.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
A couple of the new designs need to go back to the drawing board tho, especially the Evil Rhinoceros.

Good place to just use a tyranid bug ^^

 lord_blackfang wrote:
A couple of the new designs need to go back to the drawing board tho, especially the Evil Rhinoceros.

Was it you that suggested the Technodrome as the Veer-Myn superheavy?



Cause that's perfect.

...it would, wouldn't it

Backer number 516 - I've just gone in at the Lieutenant level for now but will see how it goes.

It does seem like excellent value. Am thinking Forge Fathers and Plague for the starter boxes but TBH my willpower will probably run out at some point..

Would love to see the models made in different colored plastics, like classic Epic.