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A big tower, assuming its doors are meant for 28-32mm minis.

 Shadow Walker wrote:
A big tower, assuming its doors are meant for 28-32mm minis.

They are. DaveC, about how many Warlock's Altar sets are there in that tower?

I'm seeing:
* Warlock's Altar
* Roof Tiles
* Balustrades

I didn't like the Warlock's Altar set. The bookshelves looked 2D, and you had those magic stars EVERYWHERE. Would have just liked some summoning circles, as either floor tiles or round discs you painted.

Hard to tell with only 1 angle looks like around 7 to 9 sets there’s probably 21 doors (3 per set) but it’s hard to make out the number of long and short walls. I think there are over 50 shorts (6 per set) which is why I’ve put up to 9 sets.

Edit fantasywelt have it for order €159, 29 doors, 29 long, 58 shorts so 10 sets

https://www.fantasywelt.de/Dungeons-Lasers-Sorcerers-Spire_1

 Shadow Walker wrote:
@Szymon_Archon
Just saw Heroes of M&M minis, and many of them are really to my taste. Any plans to release them in packs outside of the game? I think most of them are ideal for RPGs or miniature agnostic games.

We'll think about it

Szymon_Archon wrote:

 Shadow Walker wrote:
@Szymon_Archon
Just saw Heroes of M&M minis, and many of them are really to my taste. Any plans to release them in packs outside of the game? I think most of them are ideal for RPGs or miniature agnostic games.

We'll think about it

Great I love that hydra!

@ced1106 Definitely agree with you on the warlock tiles, the design was not up to par but (I hope that) we've gotten better at designing terrain.

Still, I did have to push really hard to make a lot of this stuff more generic and while we're not fully there yet, changes are slowly being made :p

I have so much joy with Elven Woods kit. After building all I started thinking about converting some pieces. One of my ideas is below on pics. There are 4 hill types in the kit, each x3. I took my least favourite type (one with the marble columns etc.), and combined two copies of it into one bigger hill with a (non Archon) tree on top. Some gaps filling etc. later there was a terrain piece that IMO looks good, and only needs to be painted (knowing me in the far future or never ).

So there was a Starcraft image partly hidden behind the MoTU wave 5 box in the background of AMA #25 (and it's been there ever since just more hidden)

 DaveC wrote:
So there was a Starcraft image partly hidden behind the MoTU wave 5 box in the background of AMA #25

Starcraft wargame? Ultralisk baby, not Tyranids incoming!

That would work for the sci-fi D&L IP

Star Craft would be a huge win for Archon, particularly right now...

I could never figure out why no one licensed and produced a Star Craft game before. (Well, except for that one with the boardgame-grade PVC figures.) Except, perhaps, that the video game series hasn't had a new installment for a long time. Still, the nostalgia force has always been strong with Star Craft.

There are plenty of biomorphic aliens available these days, from 'Nids to the original, actual Aliens. But I'd still love to have some Zerg, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. Wouldn't mind some Protoss Zealots and Dark Templar, either.

I imagine with Starcraft there might have been some hesitation of infringement on the Aliens franchise back in the day when it might have garnered the attention of a lawsuit with Fox - and the situation between Blizzard & GW back in the day, as word is that Starcraft was originally based on 40K's tyranids, which in turn was strongly based on Alien/Aliens & the bugs of Starship Troopers. (Though there was an RPG in the 90's - TSR's Alternity, and a FFG Starcraft boardgame)

I think they've definitely become their own thing since their beginning, and they're more open to licensing out Starcraft these days.

> I could never figure out why no one licensed and produced a Star Craft game before.

FFG licensed it, then there was some sort of Monopoly version.

 Talking Banana wrote:
I could never figure out why no one licensed and produced a Star Craft game before. (Well, except for that one with the boardgame-grade PVC figures.)

@Szymon_Archon
For the possible future monsters packs (that could use Heroes of M&M minis BTW) I suggest to use bestiaries from the most popular mini agnostic games to get what people might want, and therefore buy. For example, here is a list of solo monsters that could be encountered in the third edition (by Modiphius) of Five Leagues from the Borderlands:
ogre, troll, minotaur, werewolf, golem, giant lizard, spitting lizard, manticore, griffon, giant, wraith, wight, death knight, fiend, undead construct, elemental, giant spider, wyvern, hydra, monster lizard, drake.

There was a small range of Starcraft miniatures released Years ago.Not sure how many there were in the range though.I have one.
Found this link with some nice figures from Starcraft including the one which i have.She is painted white in the second off last picture with a shield.
https://imgur.com/gallery/CpqTQuf

 Shadow Walker wrote:
@Szymon_Archon
For the possible future monsters packs (that could use Heroes of M&M minis BTW) I suggest to use bestiaries from the most popular mini agnostic games to get what people might want, and therefore buy. For example, here is a list of solo monsters that could be encountered in the third edition (by Modiphius) of Five Leagues from the Borderlands:
ogre, troll, minotaur, werewolf, golem, giant lizard, spitting lizard, manticore, griffon, giant, wraith, wight, death knight, fiend, undead construct, elemental, giant spider, wyvern, hydra, monster lizard, drake.

Oh, when it comes to the HoMM miniatures, they will still have to come out under the HoMM brand, as they're a licensed product. We will likely release a miniature pack for at least the core factions as I'm pretty sure the core box is gonna be released to retail without miniatures.

Also, I feel like I'm aware of what generic monsters people would want, but I don't think that everyone is on board a lot of the time. Well, it's always something that I will push for. While I'm a big fan of Dark Fantasy series like Berserk, I still really like High Fantasy and it's just much easier to sell as you don't need to build an entire world around it. I think I'm gonna need to prepare some examples to show to the team, something that comes to mind is an amazing mod for Europa Universalis IV - Anbennar. It's as generic as you can get but it still has tons of lore and is overall a really fun experience.

Szymon_Archon wrote:
Also, I feel like I'm aware of what generic monsters people would want, but I don't think that everyone is on board a lot of the time. Well, it's always something that I will push for. While I'm a big fan of Dark Fantasy series like Berserk, I still really like High Fantasy and it's just much easier to sell as you don't need to build an entire world around it. I think I'm gonna need to prepare some examples to show to the team, something that comes to mind is an amazing mod for Europa Universalis IV - Anbennar. It's as generic as you can get but it still has tons of lore and is overall a really fun experience.

I would "partner" with a company with an established generic fantasy miniatures agnostic ruleset (that's a lot of words), with an owner who's easy to work with.

Ganesha Games, located closer to yourselves in Poland that myself in the USA, has (at least) two such rulesets, Advanced Song of Blade and Heroes, and Sellswords and Spellslingers. ASoBH has army lists of several different races, so you would design the miniatures around them. S&S, a solo miniatures game, also has a beastiary, so you know what miniatures the game would need for the core book. How many is a different answer, but the game designer, Andrea Sfiligoi, is easy to work with. GG does have an existing metal miniatures partner, but I would contact them, anyway. Additionally, ASoBH has a "make your own army unit" webpage, so you can create ASoBH stats for your existing Deuslair and Woodhaven miniatures. Andrea is active on the various FB fan pages for his games.

Five Leagues from the Borderlands is another popular ruleset, licensed from Nordic Weasel Productions to Modiphius Entertainment. While ME has miniatures for its own wargames, 5L does not have an official line. I've written a list of miniatures recommended for the game on the 5L fan FB page. Each enemy type has up to two or so of each of three different elites (sergeant, lieutenant, captain), so there's room for elite sculpts as well as minions (I'm currently recommending the Oathmark sets for minions). Enemies are divided into melee and ranged (specifically slings, bows, and crossbow). Ivan, the game designer, is active on the FB fan page.

While I still need to play them, One Page Rules might be another company to check out. They have rules for multiple genres, including SF. They do have .stl's for their various genres, so I don't know how much opportunity there is with them. But they've been around as a free ruleset, and now are popular enough to have paid content.

Honorable mention for Savage Worlds, which heavily supports miniatures. However, their most popular genre is Deadlands, a wild west horror RPG. It started as a miniatures skirmish game, but I doubt if there's much interest in wild west horror. Frostgrave is also popular, but is partnered with North Star Games (Osprey miniatures?).

 ced1106 wrote:

Five Leagues from the Borderlands is another popular ruleset, licensed from Nordic Weasel Productions to Modiphius Entertainment.

Modiphius now fully owns the IP.

All of these are great suggestions, but our current goal is to make something for ourselves. A decent chunk of our income comes from manufacturing for other companies already, and we're planning on working with more companies in the future, but as a company, we also want our own horse in the race.

Szymon_Archon wrote:
All of these are great suggestions, but our current goal is to make something for ourselves. A decent chunk of our income comes from manufacturing for other companies already, and we're planning on working with more companies in the future, but as a company, we also want our own horse in the race.

Or just put "compatible with Mork Borg" on the darker fantasy stuff...there is a market for that...

 Shadow Walker wrote:

 ced1106 wrote:

Five Leagues from the Borderlands is another popular ruleset, licensed from Nordic Weasel Productions to Modiphius Entertainment.

Modiphius now fully owns the IP.

And they've been working with Titanforge to produce STLs for the Nordic Weasel stuff they acquired.

 ced1106 wrote:


Honorable mention for Savage Worlds, which heavily supports miniatures. However, their most popular genre is Deadlands, a wild west horror RPG. It started as a miniatures skirmish game, but I doubt if there's much interest in wild west horror.

Zombicide: Undead or Alive would like to have a few words with you .....

I actually bought ZUA for use in Deadlands, myself.

Dracula's America is a semi alive game I guess?

 Stormonu wrote:

 ced1106 wrote:


Honorable mention for Savage Worlds, which heavily supports miniatures. However, their most popular genre is Deadlands, a wild west horror RPG. It started as a miniatures skirmish game, but I doubt if there's much interest in wild west horror.

Zombicide: Undead or Alive would like to have a few words with you .....

I actually bought ZUA for use in Deadlands, myself.

Whilst also now also covering feudal Japan, Vikings, Spanish Conquistadors and, soon, 1930's Egypt along with a variety of other worlds, Shadows of Brimstone started out as a Weird West miniatures board game and has a good range of miniatures with more western ones being released all the time (the next setting includes mounted weird western enemies and heroes).

More Archon sprues spotted on this Mantic thread?

Guess if Archon is working with Mantic, then there you go for more Archon miniatures...

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/9630/445605.page#11587732

New kits going retail

AMA #30 - 15th September

The follower gift for caves is a Gelatinous Cube - dragon sized so as to hold a mini inside - might have prepainted elements

https://gamefound.com/en/projects/archon-studio/caves?ref=search#/section/project-story



- New logo is finished - its a combination of a dice and the 2 halves of a mold/injection plates(further info on the blog https://archon-studio.com/blog/introducing-archon-studios-new-logo)



- New offices should be up and running by year end.
- Currently working on a 6 month turnaround for projects - 3 months design 3 months manufacturing

- Pirate Airship - final renders in next few weeks - still working on the design
- Prepainted terrain - other companies have enquired about it but Archon want to launch their own stuff first.
- Dwarf Mine and Elven Tree prepaint samples shown. Stone will be a grey from the plastic itself with various shades added.
- Rampart terrain with graffiti
- Design considerations for future prepaints might mean more flat panels/elements

- No sprues supplied for Caves - just the tiles or parts
- pledges (see image if anyone can translate from Polish please)
- Rocky caves - 4 unique sprues - 13 sprues total - inc Hill sprue
- Belly of the Beast - 4 unique sprues - 13 sprues total
- Demonic Caves - 4 unique sprues - 13 sprues total
- SSG - 3 free sets in pledge 9 total - first 3 are Spiders Nest, Maw of the Abyss, Chambers of Agony then Goblins Lair, Warriors Tomb, Evil Eye Hive, Ritual Site, Combat Arena, Carnage Tract
- SG - 10 sprues - 60 to 70 props
- Add on optional buys - boss and minions for the 3 main themes - miniatures optional only

- Spiele Essen - MoTU mini - She-Ra with Swiftwind

 DaveC wrote:

- pledges (see image if anyone can translate from Polish please)

From the top:
RC:
3x hill
2x short wall, 1x long wall, 4x short half-wall, 2x long half-wall
3x curved half-wall, 2x curved wall, 4x corner, 2x prop
2x curved half-wall, 4x square floor, 1x rectangle floor
BB:
3x hill
2x short wall, 1x long wall, 4x short half-wall, 2x long half-wall
4x curved half-wall, 2x curved wall, bridge
2x corner, 4x square floor, 1x rectangle floor
DC:
2x short wall, 1x long wall, 4x short half-wall, 2x long half-wall
4x curved half-wall, 2x curved wall, prop
2x corner, 4x square floor, 1x rectangle floor
RSG:
About 60-70 props (small like torch, bigger props would mean less props on the sprue)
RCM/BBM/DCM:
About 6 models, 25mm base
1 boss on 50mm base, 4 minions on 25mmm base
Additional:
Ilość ramek do pudełka = number of sprues in a box
elementy=elements