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Thanks to Sebastian on BGG who spotted it on BoW. : http://www.beastsofwar.com/liveblogentry/the-big-reveal-is-death-may-die/

Teaser.



You can never have enough fez's and guys smoking pipes.

I'm going to need to buy some CMON campaign insurance.

Those monsters look more like the Others than Cthulhu...

I see what is propably a Deep One.

Is that flying thing a Nightgaunt? Or Hunting horror (bit small for that)?

The big monster is King in Yellow? (robes make it look like the King and Hastur is one of the big baddies...)

The big mouthed thing with suction cups inside is a Star vampire?

The other monsters look too random to make a guess...

I already got all the Cthulhu monsters I will ever need with Cthulhu Wars though, so this game is not an instant buy for me. Still, I will check the KS when it comes.

Big ballsacks and vagina monsters huh? Looks like CMON are venturing into KDM territory!

Power Fantasy. AND Lovecraft?? Wut? That's not how proper lovecraftian anything works...


Well, at least it's fully co-op(so not a board control FFA game from CMON number 4). Minis are certainly better, than the ones out of Mansions of Madness, but I'm curious how the game will surpass the great MoM2ed.

 Mymearan wrote:
Big ballsacks and vagina monsters huh? Looks like CMON are venturing into KDM territory!

Did you miss the Others game? They’ve been in the business, they just don’t have the red light turned on all the time.

SnotlingPimpWagon wrote:
Power Fantasy. AND Lovecraft?? Wut? That's not how proper lovecraftian anything works...

... I'm curious how the game will surpass the great MoM2ed.

It won't? I give them a lot of grief, but FFG understood (mostly) that a Lovecraftian anything needs to be about mood, tone, and narrative, moreso than anything else. Its a far from perfect game, but if the measure of success is "how Lovecraftian is it", no table-top game is going to beat Mansions of Madness 2.0 for a very long time.

It's probably going for a different market, the Delta Green rather than the traditional Call of Cthulhu players,

I prefer Call of Cthulhu, tiptoeing round the edge of the mythos vainly trying to avoid going mad

Others prefer shooting their way through things they don't even try to understand, before nuking Cthulhu

Speaking of MoM, I'm certainly looking for miniatures I can use to replace those in MoM and other retail Cthulhu games, as well as use in the Call of Cthuhlu RPG.

Delta Green reminds me... you don't even need weapons although not every investigator equips himself with a yacht

"But Johansen had not given out yet. Knowing that the Thing could surely overtake the Alert until steam was fully up, he resolved on a desperate chance; and, setting the engine for full speed, ran lightning-like on deck and reversed the wheel. There was a mighty eddying and foaming in the noisome brine, and as the steam mounted higher and higher the brave Norwegian drove his vessel head on against the pursuing jelly which rose above the unclean froth like the stern of a daemon galleon. The awful squid-head with writhing feelers came nearly up to the bowsprit of the sturdy yacht, but Johansen drove on relentlessly. There was a bursting as of an exploding bladder, a slushy nastiness as of a cloven sunfish, a stench as of a thousand opened graves, and a sound that the chronicler would not put on paper. For an instant the ship was befouled by an acrid and blinding green cloud, and then there was only a venomous seething astern; where—God in heaven!—the scattered plasticity of that nameless sky-spawn was nebulously recombining in its hateful original form, whilst its distance widened every second as the Alert gained impetus from its mounting steam."

 Col Hammer wrote:
Those monsters look more like the Others than Cthulhu...

Absolutely.

 Col Hammer wrote:
I see what is propably a Deep One.

It's a bad photo, but it looks more like a ghoul to me. I'd love to see CMON do some great-looking Deep Ones, though.

 Col Hammer wrote:
Is that flying thing a Nightgaunt? Or Hunting horror (bit small for that)?

Neither, I'd say. Unless artistic license extends to an elephant trunk and tusks.

 Col Hammer wrote:
The big monster is King in Yellow? (robes make it look like the King and Hastur is one of the big baddies...)

Interesting! I'd thought it might be a creative take on Shub-Niggurath, given the burgeoning vaginal stuff going on in the base. But King in Yellow definitely works with the robed figure and Hastur.

 Col Hammer wrote:
The big mouthed thing with suction cups inside is a Star vampire?

Works for me.

 Col Hammer wrote:
The other monsters look too random to make a guess...
I already got all the Cthulhu monsters I will ever need with Cthulhu Wars though, so this game is not an instant buy for me. Still, I will check the KS when it comes.

It doesn't look much like they're doing Cthulhu classic monsters yet, would seal the deal for me despite Cthulhu Wars, because CMON's sculpts and casting would be far superior to Cthulhu Wars.

More interviews...

https://cmon.com/news/cthulhu-death-may-die-the-great-old-ones-are-coming

I'm gonna put NSFW in the title just in case.

My gut tells me it will be needed.

EDIT - Never mind, I misread part of it. Removed the tag.

The details on those sculpts do not look crisp enough for PVC production. Adrian Smith cultist artwork looks great, but those sculpts tell me they have a newbie to sculpting for PVC production doing the sculpting.

Yeah, the gypsy is pretty bad (for CMON standards) ...

Unfortunately, any feedback about the sculpts is probably too late to make a difference.

Looking at them I wouldn't be surprised if they were the PCV

You can see where they've been spray coated, most likely resin master/prints. There's some shallow/fine detail there alright that may not transfer well to PVC. It's surprising as Mike McVey is overseeing this one and he's got a good handle on miniatures for PVC production over the last few projects he's overseen.

Between this and HATE, is CMoN going full tryhard?

...with a side helping of Edgelord!

 Mysterio wrote:
...with a side helping of Edgelord!

So they've posted the pic of the Hulking Horror mini which looks really nice, but all I can see is the Lovecraft inspired monster from the title credits of Rick and Morty

Hulking Horror:



Rick and Morty:

Iffy on the sculpt, but I only have one axe-wielding girl, so now she'll have a sister...



The triffids have learned to crawl on their bellies and shoot synchronized fire.



Nice to feet you. Or, one foot, rather.



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Automatically Appended Next Post:
"With CMON’s busy production schedule in 2018, we didn’t feel that we could do justice to a Kickstarter campaign for Kick Ass: The Board Game. The decision has been made for this cooperative adventure to go directly to retail. "

https://cmon.com/news/announcing-kick-ass-the-board-game

CMON teased a StarCadia standalone, without mentioning a KS date (and has mentioned Munchkin Arcadia Quest), so keep your tentacles crossed DMD will be their next KS, possibly at the end of the month...

The monsters look great. Most of the detail won't show at scale, but they will still look great with a good paint job. This is the game Adrian Smith was born to illustrate.

This is going to be an expensive summer!

It doesn't look like the human size minis will turn out very well unfortunately. Detail on axe girl's hair is too shallow, and her foot is turned the wrong way. Cultist detail looks way too shallow and soft.

Not really digging the monsters.

But then again, Cthulhu Wars has given me everything I need for Cthulhu gribblies...

Something that needs bringing up is the designer, Eric Lang, is really well regarded amongst game designers and has a brilliant track record.

He's worked on the forthcoming Game of Thrones miniature game, but a host of others: Arcadia Quest, Blood Rage (& Rising Sun), The Others, Quarriors and the Star Wars card game.

For the purposes of this forum he has also designed a number of GW licensed games: Warhammer 40,000 Conquest, Warhammer Invasion & Chaos in the old world.

Also two of my favourite board games of all time (X-Com and Spartacus: Blood on the Sands) so anything this guy is designing automatically has my interest!

Yep. BGG has *really* well-received Rising Sun and AQ, although RS is more of a hybrid Ameritrash / Eurogame, than DMD and The Others, which fall into Ameritrash.

Anyway, CMON's announced the date! July 10th, 3pm EST! : "Death May Die comes to Kickstarter on July 10 at 3 PM EST. The new game from CMON and Guillotine Games combines the creative talents of Eric M. Lang and Rob Daviau."

The Star Spawn looks straight up recycled from Zombicide:Invader.

It is becoming clear that I just don't like Adrian Smith as an art director, which is too bad, but I guess it will save me a bunch of cash on future CMoN games.

[Spoiler: large image]

Artistically not really feeling a lot of the design but if the game play is there I might be able to look past that. Will have to see how it all comes together mechanically....

I'm actually loving all the designs. I'm excited to see what goes into the box by the end of the campaign.