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Szymon_Archon wrote:


Oh, and if you have a wishlist for the next campaign (miniature focused) I'll be happy to hear it. A lot of it is probably gonna be stuff that's already been repeated here before so I may already have it written down, but if you have something that you feel strongly about, please feel free to repeat it.

Adding to my previous lists, I would like to see some properly done (when it comes to human body proportions) medieval looking, with not too much clothes and armour, skeletons with options for both melee and ranged combat. I would also like ghouls that are not bone fetishists like GW ones or zombie proxies like Mantic.

I would like to see Archon doing a properly sized, multipose werewolves kit. Basically what is on a pic below

Lightly armed and armoured/unarmoured models with variety of masked/unmasked heads that could be bandits or cultists or assassin, would be nice to have.

New update on Caves on Gamefound with some new assets shown and another sprue tooled.

However a question for @Archon, a previous AMA mentioned some direct only products appearing on the website once the new one was up (stuff people have asked for but doesn't make sense for a retail release). I'm pretty sure that the new one is in place now, any update on the endeavour? (Personally hopping for the functional doors to show up somewhere somehow.)

@Archon - when do you plan to start your new minis centered campaign?

 Shadow Walker wrote:
@Archon - when do you plan to start your new minis centered campaign?

It'll probably have to be next year, we already have so many campaigns planned for this year and we want to deliver Caves (or at the very least begin shipping) before we start a new campaign. We're hoping that it'll be our biggest campaign yet, although personally, I think it'll be quite difficult. We'll have to see how it goes ;D


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 Dawnbringer wrote:
New update on Caves on Gamefound with some new assets shown and another sprue tooled.

However a question for @Archon, a previous AMA mentioned some direct only products appearing on the website once the new one was up (stuff people have asked for but doesn't make sense for a retail release). I'm pretty sure that the new one is in place now, any update on the endeavour? (Personally hopping for the functional doors to show up somewhere somehow.)

I don't think we have any plans to reintroduce the functional doors at the moment, we've gone through 3 different iterations of the system and none of them have really worked the way we wanted it to. It's something that will likely be addressed in our next terrain campaign though!


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Another issue with the functional doors is that the sprue also contains sci-fi doors, which can look off together with the fantasy doors...

Szymon_Archon wrote:

We're hoping that it'll be our biggest campaign yet, although personally, I think it'll be quite difficult. We'll have to see how it goes ;D

Please do not forget to include werewolves kit there as shown by a pic above

@Archon - if there will be some pieces of terrain to go thematic with minis in your new campaign, please consider also small lake etc. water obstacles.

A full sprue sized natural lake would be lovely

Szymon_Archon wrote:


I don't think we have any plans to reintroduce the functional doors at the moment, we've gone through 3 different iterations of the system and none of them have really worked the way we wanted it to. It's something that will likely be addressed in our next terrain campaign though!

Another issue with the functional doors is that the sprue also contains sci-fi doors, which can look off together with the fantasy doors...

That's a shame, as I'm guessing the next terrain campaign is unlikely to be fulfilled until 25 / 26 it looks like I'll have to be off to ebay then.

So guys, if you would need just one mini to proxy all your draconic creatures needs, which one would you choose, Thos or wyvern?

 Shadow Walker wrote:
@Archon - if there will be some pieces of terrain to go thematic with minis in your new campaign, please consider also small lake etc. water obstacles.

Personally, I'd like us to add scatter terrain for the themed sets I have planned, although time will tell if this is something that will make it in.

Szymon_Archon wrote:

 Shadow Walker wrote:
@Archon - if there will be some pieces of terrain to go thematic with minis in your new campaign, please consider also small lake etc. water obstacles.

Personally, I'd like us to add scatter terrain for the themed sets I have planned, although time will tell if this is something that will make it in.

Yeah, some graveyard to skeletons, some lake to frogmen etc. etc.

MM sale. D&L and Rampart terrain spotted!

Would like to see mini and terrain sets for D&D starter sets.

 Shadow Walker wrote:
So guys, if you would need just one mini to proxy all your draconic creatures needs, which one would you choose, Thos or wyvern?

I'd choose the red dragon if the game I'm playing/models using is very modern classic in style of models being used in general.

I'd pick the Wyvern if it were more old-school in style



And of course the correct answer is both

 Overread wrote:

 Shadow Walker wrote:
So guys, if you would need just one mini to proxy all your draconic creatures needs, which one would you choose, Thos or wyvern?

I'd choose the red dragon if the game I'm playing/models using is very modern classic in style of models being used in general.

I'd pick the Wyvern if it were more old-school in style

Could you please give me some examples of both (like what games do you mean by those)?

 Shadow Walker wrote:

 Overread wrote:

 Shadow Walker wrote:
So guys, if you would need just one mini to proxy all your draconic creatures needs, which one would you choose, Thos or wyvern?

I'd choose the red dragon if the game I'm playing/models using is very modern classic in style of models being used in general.

I'd pick the Wyvern if it were more old-school in style

Could you please give me some examples of both (like what games do you mean by those)?

Honestly I wasn't even thinking of a specific game. You could play almost any RPG like DnD with modern or classic style monsters if you go hunting around for designs and sculpts that fit the design style you're after.

Is it me or that ogre has really weird, very unnatural/uncomfortable looking position of its right/weapon hand?

 Shadow Walker wrote:
Is it me or that ogre has really weird, very unnatural/uncomfortable looking position of its right/weapon hand?

He looks like he's about to swing, but the blade is on the wrong side for it.

he's going to hit something heavily armoured so is using the pointy spike on the back of the axe from the look of it

He's gonna bat back an incoming grenade

Guys, look at both his whole arm, and his hand/wrist position. It does not look natural for what he is going to do. Just try to copy it with your own, and you will feel how uncomfortable it is. It is like the sculptor never even tried to check normal position for such a move.

 Shadow Walker wrote:
Guys, look at both his whole arm, and his hand/wrist position. It does not look natural for what he is going to do. Just try to copy it with your own, and you will feel how uncomfortable it is. It is like the sculptor never even tried to check normal position for such a move.

The Ogre may also just be swinging downwards, although that's just my interpretation :p

Szymon_Archon wrote:

 Shadow Walker wrote:
Guys, look at both his whole arm, and his hand/wrist position. It does not look natural for what he is going to do. Just try to copy it with your own, and you will feel how uncomfortable it is. It is like the sculptor never even tried to check normal position for such a move.

The Ogre may also just be swinging downwards, although that's just my interpretation :p

Same. His fist is closed and downward facing, not palm up and holding something. There's a lot of shadow painted in his collarbone which makes it look like an armpit, so maybe that's throwing people?

The ogre is a great model and the pose really isn't that distracting in the flesh. I think it's worth keeping in mind that if you freeze-frame a snapshot of just about any action, you can probably find a moment where it looks super awkward. Enough of my family photographs suggest this to be an irrefutable truth!

For me it's more bothersome that the pose extends past the ogre's personal space so much, and it makes positioning on a table very cumbersome. It can't face away from a terrain piece or structure or be charged in the back by other models without bonking into everything because his axe extends so far from center of mass.