Not Quite Dead

Ahoy, matey!

It's been some time since we've seen something from Dreadfleet. Have you been making some progress on this lately, @Epaka?

The Macaw army is now complete.

What's left to paint now:

- 6 ocelots (3 archers and 3 chiefs)

- 4 heroes

- 9 mystery miniatures.

Here comes my first Macaw scout. I love this little fellow. He looks so tough with his mysterious hood and those two katanas. Still wondering how he manages to hold them with wings, though.

And you did the right choice.

I MUST remember to paint the alternate Baal Pteor with a dark skin, if the KS campaign gets the success Monolith deserve.

A video by the King of Average here:

Nicely done!

Kudos to the winner!

I've had a look at the booklet and it looks stunning! Kudos to the whole team for its really impressive work.

If I finally buy the Modiphius tiles, I'll make sure to play these scenarii with my regular players!

Hi there!

When I was a kid, I used to play to Escape from Atlantis, a boardgame quite straightforward in which you have to escape the sinking continent with your Atlanteans, while you send sea monsters, gigantic octopuses and sharks at your friends' characters. It looked exactly like this:

Some times ago, I managed to stumble into a different version from this game, whose component are, generally speaking, far better looking. This version looks like this:

Today, I painted the first two minis of this game. It didn't took too long and, for a scale so small, I'm quite happy with the result.

Their attitude is slightly weird (especially the guy), but I love those vintage minis. If everything goes according to my plans, it should be our next painting project for the whole family. If I fail to convince them... oh boy, that means a lot of job to do!

By the way: here's the link towards a draft of the KS page of the campaign.

There will be a new KS campaign starting the 6th of January.

More information there.

And here's coming a second Kharadon teammate, Enrik Ironhail, who is reloading his gatling. I love these little fellows.

Hi there!

I've seen that this video has been subtitled in English:

Hi there!

Here's a mini that I haven't played a single time since I got the game, I think. Nevertheless, here's the fellow all painted!

Did you use yours? Is it painted? I'm looking forward for your version of this archer.

There's a lot of neat paintjobs around here!

Here's my try with the Kothian Archer from Conan.

I don't have facebook either, @garbetsp. Luckily, some people are kind enough to take information there and post them on the French-speaking forum, on this topic.

When I have both time and motivation to do it, I post the more interesting of them on this topic.

I guess that Monolith use Facebook instead of this board, or their website which is sadly not up to date, because they now that it will reach more people. I always regretted that this very board (the English-speaking one) isn't more lively. Maybe it'll change with the incoming new players. We'll see!

On the French-speaking forum, Olorin posted a pic from Monolith with the content of the first faction, the pirates:

There's some interesting informations there.

Firstly, the price: 49$ (without the shipping cost, obviously);

Second, there's a booklet with 4 scenarii (not sure how it will integrate the other factions), but as Fred Henri said, there's more in the versus mode than just fighting against each others;

Third, there's 53 miniatures in the box, among which 22 are brand new (5 new types of minis: 2 heroes: Conan under his pirate name of Amra, N'Gaya, a member of Belit's crew, 3 troops: 8 pirate archers, 4 pirates operating a scorpio, and 8 demons - those monsters look kinda lake the creature of the black laggon). As announced, most of the miniatures come from the 2015 campaign. Some come from the retail box, some from the King Pledge, one from the Brom box, and another one from the Paolo Parente box;

Fourthly, there's 2 two sided boards that allow to picture a boarding between two ships or two levels of one ship (its deck and its hold).

Personally, I'm not really into that first box, as I nearly all the minis and as the maps are kinda close to the boarding one from Conan 2015. The black lagoon demons look cool, but seem quite out of place among these pirates crews. I guess I'll pass on that faction.

I'm glad to have these informations, though, and I'm looking forward to discover the three other factions.

By the way, a French-speaking youtuber interviewed Fred Henry today and came back with a big piece of news:

Beyond the Monolith will apply at some point in the future to the Lord of the Rings universe:

As said on the French-speaking forum, where this contest is happening too:

Thanks @Roolz! It's very neat from you to do this!

I guess I'll have a try: I've got a Kothian archer who's been primed for ages. It could be the occasion to paint it!

Not sure you guys know that, but in this video

@Fred Henry was interviewed quite extensively and talked about Monolith's next KS.

Some interesting news, if I'm not mistaken:

- It will start the 5th of January.

- It will be quite short (no more than 1 week), BUT the KS page will be accessible before that date, so that you can have a look at the offer.

- It will consist of two main things:

-- the Conan Legacy, some Conan boxes from 2015 to sell (no idea if there are all in or no)), a box with the new miniatures, the matching tiles for the Book of Skellos and scenarii using Modiphius tile system (that will be buyable too, I presume) and, I guess, the new minis.

-- the Beyond the Monolith Campaign: a Core Set with the rules and what is needed to play a VS game, this will come with 4 faction boxes for Conan, 2 of which being sufficient to play at this Conan VS game. A bunch of these miniatures will the same as the one in the previous Conan game. This VS game for Conan will come with new maps and VS scenarii. A player will create freely an army from his faction box, picking the warriors the best suited for the scenario.

- There will be campaigns using Beyond the Monolith system with other games: 3 Zombicide games (classic, Black plague and Invaders) and Cthulhu Wars.

I haven't covered it all, but it's the main things I remember.

Hi there!

I was wondering if some of you were playing to Warhammer Underworld.

I've heard of it while buying some paint and as my son's interest towards Age of Sigmar was growing, I suggested to him to start instead playing to Nightvault, because it will less expensive and easier to play with other players (no need to have loads of minis before you can play).

So he got the base game for his birthday, along with two warbands that he found really neat: Mollog's Mob and Zarbag's Gitz (thanks to his godfather and godmother), and I bought for myself Shadespire (the previous base game that was still in store, due to the fact it was a German box) and Thundrik's Profiteers.

I spent some time painting in secret unofficial settings for the game, which I gave to him for his birthday as well.

And after some work, here is my first mini painted for this game: a Kharadon dwarf, Garodd Alensen:

What about you? Do you play this game? Which warbands do you use? Did you paint some of these stunning minis, by any chance? If yes, I'm really curious to see them!

Thanks for your kind comment, @Strijdparel.

You're right about the miniatures: it's the same artist, Chad Overter, who sculpted Mice & Mystics and Dawn of Peacemakers minis.

I've just finished the first Macaw Leader. Yellow is a troublesome colour, that pretty always needs several coats. Ugh.

And... the two other warriors. They've stayed so long half-painted on my desk that I wasn't quite sure what colours I choose for the first one. I should paint the macaws leaders as long as I remember their colour scheme.

Well, I think this one came out pretty good! It looks sssstunning.

I've read on Tric Trac that the live is postponed. I guess we'll just have to wait and see!