Kingdom Death: Monster

Around a month ago we finally made the choice to start playing Kingdom Death: Monster after the arrival of the 1.5 version of the game (even though we backed the first Kickstarter campaign).  What can I say, we've never gamed this much before, it's horrendously difficult and unforgiving and oh so addictive.  The world Adam Poots has created is a true nightmare which you play through in an almost story like fashion, reading the rule book only when events or triggered in game.

Though we have watched a few play through's in order to get a grasp of the rules (the ones from Beasts Of War and Hit Points Gaming are well worth a watch, links below) you can never really prepare for the game.

http://www.beastsofwar.com/monster/

Hit Points Gaming

Our first campaign didn't start well with two survivors only making past the prologue White Lion only then to be followed by rolling for the lowest population at the settlement phase and then having a full party wipe on the ensuing level 1 White Lion fight.  That was the end of that settlement.  However we started right back up again and with grim determination we've now made it to the Watcher (who we should be fighting over Easter) and though we haven't actually lost a monster or nemesis fight that's not to say we haven't had our share of death and misfortune, in fact I'd say more than our fair share!  Come what may with the Watcher, as we don't have a Twilight Sword, we're already looking forward to our next settlement and how we can develop it differently using different principle and going after different armour sets.

Meanwhile as we've been playing the game I've been building the required monster and survivors which has kept me rather busy.  The game isn't wysiwyg and instead survivors are built when you've made a specific build you enjoy or after a daring feat or a certain monster is taken down by said survivor etc.  Here's everything I put together so far but this barely scratches the surface of the kits you receive in the game:

 White Lion

 Screaming Antelope

 Phoenix (with a survivor for scale)

 The Watcher

 Gold Smoke Knight

 The Nemesis'; The Butcher; The Hand; The Kingsman

 The Starting Survivors

 Intimacy Couple; Troy and Wade

 Old Survivor

 Riddick (who became Vinny), Figwinn and Gabrielle (who became Rene)

Cecil, Willow, Brent (who became Burt) and Michael (who became Gabriel)

Juan Garcia who received the Kings Curse

The game isn't easy, it's not cheap, it can be very stressful at times but would I recommend it?  Absolutely!

Kingdom Death

It's been a little quiet here of late as I've taken a break from painting Conan as we've finally taken the dive into Kingdom Death!  I've been charting the build progress over on instagram (https://www.instagram.com/crucium.giger/) but I will do some proper photos of the finished builds once I have enough of them.

I must say I'm really enjoying putting these together and have just put together the first miniature based off an in game character who earned to be immortalised.  I do intend on painting these at some point but we rather like the colour of the plastic as it fits the game aesthetic rather well (which I'm sure was intentional).

Riddick with Rawhide Set and newly acquired  Butcher's Cleaver , he had just destroyed his Bone Axe defeating the Butcher but was rewarded rather well

All quiet on the miniature front...

Well I haven't had chance to get anything hobby related done recently due to an impending house move and all that entails which is why it has been quiet on here of late so I thought I'd write a quick post just to keep things somewhat up to date with things.
In the last couple of weeks I've received the first part of my Kings Of War KS haul which was basically the rule books and Ronnie the Bard, with further wave one miniatures being shipped out towards the end of next week pending stock.  Then I received a box from Heresy miniatures of the gang I ordered for use in Necromunda, Andy was having a sale to celebrate the slaying of his Dragon miniature (a very loose term considering it's size) which I took advantage of.  Next up was a great little package which although only contained one miniature it's one I've been waiting for, a Navigator from the Dune universe which will be added to my mountain of Dune miniatures waiting to be worked on.  Then came the next batch from the Terminator miniatures game, namely the deluxe play mat, both sets of special/heavy weapon Terminators and last but not least Arnie.  Finally I received my first package from the Kingdom Death KS, now as exciting as this was it did only contain two miniatures and 100 base inserts but all the same the miniatures were gorgeous and I can't wait for the main game to arrive as I foresee many, many hours playing this.
Once I've moved and settled in I'll try and get some photos taken of these and then crack on with some painting (I'm thinking my Enforcers for Deadzone at this point but that may yet change).

Just end this post I though I'd give a shout out to a couple of Kickstarter campaigns I'm currently backing.

Macrocosm

A great set of miniatures (I've not checked out the rules though) which have a very old school feel to them, in fact I will be using the Malignancy range for my Genestealer Cult in 40K 2nd Ed and Necromunda.  As of writing this there are just 26 hours remaining so take a peak now while you can.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2076383099/macrocosm-the-next-races

Warpath

I've been waiting for this one for three years now, I actually attended the original Warpath launch day back then at the old Mantic offices and collected my Forge Father army (which I still haven't built yet).  Between now and then I've picked up and painted an Enforcer army and a Veer-myn army and all three forces will be receiving additional troops and, more importantly, tanks thanks to the new Kickstarter which will also see two rule books being released for different levels of game play.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1744629938/warpath-the-sci-fi-battle-game

Battle Systems: Urban Terrain

I love me some Battle Systems terrain and the new Kickstarter campaign for the urban scenery isn't disappointing.  Useful for things like Stargate, Doctor Who, Mars Attacks, Batman and much more we'll definitely getting good haul from this one.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1621774283/battle-systemstm-urban-apocalypse-terrain

That's all for now and thanks for reading

Phil