Wrath Of Kings Takes To Kickstarter At Over $100,000 Already!
August 15, 2013 by brennon
So Wrath of Kings launched on Kickstarter last night and surprise, surprise, the CoolMiniOrNot fundraiser has already burst through it's target of £50,000. It helps that the miniatures look so tasty!
Their plan was, and certainly now is, to bring you a years full of releases in one go featuring these rather awesome looking Starter Box Sets as a launching point for your skirmish and then pitched battles in their fantasy world.
They have already added new miniatures to the sets and smashed through variant sculpts in the boxes. It won't be long before they hit the next one!
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Very tempted. Shael Hann and Hadross are the two most likely for me.
Hadross and Goritsi are my votes. They look pretty epic.
I def like Shael Hann and either Goritsi or Nasier. Goritsi has the vampires n werewolves but Nasier has those sworsdmen (Ashmen) tho some of Nasiers other models(Pelagarth) i’m not sure of I need to see more i think.
Looks very promising! Various factions, new models… yap 🙂
Loving them all tbh. Did any of you not see the piggies with big swords? Bet they can dish out some awesome PORK CHOPS with those!! 😛 hehe
@Chebi, I believe it is your turn again…….
Nothing of interest for me for months and then DZC and this!! Please Kickstarter, make timing more better in fuchsia. 😛
Mick
I was ready to resist the lure of this one… until I saw the werewolves. Now I have to bury myself in my work with music blaring in my headphones to try and erase these images from my mind. Stop making awesome things dammit! The things must stop, for a little while at least. My painting table is full of projects already! My wallet can’t take anymore!
Damn, another awesome kickstarter! Just backed ArcWorlde the other week too!
I hope they release the shael han dragon from the video
I try to like and get excited about CMON’s Kickstarters, but with each one and each delay of the past (currently very delayed in all of their KS promises), I can not see getting behind this one. Plus, with such delay, will there be any follow up for the game? What about support. CMON looks like it has decided on money grab style KS and not using the money to create or sustain a game long term.
Plus, this seems very much a Confrontation knockoff. They were supposed to relaunch Confronatation on KS, but instead did this one because the two groups they hired to create rules did a poor job of it.
I do not mean to be negative and I love putting money in on a good, new project. This one just doesn’t seem to be either.
Expect the endless stream of KS projects from CMON, but eventually, we’ll all start saying COME ON, as is get working and finish what you promise first.
Could you explain the difference between a money grab style KS and one which uses money to create or sustain a game long term? Ideally with examples of each. I like to think I have a good understanding of the KS process but I don’t understand what you mean by this.
Your statement that that they are very delayed on all of their KS promises is factually incorrect. CMoN have ran seven completed KSers. Two shipped early, Zombicide & Zombicide S2. Kaosball is currently to schedule. Of the remaining four, shipment 1 of Rivet Wars is two-months behind schedule due to the additional time it’s taking to make some of the add-ons. We can debate whether two months is “very delayed”, I would say not, though we can at least agree that it is later than they originally said. Guilds of Cadwallon had an estimated shipping date of March and began shipping in early April. I think we’re on firmer ground in saying that was definitely not very delayed. Sedition Wars had a shipping date of November and began shipping in January though I believe the second wave of minis is very delayed. Relic Knights is currently running six months behind schedule. Their revised schedule was to receive all the production masters in August for a November ship date and that has happened.
As I’m sure you’re aware, until WoK, CMoN ran KSer campaigns for other studios and then handled the distribution of the completed product. The actual creation of the product was the responsibility of those studios. The second wave SW minis fell behind because Studio McVey fell behind on their sculpting. SPM grossly underestimated the amount of time it would take to create an entirely new line of miniatues from scratch and then decided to wait to announce the delay until they had a new schedule rather than just come clean. Zombicide has shipped early on both occasions because Guillotine Games have been well and truly on the ball with it. It’s not my intention to be an apologist for CMoN, their post-campaign communication and customer service in the past has been poor, even allowing for the fact that they were not the ones doing the production. I just believe in giving criticism where it’s actually warranted.
*As I can’t edit the above post I’ll just have to put a bit missed out here instead. SW W2 minis will begin shipping after GenCon and will have done so by the time the WoK KS campaign has finished. This will just leave RK as the only delay to resolve.
The base game of Rivet Wars is delayed by 2 months but the add-on’s that you say are causing the delay are not being shipped until, who know’s, I think the rest of wave 1 are shipping at the time of wave 2, 3 months later, no idea when wave 2 will get shipped. So really wave 1 is 4-6 month late and not 2.
Wave 2 is slated for Q1 of next year which gives up to the end of March before it’d be late. It will indeed contain add-ons bumped down a wave though the production difficulties caused by the add-ons are still what is responsible for the two month delay to the shipment of the main game.
The overall point stands. CMoN-ran KSers have a mixed record on delivering on time but in no way are all their campaigns “very delayed”. Even then, the timing of the delivery is largely the responsibility of the studio that CMoN are acting as distributor for. SPM and McVey Studios should take most of the blame for the late shipment of their product and Guillotine Games should take most of the credit for shipping both Zombicide KSers early. CMoN should rightly be criticised for their poor post-KSer customer service.
I agree with Vonjunk on this one.
I base my current lack of enthusiasm for CMoN projects on Sedition Wars, which has had a terrible execution … we are STILL waiting for add ons AND both of the boxes of the game I received from my Kickstarter order had figures missing arms (ya just a mundane piece … not guns or anything cool … just arms) . When I reported it to the CMoN people they just gave me the runaround and never resolved it. Par for the course with these guys, who are churning out half-arse project after half-arsed project. By definition that is a “money grab” look at the games they have put out. Even Zombicide itself isn’t a great game, wow a zombie game, how original. They are riding the wave of Kickstarter novelty, which I think is finally coming to an end. I think the “hey it has minis I’ll back it!!” attitude is finally coming to an end in general and I would think it would only be a matter of time before CMoN projects start to feel that as well.
Beyond my recent experience with Sedition Wars, I trace my distrust of CMoN back to New Wave miniatures run by David Doust. That company was a full on scam, they were selling products and shipping to just some of the customers. Finally that shut down and where does Doust pop up? Dark Age, as the main principal. That languishes for years and where is Doust now? CMoN.
But no end of fanboys out there will defend those guys. I doubt this post will last long as those guys advertise here. They also have a fair number of people who patrol boards and lists for them to shout down any negative comments about their business models, etc. and as they advertise here I doubt this comment will survive long.
The track record of New Wave miniatures is a legitimate concern and a reason for not giving your custom to CMoN. “I don’t want another zombie-themed game in the market” is just a personal preference and whilst it hardly speaks to a creative bankruptcy within CMoN you are entitled not to buy the game if it doesn’t interest you. You freely admit that you extrapolate all your opinions on all CMoN KSers from your experience with one of them. Again, a single bad experience is a legitimate reason to be wary of doing business with a company again, though not to make blanket statements about everything they do. They created the “Kickstarter novelty” with their Zombicide campaign, everyone else is now riding a wave they started.
I’ve backed two of the seven projects they’ve ran. Had KS not kicked Tentacle Bento off the site that would have been two from eight. One of those was for Relic Knights, a game for which my interest pre-dates SPM’s relationship with CMoN. I feel comfortable in saying I’m not a CMoN fanboy.
In this case the cost per mini is too good to pass on