Epic Gothic Sci-Fi Soldiers In Terramortis Kickstarter
August 25, 2015 by deltagamegirl22
Meridian Miniatures is running a fantastic,seven day Kickstarter right now - Terramortis. Terramortis is a collection of 32mm, heroic scaled, Sci-Fi/Gothic miniatures for a work in progress new game.
Terramortis is an apocalyptic Sci-Fi setting, your forces batting for supremacy over the ruins of a once glorious world:
"No-one alive remembers how the war began, or how it ended. All they know is that the Earth – Terra – was once very different. Mankind had succeeded in taming the planet, transforming its surface into a vast civilisation of gleaming spires and terraformed splendour. But all that is gone now, ground to so much ash.
From its ruins, a grim caste of men has arisen – warriors intent on claiming a barren world for their own. The war for Terramortis has begun anew – a war without end."
Backers of Terramortis will receive a free, PDF beta set as well as background fluff.
What do you think of the warriors for Terramortis?
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Sounds and looks a lot like pre-Great Crusade Earth of 40K, when the Emperor was uniting the tribes and power armour prototypes were used by all sides.
Which is pretty cool.
The Imperator Lord…where did his legs go?
Is this some new extreme form of heroic scale?
As I understand it “heroic scale” actually refers to the over-sized proportions of the figure, and not the actual scale of it (so it should really be “heroic proportion”).
So GW’s LoTR stuff would be “28mm true-proportion”, and their 40k and fantasy stuff would be “28mm heroic-proportion” due to the over-sized weapons/hands/feet
Well private melon head and sergeant stumpy legs up there would agree with you 😛
Sorry to tell you and everyone else LoTR is 25mm true scale or proportion as you point out.
The terms get used in different ways by different people, so they get really wonky. Some people use the term “Heroic Proportions” to refer to shrinking the head to put emphasis on the muscular body (used in comics, book covers, fantasy artwork and such).
The term was first used in miniatures to describe the minis to describe the scale creep that had gone on with the 25mm miniatures. Later, this became “Heroic 28mm scale” – although any of the lines that were 28mm when the term was first coined have scale creeped up to 30mm or 32mm by now.
For many, Heroic Scale is also used to refer to anything in what I like to refer to as “Gaming Scale”- meaning they’re anywhere between 25mm and 35mm scale- and have some scale creep going on. This is regardless of the proportions (I’ve heard this used for Dark Sword miniatures- and they use very realistic proportions on their minis).
And, of course, it is used to refer to the dwarfish proportions that GW uses on their minis. Recently, I have found some GW fans tend to refer to almost every other line as “true scale” simply because so few use the super exaggerated proportions that GW uses.
Actually, this whole topic reminded me how much I’d love to see someone take recognizable Space Marines, but make them using realistic proportions. The minis could be pretty amazing.
what is the scale? is it 28mm? It looks more like 10 or 15mm.
They have scale comparison shots- it looks to me like their marines are just about as tall as GW’s space marines.
It states 32mm at the top, tho it doesnt look it (maybe because everyone is nearly as wide as they are tall…) 🙂
Those don’t look so good because of how wide those are.
I don’t know what it is but I really don’t like the axe-guns. They do look a little squat. I wonder if it is the poses?
nice idea, but the scale looks waaaaay off on most of those. Unless the humans of the apocalypse have turned part dwarf, I don’t think these look quite right. I do like the apocalyptic roman aesthetic, (Fallout New Vegas says hello) though the gunaxes look a bit like a desperate attempt to be the ‘something cool’ of the setting, when they really aren’t.
Size comparison pics are in the updates section on the kickstarter.
Looks like their a little taller than a GW space marine.
Well, larger space marines is one of the things people are calling “True Scale” these days.
Yay, more Space Marine knock-offs. Just what the gaming world needs.
Nobody cracked a “massive chopper” joke yet?
Lasgun on a stick! Come get your lasgun on a stick right here! 😉
oh where have I seen such skulls in laurels before?