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July 10, 2006

Fantasy Miniatures

The very first miniatures I've ever painted (the Grenadier D&D boxed set) are fantasy. Shortly thereafter I've been on the historical path. Be it Ancient, Colonial, Napoleonic, or other secondary periods like Renaissance, WW2, what have you, I was pretty snobbish about playing periods that's "historical". This went on for pretty much 26 years (ever since 1980 when I got those D&D figures).

There have been occasional lapses. Once in a while a fantasy range will come out that just so cool that I have to paint them to get a fix. One such occasion is when Rackham released their Confrontation figures in the US. They are sufficiently rare then that I have to go on eBay, and pay the astronomical price of ~$10 for three whole figures (If you come from the Fantasy side this kinda pricing might seem normal to you, but for us grognards who's used to $1.00 25mm figs, this is VERY EXPENSIVE indeed).

The Rackham figure rage lasted about 3 figures. the next time the fantasy bug hit is when Tom Meier came out with their woodelves line. These figures are so well made (they look like 54mm figures in their details) that now I have a Woodelf army (not sure what I am going to do with it yet, but I'll get there).

Up until recently most of my historical stuff have their painting being outsourced to Fernando Enterprise in Sri Lanka. They do a competent job at a very low price so it's great for getting large amount of stuff painted. One downside though is that the only hobby activity I am doing is basically basing (which is still better than the alternate but similar hobby of rebasing, but that's another story). After a while this gets old, and I either get to a low point in dealing with miniature gaming, or I start to get a hankering for painting.

The latest manifestation of the disease is that I feel like painting some fantasy figure. In fact the trigger is the Hordes line from Privateer Press.

For those not familiar with PP, they are an American company who's trying to come up with a viable alternative to GamesWorkshop's approach to Fantasy/Sci-fi gaming. They have a complete world setting (Iron Kingdom) which encompasses both their miniature games (Warmachine & Hordes), as well as their D20 based RPG product.

The world of Iron Kingdom has a history that's evolving in real time, (i.e. as in the company product release cycle). So the official plot evolves along, and when something happens (The Skorne Empires invades!) it corresponds to new figures releases of Skorne army box, as well as RPG material relating to the latest development. It's soap opera as marketing device for the gamer nerds.

The world setting is kind of a steam-punk world which is kinda like our renaissance world with steam powered robots running around (i.e. warjacks). It's not a setting that I can readily identify with. Given that the setting is innovative and not just the standard Tolkienesque rehash.

Warmaster is their first miniature game release, which consists of a lot of robots and human figs. The game mechanics are heavily influenced by CCG (make sense since the company is based in Seattle, and have many CCG veteran designing it) in the sense that the whole game is about setting up the right combo (Heroclix did that to a certain extend for mini games, but I think WM kinda took it to a new height). Another reason it took off is that the figures needed for a game is low. A typical game only has < 10 figs per side so one can get an army going in no time.

It's that kinda thinking which got me in trouble when Privateer released their Hordes game. Instead of a Warcaster controlling a bunch of warjacks, you have a warlock controlling a bunch of beasties. The key part of the game is Fury management. In this setting a warlock can "force" his beasties to do things, and everytime someone is forced it generates fury, which in turn becomes mana for the warlock to cast his spells. The problem with Fury is that if there are any fury points unused on the beast by the start of next turn, it'll go "frenzy" (basically you lose control and the beasty will stampede like a Carthaginian elephant full of arrows). The game becomes a risk management game of how much you force your beasts to do cool things w/o losing control of them.

Figure count is low, figures are pretty nice (not as cool looking as Rackham, but fun to paint), and the only down side is that most figures requires some assembly which can be fiddly. I'll probably have my first figure dullcoted by tomorrow and I'll put up some pictures...

Posted by msoong at July 10, 2006 02:54 PM

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