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Title: (KICKSTARTER) John Carter of Mars - The Roleplaying Game (and Miniatures)
Post by: MachinaMandala on January 09, 2018, 04:21:29 PM
Big Blue Link (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/modiphius/john-carter-of-mars-the-roleplaying-game)

Barsoom miniatures and roleplaying game from Modiphius (the guys that do the Star Trek game etc).

£25 for four miniatures is a bit steep but they do look very pleasant.
Title: Re: (KICKSTARTER) John Carter of Mars - The Roleplaying Game (and Miniatures)
Post by: Donpimpom on January 09, 2018, 05:00:35 PM
Awesome! Thanks for the heads up!
Ages waiting for an officially licensed game of ERB Barsoom, I'm fully in it!
If they do a similar job to their Fallout range it may be really cool https://www.modiphius.com/fallout.html
Title: Re: (KICKSTARTER) John Carter of Mars - The Roleplaying Game (and Miniatures)
Post by: Agis on January 09, 2018, 05:07:49 PM
...
£25 for four miniatures is a bit steep but they do look very pleasant.

Ahem, it is £25 for four miniatures PLUS the complete RPG rulebook as a pdf!
OK for me...  ;) Backed it.
Title: Re: (KICKSTARTER) John Carter of Mars - The Roleplaying Game (and Miniatures)
Post by: Redmao on January 09, 2018, 06:30:21 PM
Man, I wish that the John Carter miniature had a better pose than that.
I really can't get over that leaping ballerina pose.
Title: Re: (KICKSTARTER) John Carter of Mars - The Roleplaying Game (and Miniatures)
Post by: Rob_bresnen on January 09, 2018, 10:43:23 PM
Imagery is close to the film, which is a good thing. Expensive but nice.
Title: Re: (KICKSTARTER) John Carter of Mars - The Roleplaying Game (and Miniatures)
Post by: robh on January 10, 2018, 11:16:36 AM
The Tars Tarkas figure is very good, the others much less so, although I am sure the Disney style Calot will be extremely popular, like it is in the movie.

But where do they get all the warrior women from?  Looks more like the cast of an episode of Zena than characters recognisable from the works of ERB (but I guess the original material is deemed "sexist" these days).

Overall I think the Bronze Age range is far better than what is offered from this KS so far.
Title: Re: (KICKSTARTER) John Carter of Mars - The Roleplaying Game (and Miniatures)
Post by: MachinaMandala on January 10, 2018, 11:40:02 AM
Ahem, it is £25 for four miniatures PLUS the complete RPG rulebook as a pdf!
OK for me...  ;) Backed it.

Oh, I didn't realise that! That's £2.50 per miniature then, which is reasonable-ish.
Title: Re: (KICKSTARTER) John Carter of Mars - The Roleplaying Game (and Miniatures)
Post by: Agis on January 10, 2018, 01:22:20 PM
...Overall I think the Bronze Age range is far better than what is offered from this KS so far.
Agreed, here are mine:
(http://www.adpublishing.de/assets/images/JC_Thoat_TT_and_Dejah_Thoris.jpg)
John Carter on his faithful Thoat, Green Martian Tars Tarkas (both Bronze Age minis) and Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium (Parroom minis).
-> http://www.adpublishing.de/html/victorian_sf.html scroll down a bit...
Title: Re: (KICKSTARTER) John Carter of Mars - The Roleplaying Game (and Miniatures)
Post by: dinohunterpoa on January 10, 2018, 01:32:18 PM
Overall I think the Bronze Age range is far better than what is offered from this KS so far.

Bronze Age and Tin Man Miniatures are the true rulers of Barsoom IMHO!

 ;)
Title: Re: (KICKSTARTER) John Carter of Mars - The Roleplaying Game (and Miniatures)
Post by: tnjrp on January 10, 2018, 02:08:55 PM
Oh, I didn't realise that! That's £2.50 per miniature then, which is reasonable-ish.
Also note that two of the miniatures are clearly bigger than the 32mm humans.
Title: Re: (KICKSTARTER) John Carter of Mars - The Roleplaying Game (and Miniatures)
Post by: JohnDSD2 on January 11, 2018, 07:55:50 AM
Now some of the Stretch goals are unlocked, it looks as though the figure sets will be £25 each and the number of figures will vary depending upon size.

So the Heroes of Barsoom set has some larger figures, so you get 4.

The 2 Martian sets that are unlocked you get 6 figures.

And the Tharks (still to be unlocked) looks like 5 figures in the set.

I'm guessing that as there is a figures only pledge level (Swords of Mars) at £150 there will be one or two more figure sets before the Campaign ends.
Title: Re: (KICKSTARTER) John Carter of Mars - The Roleplaying Game (and Miniatures)
Post by: tnjrp on January 11, 2018, 02:43:33 PM
The Tharks should be unlocked by now cf. money pledged, just not announced.

Never mind, got confused by the newfangled currency conversion thingee o_o
Title: Re: (KICKSTARTER) John Carter of Mars - The Roleplaying Game (and Miniatures)
Post by: fantail on January 11, 2018, 06:22:37 PM
So the Swords of Mars miniature collection is £150 for what appears to be 4 sets (including stretch goal Tharks) but each set on its own is £25. not sure about the value there.
Title: Re: (KICKSTARTER) John Carter of Mars - The Roleplaying Game (and Miniatures)
Post by: robh on January 11, 2018, 10:57:40 PM
I am pretty sure there are more £25 packs to be added yet. It is very (like very very) unlikely the KS is not already planned out through the next few hundred thousand ££ as what they have so far is almost certainly insufficient to finance what they have promised.

There will need to be Red and Green Martians riding Thoats, Banths and White Apes before you can say you have covered even the minimum requirements for Barsoom games.
Not to mention Plant Men and Zitadars, Martian Rats, Apts and Sith if they want to offer a more comprehensive set of creatures (and then there are several others too).

As they have followed the Disney styling there will likely be "Alien" Therns and the leader Matai Shang and his daughter Phaidar also.
Title: Re: (KICKSTARTER) John Carter of Mars - The Roleplaying Game (and Miniatures)
Post by: Donpimpom on January 12, 2018, 12:10:30 AM
well, remember is a rpg book, not a miniatures skirmish game, so its no need to release a miniature for every single character or monster in the game, something can be left to the players imagination.
I really wonder how much they will balance the production of miniatures vs sourcebooks and adventures as rpg use to do.
Title: Re: (KICKSTARTER) John Carter of Mars - The Roleplaying Game (and Miniatures)
Post by: robh on January 12, 2018, 04:55:27 PM
well, remember is a rpg book, not a miniatures skirmish game

No, there is a miniatures skirmish game/ruleset included in this KS (Swords of Mars) and just to make sure they get their worth out of the licence there will be a 3D boardgame also.
Minimal details of these non-rpg aspects yet but there have been several teaser comments about them over the past few days.

They also boast about having stats for EVERY creature and race from the entire book series included in the main core rules. So stands to reason they would want models for most of them otherwise they will push players towards Bronze Age.

The Miniatures game is probably going to get me to pledge on this (providing it is not only included in bundles) to use with my growing collection of 15mm Barsoom stuff.
Title: Re: (KICKSTARTER) John Carter of Mars - The Roleplaying Game (and Miniatures)
Post by: robh on January 28, 2018, 12:29:46 PM
List of forthcoming (KS ££ permitting) monster models has been posted in one of the updates:

".....the great White Ape, Banth, Apt, Synthetic Men, and Plant Men. ...."

Nothing yet about riding Thoats and the inclusion of Synthetic men so early is a surprise.
Title: Re: (KICKSTARTER) John Carter of Mars - The Roleplaying Game (and Miniatures)
Post by: The Dozing Dragon on January 29, 2018, 12:31:04 AM
I keep wondering if pledging the miniatures pledge would be worth it and will it really include ALL the miniatures released or will there be add ons that are extra?

God alone knows why as I have enough Bronze Age and Heritage JC minis to refight almost any battle already :)
Title: Re: (KICKSTARTER) John Carter of Mars - The Roleplaying Game (and Miniatures)
Post by: robh on January 29, 2018, 12:48:30 PM
...........God alone knows why as I have enough Bronze Age and Heritage JC minis to refight almost any battle already :)

  :?
Tell me about it, I do this in 15mm and don't do rpgs but am still tempted (although only for the books)
Title: Re: (KICKSTARTER) John Carter of Mars - The Roleplaying Game (and Miniatures)
Post by: dinohunterpoa on January 29, 2018, 07:28:29 PM

God alone knows why as I have enough Bronze Age and Heritage JC minis to refight almost any battle already :)

AARs with lots of pictures, please!  :-*
Title: Re: (KICKSTARTER) John Carter of Mars - The Roleplaying Game (and Miniatures)
Post by: Commander Roj on January 30, 2018, 07:31:07 PM
AARs with lots of pictures, please!  :-*

I second that! I would so like a JC range in 15/20mm though.
Title: Re: (KICKSTARTER) John Carter of Mars - The Roleplaying Game (and Miniatures)
Post by: robh on January 31, 2018, 12:10:37 PM
.......I would so like a JC range in 15/20mm though.

The Black Hat "Martian Empires" 18mm  range is excellent, by picking and choosing you can make up an ERB "John Carter", a Chadwick "Space 1889" or HG Wells "War of the Worlds" style set.

The Banth is a bit small but is OK, the Calot unfortunately is badly wrong and there are no White Apes (although proxy/conversion options are around) or Blue Martians (Plant Men).

Peter Pig also have a limited range in true 15mm but IMHO they are not nearly as good.

As for the Kickstarter they have commented that they will be including individual figures as "add ons" but the campaign has slowed really badly so still no details of the other creatures.
Title: Re: (KICKSTARTER) John Carter of Mars - The Roleplaying Game (and Miniatures)
Post by: Commander Roj on February 09, 2018, 12:23:55 PM
The Black Hat "Martian Empires" 18mm  range is excellent, by picking and choosing you can make up an ERB "John Carter", a Chadwick "Space 1889" or HG Wells "War of the Worlds" style set.

The Banth is a bit small but is OK, the Calot unfortunately is badly wrong and there are no White Apes (although proxy/conversion options are around) or Blue Martians (Plant Men).

Peter Pig also have a limited range in true 15mm but IMHO they are not nearly as good.

As for the Kickstarter they have commented that they will be including individual figures as "add ons" but the campaign has slowed really badly so still no details of the other creatures.

I have looked at both Peter Pig and Martian Empires, but they just don’t quite do it for me, unfortunately. I would stretch to 28mm if Tin Man was in the UK, but the expense of importing is prohibitive for me.