Conan [Monolith Boardgame] - KS over and funded

[Nord]

The duplicate poses of the bad guys, and some of the slightly wooden poses, are helping me stay away at the moment, but keeping an eye on it. Conan is not a big deal for me, but I can see it being awesome to many folks. I am very pleased for the developers, well hyped product and they deserve some success. Will it top $1m?

[Doomsdave]

I dig the look of of the minis, but I'm definitely in the "want single figures, not a package game" camp.

Me too.  So there's no chance that these will be offered in singles down the line?  I would love to see a minis only type buy in. 

[Eric the Shed]

Just backed this...$135 dollars for all those minis - that's about £90
 

[Timbor]

I'm quite chuffed with this, but I do hope they re-organize their bonuses and slow them down a bit.  We're less than 24 hours into the Kickstarter and we're already at 35+ additional free minis with 29+ days to go.

I understand the minis might be a little cheaper than normal, but goals need to be set 100K or so apart, not 25K.  I doubt there is anyway they can keep up with interest (I know the opening day or two are always biggest...but still).

The pace of the new additions does seem to be somewhat concerning, as there are as of yet no add-ons, so every stretch goal basically makes the profit margin thinner and thinner for the manufacturer.  I would assume that the current stretch goals were all stuff they would have perhaps wanted to include in the box for the set price (and thus could afford to include), but were released as 'free' stretch goals to help build hype.  Mantic does that with pretty much all of their KS stuff.

One other concern that I have is the shipping costs.  I just noticed that it says shipping will be charged after the end of the campaign?  I will need to see those charges as I could see this badboy costing $50 to ship with the current USPS fees...

[FramFramson]

Me too.  So there's no chance that these will be offered in singles down the line?  I would love to see a minis only type buy in. 

It may be 2015 but some game makers are as allergic to money as they ever were. 

[Timbor]

Just to be devil's advocate, I wonder how many who have pledged for the game would decrease their pledge for just some miniatures if they were offered separately?

I guess if they price them at a more favourable margin it may not be that bad in the end though...

[Centaur_Seducer]

I think many will drop their pledge level as soon as the stretcher goals is filling up the first pledge level.

[FramFramson]

Just to be devil's advocate, I wonder how many who have pledged for the game would decrease their pledge for just some miniatures if they were offered separately?

I guess if they price them at a more favourable margin it may not be that bad in the end though...

Well exactly. Board game makers with high-quality minis are starting to cotton to this, but not all of them have got the message. If you think you'll undercut yourself by selling individual minis, you just raise the price to the equilibrium point. End result is greater profits for minimal work.

Anyway, this was all hashed out earlier, so I'll try not to drag us back.

[Eithriall]

Minis count :

From the base game, $90 pledge + shipping:
4 x Heroes (4 sculpts)
6 x Allies (2 sculpts)
5 x Monsters (5 sculpts)
5 x Hyenas   
4 x Leaders (4 sculpts)
5 x Archers   
15 x Pict Hunters   
15 x Pirates
15 x Guards   

From the King pledge (KS exclusive), + $45 in addition to base game:
1 x Thog (monster)
3 x Heroes (3 sculpts)
1 x Ally
15 x skeletons
10 x mummies

From the stretch goals (already reached):
5 x Pict archers
5 x Skeleton alt sculpt
1 x New hero (Pallantides)
5 x pirate alt sculpt
5 x Guards alt sculpt
1 x Man ape
5 x Mummies alt sculpt
1 x New leader (Thugra Khotan)
5 x Pict alt sculpt
10 x Chests and cases (2 sculpts)
5 x Skeleton alt sculpt

[Elbows]

One of the silly joys of KS --- going to work for 8 hours and coming home to see that it made about $100K since I last looked...

[Sterling Moose]

I understand the minis might be a little cheaper than normal, but goals need to be set 100K or so apart, not 25K

I have no problem with a stretch goal every 25K.  The more the merrier as far as I'm concerned.

[Elbows]

Normally I'd agree with you...but at 15-20+ free minis per day ---- if the momentum somehow keeps up (which is nigh impossible) I think they'll dig themselves into a hole with regard to the freebies.  Granted the KS is already a success even if no one else buys in.

I just think the company needs to plan for the next 28 days.  That's a lot more potential money.  Can they afford to keep up with freebies every 25K.  That's all.  I'm not complaining, just think it'd make more business sense at 50K, 75K or 100K apart if the tempo keeps up.

[supervike]

Well, I thought I had swore off Kickstarters, but this one is tempting me strongly...

[Redmao]

Will the special artist boxes, furniture sets and various minions be available in stores?

[Elbows]

I can't see why they would be.  I think this is likely to be a very open and shut case of ...."buy the boxed game".  Maybe eventually supported by boxed expansions, but as a board game I just don't see it being supported by a random line of miniatures on the side.

I'd like to be proven wrong but can't think of other examples where this happens.