Blood Rage Norse Viking boardgame plus minis

[Nord]

This might be of interest to Viking/Norse fans. I'm backing it just for the minis, though the game designer is well regarded too.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/coolminiornot/blood-rage

[The Red Graf]

Sigh, they were too lovely to pass up. As was Conan. With Raging Heroes still to come. 

[Cherno]

Nice find! I'll post it on TMP tomorrow if it hasn't already been posted there. Why didn't I hear about this earlier?

[gamer Mac]

Wow stunning figures
Anybody know how they scale up?

[Devoted of Slaanesh]

I am also in. They say scale is 32 mm, monsters look huge.

[hjorhrafn]

Between Conan, Blood Rage, and the Raging Heroes space nuns, I'm looking at some serious overtime at work.  

[killshot]

I saw this earlier too, definitely interested in backing it.  I'll be all backed out between this and the Red Box Jotun

[The Red Graf]

At least the pain is almost over. Raging Heroes kicks off their Kickstarter at the end of March and after that I don't have any other KS's on the horizon that I am following. They all kind of came in a mad gallop.

I was afraid I might get pulled into the Shieldwolf KS in a major way, but they appear to be stalled out well below the level of the Shield maiden box set that I was interested in.

[Duke Donald]

These look nice!

[Elbows]

Looks pretty cool...the minis are definitely large 28's or 32's...but pretty tempting nonetheless.

[Duncan McDane]

I'm in too. Great value for the money and excellent sculpts. Really looks like this is the Golden Age of Miniature Boardgames. 

[Duke Donald]

I had a look at it in more details and I have some second thoughts. The minis look amazing but the number of different sculpts is fairly limited. Apparently, each clan has eight warriors, now represented by two sculpts following the achievement of the $125k-$170k stretch goals, so that each sculpt for the basic Vikings is replicated four times. Adding the four leaders, that's still only 12 different minis, plus the monsters. I also find many of the stretch goals a bit underwhelming. The next one (the Saga token) is frankly ridiculous.

[axabrax]

Argh! Couldn't they have waited a couple months to do this? I just shelled out a ton on Conan!

[Comsquare]

I had a look at it in more details and I have some second thoughts. The minis look amazing but the number of different sculpts is fairly limited. Apparently, each clan has eight warriors, now represented by two sculpts following the achievement of the $125-$170 stretch goals, so that each sculpt for the basic Vikings is replicated four times. Adding the four leaders, that's still only 12 different minis, plus the monsters. I also find many of the stretch goals a bit underwhelming. The next one (the Saga token) is frankly ridiculous.

That's my problem as well, would be in for the minis but don't need 4 times the same mini 
That, and that I'm concerned about the quality of the actuall mini you get, not that there will be the same issues like with "Sedition Wars".

[The Red Graf]

Thought some of you might find this interesting.

Ragnarok is coming to Hyboria

Illustration by Adrian Smith
For those of you who are not aware, our friends from Guillotine Games and Studio McVey have a Kickstarter campaign going on right now for their new Viking board game Blood Rage! Designed by Eric Lang, with art by Adrian Smith, who did much of the art for Conan and published by CMON.

http://cmon.co/bloodrage

We’re very excited about the fact that there’s so much potential crossover between Conan and Blood Rage, not only in terms of the art style and theme, but the figures are also in the same scale! With that in mind we decided to create a new scenario for the Nordheim Expansion, incorporating some of the amazing Blood Rage miniatures in it! So if you purchase the Nordheim Expansion, on top of the 4 scenarios previously announced, you’ll get a 5th scenario that takes advantage of the miniatures you’ll have if you’re a backer of the Blood Rage Kickstarter campaign.

For the Glory!