Kickstarter Roundup: Week of 09 Dec 2013

Kinda slow week, on Kickstarter. Only 3 this week. On to the roundup!

So first, a little war. Really. 15mm wars of ancient days

Forged in Battle is a company that more or less registered on my radar a couple of years ago, as an alternative source for FoW minis. I just never picked up any of their range primarily because I didn’t like that their vehicles came with a resin base. Partially aesthetics, but by that time I was aware resin corners have a nasty tendency to break.

Apparently they did an earlier KS (which I’m not aware) and now this is more of a sideline as they expand laterally. It makes sense really; 15mm is a nice scale to work with and Ancients sort of need the sense of scale to work. Just two issues with that…

One, 15mm market for Ancients is a bit crowded. Gamers are sort of spoilt for choice there, so this is one more entrant. Two, for me personally, I sort of prefer my Early Imperial Romans to be in 28mm.. I find that scale more pleasant to look at a shield wall of scrutum and gladius, after pelting the enemy with pilum. Warlord and Wargame Factory satisfied that itch for me.. I just need to get around to figuring out which system to use, and the basing to conform to that system. Anyhow, if you guys are interested in Ancients, here’s something for you.


Moving from small, to big. 75mm Minis. Who’d thought?

I’m not very interested in the game system per se on this one, but I think the minis do look good, and at 75mm, can potentially be painted up nicely as a display.

Unfortunately, I’m really interested in the Irina/ Lizbeth sculpts, which are.. rather pricey, and are KS-exclusive. Add on top shipping, and it went a bit out of my “reasonable bounds”. So, I’ll be giving this a miss, but some of you might like this scale.


Lastly, something a bit more normal. Well, if you can call Zombies normal. In 28mm, I suppose they are more normal than the rest of the stuff we have this week…

They ain’t half bad, and they can fit into various genre. Metal, not plastic, mind you. In addition, there’s survivors and terrain, with some of the terrain being rather interesting, so those of you interested might get a two-for-one. I’m not likely to go for these, as I personally think utilising Wargame Factory’s Zombie sets would be a lot easier.


So that’s it for this week. I think the year end season will slow KS down quite a bit, so as I mentioned earlier I would probably look back to the KS I highlighted to see how they did.

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