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Re: Reaper Bones 3, because Isgrimnur said so.

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2015 1:12 pm
by hepcat
Isgrimnur wrote:The $1 pledge specifically mentions it as a extra add-in option, so you can go that route even if 'thud stays out.
Nah, he's in. I knew he'd fold.

Re: Reaper Bones 3, because Isgrimnur said so.

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2015 1:18 pm
by Isgrimnur
Like a cheap card table during an overenthusiastic "wood for sheep" exchange?

Re: Reaper Bones 3, because Isgrimnur said so.

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2015 1:31 pm
by Blackhawk
The last two had cowboys, so I wouldn't be surprised if they had some later. I completely missed Bones 2, and have been regretting it. I'm going to try and find a way to make this work.

Re: Reaper Bones 3, because Isgrimnur said so.

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2015 1:39 pm
by hepcat
Yeah, I suspect that we're seeing only about a 10th of what the final selection will be like.

If they add some more terrain, or something I can use with Malifaux, I'll have 'thud add them to his pledge.

Re: Reaper Bones 3, because Isgrimnur said so.

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2015 1:40 pm
by Isgrimnur
I will now picture him wheeling over the Vietnamese countryside, suppressing enemy air defenses.

Reaper Bones 3, because Isgrimnur said so.

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2015 2:19 pm
by Zarathud
In. Bones has enough extra figures that I can let my kids paint figures along with me. I won't mind the shark man is pink because he was a Stretch Goal.

I haven't painted much in the last year, but that should change as the kids get older. They really like the mouselings and baby dragons. Once the figures are under $2, they're cheaper than ceramic craft projects.

Suppressing crazed weasel children is tougher than Vietnam, and I'm a sucker for anything that brings my kids into my geek world.

Re: Reaper Bones 3, because Isgrimnur said so.

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2015 2:24 pm
by Smoove_B
hepcat wrote:If they add some more terrain, or something I can use with Malifaux, I'll have 'thud add them to his pledge.
That would put me over the edge. I just picked up some Bones terrain containers (shipping and garbage) at a local convention and they're perfect. Also, I'm toying with the idea of Bolt Action. WW2 miniatures? Good lord. Zarathud does raise a good point though...at some point the price-per miniature is quite...awesome, particularly for random kid use (or gluing all over your car).

Re: Reaper Bones 3, because Isgrimnur said so.

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2015 3:21 pm
by hepcat
Smoove_B wrote:
hepcat wrote:If they add some more terrain, or something I can use with Malifaux, I'll have 'thud add them to his pledge.
That would put me over the edge. I just picked up some Bones terrain containers (shipping and garbage) at a local convention and they're perfect. Also, I'm toying with the idea of Bolt Action. WW2 miniatures? Good lord. Zarathud does raise a good point though...at some point the price-per miniature is quite...awesome, particularly for random kid use (or gluing all over your car).
Just to be clear, you're talking about terrain, not Malifaux, right?

Re: Reaper Bones 3, because Isgrimnur said so.

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2015 3:24 pm
by Smoove_B
Yes, we're using terrain for various miniatures games. And I just saw the torture chamber bits that look...useful. STAY ON TARGET

Re: Reaper Bones 3, because Isgrimnur said so.

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2015 3:25 pm
by hepcat
Ah, I was hoping you might be a fellow Malifaux player.

Definitely getting the torture chamber myself. And I'll probably grab whatever savage worlds stuff they add.

Re: Reaper Bones 3, because Isgrimnur said so.

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2015 3:31 pm
by Smoove_B
I've looked at Malifaux and tried to get my gaming buddy to play, but after watching a few demos at a conference he wasn't really into the general theme. Pure fantasy and military (particularly WW2) is more in his wheelhouse. I think I'd need to get enough Malifaux stuff for a 2 player game, paint everything in secret and then just drop it on him some day -- which isn't unreasonable. :D

Re: Reaper Bones 3, because Isgrimnur said so.

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2015 5:00 pm
by hepcat
...or just show up at an Octocon and let Seppe and I know beforehand. We could bring enough for 4 or 5 different factions between the two of us.

Re: Reaper Bones 3, because Isgrimnur said so.

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2015 5:02 pm
by Zarathud
That's been hepcat's plan. Except I have terrible war game ADD and take wild, reckless risks by sending my troops into certain doom and then critically missing even the easy rolls. I am a menace...even though I happily fail at tactics.

Re: Reaper Bones 3, because Isgrimnur said so.

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2015 10:24 pm
by Blackhawk
Terrain up. A $15 henge - and it looks moderately huge.

Re: Reaper Bones 3, because Isgrimnur said so.

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2015 10:34 pm
by hepcat
Yup, that mystic circle is a must buy. It will look great on the table with the broken castle pieces from the last bones project.

Re: Reaper Bones 3, because Isgrimnur said so.

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2015 10:36 pm
by Zaxxon
STOP IT, PEOPLE. I didn't even paint 75% of Bones 1...

Re: Reaper Bones 3, because Isgrimnur said so.

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2015 11:01 pm
by Isgrimnur
I'm at 0%. I might be able to lay hands on the box within 60 seconds, but getting them out of the plastic might take longer.

Re: Reaper Bones 3, because Isgrimnur said so.

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2015 11:43 pm
by Zarathud
The goal is not to paint the Bones. It's to think about painting them, and then deciding that it's better to crack and suck the marrow out of them instead.

The Reaper paint sets (12 for $20) are also a great deal. Picked up every set so far.

The kids want their own set of girl Mouslings to paint.

Re: Reaper Bones 3, because Isgrimnur said so.

Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2015 8:42 am
by coopasonic
Isgrimnur wrote:I'm at 0%. I might be able to lay hands on the box within 60 seconds, but getting them out of the plastic might take longer.
Yeah I know where mine are... heck, I even used some of them to play a game a few times... but painting them? Ha!

Re: Reaper Bones 3, because Isgrimnur said so.

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2015 11:42 am
by Blackhawk
Some thoughts on the offerings so far.

I'm pretty happy with what I'm seeing . Not too many character miniatures, which is a good thing. I have tons of characters (although surprisingly few gnomes.) What I need most are beasties to actually work into my games.

The initial offering has a smattering of stuff (and a mule - I'm actually most excited about the mule from the initial core.) The dog is nice, and there are some gnomes. There are a few characters mixed in, which is fine. I'm happy to have them, and it increases the chance I'll have just the right piece when I need it. I'm not anti-character. I'm just not low on them.

After that they really up the monsters. Some I'm not too excited about. The orcs, for instance. I'm happy to have them, but between my old Warhammer stuff from the 90s, my scrounged Battle Masters set and the Bones 1 orcpocalypse set, I have probably 40 orcs. Same thing goes for the goblins. The torture chamber? Eh. Nice to have, but I don't have the storage space to run stuff with full 3d terrain, so when I do add 3d elements to an adventure, it is usually a centerpiece. I can't see myself running an adventure where a set of stocks are the centerpiece.

On the other hand, the lizard men are great. There are enough there to support either the core of a small wargame army, or to supply an RPG campaign. The centipedes and bugs (prarie ticks, maybe?) are always useful. The yetis I'm excited about. I don't have any, and there are enough there to be useful. The lycanthropes are cool enough that I'd find a way to write them into something. The ogres are also great. I often have to substitute other things for ogres in games.

I'm kind of ambivalent about the invisible heroes. They're cool, but the number of situations where I'd have a character be invisible and still need a miniature for him (IE - in combat) are few and far between. Also, why make the one on the log invisible? It will mean the log is invisible, too, and just painting the log will look odd when you can't paint under the feet.

The addons have a lot that I like, which sucks. I'm struggling to have enough for the core set. Getting options may not be possible, and there is a lot of stuff there that I want. I need dragons, for one. Diabolus and Marthrangul are both perfect. Viridius is like Kaladrax from Bones 1. He's cool as hell, but big enough that I can't see putting him into a game with appropriate stats. He's a display piece. The frost giants would be handy, too. The just announced Kyra & Lavarath set is very, very cool, and I'd love to have it, but it would likely also just be a display piece, and what money I have needs to be invested in stuff I can game with.

I don't need the paint sets (although set B is an excellent purchase for someone looking to start painting.) The mouselings are cool, but not something I need. I have a double set of the IMEF figures from Bones 1 and have yet to find anything to do with them, so as much as I like them, the Blackstar Corsairs aren't really an option. The crusaders would be handy, but I can get by without them.

The mystic circle, though - that is too damned cool. I'd like to get it, but probably won't. It would be investing a stack of money for a single location when I could spend the same money on a dragon that could be used for any number of things.

Re: Reaper Bones 3, because Isgrimnur said so.

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2015 12:00 pm
by hepcat
Definitely the Mystic Circle. Same with the savage world stuff. Maybe on the Blackstar Corsairs. I can always use sci fi minis.

Re: Reaper Bones 3, because Isgrimnur said so.

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2015 12:01 pm
by Blackhawk
I love sci-fi miniatures. I just never play sci-fi RPGs, and don't have any sci-fi wargames.

Re: Reaper Bones 3, because Isgrimnur said so.

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2015 1:28 pm
by Zarathud
I think I already have most of Paint Set B -- they're great basic colors. I already picked up 3/4 of the Savage Worlds minis this past year.

I should spend some time before GenCon to look up some figures I missed from Bones 1. You can always use more Orcs.

Their Bones baby dragons have been a big hit with the kids -- and cheap! The big dragons are cool but impractical.

Re: Reaper Bones 3, because Isgrimnur said so.

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2015 1:54 pm
by hepcat
And you can still have my dragon from the Greedy Adventurer set from the last Bones event if you want. Your daughters would enjoy it far more than me.

Re: Reaper Bones 3, because Isgrimnur said so.

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2015 2:08 pm
by Isgrimnur
When you guys decide that you want to come to Mecca for ReaperCon, let me know.

Re: Reaper Bones 3, because Isgrimnur said so.

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2015 11:19 pm
by Blackhawk
Ooh, weapons, and more for $4. That I like.

Re: Reaper Bones 3, because Isgrimnur said so.

Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2015 3:01 pm
by Blackhawk
They just added the first expansion, as they did with Bones II. That's both good and bad (for me.)

The good is that it means that people will spend more money.

The bad is that the stretch goals will now be split between the core, the options, and the expansion - three sections instead of just two.

Re: Reaper Bones 3, because Isgrimnur said so.

Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2015 10:19 pm
by Zarathud
Brain in a jar? And Minotaur? I want to see more!

Re: Reaper Bones 3, because Isgrimnur said so.

Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2015 3:14 pm
by Blackhawk
The latest stretch goal on the radar is a massive cannon with some Nazi-esque troops. It is cool as hell, but doesn't fit anything I'm playing or running. Still, it may appeal to some of you.

Re: Reaper Bones 3, because Isgrimnur said so.

Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2015 3:24 pm
by hepcat
Ooooh, I may have to bite on that too. Are those included in the core set? Because between that and a few of the others I'm looking at, I may just save some cash by going that route (and piggyback on Zarathud's pledge so I can get earlier shipping).

Re: Reaper Bones 3, because Isgrimnur said so.

Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2015 3:33 pm
by Blackhawk
I believe the cannon is separate. Each item will say at the top whether it is an option or is included in the core.

Re: Reaper Bones 3, because Isgrimnur said so.

Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2015 3:34 pm
by hepcat
Ah, okay. Looks like it's an add on after all. So no need to go all in.

Re: Reaper Bones 3, because Isgrimnur said so.

Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2015 3:51 pm
by Isgrimnur
They're color-coded on background. Green is something in the core set, blue is the expansion(s), orange are the a la carte add-ons.

Reaper Bones 3, because Isgrimnur said so.

Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2015 9:39 am
by Zarathud
Hepcat is pretty much interested in the stuff I'm not, so I am probably going to be all in except for the dragons and large monsters on my pledge.

Re: Reaper Bones 3, because Isgrimnur said so.

Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2015 12:12 pm
by hepcat
Mythos expansion? Yes. Yes, I will.

Re: Reaper Bones 3, because Isgrimnur said so.

Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2015 11:12 am
by Blackhawk
31 hours to go. For those not keeping track, the Mythos (Cthulu) expansion has been finished, as has the Stoneskull expansion. The current expansion is Graveyard, which is, so far, mostly terrain. A full crypt, a statue, arch, columns, a crapload of fencing, a few other things and the option to buy extra fencing. There is still one section of the expansion to unlock, too. Here is a shot they gave of just the crypt and the fencing:

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They've also announced their big stretch goal for 2.25 million, which I'm sure will be reached:

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To give a better sense of scale, here it is with the front piece of terrain removed and some regular miniatures to show scale:

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That's an awesome piece. I love it, and wish I had it, but I can't manage the $60 for a miniature that, let's face it, would likely never be used in a game (although painted it would be one hell of a display piece!)

For now, I'm still in for the core, and hope to maybe manage an option or two - I haven't spent an unnecessary cent this month to pull it off. I keep trying to argue myself out of pledging altogether, but then I remember how much it sucked watching Bones II ship without me.

Re: Reaper Bones 3, because Isgrimnur said so.

Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2015 11:20 am
by hepcat
Sadly, I may forego the mythos expansion for the cemetery terrain. I really can't afford to spend over a hundred bucks on this, and the graveyard stuff will most definitely see play time with Malifaux/Warmahordes, while the cthulhu stuff would mostly likely not.

Re: Reaper Bones 3, because Isgrimnur said so.

Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2015 11:45 am
by hentzau
I always wanted to do a convention "Pirates of Penzance" game set in a graveyard, with bobbies and pirates chasing after randomly running daughters. I found bobbies, I found pirates, I found loads of graveyard pieces. Daughters in nightgowns? That was a lot harder to come by, and stalled my project.

But that's some fun fencing.

Re: Reaper Bones 3, because Isgrimnur said so.

Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2015 11:50 am
by Blackhawk
hentzau wrote:Daughters in nightgowns? That was a lot harder to come by, and stalled my project.
All the daughters being different models would be hard. Repeating models wouldn't be so tough:

Some of these might work, as would this. Whether it is a dress or nightgown depends a lot on the paint job.

Re: Reaper Bones 3, because Isgrimnur said so.

Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2015 11:56 am
by hentzau
Blackhawk wrote:
hentzau wrote:Daughters in nightgowns? That was a lot harder to come by, and stalled my project.
All the daughters being different models would be hard. Repeating models wouldn't be so tough:

Some of these might work, as would this. Whether it is a dress or nightgown depends a lot on the paint job.
Cleavage is always a problem. Remember, these are the chaste (chased?) daughters of Major General Stanley Tremording.