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Thought I would post this for anyone who likes the look of their minis - they tend to run early bird pricing on a certain number of pledges.
Will update with actual KS link once that goes live.
http://www.ragingheroes.com/pages/kickstarter-news
One army is very much SoB themed, but way cooler looking in my opinion.
The art and preview renders makes it look like this will make a beautiful Sisters army. Highly recommend checking out the models.
There are 6 total army styles, including elves too, in both fantasy and sci-fi.
I see some female Haemonculi and Wracks joining my DE too whenever this ships.
KS just went live and funded in under 5 minutes and burned through all of the preliminary stretch goals. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...t-and-darkness
Apparently they are in the process of writing their own game to companion with the line too.
And this quote from the page is what I love to hear "By the way, if you are wondering how to pick your minis to be ready for the TGG tabletop game, don't worry about this too much: we all hate those games where you can never play your favourite cool-looking mini because of her lousy stats! Our list-building system will allow you tons of versatility so that you can play exactly the minis that you like."
Wow those are some direct rip offs of SoB and Dark Eldar.
Wracks, Incubi, Wyches, Warriors.
Seraphim, Battle Sisters, ?.
If the models actually turn out that good they will beat GWs versions as well imo.
Yeah, they have had some of these concept drawings out for years. I am pretty sure they were waiting to see the outcome of various lawsuits before releasing. But GW's fault for thinking they can copyright an idea. Nuns in space/Knights Templar/Joan of Arc are not IP protected. And also GW's fault for not releasing any new sisters models since 3rd edition. Plus these are not rip-offs, imo, because they are so much better. :)
And if you check out their blog you can see pictures of some of their production models - the quality seems to be excellent.
I am all for anything that gives GW a run for their money on something. It gives them motivation to improve things.
That's the thing I love about these companies filing the niches GW has ignored for so long. And particularly in the KS format, it quantifies demand in no uncertain terms.
I was freaking out about these all morning on the Houston 40k FB group. The sketches are amazing for all 6 armies. I would doubt their models can live up to some of these sketches, but their current range seems very high quality. It looks like they are pushing themselves pretty dramatically with some of the crazier models.
Maybe this will force GW's hand to put out those damn sisters models everyone says they have In A warehouse
Creepy girl armies.....
Man, those Lust Elves. ...crap, now l foresee a Slaanesh army of some sort in my future.
Actually been pondering the "are these rip-offs" question today. Is this company creating troops to be compatible with sob unit types? Sure.
But then as a hypothetical: give a traditional rendering of joan of arc to a sample of artists who have no familiarity with gw and ask for a sketch of a regiment of nun-warriors in a sci-fi setting with the Joan archetype in mind. I imagine you would end up with a lot of interpretations that bear a striking resemblance to SoB as we know them.
Ditto for the dark elves stuff. My non-gamer friends look at DE stuff and immediately say Hellraiser. So you are looking at a basic concept of S&M/horror in an industrial context taken to its extremes. Add pointy ears.
Plus, there are plenty of these figs that have no direct corollary to GW stuff, so they really do seem to be working to create their own rationale for these models as well.
And anyway, there is a void in the marketplace obviously, so economic principle would dictate that it should be filled. If GW refuses to do so, then that is their loss. I am not overly familiar with the arguments in the various lawsuits, but I surmise that is the crux of determining what was deemed acceptable vs infringement - i.e. one can't stake out a territory in IP and then never populate it, as taken to its hypothetical end, that precedent harms consumers and potentially society.