We’ve recently been covering the upcoming miniature Alien vs Predator game from Prodos Games. Friday saw their Kickstarter page go online and they passed their initial goal of £35,000 within hours. They’re currently at just over £110,000 and as their funding climbs higher, pledger’s are receiving further benefits and more models are being unveiled:
“If successful this KS project will allows Prodos Games Ltd to produce the AvP The Hunt Begins Board Game (which will be produced in standard plastic 1 piece format for late 2014 release) in a bespoked and limited (to KS) fashion specifically for the model connoisseur and collector alike. We will utilize our Procast model making technique to make the high quality and detail multipose and official 28mm polyurethane miniatures of these seminal icons of screen and prose. As well as the cutting edge miniatures, the KS Exclusive AvP The Hunt Begins Gamers Collection Edition will be packaged in a deluxe KS-only box and include exclusive tokens and cards.
If we unlock the stretched goals, the KS project will also allow us to make faction specific themed objective markers as well as a Hardback version of the AvP Wargame Rulebook and speed up our production plans (by over 18 months) meaning we can produce miniatures of, for example, the Predalien, Alien Warriors and even potentially, cyborgs and colonial civilians, well ahead of schedule. In North and South America the KS Pledges will be distributed by CMON.”
By donating £75 then you will be effectively paying for a special KS version of the initial box release with lots of resin models in various poses. Many of the extra goodies have been unlocked with much more on the way! I’m breaking my Kickstarter virginity on this and I hope many of you will be joining me! The campaigns ends on the 28th of November. Get donating!!
I mean if you wanted to get all fancy you could try and make a custom chess board, or mount the miniatures on special bases (or even wooden bases, if you could find some - a craft store might have something suitable).
Also, yeah me too. I'm trying to sell some crap on eBay to allow me to throw money towards the pledge. I'd very much like a free Praetorian!!!
What, this little guy? He's adorable! Wouldn't hurt a fly.
Been unlocked for a while I think. I'm interested to see who they put inside the Power Loader. My bet is a marine, since they've been iffy about civilians in general so far, not just named characters. Really hope we get to the free Praetorian stretch goal though, that thing rocks, and it'd free up money for more rank'n'file.
Mongoose had permission from Heinlein's estate to make what ever new races they wanted as long as they approved them, the skinnie hargemeny was created from Heinlein's own notes.
They also made 2 other races as well.One that was finished, The Forth, and one that was in the prototype stages, The Coven.
(was a bad SST miniatures fan back in the day)
Also cancerblack I gotta say your avatar is creepy as hell.
Btw... the redesigned Predalien actually looks worse than Chet.. with even bigger dreadlocks. lol. Way to mess something up even further.
But the designs ain't what they say they are.
I do agree that I'd rather see WY as a faction over "Stickman", but part of that is apprehension of what they'll do by creating the Stickman faction from whole cloth. They're going to be creating an entire (theoretically, fully formed and balanced) faction based on 1 creature that got 3 minutes of screen time.
I mean I kinda get why they'd roll WY in with Humans/Marines, because I imagine they wouldn't play that differently. But there's ways to make them play differently and give them special rules and equipment, similar to how Space Marines and Chaos Space Marines play differently in 40k despite technically being the same thing.
The whole Stickman faction thing reminds me of when the Starship Troopers miniatures game introduced the Skinnies as a playable faction, and the creators basically had to make up the faction from scratch because the source material (TV series and Heinlein book) didn't say a whole lot other than "they exist".
The Alien models so far look really half-assed and the so called "Infant Warriors" look like absolute crap, esoecially compare to the Marine and Predator models. The "Stalker" torsos, tails and heads are fine, but the legs and arms are atrocious.
Makes me sad.
I've temporarily changed my tune on that, in the hopes that it's just some IT guy googling the word "aliens" and making the temp banners. I probably shouldn't, but I'm holding out hope that when they release the renders for the Warriors, we'll get a pleasant surprise.
In case you weren't up to speed, the unlocks with images straight from google search so far are (off the top of my head):
-Warriors
-Praetorian
-Crusher
-Sentry Guns
-Hellhounds
-Berserker Pred
I just hope their abilities are balanced well.
Fourth faction not being W&Y (or Engineers)? ...Really don't like the sound of that. The Arcturians are most likely just humans (a colony of transgendered / androgynous people or something like that) and not some Star Trekk alien species.
The Stickman species as its own faction implies a lot of freestyling for the game makers, which usually doesn't end well...
Also what the hell is stickman??
Well Harvesters are pretty much animals, as are the EU Arcturians (movie ones have never been described.)
IMO having a 4th race would be interesting,as long as it is done correctly.
They could dig into the EU and make another faction if they wanted - the Leading Edge' Aliens RPG has a couple ready to go for them (the Harvesters, Arcturians).
Power Loader, "Youngblood" Predators (AvP, presumably) and Crusher Alien all confirmed.
Power loader? Yes
High quality card stock? Yes
Size of game board? 270+ inches (didn't quite remember exactly)
Number of players? 1 - how ever many you want as long as they have their own squads
Customizability? Yes, you can interchange arms and heads. Put them in hot water and repose them and quick chill them to hold the pose!
Future expansions? Yes, the ship the game's story takes place on a ship. The ship will crash. The next expansion will be the planet.
Love it
So it is. I'll eat my words.
Think he was just showing the material. I sure hope the Predalien doesn't cloak!
That's a Predalien yo. No idea why he's clear though.
Praetorian:
https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.dakkadakka.com%2Fgallery%2F2013%2F11%2F18%2F557874-.PNG&hash=c26986b09a73f68f6352040ad9d09b5d5dec1a9c
Live Q&A
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Cloaked Predator.
Queen is confirmed for 120mm base.
Ah, another tourist from Dakka!
https://s3.amazonaws.com/ksr/assets/001/327/106/9642ad7047dc54719eb719fbe527ddd9_large.jpg?1384443749
Also their pic of the Berserker Predator is from the Hot Toys 1:6-scale figure if I'm not mistaken.
I was freaking out about that a page or two ago, although now I'm of the opinion that they've just used a shot of an AvP:R action figure for that one too. The fact that they haven't noticed or don't care that it's the wrong thing in their pic though...
I have pledged for this campaign, but am after Aliens more than Predators. I was wondering if anyone might want to work out a swap for my 2 Kickstarter exclusive Berserker Predator models, in exchange for 2 PredAlien models?
The Berserker Predators hunt in 3's, after all, and you can only get 1 per pledge... so someone must need 3, and I need more PredAliens
Let me know!
Also, I'm hoping we'll see the actual sculpts of the Alien Warriors before the campaign is over, since they were an early stretch goal. Hopefully they'll look more like the Aliens from the original 2 movies
If you search "Alien Praetorian" on Google images it's one of the first images that comes up. It's a custom figure. They just stole the image and painted it blue.
https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FbqnmD08.jpg&hash=9a15aae1a1637fa8ce332a28e03a08f01135784c
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I hope you're correct. I'd like to think they'd be true on their promise and they're just blown away by the surge of popularity.
Oh shit guise.
Yeah, I made a thread there when I was last making a big push on them. And I do really hope the HorrorClix Predators will be close enough to the right scale to fit in with the Prodos ones, because I've got seven of them.
Thanks.
Sentry guns and Praetorians unlocked.
Sent you a PM with some better close-up shots. Didn't want to clog up the thread.
Spoiler
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Haha thank you for the detailed response! I think that set you painted looks excellent. I'll have to do some research into the types of paint and brushes to use, but if I'm going to do this, I want to go all in. Sounds like quite a bit of work, but it also sounds like a lot of fun!
As far as what the figures will look like, there are two kinds of shots Prodos has put up - CG renders and actual model shots. The most recent one labelled "Procast" at the top was an actual model shot, to give you an idea of the difference between the two. As an avid wargamer, I can tell you that in terms of sheer technical proficiency, the sculpting on these models compares very favorably to most of what's currently available from other companies.
Now, for painting and such - it's not necessarily for everybody, but it's for a lot more people than think it's for them. I've had a lot of people tell me they don't think they have the patience, or the skill, or their hands are too shaky, or whatever, but take it from a complete stranger on the internet who claims to know what he's talking about - it's all smoke and mirrors. I have very shaky hands, certainly not much skill, and I only started seriously painting about a year ago, so I don't have a ton of experience, and yet this is my most recent Warhammer project:
https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi331.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fl476%2FMr_Domino0990%2FDSC_0202.jpg&hash=8101aeaadc7e984b0cb1e02edcbc96b768f527fc
There's a few very simple techniques you can learn from anyone who knows what they're doing, and/or from online tutorials that can get you going with a bare minimum of trial and error. Of course, as with all things, there's no substitute for experience, but the only way to get that is just to dive in.
Ah I see... hmm, sorry to disappoint you. I admit that the "Everything is canon" crew really gets on my nerves and brings out the worst in me and all that. What annoys me even more is that people let them go on and on and on without any 'repercussions', but when I snap back it's all of a sudden too much. Double standard.
The Marine and Predator models look good, but I don't know about the Alien ones or the female Predator with boobs...