I have just been speaking to one of the fantastic guys over at Prodos Games who has kindly provided us with some extra information regarding the upcoming Aliens vs Predator – The Miniature Game:
- The game will be story driven. It is set between Alien and Aliens and takes inspiration primarily from the Alien and Predator films as opposed to the crossovers.
- The initial release will be with a boxset ala Space Hulk.
- Prodos will be drawing in elements from the expanded universe so there will be plenty of different Alien/Predator/Colonial Marines/Civilian variants. Look out of an Alien from the old AvP Arcade Game!
- The gameplay will be based off the Prodos Games engine used in their other game, Warzone Resurrection.
- The game will support solo and multiplayer games. The initial boxset will come with a board for more contained focused play but there is also potential for further open combat.
- There will be unique “hero” units.
- The license does not include Prometheus.
- Prodos will be showing off the game at various game conventions as well as a potential inaugural event to celebrate the release.
Prodos will also be releasing more information (including the price) via their Facebook page over the next 5 or 6 days so keep an eye out. Be sure to Like them and post any questions you have up there. Alternatively please post any questions or comment on our message boards and I’ll be sure to relay them onto Prodos.
Prodos will also be hosting a special event to launch Warzone Resurrection. Those interested in the upcoming AvP game may find this interesting to get a chance to meet the guys over at Prodos, get a feel for their products and the gameplay system AvP will be using.
f**king amateur hour.
I had hoped that that was just miscommunication on their part (most of them are Polish, I think), but it's not looking good at all...
...Here's what they think a Cameralien is:
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The Predator female has been unlocked (45k£ stretch goal):
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The stretch goal for the Predalien (65k£) has also just been reached:
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Next stretch goal (75k£) will be the sergeant:
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One nice announcement is an additional stretch goal for 85k£: 5 free facehuggers included in the base box for everyone.
That said, the whole thing is pretty steep at the moment, and I say that as a rabid GW junkie who's used to overpaying. Extra Preds come out to $18/model, which is just untenable for army building. I could build armies of NECA figures for large-scale fights for not much more lol. We'll have to see what it looks like once they start updating for some of the stretch goals. I can't imagine I'll sit out of it completely, but I'm not nearly as excited as I was hoping to be.
At any rate, I'm still backing the hell out of this.
Edit-- caught a typo on the Marine miniature description - they should be M240 flamethrowers.
Edit2 -- aaaaaand backed.
And what's this about the "wrong" predalien design? Will there be a more "generic" version (as in Chet is a unique incarnation)? And how will they incorporate facehuggers into the game?
Straight from the horses mouth.
Kickstarter is live!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/513277403/alien-vs-predator-the-miniatures-game
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I'll go and look for the quote in a bit, it's buried in a looong thread.
*edit*
http://www.lead-adventure.de/
Also worth noting that clear-plastic Predators are confirmed (FaceBook page iirc).
It's a learned trait. You'd be surprised at what you can accomplish. You've got the right attitude. I eventually learned to steady my hand. When I got into mini-wargaming I kinda had an upperhand over my friends when it came to painting because I have a couple of degrees in art, one of which is in painting lol
As for the Predalien thing. I'll get it for completionist sake but I really don't like the design, I don't like the AvP movies at all, but I'll own them anyhow. Show me some Cameron xenos and we're in business!
Mother of God, you're right.
is it just me .... does the bottom left pic look like the predators are bowling ?
the guy in the middle just got a strike haha
I never bought any of these figures before, so i was hoping they were pre-painted
i just wanna these little figures to make a chess game
Ok.. i'm down for this
Know what would be a dream come true?
APC and Dropship for the Marines, in scale, of course.
Daaaaaayyyuuuuuuumn!
SiL likes the Chet miniature? I think Hell just officially froze over!
Seriously though, the details in that miniature are pretty damn awesome.
-Rakai'Thwei
umm yeah, that's the assumption at least, 90% of competitive miniature table top games come unpainted so you can do it yourself and how you want it done (WH40k, Warmachine, Hordes, MERCS, Malifaux, Dropzone Commander, WHF, etc.)
I for one don't want them to come prepainted because they'll probably look like crap, ever see the Heroclix and Horrorclix stuff. *shudders*
Shouldn't be too bad, just drybrush it. That's how I'd do it, at least.
Lol, I don't think it's been announced either way, but yes. You have to build them too.
wait. what?
the figures will be released unpainted?
Me as well.
Here's a new pic of some of the Preds. Looking nice. Gonna be pain to paint that fishnet lol
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I'm shocked.
Agreed on all fronts.
Nice. I'm glad know to find out the Marines are 30mm bases and the Aliens and Preds are on 40mm bases. Very fitting. I'm not liking the Predalien though.... too much AvPR and that's not a good thing.
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Personally, I can't say I'm a fan of the Predalien. Too much Chet. Here's hoping Prodos get their act together on some Giger and or Cameraliens soon.
I hope the news on Monday are worth the waiting time.
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haha yeah, I still own my small Tyranid force. From time to time, I would use those minis as substitutes for AvP styled DnD games I would run for friends but it just wasn't the same lol. That dream is finally over
Yeah I guess tabletop wargamers have a different mind set than others. I'd rather paint them my own way. I'm hoping that as well.
This is true. I don't know anything about the company producing this so I have high hopes. I wish it was more like Privateer Press. They are a fantastic company and their game Warmachine/Hordes is top notch. A lot of 40k players convert over to it after getting fed up with the constant price increases, edition changes, and rule changing. I didn't know it would include cards in the game play as well. This is a new fact for me. I know Malifaux is resonable price wise, the same like Warmachine but 40k just hurts the wallet over and over.
I'm in pretty much the same boat as you, in fact the only reason I ever got into 40k was that Tyranids looked so similar to Aliens, and that kicked off the rest of my gaming.
14 years later, here we are with this and I'm rounding up the majority of my GW stuff to sell off, I'd just much rather have this stuff, regardless of which Aliens we end up with (although with the ongoing confusion around the "Infant Warrior", I am hoping we at least get true-to-source Cameraliens).
As for painting and price: I really, really hope they come unpainted. Cast in different coloured plastic maybe, but unpainted/un-assembled is going to be the best for me personally, although I do wonder how many people would say to themselves, "wait... you have to build them and paint them? f**k that noise!" and put the box back on the shelf.
Pricing is difficult, but I kinda see this being on-par with GW starter box pricing. That's not as bad as you'd think though - if you compare 40k/fantasy to most other wargames, the individual models (apart from heroes) aren't any more expensive than other games, and can sometimes be much cheaper than say, Infinity or Malifaux. It's the fact that you need over 9000 models and several hardcover rulebooks to play a game that's the issue. Since this seems to be based around cards, I assume the startup cost to get into this will be comparatively low, hopefully with the core rules included in the "big box".
Someone asked if they'd be pre-painted or not, my guess is that it falls in line with just about every other table-top war game and no, unpainted. But that's my guess. Which is good, then you can paint them how you want them to be. I'm eager to see the price point for some of this stuff though. I just hope to everything that is holy that it won't be like 40k and everything super expensive.