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!!
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Because for the forseable future the only incinerators available are the one being used left handed by the medic in the boxed set, and the two in the weapons pack. Given the number of incinerators in the films I needed me some more... Also that medic is in a really stupid pose.
And the spare Sgt head can turn a normal marine into a SGT without having to blow £8 on the 'official' Sarge.
I think the Sergeant, rare flamers and assorted other gubbins are worth it.
You can up your pledge in the pledge manager they'll be sending out sometime after the first of the year.
If you're going in for the wargame, building up armies, it doesn't matter so much for Aliens, but for Preds and Marines the extra head variants are gold, because they keep the battlefield from looking like The Clone Wars, and weapon options give you a much higher degree of customizability when combined with the add-on marine pack they created. Dude A with a Pulse Rifle looks a bit different from Dude A with a Flamer, looks a bit different from Dude B with a Pulse Rifle.
I don't even know what I want at this point - they've given away so much free stuff as stretch goals and added on so many other new miniatures that I'm interested in, I'd have to go back over the KS page to figure out what I'm even getting at this point.
I haven't personally finalized my choices but I'm pretty sure I want the rulebook, Queen, Crusher, and Young Bloods while getting the Predalien, Praetorian, Warriors, Facehuggers and Eggs for free. Also threw in an extra £15 for either the Power loader, Predator tiles, or an extra set of Marines. Haven't decided yet.
Of course we will! Predator Ship already unlocked, Dog Catchers already unlocked, Double-sided tiles are just a bit away, and still 2 hours to go! He'll yeah!
EDIT: We've passed 2000 backers, and are less than 8K from the Double-sided map tiles goal. Can you guess which AVPG member is spending his Thanksgiving off watching the KS page?
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Also fun fact: their "concept art" for the Young Blood Predators is actually the campaign ending screen for the Predator campaign in the AvP Evolution mobile game.
Praetorian is looking good, plus it seems like I'll be getting two now!
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Argh, I'm not on Twitter. Can't wait for your article later though.
As for that terrain, as nice as it is, I can't justify spending money on cardboard terrain ever again... New Zealand is just too damp, and I can't exactly afford well maintained flats.
It's the £78 'HULK' add-on, pledge £1 and add the extra £77 for this set. It was made specifically for the AvP kickstarter going by comments on the KS.
I've got both pledged
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3D rotating video of the Praetorian.
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Open Day pics:
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I collected Axis and Allies (started up a Canadian Army in fact) and Star Wars for a while, but later realized it's better when other people play the stuff too, and eventually lost interest.
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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.