Project Wargods begins!

This is the first of many wargods models that will be arriving later in the year. I picked it up cheap on ebay, and as it doesn't come in the Eaters starter set its a viable purchase if I chose to do an undead army as my Aegyptus force.

I have Olympus and Hyperborea armies coming from the KS, roughly 1000pts of each so will probably add the 3rd army at the same points level. This is also the proposed size of games for a tourney being organised by UK backers to take place at Wargames Foundry in Nottingham in early 2014.

 

 

Eaters of the Dead - Necromancer

 

 



WarGods of Olympus: Wrap up

Apologies for the lack of updates, ive been sunning myself in Italy with the fiancé and her friends for a few days... couldn't take any toys with me to paint!

I kept up to date with the goings on of the KS and was over the moon to see the final result of $147,194, a smashing total that let most of the games models be put into production early on with 7 factions including the titans funded, along with numerous support creatures and heroes.

 

 

 

Im still torn between the Amazons and Trojans, I can go for one large army or two smaller ones to allow me to start demoing the game to my mates from November... but I really fancy getting some of these charlies too:

 

 

 

 

The Wendigos of Hyperborea look badass, and will really stand out from the ranked units of my Olympus force.



WarGods of Olympus kickstarter: last few days!

The WarGods of Olympus kickstarter is entering its final week, the $25,000 target has been smashed, 4 factions have been funded to go along with the Spartans, Myceneans and Titans. Nine new demigods have been sculpted and the road to Troy is open!

 

 

 

 

I have gone with my get and pledged in for an Amazon army, I was in two minds for that or just a selection of the demigods but seeing Debs Fitzpatrick's awesome jobs on the tester models, I knew I had to get them!

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm pledging for the miniatures only Warband option, we'll receive pdfs of all three WarGods rulebooks so I can spend the extra money on moar toyz; 2 Demigods, 3 Heroes, 2 Honour Guards, 2 Command Group models, 15 Spearmen, 12 Peltasts, 10 Archers, 1 Titan Hunter and 1 Oracle... that should keep me going as a nice project for later in the year I think.

 

 

 

The next stretch goal is only $1,500 away, it unlocks the Bronze Automatons of Hephestus:

 

 

 

 

Lets hope we can get that far, but at $125,000 we all receive a free Helen of Troy model, lets all get that!







WarGods of Olympus Kickstarter: A Review

 

Crocodile Games have begun a kickstarter campaign to fund the release of the Trojan faction and the Wargods of Olympus rulebook!

 

 

 

 

 

Many people have heard of Crocodile games, started by ex-GW sculptor Chris Fitzpatrick back in 2001. It began with Wargods of Aegyptus and followed with the Wendigo expansion from Hyperborea a few years ago. The games are big in the USA but not well represented in the UK, hopefully this campaign will change that.

 

Its been going a few days now, busting the initial funding within 2 days so the Trojans and book are sorted! The preview sculpts by Chris and painted by his wife Debs are shown below, I think they are great, and the paint job really sets them off:

 

 



 

 

 

The leaders of the Aeyptus armies are the Harbringers, badass characters with godly powers... and the Greeks don't miss out, as there are a range of Demigods to lead your chosen force, one from each of the main Greek Gods such as Athena and Poseidon shown below. They are 35mm scale so they are bigger than the average grunt or hero so they standout. All are great sculpts, and I look forward to seeing the whole range of them!

 



 

 

Along side these there are a range of more earthly heroes for each faction such as King Leonidas for the Spartans and Prince Aenas for the Trojans. Croc hope to get Paris and Hector funded for the Trojans too.

 

 

The next faction for the Olympus setting, the Amazons, has also been funded, and some previews of a spear armed warrior and the starter box hero have been shown. These are my favourite Croc sculpts to date and im sorely tempted to pledge for them!

 



 

 

Playtest rules for the Olympus factions can be found on the Croc site here

 

 

I have an Aeyptus book on order from Black Pyramid games so I can see what its all about and do a decent review of the system, but for now i'll wish Croc the best of luck for the campaign ahead :-D