Vesper-On Close In On Their Target With The Deadly Strigoi
August 16, 2013 by brennon
Vesper-On are pushing on and closing in on their target for Carnevale's Fangs & Crosses. Below are some of the art pieces for the Strigoi Vampires which are looking awesome...
What I like the most about this is that they have gone to great lengths to ensure that most of the vampires have a distinct originality to them. Each is at different stages of Vampire 'infection' and hopefully the sculpts are going to continue that by avoiding some of the same models ending up in boxes.
They aren't too far off their target and I reckon they will hit a few of their stretch goals too. Well worth a watch this one!
Are you a vampire lover?
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Whats Carinvale like to play? Is there a starter boxed set or anything you pick up?
BoW had a Carnevale week where they did a series of play demos on camera. It’s skirmish level, but that doesn’t really do it justice. It’s a highly mobile game with parkour-style movement (jumping large gaps, running along walls, that sort of thing), mid-air shooting and a dramatic opposed dice roll mechanic. It’s a very characterful game, with a lot of action and a game balance that can shift to/from either side in any one turn. It’s a lot of fun, but it’s also very dependent on multi-level terrain, kind of like Infinity and Malifaux in that respect, but with a greater emphasis on verticality due to all the free-running. It also uses an action mechanism similar to Infinity’s orders, so you can use all of your actions on a few models or spread them out and each model gets to do less individually, which means you can concentrate your attention each turn on where it really counts, but you sacrifice the effectiveness of other units when you do.
The background is a mix of Italian Renaissance style, Cthulu-esque horror and a sort of generic adventure pulp novel. When you combine it with the crazy movement mechanics it kind of feels like John Woo (before he left Hong Kong and was still awesome) directed a Lovecraftian horror movie that takes place in an alternate Venice. Balletic ultra violence combined with eldritch horror and unspeakable magic against a backdrop of renaissance architecture and artistic culture.
Really, I don’t know how anyone resists it.
yes, there are starter sets. It is a gang level mini wargame. So every unit has a special ability and most “armies” are of 7 or so units. If you go to the kickstarter, you can get starter sets at reduced prices with your contribution. The vamps shown above are part of a new army and most of them will probably be in the starter set box.