Mythic Battles: Pantheon by lawnor
Introduction & Mission Statement
I recently got my hands on what appears to be a God tier Kickstarter pledges worth of MB:P. I’ve only played the intro noob game so far, and only five times. Not 100% sold I’m going to play this game lots, but I get the impression it will greatly improve as we start adding more options to the different sides due to the deck limiting who we can activate. The more options you have, the less likely you are to draw the card you want and the more you have to use your whole army.
When I first opened the box and saw the infantry I thought they were good for board game minis but nothing fancy so I likely wouldn’t end up painting them, but over the course of my first game I fell in love with the Zeus and Ares sculpts. My brain had already picked out not just colours, but paints for some of the areas and now I really want to paint EVERYTHING, even if I end up not playing the game.
I have a few questions:
- MB:P seems to have gone a little quiet on OTT recently. Have people lost interest? Does it not hold up after a few playthroughs? Or are you all just busy playing it and I’m not looking in the right places?
- If anyone has already worked with these sculpt and has any advice that I might not already know from working with other ranges I’d love to hear it. I’ve not worked with BG minis or any Monolith plastics before.
- I see the bigger guys can be encouraged to pop off their bases which will allow better basing and better access to undersides, but the smaller models appear to be single piece, base and all. Can some of the shields etc be popped of too? How about riders from their mounts?
- What are peoples thoughts on storing painted minis back in those plastic trays? Assuming the box never really moves further than between the shelf and the table and the minis are varnished they should be fine, right?
I don’t currently expect to throw myself completely in to this project. I plan on focusing on games I play more and smaller projects I can actually complete. I hope to pick up a mini now and again, and incorporate these models in to compatible projects I have on the go elsewhere. For example, I plan on painting up some Griffons for Hordes as my next project. There’s at least 1 winged model in MB:P that runs off the same colours so I’ll paint him and any friends he has at the same time as the Griffons.
This could take a couple of years and may never get finished. I need to finish off my Orks first. Hopefully that’ll happen this weekend, but there may be more work left than I realise. I’m posting this now as I’m taking the cellophane off the second box tonight so I can start washing models so they are dry before I need them.
There's a lot here! The full KS delivery must have been scary!
Yeah that’s no where near the full top tier KS pledge but you’ll still have a lot of minis. I only got as far as spraying all the models an appropriate base colour and playing the intro game twice. After that I’ve been too busy playing other games. I do look forward to painting the gods and titans at some point though.
I’m a little grateful its not the full top tier KS pledge, but it appears to be all of the God Tier pledge. Not sure if I have Apollo or not yet. I don’t think he’s in the base box and I’ve not opened Pandora’s Box yet. if he’s there and you count pillars as models, then there’s 127 models there. That’s too much to think about all at once.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/806316071/mythic-battles-pantheon
“MB:P seems to have gone a little quiet on OTT recently. Have people lost interest? Does it not hold up after a few playthroughs? Or are you all just busy playing it and I’m not looking in the right places?” I think the honest answer here is the game is daunting to begin. I’ve seen very little projects or paints from the hugely successful kickstarter on OTT and Reddit and I think that’s the case. I think the playthroughs hold up well and I’d actually love to play once again as I was a huge fan of Dota and it… Read more »
Maybe this is an important lesson for future Kickstarters? Don’t give people everything all at once? I know they’ve made their money by then and people think they want all their toys, but a huge box with a years worth of work is just asking to be left untouched on a shelf. I do like the way they teach the game by having a noob game all set up inside so you don’t have to make any choices, just do as it tells you. It was a big help. After a few games of getting that wrong I’m at a… Read more »
Not lost interest, just not had the time, it’s on my list of projects, and will get back to it when the KS update lands on my door step.
Hi there @lawnor. I know you know I am working my way through painting MB:P because I’m tracking my progress in our excellent 2018 Pledge forum posts 😉 In response to your questions: 1 I certainly haven’t lost interest. I play every month with one of my regular opponents. That is one of the thinks that keeps me painting as I refuse to play with an unpainted mini (curses self again). The base game and intro scenarios are excellent – some of the other scenarios less so but always play them twice and take the opposite side on the replay… Read more »
I cracked open Pandora last night to fish out the Griffon to paint along with my upcoming Griffons for Hordes. I think he’s the only feathered mini that wants brown feathers. Please correct me if I’m wrong. Pegasus and Icarus seem like they want white feathers, and the Phoenix is made of fire (i’m keen to paint that mini!). I found Apollo while I was in there. I don’t think I’ll be cutting the bases off my models. Seems like a lot of work and its an extra expense. I’ve also severed toes doing that before! I also put a… Read more »
The Griffon is the only one needing brown feathers so you are okay there. I just finished mine this week. I like batch painting which works well for the troops but less so for the rest. I tend to pull together models that will likely be a similar colour scheme (e.g. all the snake-based monsters with all the dragons) and then do them together. Ten at a time is about right although I can get through a single hero or two in an episode of the Weekender. By open play – yes that is the 18 points, free choice of… Read more »
Oh god! You will be burried under a mountain of big boxes of plastic!