Mythic Battles: Pantheon Now Live On Kickstarter!
November 1, 2016 by brennon
Mythic Battles: Pantheon is now live on Kickstarter from Mythic Games allowing you to battle it out as the Gods of Greek Myth and Legend.
The game sees you competing as one of the Gods, including Zeus, Ares, Athena and Hades (more to come) vying to become the new ruler of Olympus.
If you're already interested in the game then you can watch our interview with the games designer, Leonidas Vesperini HERE and our full on Let's Play HERE. Backstagers can also indulge in a bit of tactical thinking with Leonidas and the guys as part of The Weekender XLBS.
Designed for between two to four players this game sports some wonderful tactical decision making and of course amazing miniatures too.
The miniatures in the game are fantastic, based on artwork by renowned artists like Stefan Kopinksi, Paolo Parente, Guillem H. Pongiluppi and Loic Muzy.
What's In The Box?
In terms of what you get in the box there's quite the array of wonderful components on offer as well as the miniatures you've seen above.
Inside the set you'll find thirty-seven highly detailed figures, thirteen Character Dashboards with adjustable stat ruler, ten engraved dice, two two-sided foldable game boards representing four battlegrounds (Olympus, Styx, Tartarus and Minos Labyrinth), one scenario booklet and fifteen Omphalos gems.
As a Kickstarter Exclusive, all backers will also get their hands on Apollo, God of Art & Sun as well as all of his paraphernalia which is very cool indeed!
So, what are you waiting for? Get stuck into the Kickstarter and delve deeper into these Godly battles!
Will you be getting involved with this Kickstarter project?
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I was on bang on 7pm, put my pledge and there was $700 raised, turned away for a few second and when I looked again it was funded lol.
and funded in 5 minutes. 😉
Got in on Early Bird in the 200s… phew!!
Early bird pledges disappeared in the time it took me to load the page!
I backed and I think I was one of the first 10 backers. Warren….your playthrough is what sold me. HOWEVER…..your playthrough for Deadzone also sold me on that some years ago now. I have still yet to get that first Deadzone KS to the table in any meaningful way. They revamped the rules and came out with a Deadzone 2.0 and did away with the unit cards, the mission cards, etc. They streamlined it quite a bit and I STILL don’t get it to the table. Considering Deadzone is a Jake Thornton game and Mythic Battles is also a Jake… Read more »
Not that I think it was a bad thing if it was, but Mythic Battles isn’t by Jake, but by Benoit Vogt. Jake is handling things like the running of the KS (and can be seen doing a sterling job on the comments page there right now 🙂 ). I’d be backing this regardless because I really like the game, but it also helps that there is organised play planned for it. I find that it works a treat to motivate people to get together to play, and outside of my casual boardgame group, almost all the gaming I get… Read more »
Thanks for the clarification. I do follow Jake’s blog and he’s been talking about a skirmish game and finessing the rules for a while now….I just assumed it was all his.
The organized play sounds promising as well, I hadn’t realized that. That’s a good sign at least.
Ironically, the opposite happened with DreadBall, where the esteemed James M. fronted all of the promotion so people associate that game as being his instead of Jake’s. I guess it pays to have your face on the product lol
Yup. Just ask Steve Jobs.
Managed to get an early bird, I conceded a ranked game in Hearthstone so I made it on time.
Delivery date December 2017, fuck that, I will wait for the general release.
Awesome looking game, I really hope this is well supported.
It is a long wait. Although for me the amount of free stuff and kickstarter exclusive minis will probably be titanic and outweighs the waiting by far. The more people supporting it, the more free plastic crack everyone backing will get, the beauty of a working kickstarter 🙂
Even if there were zero stretch goals unlocked I’d still back the campaign to get the exclusive Apollo. I’m told that there are a load of freebies planned as stretch goals though, so even if it only unlocks half of them it’ll be so much better value than waiting till retail.
The basic (and indeed at present only) pledge level is for the game plus all stretch goals so you’ll get a lot of free stuff for your $99 – each stretch goal technically a freebie.
December 2017 is, in my experience, about average for a Kickstarter of this product type. From experience, these are Kickstarters I have backed that fall into a similar category:
Dungeon Saga: Kickstarted August 2014, delivered September 2015 (13 months)
Conan: Kickstarted January 2015, delivered October 2016 (21 months)
HINT*: Kickstarted April 2015, delivered July 2016 (15 months)
Deadzone Infestation: Kickstarted March 2015, delivered April 2016 (13 months)
December 2017 is 13-14 months from now, so it’s well within what in my eyes could be considered the industry standard.
backed
managed to get an early bird too it said I and 8 others backed it yet my backer number is 203.
Same experience and I got number 963!
This will be an interesting KS, a lot of freebies as SG. Alternating poses for troops is great. I´m wondering when the add-ons will pop-up. Scylla is such an epic mini, might just go for her… but then again, there is the matter of the Titan 🙂
Wow backed immediately. $99 that’s just insane!
I really don’t get this game. The gameplay says *Wargame*. Yet the single piece+mono-pose minis say just a boardgame. The big gribblies are good but .not great. The humans good but just shy of impressive. Maybe irl they *pop*, but not from where I’m sitting. The dice mechanic, while innovative, seems a bit clunky.
Generally looks like another in the growing line of war/board game hybrids that doesn’t quite do either either one particularly well. I don’t think it’s for me but I starred it, nonetheless.
Blaster was here…
It’s a boardgame. It’s got an element of miniatures collecting but it’s a boardgame.
It is indeed. In fact, its predecessor, Mythic Battles, had no minis in it all.
I’m so very glad this one does. In theory I should hate this game for essentially being a mash-up. One of the things I hate about comics (other than Superheroes) is having all the Superheroes together in the same world at the same time. But I don’t, i absolutely love it. Yes, i want to know who’s harder, Achilles or Leonidas and I don’t care if it’s historically impossible.
Starred as I missed out on an early bird. $99 is a hefty price with the low pound and Dec 17 is a LONG wait. Reckon I’ll succumb but will watch several playtests first. At least, unlike Zombicide: BP it’ll fit in my house. BP is almost impossible to play it takes up so much space just to store 😀
This KS is insane. Loaded the page 8.02 and all the early birds were gone. When I made my pledge they were already nice above funded. I have just looked at it again and it has already doubled it’s amount.
I am curious at what will be added both as add-ons and extras.
Does Bubo Athena’s owl have any special rules?
It’s a ranged attack that Athena can do. I think it might have been mentioned by Warren in the playthrough video during one of Athena’s activations. Can’t remember if he actually did the attack, though.
he did kill the Kraken. sort off?
Wow, I too have backed it, but misssd the early god pledge but ho hum, what’s £81 for all the miniatures we get. I was not bothered about any extras but some of the figures appearing look great and I keep going back to see what else is joining the gods.
I’m not even going to pretend I tried to resist backing this. I was like a junkie going back to the dealer. Just give me that fix of sweeeet plastic crack.
And now you tell me I get Apollo as a Kickstarter Exclusive?
Backed and couldn’t be happier 😀 .
We backed and got in on the early bird. I cannot wait to see what else they have in store for this. This may become our most heavily backed KS. I am still kicking myself for missing out on our appointment to demo this at Gen Con. We just couldn’t get to their site quick enough with the crowds.
Backed, and got in on the early bird as well. Like the game mechanics and looking forward to painting GODS…. 😉
Looks cool. Missed the early bird. No huge incentive to back it just yet … I’ll wait and see how it progresses … thus … I’ll probably forget to back it … such is life .. lol
Wish em’ well and I’m sure it will be a rousing success
Zeus reached down and twisted my arm up behind my back. He refused to let go until I clicked the pledge button.
How can you resist a god telling you that you have to do it?
I dunno, ask Anchises
I have an EB at the moment, but I am still not sure. They have said if this KS does well, there will be other Pantheons in the future. The one mentioned was Ragnarok and that theme is much more to my liking. If this is doing amazing and the other Pantheon seems likely at the end of the campaign, I will drop my pledge and wait. I do not mind if it takes a year or two, I have plenty of other games. That said, if this just limps over 1 million I will probably get it just in… Read more »
Backed, the Minatures are looking fantastic. Game play looks great too. Looking forward to getting this on the table but a year is such a long time to wait!
The big minis look great, but something bugs me about the small characters and troops; the posing is very flat, as though somebody took a Reaper Bones mini and stepped on it. No doubt this was for ease of production but it detracts from the look somewhat.
Never backed a Kickstarter before but this was too good to miss out on….