Mythic Bring Joan Of Arc 1.5 Back To Kickstarter + New Expansion
August 1, 2019 by brennon
Mythic Games are going to be bringing Time Of Legends: Joan Of Arc back to Kickstarter with the 1.5 version of the rules plus all of the goodness from the first time around. Plus, you'll also be able to pick up the new Teutonic Knights expansion.
The Teutonic Knights expansion allows you to start playing as new characters from medieval history as well as throwing in a few fantastical beasts too. For example, you could take on the role of Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, Ulrich von Jungingen.
The real focus of the historical side of things will be around the Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War and of course, you can't win a battle with just heroes. You might want to throw in some poor sods on foot as your infantry too.
This expansion will raise the miniature count for the entire Joan Of Arc collection to 1100. Yep, that is a lot of small 15mm miniatures.
Fantastical Beasts & Foes
On top of the characters, we see here which toe the line in terms of historical accuracy we also have some fantastical elements to look forward to as well. For example, here is the lightning throwing Perkūnas.
The miniatures already look awesome in render form and I have no doubt that Mythic Games are going to be able to knock it out of the park when it comes to the final quality for the game. If the original Joan Of Arc was anything to go by, we're in for a treat.
As someone who loves nature and spirits of the woodlands I really can't wait to see how the Sacred Tree comes out when it eventually gets turned into a miniature.
It will be cool to see the Mythic team back on Kickstarter running their own brand of community-focused campaign. I am hoping we get to learn a lot more about the future of Time Of Legends too and if they will be venturing off to find different characters to follow.
What do you make of the previews so far?
"...this expansion will raise the miniature count for the entire Joan Of Arc collection to 1100"
Those look really good.
I’ll be backing it when it drops.
Must have!
Didn’t this only just ship?
Seems a bit worrying that the game needs a new set of rules AT launch (says they didn’t really spend much time on the rules alas)
Same problem with Conan game and Mythic Battles. The first print run was almost like a beta test in my opinion. Lots of companies do that with KS especially, focus of selling the stuff with plastic and worry about making a good game with consistent rules is secondary.
I was tempted by Reichbusters, but resisted on that basis as the second KS will no doubt have revised rules.
I think it has been the case that many rule sets have been rushed of late, but this includes non-crowdfunded games. At least with a number of the crowdfunded games an option to update your rule set has come around, which is better than piecing a 1.5 rule set together from blog posts whose RSS feed isn’t working. ( I’m looking at you WFRP 4th edition. )
I’ve heard the same with SPQR was a rushed botch job like cruel seas with sentences just ending for no reason in the middle of describing a rule
When you do huge product lines like this one, all at once. Its impossible to get it right the first pass around. Think about other games with similar amount of content, expansions, and shear number of miniatures…. they usually take two or even three years to get into stores. This is done in half that time, and its all at once. So yeah, impossible to get it right the first time around. On the plus side, Mythic has continued with some top notch rules support. They are really invested in this game line. Also for the record, the game is… Read more »
However it shouldn’t happen if the rules are playtested, and as a final QA test given to a group of gamers who have never played it before to see where the rules text breaks down. Problem is we are so used to rules being dodgy, we just accept it as a normal thing. But we shouldn’t have to, and any rules that need a second edition (or V1.5 in this case) at launch is simply inexcusable.
Missed it first time so I’m inthere
So often now, since first seeing the miniatures for Joan Of Arc, i look at other miniatures thinking that they are quite good 15mm miniatures, only to notice a moment later that they are in fact 28mm, 30mm, 32mm, or even 35mm. The bar has been set.
I’m hoping to see what’s happening with ‘Time of Legends: Destinies’, and whether or not they’ll be a non-app version of that, before i need to decide if i’m commiting funds to this.
Aw that’s a shame, did they say what happened to their plans for bringing it to retail? Was going to pick up that box when it hit.
It’ll be coming to retail in 2020
Great stuff, looking forward to it.
The new figures look brilliant.
This is awesome for Dungeons and Dragons.
I always end up doing large battles around towns or keeps, and doing them at 28mm isn’t always that easy. But Ive been using my KS pledge to run smaller scaled “large” battles and its just awesome. So much easier.
Mythic needs to go full on fantasy at this scale.
This really does look like a great game but a mini count of over a 1000 needing to be painted, my grey army is big enough without that to it lol
I didn’t back this the first time around and regretted it, so this could be costly!
Can we rely on beast of war to give us all a heads up in the weekends when this hits Kickstarter again? Or knowing me I’ll probably miss it again.
I did an all in on the first round. I am going to need to add a new room on to the house.
With all my joan of arc and Mythic battles kickstarters still to paint not to mention all other unfinished projects i dont think i have the lifespan to begin Flames of war . Only joking deal me in .Too much is never enough hey Jerry ? Or is that Gerry ?