Crocodile Games Achieve WarGods Kickstarter Success
July 1, 2013 by brennon
Crocodile Games have finished their WarGods of Olympus Kickstarter with success. They didn't make it all the way around the map but they did pass through the gates of Troy and even visited some Cyclopes!
First off we have the people of Troy. Of course at the head of things are the Princes Hector and Paris, one of them a stalwart defender of the city and the other a lovesick rogue of a man who spirited away Helen of Troy. Thankfully she was unlocked too as a Kickstarter exclusive.
As well as the Trojans the Athenians are also joining the fight and the Amazons have mounted up for cavalry assaults too. The artwork for this game truly is superb and draws nicely on the historical and the mythological to create a nice blend.
To round things off they unlocked some mighty Cyclopes who will no doubt be herding around the captured survivors of the siege of Troy as they try and make their way back to Greece. Now you need Odysseus to solve that situation!
They even found time to unlock the awesome Clockwork Owl, a reminded of Clash of the Titans. I think that's a perfect little nod to an ace film that explored so many areas of Greek Mythology.
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Pledged at the painter level, with add-ons. Looking forward to getting the PDF’s through as well so i can go through the rules 🙂
Why does Hector have a square shield? Shouldn’t he have the scalloped oval or even the hoplon?
He’s not a Greek from the Archaic or Classical period so no hoplon. Nor was he a Bronze Age Achaean so no Dipylon shield. The tower shield was also used by the Greeks but I’m assuming the design for this mini is taken from the Hittite shield. The Hittites would have been near neighbours of the Trojans, and if the Trojans were Luwians then they’d be culturally much closer to Hittite than Greek.