The Darklands Kickstarter Comes To Victorious Close
October 17, 2013 by brennon
The Darklands: First Edition Kickstarter by Mierce Miniatures is coming to a close today with (at the time of writing) nine hours to go. See what you think of some of the pledge levels and the warbands available...
As you might imagine this is quite the Dark Ages inspired game with some fantastic miniatures at their disposal. The range has been growing for years now and it's about time we saw them all coming together into a mighty game. The campaign has blasted through its target and eaten up some stretch goals too.
Hopefully you'll forgive the wonky images above as for some reason companies like putting out massive long pictures that don't work on our websites! However, those are some awesome characters miniatures for leading your warband and I think you might be joining me in picking my jaw up off the floor when you see the Viking style heroes.
If you fancy putting up a whole load of money and pledging so this dude gets made you could also pick him up! These guys do seem to do very well when it comes to large monsters and small warriors alike. I suggest checking out the gameplay video on their Kickstarter too.
Have you pledged for this one?
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At least we’re not seeing the ultra ugly nude warrior women with boobs the size of beach balls.
The Fomoraic look amazing imho I am torn between backing more for the KS or buying a few models that are already out. I think if I bought from their store it would help support Rob Lane a lot more that giving some of the money to Amazon. Thoughts?
I backed this to the hilt. Awesome minatures good history based law.
Thanks for the update!!! Cant say enough good things about my experience with this. They more than delivered o nthe first KS so I have no problem going all in on this one….now I’ll have to start saving for the next one….
I backed their first one (with some misgivings) as their minis are so great
and they delivered resin perfection, so I bought more and more of the KS1 stuff
and I’m heavily in for KS2. The best translation of concept art to actual mini I’ve seen ever
There’s just so much to choose from. My pledge has gone from just the book to one I wont be letting my better half see. I can’t wait to get painting.
I already own several models as proxies in my 40K Daemon army, and have taken the opportunity this KS offers to grab sufficient models to actually play the game.
In my opinion, the single most exciting miniatures company operating today, and with the exception of some earlier sculpts (I’m looking at you Melusines) that could at best be considered good, they don’t really have anything in their range that I have enough superlatives in my vocabulary to do justice to.
I’ll echo the positive statements above. I’m into this line heavily and haven’t been disappointed by anything. The miniatures are little pieces of art and the team is very responsive with friendly customer service. Hard part is waiting for things to arrive but always enjoy opening the package once they do 🙂
You will not be disappointed. They have delivered everything either on time or sooner from the first Kickstarter. The value and the work is beyond words and I highly recommend them. There are updates every Friday and weirdly enough when the second Kickstarter kicked off the updates from the first kept happening. That said, the true measure of a company is not when things go right, anyone can do well when things work your way, but when they go wrong. I was missing something out of my order and an email later it was sorted and on its way. This… Read more »
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Ironclad. (Mick)
they’ve been great to me and the miniatures are amazing. they use the best sculptors out there like daniel cockersell (krull/malacant, did the FW greater daemons (all of them) and the giant bronze WoW orc and wolf statue among other things), stephane simon (rackham drunes, a lot more), robert chaudon (grimmin, angrislaug (the giant mierce dragon above) and about 42 other giant monsters).
just great stuff!
Some of their prices might make your eyes water, but you really are paying for a premium product. Possibly the nicest minis I’ve received
I realised that for the same amount I spent on Bones 1 I could get more miniatures I actually wanted of a much higher quality through Darklands. Think I’ll be throwing money at these guys for months.
An after action report of sorts – a compilation of data and information about the Kickstarter, what happens now etc. Compiled from backers provided information.
http://studentaccess.emporia.edu/~csebasti/darklands_zed/index_1.html
These look to be some of the best in the market right now. I haven’t gotten around to owning any though because they are also expensive. Given the quality I understand that it is a premium product and that right now they are focused mostly on large to stupidly-gigantic sized models though, so maybe when I see more human/infantry models I’ll be more inclined to pick up a few. I’ve read the quick-start rules and they seem pretty solid. When next summer rolls around I can easily see myself getting into the game especially since by then they will have… Read more »
Look out for the Duguth models when they are released soon, human spearmen who are beautiful models, and straight spears each time as they are cast with brass rod integrated into the model 🙂