Pre-Painted Mass Combat Conan Warfare? Rise Of Monsters Coming Soon
March 24, 2015 by brennon
A company called Pulposaurs Entertainment is picking up on the hype surrounding Conan right now with quite a surprise. How would you feel about pre-painted, mass combat skirmish game featuring both the forces of Conan and his enemy Thoth-Amon? Rise of Monsters is your answer...
CROM (a neat acronym) will feature two Starter Sets of pre-painted 28mm plastic figures that come with rules, special dice, cards and markers for this mass combat game. Additional forces will then be added to the game in sets which include heroes, warbands and monsters for both sides.
This is a shot of the box art for the Circle of Iron who are the followers of Conan. The other side will be the Legion of Set that are commanded by the Necromancer and Sorcerer Thoth-Amon.
The team behind is certainly seems to have some pedigree too...
Jack Emmert is a co-founder and current CEO of Cryptic Studios. He has launched numerous award-winning games including: City of Heroes, City of Villains, Champions Online, Star Trek Online and most recently Neverwinter. Previous to Cryptic, Jack contributed to a number of different RPG lines, including Deadlands and Marvel Super Heroes.
Shane Hensley is the President of Pinnacle Entertainment Group. He’s written and created dozens of award-winning miniatures roleplaying, card, and video games, has worked on licenses from Star Wars and Army of Darkness to Marvel, and has successfully licensed his own properties to television and video games.
Timothy Brown is the award-winning designer of Dark Sun and 2300AD, and was Director of Creative Services at TSR supervising the best of the AD&D game worlds, including Ravenloft and Planescape. He is a Brand Manager for Pinnacle Entertainment Group and recently ran his own successful Kickstarter campaign to launch an original new game world, Dragon Kings.
George Vasilakos is the President and Art Director of Eden Studios. He has worked as Art Director and Creative Director of licensed games for his company and for Last Unicorn Games, Decipher and Wizards of the Coast including properties as the Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Army of Darkness, Lord of the Rings, Star Trek and Dune.
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Interestingly even though the game is explained as a mass combat game it does look like it starts off at the skirmish level. I want to see if the game can scale because it could end up being quite the nice package.
The other elephant in the room of course is the word pre-paints and online there have been a few shots of the miniatures which look to be from the Legion of Set and could well be zombies or mummies of some kind.
Are these going to be pre-paints in the style of WizKids or will they be something a bit more high detail like the products we've seen from Fantasy Flight's X-Wing?
Does this sound good to you?
"CROM (a neat acronym) will feature two Starter Sets of pre-painted 28mm plastic figures that come with rules, special dice, cards and markers for this mass combat game..."
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I’m interested in seeing the minis. I’m becoming increasingly of the opinion that if organic pre-paints can be brought to a good aesthetic level, then this is the direction the industry will start to move in.
I genuinely think that’s going to be the kicker – at least for wargamers. I know that a lot of people play the WizKids games and love those pre-paints but wargamers want something a bit more high quality to justify them not spending the time ‘hobbying’ for want of a better word.
If they can get that quality right, and the sculpts appropriately detailed I could see people enjoying this a lot.
BoW Ben
While top quality is the end goal, there’s nothing stopping people from re-painting the miniatures themselves! Just because it’s prepainted doesn’t mean you can’t add paint to make the army really your own!
Hmmm, but once you start buying them pre-painted (talking about wargames here mind, not card-heavy games like X-Wing) might you not have just bought a pc game ?
A photograph that has a sign saying “Please no photographs” seems a little rude.
Could be good, obviously depends on quality and a price to suit.
Shame they didn’t do it at the same scale as the Conan Kickstarter and Blood Rage Kickstarter, which are both 32mm I believe.
I always like the “collectors” type of the prepainted games and easy to get into way of these games BUT as a wargamer too is difficult to satisfy my needs in quality now.
crom!
C:ROM!
Nice pictures of … a box? Eagerly awaiting this .. box … project. Seriously they have no images of their products anywhere? How many Conan projects have come, gone, and died … over the past 10 years … they are beyond count. I would like nothing better than to see one succeed … but … the Conan universe seems to be the flaky company IP of choice. From RPGs to board games and video games … always a splashy promise or kickstarter or whatever … then … dead product line. Hopefully this bucks the trend … but without pictures of… Read more »
you probably didnt hear about this thing on kickstarter by monilith…. you know the kickstarter that brought in 3.3 million setting some records and it involves conan..you should check it out
So what is the best way to murder my wallet so I can’t torture it any more????
burn it. credit cards and all. then all your electronic devices.
But I already backed a Conan game whose miniatures I suspect are going to be of much higher quality.
Ehm… i only see a box so far. But is plausible since D&D Attack Wing almost there with what they do. In any case, i’m not interested since i already have tons of games and i pretty to keep pouring money into those.
I have been Waiting years for something like this. Ever since mongoose got my hopes up for a conan game and failed to deliver i didn’t think this would Ever happen. Still a bit skeptical.
Not sure the timing of this is that great considering the Monolith KS. Adrian Smith (among others) art for Conan, surely it doesn’t get any better?
Our miniatures for CROM are “heroic” 28mm, so really 32mm. Some of the monsters, like the War Mammoth and Scion of Set, are quite large. We’re working with our suppliers to get the best pre-paint quality; we really want to raise the bar here. We’ll roll our more images of the concept art and miniatures over the next few weeks; keep an eye on the Facebook page.