Grab Yourself A THON Starter Box For The New Year
January 4, 2016 by brennon
The folks behind THON have three Starter Faction Boxes for you to choose from and if you've been considering their game you might want to check each of these out. A sizeable amount of effort has gone into tweaking the rules for the game which can be downloaded HERE.
THON
First up we have the THON Faction which the game is named after...
"The Thonians are defenders of the Starlight Alliance. Emissary Caurus was the first responder to the Ordhren Onslaught at the Warfront. Leading a team of Alliance Guardians, Caurus rescued countless refugees from the catastrophic destruction of Starlight Kala."
I really like the character model you get in this set, Emissary Caurus. All of the models stand around the 32mm to 35mm scale too.
ORD
The warlike ORD have also joined the fighting with their own Faction Box which you can see below.
"The Sons of Ord decimated dozens of Starlight and their surrounding systems in a covert strike led by their dauntless Apostles and unrelenting Fireborn."
Here we have all manner of different heavily armoured warriors with big guns. This faction is led by Forgemaster Tyrian who you can see here in the yellow.
Highborn Of Byamat
Last but not least we have a third faction for you to pick up in full with the Highborn of Byamat.
This is the decidedly more alien looking of the factions led by the powerful Matriarch Ela. The large beast behind her is her avatar which I'm sure she is able to control in battle.
Which of these factions appeals to you the most?
"ORD is led by Forgemaster Tyrian who you can see here in the yellow..."
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After all the exquisite art and boutique feeling Thon radiated this stuff looks pretty bland.
Passing on this one.
The only thing alien about the “Highborn of Byamat” is the avatar beast. These three factions all look like humans.
Dredd would call this “not a pass” on just about all accounts, gotta agree .. and Im definatly done with sci-fi knights (especially ones with swords and glowing warhammers) for 2016 😛 Bring on the hard sci-fi imo!
From the very first instant i’ve found the Thon stuff to be bland and genericly boring. These do not change those initial findings in any way.
Even enlarged these images don’t show off the models all that well. Either that is a lack of confidence or poor presentation.
Blocky and boring.
So megaboobed space elves, rusty tau and shiney infinimarines yawn
So on the basis of this news post, I was interested to find out what this “Thon” is all about. i had a look at the thonthegame website, and it did not really make me any wiser. I wonder what exactly that webpage is about. I looks like a blog set up with monthly archives and lots of spammy adverts for unrelated nonsense down one side. More importantly, there seems to be no presentation of the game or gameworld as far as I can see, just a lot of disjointed news items about new releases or updates (if that is… Read more »
I’d pick up the Highborn of Byama if they were cast in metal.
Hey guys, The World is based around transhumans, so most of the models will be humanoid supported by drones. I admit the presentation needs work – I’m always working on it – it is a big project but I’ve just cast the last of the models I had intended to do for the kickstarter. So focus will go back to revising the ones that I think need work. The low res images were by request from distributors and webstores – so I posted those. If you’d like higher res images I would happy to supply them. toxic They are all… Read more »