Relic Knights December Releases Just in Time for the Holidays
December 16, 2014 by deltagamegirl22
Soda Pop Miniatures has announced their releases for the month of December for Relic Knights. I know we have several fans of this game on this site and every time I look at the miniatures I want to explore them more in depth (a possible future project?). This month we see the release of five different miniatures: Pit Crew Cerci Speed Circuit Minion Squad,
M8-Blitz Auto Tank Black Diamond Minion,
Royal Wrecker Cerci Speed Circuit Minion
and the Corsairs Star Nebula Corsairs Minion Squad.
As always these miniatures look very good and if you are a fan of Japanese Anime this game would suit you. I have not had the pleasure of playing it yet, but know several people who do and like the mechanics and tell me it is a good time.
Is Relic Knights one of your favorite games?
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Looking good.
It is one of my favourite games. I highly recommend it.
I’ve heard it’s extremely unbalanced? And that the card-power mechanics essentially force you to just ignore your weaker stuff to be able to power the really good attacks on the expensive units? Is that not true then? Cause i quite like the minis I have to say.
yep Im also concerned about the balance ; would appreciate some opinions about it.
It’s less balanced than chess or Settlers of Catan, and more balanced than Malifaux 1st ed or Confrontation. It’s definitely the case that some units are stronger than othesr and some builds are stronger than others. It doesn’t suffer from the Malifaux 1st ed problem of a handful of crews being so good, that barring a massive discrepancy in player skill/experience, they couldn’t realistically be beaten by a crew outside the upper echelon. I personally find the balance to be about average for the type of game it is. I’d rank it slightly lower than Warmachine purely because WM has… Read more »
The end of the bit on the DC could have been a little clearer. What would happen is you wouldn’t take the DC, and you’d spend the five points on boosts instead. These are tokens you place on the table at deployment which either have an ongoing effect, or you activate for a one-off effect.
I, also, would love to recommend this game. I would also put the balance below Warmachine (which is the most balanced game I’ve played aside from Chess) and above the first edition of Malifaux (I haven’t played a ton of M2e, but from what I’ve read and played, it looks like they’ve fix it well). Some things are above the average line, and some things are below, but even the outliers aren’t too crazy overboard. As for the card mechanic forcing you to ignore the smaller attacks/units, I’d definitely say this isn’t the case. The game doesn’t force you to… Read more »
Thanks, that sounds good enough to at least try out.
Like I say, if you want any advice on what to get then just start a thread in the sci-fi forum 🙂
These releases are already available as parts of the starter sets but it is nice to have them available to buy for doubles. The render and wrecker are particularly interesting to take two of. Anyone with the Wildspace Gabe promo model will want two or three squads of pirate crew as well. January should finish the last few kits available from the kickstarter to make them available at retail. Then we can get on to some releases new to everybody!
Very colourful!
I need more pink….