Titan Forge Sends the Armies of Japan to Kickstarter
May 17, 2016 by dracs
Titan Forge have announced that they will soon be returning to the world of crowdfunding in order to create their whole new fantasy Japan themed army.
There is something very evocative about samurai. It seems to be hardwired into our brains to look at a katana and go "cool!" These initial renders are very promising for an army that captures that cool factor and these units of samurai would make an impressive backbone for the army as a whole.
Titan Forge have said that, while this project will be heavily influenced by history, it will still be based upon fantasy, something we see in a couple of the character models they have previewed.
This project will reportedly be read for Kickstarter in the next two weeks and in that time Titan Forge are hoping to gather ideas for new miniatures from the community, three of which will then be chosen for inclusion.
Perhaps the most interesting point about all this is that Titan Forge have said they will be live-streaming the development process a miniature goes through, so we will get to see exactly what goes on behind the scenes for these sort of projects.
What do you want Titan Forge to consider for the army?
"It seems to be hardwired into our brains to look at a katana and go "cool!""
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The models look very nice, however judging based off the cost of the other stuff in Titan Forge they may cost a pretty penny.
Those look really good.
Looking good. But if they are resin will give them a miss. Those katanas will not last long as gaming peices and that is what i would use them for. The carp concept looks fantastic too.
A king’s of war human army just took one step closer to happening…
I don’t give a fig about katanas, though they are ok swords, but the miniatures themselves look VERY detailed and have great poses. The sculptor did a great job!
Very interesting, I will keep an eye on this..
Btw, it’s really time for some historically accurate multipart plastic samurai figures!
WGF’s attempt was okay-ish but surely someone can do better than that?!
I’d settle for a set of rules which accurately recreate Sengoku warfare, rather than tacking them on to a medieval or pike & shot ruleset.
Actually WGF’s attempt was superb compared to most other attempts I have seen accuracy wise. WGF made their samurai’s weapons, armor details, etc more real scale* (most metal sculptors give Samurai these huge choppers, which is okay for fantasy but not real believable for history, and would the shoulder pads really be that big? not for the 16th century) and the martial arts poses were accurate to a T if you assembled them correctly (They even got the bow holds right, most sculpt don’t get those right). Add to this the different head and armor option and from a purely… Read more »
I think the Kensei stuff still looks better.
Yes, kensei has more individual character.
they look great.
From the look of that block of samurai, they only have two models, just positioned slightly different angle on the base.
Well they did ask to quot myself: “I would like to see Titian forge do is a gang of Yokai as… wait for it… Japanese style pirates.that would be right up their ally, it would be really fun if they had some matchlock pistols (the Japanese made a ton of them). ”
Yokai reference site: http://yokai.com/
Would have been nice if they had a bit more variation in armour, mempo and helm types.