So it's arrived! - The Desert of the Dead Kickstarter from TTcombat - with miniatures for WHFB Tomb Kings / Ninth Age Undying Dynasties ... I've been looking forwards to this day for nearly a year and a half, as it's the kickstarter I've spent the most on from a miniatures perspective of the approximately 80 I've done!
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Unfortunately, a Brown box on a mdf table isn't massively photogenic!
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However, before I open it up, I'm just gonna remind myself what I ordered:
I'm a massive fan of TTcombat, and their kickstarters seem to offer great value for money. Their excellent Halfling Kickstarter from 2018 I backed at a lower lever, just going for a battalion, and I wished I had gone further (I have purchased a whole bunch of additional stuff since!) so I was less cautious this time.
Couple that to the fact that alongside Bretonnians, Tomb Kings was the other army in WHFB 6th Ed that a much younger me was going to purchase and get into (although at the time funds prevented this from happening) and this was always going to be a winner in my eyes!
So after much debate, I jumped right in at the Dead Army level:
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Yep - that's a lot of mummies! - Enough for a decent army at least!
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Not content with just the army, when the pledge manager came out (by which time I had started looking in more depth and with more interest at the Ninth Age rules) I added the following to ensure I had covered as many of the unit options as possible:
And then a couple of extras that just looked like fun:
... and finally enough round slotta bases to see me good for at least the next couple of years!
So, that's what I was expecting to be in the package, lets take a look at what turned up:
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Well packaged with plenty of protection!
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That's a lot of resin - nearly 2.5kg!
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| Firstly Characters & Heroes & Single Figures ... |
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| Then Mummies, lots of Mummies of various persuasions - ~150 in total! |
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| Cavalry (Mummy Centaurs), Swarms, Scorpions, Chariots & Anubti |
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| Various Giants / Titans, War Machines and Crypt Serpents |
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| Sphinxes (or apparently Sphinges - who knew?!) - these are some BIG beasties! |
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And the rest - Giant Buzzards, Rumbleslam, a lot of bases, and some freebies!
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Wow - that is a lot of resin! I've worked it out as 237 miniatures (must remember to add that to the tally this week). Admittedly they currently aren't the most photogenic as they're still all bagged up, but over the coming weeks and months I'm going to start mixing these into the paint queue with the Bretonnians, so they'll start to appear!
So, I've got plenty of stuff to be getting on with - not least of which is printing out suitable bases for these guys on my 3d printer - I'm going to try thr square bases from the Txalri Kickstarter for the first lot! Given that I calculated that I could build an ~8000pt force (before magic items) of Undying Dynasties for The-Ninth-Age with just these alone, I've got plenty here to keep me busy - lets see if I can get some of them are ready in time for the Weekly Round-up ...
Until next time ...
- Bsking
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