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Hola Daniel! Por supuesto, tendremos ejércitos enanos, elfos, orcos y muchos más! Sin embargo, queremos plantear esto como un proyecto a largo a plazo, por lo que tenemos que ir poco a poco desarrollando los ejércitos. Durante los próximos meses desarrollaremos las facciones "bárbaras", que incluyen árabes y ogros, y las facciones imperiales. Cuando los hayamos desarrollado lo suficiente, seleccionaremos dos nuevos ejércitos y empezaremos a trabajar en ellos! :)

Highlands_Miniatures

Veremos otras razas como pudieran ser orcos?

Of course! One of our goals for this second season is to bring more diversity to our miniatures, so we'll have mixed units for almost every release, starting with it for the next july release! :)

Highlands_Miniatures

Into the detail, especially the Varyags warriors. Will we be seeing some female figures in the furure? I'm considering running an "all girl" campaign at some point and would love to explore your world.

Michelle Linder

New member here, looks like I joined at the right time!

Hmmm, in regards to where to host your world - have you considered World Anvil? https://www.worldanvil.com/ There is a pretty detailed series of tutorials about it on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmurZz9emqGmNQIWOowVjTcXblQhqFduZ

Dennis O'Brien

A very ambitious project. I am curious to see how it unfolds. I can’t say I’m overly thrilled by the information we have so far, I don’t much care for the factions mentioned (except maybe the Viking like faction) and I’m saddened to hear we will be losing the unique command models which is something I loved about your Patreon. The attention to detail. I also don’t know whether these models will have any relevance to anything I’d want to play without a specific game system to go with it. All that being said I do like the idea of world building your own universe and honestly I have thrilled at every release you’ve done so far so I’ll be sticking around to support you. If anyone can surprise me and prove me wrong it would be you guys. For now I’m busy printing and painting knights and undead anyway and that will keep me busy for some time. I look forward to what I’m sure will be an amazing Kickstarter and will continue to back you for the coming year no matter how I feel about the direction. I’d like to see where this goes. Hopefully year three will have something for me again. Or maybe your awesomeness will completely change my mind. Anything is possible.

Karsten Krahe

Of course! The vampire knights on foot will be part of our future first Kickstarter that we're working on about Medieval and Undead heroes and special units! :)

Highlands_Miniatures

or just use crossbows....

Lilian

Avoid Gunpowder weapons and have them use some sort of alternative propellant to give it a fantasy feel. Weapons that use Magic capsules or something that release raw magic energy in a focused beam or something.

Jon Letham

Btw guys any chance you could do a unit of blood knights on foot in the future? I know you're finished undead but would complete the army (and NO ONE else is doing blood knights on foot). Gaelic/Celtic ancient irish elves in future pleeeeeasse!

fox pals

Sounds really cool! I'd love to see elves! Really excited about the Dogs of War kind of units.

My chaotic dreams are getting true, love your 2nd season

Christian Raap

Really hoping for a giant and some great looking (not) Chaos Warriors and mounted option :-)

Orges! Amazing.

You folks have played Mount & Blade haven’t you? 😂 I’m getting big vibes from the naming. So excited to see the units for this theme.

Brandon Blewett

Would love to see dwarves, or maybe chaotic, big hatted dwarves. Happy with command as long as we have the right arms to build them.

Jesse White

Very excited to see this ambitious project set in a parallel, fantasy version of the historical Renaissance, and particularly so in the hands of such talented miniature designers. I really like the emphasis on the "Spanish Conquistador" subtheme of "the Empire" which has been sorely neglected up until now, despite them being the most indomitable foes of the ever-popular Aztec-Mayan themed Lizardmen that have enjoyed their own Renaissance in this new age of 3d printable miniatures with amazing figures coming from other Patreon sites. I am very glad "the Empire" appears to primarily remain "human", as well- designed figures from all regions of the Renaissance Era will be very well received by historical, as well as fantasy gamers and collectors. I agree with Andrea, above, that it would be great to see some "Naval" aspects to this world as well, not only to bring gold-hungry Conquistadors to distant, uncharted lands, but to also recreate the epic Mediterranean battles between Renaissance War Galleys, and of course, we cannot forget the pirates of this period, but the ones hopefully fashioned more on "Elizabethan Sea Dogs" rather than the later period, cliché' pirates from a certain Disney franchise.

Daniel Peterson

The biggest project I have seen so far on Patreon! Fantastic! I'm looking forward to see the miniatures of Caladria (Italian city states) and those of Novgorod. I agree with the choice to increase the miniatures at the expense of the command groups. It would be interesting if you could make some units suitable to be embarked on ships (always of Renaissance inspiration)... Go ahead and good work!

Andrea

all i can say is OMG WOW !!!

Toggers

It is a great project. If it were possible, I would not include gunpowder, it would make everything more original.

Celtic Irish "tuatha de danann" high elves and gaelic themed wood elves please in future. Dark elves could be "fomorians". Raiders from the sea in Irish myth. Would be a different take on elves but still with a noticable warhammer feel. There's alot of lore there to mine

fox pals

This is such a great idea! Please add magic, and elves, and dwarves, and demons, and all the goodies!! PS your knights came out great! I haven't had a chance to paint them yet, but definetly next on the list.

Jason Davenport

Ooh! Ilove me some Germanic and Italian mercenaries!

Leath Ar Nak

Yes all in for fantasy. I'd love full army of..... insert your favorite fantasy race here!

rick hall

Yes I 'd certainly love to see some fantasy creatures at some point.

Eugene Meidinger

I admit, I love world building, especially fantasy worlds and backgrounds. I'll admit your current area of focus is not my area of expertise... In fact, you just finished one of my Areas :P (Bretonnians...so medieval English and French) Still, I'd love to see some Beastmen from you, or Orcs, or Lizardmen... and High Elves, maybe Albion, or Amazons, Nippon and Cathay inspired themes, Dark Elven slavers... There's so much room and scope. All of which will come later, so I will watch with interest and chip in with ideas when and where I can!

Steven Clark

This is EPIC!!!!!

David Taggart-Atkinson

Yes! This, please ^

CooperSM2

As a Scotsman I appreciated the bagpiper you released some months ago. I would love to see a full unit of Highlanders or Clansmen wielding either claymore and targe or broadswords. Possibly they originate from the island west of Wittenberg on the map and maybe that island is named Dál Riata. They usually come to mainland Sunland as mercenaries and therefore will fight for whichever army pays the most, or just amongst themselves. Highland Miniatures needs Highlanders!

Vincent

I will love whatever you'll come up with. That being said if parts of the Empire could host other races, like in Nuln or Cities of Sigmar. I come from a place where dwarfs elves and fairies were common beliefs (also almost anything that can be found in the Witcher books/games and than some) and some of them were considered friendly (fairies gave our folk hero three magic artefacts after he danced with them)

Leonard Turčan

Anything that fits the Dogs of War look is a win IMO.

Jon Letham

Agreed. The Warhammer Empire look was always a turn off for me too. Conquistadors I can get behind.

Jon Letham

Also, pirates!

Mark

Fourth, if you're doing a fantasy Islamic world, there's a lot of diversity to explore. Six regions/styles to think about as semi-independent countries within a greater Islam-inspired army are Morocco/North Africa/the Berbers, Egyptian/Syrian Arabs, Bedouins, Seljuks/Turks, Persians, and Central Asians/the Silk Road city-states.

Mark

How fantastic!I can't wait to see how each subfaction develops. I think involving your patrons in the development process is great, and I look forward to doing my part!

Ben Twineham

This is very ambitious! I especially like the breakdown of armies into civilizations, empires, countries, and regions -- it adds a lot of nuance. A few suggestions... First, if you're designing a fantasy version of Kyivan Rus, you might want to think of it as three sub-polities / armies with common design elements (Slavic) and region-specific influences (Byzantine for Kyiv, Baltic/Finnic pagan for Novgorod, and Mongol for Vladimir/Muscovy). Second, a better name for a fantasy Poland might be "Mazovia" (Volhynia became a Polish land relatively late and was an outlying province). Unfortunately, the best alternative name -- Sarmatia -- has already been claimed by another fantasy game. Third, the historical Aragon and Castile had differences that can be amplified in a fantasy setting. Aragon was more of a confederacy of different sub-principalities (including Valencia and Catalonia) and was a naval / trading power in the Mediterranean. Castile could be portrayed as more monarchical, more religious, and more land-army oriented.

Mark

I love the idea, and I think it's great that you want to involve the community in the creation of the lore. Personally I can't wait to see what you'll do with the Spanish-inspired troops. I really like their overall aesthetic, it would be great to have realistic miniatures for them.

Wim D.

That's so freaking cool. Been waiting for these miniatures for ever! Can't wait :D

Miłosz Kiliński

The X vs Y concept is great. Tho I hate the Empire "puffy shirts" look, I can't wait to see the Barbarians/Chaos evil guys !

I am sure a story need to make some corrections. Everyone knows that Novgorod, Lord Great Novgorod is a free city. Relations with Kiev’s princedom are not easy. Nogorod entered the state "Тhe barbarian Hordes" after the capital moved from Kiev to Moscow. Also there was a long war between Moskow and Novgorod, you know the result. Good characters will be Sadko (legendary merchant-musician), Alexander Nevsky (prince, historical character), it is worth mentioning the noble boyar Shishkov, whose merits in the defense of the city from the Swedes (imperials of the sun) have been known for centuries

amazing !

This sounds amazing. I love the idea of a developing lore, setting and characters. The factions as you have laid them out sound very characterful. I am really looking forward to seeing how this all develops You are both doing such an amazing job.

Phil Walling

I am still more a fantasy guy than a historical one, but getting two units instead the musician/bannerman being separate is a nice move. Can't wait for new release, good job.

Fron the 8 new groups presented, I really like 7 of them. They sound really amazing. Dogs of War? Classic barbarians? Hussars? Yeah! All amazing except for Sunland. I never liked the Empire aesthetic... I hope a terrible plague kills most of them and the Empire of the Sun has to rely on the (I’m sure amazing) Tercios

Angel Sainz

Sounds great! I really like the idea of Sunland and Novgorod.

This sounds like it is kind of set up like a table top version of age of empires and I love it!! Big fan of different empires than different races. Almost like historical meets fantasy!

Ryan Smith

Absolutely love the direction y'all are taking this and based off of the brilliant work from the previous year these new factions are going to be amazing.

Charles Feduke

I'm really happy with the introduction of a lore background with your beautiful models, and the ideas you came up with sound very original, compared to other (often bigger) designers who just say: "yeah let's do something with chaos dwarves/rat-men/sea/Egypt/Greece/Vikings this month". I think it's really cool that you are designing your own universe around it, and to have that as the starting point and have limitless possibilities from there on. I also LOVE the fact that you will keep the historical inspirations, so I'm very happy with this!!! <3

Eea que bien! 👏🏻🙌🏻

Arsenio Gárate Jauffred