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The Adventurer: Next Steps
🕑 Added 2024-09-05 11:47:10 +0000 UTC
Hello everyone,
We’ve finally made it here.
As I like to be transparent, I want to share some things with you. From here, I’d like to build our roadmap to the future together.
One of the big challenges we face with Patreon is that we sculpt month by month while simultaneously managing everything else. This approach has its advantages, like allowing us to be very proactive with your feedback and make changes on the fly. But it also leads to silly mistakes that, due to a lack of time for thorough review, can take weeks to identify and fix—if we even realize them at all. Moving so fast has its downsides.
That’s why we’ve decided to change our approach in "The Adventurer." We’re now sculpting three months ahead of what you’re currently seeing. Thanks to this, the miniatures are much better tested, and in the future, we might be able to show you more painted models than we traditionally have. However, this will limit our ability to be as flexible and responsive as before.
I’m not sure which system will work better, so we’re going to try this for a while. But above all, I wanted to keep you informed.
Right now, we’ve sculpted two months dedicated to Viking shield walls. One month focuses on the wall itself, with Bondi warriors, and the other on Fyrdmen troops fighting behind it with Danish axes and spears.
Additionally, we’ve prepared another release inspired by the era of the musketeers (without falling into the typical cape cliché), featuring swashbuckling miniatures. These miniatures are also designed to be used in Mordheim, following the rules of the Nuln School of Artillery, but with a rather unique style.
And that’s what we have prepared so far.
On Monday or Tuesday, after the Freak Wars 2024, I’ll start developing the next month.
So, now that you know our approach, I’d love to hear what you like, what you don’t, and what paths you’d like us to explore in the future. The idea remains the same:
Relatively small, intensive ranges that allow us to explore interesting areas. But I also want the miniatures to be useful to you :)
So I’m all ears! :)
Comments
David
As much as I would also like to see more fallen lineage minis I understand. I'm just happy to get newer releases sporadically which both expand and evolve the army - like with the recent fallen lineage and tree kin releases. I also appreciate the approach to modularity but also the dynamic poses and unique designs. I look forward to kitbashing elves and humans with historical minis (which it doesn't seem like many other designers facilitate). I also look forward to seeing Lion elf infantry at some point 🙏🏼
Last Sword Miniatures
That doesn't make sense from a design perspective, nor from a commercial one. From a design point of view, we would only be repeating ourselves, working on repeated ideas without developing new ones. We could create a race in six months and then move on to the next one. But miniatures are another matter. It's not about bringing more people in to make them faster, but rather about coming up with better ideas to do them better. From a commercial point of view, we have the communication capacity that we have. Communicating one fantasy over another similar one only creates confusion, and it might force the audience to choose. The goal here is to attract new audiences, which will make LastSword more stable in every aspect.
Last Sword Miniatures
yes
Tonny
My interest in historical miniatures stops around mid 15th century. So anything from ancients to the end of HYW is fine. I don't have much interest in the musket era. So for the musketeer it all depends what the loyality rewards are, otherwise I will skip the months that are beyond late 15th century.
Tonny
Yeah, while I like this (semi) historical addition and upgraded my tier for it. I would still have preferred that the extra manpower would have been used to complete i.e the Fallen lineage faster. We are still missing a lot for that range and we know that there will be zero new Fallen lineage miniatures for the rest of 2024 :-(
David
In terms of themes, I would love to see historical minis that aren't given as much attention. For instance - eastern Romans (byzantines), varangian guard (vikings who fought for the byzantines!), celts, bulgars, Armenians, bronze age Mesopotamia
David
I hoping for historical miniatures which are modular and compatible with the fantasy range (even if just heads and hands)
Alexander
Musketeers? What happened to finishing up existing ranges, dark elf scouts for example? The only 'advantage' with this new system is that I now know they won't be coming for at least 4 months...
Damon C Richardson
Really love where this is going. There is a definitive lack of good Swashbuckling/Musketeer type miniatures. Specifically, miniatures armed with rapiers and pistols with 17th century aesthetics.
Th
I like the aesthetic of the musketeer, I'm hoping your 'swashbuckling' miniatures will make for good pirates that have a dash of pirates of the carribean style about them.
