Kingdom Death - Monsters

Shamikebab · 29 Nov 2013 at 08:51

For those who don't know, Kingdom Death is a boutique miniatures company that release a small quantity of incredibly high quality resin miniatures (see examples below. Today only they have 50% off some of their releases but better yet have opened up late pledges to their ridiculously successful Kickstarter campaign for their first board game.

All details here:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/poots/kingdom-death-monster

http://shop.kingdomdeath.com/collections/in-stock

Burnsy2023 · 30 Nov 2013 at 22:50

Those are some really very high quality castings. Are they the same scale as warhammer?

Shamikebab · 1 Dec 2013 at 19:19

I think they're slightly larger than Warhammer scale, they're more designed as display pieces I think.

Zodar · 6 Dec 2013 at 08:00

I LOVE the aesthetics of the monsters/knights of this game so much, although I'm not personally a fan of the scantily clad ladies (Except where appropriate, such as the experiment of death etc). Not that I'm a puritan or anything, but it just feels forced and excessive that every single female character dresses in the tightest bikini ever, while males have nice big armor/robes/whatever.

If the game gets good reviews I might pick up a copy once it's widely available though, who knows. I'm just sick of female characters with the defining trait of... being female. It gets old real fast.

Shamikebab · 6 Dec 2013 at 08:29

Yeah I don't like the pinup ones, luckily it's kept fairly separate from the good stuff. There's a few nice female models too, most of the non pinup range is ok.

Zodar · 6 Dec 2013 at 08:32

The whole aesthetic of the game feels really Berserk inspired to me, which is yet another reason to love it. And I love that "stone faces" base... I must have it... Loved those kind of things ever since the loadscreen of Doom 2, deliciously creepy.

JeditOjanen · 6 Dec 2013 at 12:51

This is a game where a decapitated naked woman is used as a bookstand. It's frequently referred to as "Kingdom Rape" because its treatment of women is about one step away from Gor, and it may not be a step up. Unless you approve of hideous misogyny, do not support this game or its makers.

FrenchTart · 6 Dec 2013 at 13:58

JeditOjanen said:
This is a game where a decapitated naked woman is used as a bookstand. It's frequently referred to as "Kingdom Rape" because its treatment of women is about one step away from Gor, and it may not be a step up. Unless you approve of hideous misogyny, do not support this game or its makers.

Awesome :/ I had a quick check out of their site and it's rather cringe-worthy.

Nice reference to Gor though

What an awful series of books and films. Seems rather appropriate

Pookie Bear · 6 Dec 2013 at 14:57

JeditOjanen said:
This is a game where a decapitated naked woman is used as a bookstand.

That appeared to me as if it was a creature with a human female body, a really long neck holding the book where the head would be on a normal body and its inhuman head hovering behind it. That's much more acceptable

Zodar · 6 Dec 2013 at 17:22

JeditOjanen said:
This is a game where a decapitated naked woman is used as a bookstand. It's frequently referred to as "Kingdom Rape" because its treatment of women is about one step away from Gor, and it may not be a step up. Unless you approve of hideous misogyny, do not support this game or its makers.

Zzzz...

The actual decapitated and raped women are not really the problem - they actually make sense from a setting perspective and are quite cool to be honest. It's a game, a fantasy - that means you're allowed to depict rather gruesome worlds and scenarios too.

However, it is boring when women are defined mainly only as women rather than characters. Sure, depict the occasional sexy female, the occasional rape victim, but please, keep things varied and don't let your characters just fall into a set role, be they men or women.

jamesblade · 7 Dec 2013 at 20:47

Gor

read them all when I was younger and still got a few on my bookshelf
.. Wonder if that's why I'm a chauvinist now ?

Love most of the models personally ..