Same Scale as Recent Descent 2e? ...also Ardus Ix'Erebus

[KrisWall 965]

It looks like the "leader guy" for the undead portion of the set is Ardus Ix'Erebus, a recent Lieutenant from the Descent 2e: Journeys in the Dark board game.  The pose is identical, and other than possibly the horns, the detail looks identical too.  Incidentally, Ardus sells for $8.95 for Descent and includes 12 cards and 8 tokens.  This might give us an idea of how much "hero" figures will cost in this game once the inevitable expansions start coming out.

 

Fantasy Flight Games has a history of reusing models with very minor tweaks between games.  As examples, the Gozanti space ship models from Star Wars Rebellion are the same sculpt and size as the upcoming Star Wars Armada Wave III pack.  Runebound shares models with Decent.  I think Nanok of the Blade is available in both and is the same model.  From a manufacturing standpoint, it makes total sense to share components between games...  less overall development cost as you don't have to start from scratch with each new game.

 

Having said all this, I'm in.  I'm a long time table top gamer and have been saying for years that I wish FFG would write a table top rule set.  Armada works great.  X-Wing works great.  This appears on the surface to be a similar type of game play.  I can't wait.  Wish it was being released tomorrow.

[Andze 0]

From these pictures: http://icv2.com/gallery/35193/1, the scale looks to be same as Descent. 

 

And in the background of this picture: http://icv2.com/gallery/35193/2, it looks like orcs. :-)

[TheTechWookiee 151]

From these pictures: http://icv2.com/gallery/35193/1, the scale looks to be same as Descent. 

 

And in the background of this picture: http://icv2.com/gallery/35193/2, it looks like orcs. :-)

 

Those are undead archers, actually.

 

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CpHY8WBUMAE7t86.jpg

Edited August 7, 2016 by TheTechWookiee

[TallTonyB 1,210]

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e32/Anthony_Backhaus/Mobile%20Uploads/20160807_142904_zps513yoyjn.jpg Edited August 7, 2016 by TallTonyB

[TallTonyB 1,210]

So... how do you post pictures as pictures here? I'm apparently not smart enough to figure it out.

[TheTechWookiee 151]

Use the code, not html.

 

[TallTonyB 1,210]

Thank you kind wookie. Sorry I didn't get any better pictures before I had to pack it up. I didn't even think to do comparison shots till the last hour the hall was open.

[Raging Celt 223]

Curious then, what scale are we looking at? 28 or 32?

[player1750031 839]

25-28mm. That's a Descent 2e figure next to the spearman, Descent 2e miniatures are comparable to "non-heroic" (I hate that term) 28mm. Note that if you have any Descent 1e figures, those were visibly smaller, closer to 25mm.

 

As an aside, 28mm 'heroic' isn't a scale, it's what manufacturers used to call 28mm that doesn't hold scale properly, originally due to plastic manufacturing limitations.

 

Also, 32mm isn't a scale, it's what manufacturers call 28mm 'heroic' now since that term had some bad PR over being associated mainly with Games Workshop.

Edited August 8, 2016 by Don_Silvarro

[Lepusek 23]

i like my 32 heroic 

btw that golem is soo cool