CMON’s HATE Production Going Well With Peek At Contents
September 19, 2018 by brennon
CMON Games has been showing off some of the production samples for Kickstarter Exclusive HATE which recently arrived with them. Once again, this looks like a massive mound of plastic which will consume your hobby for many months.
The main box is massive, easily bigger than most of their Zombicide products and probably coming in closer to something like Conan. As with a lot of these products you're going to be seeing a wealth of bagged up contents on the top layer before reaching below to find boxes packed full of miniatures in their plastic trays.
Just to get a feel for the mountain of plastic that you're going to have to work with above, that's just what comes in the standard box. Each of the expansion sets for the various tribes also gets their own box.
The campaign also worked on creating a lot of very nice plastic components as well, removing the need for the cardboard tokens. Here are just some of them...
If HATE was the only project that you backed with this mountain of plastic contained within then you're in for a lovely time of it. However, if you've been helping out with the likes of Mythic Battles: Pantheon, A Song Of Ice Fire, Joan Of Arc, and many more of these big box games then you're now standing next to a worryingly large amount of plastic.
I can see why HATE can be viewed somewhat apart from these other campaigns as it is a one-time exclusive bespoke product but I do hope that the era of these massive projects full of plastic miniatures is coming to an end.
I think more than anything it's for my sanity. I get worried each time I look at how much I haven't played Mythic Battles: Pantheon and Conan. I think a lot of that comes from the astonishingly large amount of 'stuff' you have to deal with when you get the game to the tabletop.
What do you think and are you happy to be seeing HATE coming along well?
"Once again, this looks like a massive mound of plastic which will consume your hobby for many months..."
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It’s easy to be lured in to backing a project by plastic, but several mistakes have left me with piles of miniatures with poorly designed games…. Cmon is one of the worst offenders for this sort of thing.
Now I try to be more selective and if I have doubts about the quality of game or plastic I drop out.
Me too. I am so pleased I backed Mythic Battles: Pantheon and World of Smog, but I dropped my Hellboy pledge when I found myself over-committing to the lure of extra plastic. I dropped my Limbo pledge when I got worried that there wasn’t a strong enough game or any clear sense of world-building to support the (admittedly beautiful) sculpts.
Well, the good news is that real-time game Project: ELITE is coming! P:E’s previous KS was run by another game, and was a fiasco, but BGG’s reception to the game was very enthusiastic. Looking forward to it, myself!
I dropped out of Project Elite because of the real time aspect. Looked like a lot of frantic rolling dice and bit of planning which did not appeal. But the minis looked good.
I gave this one a miss despite loving the mini sculpts as I wasn’t sure the gameplay was my style, but very exciting to see the production well underway. Very interested to see peoples choice of painting palettes when they get their pledges 🙂
@pagan8th – I have found CMON to be excellent myself but then there are always exceptions and risks with any kickstarter production and fulfillment I guess.
I almost gave this a miss to avoid adding to the grey plastic mountain…
… but what persuaded me (or how I persuaded myself) was 2 things.
1. Campaign gameplay for some ongoing evenings down the club and
2. I fancy the challenge of achieving a paint scheme mimicking Adrian Smith’s artwork. Monochrome with hints of red.
Checkout pre-order publication of Hate Vol 1 & 2 compilation book on Amazon or similar due before Christmas. One to add to your wishlist if you have the game due Q1 2019.
The figure’s for the game that I have seen look brilliant.
I have plenty of CMON to paint. The figs were tempting. The game not so much. Not tempting at all in fact. I am getting a sense of incompleteness from Lang’s offerings lately. Didn’t stop me from getting his latest Cthulhu game but I will be (trying) to show a more discerning eye from now on.
Probably going to get bashed for this (sorry Brennon), but…….. This is a “news” item for a KS exclusive game (where the backers will have got a email from CMON with the article linked to it). To the wider world who didn’t back it and will not have any way to purchase the game this is news for something they can not get access to (so only the backers will be interested). So “should” this even be general news (given the amount the KS news spam we get these days)? Still, interesting to see the threads on some KS schemes… Read more »
Elon musk sold a ticket to go to the moon to a Japanese billionaire. Made the news 🙂
News is based on its level of interest not necessarily on its accessibility 🙂
There was the option for stores to back it to be able to sell it, so there is indeed a way for the wider public to obtain it, besides the usual ebay scalpers.
Yeah- but at least my local stores would basically be scalping the game at that point (there’s almost no way that they aren’t marking it up).
I got Hate. All of it. That was based on the miniatures alone. I’m really looking forward to it. Blood Rage really set the standard. The Song of Ice and Fire, Conan, Mythic Battles Pantheon, Rising Sun, Zombicide Black Plague and Massive Darkness were all fine, fun tabletop games. The mountain of quality plastics always looks great until you realise you have to paint it. There’s plenty in Hate, but nowhere as much as some of the other Kickstarters that have destroyed the hopes and dreams of many hobbyists. I’ve been looking at this in my project blog (shameless self-promotion… Read more »
There are times when I look at the mountain of plastic and think “I’d prefer to just get the core game, and expand on it as I get it all painted.”
I tried to resist this one but in the end there was just too much amazing stuff for $120. I really don’t think these should be that hard to paint (about 100 minis in total), especially if you’re not aiming for Golden Demon but just tabletop quality. Flesh tone (obviously), a couple of browns, a couple of metals, bone, a splash of blood red. Hit them with Quick Shade, let dry, then a matte spray and Bob’s your uncle. HATE’s gameplay looks quite similar in many ways to Blood Bowl. It’s 11 vs. 11, played on a grid, dice attacks… Read more »
You can never have too much plastic! I’d buy it for the mini’s, and toss them on my mountain of shame.