Kingdom Death Monster: Pinups of Death IV (Kickstarter Special) Kingdom Death

Board Game Geek Rating: 7.81
Board Game Geek Avg Player Rating: 8.85
Players: 1 to 4
Published: 2015
Content Notes: Kickstarter Set “Pinups of Death IV” for Kingdom Death: Monster by Adam Poots. Includes: Pinup Mountain Dungeon Armor, Pinup Apotheosis, Pinup Faceless Survivor, PInup Male Nightmare Ram Armor, Pinup Nightmare Ram Armor, Pinup Ramette, Pinup Black Knight Armor, Pinup Frogdog Armor, Pinup Honeycomb Weaver, Pinup Percival, Pinup Pond Scum, Pinup Upside Survivor. Please note: unless otherwise stated paid add ons from the Kickstarter Campaign are not included.

A new pinup collection containing 13 miniatures originally offered in the Kingdom Death: Monster 1.5 Kickstarter campaign. Enclosed in a deluxe matte wrapped box, this collection contains 6 survival action tokens, art cards for each pinup, and 13 highly detailed hard plastic miniatures.

Each box makes 13 miniatures and contains:

• Pinup Frogdog Armor w/ scenic insert
• Pinup Pond Scum Armor  w/ scenic insert
• Pinup Mountain Dungeon Armor w/ scenic insert
• Pinup Nightmare Ram Armor w/ scenic insert
• Pinup Remastered Apotheosis w/ scenic insert
• Pinup Male Nightmare Ram Armor w/ scenic insert
• Pinup Black Knight Armor w/ scenic insert
• Pinup Faceless Survivor w/ scenic insert
• Pinup Honeycomb Weaver w/ scenic insert
• Pinup Percival Painter’s Scale w/ scenic insert
• Pinup Ramette
• Pinup Upside Down Survivor
• Pinup Titan Bee Armor w/ scenic insert
• 12x Hard plastic bases
• 3x Hard plastic base inserts
• 1x 50mm Hard plastic base
• 6 double-sided survival tokens featuring Pinup Percival. Use these tokens to show available or spent survival actions for your survivors.
• Large art cards of each pinup

“The most difficult pinup in the set was Pinup Percival. The artwork depicted her on a piece of fabric in bed reading stone tablets. Miniature design with lying down models is always an interesting thing. I think we sculpted like 7 different versions of what she might be on (so many “shelf”-like things with fabric). The issue was that it made the scene SO busy and it just felt off balance. She’s just as important as the details in the scene—the dogpole, the tablets, and her gear. I also wanted to show that she is missing a hand and had a few nasty scars, but the super busy base was just drowning out all that. So, I went minimal with a clear base pedestal and base! With all the clutter gone, I really like how it turned out, even though technically we had to cut a whole new tool for the clear plastic bit. 

Kingdom Death: Monster Overall
Kingdom Death: Monster is a fully cooperative tabletop hobby game experience. Set in a unique nightmarish world devoid of most natural resources, you control a settlement at the dawn of its existence. Fight monsters, craft weapons and gear, and develop your settlement to ensure your survival from generation to generation.

Campaign System
Embark alone or with up to 3 friends (5 with game variant) on a 5-30-lantern-year campaign, with each year consisting of a cycle of hunt, showdown, and settlement phases. The settlement phase is an intricate civilization building game in which you spend very limited resources to build buildings, research new technologies, train your warriors, and set up your strategy for survival. During the hunt, you’ll encounter a series of stories in a “choose your own adventure” style journey through various events and encounters. Finally, when you meet the monster you’re pursuing, you’ll engage it in an a massive arena-style battle where only one party is going to survive. If your party lives, you’ll be able to bring the spoils back home to use in expanding your settlement.

Monster AI System
Each of the 7 monsters included are controlled by their own pair of decks that scale to 3 levels of difficulty (except for the final encounter, which has only 1 level and it’s HARD!). Every encounter, even with the same monster, is highly variable and no two showdowns will resolve the same way. Players will have to plan their gear and keep their minds sharp to prevail.

Gear System
In Kingdom Death: Monster, survivors will craft gear from resources earned from defeating monsters or found on their hunt. Each survivor has a 3×3 gear grid. Selection and arrangement of your gear cards is critical, as many provided bonuses and activate special rules when aligned correctly.

Story Event System
40+ Story Events plus over 100 hunt encounters will shape and guide your campaign. Story Events detail important evolutions in your civilization, introduce new monsters, and provide rich detail for your campaign. Some will trigger automatically as you progress through the campaign, but most will be entirely based on choices players make.

Story Events cover everything from setting up and fighting a monster to key events that happen within the overall story. Some are triggered directly from the timeline and others from choices you make in game.

–from the publisher

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