I first heard about the miniatures of DreamForge Games a little over a year ago on the wonderful gaming blog The Eye of Error. He had gotten ahold of one of their Leviathan Mortis resin kits. I was intrigued by the kit and felt it could easily serve as a Knight class titan or function as a suitable stand-in for a Warhound. The limited production runs and high price tag (close to that of Forge World’s Warhound titan) of the DreamForge kits made purchasing one infeasible for me, however.
That all changed late last year when DreamForge began a Kickstarter campaign to produce the Crusader variant of the Leviathan in plastic for under $100. They easily exceeded their $30,000 goal, reaching an impressive $205,971. This gave them the resources to make the Mortis variant in plastic as well, along with a host of alternative weapon options. I jumped at the chance to get another titan for Apocalypse-style games (when one titan goes to war, it needs another to oppose it!).
That all changed late last year when DreamForge began a Kickstarter campaign to produce the Crusader variant of the Leviathan in plastic for under $100. They easily exceeded their $30,000 goal, reaching an impressive $205,971. This gave them the resources to make the Mortis variant in plastic as well, along with a host of alternative weapon options. I jumped at the chance to get another titan for Apocalypse-style games (when one titan goes to war, it needs another to oppose it!).
I had been receiving steady updates over the last two months about the production and eventual shipment of all of the Crusader kits from China. Last week I got word that they were finally being shipped to the Kickstarter backers and I got a UPS tracking number. I am excited to say that the kit arrived in the mail today! This is going to be the first post in a series chronicling my assembly of the Crusader. In this first post, I am going to talk a bit about my initial impressions of the kit.
