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Hasbro opened Pulse to the EU (Austria, Italy, France, and Spain) this week as well, including HasLab projects:

https://eu.hasbropulse.com/

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Not today's update. Note the sparkly water.

Originally Posted by Intergalactic Patrick

I got to the office first and snagged this off of Encarmine's table. It's all prototypes and color comes from the 3D printer.

Originally Posted by Intergalactic Patrick

They gave us 45min

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(Duplicate post)

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Everyone, get your reminders ready. The time is finally set.

Originally Posted by Intergalactic Patrick

Hi! The schedule for Pulsecon is now live! The Avalon Hill panel kicks off on Oct 1 at 2:15 ET.


https://hasbropulse.com/pages/hasbro-pulse-con-2022

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Today's actual update.

Originally Posted by Encarmine

DESIGNER'S NOTES - DAY 044 – “IF I DON’T KILL A MAN EVERY NOW AND THEN, THEY FORGET WHO I AM.” Dorim the Bulkhead Brawler NEVER backs down from a fight, ever! Dorim accepts every contract, every opportunity to prove himself against the odds, is one more tale to tell clasping mugs and shouting shanties. Like the strongest hull of an ironclad, Dorim stands firm against the largest of adversaries, with a tenacity and steadfast resolve which rivals even the Valkyrie Aquilla herself. The bigger a monstrosity roaring primal rage in his face, the higher Dorim the Bulkhead Brawler revs the engine of his mighty chainaxe in response. Not one to ever be left behind in a charge, Dorim insists on always being the first to slam into the enemy ranks like a naval ram! Like a sudden storm of death and thunder following close behind Dorim, are the various Exiles of the Sundered Sea, experts in swordplay and barking irons, who stood before the mast at Aquilla’s call. Like the Sundered Sea itself, the Exiles are unpredictable, and run rigs on their enemies, hornswaggling their adversaries with ease and appearing almost pistol proof, seemingly always just out of reach and range.

File names are "Who_Doesnt_Love_Chain_Axes" and "Shiver_Me_Timbers"... respectively. Note that we've seen two of these at Gencon already.

Originally Posted by Encarmine

You won't find it on the old map... it's too cropped in.

Originally Posted by Encarmine

Next week will be “gotcha week” I think. I expect a few “we’ll we didn’t see that coming…” comments

Originally Posted by Encarmine

Already in process.

Originally Posted by Encarmine

Utgar totally tastes like bacon
Marro mac and cheese people
I feel like Ullar tastes like celery with peanut butter
And Vydar is probably day old pizza
Vydar could be that taste you get when you accidentally bite a fork
Einar is like steak and potatoes
Who is Valkrill?
Revna is probably raw hamburger
Volarak is probably like those editable metallic beads you buy in the baking section to decorate cakes with.

...No comment.

Originally Posted by Encarmine

He's a raccoon without his full coloring.

And one more...

Originally Posted by Encarmine

So tomorrow. Let's chat. I'm thinking it's friday.

so lets say.... 8 drops tomorrow! We'll have OCTUPLE FRIDAY And someone better go find those comments on FB that aged so poorly.

Wait. i counted wrong. It's 10 figures I'll show tomorrow.

I'll be early tomorrow.


Yes, Tomorrow. Xenithrax The Soulweaver comes to the Avalon Hill Discord server.

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The first 6 updates (out of today's promised 10) are here!

Originally Posted by Encarmine

DESIGNER'S NOTES - DAY 045 – Cornelius Breech, the Derelict Prince has ever been a jagged thorn in the sides of the Dawn Raider captains. He does little to mask his ambitions, breaks ranks and foils contracts whenever it may serve his wicked plans. His fabled blade “The Butcher’s Cleaver” has put low many a soul, reaping a harvest across Valhalla. Some believe his day will come due when the dredgie he leaves in his wake catch up to him, but few realize he welcomes that reckoning and the moment he can rise ascendant over all of the Dawn Raiders and bend their knees to his master Utgar’s throne.

"This_One_Be_Loose_In_His_Stays"

Originally Posted by Encarmine

DESIGNER'S NOTES - DAY 045 – Knaves of the Silver Scimitar give no quarter and expect none in return. Members of the Silver Scimitar take contracts based on the promise of whetted blades and scores of plunder, and Valkyrie Revna promises this in spades. For the Knaves of the Silver Scimitar, ideals like honor and code are just foolish words used by other members of the Dawn Raider Syndicate who lack the stomach. These rapscallions draw steel even before the order is given to attack, raiding with a taste for bloody carnage and hunger for the quick kill. And as the warnings of attack sounds alarm, the Knaves disappear once more into the fog of war to stalk their next victims and hunt more loot.

"Blades_Blades_Blades_Blades"

Originally Posted by Encarmine

DESIGNER'S NOTES - DAY 045 – Marachott, Mind Whisperer sees deep into the thoughts of the weak-minded, sowing doubt, breeding decent, playing in their heads like a master of puppets. The Dryan Magi hold within their Lifeborne Order many various disciplines of the arcane arts, some like Marachott dig deep straight into the roots of their enemies’ souls and manipulate the purest essence of their very beings. On the battlefields of Valhalla it is common to witness her allies perform near miracles of prowess in her presence, and even more common to watch as her enemies turn their swords and axes back towards their former comrades. Many have tried to strike Marachott, Mind Whisperer down, to stop her voice scratching around in their heads, but only discover a strange power emanating from her staff that deflects their mortal blows, further driving them mad.

"WAIT_Tim_Put_Down_That_Bat"

Originally Posted by Encarmine

DESIGNER'S NOTES - DAY 045 – “ITS HARD TO LEAD A CALVARY CHARGE, IF YOU THINK YOU LOOK FUNNY ON A HORSE.” Like a sudden violent avalanche of hooves and horns, Halushia, Scion of the Wild charges into battle with the unbridled fury of nature itself, hacking, slashing and plowing through adversaries at the spear tip of Volarak’s legions. His massive form dominates the landscape, towering over the ranks of attackers he splits apart like cords of seasoned wood. Other Dryan Lifeborne Order quickly follow behind, filling the gap he creates in the enemy’s tattered lines, confident that with the Scion of the Wild at the front of their assault, enemies will find it difficult to rally and strike back against the wave of destruction. (Yes, there is a subtle name swap happening...)

"Does_He_Come_In_Plush"

Originally Posted by Encarmine

DESIGNER'S NOTES - DAY 045 – "A FORCE OF NATURE TO BE RECKONED WITH." On their home planet of Arboreas, Grove Keepers protect and defend the Dryan Lifeborne Order’s most sacred sites, guarding them from those seeking to defile these places of mystical energy. On Valhalla, Volarak uses Girushia Grove Keeper as a living wall of razor sharp thorns as large as a man’s arm, and vines as thick as tree trunks, to deny enemy movements on the battlefield. Though they may try to chop their way through the wicked tangle of pain that Girushia places in front of her opponents, she can call upon the raw natural lifeforce of nearby plants to regrow her massive form faster than the axe blade or the torch flame can bite and burn her flesh away.

"Ill_Be_Picking_Those_Things_Out_For_Days"

Originally Posted by Encarmine

DESIGNER'S NOTES - DAY 045 - "TEN FACTS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT WANTON DESTRUCTION." Xenithrax the Soulweaver is an unfathomably enormous avatar of the raw mystical energies that created our universe, made manifest in the form of a primal apex predator not seen on Arboreas’ for countless epochs. A legend even among the magi of the Dryan Lifeborne Order, Xenithrax personifies the undeniable power of life and death, and being drawn to Valhalla where the mystical wellsprings are located, has amplified that power almost being reason. Now Xenithrax dominates the war-torn plains as an indomitable harbinger of Volarak’s absolute determination, bringing low those that would dare raise blades and barrels against the Valkyrie’s forces. Wherever Xentithrax feet tread, the ground heaves and breaks, dropping her enemies to the ground in horror are she sweeps across battlefields with utter contempt for those that would oppose Volarak. There is little escape from the Soulweaver’s reach, those that try to flee find fast moving tails darting under the crust the earth, and thrusting up through the surface and impaling enemies from below.

"Dryan_Stratofortress"

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Update #7!

Originally Posted by Encarmine

DESIGNER'S NOTES - DAY 045 - "IN THE MIDST OF CHAOS, THERE IS ALSO OPPORTUNITY." (Happy Friday! See everyone on Monday night.)

"I_AM_DOOM"

Penguin with a machine gun!

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Also, yesterday Encarmine said *10 figures* not 10 updates. There are 10 figures in today's updates so far--this probably is all we're getting today.

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Not much commentary; Encarmine is on vacation through Monday. Somehow, this doesn't stop him from doing the regular updates.

Originally Posted by Encarmine

Yes.

Originally Posted by Encarmine

Yah, that video is in the can, and ready for next Saturday.

Note: This voice actor is playing Thormun.




On the penguin with a machine gun:

Originally Posted by Encarmine

One left today. Clockwork... maybe?

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Volarak!

Originally Posted by Encarmine

Like this one?

Originally Posted by Encarmine

Just conceptual deep breaths.

Originally Posted by Encarmine

*she

Originally Posted by Encarmine

Volarak

Not Volarak, but still important:

Originally Posted by Encarmine

In that case, Anitar while no one is paying any attention, can you go change all references of THE CRAVEN COURT, to NEMESIS WAR BROOD for me please?

Originally Posted by Encarmine

Definitely still snooty big nobility for sure.
Like maybe snootier
Like “Die for me, drones caste, so that I may bath in the blood of my fallen enemies.”


I can see Maladrix in my head staring completely silent and unmoving in the center of a battlefield as 100,000 combatants for their very lives. Waiting for the carnage to end, so she can continue her perfectly straight line stroll without hinderance.

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Today's updates!

Originally Posted by Encarmine

DESIGNER'S NOTES - DAY 048 – “THERE IS A BEAST IN EVERYONE AND IT STIRS WHEN YOU PUT A SWORD IN THEIR HAND.” Not all that rally to the banners of the Clockwork Combine were unprepared for battle when it came. While the Vorid peacefully tended their fields in ignorance of pending doom, others sharpened steel and forged armor. They trained for a war they hoped would never arrive and organized into the knightly orders that became the immovable shield-wall of the Combine. Each Ordo specialized in different techniques of combat, training their aspirants to leverage their natural instincts into martial disciplines of warfare. When the first attack happened on Noxdorma, it was the Frostclaw Paladins that first stood in defiance of the onslaught. With teeth and claws they protected the Vorid, and in return the Vorid offered the Frostclaw their technology to augment their strength, their speed, and their skill. Now, on Valhalla, standing shoulder to shoulder with the mightiest heroes of Jandar’s legion, the Frostclaw Paladins stand in opposition to new enemies, but with the same courage and virtue that made them worthy to call themselves present in the Battle Of All Time.

I can't figure out how to embed the mp4 so it plays here... clicking the link should let you view it though.

Originally Posted by Intergalactic Patrick

It's the last week, so let's have some fun. I'm going to one up Chris and throw this up here. Boom. Frostclaw Paladins.

Click here to download the animation

Originally Posted by Encarmine

Well if we're playing this game today!

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Pulling out some more discord quotes this morning... these are from September 10th

Originally Posted by Encarmine

When I tell you a prepainted miniature is something like 12-to-1 in terms of manufacturing pricing, it’s not even an exaggeration.

It’s all about the labor charge. The cost of labor goes up every time I wake up for work in the morning.

Eating a mixing bowl of cereal, while watching labor fees rise like Apple stock on a ticker tap.

Originally Posted by Encarmine

[in response to someone posting images of the General logos together]
Just be forewarned all of those are still getting tweaked. So don’t get too comfortable.

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Other points of discussion.

Originally Posted by Encarmine

I call them the Ursin.

Originally Posted by Encarmine

About twice the height of a Vorid.

Originally Posted by Dad_Scaper

This is absolutely true. The sculpts look more Scape-y to me than the concept art. Though I have certainly loved all of it.

Also, yes, the Frostclaws are specifically polar bears, in case that wasn't obvious.