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Pathfinder Battles Preview: Back Into the Water!

Friday, June 28, 2013

After two weeks of focusing on the Undead Horde, it's time to get back into the water for more previews from August's upcoming Skull & Shackles set of 55 prepainted plastic miniatures!

Up first this week is a terror from below the seas, an undead creature known as an Elder Brykolakas. This shapechanging undead menace appears in Pathfinder #59, and if the player characters aren't very careful, they may end up facing hordes of them. Accordingly, we've assigned this figure to the common rarity.

Here we have the pirate lord Barnabus Harrigan, the cover-model for Pathfinder #55 and the captain of the good ship Wormwood. Your players will have plenty of reasons to hate Captain Harrigan, so we thought it important to include a miniature for the inevitable battle against him. The figure doubles nicely for any kind of pirate, thug, barbarian, or even a player character. Barnabus Harrigan is slated at the uncommon rarity.

Not all pirate lords of the Shackles are right bastards like Barnabus Harrigan. A few of them might even turn out to be allies. Such is the case with Tess Fairwind, Mistress of Quent and captain of the sloop-of-war Luck of the Draw. Tessa turns out to be one of the most valuable allies in the Skull & Shackles Adventure Path, making her a must-have figure. She also makes a great figure for a swashbuckler PC. We've put her at the uncommon rarity.

BOOM! The impressive Cannon Golem leaps off the pages of Bestiary 3 and into your Skull & Shackles campaign with this amazing miniature. Clocking in at CR 15 and packing a hell of a gunpowder punch, this menace is one your players will not soon forget! This Large figure is slated at the Rare rarity.

That's it for this week. Tune in next Friday for a very special “from the PaizoCon floor” post with new reveals we hope you'll really enjoy! In the meantime, please consider setting up an Ongoing Pathfinder Battles Case Subscription to make sure you don't miss a single figure!

Erik Mona
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Tessa and the Cannon Golem look great, and the detail on Harrigan looks to be very impressive. Unfortunately his face is a little obscured in the photo. That is where the detail would be really important, especially the eye-patch.
Shadow Lodge
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Love the cannon golem, the verdigris effect on the metal is great. Tess Fairwind is similarly an awesome figure, with a lot of potential use beyond S&S. Her pose and paint scheme are perfect. I was looking forward to Barbanas but I'm unsure about him - the details look great but pose looks a little static and like Feros above I really need to see thew face to gauge him. As for the Brylokas I really not sure. The colour is failry uniform, but I'm sure that will change in hand, and there is something I don't like about the hips on it. Still I'm happy to wait until there in hand. This set is still on track to be the best one yet.
Grand Lodge

Four previews! Wow.

The Brykolakas could proxy for a Morlock. I like it.

Barnabas looks like a Pirate, eye patch and all. Imagine that? There looks to be a lot of detail on him.

Ms. Fairwind is really cute. Now you need to fully grasp this meaning. Really cute without being cartoonish in pre-painted plastic is hard to achieve. I look forward to getting one in hand.

Now the Cannon Golem: All I can say is "blown away", pun intended.

A top notch preview. I like the sculpts and the rarities. Can't wait until I get my set.

Of the four, the Cannon Golem is my favorite. I love the way it looks.

One question: I thought named NPCs were always rare. Did I misunderstand that?
The Exchange

Another nice set of figs.
Feros wrote:
Tessa and the Cannon Golem look great, and the detail on Harrigan looks to be very impressive. Unfortunately his face is a little obscured in the photo. That is where the detail would be really important, especially the eye-patch.

THIS, in spades. While I'm really looking forward to getting a case of these figures, the photography in far too many of the previews has been terrible insofar as showing detail goes. The figures have almost always been backlit from the right rear, which throws the front of the figure into shadow and obscures most of the sculpted detail. As these previews are presumably how Paizo hopes to build interest in the minis, please turn the photography over to someone who understands fill light and how to take pictures of miniatures... or at least buy whoever is currently doing the job a book on the subject.

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danielc wrote:

Of the four, the Cannon Golem is my favorite. I love the way it looks.

One question: I thought named NPCs were always rare. Did I misunderstand that?

In an AP-themed set, it's generally safe to assume that big bad villains or super-unique characters (like the Mithral Mage from Rise of the Runelords, for example), are going to be rare. Sub-bosses and characters that easily double for useful mooks or player characters can sometimes be uncommons. And on top of that, sculpt complexity often dictates shifts in the direction of rare, no matter how commonly encountered in the AP itself.

I'm so glad the Cannon Golem made it into this set! All four pieces revealed this week are terrific.
Erik Mona wrote:
danielc wrote:

Of the four, the Cannon Golem is my favorite. I love the way it looks.

One question: I thought named NPCs were always rare. Did I misunderstand that?

In an AP-themed set, it's generally safe to assume that big bad villains or super-unique characters (like the Mithral Mage from Rise of the Runelords, for example), are going to be rare. Sub-bosses and characters that easily double for useful mooks or player characters can sometimes be uncommons. And on top of that, sculpt complexity often dictates shifts in the direction of rare, no matter how commonly encountered in the AP itself.

Thank you Erik for both the answer and for dealing with it on two forums. Your efforts are greatly appreciated. :-)

ermagerd i'm so excited! These minis are just so boss!

I was wondering when the Cannon Golem was going to show up. It looks awesome!
Will there be another preview of Brinebones all painted up, by the way?

holy crap i just realized there's only 11 more figures to go!
Paizo Employee Publisher, Chief Creative Officer

Yes, we'll do the Brinebones/Gargantuan Skeletal Dragon preview once we've gotten good pictures of the final model.
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