Featuring friends and foes from the world of Golarion, Deadly Foes introduces 52 unique figures for your Pathfinder Battles miniatures campaign. Deadly Foes follows the lead of popular Pathfinder Battles sets like Dungeons Deep to provide a legion of high-utility monsters and heroes suitable for any fantasy roleplaying campaign. From fearsome hobgoblins to evil soldiers, slavers, and monstrous giants to rare "dungeon dressing" inserts that add realism and fun to your fantasy gaming, Deadly Foes is packed the adversaries your game is looking for.
Pathfinder Battles: Deadly Foes miniatures come in three product configurations:
Four-figure boosters each containing 1 Large figure and 3 Medium or Small figures
Bricks containing 8 boosters (32 figures total)
Cases containing 4 bricks (128 figures total)
Purchasers should get no to very few duplicate figures in a brick. Buyers who purchase factory-sealed cases should get a nearly complete set of figures. (As with any randomized product, collation is not guaranteed.)
- All humanoids (even the commons!) are as good or better than rare minis of prior sets. Their faces were especially good.
- The dungeon dressing was extremely well done in terms of both sculpt and paint. (Rope Trick, Book of the Damned). Most importantly, the book and pillar will be used!
- Minor gripe, the Invisible Guardian should have been made of clear plastic. Instead he looks like an elemental. I liked that it was common though and wished the bearded devil was common.
- The clockwork dragon and spawn were too specific for me to bother purchasing.
1 star minis: 1 (Keketar Protean)
2 star minis: 6
3 star minis: 10
4 star minis: 16
5 star minis: 17!
GOOD:
All 13 common minis get between 3 and 5 stars!
A lot of often needed monsters are in this set.
The best human faces yet, even better than the Rusty Dragon Inn set!
BAD:
2 minis were missing in my case.
Too dark paintjobs on quite a lot minis.
While Wizkids finally seems to have the faces nailed, the sturdiness has taken a step back in the wrong direction.
UGLY:
The rare Protean is the size of a medium creature on a large base, it has the wrong eye color (according to the Bestiary entry ALWAYS the same) and it doesn´t look as cool as the Bestiary 2 color-scheme.
This set is mostly comprised of aberrations, Chelaxians, evil/good outsiders, hobgoblins and dungeon dressing. While the paint work is impressive, it is a little bland on a few minis, holding it back from five stars (wish I could give 4.5). I can see myself using just about every mini, which is important to me. As a whole, I really love the set and think it is well worth an entire case purchase. Cheers to Wizkids and Paizo :)
If you do order a case, carefully consider the Clockwork Dragon & Spawn of Cthulhu add-on. They are well done, but rare/specific.
Got my case today. I got at least one of every mini. Dungeon dressing was two per brick for a total of eight pieces. I got two candles and pillars (one of the rest).
1, 3, 4, 6, 13, 14, 16, 26, 27 and 31. 4 copies of each mini.
2, 5 and 10. 5 copies.
7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 17, 19-23, 25, and 28-30. 3 copies.
15, 18, 24 and 32. 2 copies.
Rest of minis only 1 copy.
Initial impressions: I really like the set and the vermin for swarms. Yes, the rope trick does look neat. Favorite would be pit demon and fire diabolist. Close is the gynosphinx. Would like next set to continue dungeon dressing and have more minis for player characters. Especially for newly allowed PFS player races.
Pros
Great figure selection ( really love the Lemur)
Got a full set in a case
Pulled two rope tricks and two pillars
Paint jobs are great ( but could se a wash)
The dressing pieces are all useful to me at least.
Cons
Way to many unicorns although a quick snip and I had two unicorns and two white horses.
Three broken figures including my Cthulhu
Not enough crabs ( only three) nitpick
The wings on both my pit fiend and clockwork dragon didn't fit and had to be trimmed.
Hoping this is going to come close to the last set. Very encouraged with direction of this mini line. I would love to see Geniekin (there just aren't minis for these), dungeon dressing and well...more harlots.
Damn!
So i guess we are gonna get an article tomorrow?!
That sounds very good, but it should come out in july (latest august) not october.
It isn't called "Summer Relase" for nothing.
The case incentives (if true) are well chosen, even if not the ones that most people wanted but i imagine they will appeal to most buyers/collectors.
From the art i recognize:
Spoiler:
-Barbed Devil
-a priest of Asmodeus from Hell's Rebels
-a Bodak (i think)
-Elf with flaming sword (i know the image but don't remember where it's from - Second Darkness maybe?)
-Keketar Protean (finally)
A shame that another site has spoiled the surprize but that is what happens when there is no Pathfinder Battles preview for 4 weeks...
That's not an elf, it's the "iconic-ish" aasimar paladin, Aram the Golden-Heart. See Ultimate Equipment, Inner Sea Races, and the cover of Blood of Angels.
I don't think it's a bodak, but I couldn't tell you what it is.
A shame that another site has spoiled the surprize but that is what happens when there is no Pathfinder Battles preview for 4 weeks...
This is a wizkids product (despite how closely they work with Erik). Personally, I don't think them making an upcoming product announcement is unreasonable.
I see Paizo removed the preorder option as well as the "expected july" text.
That means october is probably accurate.
So please remove the summer release and "coming soon" text too.
9 months between sets is just too long.
Even hardcore pathfinder battles addicts (like me) need to look to the D&D Monster Menagerie set in april to pass the time, which is a little sad.
And after i have a case of those, i still will have to wait 6 months?
The math seems off here. Should it be 4 bricks to a case like the other sets, or 96 figures to a case for three 32-figure bricks? Or something else?
I believe that this was a typo and should really read "4 bricks" instead of "3 bricks". If you look at all other previous Battle Case releases, they are always 4 bricks to a case. Being the weekend, it will be more than likely somebody will correct this mistake early next week when they return to work.
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I just want to see the hobgoblins and the monstrous Giants - please let it be an ash giant or eve enter a shadow giant! Oh and it's definitely a doppelgänger, matches some artwork perfectly. I'm extremely curious about what the dressing theme will be, I know there's been speculation about traps.
I just want to see the hobgoblins and the monstrous Giants - please let it be an ash giant or eve enter a shadow giant! Oh and it's definitely a doppelgänger, matches some artwork perfectly. I'm extremely curious about what the dressing theme will be, I know there's been speculation about traps.
Traps seem very likely as they are part of the unpainted line in Quartal 4 of 2016.
The unpainted line seems to have some all new sculpts as well as some old ones.
So i guess we could get the 5 dressing pieces from Dungeons Deep, the 6 from The Rusty Dragon Inn, the 6 from Deadly Foes as well as some brand new ones!
And in orange-brown a lot of these work without needing to paint them further!
The Rusty Dragon Inn has been reprinted by Wizkids.
But i certainly agree with the decision, it is shaping up to be the greatest set yet in my opinion.
As soon as the Diamond Previews for november is out (august 31st i think), i will pre-order a case and two incentive sets (if i can get them).
Then, being in europe, i have to wait till december before i get it.
Never before has a set eliminated so many creatures from my most wanted list!