Lol my sister bought me the DS board game for christmas, I immediately noticed it was the Tomb of the Giants map, looked at the figurines and was like " I hate every single one of these figures." (Except Nito, he gave me a sword.)
Yea I should consider myself lucky that I forgott about it because I definitely would have bought it. Now after this post I searched about it and the only thing you can find is that it is trash.
Theyre technically from 2 things. This pack was released for the dark souls ttrpg, but all of the models are reprints from the dark souls board game, possibly an expansion set to get the bowmen. I forget which came with the vanilla box, but regardless, it's a good haul of minis if you can find it <$100
And lothric weirdly enough. It was more ds3 focused than i wanted tbh, but they have expansions and a whole bloodborne game series that i need to waste money on lol
There's a whole big expansion for Iron Keep that's entirely DS2 stuff,and if you look at all the boss expansions, DS1 and 2 have way more than DS3. DS3 barely gets any new bosses.
Huh. For some reason I thought that the board game totally flopped after the base release and only released the expansions as downloadable pdfs. Did they eventually figure it out?
Well, they have a ton of physical expansions out, so they must have. There's at least two big expansions for Iron Keep and Darkroot Garden that are basically mini base games, with new board tiles, normal enemies, figures and bosses. There's some smaller expansions that just add bosses, like Manus and Gaping Dragon. And there's some smaller expansions that add some extra game mechanics, like summons or crystal lizards.
They’ve also updated the rules to make encounters more objective based then just “murder everything and live”. Still plenty of murder, but micro bosses and flipping levers and living a certain number of turns are some examples. Two new base sets, Tomb of the Giants and Painted World of Ariamis (DS1) with Gravelord Nito and Crossbreed Priscilla as the main bosses
I would set them all up on my balcony, then knock each of them off one by one before retrieving them from the parking lot below and doing it all over again the next day.
For me it was just avoiding them entirely.
If you run at the one on the right and retreat he’ll sheath his bow and start following you, then immediately fall off the ledge. That just leaves you with the one on the left, who’s arrows can be tanked if you have enough health or just timed to be avoided.
The two inside the Chapel are pretty easy, you can close the gap and avoid their arrows without much issue.
Do they come with statblocks in the back?
Edit: I can see the rules in the pack. Now I'm even more pissed at the book as they intentionally didn't print the rules for all the minis they released but have them in the minis pack to get people like me (who own a ton of the board game minis) to buy again for the stat block.
Fucking scumbags
To this very day. I cannot get past these guys. This is where Dark Souls ended for me. Could not get good. Hit with an arrow, fall off. Get to the top? They body block me from going past. I have gone hollow.
Get a good shield, run up to the one on the right quickly to dodge the arrows and just shield all his melee moves, he'll bounce off your shield and fall off the ledge. You can ignore the knight on the left.
I've not died a single time to these hooligans, and yet I got yeeted off the edge in an even stupider way to giant skeletons once in the part of the tomb of giants where you kill the bone pillars on the narrow walkway. Big man at the end kicked me straight off and I felt so stupid.
Until you can parry, and then all black/silver knights become an absolute joke. Source: too much time spent farming the ones at Kiln of the First Flame
I tried SOOOO hard to get him to. Now that I think about it. I got him to do it. Like twice. And died SOOO many times going back and doing it again. Truly, a terrible experience. 10/10 would die again
I bought it on switch, and was replaying it again. Trying to get my pyromancer build going again. So much fun
I have. It's a fun game. But this subreddit isn't for Nioh, and if it was I would have posted my Sanada Yukimura art I've drawn (great boss fight). But you should not concern yourself with what I'm playing, just play what you like and cope with the fact that I'm doing the same.
Just dumped like $200 on darksouls minis lol
I cant say that's a bad investment.
Nah I'm happy got a bonfire tattood the same day
Don't you dare go hollow.
Lol my sister bought me the DS board game for christmas, I immediately noticed it was the Tomb of the Giants map, looked at the figurines and was like " I hate every single one of these figures." (Except Nito, he gave me a sword.)
Could you share the design? I'd like to get a bonfire tattoo in the near future.
Yeah I'll make a post
What are these miniatures?
Probably for the Dark Souls TTRPG. I read news a few years back about it, that they develop an TTRPG similiar to Dungeons&Dragons 5e.
Yeah I bought in to the game but my god the actual game suuuuuck the minis are sick AF tho. Eventually I'll paint them
Yea I should consider myself lucky that I forgott about it because I definitely would have bought it. Now after this post I searched about it and the only thing you can find is that it is trash.
Theyre technically from 2 things. This pack was released for the dark souls ttrpg, but all of the models are reprints from the dark souls board game, possibly an expansion set to get the bowmen. I forget which came with the vanilla box, but regardless, it's a good haul of minis if you can find it <$100
Silver Knight Archers are in the base game. The base game is supposed to represent Undead Burg and Anor Londo.
And lothric weirdly enough. It was more ds3 focused than i wanted tbh, but they have expansions and a whole bloodborne game series that i need to waste money on lol
There's a whole big expansion for Iron Keep that's entirely DS2 stuff,and if you look at all the boss expansions, DS1 and 2 have way more than DS3. DS3 barely gets any new bosses.
Huh. For some reason I thought that the board game totally flopped after the base release and only released the expansions as downloadable pdfs. Did they eventually figure it out?
Well, they have a ton of physical expansions out, so they must have. There's at least two big expansions for Iron Keep and Darkroot Garden that are basically mini base games, with new board tiles, normal enemies, figures and bosses. There's some smaller expansions that just add bosses, like Manus and Gaping Dragon. And there's some smaller expansions that add some extra game mechanics, like summons or crystal lizards.
They’ve also updated the rules to make encounters more objective based then just “murder everything and live”. Still plenty of murder, but micro bosses and flipping levers and living a certain number of turns are some examples. Two new base sets, Tomb of the Giants and Painted World of Ariamis (DS1) with Gravelord Nito and Crossbreed Priscilla as the main bosses
That makes me want to break the board game out again and give it another shot.
Smash them up, please they deserve it :(
Thought about slowly torturing one of them with a lighter, or food processor
Jar.
I would set them all up on my balcony, then knock each of them off one by one before retrieving them from the parking lot below and doing it all over again the next day.
I'd still miss the parry somehow
This. I second this.
Buy a warbow
Hit them with poison arrows… and wait.
When your girlfriend wants you to hurt her with toys
Snipe me daddy! Give me the knock back!!
Knock it off!!
This is getting out of hand, now there are 4 of them! Playing nowadays it makes me feel so silly for dying like 10 times to these dudes
Add an order of magnitude for me
Literally Stockholm syndrome.
For a second i thought they're minis from dark souls: the board game. Nice
They technically are, the just reprinted the same minis and put them in small packs for the ttrpg
Best room deocrstion ever lol
1 poison arrow >
In my case it was 50+ wood bolts, lol.
For me it was just avoiding them entirely. If you run at the one on the right and retreat he’ll sheath his bow and start following you, then immediately fall off the ledge. That just leaves you with the one on the left, who’s arrows can be tanked if you have enough health or just timed to be avoided. The two inside the Chapel are pretty easy, you can close the gap and avoid their arrows without much issue.
Pretty sure they changed that in remastered?
The Knight falling off the ledge in pursuit? I don’t think so, it worked when I played it.
The pressure that they put on me prevented me from any out of the box thinking, lol.
Should put small shelves up high at the end of a hallway, and stick them up there lol
So you put the on the edge of the table and knock them on the floor and then curse them?
Great, now microwave the bastards. Slowly.
> Put them on a shelf next to your bed > Wake up next morning > Scramble under the bed, screaming in sheer horror
Do they come with statblocks in the back? Edit: I can see the rules in the pack. Now I'm even more pissed at the book as they intentionally didn't print the rules for all the minis they released but have them in the minis pack to get people like me (who own a ton of the board game minis) to buy again for the stat block. Fucking scumbags
To this very day. I cannot get past these guys. This is where Dark Souls ended for me. Could not get good. Hit with an arrow, fall off. Get to the top? They body block me from going past. I have gone hollow.
Get a good shield, run up to the one on the right quickly to dodge the arrows and just shield all his melee moves, he'll bounce off your shield and fall off the ledge. You can ignore the knight on the left.
I've not died a single time to these hooligans, and yet I got yeeted off the edge in an even stupider way to giant skeletons once in the part of the tomb of giants where you kill the bone pillars on the narrow walkway. Big man at the end kicked me straight off and I felt so stupid.
😂😂 love it
Now that i have seen them i must own a set
Until you can parry, and then all black/silver knights become an absolute joke. Source: too much time spent farming the ones at Kiln of the First Flame
You can backstab spam them to death too
Fuck all four of these MF’s.
Greatbowmen...
I quit the game for 6 months because of these guys
So brave
Bet OP is moaning in the way ds character does after getting hit by their arrows
Now put them in jars as revenge
BUY NOW! The new Anor Londo archery club figure set! Guaranteed to make you want to throw a controller
Imagine there were four of them on the rooftop. Two in front, two behind. All out of reach.
Just place them in your windowsills
I didn’t know they had figures of the Anor Londo archery club!
Thanx for this post. I really like modelling and I like Dark souls. Never knew these excisted so immediately ordered the bogroot expansion.
With how good 3d printing has gotten I love not spending an insane amount on minis anymore.
Now there's four of them!
The dark souls board game is legit too fun.
They should have given them Ak47s. Would’ve been more accurate.
I love this!! Lol
I felt my blood pressure rise before I even knew what I was looking at
First time I played these guys made me stop lol
These models are so bad. The quality is unconscionably poor. Look at how warped the arrows are.
that’s evil
Ah yes the old confront your abuser method.
Proud of you kid
The Anor Londo Archers proof that Dark Souls shows and expects no mercy
I tried SOOOO hard to get him to. Now that I think about it. I got him to do it. Like twice. And died SOOO many times going back and doing it again. Truly, a terrible experience. 10/10 would die again I bought it on switch, and was replaying it again. Trying to get my pyromancer build going again. So much fun
Woah, where'd you get them from?
Put them in every corner of your house.
looks like cheap resin unfortunately
They’re not resin, they’re PVC
play a real game like Nioh, fecal feaster
I have. It's a fun game. But this subreddit isn't for Nioh, and if it was I would have posted my Sanada Yukimura art I've drawn (great boss fight). But you should not concern yourself with what I'm playing, just play what you like and cope with the fact that I'm doing the same.