Arcadia Quest - Chibi Fantasy Adventures
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Board Games – Arcadia Quest is another chibi-style board game that has a ridiculous amount of expansions. When it first came out I assumed it was just CMON’s response to breaking ties with Sodapop Miniatures after the Relic Knights fiasco, and dismissed it because I didn’t think I needed another game with a similar theme. Sadly I was wrong Arcadia quest is much different than Super Dungeon Explore and if you’re a fan of the style you should probably make room for both games on your shelf.
Arcadia Quest isn’t a dungeon crawler with an overlord/dungeon master instead you have a team of heroes you control and actively oppose the other players using the various monsters to screw over your opponent and win the objective. The game is played as a campaign with a series of linked adventures. The plethora of expansions available give you so many options to add to the core box that you’ll rarely play the same game twice.
The miniature are a bit easier to paint than other lines in the same style, this is mostly because the eyes are sculpted and the expressions are more expressive. Having these details sculpted makes painting a relative breeze.
With this batch I decided to try out Citadel’s Contrast line of paint. The big selling point for contrast is it only requires one thick coat and the paint is supposed to do the rest of the work. Allegedly if you invest in the very expensive primer Citadel/Games Workshop produces you’ll get better results. Having tried both my usual rustoleum grey primer and the bone citadel primer I can tell you there is a significant difference. Now the question you have to ask yourself is if the difference is worth $20 a can vs. the $5-$7 a can for a traditional primer, for me the answer is no. However if you’re painting a smaller number of models of new to the hobby you’ll probably see more value in the incredibly smooth basecoat the Contrast Primer provides.
I’m really happy with how these turned out. My only real complaint is the lack of sculpted bases having to paint the flagstones wasn’t that hard but it seems like having a generic dungeon base sculpted would have been easy enough to include.
Having painted a good portion of the miniatures I’m keeping this game on my radar as something I might want to invest in if I can find a good deal. Unfortunately, as with most CMON games if you miss the Kickstarter it can be really costly to track down all the “exclusive” models. My kids love the minis and I wouldn’t mind painting them again so I’ll keep an eye out for this one.
