The Absolute Power expansions campaign is more than half way to its next stretch goal thanks to your pledges! We’re just about the enter the final week and we’re so excited to bring these four products to your gaming table.

In today’s update, we’re going to reveal a little more about Doctor Draconian’s kaiju (giant monsters) that are called Ushumgane. Details about these creatures and Draconian’s plans for them are revealed in the Season Two: Dark Empire expansion.

Doctor Draconian calls upon a terrible variety of monsters called Ushumgane for her genocidal designs. Three common varieties form the backbone of her efforts. Each type can operate on land, but Draconian calls down a third of their number from the sky and another third from the sea. Since Japan is her most regular target, this is a practical design philosophy intended to overwhelm local defences. Thus far, Magironin and the Yamatai Alliance have managed to defeat every kaiju force that Doctor Draconian has summoned.

Queen Phorsos has the defensive needs of any monarch. While she finds ways to unleash her Earth Ushumgane on the world, for the most part they serve her purposes by patrolling her secret island kingdom. Creatures of volcanic fury, Earth Ushumgane can swim through lava, tunnel at great speeds by human standards, and spit enormous globs of magma. They are also the most altered of the Ushumgane in shape. Enormous lizards with the approximate bodily proportions of bears, they can prowl or dig on all fours, or stand upright to smash anything that stands in their way.

The ability to deploy Earth Ushumgane in the field would provide Doctor Draconian a considerable advantage in her efforts to pursue global conquest and transformation. These creatures are the most common of her horror-dragons, and their ability to undermine any structure makes them valuable assets during her invasions. Getting them across the ocean or into the air has proven extremely difficult. Other Ushumgane have thus far been reluctant to carry their terrestrial brethren into battle. Vehicles large enough to carry Earth Ushumgane make excellent targets for regular military forces. Her current plan is to grow a “transport” Ushumgane both capable of and willing to bear her lava dragons.

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