Who are the people behind the "Krosmaster International Community" project?
"I started playing Krosmaster with Romeo as soon as the game arrived in Italy, a few months later than France, and since the first games, we understood that behind that nice and childish aspect hid an incredibly tactical and competitive game.
The first tournaments and first expansions arrived and we understood that preparation before the tournament was as important as skill on the battlefield and participating few tournaments throughout Italy we met Federico and Sergio, two other players who shared our same passion for theory crafting and team building, this friendship soon turned into a team called "The Maskemane", a team with which we gave birth to a lot of teams we are really proud of ( and you may have heard of 
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).Lately, we started to publish ideas and suggestions on our FB page and when the chance to do that for the whole international community came I tried to catch it, and guess what? I’m one of your new CCMs guys! 
In addition to the complexity of the game and the ability to invent your team without following lists, what I love about Krosmaster is his community, the most friendly and welcoming community I’ve ever seen, rich of great people from all over the world, I joined KIC because I want to be part of the great future of this game, I can’t wait to meet all the players from North America, Mexico, Asia, and East Europe and make the biggest Krosmaster event with all of them.
Favorite Krosmaster? Easy, Ann Atomy 
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Beside of the awesome look of the figures, I love the game play and the community of “Krosmaster Arena” most. No matter how bad you did at a tournament, you always had a great day because of all the friendly people.
At the beginning, I prefered Elogio and Nox because of their distance attacks. The more I played Krosmaster, the more I started to like more aggressive teams. And then, when they published Season 5, I found my all time favorites: MooWolf and King Mint!
My role in KIC: Together with Cristian I'm one of the Community Managers. So if you need any help or have any question, feel free to contact me :) "
"My name is Loïc, I am the president of an association called "KroStylé".
As you can guess from the name of my association, it was based only on the game Krosmaster.I discovered Krosmaster thanks to my brother Emmanuel Durot who is for me one of the best players I've ever known, it's him who gave me the desire to play, to improve myself, and to collect all these beautiful figurines.
I only played in one championship and it was at the CDF 2019 where I finished 17th.
What I do for Krosmaster is really very simple. I make demonstrations in schools, in other associations but also during big playful meetings in the North of France in addition to playing in my association in simple leisure or training for tournaments that I organize.
The fact of integrating the KIC is for me a chance to show that in France there are always people motivated to play.
Regarding the game itself, I don't have a favorite team but there is a Krosmaster that I like more than the others and it's Katar."
"I had never played competitive board games, and thanks to my friend Martin I discovered by chance this fantastic game that has all the ingredients to make any player fall in love ... strategic, strong team-building component and synergies, very attractive miniatures, little influence from the luck component. And also based on a Lore with a fantastic story and characters.
But I definitely fell in love with the game because of its community of players. People who were initially playmates and today are good friends with whom I spend time not only to play.
I liked the game so much that I soon started creating my own customizations, summons, and props for the maps, and these days a lot of people know me from Guly`s Creations. In Spain I have helped keep the game going, providing Tournament Kits when the official Kits weren't enough. And I am proud to have sent my works to many international players and collectors.
The last year I have been the winner of the Talavera QT, and a finalist in another 3 QTs. Also participate in the Krosmater Arena 2019 World Championship, with double classification, physical and online tournaments). Also, I am the organizer of the game in the community of Madrid, representing Madrid in the group Kroscomunities Organized Game Spain. Provider of custom gear for collectors and gamers. And my role at KIC is Local and National Organizers and Physical Play, Krosmaster online activities, and Material development.
It's hard to pick a favorite Krosmater, there are a lot of great ones, I could say Lord Crow and Marty Nee are my favorites. I also love to play with teams made up of monks."
Here the link to Sergio's IG profile:
"Hello everyone! My name is : Colin Vanden Eede, aka Percimou or SSSlipman on the official forum, youth error x)
I am a young Belgian player from Walloon Brabant for those who like to scrutinise the maps with a magnifying glass !
I started playing Krosmaster with my little sister Odile (Cerisea) as soon as the game came out. Being a former player of Dofus and Dofus Arena, I got hooked immediately, and started travelling all over Belgium early enough to go to local tournaments, often with Odile ^^ But I didn't have a very high level at the time, so I stayed in the shadows for a while!
I started my real entry into the competition around 2016, probably thanks to the matches that made me want to reach the top! It was also around this time that I created my facebook page Kritical Quest, which gathers my favourite teams, whether they are fun or efficient.
I very often refused to follow the meta by continuing to play what was fun for me ^^
I think that it cost me a lot at the last World Championship, since my teams were not at all adapted to the meta, which on the whole didn't really make me dream. But I am very proud of Odile, who finally surpassed her master by winning 10th place (if I remember correctly 
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).Recently I opened a French-speaking discord server with the aim of gathering and re-motivating players to look at the game, whether in physics or online. Same thing for Blast, which seems to us to be a very promising game although less deep.
I'm very happy (but not that surprised, considering the community 
) that the KIC project sees the light of day. For my part, I have joined Modules 2 (Judges and CR) and 3 (Competitive Game Developers) for which I have the greatest interest.
) that the KIC project sees the light of day. For my part, I have joined Modules 2 (Judges and CR) and 3 (Competitive Game Developers) for which I have the greatest interest.As for my favourite Krosmaster, it is undoubtedly possible Joris Swashbuckler!"
"My name is Aluísio Cervelle Santos, but I usually go by my own name, or in BGA by my initials: “AluisioCSantos”
I got the game at ComicCon Experience at the end of 2015, thinking it was a mixup of Magic and Final Fantasy Tactics, which is the best FF game. back then I didn't know it was a competitive game, and played for about a year at home, promoting Draft-style mini-tournaments between my friends.
In 2017 hough I learned about the competitive scene in São Paulo and joined a few myself. Together with friends and my brother we founded the KrosSP team, which was very competitive focused, thinking up a lot of teams, synergies, with also very different playstyles in each player, which was exciting, and we used the team banner to promote tournaments ever since.
That year was the first time we had Qts and an Open tournament, which really moved the community, with players from 5 different regions from Brazil, and I took the cup with my favorite mini, Black Crow. The next year I was lucky enough to repeat the feat and turned into a bi-champion of the game in Brazil.
Even after 2018, we kept making our own tournaments (2018 was the last Open, which we played the Worlds in 2020) and keeping the community ever-growing and active, which is my true biggest achievement, making partnerships to bring the Copa Paulista, with custom cards and formats, and so on, and I can only thank my brother, friends and the community for everything that has happened both to me and around me.
Hopefully, we can keep everything in track once Covid winds down, even though we still hold BGA tournaments for the community and also some contests.
The São Paulo community is a very friendly and open one, really inviting new players to both learn to play and to complete their collection. They are also very good sporting players all around. "
"I started to play since the game was born in 2014, with my friend Cristian Tosi,
initially for playing among us, then we organized a league in Rimini to participate
at the first National in Modena and from there we fall in love with this beautiful game.
Member of Cool Botad team and from 2 years Member of The Maskemane team, with Cristian Tosi
and Federico Guerrera.
In KIC I'm a member of the competitive game developers team
My favorite krosmaster is Sphinter Cell, because in my opinion the most complete
and versatile krosmaster ever, great damage, high mobility, and synergies,
finally the 4 turtles, one of the best mobs in the game."
"I started Krosmaster during the season 3 and after my first local tournament, i wasnt able to stop playing this awesome game.
I discover a community who give advices and help players to improve their skills. Since i started to play, I wasn't able to do well in a tournament but with perseverance and work, anyone can do it!"
"My name is Daniel, but I’m best known like Dan Mathew with friends and the Krosmaster community.
I was a Dofus MMORPG player for nine years before I started playing Krosmaster Arena. I tried it out implemented in the Dofus game itself, as there was an option to play Krosmaster Arena 2D within the MMORPG itself, at that time there was no visible intention on Ankama's part to release its physical version.
Later I found out by chance that there was a physical version through my own local community, one of my local teammates for other competitive TCGs, Fran, bought several minis and encouraged us to take the step, after that the game caught us completely. This was at the end of 2014, season 2 was booming and the Dark Heros pack was about to come out.
The members of my team at the beginning were not collectors: Fran, Juan Milan, Nyu, however later all of them became collectors except me, who always preferred to get the miniatures I was directly willing to play with. Our community was small but we quickly grew to almost 30 people. After more than a year of total lack of news due to the change of factory from Vietnam to China by Ankama, our number of players decreased, settling until today in fixed numbers of 15-20 people regardless of the successive mistakes made by the company in its null care of the community created around the game, and with a remarkable effort of those who promote it to keep it active.
I started to offer my help in several Spanish fan pages trying to promote the publicity and in-depth knowledge of the game since 2015. It didn't take me long to become part of the Jalatofus team (fan page dedicated to offering news and updates about Krosmaster and related games from Ankama), and later La Guarida de los Krosmonautas (a conglomerate of players, referees, and local organizers who have been participating in physical and online projects aimed at maintaining interest in Krosmaster Arena for the whole Spanish community and, in many occasions, also the international community). Lastly, I’m in the Andalucia and Spain Kroscommunities’s groups as the voice of my local community, taking part in the global contributions for the Spanish organized game.
Like a player I have participated in many tournaments at all levels in Spain, winning or being a finalist in some of the most popular Byes and QTs, I have been National champion twice in a row (2018 and 2019), after being National runner-up (2017). I have also participated three times in the World Championship, coming in third place this last year 2020.
I have great faith that KIC offers the international community everything it needs to keep Krosmaster Arena alive, it is a joint desire of all its members to devote all the time needed to optimize their proposals for a better global welcome. Always keep in mind clear and reasonable objectives, that later on can grow and perhaps have more economic promoters that help to sustain an even more integrated infrastructure in all the countries where the proposals are adopted. If the international community has faith in KIC, I know that its members are widely capable of offering a great future to the game we all love.
If there is one thing that I must highlight about this game, it is its community. I continue playing for it, I am proud to belong to a group that has been fighting for so many years to make a game bigger, each year more abandoned by the company that developed it. People who love the universe created around Dofus/Wakfu who see in it the wasted opportunity to become one of the main competitive board games worldwide… I have made many friends over the years thanks to Krosmaster Arena, and it pains me to think that Ankama has finally decided to put the icing on the cake of business nonsense by completely closing its best business opportunity in the field of competitive games. A game that must have been dead for almost five years is still alive almost entirely due to the will of the fans and promoters who have continued to push it… A game that attracts children and adults, as well as entire families, whose learning is progressive but allows fluid handling after very few games, and an exquisite depth that has been optimized over the years, becoming one of the most balanced games that exist today.
My functions are oriented to the moderation and organization of the group because they were requested by some members. Therefore my intervention is more limited for the main development areas of KIC. At the moment I participate in the group of Local Communities and Physical Play, where I try to offer my experience for the general brainstorming that each country needs; on the other hand, I contribute to the group of Organized Play and Formats as a playtester and their general votes, besides my extensive record of events and results that have existed in competitive format in all those countries where I have been able to obtain such information throughout the years of the life of Krosmaster Arena.
My favorite Krosmaster is Mil Kluva. Although it is not a miniature that requires great technique or experience, which are often the figures that I tend to develop to make my teams, it is a very underrated character in high competition that nevertheless has phenomenal stats and a very high survival capacity by itself with the right push. I have won and topped it in numerous events, including among the victories with the same the biggest QT held in Spain and the 2018 National Championship."
"I started playing (and collecting) in 2013 at a very small local tournament and was instantly fascinated by the figures and the gameplay which -at first glance- seems to be pretty easy to learn but proved to be really hard to master.
I really like the tactical depth of the overall quite simple rules set and how the game evolved over the years. Especially with the 2.0 base set that fixed some major balancing issues like the DR`s or losing the game because you roll a double yourself in the last round.
Regarding the community I especially like that almost all people I met had been really kind and nice and not that “grim” sort that you can see in so many other game systems. And they are always happy to introduce new people to the game and lend a hand to newbies even at tourneys.
I am part of the “Local & National organizers” team that helps promoting and maintaining the physical game and I also bring in ideas regarding possible future price support for Organized Play.
Despite my picture I am a HUGE fan of Young Kerubim (because of his flexibility as he can take different roles in a team and because his abilities and skill make him quite unpredictable and OF COURSE I really like Lord Crow."
"Hey! My name is Vincent Arrault, you can find me on BGA as "Vincearr" which is a contraction of my name and last name ^^'. I'm french, I live in Clermont-Ferrand which is in the middle of France. I started at the release of Krosmaster, but as casual with my older brother (we had only 20 Kros in season 2). I sold them to pay my medicine studies, but after that, I missed them… Now I earn money so I decide to collect 100% of them and share my love for this game to other people. But I was alone, Clermont-Ferrand is far from real big cities… then I founded a french dead discord. With Percimou's help, we build a new discord. My goal? Continue to play as a casual, and organize casual tournaments. I don't really like season format, I prefer eternal-3 where you can play what you want. I like chess-like games, and I hate farm/xp from the MMO games, Krosmaste is THE game
play, fight, repeat. I joined KIC because I want to rise Krosmaster to the same level of Yugioh or Magic. One day maybe, but I'll try."
"Hi there, my name is Jorge - also known as Abdziel on the internet.
I’m from the Spanish community and as someone as passionate for Warhammer 40K as me; my first contact with Krosmaster Arena came out of the blue years before when Krosmaster Quest was released in Spain. In those moments I was so jaded of that grim but pretty unbalanced game that Warhammer 40K was being for a long time. I wanted a relaxing game just to play one afternoon with my partner and friends. I bought the Arena 1.0 core and the Dark Heroes pack and played my first game. That was falling in love at first sight. The game not only was incredibly beautiful and lovely with those figurines and scenery but also it was really deeply tactical. It reminded me WarmaHordes with its combos and flexibility to play the way you enjoy more. In less than half a year I was able to complete almost the whole playset up to that date.
I wanted to play more often, but in my city there were few people who liked playing this game. So I took the test and I became a level 1 judge and from that point I started to promote the game in my games club and city. Since then, I was able to be part of the fantastic group of people who were in charge of the Organized Play in Spain to this day. And I only have kind words to the ‘Guarida de los Krosmonautas’, a Krosmaster group I’m in and for whose support and commitment to the game is undoubtedly genuine from the first to the last member.
I love the game Krosmaster Arena for its tactical gameplay. Indeed, it is one of the best tactical games out there. But what’s more is the community around the game. People in this game is fantastic and it’s really cool that tournaments often doesn’t finish when the matches are over… you can always grab some drinks and have a nice time with your rivals after the event.
As the last Headjudge from the current OP Spain, I’m in because I want to continue developing the game from its core, trying to offer the players a ruleset which can be as funny as simple with the needed changes to it.
My favorite Krosmaster is Vampyro, who else? He brought to me this fantastic game. He is all love… and style."
"I started playing Krosmaster from the very beginning of Season 1, when Brotherhood of the Tofu’s members were promos for the first 4Fun events into shops (my first picked promo was a Nox… Yes we randomly picked up prizes from a plastic bag ).
).I started playing alone but soon, in the shop where we used to meet, a little (but constantly growing) community started to assemble.
I played my first event in Milan, for the very first Krosmaster Open Cup (we were more than 100 players, from all Italy!) and I placed 88th with a Frigost Asylum team (Count Frigost, Luk Ilook, 2x Coa Gulary, 2x Quentin Flush). I was not a very good player… And this thing did not improve in time…
I started to follow more rules than the raw game and in Modena Play I took my Official Judge Test with the Italian CCM, passed at full correct answers. I found my vocation! After that, I collaborated with the Italian Publisher for the game (Ghenos Games) in many official events, important QT and Italian Nationals, following my judge role.
I knew great players during those events (Alberto Zini, Michele Capuzzi, Romeo Riggio, Franco Raia, Andrea Malpassi and many others…), and found some friends too in the meantime. I collaborated with some Italian teams in playtesting for events.
Between tournaments, and thanks to the many persons known with Krosmaster Arena, I became very active on the Italian Official Forum creating guides for teams’ archetypes, analysis for many miniatures and founding with Franco Raia a whole new “Forum Magazine” with articles and a weekly appointment known as “Krosmaster 4 Noobs” treating free online teams done just with the free pieces of the old Ankama’s online 3D game.
The Italian CCM promoted me as Senior Judge with an official post on the IT forum.
I wrote some pieces on the EN forum too and became active onto Double Critical (a German site for Krosmaster). With those new contacts and links with new communities of players outside my country, I took contact with Huun and Dewit asking for some clarification about doubtful rules trying to clarify that for all communities.
Recently with some Italian friends, we supported Krosmaste Blast translating all Profiles from the game/kickstarter/Gloomy Grove (both Blast and Arena), Rule, Krosmic Favors and Divine Challenges in Italian, making this young brother-game accessible for everyone in our country. Blast could be a spark to reignite in Arena players their interest into the game: Arena and Blast can live on parallel channels, supporting each other with events and maybe crossed prizes… Hoping that Ankama will support a little our vision.
I never had important results in QTs or official tournaments, even because I often was there as judge more than as a player. I like to play unusual teams more than tiers, experimenting and finding synergies more than raw competitive power. My favourite all-time team was the original Shrek (Anna Tommy, Goultard, 2x Coa Gulary, Fern Sock’em) and I liked all kind of “Blitz” team with Theo (mainly Red Blitz and Blitzball). Another team I loved was The Brotherhood of the Tofu (Evangeline, Yugo, Adamai-Dragon, Cleophee, Phaeris-Devastated, with Adamai in the sideboard); technical and not very known, it can give great fun and results with some practice and efforts.
For the future my goal will be to maintain Krosmaster Arena alive, looking at it from a new point of view, making the game a link between all communities and playable by people from all the game’s timeline (even if they stopped in the meantime). To do that a new perspective must be implemented in some aspects of the game, even clarifying some rules, and making terms/effect recognizable by precise and defined keywords. Maybe something new should be implemented in-game formats, unifying all players and all communities under the same flag.
The Krosmaster community got a real passion, and love, for their game (let me say that Arena is our game more than Ankama’s one). There is always active people in this community, searching for a way to keep the attention high with something new (trivia, online events, discussion on teams and figures, guides for beginners). New players will always find someone glad to help them and introduce them to the game. This community is always looking further, waiting for the next live events to play together and see their friends having fun with Krosmaster. While other communities are too competitive-driven, and pro-players snobs helping newcomers, our community will always find time to talk and play to our beautiful game… And this is a really good thing.
Tournaments are played at a very good level, generally polite and with honest and constructive mood from players (even if some very rare “black sheeps” had been between us, honestly). I had seen people helping their rookie opponents just to let them understand the game and enjoy it, rather than devastating them with an easy kill.
The game is very flexible and can be played just for fun, or at a very deep and competitive level. There are so much variant that can influence the game: the map, the team, the tiers, the local metagame, using one piece instead of another understanding the differences related to all possible variations. Krosmaster Arena is a game playable in the family (as I did with my son, introducing him to the game when he was 9), or playable between friends (just think at all 4Fun events with their special rules or the S.Valentine tournament for couples), or going to pure competition maximizing your chances of victory knowing all fields, all Demonic Rewards in each pile, and all the aspects and synergies of your team. It is really a game for everyone.
Oh, and naturally I like the compatibility between all games from the Krosmaster Collection with Arena. It is a great idea, merging more games into one big passion for all players.
I am an active part of Unit 2, that follows Rules, and Unit 3 that follows Game Balancing. I am trying to give my best support to all colleagues with my knowledge of rules, searching for odd interactions and with my historic presence in many events. I really hope to be useful for other KIC members, even if I am often a bit aggressive defending my positions… Forgive me pals, I am driven from my passion for Arena.
My favourite Krosmaster? Ummm… This is not an easy question for me… Even if I played many times Shrek, and I liked very much Phaeris-Devastated for her role in the metagame, I think that my favourite Krosmaster is Goultard The Barbarian. Apart from the great miniature (black skin, white hair and a lightning on the chest… What can be cooler?) I always liked the story of Goultard into the Dofus/Wakfu universe… I even gathered all info I found on an Italian post on the IT forum with the Story of Goultard (that involves Goultard, Katar, Vlad, Dark Vlad, Arty and many others). I always liked how this son of the Yop’s God became the incarnation of cruelty after lost everything she cared of… Goultard The Barbarian represents the line that a man should never cross, even in despair, and her path reaching the “vanilla” version we all know from the Anime is the redemption of a true hero.
About the raw game, The Barbarian is an exotic piece focused on a totally different strategy from the standard Goultard. I played online my Barbarian Asylum team for a long time, always having fun with it, from the very first 2D online game. Do you dare to challenge the Boogeyman? "
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"I discovered the game because I used to love watching a YouTube channel called “Geek and Sundry”, specifically the section called “TableTop” and presented by the great actor “Will Wheaton” who many will know be-cause now he usually makes cameos in the "Big Bang Theory" (I would like to point I do not like this show).
In this section, “Will Wheaton” played board games with some people from the entertainment world or from the United States’ geek world and sometimes even the same creator of the game was occupying the table.
Well, one of those games, which was played in a special they did live at one of the board game fairs in that country almost 3 years ago, was Krosmaster Arena.
I immediately fell in love with the game, the miniatures, the style of play ... I had always wanted to start with a collectable board game, but never had enough money or time to get into the world (I used to play the LCG Game of Thrones game with P&P cards ), but I decided after hatching it that this game had to be the one.
The game didn't arrive to my city until a few months later when, honestly, I didn't even remember it. Right away when I saw it I thought: "I need to buy this now", and that's what I did.
I asked in my local store if there were tournaments and they told me that they were going to do one in a few weeks and, at the same time, there was an association in the city that also started organizing tournaments and people loved the game.
Once I knew this, I told them to sign me up for the tournament, which I wanted to try (it was the first time in my life that I attended a tournament in a store).
At this point, I also discovered the great animation series "Wakfu" and both, my partner and I, were instantly captivated by (I should also mention is a must-see together with the series "The treasures of kerubim" and its OVAs and subsequent films). After watching them I couldn’t detach myself from the game, since I had become fond of the characters of the animated series and its rich universe.
If I have to choose something I like about the game, there are lots of things I really like about it:
- The team’s customization (I’m always trying to find ways of playing non-played miniatures).
- How different every match is depending on the Demonic Rewards, The maps, the starting position of the minis...etc.
- One thing I’m always mentioning is that the game is easy to learn, hard to master. It has enough complexity to be a really great competitive game when you start digging into the different mechanics.
- And of course...looks really cool while set on a table!
Regarding the community aspect, I've spent some of my best moments playing board games at krosmaster tournaments, making great friendships that went beyond the game (from my point of view this is what really matters while playing a boardgame). I can't say that every moment was a good one in the community environment, but if there is something really positive it is that most of the players have been united in the idea of supporting Krosmaster no matter what and I joined KIC with the idea of finally giving the game the treatment we all know the game deserves.
I’ll be part of the Competitive game developers - Supported Formats and analysis of the metagame unity. This topic will be dedicated to evaluating the activity of the official formats as well as the creation of an unofficial one where we will invest our efforts in optimizing it.
As surprising as this could be, Vampyro or Anathar are not my favourite ones. If we speak about how cool a miniature is, Shak Shaka will always be my choice. Speaking about which one is the profile I like playing most (this is a hard choice) mine will probably be Mint King or Moon."
"My name is Emanuel Cesar, in the online krosmaster game my nickname is Angelmasterhunter. I live in the city of Manaus, in the State of Amazonas - Brazil.
I got to know the game through my cousin Edson Bentes in late 2015, together we introduced the game to my brother (Mac), we really liked the game and saw that we could spread the word of Krosmoz to other people and attract new players and found a community in our city.
We started attending geek events in the hope of introducing the game to new players. At the beginning it was very difficult, only in October 2016 we managed to partner with Livraria Leitura in a Shopping in the City, they sold the game and had tables available inside the Bookstore, this way we started going to the bookstore on weekends to play krosmaster games and teaching bookstore customers who were interested in the game. From then on, the Krosmaster Arena Manaus Community began to grow. With the support of the Livraria Manager and with the incentives of Distribuidora do Jogo in Brazil, we started to hold tournaments with official prizes. We do tournaments every month and we managed to hold 2 Regional tournaments in the City and I participated in the 1st national tournament in Brazil together with my brother and my cousin. At this point we are unable to do tournaments due to the pandemic, but as soon as this is over we will be back with the Krosmaster Arena and Krosmaster Blast."
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