Kickstarter and other crowdfunding platforms

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Mon Jun 19, 2017 12:23 pm

<fingers crossed>

Seppe and I backed the double copy level. I'm really hoping they're coming this week! I can't wait to try Nemo's War. However, I've got company coming in Wednesday night and staying until next Monday, so it probably won't hit the table until next week even it does arrive this week.

baelthazar · Post by **baelthazar** » Mon Jun 19, 2017 1:42 pm

Mine *should* be here tomorrow, as it is supposedly at the post office less than a mile down the street. I am tempted to go down there and see if they will give it to me, but I doubt they will.

Fishbelly · Post by **Fishbelly** » Mon Jun 19, 2017 4:07 pm

$iljanus wrote:My wife said a box arrived at our new house today and I think it's Nemo's War 2nd Edition. Unfortunately I'm at the apartment for our move so all I can see of my game is a picture of the nondescript brown shipping box.

Had you gotten an email shipping notice beforehand? I'm still waiting for my copy and haven't heard a thing.

$iljanus · Post by **$iljanus** » Mon Jun 19, 2017 5:33 pm

Fishbelly wrote:
$iljanus wrote:My wife said a box arrived at our new house today and I think it's Nemo's War 2nd Edition. Unfortunately I'm at the apartment for our move so all I can see of my game is a picture of the nondescript brown shipping box.
Had you gotten an email shipping notice beforehand? I'm still waiting for my copy and haven't heard a thing.

I got an email a day after a shipping label was generated from Shipped Naked and it arrived not long afterwards.

AWS260 · Post by **AWS260** » Mon Jun 19, 2017 5:34 pm

Fishbelly wrote:Had you gotten an email shipping notice beforehand? I'm still waiting for my copy and haven't heard a thing.

I received a notice on Saturday from Ship Naked. According to the tracking number, it shipped out from Massachusetts on Friday, arrived in Seacaucus, NJ, on Saturday, and has been sitting there ever since.

baelthazar · Post by **baelthazar** » Mon Jun 19, 2017 5:37 pm

AWS260 wrote:
Fishbelly wrote:Had you gotten an email shipping notice beforehand? I'm still waiting for my copy and haven't heard a thing.
I received a notice on Saturday from Ship Naked. According to the tracking number, it shipped out from Massachusetts on Friday, arrived in Seacaucus, NJ, on Saturday, and has been sitting there ever since.

Same here, shipping notice on Saturday with no updates until today, when the item was basically here.

Lordnine · Post by **Lordnine** » Mon Jun 19, 2017 9:33 pm

So I received a big box today.

I think my collection is complete now.

Chrisoc13 · Post by **Chrisoc13** » Tue Jun 20, 2017 8:00 am

Wow that's a lot of stuff!

hentzau · Post by **hentzau** » Tue Jun 20, 2017 11:18 am

hentzau wrote:A grand strategy game set in the world of 7th Sea, coming soon to Kickstarter.

And yes, I'll be backing it, even if I never have a chance to play the RPG.

$100 for the base game? Uff...

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Tue Jun 20, 2017 11:23 am

Plus shipping. $100 seems to be the new minimum for anything with miniatures. Good luck sir.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Wed Jun 21, 2017 10:34 am

Smoove_B wrote:Epic AF (Awful Fantasy) has been launched. Its important to note it's a card game that uses the now abandoned Warhammer Quest adventure card game system designed by the Sadler brothers. They're also on board for this KS as well. Not being delivered until July of 2018 but that's because of the artwork.

aaaannnndddd cancelled. I'd actually backed this as I loved Warhammer Quest Adventure Card Game and a comedic take seemed fun. They're apparently going to relaunch after some changes are made. I guess there were a bunch of complaints about how the game looked or something. I don't know. If you let your comments section dictate your game's direction, you'll never get anything made. Well, anything good, that is. I mean, take some constructive criticism to heart, of course. But good god, comment sections can turn into a hive of scum and villainy in a New York minute.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Wed Jun 21, 2017 10:44 am

Yeah, I figured the comment section was part of it, but they also changed a whole bunch on the main page (to explain it wasn't a WQ game, clarify how many sets were needed, etc...) a few days ago. Without a game play video it came across as a bit half-assed (to me). It sounds like they need to tweak the presentation a bit, but I was also surprised at the number of people saying the game was too "low brow" and indicative of high school nerd D&D humor that they couldn't support it. I know there's an anti "nerd minstrel" group out there that hates shows like The Big Bang Theory and that's how some of the commentary came across for this game. I dunno. Sometimes a fun, light casual game is just fun.

baelthazar · Post by **baelthazar** » Wed Jun 21, 2017 11:01 am

Smoove_B wrote:Plus shipping. $100 seems to be the new minimum for anything with miniatures. Good luck sir.

The army miniatures are just horse heads. Really? Horse heads?

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Wed Jun 21, 2017 11:06 am

I'm going to buy a bunch of copies of Axis and Allies, throw in a handful of army men from a 4 dollar plastic bag filled with them that I got from a Dollar Store, and start a kickstarter for a deluxe version of the game. I'm thinking $150. $190 with domestic shipping. $420 for overseas.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Wed Jun 21, 2017 11:27 am

Just received notification that my Xia expansion is now en route courtesy of Amazon. Every KS project should be managed by Cody - he's awesome. I'm really looking forward to trying to get this to the table now with the modifications the expansion adds.

hentzau · Post by **hentzau** » Wed Jun 21, 2017 11:29 am

Smoove_B wrote:Just received notification that my Xia expansion is now en route courtesy of Amazon. Every KS project should be managed by Cody - he's awesome. I'm really looking forward to trying to get this to the table now with the modifications the expansion adds.

Ditto.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Wed Jun 21, 2017 11:42 am

Hopefully zarathud has his copy by this weekend so we can play Saturday.

Punisher · Post by **Punisher** » Wed Jun 21, 2017 2:16 pm

baelthazar wrote:
Smoove_B wrote:Plus shipping. $100 seems to be the new minimum for anything with miniatures. Good luck sir.
The army miniatures are just horse heads. Really? Horse heads?

I think there will be anoptional add-on to add horse armor...

hentzau · Post by **hentzau** » Wed Jun 21, 2017 3:34 pm

The Blood and Plunder expansion just went live today. I'm going to end up passing on it, I still haven't had a chance to put brush to figure on all of the stuff I got through the first wave.

See? I can grow and mature and evolve!

baelthazar · Post by **baelthazar** » Wed Jun 21, 2017 8:56 pm

Smoove_B wrote:Just received notification that my Xia expansion is now en route courtesy of Amazon. Every KS project should be managed by Cody - he's awesome. I'm really looking forward to trying to get this to the table now with the modifications the expansion adds.

I preordered this recently from his site. Hopefully that means I can get a copy soon too!

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Thu Jun 22, 2017 8:46 am

My copy of Nemo's War should be here tomorrow.

MonkeyFinger · Post by **MonkeyFinger** » Thu Jun 22, 2017 9:03 pm

Sweet, mine arrived yesterday.

baelthazar · Post by **baelthazar** » Thu Jun 22, 2017 11:47 pm

MonkeyFinger wrote:Sweet, mine arrived yesterday.

Mine too. It looks pretty good, but haven't had time to punch the tokens or look at the cards.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Fri Jun 23, 2017 3:29 pm

Got it! Nemo's War is one seriously gorgeous game. It doesn't seem as packed with content as Dawn of the Zeds 3rd Edition, but what is there looks great. I can't wait to tear into this one.

AWS260 · Post by **AWS260** » Sat Jun 24, 2017 5:43 pm

Nemo's War lives up to its reputation. Just played my first game, and it was a blast. I lost horribly, of course.

$iljanus · Post by **$iljanus** » Sat Jun 24, 2017 5:47 pm

AWS260 wrote:Nemo's War lives up to its reputation. Just played my first game, and it was a blast. I lost horribly, of course.

That's great to hear. Perhaps once everyone is asleep and I can carve out a space since we're unpacking in the new house I can get in a game. Is set up pretty easy?

AWS260 · Post by **AWS260** » Sat Jun 24, 2017 5:50 pm

There's a fair amount of bits to sort out, but it's very straightforward and explained clearly in the manual.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Sun Jun 25, 2017 9:07 am

Thankfully the rule book doesn't look as convoluted as Dawn of the Zeds. It drove me bonkers that they split the rules up by game type, and made you refer to different sections for stuff that should have just been in turn order.

AWS260 · Post by **AWS260** » Mon Jun 26, 2017 1:44 pm

AWS260 wrote:Nemo's War lives up to its reputation. Just played my first game, and it was a blast. I lost horribly, of course.

From browsing the Nemo's War forum on BGG, I just realized that I messed up the scoring and missed a bunch of points. Maybe I didn't lose horribly! The world will never know.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Mon Jun 26, 2017 2:10 pm

Schrodinger's Nemo.

Chrisoc13 · Post by **Chrisoc13** » Wed Jun 28, 2017 8:21 pm

Kind of a different kickstarter for those interested in board games.

If anyone here listens to the dice tower podcast they have a segment called game tech (or apparently gametek) which is basically short segments about the history of certain game mechanics, etc. I've always found them really interesting.

Well the person behind them is kickstarting a book right now. I'm backing it.

Zarathud · Post by **Zarathud** » Wed Jun 28, 2017 8:49 pm

Green Ronin Publishing has two great books on influential board games and how they influenced developers.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Wed Jun 28, 2017 9:43 pm

Chrisoc13 wrote:Kind of a different kickstarter for those interested in board games.

If anyone here listens to the dice tower podcast they have a segment called game tech (or apparently gametek) which is basically short segments about the history of certain game mechanics, etc. I've always found them really interesting.

Well the person behind them is kickstarting a book right now. I'm backing it.

Cool, thanks! Backed.

baelthazar · Post by **baelthazar** » Thu Jun 29, 2017 12:22 am

I got about 2/3rds of the way through Nemo's War when my toddler returned home and saw all the choking hazards amazing pieces. I am not sure I was winning, but I feel like I was doing alright. I am still learning the ropes - it seems like I succeeded quite a bit but I also tended to exert resources in almost every roll. Also, I tended to only get about one action point per turn, as I tended to roll a lot of 5,6 and 3,4 combos.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Thu Jun 29, 2017 7:08 pm

Playing my first game of Nemo's War over a couple of anchor steams (appropriately enough) and it is indeed a blast. Can't recommend this enough. It is just oozing theme.

MonkeyFinger · Post by **MonkeyFinger** » Thu Jun 29, 2017 10:35 pm

I finally got a spot setup with a table somewhere I can... cat-proof... and hope to spool up a game of Nemo's War this weekend.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Fri Jun 30, 2017 10:54 am

I just received Base Boss by Reaper. With the exception of a couple of add-ons I piggybacked on a friend's pledge, that's my last outstanding project.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Sat Jul 01, 2017 5:22 pm

Sol; Last Days of a Dying Star received.

Lordnine · Post by **Lordnine** » Sun Jul 02, 2017 11:14 pm

Isgrimnur wrote:Sol; Last Days of a Dying Star received.

Nice, I didn't know anyone else here had backed it. Mine is supposed to arrive Wednesday.

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Mon Jul 03, 2017 1:50 pm

I just (pre)ordered the Broken Token insert for Gloomhaven.

I wonder which will come first, the insert or the game?

Then which will take longer, assembling the insert or finishing the campaign?