Ah! Ho! Ha-ha! Guard! Turn! Parry! Dodge! Spin! Ha! Thrust!Ok, so Robin Hood and the Merry Men doesn't take place in the Warner Brothers universe, but whenever I think of ol' Robin, I think of Daffy.
Ah! Ho! Ha-ha! Guard! Turn! Parry! Dodge! Spin! Ha! Thrust! Ok, so Robin Hood and the Merry Men doesn't take place in the Warner Brothers universe, but whenever I think of ol' Robin, I think of Daffy. And we've got Robin Hood up on Kickstarter with Final Frontier Games' Robin Hood and the Merry Men board game. It blends together set collection, worker placement, some dice rolling, and more to give you a semi-cooperative game.
From the campaign:
“Robin Hood and the Merry Men” is a thematic euro style game that perfectly blends worker placement, hand management, set collection and dice rolling into a one big exciting crossover. It’s a fun game with multiple paths to victory, where you will live and breathe a true Robin Hood style adventure. The players take on the role of a famous outlaw such as Robin Hood, Little John, Will Scarlet and Jane Fortune, and their mission is to protect the town of Nottingham from the tyranny of infamous ruler Prince John and the notorious Sheriff of Nottingham throughout 5 rounds of onslaught. If they succeed, a winner is declared-the player with the most victory points becomes Nottingham’s greatest champion.
The art for the game is done by The Mico, the same artist behind the beautiful art in Final Frontier Games’ previous projects ‘Rise to Nobility” and “Cavern Tavern”, so “Robin Hood and the Merry Men” is expected to be a direct hit.
“Robin Hood and the Merry Men” is a game for 2-4 players, ages 13 and up, and takes approximately 25 minutes per player to play it. The Kickstarter Campaign will feature a Standard version of the game and a Deluxe version. Both pledge levels will come with options for shipping worldwide, and they will be available for retailers as well.
The campaign is closing in on 6x funded with still 27 days to go.
Who wouldn't want to be nobility? You get titles and land and prestige and the tabloids following you around all over everywhere. Ok, so maybe that last bit isn't so great, but the other parts are pre
Who wouldn't want to be nobility? You get titles and land and prestige and the tabloids following you around all over everywhere. Ok, so maybe that last bit isn't so great, but the other parts are pretty cool. In Rise to Nobility, you're looking to stop being just the head of an influential family and break into being actual nobility. You'll do this by wisely using your resources around town. After 10 rounds, the player with the most victory points will become the head of the Stone Council. The Kickstarter campaign for the game is running now.
From the campaign:
Rise to Nobility is a worker (dice) placement game set in The Five Realms, the same fantasy world as Cavern Tavern. At the beginning of each round, every player rolls 5 dice that represent their available actions in the game. The locations in the city have requirements for certain dice values.
The challenging thing is that the total value of dice each player can use during the round is determined by their reputation in the city. Players start with 9 reputation and can increase or decrease their reputation by taking certain actions in the city. With numerous options for spending their dice, players will need to carefully plan their strategy and prioritize their actions.
Each player takes on the role of a landowner with a unique ability. Your goal is to rise from anonymity to the rank of lord. At the end of 10 rounds, the player with the most victory points takes over the head seat at the Stone Council and wins the game.
The Kickstarter has already passed its funding goal, so it's on to stretch goals for the next 27 days.
We've made it, everyone. It's Friday (be sure to get your free item from Kroger). With any luck, your weekend will be filled with all things gaming. I'm... gonna take it a bit easy. It's pollen season
We've made it, everyone. It's Friday (be sure to get your free item from Kroger). With any luck, your weekend will be filled with all things gaming. I'm... gonna take it a bit easy. It's pollen season here in GA, and while I'm not particularly allergic to any of it, it's like getting a face-full of dust or chalk. You cough, you sneeze, your eyes water just because of the amount of particulate in the air. So it's best to just stay inside and fill up on bite-size gaming stories.
Today on the platter we have: Figure Storage Inserts for Vehicles Available From Sally 4th, Rise to Nobility launches on Kickstarter on April 5th, Go Fish Fitness Kickstarter - Final Week, Bits of War 3rd Anniversary Sale, Purgatory edges closer to completion with new arrivals of models, and April 1st Deals from Advanced Deployment.
Over the years ‘Warchests’ together with clear bases have been some of our most popular items. As we have received requests from customers we have developed more and more inserts, so that we now have a range that covers pretty much any figure base size that you could imagine. However, since we became show stockists for Sloppy Jalopy we have been searching for a good solution for safely storing and transporting model vehicles.
This week, we have added a Warchest Insert for Vehicles to the range. This is made from 3mm Medite and consists of two rails which are glued to the side of a Warchest and a set of four movable dividers that can be slotted into the rails. This insert will fit our 70mm, 100mm and 120mm high Warchests and can of course be combined with a clear front panel and clear lid if required.
Rise to Nobility is a dice worker placement game for 2-5 players. The strategic game play and unique mechanics are accompanied by thematic engine building. The game's beautiful art conveys the magical atmosphere of the city of Caveborn and will immerse you in the splendor of The Five Realms.
Go Fish Fitness is in its final week on Kickstarter and has nearly reached its funding goal. The campaign ends on April 6th, and there are a few discounted rewards still available to be claimed! Go Fish Fitness will be printed in English and French, backers may choose how many of each they with to receive if they choose more than 1 deck.
Go Fish Fitness is a beautifully illustrated card game for kids that incorporates physical activity to help break those winter blues! We hope you will join us by supporting this project and help us with our vision of bringing more fun and exercise to kids everywhere. Keeping fit is about incorporating exercise into everyday life in ways both big and small. In the age of electronic entertainment, Go Fish Fitness is one small way to help keep kids active and healthy!
Hi, all that I will write below is not a joke :) Really ;) Three years ago Kromlech opened its online store bitsofwar.com At 1st of April, yes I know sounds like a joke but it is not, it is very real as you can see. Before that time our products were available at ebay or by some FLGS but as a number of our products increased and it is good to have your own place to rule :) ... a shop was created. I hope that you enjoy our products as we are enjoying a chance to create and produce them for you. We are business run by hobbyists for hobbyists. Kromlech is not a big company, a team consists of 10 people on site and some artists that we work with remotely but from the beggining we aim to deliver the best quality in all that we do. A product, a cusotmer service, a client service, you named it :) Once in a while there always some problem will pop out but we are here to help you with any problem you may have with our service. During last three years we have managed to release so many products that it is hard to count and guess what? we have many more to come :)
Now let's cut to the chase :) From now* till the end of Sunday we celebrate our 3rd Anniversary of Bits of War. In that time ALL our products are 15% cheaper !
After the successful Kickstarter, Purgatory is drawing ever closer with stunning new art arriving each and every day. What's more the physical models are beginning to arrive and some of the popular items that sold out super fast are now back in stock at the store.
If you want to take advantage of this quote: PURGATORY in the coupon section of the shop and get 20% off!
It's that time of year again! When the memes take over Advanced Deployment! Take advantage of 25% off of any item in the Customizable Tokens category too!
My first job was in fast food. I worked at a Fazoli's in St. Louis. For those that don't know, Fazoli's is ("was?" Do they still exist somewhere? They don't have them here in Atlanta that I know of) a
My first job was in fast food. I worked at a Fazoli's in St. Louis. For those that don't know, Fazoli's is ("was?" Do they still exist somewhere? They don't have them here in Atlanta that I know of) a fast-food Italian place. It was a fairly thankless job. But it certainly gave me an appreciation for those that do still work in such an environment. Thankfully, playing Cavern Tavern is much more fun and exciting than actually working at a tavern. It's up on Kickstarter now and looking for funding love.
In the game players take on the role of employees of the tavern. You've gotta do things like make sure the guests are topped off on their drinks, cook up food, clean up the place, as well as keeping the barkeep happy (cantankerous old sod that he is...). You do that by placing your four dice into various sections each turn. The various sections of the board get you various bonuses.
The campaign is over its funding goal, so it's onward and upward through stretch goals for the next 28 days.
Well, we're making our way through the week. Two and a half days down. Two and a half days to go. Then we get to the glorious, glorious weekend. Do you have things planned coming up? I've got a bunch
Well, we're making our way through the week. Two and a half days down. Two and a half days to go. Then we get to the glorious, glorious weekend. Do you have things planned coming up? I've got a bunch of things from Adepticon that got sorted through last weekend. This weekend it's time to get things started on writing articles for them. So expect those in the next couple weeks.
To help keep our strength, let's fill up on some bite-sized gaming stories.
Today we have: Into the Black: A Game of Space Piracy casts off on Kickstarter May 3rd, GCT Studios' Pioneers Program Needs You, Lost Cat Games Launches Open Beta For Straight To VHS, 2184 Generation war Trailer Video Posted, Minion Miniatures - Monsters of Underdeep 2 Kickstarter Funded, New Website for MAGE Company, Aether Captains returns on Kickstarter April 18th, Cavern Tavern launches on Kickstarter on April 20th, Final Day For Blood Reef on Kickstarter, and Mackinley from Klukva Miniatures is on sale.
Today, I Will Never Grow Up Games announced Into the Black: A Game of Space Piracy, a new board game where players take on the roles of hardened space pirates boarding and plundering an unknown star ship in an effort to complete their own secret goals and take over the bridge before their time, and luck, run out!
The game will launch on Kickstarter on Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016 at 5pm Eastern time and the campaign will run for 28 days ending on May 31st.
Into the Black is a sci-fi themed, tile laying, semi-cooperative board game for 1 to 4 players aged 13 and up. The game plays in approximately 45-60 minutes and every game is a different experience with a random tile layout. Multiple lose conditions and few win conditions make for a challenging time. Each player has the opportunity to win individually or as a group and there is the potential for one to sabotage everything, revealing themselves as a traitor upon completion of their own traitor objective.
As we move on to our second round of external play testing before heading to Kickstarter we are looking for people that are interested in joining in this next round of play testing.
Lost Cat Games invites gamers and bad-movie lovers everywhere to participate in Straight to VHS’ free and open beta phase. Straight to VHS is an RPG that indulges in the boundless fun and absurdity of no-good and ridiculous movies of the VHS era.
When the expectation is for the plot to be a shlocky mess and the player characters are cybernetic hobos, gangster preachers, or ninja werewolves… well, we think a great time is guaranteed. Mix and match any two of the provided character tropes to create your B-movie hero and be sure to sneak in the occasional Script Change before the credits roll.
The game is available for free (no account, e-mail address or anything is required) while we continue to refine and expand it in preparation for a final release. We’d love to hear your thoughts so that we can make Straight to VHS the best, most kickin’ game it can be!
After numerous wars and conflicts in which history has forgotten their names, the planet Earth has become a vast territory where only irradiated animals and humans fighting for their survival live in this devastated world, cities comprise of the last humans unaltered by toxic winds that now sweep the surface. Directed with an iron hand by draconian dictatorships, they are the theater of war between the various institutions in place. These wars give grounds for many skirmishes despite an omnipresent police force overwhelmed by the violence of this closed universe.
2184 is a skirmish game between 2-4 players on various fields of battle. The objectives are varied and include a campaign which can be separated into several scenarios if you wish. You will choose a clan among the 6 available and will evolve its leaders over 3 generations. When your leader has gained 10 points of experience, his son will succeed him then the son of his son, the third generation will be able to access a new field of competence : PSY powers.
The major asset of 2184 is to provide a fluid game system with ease of access, to share the fun of miniature games with family and friends, and for people outside of the hobby to discover the pleasure of the game. The simplicity of the game is thanks to a unique and ingenious system, this will keep the tactical advantage of this type of game, implementing a storyline and tracking the progress of your clan leader who will become stronger over sessions. In campaign mode, the first player to reach level 10 with his 3rd generation wins the game. There is no obligation to play each scenario in an orderly manner. The life of this game is like an open book with many possibilities.
2184 Generation War is a rulebook. No miniatures brand imposed.
Monsters of Underdeep 2" gives you the opportunity to help fund the monstrous Zombie Hulk miniature. This titanic creature is part of our Zombie Abominations faction for our Underdeep range of miniatures.
Along with the Hulk many other fantastical monstrous brutes are also available such as the unstoppable Bugbear Ironshield, the primordial Lizardkin Deathscale and freakish Flesh Golem. All these miniatures are supplied with a 60mm round base and stand around 65mm to eyeline. The final miniature available as part of the initial funding goal is the huge Troll Patriarch supplied on a truly gigantic 90mm round base. These guys are all huge!!!
All of the miniatures provided are printed on a Solidscape 3Z Max, giving unbelievable printing quality... The miniatures are also provided in the highest quality resin available. The images do not do the miniatures justice in regard to the level of detail.
Our new website is now online: magecompanygames.com. In the new site we also have our updated store along with info in each new product and a separated section just for the sleeves. From now you can place any order you want from our new website: magecompanygames.com.
Beside the 53x53 sleeves and the standard ones, we also have available and the small euro size 47x71 and in the next months we will start printing the 82x122mm sleeves for dixit size cards, 73x73mm for big square cards and the mini american sleeves 44x66mm. We will soon update the store with those sizes.
The new website is more flexible and you can easily navigate it and find what you want. Step by step we will add more and new features to support our new "digital" home like making tournament, providing sneak previews for upcoming cons and games and much more.
Aether Captains is a steampunk themed, scenario-based, asymmetric board game for 1-5 players.
One player commands the mighty naval zeppelins of the Grand Compact: Dauntless and Dominion. As Commander, you have been tasked by the Emperor to defend the Grand Compact and Arkady from the merciless sky pirates. With your staunch crew of steam welders, engineers, navigators and gunners, you fly with honor to confront the pirates threatening Arkady.
The remaining players command waves of attacking sky pirates, each with their own unique objectives which may pit them against any player when it results in the greatest profit for themselves. Infamous and feared, you have risen through the cutthroat cadres to become a War Captain. You swear to never rest until you control the skies and the Grand Compact falls!
Cavern Tavern is a worker (dice) placement and resource management board game that is set in a fantasy world. Each player assumes the role of a worker in the tavern. Your job is to serve drinks, work in the kitchen, do chores, and on top of that try to keep every guest happy, including the nasty and greedy barkeep. Here's a glimpse of the story behind it.
The Kickstarter for Blood Reef is in its last 24 hours, so now is the time to come pledge and help unlock a few stretch goals, including the deadly Giant Mantis Shrimp and Sea Serpent.
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