Song of Blades and Heroes

Many of you are familiar with Ganesha Games' Advanced Song of Blades and Heroes set of miniatures rules. I can think of a couple of games that use it as the basis for their rules sets. Well, this time they're making a game for their own. Axe and Brimstone is a new set of 28mm miniatures, as well as a narrative campaign. It's up on Kickstarter now.




In the campaign, a group of Possessed (those being demon-worshiping dwarves) are looking to complete rituals in order to summon their demonic gods to the world. However, those rituals need innocent souls as sacrifices. A Halfling village seems a good place to get some of those. However, the halflings aren't going to go quietly. They've mounted a resistance to take on these dastardly dwarves.

The campaign's going on now. They're already most of the way to their goal with still 26 days left to go.

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The Ganesha Games Kickstarter for their Song of Blades: Hammer and Forge dwarves sets just keeps on rolling along. They are closing in on 3x funded with still 16 days to go. They've unlocked several new sculpts, letting backers add-on even more to their pledge.


The set contains 10 figures. There's 7 standard infantry (with a mix of axes, hammers, and picks) and 3 command figures (leader, standard bearer, and bagpipe player). The set is $38 to add to your pledge, making the figures just $3.80 apiece. That's pretty good for infantry troops.

As I mentioned, the Kickstarter still has 16 days to go.

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Ganesha Games has just launched a Kickstarter campaign for their Song of Blades and Heroes miniatures skirmish system's new supplement, Hammer and Forge. More than just a new set of rules, they're also looking to fund a set of miniatures, particularly of the various dwarven cultures that have been part of the Song of Blades rules set. Of course, if you have dwarves, you need someone for the dwarves to fight, so they'll be included, too.




As you can see from the photos above, Ganesha Games is going for a "high fantasy" look for their dwarf line, recapturing the feel of the 70s, 80s, and 90s in their miniatures (but at a higher quality than figures from back then were generally made in. Plus, there's more diversity. You can get your dwarf armed with more than just an axe or hammer.

The campaign just launched and is set to run for another 29 days.

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Ganesha Games will be looking to add Fightin' Fungi to their catalog and they'll be looking to Kickstarter in order to make it happen. The figures could also be used in any fantasy setting game where malignant mold might mangle and murder. The game they hope to fund will be stand-alone, but be fully compatible with the Song of Blades and Heroes as well. However, there will be updated spell rules, as well as new rules for armors and weapons.

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From the announcement:

Andrea Sfiligoi, creator of the popular Song of Blades and Heroes miniature skirmish rules is looking to expand the game and create original fungus-men miniatures. These can be used for a stand-alone game or in games of Song of Blades and Heroes.…or pretty much any fantasy game that features mushroom people.

From the early days of Dungeons and Dragons and Japanese cult movie Matango, Mushroom Men have been part of pop culture. But they are underrepresented in 28mm. So now is the chance to fill in this niche.

This campaign will help us create the standalone game, which is fully compatible with the award-winning Song of Blades and Heroes, as a full-color paperback book, a PDF ebook for your tablet devices, and of course the awesome miniatures that will make the Fungus Folk a three-dimensional reality.

The game will be a stand-alone book, so new players can jump right in without any knowledge of prior books. For old fans, it will have a lot of new rules such as Reactions, weapon and armor rules, and a new, vastly improved magic system with a spell list, a feature that many fans of Song of Blades of Heroes have requested.

And this is just the first step - we have plenty of ideas for more original miniatures and new games. So help us make all these things reality.

Ganesha Games has announced they'll be running their first Kickstarter campaign next year. They'll be looking to fund their Fight'n Fungus set of minis.
Hmm, mushroom people... *puts on System of a Down*

From the announcement:

Ganesha Games will be launching a Kickstarter for a new line of miniatures for their popular Song of Blades and Heroes skirmish system. This project will be funded by Kickstarter and should go live in late January.

Ganesha Games have posted the Free Guide to Song of Blades and Heroes profiles written by Song of Blades gamer ChromeKnight. From their announcement:

This guide was originally written for the Song of Blades Yahoo group but we are now making it available on our downloads page.

There will be a Song Of Blades And Heroes tournament held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at Legion Hobbies and Games. From their announcement:

Here is info for a Song of Blades and Heroes event we are running. Song of Blades & Heroes Tournament Where: Legions Hobbies & Games Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania(Western) USA When: Sunday May 22 11am registration; - Noon start time $5 entry 300pts warbands, in 25-28mm scale 6 Rounds/30 minutes per round No custom units. You may only use stock units and special rules from the following books: Song of Blades and Heroes, Gold and Darkness, Wind and Water, Deeds and Glory This will be a modified Swiss-style tournament. You may register up to 3 warbands, and switch freely between rounds. All warbands must be registered prior to the tournament start. You will get 1 raffle ticket for each game you play in, and 2 additional tickets for each game you win. The tournament prize will be raffled off at the end. The more tickets you get the better your chances of winning. See www.legionsgames.com for store info.

Participants at the PrairieCon XXXII Song of Blades and Heroes game will receive a free download of the rules. From their announcement:

A game of Song of Blades And Heroes is scheduled in slot five at PrairieCon XXXII. All the players who sign up will receive a free download of the song of blades and heroes rule book; just leave your e-mail address to the GM and he will take care of that. You will receive the PDF as an e-mail attachment within 24 hours. if you already own the PDF, you may request any other Ganesha games title. PrairieCon XXXII will be held on June 3-5, 2011, at the Brandon University Gymnasium Brandon, MB