What KICKSTARTER(S) are you BACKING and WHY?

The official arbitrary unit of measurement is a cup of coffee. So... 70 cups of coffee. Not bad.

I'm pretty jazzed for Batman, and have high hopes for modest improvement over Conan.
Why 'modest?'
Cause I think Conan is the bee's knees.
Rulebook's first edition was a little clunky, but Monolith course corrected.
Some scenarios are more forgiving than others.
Number of available scenarios (now) is pretty impressive.

I still have lingering Kickstarter frustrations with Conan. Availability of "non-exclusive" minis, King Pledge content vs. retail, etc.
But really, the only thing that bugs me are the hero dashboards. They're simply not as cool as the Overlord's dashboard. I want them to be plastic too.

Conan is fun to play as a character, sure. But I really dig playing his associates. The Overlord is the best IMO.

Batman OTOH, has the single best Rogue Gallery in all of comics. Batman's allies ain't too shabby either. I'm down to clown.

Academy Games (Conflict of Heroes) has something called Agents of Mayhem that looks interesting.



Based on the Volition Deep Silver video game, Agents of Mayhem: Pride of Babylon is a competitive 32mm scale miniatures game that pits the evil LEGION (the League of Evil Gentlemen Intent on Obliterating Nations) against the more heroic, but potentially just as chaotic and destructive MAYHEM (Multinational Agency for Hunting Evil Masterminds).

The game is played out on a map featuring multistory, modular buildings that can be destroyed and altered as the battle rages on. Miniatures combat itself is asymmetric, as the LEGION player runs an entire army of diverse and fearsome robots, dark matter powers, giant golems, and doomsday devices, while the MAYHEM player gets to build a team of three elite specialized agents, and give them unique upgrades to build on their individual strengths and shared synergies.

The game features a procedural campaign, which has the MAYHEM player keeping their agents' progress and upgrades through a series of missions, while the LEGION player deploys more fearsome and dangerous squads of troopers. Choices made, victories and defeats, and buildings and blocks damaged and destroyed in combat will affect later missions and ensure that every campaign plays out differently.

I saw that one. It's a shame that what seems like a novel concept got tied to a property that by all accounts was a huge flop.

Colorcrayons wrote: Isn't Firbeball Island supposed to hit KS soon?

April 3rd is the date.

For any of you guys affected by, or just following, the multi-year KS fiasco that was Robotech Tactics, Kevin Sembieda of Palladium Games finally threw in the towel and admitted he can't fulfill half the KS. So he is graciously.allowing us to exchange our unfulfilled wave 2 pledges for excess wave 1 stock, AT RETAIL PRICE, and we HAVE TO PAY FOR SHIPPING!!!!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/rrpgt/robot...acker_project_update

The balls on that guy......

This actually looks kind of neat...but would you have to play in the dark? I dunno about that.

It failed in 2015, but looks like they're trying again this year.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/laserterrai...games-terrain-system

That laser terrain kickstarter should also offer glow-in-the-dark dice and black light bulbs.

I looked at the Pacific Rim Extinction KS.

I hope I'm being dense, because I am genetically inclined towards this game, but not only does the game look naff but the KS itself looks like it's hitting all the wrong notes to me.

And worse, the retail version of a single Jaeger and a single kaiju... Calling it an unsatisfying concept is being generous, I feel.

With the Early Birds gone you now pay £20 more to get the same items, quite a price increase. I did not bother to look further. FUCK Early Birds.