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Alternative Civil War 1861, a blackpowder & spell Uchronia

Our Kickstarter will be live on Tuesday January 20th

Alternative Civil War is a 28mm scale premium resin miniature wargame set in an alternate background where impossible science collides with ancient magicks and weird beings clash with courageous soldiers on the American Civil War battlegrounds (and beyond!)

You might check out more about us and our game, including background, art and miniatures at http://www.ghosttraingames.com, where you can also find out the lastest version of our rules http://ghosttraingames.com/the-game/the-rules/ , and model profiles at http://ghosttraingames.com/the-factions/. Those are fully free to download.

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Watched this project the first time round on KS. I like the North and South. Like the Natives, but not a fan of the Spanish (But I can see why they'd be a key faction). Good luck with the relaunch.

Since the first campaign I picked up some WWX which is probably too close thematically for me, which seems a shame as the WWX miniatures are a little big for my tastes and chunky in detail.

I believe ACW will look good on the table, not every unit is weird. I like the idea of mixing in standard troops.

Stonewall Jackson standing on a Stone Wall.

Subtle

I do quite like some of the designs, but like Pom I think that the WWX stuff might be a little too close thematically.

Look forward to seeing more, though!

As was promised, we bring you the preview of the Kickstarter campaign so you can study which pledge better suits you. We will be kickin’ the start button tomorrow 20th January at 20:00 GMT+1 (11:00 PST).

There’s a cute countdown on the website sidebar!

ACW is a swift and deeply tactical game with well differentiated play-styles and designs on each faction. We’re confident you will find out something for your taste. Please go and check out https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/644661994/1383765353?token=950a64e6

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Update #1 is online. Check it out at
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/644661994/alternative-civil-war-1861-a-blackpowder-and-spell/posts

Liking the Tesla coils and hoppers, some interesting designs

Thank you Jehan-Reznor

Update #3 Sgt. Ambrose Bierce

Hello there,

here we present you the sculpt of the last Infantry sized model in the US starter - Sergeant Ambrose Bierce.

Hope you like it.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/644661994/alternative-civil-war-1861-a-blackpowder-and-spell/posts/1114261

While these look nice you have some major problems with the kickstarter itself. I was all ready to place an order just to buy the add-ons as some of them look really nice. When I went to those companies web pages to see what else they produce that I might like I found some price discrepancies.

Such as the $18.00 barricades, I can order them right now from their website for $11.16 at current exchange rate
The battlemat for $50.00 are just under $50.00 for us to order currently it may be a different print but all the 4x4 mats are priced the same from Deepcut studios
Tried to look up the resin building as that looked great for $30, but that one was not on their site.

I realize most of these are probably due to the current strength of the dollar and their prices were probably inline when the campaign first ran, but your missing out on catching backers by not keeping them current.

Thanks for your invoice Theo, there's actually a price discrepancy with the barricades indeed that we need to check with Escenorama.
Gamemats and Henry's House are exclusive designs, so you can only get them only on the campaign.

Prices were checked before launching, of course, but add-ons have no margin we can work with, that's why we kept DCS pricing on the mat.

Updates 3, 4 and 5 up! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/644661994/alternative-civil-war-1861-a-blackpowder-and-spell

Also a KS review from In Her Majesty´s Name blog: https://inhermajestysname.wordpress.com/2015/01/25/alternative-civil-war-1861-a-blackpowder-spell-uchronia/

Update 6 and 7; Raffle and 3D sculpting

Please check for our thoughts on the matter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/644661994/alternative-civil-war-1861-a-blackpowder-and-spell/posts/

Some more models. Here we show you the first model we have sculpted for the Indian Starter set: The Living Totem of Nature.

Living Totems are huge multi-part models set on 50mm bases. They bring heavy hitting power as well as board control to the Natives and will be a gorgeous model in your collection once you set some colorful paint on it.



Here it is by the piece:



Remember you can get this and many more cool miniatures from our Kickstarter campaign. As always, hope you like it!

A new model, this time from the Spanish Starter Set: its Officer Ponce de León.
This is a highly detailed model, yet not baroque and overloaded. The anachronism of the breastplate and morion helmet over a modern uniform and the “flintlock pistol-like” revolver creates a contrast that reflects the duality of the Spanish faction.
Remember you can get this and other cool model from our Kickstarter campaign
As always - hope you like it!

We've added a new add-on, as some may have seen already.

This is a 100% handcrafted natural leather pouch to carry your dice, tokens and measuring tape in style.

As a side note, as you can see we're closing to the last days of the campaign with a 70% already reached. We'd like to ask you to share this project as much as you can, as these days will be crucial for the proper success of Alternative Civil War.

I can see that MASS 'dreadnought' getting some sales from players of other systems

 Clang wrote:
I can see that MASS 'dreadnought' getting some sales from players of other systems

Probably

Pledged for the second time. Hope we make it!

Alternative Civil War is successfully funded through the collective effort of the awesome community. 13000 thanks and many more to you all.

Let's keep it going these last 24 hours and try to achieve some Stretch Goals, we'd love to make the Eliphas Levi miniature!

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Question: does Ghost Train plan on getting a US distributor at some point?

 gunslingerpro wrote:
Question: does Ghost Train plan on getting a US distributor at some point?

Well, it's too soon to answer that question, but you can bet we'll do everything in our hand to success at that task. An US distributor would be a huge step for Ghost Train Games

With just a few hours left, Alternative Civil War has reached the 14k Stretch Goal.
You still have a chance to hop in this wonderful project before the Ghost Train leaves the station!

Check it out at - http://kck.st/1BbJ5MM -

Hello all,
As many have requested to join at a later date or to expand their pledge, we have decided that following our Kickstarter campaign we will establish this pre-order period. You can visit our website for the exact details: http://ghosttraingames.com/pre-order/
Also, as a friendly reminder, we're still missing a few surveys. Please take one minute fulfilling them those of you remaining. We need to know what reward do you want!

Contact us with any inquiry.

Bests regards!

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