Studio McVey wrote:
Hi Steve - I'm more than happy to answer any questions about the game I can. If they are tool rules technical - I'll prod Rob Baxter (the game designer) and get him to chip in.

1. If you pledge 'We've got Movement!' ($190) - it means you get two of everything you would get at the 'Biohazard' $100 level. So two copies of the game, two LE karas, two vanguard patches, etc - and two sets of all the stretch goals linked to the Biohazard level pledge.

Clear?

2. Not sure. I'll check with cmon and get back to you.

cheers!

mike

Panic wrote:yeah,
Not that weak... If I lived in the US I thinkI'd already be down for BioHazzard too...

It just doesn't seem right that a game being designed by a UK company is being sold at a higher price to UK residents. CMON should swallow the shipment costs to get the product here in bulk and distribute from McVey HQ.

Panic.

Update #4: Sedition Wars tile design
Posted about 1 hour ago We are just pitting the finishing touches on a couple of the tiles, but I thought we would give you a sneak peek.

There were a few different routes we could take with the tiles. When we did the alpha rules we created a poster map that was rendered in a hi-tech blue-print style. While I loved it, it wasn't quite the look I wanted for the finished game. I wanted the tiles to be rendered in a 'realistic' style that made you think you were looking at a real location. I wanted to present Alabaster Station as a definite place - a secret facility that the Strain nano-virus has ravaged and swept clean. The virus consume all organic and non-organic material it comes across - re-purposing it into part of the construct.


In the course of my career, I have been lucky enough to become friends with some incredibly talented people, and the person who did the art for these tiles is one of the most gifted artists I know. Rich Wright worked on a wide variety of products for GW - he did the tile art for Warhammer Quest and Space Hulk 2nd edition, along with most of the 40K vehicle cover paintings in the mid nineties. Since then he's produced matte painting and 3D work for a wide variety of well known projects - the intro scenes for Motorstorm, Muse Sing for Absolution video, and many other high profile projects.

He built the tiles for Battle for Alabaster completely in 3D - lighting and rendering them just as you would with any vfx shot, then importing them into photoshop and adding details, weathering and blood stains. I really love the results.

We purposely kept the designs pretty clean and futuristic - Sedition Wars is a high-tech universe so we wanted to steer well clear of any dark and gothic elements. I didn't want them cluttered with furniture and details - partly because all that would have been consumed by the virus, and partly because it would interfere with game play.

There are ten different tiles, and one transit network car (that's a train!), so that gives you a wide variety of different board set ups. What the pictures here don't really show is the size of the tiles - each is 12x12 25mm squares, so they are 350mm square (including borders) - pretty big! You can link them together in a lot of different ways - creating many different settings for games.

The ones I have shown here are the Cargo Bay, the Personnel area, the Engine Control Room and the Transit Car (you get two of these - there is an awesome scenario that needs both of them).

I hope you like them!

whalemusic360 wrote:I see the great catch in there. people will only contribute if there is cool extra stuff, but there is only cool extra stuff if people contribute. Need some more 1500 perks up there, they went very fast.

odinsgrandson wrote:

endtransmission wrote:Some additional, larger scenarios to go with the extra troops would be a nice touch

I wonder how the scenarios are set up. Do the scenarios each have pre-set force builds (ala Space Hulk) or do you customize your own forces through some kind of point-buy system? If that's the case, then an extra 12 troopers could do quite a bit to add flexibility to the scenarios.

At the moment, I don't think we know much one way or the other.

PhantomViper wrote:Thanks for all the info. And for taking the time to answer our questions

Well, for what its worth, if you do manage to get part of the shipment to go to the UK you can count with another order at least (mine), as it stands, what's stopping me from pledging right now isn't the extra 25$ shipping, its the amount that I would have to pay on top of that if the package was stopped by customs!

AlexHolker wrote:What is the sprue layout going to be like? Will the models be made available separately in the future?

I.e. If I was looking for just a squad or two of the female Samaritans and the specials, will that be an option at some point?

Necros wrote: I just remembered reading that there was some assembly required with the figures.. will they mostly be single-piece sculpts and you just stick the figure on the base? Or will some have a few parts to stick together (and be good for conversions)?

Any plans for the next stretch goal as we climb up toward 80k?

BladeWalker wrote:I might chip in for the miniatures as it gets closer to the end. I'd like to see more about the game play because the tiles (while beautiful) appear to just be open spaces for the most part. More info on movement and combat in the game would help me to decide. There is a good chance I will get this game just for the miniatures (like Zombicide) especially if they add more models as stretch goals. Good gameplay would be a nice bonus though... :-)