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Woah, woah, woah. Are we talking about human engineers and monster hunters here. Because is so..

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Oh .. yeah, the world is going to be changing a lot, but gradually. Planning a stand-alone board game kind of like Super Dungeon Explore or Dust Tactics, really all the same rules just you play on a board with squares for movement and distance. Then it will also act as an expansion for the skirmish game so you can use the stuff in the board game in skirmish games, or your favorite gangs in the board game. The overall theme is going to be based on Skinwalkers (Werewolves and other were things) and it will also include a lot of US & indian folklore critters like jackalopes and chupacabras

The critters will be treated like pets attached to another model, they'll be a 25xp model (half as tough as a henchman) and will form a mini unit with their handler who will need a special skill to train animals. Engineers will be a bit steam punky but not over the top. They're inventors who will have special gadgets and weapons like gatling pistols. Monster hunters will be like bounty hunters, only they get a bonus when they attack Supernatural creatures. And Supernatural creatures will have different abilities based on what they are, like a Skinwalker will have Bloodlust, so if they take someone out of action they get a little tougher

That's all a ways off though. In the end I want it to be where you can have a straight up wild west gunfight, but you also have the option of playing weird west too. Just depends on what you and your friends like best.


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And, I just got this pic.. these will be the bonus dice for the next kickstarter. Black & blue swirls with 2 gold Colt 45's on the #6 spot

Nice, they'll go nicely with the other dice. Seeing as I'm going law and outlaws this means each side will have their own set of dice.

shut up and take my money already!

I am loving that dice. They will go amazingly well with the badge set.

Weird west is sounding good! Can't wait for the current lot of stuff to come in, the next lot to come in, and the lot after that to come in

 Necros wrote:
We'll be getting into the weird west stuff soon In fact if the new Kickstarter gets high enough we'll start adding some creatures and new professions like Engineers and Monster Hunters as stretch goals. It will have to be pretty high though since we want to get the main gangs fleshed out and start doing our new gangs too.

But if we don't get high enough, that stuff will all go in Kickstarter #3 for the boxed game next year

Either way, all of that sounds great - and thanks for the update!

Busy day! Also got the 1st sketch for the Vigilance Committee. Here's Christian Kluge. World Renowned Gambler (according to him) and owner of the Golden Coin Saloon.



This one is by Heath Foley.

Game Craft looks fantastic. Sarissa too, but I'm always leery of buying from our English overlords. As soon as the Kickstarter season is over (heh, I wish), I will update my gaming table.

Von Skyfury: how come your flag keeps changing from USA to Canada, are you travelling at the moment?

And next we have Eric Jurgensen, the butcher, chef and handyman at the Golden Coin, also by Heath Foley.

Was I the first one to suggest Weird West stuff?

Do I get a no-prize?

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
Game Craft looks fantastic. Sarissa too, but I'm always leery of buying from our English overlords. As soon as the Kickstarter season is over (heh, I wish), I will update my gaming table.

Von Skyfury: how come your flag keeps changing from USA to Canada, are you travelling at the moment?

Nope, it should always be Canada =P

And I can vouch for Sarissa. Great prices, great quality and very fast shipping.

No-Prize!
Yaaaay

no no-prize for you!

So after a long chat with the Game Salute last night, we're gonna take a slightly different approach to the new campaign. Instead of just expanding the existing gangs, we're going to start off with getting 4 new gang starters done first, then that will give us 8 different gangs total and after the 4 new ones are funded we'll move on to the 3-man add on packs for each one. We figured this would give the game a lot more variety.

So these new gangs will likely be...

Widowmakers - All girl gang, more like gunslingers than "saloon girls" though

The Flying Zarconis - carnival / circus gang. Thinking about making all the henchmen be clowns, but old timey clowns not ronald McDonald looking...

The Silent Fist Clan - Asian railroad workers who are secretly ninjas in disguise. Will be all Asian types though, not just Chinese.

Wiley's Rangers - US army rejects. They got sent to Blackwater Gulch to help stop all the gang violence, but now they just want to get all the gold they can for themselves. These won't be Civil War looking soldiers though, since the game takes place in 1890.

So each of those will start out with 5 guys per set, and then we'll do the 3-man add ons after they all get unlocked.

I'm liking the concept of the Widowmakers and dare I say, if these Rangers are based off a certain wild group of guys, a certain bunch, I'll be very, very happy indeed.

 Necros wrote:

The Silent Fist Clan - Asian railroad workers who are secretly ninjas in disguise. Will be all Asian types though, not just Chinese.

If you're going to use the term 'ninja', then they should just be Japanese. While the Chinese (and every where else in history) had Assassins, ninja is a Japanese term.

 Necros wrote:
no no-prize for you!

WHAT?!?

I demand a recount!

 Necros wrote:


Widowmakers - All girl gang, more like gunslingers than "saloon girls" though

With the right sculptor on these, you'll probably hit your goal with sales of this gang alone!

Make one have a sleek looking sniper rifle, please!

 Necros wrote:


The Flying Zarconis - carnival / circus gang. Thinking about making all the henchmen be clowns, but old timey clowns not ronald McDonald looking...

This one seems like it is right up Grot 6's alley!

 Necros wrote:


Wiley's Rangers - US army rejects. They got sent to Blackwater Gulch to help stop all the gang violence, but now they just want to get all the gold they can for themselves. These won't be Civil War looking soldiers though, since the game takes place in 1890.

This one sounds very interesting too!

Can't wait for this Kickstarter to... start!


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 Von Skyfury wrote:

 Mathieu Raymond wrote:
Game Craft looks fantastic. Sarissa too, but I'm always leery of buying from our English overlords. As soon as the Kickstarter season is over (heh, I wish), I will update my gaming table.

Von Skyfury: how come your flag keeps changing from USA to Canada, are you travelling at the moment?

Nope, it should always be Canada =P

I've locked it into Canada for you now - it may take a bit, and you may have to log out and log back in, but you're all Canada all the time now!

 Von Skyfury wrote:

And I can vouch for Sarissa. Great prices, great quality and very fast shipping.

Same here - highly recommended!

I love Heath's work, having met him, he's got a lot of great ideas floating around in his head.

Can't wait to see this game played...

They won't be real ninjas, just meant they will all have a martial arts kind of skill.. in the game it'll give them a melee combat bonus. I kind of wanted to do a mix of different Asian themes, but also mixed in with the wild west stuff too.

I've actually never seen the wild bunch. I'll have to look it up on Netflix.

Also planning a bunch of movie/tv reference characters for bonus figures. We'll have Kurt Wyatt and Dr. Kilmer, John W. Duke, The Outlaw Clint Wales, and more

I'll be using my same sculpting crew as before. Might be looking for some more too though so we can get everything done in a timely-er manner. Gonna be lots more minis than last time if all goes well.

 Necros wrote:
The Outlaw Clint Wales

I'd like a Man With No Name and/or a Pale Rider wannabe before a Josey Wales homage!

Aye, or a William Munny! That. Would. Be. RAD.



"Any man don't wanna get killed better clear on out the back. "

Though Josey Wales is also a great choice, great movie, one that a lot of people seem to gloss over for some reason, prolly because it's all about slaughtering blue shirts.

Josey Wales was my favorite of Clint's old school western films.

a Pale Rider type character might be fun too... why not both? And you could get away with the name Pale Rider too... Make it iconic, fitting into the supernatual AND the west... just like the movie, what'dya know

Pale Rider was good, but for a great supernatural western, go with the High Plains Drifter. Oh man, that ending.. WHO ARE YOU?! WHOOOOOO ARE YOUUUUU?!

That's the one I was thinking of!

sorry, my housemate has all of these films, and I've been watching them... Good catch Brook.

 BrookM wrote:
Aye, or a William Munny! That. Would. Be. RAD.



"Any man don't wanna get killed better clear on out the back. "

Though Josey Wales is also a great choice, great movie, one that a lot of people seem to gloss over for some reason, prolly because it's all about slaughtering blue shirts.

I think mostly because it was just later on in his whole 'Western' career.

The Man With No Name being more iconic and all that...

Having said all that, I'm pretty sure that Josey Wales was well received, reviewed, etc. Ironically enough, way more than any of the 'Man With No Name' series of movies!

You know, back in the 60's and 70's!

Damn it man, tonight I'm going on a Western movie binge and I won't stop until it's Sunday!

I hate to admit it but for someone making a western game, I really haven't seen enough of the classics. Never even saw Josey Wales, but when I think of Clint as a cowboy that's the name that pops into my head. For me it was more films from the 80's and beyond like Tombstone or Young Guns, and a lot of Hell on Wheels since it's on now and fresh in my mind

That's alright, I love westerns, but I hate.. John Wayne and his flavour of movie. Can't stand the guy.

For me, I can almost ONLY see Clint Eastwood's iconic Western characters.

You've got to make one wearing a poncho which conceals a cast iron wood stove door which gives him some sort of "invulnerable save"!

Yes! Poncho is a must for such a character. Stove door is always a nice tongue in cheek reference.

Though I almost had to slap someone when he replied with a "Wasn't that Michael J. Fox?"

 BrookM wrote:
Though I almost had to slap someone when he replied with a "Wasn't that Michael J. Fox?"

Ya know ... I was thinking of doing Doc Brown and Marty Mcfly back from back to the future 3. Maybe I could save that for the boxed game though