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A message from Jim Bailey:

Okay, let's open it up. Let's just kick the door down and get right into it, shall we? John Roberts and I are heading up a re-release of Incursion. Yeah, it's gonna be a Kickstarter. Cat's out of the bag now! If only I had that tool when I first set out to do this thing.. The game maintains a stratospheric 8 out of 10 on Board Game Geek and has a die-hard fanbase. Why? It's a damned good game and it's authentic. Don't take my word. Go read all the reviews, Go see what the folks like Michael Barnes and Superfly Pete at Fortress Ameritrash have to say about it. Go see what Anatoli has to say about it. Go to the Grindhouse forums and read about it.



Though a world-class cast of artists and designers participated throughout two print runs and the SNAFU expansion, this was all funded initially by the sale of my golden-age comic book collection and thousands of wargaming figs I had painted. Now that we have Kickstarter, we can finally kick this thing up into the clouds where it belongs and shank evil monopoly big distribution at the same time.



Plastic: the holy grail. It's what we always wanted to do. Just never had the hundred grand up front we needed. Yeah, lots of boardgamers bought the game and played with cardboard standups and LOVED IT. Lots of miniature lovers bought the metal because it's heavy, hard, and beautiful and built their own 3d boards. We're going to keep/expand the metal line but also convert everything to boardgamer-friendly and horde-builder plastic. We have new missions, new models, and all sorts of other stuff planned. Metalheads and previous purchasers rejoice: we will craft the Kickstarter such that you can get ONLY the new stuff if you wish, and/or just go whole-hog and gorge yourself on plastic.



Though the game is a re-release with lots of new add-ons, upgraded components, MUCH higher quality print stock ,new art, and PLASTIC, getting to Kickstarter is still unfortunately a couple of months away. It's alot of work to plan and execute "one of the big ones". I hope you will join us for the ride.

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Jim Bailey

I keep my eyes on this one

looking forward to seeing what's next

This looks really interesting. I missed it the first time around. It's also a good thing it's a couple months away. My wallet is still recovering from the Robotech kickstarter.

I'm REALLY excited for this one - doubly so if it helps get Secrets of the Third Reich 2nd edition out quicker too!

Yes, double yes, triple yes! Love my copy of the game, and can't wait to see what else is in store in the future.

How exciting! Bought the board game. But never got round to collecting the figures. This should be very good for the range and board game! Hopefully it'll be released as a board game including all the miniatures.

Interested in this for certain if it means a flamer model at long last for the Brits in SOTR!

This is the coolest thing ever! So excited for when this comes out. I love this game.

Add plastic models and I'm in with bells on.

Laney

Can't wait to see this one. Hope they have the figures in the box this time.

Uh...they've said that's the whole point this time - the figures will be in the game and...in plastic!

Hmmmm...interesting...might get in on it depending on when it starts...

It's an excellent game. I have both Incursion and SNAFU along with a bunch of the metal figures. It plays much in the same way as Space Hulk. Even my wife enjoyed it, which is really saying something!

I've got one of the starter sets and the game already, but yet to actually do anything with them yet. This could prove interesting!

You are missing out on a great gaming experience. Nevermind the figures just punch out the cardstock and enjoy.

If you can try and get the expansion book SNAFU, if nothing else the extra scenarios seriously add to the replayability of the game.

Love the KS idea, plastic figures , possibly 3d terrain - ah time to get saving

I wanted to play this when it first came out, but the expensive metal models kind of put me off. This is one I'll probably toss my money at though!

Well, I see what's next on my list of things I shouldn't be spending money on.

Excellent.

I do appreciate the fact that I can actually start saving some money for it since we've got time to plan.

Who is the company that makes the resin scenery for Incursion?

Fenris Games
http://www.fenrisgames.com/

Good and bad news, I guess. I've been waiting for the new Sot3R rulebook to come out so I can snag that, and last word was that it was going to be this year. Incursion coming first, and as a Kickstarter has to push back Sot3R by at least a year or more.

Here's another concept:



No idea where his hat went.

Probably by 2 years - if the Incursion KS won't hit for a couple of months, then has a 12-month lead time, then a KS for Sot3R and another year for that to arrive...

 Azazelx wrote:
I've been waiting for the new Sot3R rulebook to come out so I can snag that, and last word was that it was going to be this year. Incursion coming first, and as a Kickstarter has to push back Sot3R by at least a year or more.

Incursion re-release will have little to no impact on the SoTR2 release as Incursion is being handled exlusively by Grindhouse Games while Westwind Productions is handling the vast bulk of SoTR2

Is Grindhouse still the 'driving force' behind SoTR2 in terms of rules and such?

We wrote the rules for SoTR1. SoTR2, as a revised edition, is more about everyone applying what we've learned over the past 6 years and incorporating it. The most extensive piece of written work is the two army lists and the most time consuming aspect of it all will be the new sculpts. Westwind is 100% sculpts, so they have the bulk of the work.

The Incursion Kickstarter will not interfere with the SoTR2 kickstarter in any significant way.

I wish everything didn't have to be a Kickstarter these days...

I kind of know what you mean, but I'm also OK with supporting something that 'needs' it while at the same time getting a bonus for doing so.

 Azazelx wrote:
I wish everything didn't have to be a Kickstarter these days...

I can understand that sentiment, but can you think of a better tool to help raise the capital needed for the project as we've envisioned it? We're not using it as a preorder system, promise!

yeah,

 Alpharius wrote:
I kind of know what you mean, but I'm also OK with supporting something that 'needs' it while at the same time getting a bonus for doing so.

QFT

I think small indie companies like grindhouse are exactly the kind of people who should be using kickstarter.
and bonus minis or an exculsive sculpt are worthy perks for waiting a few months after you've paid for the game.

I've got the core incursion game and think it's neat. I'll be very interested in swapping all those card chits for minis!

I wonder if an upgrade kit is a option for people just interested in the minis?

Panic...

They did say they would have pledge levels for folks who already own the game.

 Panic wrote:
yeah,

 Alpharius wrote:
I kind of know what you mean, but I'm also OK with supporting something that 'needs' it while at the same time getting a bonus for doing so.

QFT

I think small indie companies like grindhouse are exactly the kind of people who should be using kickstarter.
and bonus minis or an exculsive sculpt are worthy perks for waiting a few months after you've paid for the game.

Yeah, I'm not saying that it's unreasonable. I was just hoping to hear that it was released (this year, sometime soonish) and be able to just buy it. Also, kickstarter fatigue since it's starting to feel like no-one in our hobby just releases stuff anymore aside from GW, FFG and a few others.