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2011/12/22 20:28:27
Subject: Re:[Brushfire][Warclaw] News & Rumors / Dec 22 - UK Releases
The 2012 update for the Brushfire world map poster is now live on Zazzle. This incorporates the updates made in 'Historia Rodentia' and 'Warclaw' to bring it up to the current in game year of 1825AF, and is also available to view in a lower res in our gallery.
Yes, here at http://crystalgamesstore.bigcartel.com in the UK we are taking pre-orders for Brushfire. As well as selling this great game, we'll also be doing a series of articles on our website over at http://crystalgamesstore.wordpress.com discussing everything from painting warbands and armies to tactics and even campaign settings.
All orders won't be shipped till mid january so as a thank you for your support we are giving 5% off your entire order when you use code CRYSTALMADNESS This only lasts till January 14 so get your orders in quick.
Thanks guys! If you have some free time we'd appreciate it if you could throw a review up on Wargame Vault, doesn't have to be much, just some stars and a sentence or so... might help further sway people to purchase
Hey folks, our restock was late, but its finally arrived.
We've gotten all of our backorders mostly packed up and ready to go; I unfortunately have to wait for the print shop to open in the morning as I didn't realize beforehand we'd run out of some of the cards/cover inserts. Once we get them printed up the orders will ship out. Most likely by noon today EST.
Since we focused on getting back orders taken care of the website's inventory isn't going to be accurately reflecting whats in stock.. but if you place an order, it should be in stock now... Until our UK stockist, Crystal Games & Books, clears us out again later this week.
Our caster now has the Shrew Hussar and Sand Guard, so we should have the metal masters in a few weeks along with finalized prices. If we're really lucky we may even have the masters in time for DAKKACON, but I doubt it.
Work on Warclaw is progressing well, We've begun building the playtester packet and intend to have that done by the end of the month so that playtesting and art can begin in February. I'll try to have that with us at DAKKACON as well.
We've got Daniel, our lead sculptor, slaving away on a new project and have seen some WIP of the sculpts. It's completely different from Brushfire... Noah has done a fantastic job on the artwork... More on that at GAMA Trade Show.
It's great news to have a UK stockist up and running - best of luck to Crystal Games & Books with their new endeavour; it can be hard work starting up a new small business so kudos to them for taking the plunge.
Looking forward to more Brushfire/Warclaw in the UK too, of course!
While we ended up not being able to make it to Siege of Augusta this weekend, one of our fans was there to pick up the slack and ran demos and a small tourney. He posted a battle report onto our forums, but you can be lazy and read it here
Spoiler:
[quote author=Aslan link=topic=22.msg110#msg110 date=1327218996]
Siege of Augusta three way battle
Mare civitas vs aquitar vs ribenguo
After trading casualties mare civitas and ribenguo form an alliance against aquitar!
After firing potshots at aquitar the otter ashigaru score a leg shot then kill a weasel fusilar!
The mole tactician uses his charm on the daimyo
Mare civitas uses the distraction to launch an attack from the lancers.
The badger obliterates one lancer and kills another.
The tanuki samurai takes out another weasel shooting his arrow hitting he weasel in the head.
The badger finishes off the last lancer.
Sensing treachery the capybara captain charges the daimyo. Knocking off his helmet and pistol whipping him for 2 damage.
Daimyo responds likewise leaving the captain with 2 damage .
The weasel feeling ignored shoots into the combat of the two titans killing the capybara captain
The lone surviving mouse runs into the woods to try and kill his enemy using guerilla warfare.
The ashigaru finishes off the weasel!! Leavin the badger as the mole takes off after the mouse conscript the badger runs after the samurai.
The samurai wounds the badger leaving him with 3 wounds
The otter ashigaru rushes the badger embrazend by the wounds the badger has suffered.
The badger retaliates killing the otter ashigaru!
the mouse conscript turns and his arrow goes through the moles leg armor
The daimyo charges the badger slashing the badgers ear off
The badger tries to attack but has been slowed by the damage and misses the daimyoas the daimyo returns the attack beheading the badger .
The mouse turns and fires on the mole killing him.
The ribenguo turn chase on the mouse killing him as he headed into a wheat field.
Status of the Lamb
Brushfire sales have been increasing, as has the number of stores carrying the line. We’d like to thank all of our fans, you’ve been a great help in promoting the game. A huge thanks goes out to Crystal Games & Books for being our first supplier in the UK! Lets keep the trend going and spread Brushfire even further!
Historia Rodentia
For 2012 we’ve got several things planned and put into motion. First up is “Historia Rodentia”, the supplement for Mongoose Publishing’s RPG “LEGEND”. Legend is a d100 system based on the classic “RuneQuest” system, and Historia Rodentia is the first supplement to cover roleplaying in the world of Brushfire. Players will be able to create characters from the nations of Aquitar, Civitas, Scyzantium, and Vanadalands. Future books are planned to cover the rest of the world. Historia Rodentia will be released in May by Mongoose Publishing in both softcover and PDF.
Mysterious Project: EFT
2012 will also feature our first non-Brushfire related release since Legendary Realms in ‘08. While we’re keeping the project under wraps for now, you can expect to see previews and a ton of information after GAMA Trade Show in March.
New Game: WARCLAW
Our last currently planned release for 2012, and the biggest release of the year for us, is our other joint project with Mongoose Publishing: “WARCLAW.” A new take on the Brushfire setting and moving from smaller skrimish matches to large all-out-warfare; Warclaw is a new miniatures game using a revised version of Mongoose’s “Starship Troopers” and “Battlefield Evolution” game system. Much like how their release of “A Call to Arms: Star Fleet” resculpted the Star Fleet line of miniatures, you can expect the same for a number of Brushfire releases. You’ll be able to use models from either line in both systems, but Mongoose’s resources will allow us to produce higher quality models and alot of stuff we wouldn’t be able to otherwise release for sometime. The Initial factions being covered by Warclaw will be Aquitar, Axony, Civitas, The Federated States of Vespuccia, Scyzantium, and Vandalands. Each with a number of new units and classic Brushfire units. An exact date is not set for Warclaw, but playtesting is underway and its looking like an end of year or early 2013 release.
Brushfire
So where does this leave our flagship, Brushfire? In a good place in our opinion. We’ll be continuing to support Brushfire with new releases, and with Mongoose’s Warclaw line you can expect to have a lot of options for your armies. While Ribenguo, Chugoku, and Zabar are not currently part of Warclaw, that just means we’ll be focusing on giving them new releases while Mongoose handles the rest of the factions. We’re also planning on doing a major update to the stat cards later this year, switching to a double sided playing card size card that is a little cheaper to produce and easier to manage. With the release of Warclaw, we’ll also introduce a few new playable factions to Brushfire.
Automatically Appended Next Post: We've also added a poll to our Brushfire Facebook page asking about Ribenguo's Wanderers:
Our caster now has the Shrew Hussar and Sand Guard, so we should have the metal masters in a few weeks along with finalized prices. If we're really lucky we may even have the masters in time for DAKKACON, but I doubt it.
Really pumped for when these models come out. Thow I'm abit confused about were the rules for the Carbineer are found. Was their a new edition of the rule book or something that added them?
Our caster now has the Shrew Hussar and Sand Guard, so we should have the metal masters in a few weeks along with finalized prices. If we're really lucky we may even have the masters in time for DAKKACON, but I doubt it.
Really pumped for when these models come out. Thow I'm abit confused about were the rules for the Carbineer are found. Was their a new edition of the rule book or something that added them?
o.o
No new edition of the rulebook yet, aside from the 2nd printing last year that included the errata. (1.1 on Page 1, The back cover is grey rather then Orange)
Brand new unit, but since all of the units come with cards for their stats and rules you'll be fine
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JetKinen wrote:So, do you have any information on the animals of the American(Vespuccia, i do believe) faction?
Also, there are 3/4 Mexican factions?
These factions aren't in the game just yet, but are talked about in the Fluff. The Federated States will be featured in Warclaw, so its got the most 'set' things in it, the others may change by the time they are developed into full factions.
For North/South America (Vespuccia) there are the following groups:
The Dominion of North Axony (Canada)
-Beavers, Moose
The Federated States of Vespuccia (USA)
-Dogs, Cats, Raccons, Gators, Opposums, Star Nosed Moles, Prairie Dogs, Gila monster
The Republic of Armarillo (Texas)
-Armadillos
The Republic of Xalepena (Mexico)
-Bats, Squrriels, Weasels
New Civitas (Spanish Colonies of South America)
-Capybara, Mice, Chipmunks, Cavy
Jaguero Empire (Mish-Match of the various nations of South America before the Europeans)
-Jaguars, Chinchilla
Today is a good day to pick up some Posters, T-Shirts, or Mugs from our Zazzle shop. They are giving 50% off until kick off with the coupon: PREGAMEDEALS
Our caster now has the Shrew Hussar and Sand Guard, so we should have the metal masters in a few weeks along with finalized prices. If we're really lucky we may even have the masters in time for DAKKACON, but I doubt it.
Really pumped for when these models come out. Thow I'm abit confused about were the rules for the Carbineer are found. Was their a new edition of the rule book or something that added them?
o.o
No new edition of the rulebook yet, aside from the 2nd printing last year that included the errata. (1.1 on Page 1, The back cover is grey rather then Orange)
Brand new unit, but since all of the units come with cards for their stats and rules you'll be fine
Thanks! Just printed the new errta off. I've managed to convince some people on the local gameing store to try the game out with the two armies I've already bought.
=3
Sekai wrote:I know I bought my Haters gunna Hate shirt!
Lockark wrote:
Thanks! Just printed the new errta off. I've managed to convince some people on the local gameing store to try the game out with the two armies I've already bought.
=3
With metal costs ever on the rise, we've been looking in alternates. As we are a small company its not possible for us to go to hard plastic models yet, so the option for us is Resin. We are not planning on switching the full line to Resin currently, just the larger more expensive for us to produce models. The first of which is the Capybara Capitaine, the first cast of which is shown in this post. If production goes smoothly for him, we'll be releasing them for sale in the next few weeks, (This will replace the current metal blister and the one contained in the Civitas Warband, and should lower the price on the blister) and we'll look into replacing a few more high priced items such as the Shaka War Hogs.
. Downloaded! And looking forward to seeing your stuff in person at DakkaCon!
. It'd be even sweeter to have a colored Valkyr in the background, but it's great as-is, too!
