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Crooked Dice is following up their 80s action Kickstarter with a Fantasy Genre campaign.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/c87-3/7tv-fantasy-genre-guide?ref=recommendation-projectpage-footer-1&category_id=Q2F0ZWdvcnktMzQ=

7TV is a skirmish game but in the vein of movies, big heroes, big villains, and expendable extras.

And best of all the minis are forged from the One True Casting Medium, METAL

I backed their all-in-one post-apoc set several years ago. The minis are great, and the production quality of the rules/tokens/cards is great...

...but I feel that it pushes the tokens and cards a bit too much. I don't know if that changed with the latest core rulebook thing, but I'm not inclined to back another wargame that boasts that with THIS pledge, you're going to get a couple hundred cards to clutter your table with.

I love their models, but I've never played any of their games (getting my friends together is like pulling teeth and there's no FLGS near me). After the KS, I might grab some of these models online.

A SORSHA model! Be still my heart! But without the bow an arrows. No points.

Definitely going to have to try and get that mini of the Ron Perlman version of The Beast at some point.

Human-sized models from Crooked Dice are metal, but larger than human tend to be either resin or STL. In my experience, their human-sized figures run a little small, somewhere between 25 and 28mm.

I do like their stuff. Fantasy's not really my thing, and I don't play their game, but I might pick up that Solomon Kane model at some point. I just wish somebody would give us a version of him with his staff.

The game definitely pushes the meta-narrative intrusions into the story, though that's the point of the game to a large degree. I don't feel like it clutters up the table anymore than any other wargame I've tried, compared to Legion, Battletech, ASOIAF, the Warhammers old and new, they all require some combination of decks of cards, unit lists, tokens, measuring devices, and necessary reference rulebooks. It's actually a lot better than most games I've played, all you really need are a half dozen character cards for your force and the Script Deck off to the side, and a little box for your tokens and templates.

The campaign looks good, but it cost over a hundred dollars to get the Fantasy box set here in the US, so buying a replacement upgrade holds no appeal.

How do the rules compare to the first edition of 7TV? Because that and 7ombieTV are the ones I used to play back in the day and stopped paying attention when 2.0 came along.

2nd edition really just seemed to be a chance to unify all their rules together and come out with cast cards the utilize presence attacks, which are a cool idea. There's a few minor changes to the rules if I'm recalling correctly, facing is a bigger thing, and little stuff like that, but it's generally the same.