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Necros wrote:yeah they came out better than I thought. I'm going to be ordering a whole lot extra just for me so I can have them for demos at cons and stuff.

I thought about selling custom dice like that just in general, but I think they're a little expensive, more than I would personally want to pay if I were buying them at a store. it would be like $10-12 retail for 6 whole dice. They work better as a free promo thing

If we can get to $18000 that will be 12 dice for everyone

Out of curiosity who are you having make the dice, $2 a dice even at retail seems pretty steep. Last order of custom dice I did cost me 62 cents a peice.

They're from Chessex.. As usual my math is off, more like $10 for 6, but still

I was just doing the math as cost x5 which seems to be the norm, since if you sell to a distributor they want 60% off, but yeah if I just sold them on my own I could charge much less. Either way though I think it's more fun as a kickstarter freebie

You should offer to let anyone in the Kickstarter that is already receiving dice order extra dice at $x each. Like you said, the more you order, the cheaper they get. So, you could even eke out some profit there, while allowing people to get a larger selection of dice.

Also, as I recall from the time I ordered them, Chessex will allow you to use different dice, so long as the design is static. Maybe those extra dice could be different, so as to differentiate between the "Kickstarter" dice and the "additional purchase" dice, making the Kickstarter dice that much cooler.

Dammit, why are you making this so difficult for me? lol

Eric

Decided to bump my pledge from $20 to $60 after just reading your latest mail. I'm excited now.

Thanks, just saw that

Also, yeah I will probably allow people to order extra dice. 6 dice for everyone right now .. hoping it will go much higher


Here's the newest news right now...

Just another quick note to announce that we just passed $9000! So, it's safe to say the Bandidos Mexicanos will be sailing up the river to Blackwater Gulch very soon!

I've added 2 new backing levels now... $120 for all 4 starter sets, and also $180 for all 4 starter sets plus 4 GameCraft buildings (limited to 4 backers, 1 sold already!). Since I'm not able to change the text in the different backing levels, I also wanted to add that if you're already locked in at another level that's limited and you don't want to lose your spot, and it says you only get 2 sets but you want more, you can just increase your pledge by $30 for each additional starter set that you want.

I'll be updating the main Kickstarter page later this evening, but the next set of stretch goals I have planned will be... at $12,000 everyone who pledged $30 or more will get the Bounty Hunter Gang Leader figure for free in addition to everything else. At $15,000 everyone who pledged $30 or more will also get the Gambler Gang Leader figure too. Since these figures are available now, if you already have them you have the option of getting extras if you want to give them to friends, or you can get store credit for future purchases ($8 per figure), or as credit to put toward your shipping charges. Up to you!

This is growing faster than I ever expected. Thank you all so much!


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And within the last 2 or 3 minutes one of the backers switched from their $30 pledge to $1000.. !

From $30 to $1000? Holy hell, congrats!

Okay, dammit. I'm in @ $90 for 3 gangs.
I hate you, Necros.

BTW, I want to be in the book as MagickalMemories, rather than my real name. Is that doable?

Thanks.

Eric

Sure, you can be whoever you want well as long as it's not vulgar, it's a PG13 game

Necros wrote:And within the last 2 or 3 minutes one of the backers switched from their $30 pledge to $1000.. !

...which makes all your really expensive backing levels sold out - get some new ones up! there might be others willing to spend ridiculous amounts, and we'd all like the extra freebies associated with that
oh and on that note, pledge made

Necros wrote:
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And within the last 2 or 3 minutes one of the backers switched from their $30 pledge to $1000.. !

holy crap, congrats!

hehe thanks

And yes I agree it would be cool to have those expensive levels opened up again so I can make some more money ... but I really want the people that bought into them to feel special and entitled

In all honesty, I think those backers would rather see you do well and get more high levels opened up.
Maybe do *different* levels. Instead of naming a character/gang/etc after them, maybe a major town? Famous battle? Something else?

You've done spectacular, so far. I'm sure you could think of something appropriate.

Eric


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BTW, you're officially over 300% as of right now! LOL

Congrats.


Eric

Pledge has been made, but you already knew that! Can't wait to see some more finished models; the Norwegian looks amazing. I'll try to get my friends in on this.

Awesome to see this growing so fast. As soon as I have a day off (had 1 day off in the last 20, likely going to be at least 9 more before I get another) Im going to download the free rules, proxy some minis and give it a go.

If the budget allows may bump by pledge a bit too.

Thanks folks

Honestly, I had a secret master plan for the limited backing levels. And it won't be secret if I tell! But ... what I was going to do was the day or so before the end I was going to add a new update (that gets emailed to all backers) somewhere along the lines of "OMG I just upped the amount of limited terrain packages so upgrade now!!2" .. and then hopefully a bunch of folks will impulse-buy a higher level Though I do think I'll leave the $1000 alone, since that's the most special of all.

Finally got painted pics for the Gambler Gang Leader

The Gambler Gang Leader is available now! One of our Deluxe figures, he comes with a separate weapon sprue with options for two different types of pistols, a bowie knife, a hand axe and also a hand full of cards for fun.

You can order him now from our online store at http://www.gangfightgames.com for $8. Or, you can get him for FREE if you back our Kickstarter campaign and pledge $30 or more, if the campaign reaches our 4th stretch goal of $15,000 (which isn't too far away now!)

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1763460781/blackwater-gulch-gangfights-in-the-old-west

The Gambler was designed by C Wilson Trull, sculpted by Patrick Keith and painted by Golem Painting Studio.

Five aces.
Nice.

Eric

Gambler looks awesome, ordered mine just now. Looking forward to the box sets when they arrive; the downside to being on the opposite side of the pond is the shipping costs (both for you and me!)

Thanks And yeah, I hate international shipping :( I've had a UK distributor contact me recently though so I'm hoping once I really get the box sets rolling I'll be able to get stuff across the river a lot easier.

Necros wrote:Thanks And yeah, I hate international shipping :( I've had a UK distributor contact me recently though so I'm hoping once I really get the box sets rolling I'll be able to get stuff across the river a lot easier.

Congrats on UK distro! US Distro is rather hard, and UK is even harder for a US based company

Hey folks!

I've gotten a few requests to offer painting services for your gangs. I don't have the spare time to paint everything for you, so I got a deal set up with Golem Painting Studio to handle it. Golem does professional painting for a lot of big names in the industry, and now they can do your gang too! I added a new backing level of $100 for pro-painting services. This price includes 1 gang set of your choice, painting services and all shipping involved. If you would like more than 1 gang done, simply add $100 to your pledge for each extra gang. As they tend to have a large back log of work, please allow an additional 6-8 weeks for delivery.

Next, I updated the new stretch goals. Now instead of getting the Bounty Hunter at $12,000 and Gambler at $15,000, I changed it to allow you to choose the figure of your choice at $12,000 and at $15,000 you get both.

MagickalMemories wrote:Five aces.

Aces and eights would have been even better.

Just under two weeks to come up with just under $3000, and I get another free mini!
Yay! LOL


Eric

MagickalMemories wrote:Just under two weeks to come up with just under $3000, and I get another free mini!
Yay! LOL


Eric

I'm very excited for the release of this game, its also my first time using kickstarter.

Its amazing to see the amount of steam this game has been picking up.

Catyrpelius wrote:

MagickalMemories wrote:Just under two weeks to come up with just under $3000, and I get another free mini!
Yay! LOL


Eric

I'm very excited for the release of this game, its also my first time using kickstarter.

Its amazing to see the amount of steam this game has been picking up.

This game shall succeed.

My first with kickstarter, too, Caty.
Funny thing about it is that I was so taken with the game, models, and Necros' enthusiasm that I had to support it. Due to the nature of the the game groups I'm in, I may never actually get an opportunity to play the game, unless I'm at a tournament (not likely) where a demo or something's being played.

Eric

MagickalMemories wrote:My first with kickstarter, too, Caty.
Funny thing about it is that I was so taken with the game, models, and Necros' enthusiasm that I had to support it. Due to the nature of the the game groups I'm in, I may never actually get an opportunity to play the game, unless I'm at a tournament (not likely) where a demo or something's being played.

Eric

I'm in the same boat, my game group is pretty much all GW and is just now starting to get into Warmahordes. Other games have come and been played a month or 2 then everyone gets an idea for a new campaign and it's back to GW


I already have more pledged now than I ever thought I would. I have enough to cover the extra sculpts from the higher level backers too so that will be a total of 5 box sets and 3 extra hired guns that will be released within the next 6 months or so (and earlier for the Kickstarters).

I've also decided I'll be making blister "expansion packs" for each gang, instead of doing separate unrelated "generic wild west" models. So I'll plan to do packs of 2 henchman to match each gang, and 1 professional. The box sets will come with 3 professionals (well 2 + the leader) and 2 henchmen. So in time I hope to have about 20 or so figures for each gang with 1 of each profession and the rest being a variety of different henchmen. But, people can still use whatever minis they want for their gang members.

Also just starting to plan out the big "2nd edition" rulebook now. Rules will pretty much stay the same, just going to make it big and pretty and full color, and include the campaign rules and the large scale battle rules I've been working on, with lots of hobby stuff too like painting guides or terrain building tutorials. I may do another Kickstarter later on for the rulebook, to raise money for artwork and other things I skipped the first time around, like hiring a proof-reader The rules will still be free online in a more basic format, the big book will be for sale in stores. I'll also have test/preview rules going ahead of time too. If I do another Kickstarter for the rulebook, I gotta come up with more cool goodies.. but what's cooler than sheriff dice?

Necros wrote:If I do another Kickstarter for the rulebook, I gotta come up with more cool goodies.. but what's cooler than sheriff dice?

Outlaw dice?

Eric

I was thinking that too, but there's nothing really emblem-y that says "outlaw" .. was thinking of maybe something like a line drawing of a guy with a scarf pulled up over his face.. or a not-yosemite-sam looking face. or maybe Colt 45 dice?

Something like this: