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2013/11/28 23:15:05
Subject: Games & Gears Kickstarer Battleboards - NOW ACTIVE!
+Missed out on our fantastic early bird rewards?? Get your Black Friday Limited Reward before they go! Kit yourself out with our Games & Gears Battle Boards. Have a great Black Friday and in pure cheese "Make it a G&G Black Friday." +
+We cannot wait to get these battle boards to you! Have a great holiday and thank you for being part of this project!+
The reduced stretch goals are very welcome! Glad the next is the final DzC board . Not sure where Anime Wars is in the queue of goals now, but hopefully a final surge near Christmas will net that one, too!
2013/11/29 23:01:57
Subject: Games & Gears Kickstarer Battleboards - NOW ACTIVE!
Looking really good so far. Also thanks to our manufacturing crew who have really worked hard here and because of that are able to get through unlocking the stretch goals faster. 24 days to go. Still early days . Every backer counts so we cannot wait for the days to come!
Joyboozer wrote: Can you clean up the front page a bit?
To be honest the current pics really aren't selling me on these boards and looking at it isn't helping.
Working on it in the next few days! thanks
Automatically Appended Next Post: Hex Grids and One Inch Grid sheets are up!
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Just increase my pledge for the terrain. Got two sets of the forty quid deals. Too sweet to miss out. Pre ordered Deadzone and got two more 2by2s deals and two of the deadzone grids.
2013/12/02 22:15:18
Subject: Re:Games & Gears Kickstarer Battleboards - NOW ACTIVE!
Here are some Deadzone Pics from one of the crews mobile. Not great but gives you an idea. We loved it. On a 2by2 Anime Wars Battle Board with the Deadzone 3" Overlay Grid sheet. So what is cool is that you will have 5 interchangeable designs and hopefully 6 soon. So when you have your small games can change the environment a bit and for your big games.... well... it will be awesome!
Automatically Appended Next Post: Vermonter wrote:
@GamesandGears - Your boards are beautifully done, and I know you have Deadzone grid overlays, but is there any chance you guys might make a dedicated Deadzone board in the future?"
Our focus now is to unlock all 6 designs on the Kickstarter which we are close to doing day by day,
It is a possibility if that discussion takes place. The rate of the success of our KS will determine our ability of speed to which we can do more in 2014 and beyond.
This message was edited 3 times. Last update was at 2013/12/03 00:38:49
Thanks for your response regarding my Deadzone inquiry. I'm all kickstarted out this year, but I'll be watching your future output with great interest.
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2013/12/03 03:55:44
Subject: Games & Gears Kickstarer Battleboards - NOW ACTIVE!
RiTides wrote: One 2x EB is open if anyone was looking for one!
Edit: ....and gone.
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Thanks to you all who have supported this project so far. Exciting times. Cannot wait to unlock all the initial 10 Stretch Goals, Not far from the 6th Stretch Goal
1. Please consider making some walls for the Anime Wars battleboard.
You have each tile connecting at yellow and black striped sections, wouldnt it be nice if those were doorways. A series of appropriate + , L and T sections would tern the board into a series of 2"x"2" rooms (holds?) to fight over.
This year's kickstarters gave me nearly all the minis and terrain I ever wanted for sci-fi skirmish gaming. But one thing is still missing: plastic boards with clip-in, modular walls.
There hasn't been much in that vein in the hobby. There was the out-of-print Halo boardgame:
That set was bland, crude, and didn't implement the concept particularly well, but it was a start.
Currently the (also bland to my eye) Zone Mortalis set is available if you want all of your games set in a Sci-Fi Gothic setting.
Generally speaking, plastic miniature boards aren't the easiest sell. Customers are likely to spend money on miniatures and 3-D terrain first, and customers' ability to make their own boards from other materials, albeit not to the same standard, is a certainty. But after a KS year that saw impressive new terrain products like Mantic's Deadzone and Battle Systems (both of which I backed), we still don't have non - Gothic sci-fi plastic terrain boards that actually anchor the buildings sitting on top of them, or that lock-in variable combinations of interlocking, free-standing walls, to create non-Gothic sci fi modular dungeons / space hulks.
Yes, there are a number of resin and MDF board products that can do this right now. But many gamers prefer plastic to MDF, and for many, modular resin terrain is too difficult to store, and / or too much of a pain to create, and / or will never be affordable. I think there's a window of opportunity here. If you can successfully integrate modular walls into your boards, particularly if you can devise a way to lock freestanding walls into the board itself in infinite combinations, and you can make it work well and look good (that's always the trick), I think you will have something that sets you apart and broadens your appeal.
Partnering with Mantic to make "lock-in" boards compatible with Deadzone scenery would be one possible approach.
Dakkadakka: Bringing wargamers together, one smile at a time.™
2013/12/03 17:23:57
Subject: Re:Games & Gears Kickstarer Battleboards - NOW ACTIVE!
1. Please consider making some walls for the Anime Wars battleboard.
You have each tile connecting at yellow and black striped sections, wouldnt it be nice if those were doorways. A series of appropriate + , L and T sections would tern the board into a series of 2"x"2" rooms (holds?) to fight over.
This year's kickstarters gave me nearly all the minis and terrain I ever wanted for sci-fi skirmish gaming. But one thing is still missing: plastic boards with clip-in, modular walls.
There hasn't been much in that vein in the hobby. There was the out-of-print Halo boardgame:
That set was bland, crude, and didn't implement the concept particularly well, but it was a start.
Currently the (also bland to my eye) Zone Mortalis set is available if you want all of your games set in a Sci-Fi Gothic setting.
Generally speaking, plastic miniature boards aren't the easiest sell. Customers are likely to spend money on miniatures and 3-D terrain first, and customers' ability to make their own boards from other materials, albeit not to the same standard, is a certainty. But after a KS year that saw impressive new terrain products like Mantic's Deadzone and Battle Systems (both of which I backed), we still don't have non - Gothic sci-fi plastic terrain boards that actually anchor the buildings sitting on top of them, or that lock-in variable combinations of interlocking, free-standing walls, to create non-Gothic sci fi modular dungeons / space hulks.
Yes, there are a number of resin and MDF board products that can do this right now. But many gamers prefer plastic to MDF, and for many, modular resin terrain is too difficult to store, and / or too much of a pain to create, and / or will never be affordable. I think there's a window of opportunity here. If you can successfully integrate modular walls into your boards, particularly if you can devise a way to lock freestanding walls into the board itself in infinite combinations, and you can make it work well and look good (that's always the trick), I think you will have something that sets you apart and broadens your appeal.
Partnering with Mantic to make "lock-in" boards compatible with Deadzone scenery would be one possible approach.
thanks for the feedback. There is a lot we can do and much of that really is talking to the likes of Mantic and others and making it happen. Right now we are taking it all one step at a time. Making sure we fulfill each promise made. Your ideas are ace. When we have unlocked the next 5 stretch goals and at higher funding. There is a lot we can do and beyond. .
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