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What does a scalpel* do? Or Rosie's power tools*?

You'll put an explanation* on the card*, right?

Or will that only be in the rulebook*?

Please tell us there will be more mercenaries like Brigitte!










*sorry

It'll be in a rulebooklet

From Facebook






Grindhouse Games



Incursion will not be offered through big distribution this time around. We're not playing that game anymore. It's a broken system that just crushes the little guy. We will also not be offering this up through discount online retailers of any kind so that they can undercut the community-building retailers who do want to carry our game.

Incursion will be available from select brick and mortar retailers, West Wind, our online store, and from us at conventions and stuff. We do not plan to produce very many more copies than we need as pledge rewards. Again, not playing that game. The goal of this campaign is to get the game with as many freebies as possible into the hands of as many fans as possible, not having to buy a forklift to manage a warehouse full of stock that we're making pennies a copy on.

We will be creating a special Brick and Mortar pledge level. A pledge by a qualified business will gain that business limited access to all exclusive items in the campaign. If you want your local store to carry Incursion, you'd best start bugging them now.
You want Incursion? Best get ready for the Kickstarter because it's not going to show up out there in the discount stores.

Incursion retail price: $100
SNAFU retail price: $60

so if you want it, save your pennies for the KS....

Box Contents

But no upgrade pack for those who've already got the existing game, correct?

I'll be picking up the expansion anyway

Also, "Science!" as a special ability? Nice!

Any chance you can expand the diameter of the bazooka so it looks like the rocket could fit as you move towards plastic minis?

So is the material used for these models and quality level pretty on par with the Dust stuff?

Yeah, that bazooka looks like he's going to use a blowgun or something!

Typical kickstarter question- how long will the campaign run and will be able to contribute with paypal at some point or another?

Wife doesn't care what I do with paypal money but eyebrows will be raised when hundreds of dollars start drifting out of bank accounts. I've failed every single saving throw against eyebrow raises since we've been married.

Paypal has a virtual cc nowadays I believe; that, or you could use one of the virtual visa or mastercard-based cc providers (I use neteller though there's probably better options!) and just fill that account from paypal. I don't have an actual CC but you wouldn't guess, with my KS backer history page

Grindhouse Games Facebook wrote:
Incursion will not be offered through big distribution this time around. We're not playing that game anymore. It's a broken system that just crushes the little guy. We will also not be offering this up through discount online retailers of any kind so that they can undercut the community-building retailers who do want to carry our game.

Incursion will be available from select brick and mortar retailers, West Wind, our online store, and from us at conventions and stuff. We do not plan to produce very many more copies than we need as pledge rewards. Again, not playing that game. The goal of this campaign is to get the game with as many freebies as possible into the hands of as many fans as possible, not having to buy a forklift to manage a warehouse full of stock that we're making pennies a copy on.

We will be creating a special Brick and Mortar pledge level. A pledge by a qualified business will gain that business limited access to all exclusive items in the campaign. If you want your local store to carry Incursion, you'd best start bugging them now.
You want Incursion? Best get ready for the Kickstarter because it's not going to show up out there in the discount stores.

Incursion retail price: $100
SNAFU retail price: $60

so if you want it, save your pennies for the KS....

Not sure I'm a fan of this "news". You will be selling it to retail stores yourself according to the FB comments, and likely offering a better deal than a distributor would, to boot:

Grindhouse Games FB Post wrote:
We'll sell direct to retailers who are interested in carrying us and give them similar or more attractive terms than the big distributors. Sorry if this was not clear in my post.

Why the cut out of online retailers? You do realize that large segments of your fans/potential customers do not have a local game store, right? Or if there is one, it is likely not deserving of business.

Also, not a big fan of the tone of the posting either.

Suddenly not sure I'm going to pledge, despite owning the game already (sans miniatures) and initially looking forward to it.

~Eric

 Taarnak wrote:

Why the cut out of online retailers? You do realize that large segments of your fans/potential customers do not have a local game store, right? Or if there is one, it is likely not deserving of business.



~Eric

Guess they ought to support the kickstarter or buy direct from Grindhouse...

If they buy online now because of a lack of a local store, it should not be an issue.

After seeing the sets, I think I'm just going to go in for the base game. SNAFU isn't really catching my fancy.

 Taarnak wrote:

Why the cut out of online retailers? You do realize that large segments of your fans/potential customers do not have a local game store, right? Or if there is one, it is likely not deserving of business.

~Eric

Customers who want the game, but can't/don't want to invest in the kickstarter can buy online, directly from Grindhouse. Or on some other secondary market like Ebay. I don't see any reason why not selling to other online realtors should be a problem.

 Barzam wrote:
After seeing the sets, I think I'm just going to go in for the base game. SNAFU isn't really catching my fancy.

I agree, not nearly enough zombies. And I already have a techo gorillla from Reaper.


Although those MI-13 look pretty tasty.

At least they are honest that this is not an actual restart of Incursion, but just a singular money-grab with no further support.

 Kroothawk wrote:
At least they are honest that this is not an actual restart of Incursion, but just a singular money-grab with no further support.

Seriously? Come on, they are reissuing the game with plastic figures. Expensive metal figures has been the most consistent and loudest complaint against the game since it was launched. How does giving fans what they want equal a money grab?

rwwin wrote:

 Kroothawk wrote:
At least they are honest that this is not an actual restart of Incursion, but just a singular money-grab with no further support.

Seriously? Come on, they are reissuing the game with plastic figures. Expensive metal figures has been the most consistent and loudest complaint against the game since it was launched. How does giving fans what they want equal a money grab?

Kroothawk, we also have two expansions mapped depending how the re-release goes. So it is an actual restart, we just dislike dealing with distributors.


In other news:

KICKSTARTER LAUNCHES ON AUGUST 1st!

Contest time! We need to get the Facebook Likes boosted. Can you help? We're at 825 right now. If we can get to 1,000 by midnight USA Central time on August 1st, we'll pick a liking fan at random and that person will get the following: new exclusive Gretel sculpt in metal that is being done by Bombshell Babes, professionally painted to display- quality standard.

Also have the trailer up!


https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Grindhouse-Games/139536469402885?hc_location=stream

I'll agree that the tone of that post is very odd, and the "We do not plan to produce very many more copies than we need as pledge rewards" is also rather odd, which insinuates that it's not going to be an ongoing, readily-available supported product.

The Australian "Online discounters" I buy from are my only local choice to buy from an Australian retailer without getting shafted on paying +50% or +100% "Australian (so-called) RRP". Buy buying from the local "discounters" like Games Empire or Combat Company, I actually manage to pay about the same (a little more in fact) than exchange-rate retail and importing things myself from the UK. Buying from B&M here means paying a whole lot more.

Yeah,
I'll be backing the kickstarter if the shipping to the uk is acceptable. Ideally 5-10% of my basic pledge.

If not I'll be looking for a online retailer like darksphere...
Honestly kickstarter will be your best chance to hook me with attractive stretches extra zombies and exclusives... once I'm in a B&M store you will be competing with all the other shiny new releases...

Panic...

If you assume 100 dollar pledge, there is no reasonable way for Grindhouse to ship the weight/volume for 5-10 bucks. If you go to USPS and look at international rates, you quickly find they are not cheap.

I guess if we assume US shipping prices are included in the pledge (say about $10-15 of $100) then adding just another $10 for overseas may be possible, but it is probably still low (Grindhouse eats the excess shipping cost at that level). They may able/willing to do so. We'll see.

LOVE that plastic MI-13 Gracie model in plastic!

Yeah,
I'm glad you acknowledge that shipping is not 'free' while in the US.
Also being that these games get produced in china you have to wonder what the actual shipping costs are.

With the amount of sales they expect they should be able to find a UK/Euro partner.
(http://www.westwindproductions.co.uk were already mentioned.)

Start asking for 15%+ and I'm out...

Panic...

I am open to pay upto around 20-25% on a big box game with minis as long as they post European copies from within the EU otherwise I wont back a project if postage is more than 15% (I do make an exception if its a game I have been eagerly awaiting for a very long time from a proven retailer).

 Azazelx wrote:
I'll agree that the tone of that post is very odd, and the "We do not plan to produce very many more copies than we need as pledge rewards" is also rather odd, which insinuates that it's not going to be an ongoing, readily-available supported product.

Just means we won't do massive print runs to have walls of stock on hand. If the demand is there we will continue to keep Incursion in print via several smaller print runs.


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Incursion: The T-Shirt!

As I'm looking over the parts lists, would I be wrong in assuming SNAFU is playable on its own? Or at the very least would I be able to drop in a few zombies and officer types of my own?

My brother was talking about getting the base game, and I'm liking the stuff in the expansion a bit more. Just curious if I'll be able to play it at my house without him bringing his copy of the game over.

Any hint on what those future expansions might entail? Russians? Japanese? Viking spirits? Dinosaurs?

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
As I'm looking over the parts lists, would I be wrong in assuming SNAFU is playable on its own? Or at the very least would I be able to drop in a few zombies and officer types of my own?

My brother was talking about getting the base game, and I'm liking the stuff in the expansion a bit more. Just curious if I'll be able to play it at my house without him bringing his copy of the game over.

You need Incursion to use SNAFU.

Any plans to offer different designs for the front of that shirt?

Plus, I know I have all the black t-shirts I'll ever need - any option maybe for white, or tan?

 Alpharius wrote:
Any plans to offer different designs for the front of that shirt?

Plus, I know I have all the black t-shirts I'll ever need - any option maybe for white, or tan?

Seconded. gak, I'd love to see one in red.

What's wrong with Emo Black? It's been made clear that we should consider alt shirt colors and designs. Stay tuned.

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
Any hint on what those future expansions might entail? Russians? Japanese? Viking spirits? Dinosaurs?

I want to do the Russians next but Jim wants to do the Japanese. We'll probably make that the last question of the survey. But this Viking Dinosaur Spirit idea intrigues me. Pitch it!

 Alpharius wrote:
Any plans to offer different designs for the front of that shirt?

Plus, I know I have all the black t-shirts I'll ever need - any option maybe for white, or tan?

I've also found that I quite like Tan t-shirts. Or "stone", or "pebble", which are both essentially tan.

Honestly, I'd be interested in any non 'traditional-gamer" color.

Give me a day-glo shirt with just a black incursion logo on it and i'd be stoked.