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 Barzam wrote:
Wow, I had no idea there was that much of a difference between the Wargames Factory WWII figures and the Bolt Action ones. I guess I know which company I'll be using to build my "regular" Germans with.

Well it0s 28mm at eyes, so only two mm less than ours. It appears shorter because i glued every figure on its proper base

I think he was saying the Wargames Factory stuff is better proportioned than the Warlord games stuff...maybe?

So guys the Kickstarter is upcoming, here's the project (not live yet). We strongly need your feedbacks

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/827575229/352886513?token=fd58fdc1

Left feedback, only had a few minutes to look. But where are the rules again?

It looks great - and I'm excited to see that it will ship in September!

I'll be saving up for a Captain level pledge!

since some here and also on the Kickstarter's page ask for rules I can show you my humble contribute for the ruleset, the Meta-Humans stat cards.
A brief explanation of stats: W = Willpower, S = Strenght, M = Movement, A = Actions, R = Ranged combat, C = Close combat, I = Injuries, T= Toughness, D = Dodge
HTH = Hand To Hand.
Measures are in inches.
Also troop squads will have stat cards (I'm wokring on them right now).
Of course these samples are not final: I used the first images of painted miniatures I will swap them with more detailed ones once they'll be available.

Love those card previews - all I can say now is...

...more please!

May the 6th is the date to remember

Wolfbane1968, Do you have a start time?

We thought to start at 13:00 PST, but we're open to any hint

The sooner the better!

I confirm we'll launch the project at 13:00 PST (21:00 GMT)
whish us luck

The heroes remind me a lot of "Freedom Force vs The 3rd Reich". Very interested in this.

 Wolfbane1968 wrote:
I confirm we'll launch the project at 13:00 PST (21:00 GMT)
whish us luck

I don't think 13:00 PST = 21:00 GMT, does it?

PST is GMT -8, so that looks right.

13:00 PST is 16:00 EST which is...

...ah, whatever!

I just want to snag one of those Early Birds - someone let me know when it is live!

KS is live!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/827575229/war-of-wonders-miniature-game-superheroes-fighting?ref=hero_thanks

1.5k at the moment!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/827575229/war-of-wonders-miniature-game-superheroes-fighting

Ooops, I over slept but got my EB!

Ernster wrote:
Ooops, I over slept but got my EB!

You must work some odd hours off shift job then!

Anyway, I'm in!

I'm in, too. Will we be able to add more stuff on during the pledge manager? While I can't go for a lot now, I suspect there may be some stuff I can snag later.

Honestly I didn't expect to have the 50% funded in 12 hours and also that the 80 EB would go sold out so soon! thank you all for the support
So we created a new EB at 88 basically for European backers (but for all the latecomings of course): it has the same content of the "natural prodigy" EB and it's limited to 25.

Even if you don't have any rules to show yet, it might be nice to at least give a hint as to mechanics and game style. What dice does it use? What size of board is suggested? Do the mechanics have a lot of grit and detail, or are they rather open? Just something, you know?

tomorrow we'll post the beta ruleset, I work yesterday to give them a good graphic aspect
By now I can tell you that a 10 sided dice is needed, a 36"x36" board is enough, but even better is a 48"x48"
AFAIK mechanics are easy to learn but not simplistic and contain some nifty (in my opinion of course) solutions: I noticed for example that you can split your squad in two (no squad cohesion): I found it useful during the playtest since it allowed me to perform some tactic tasks like swift raids with 2 or 3 figures only.
Another edge is how Meta-Humans are depicted in the game: they have a peculiar characteristic (named Heroic Willpower) which helps them to survive longer on the battlefield and to give support to troops in Panic.
that's all for now


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We're almost there guys
this is a sneak peek of the British troops which we want to produce. as Germans and US troops they'll be multipose. You'll have enough components to create 4 "11th Scottish Commando" or 4 "Burma Lions" (Chindits)

Congratulations of the funding.

Lots of time left to hit stretch goals. If at all possible, you should be flooding various wargame info outlets with pictures and concepts and anything else you can think of to excite the undecided.


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I skimmed through the beta rules. Without playing them, I can't address the details of them, but in general, they look pretty clean and quick playing.

I would make a few changes for the English language version, though, just to make things easier and/or go with standard terminlogy.

For instance, Injuries is the model stat. It is the number of Wounds it can sustain. Straight forward enough, but why not just call the stat Wounds? Or a model will sustain an Injury, not a Wound? Wounds is a fairly common game stat in wargaming, I'd go with that, but either way, there just doesn't seem to be a reason to use two different terms.

Similarly, models can use their action to Watch. The 'industry standard' term is Overwatch. Amounts to the same thing, but it doesn't hurt to just use the term the player is expecting.

But from what I've read, I like it. Each squad member acting independently may make larger games go longer than they should, but at a true skirmish scale, there is nothing wrong with it.

RJVF thanks a lot for your compliments, we didn't expect to reach the goal so soon, but we really don't complain for that

I've chosen "Injuries" instead of "Wounds" for having a unique letter for each stat on the profile card (you can see the first two, the Flag and Brunhild in a previous post). But of course it could be changed if is not so clear. As Italian I don't know if "Injuries" could sound weird to an English or American people.
Thanks also for Overwatch instead of Watch too, we'll correct it in the further releases

Went and backed this once I saw the metals. Plus, they'll work very nicely with Malifaux, to an extent (at least The Flag). I plan to pick up 2 American squads and heroes as well as matching German ones.

Love that Doctor!

Not saying you have to have to change Injuries. I would just make the terms consistent. If the stat is Injuries, then models inflict an Injury per success, or sustain an Injury. Making the terms consistent just removes the question, "So what are Wounds, then?"

thanks RJVF

We'll correct the text with the right words, tomorrow.

We've reached the goal again
this is size comparison with a 40k figure and a Dust Tactics plastic figure, also the first pic of the Arisches sturm soldier: it's on my workbench right now ready to be painted