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Cheers for the link, backed for £96.

The Early Birds give you nothing extra?

Edit: Ah, I see, I get the art book. Rulebook would be better, but oh well.

Not sure about pricing on this one either, £6 for a 6mm tank seems like a lot. Look like they're on 20mm square bases, very tiny minis.

Liking the look of Syntha and VASA so far!

Sorry! I told everyone else to share the link every time they post something, then failed to do so myself!

Here it is!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1520354196/age-of-tyrants

To all of you who have backed already, thank you!

 scarletsquig wrote:
Cheers for the link, backed for £96.

The Early Birds give you nothing extra?

Edit: Ah, I see, I get the art book. Rulebook would be better, but oh well.

Not sure about pricing on this one either, £6 for a 6mm tank seems like a lot. Look like they're on 20mm square bases, very tiny minis.

Liking the look of Syntha and VASA so far!

I know I'd prefer a rulebook vs. the art book too, at least as what's 'included' in the pledge levels.

Art Books work better as add-ons for me...

 scarletsquig wrote:

Not sure about pricing on this one either, £6 for a 6mm tank seems like a lot. Look like they're on 20mm square bases, very tiny minis.

I noticed that as well. They're a little bigger than than DZC models, but those are 3 for £11.

Thanks all for backing, much appreciated. The minis are all on 50mm square bases by the way. Not so tiny ;-)

 scarletsquig wrote:
Cheers for the link, backed for £96.

The Early Birds give you nothing extra?

Edit: Ah, I see, I get the art book. Rulebook would be better, but oh well.

Not sure about pricing on this one either, £6 for a 6mm tank seems like a lot. Look like they're on 20mm square bases, very tiny minis.

Liking the look of Syntha and VASA so far!

Keep in mind that this is the START of Kickstarter, freebies get unlocked as we start to get more comfortable with our funding level.

We're a sensible company, that want to secure longevity.

They are on 50mm Square bases!

markb wrote:
Thanks all for backing, much appreciated. The minis are all on 50mm square bases by the way. Not so tiny ;-)

Ah, so they're more like 10-15 mm scale tanks, closer to Epic Baneblade size?

Info and scale pics need to be on the KS and easy to see, if you call it a 6mm tank, people are going to think of the tiny little rhinos from GW's Epic.

Have you got an image I can thrown in my sig to promote this?

Are there any close-up pictures of the infantry minis?

 scarletsquig wrote:

markb wrote:
Thanks all for backing, much appreciated. The minis are all on 50mm square bases by the way. Not so tiny ;-)

Ah, so they're more like 10-15 mm scale tanks?

Info and scale pics need to be on the KS and easy to see, if you call it a 6mm tank, people are going to think of the tiny little rhinos from GW's Epic.

Have you got an image I can thrown in my sig to promote this?

 ulgurstasta wrote:
Are there any close-up pictures of the infantry minis?

Yep, you can check them out on our website here:

http://www.ageoftyrants.com/index.php/galleries/models

Cool stuff, but im not seeing this being that great due to pricing among other things.

Rules should be free on the KS, atleast the alpha.beta ones so there is a understanding of the game. It says a massive massive units game, but your spending a fortune to play to seems by the ammont your getting. Ive dropped 300$ for epic armies and with that ammount I get not only tons but 4-5k points worth

68 bucks gets me 8 tanks. Not a good price at all compaired to others selling epic sized models. Onslaughtmini is 14$ for 3, not to mention many many other options.

The infantry are a decent price. It would be better to have more details on what you get. Hard to tell via pics (heavy weapons leadrs etc?). I just dont see what factions they could be "counts as" for in epic. Pissibly Guard

Lots of compairing to epic I know ,but thats the main competor being 6mm

^ Yeah, beta rules PDF is essential.

Hey guys,

The Beta rules are available on our website for free.

www.ageoftyrants.com

There's a link to them on the KS too, under 'The Game' heading.

As for cost, sadly, we're not a garage business. We simply have to make a margin to cover the wages of our staff, development costs and also advertising fees, among other things (not forgetting Kickstarter fees).

We're also very keen for there to be a market for this game following the Kickstarter, so we have to have a margin to cut into for traders (generally speaking, retailers/distributors expect anywhere from 35% to 60% off RRP, not including VAT).

With that in mind, we're playing a careful game with our prices. We are going to increase the value in the pledges as the project goes along and when we know we can afford it.

So not all is lost, just bear with us!

Can you give an idea on the standard game? How many tanks/ infantry bases we looking at? That would help us kickstarter backers see how much mney would need to be spent.

And for your market, are you looking to sell armies or packs in miniature game stores online? (Miniature Market) to name one

Hey there!

Sure thing, we've got Mark, who wrote the rules, working in the background on a quickstart guide to selecting your army. Give us a day or so, we'll also eventually have videos explaining it. It's all well and good me telling you it's simple, but I think we need it to be simple AND clear. So bear with us!

As for gaming stores, sure thing, we'll be talking to everyone. Right now, our focus is on Kickstarter and we'll start talking to distributors following on from that.

We're based all over (Staff in UK, Holland, Malaysia and the USA to name a few) so we should have it covered!

Chaps,
when we fund we will be giving printed rule books for FREE to level 3 backers and upwards.

level 1 and 2 will get FREE PDFs

Also every backer will get a FREE captain base for every 4 platoons they buy.

In terms of DZC vehicles you refer too, those that are 3 for £11, they are half the volume of our Venator tanks.

So rules for free for all, and Captains for your companies

as we roll-out further there will be more free stuff too, I'd be very grateful if you stuck with it and at least watched how the KS unfolds.

Wishing you all the best
John

^ Thanks for the info, sounds good! Registered on your website to see what's happening with the forums, was a member of the old Urban Mammoth boards about 10 years ago, it's really great to see the setting come back for another game, had lots of fun with Urban War, still have some old syntha in a box right behind me.

Had a look through the beta rules too, seems solid, I like how easy the points system is. Looking for something with the same sort of scale and ease of play as Epic Armageddon.

Looks like I'll be able to get two starter armies with my £96:

- 4 of the £12 VASA platoons.
- 4 of the £12 Syntha platoons.

Then free command tanks for both factions, free pdf rules, printed art book, plus whatever else gets thrown our way. Over 300 minis total, with a mixture of infantry and vehicles. That'll do nicely.

Excellent sir

Great to see that the KS has now started!

Now to work out my pledge level..

Including the rules pdf is a very smart move! Cheers for getting that sorted so quickly

New announcement...

FREE Captain base with every 4 Platoons and FREE PDF rules for ALL pledge levels and a FREE printed version of the rules for levels 3 and up.

Getting two starter armies to jump in a friend or three. So many nice models to choose from! This funded pretty fast. Good times.

I'm never usually a fan of pick what you want style pledges. I'm interested but it's a big turn off for me. I'll wait and see how it progresses I think.

@Zond - we might try and make some simpler pledges, or pledge choices. But we did this to make it easier to build your army. Just like going into a game store, back in the day, and selecting your blister packs.

I'm all for buying blister packs. I'm just one of those simple folk that needs a baseline to start with.

Hehe!

Well, if it helps, there are some army building guides on Beasts of War that you could use to influence your purchases...

Is there a link to this article?

Hey Zond,
if you check out the interview you get the skinny from Warren on the rules




The AoT interview starts about 28.50

Currently we've had a couple of unlocks with die-punch card counters for all Pledge levels on top of the rules I mentioned last time, with custom faction dice just around the corner.

We have also uploaded some new set companies: and Infantry, an Armour and a Mixed so that may suit you Zond.

Hopefully more news soon,
cheers lads


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Planning on getting 2 companies. Hoping for the flyer add on and the mechs. Would love to see the terrain and mats.

That's ace news there!

Yeah, I should think we'll open up the terrain shortly.



Right then, here's the skinny folks! I haven't updated recently, and John went MENTAL with updates on KS, so I have collated the news here for you all in one bite size chunk!

First up, we've made some super simple starter armies for you to select as your pledges. They come in 3 forms.

1: Mixed Company - a combination of Infantry and tanks
2: Infantry Company - a Company purely composed of Infantry stands (and Armoured Personnel Carriers, where appropriate).
3: Armour Company - a Company purely composed of Armour (Vehicles) stands

Firstly, the Mixed Companies:






Next up, the Vehicle Companies:






Then there's the Infantry Companies:





Syntha one is missing... John! SYNTHA ONE IS MISSING!!!!

Okay, I'll find out what's happened.

In the meantime, we hit some stretch goals!

First off, we have tokens (you'll need them!) which will come FREE.



There's also been some KS Exclusive ADD ONS made available.





Just remember, this is on Kickstarter NOW - and we need all the support we can get to make it MASSIVE!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1520354196/age-of-tyrants