Way of the Fighter by Soda Pop Miniatures Kickstarter (Live)

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**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sodapopminiatures/way-of-the-fighter?ref=nav_search

Way of the Fighter is an expandable card game by Benjamin Yamada that pits two fighters against one another in an arena, with a theme reminiscent of classic arcade-style fighting games. Each player manages their fighter’s movements, actions, health, and energy to achieve victory. The game is quick and involves bluffing, resource management, knowledge of each fighter's style, and sharp tactical decisions.

well soda pop have a new KS, but it's cards rather than minis, but looks potentially fun, but not totally convinced it's got $30K in it to fund (or that the value is there for the pledges) but we'll see they've been doing plenty of social media promotion in the run up to launch

**greywulf**

Apparently they unlock resun minis at 50k

**devilution**

No relic knights then this month :-( ?

**Sining**

Hard to see myself backing this. My fighting game needs are pretty much taken care of with Battlecon and Exceed

**Joyboozer**

Is there a miniatures only pledge level?

**insaniak**

Joyboozer wrote:
Is there a miniatures only pledge level?

I wouldn't expect so, at least until the miniatures actually unlock...

**Joyboozer**

insaniak wrote:
Joyboozer wrote:
Is there a miniatures only pledge level?

I wouldn't expect so, at least until the miniatures actually unlock...

I just wanted to get it out of the way early, as it's bound to come up.

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

Way of the Fighter Relaunch

Published by Wayne Rysavy, on November 23, 2016. Filed under News Way of the Fighter.

WOTF-FbHeader-Relaunch

As we close in on our final week, we have decided to postpone the campaign and relaunch this coming Monday, November 28th at 3pm EST.

We’ve decided this for a couple of reasons, first our launch day coincided with the aftermath of a very tense election. Our social media analytics clearly show that a lot of people had the election on their mind far more than fun and games. We’re also pushing into the Thanksgiving holiday and Black Friday, which will further distract people. We were certainly aware that we’d be going through a holiday and extended the campaign beyond it for just that purpose, but we did not anticipate the social media impact the election would have. We’re excited that by relaunching the campaign after the Thanksgiving holiday we’ll be able to give Way of the Fighter a bit more breathing room and a couple of extra weeks to continue to get the word out.

Way of the Fighter is an expandable card and dice game, which is new territory for the Ninja Division and Soda Pop design team. We are very proud of this game, love how it plays, and want to strongly focus on it as the card and dice game it is. We originally added miniatures, because, well, that’s what we do and we thought it would be fun. We, perhaps, underestimated how much you—our awesome fans—really love our miniatures. It is pretty clear to us that we needed a pledge level that better services our devoted miniature fan base. So that’s exactly what we’re going to do.

The newly launched campaign will feature two core pledges: Card Fighter and Miniature Fighter.

The Card Fighter pledge will have a slightly reduced cost and start straight away with Blazing Soul Candy and ND-2000. It will also receive all of the free card-based stretch goals. The Miniature Fighter pledge will also feature a reduced cost, Blazing Soul Candy, ND-2000, and all ten core fighters’ miniatures. It will receive all the free card-based stretch goals and all of the free miniature-based stretch goals. This pledge is for you miniature lovers and as we unlock stretch goals will grow to include miniatures for all of the fighters (and a few special surprises)!

Way of the Fighter is already in a very advanced state, so we’re not going to waste any time in getting the relaunched campaign up and running. Our plan is for it to run from November 28th through December 12th. So, get your fill of turkey and stuffing this weekend, and we’ll see you back here next Monday for more Way of the Fighter!

**Sining**

Lamest excuse for a relaunch ever. "Oh, uh...the elections made me lose money". I don't see it affecting Shadows of Brimstone or the cthulhu dungeoncrawler or mythic battles. No one is that interested because there are already some very good fighting game card games out there and without miniatures, this one just doesn't stand out enough.

And relaunching only a week later is just weird.

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

I suspect the rapid relaunch is to make sure they can still capitalise on the advertising they've been running

and possibly because a manufacturing slot needs to be kept

(but I'll agree that I don't think the election has had much of an effect on the uptake, but we'll see)

**devilution**

They should focus on Relic Knights and SDE.

Is there really someone waiting for a game like this one? There is already a well established game like this one....

It's sad to see they don't believe in the Relic Knights IP, I really loved that one... Ah well.

**Sining**

Relic Knights KS2 is supposedly being pushed back for this.

**defwolf**

Ryu + Ken = Ren

**Mezmaron**

***
Memo to Ninja Division:
***

No one wants this card game. And rebooting won't change that. The Kickstarter performed very poorly and it wasn't even going to reach the lowball $30k target according to Kicktraq.

Luckily, you already have an establshed game that had great initial buy-in. It has been neglected for far too long while you focus various pet projects.

Just cut your loses and bring on Relic Knights 2. Please.

Mez

**lucasbuffalo**

In for the miniatures as long as more get unlocked.

**Twelvecarpileup**

Kind of hard sell when Battlecon exists.

It looks like a less fleshed out version of that game.