Campaign Update: Over Ten Thousand! Stress Tokens Sprue Stretch Goal. More painting by The HobbyBrush.
Hi Backers and Watchers!
Over Ten Thousand!
As of the time of writing, we're now above the all-important £10k of Funding mark. Ten down, three to go. Tell all your best friends and worst enemies to pledge to the Kickstarter, quick!
The middle week or so of a Troublemaker Kickstarter does tend to be the quietest time for pledges in our experience, so for now we'll just have a preview look at something to come later in the Campaign...
Stress Tokens Sprue Stretch Goal
We've got several Stretch Goals already announced for the Kickstarter, which add extra scenery sprues into the already-packed Big Boxed Game sets. And then at £18k, we're going to add in the Stress Tokens Sprue as well.
A photo edit showing what our Stress Markers could, and should, look like when used in the game.
Our rules system uses Stress Tokens to represent the morale of your formations - the more Stress Tokens a formation has, the lower its morale becomes, as battlefield orders become progressively less effective. Once a formation has as many Stress Tokens as it has remaining stands of infantry or vehicles, it becomes disorganised and stops responding to most order types. Once it has double the amount of Stress Tokens as it has surviving stands, it is entirely wiped out.
It is possible to reduce the Stress of a formation, by ordering it to concentrate on regrouping and reorganising. We'll discuss the game rules more fully later in the Campaign. But what this means in practice, is that it is convinient to have a way of visually showing how Stressed (or otherwise) a formation is. Stress Tokens are a quick way of doing so.
The current Stress Tokens sprue design concept has 12 small two-part Stress Tokens, and 2 large Stress Tokens. The intent would be to use the larger tokens to denote 5 Stress points, and the little tokens to denote singular Stress points.
The sprue will be cast in translucent orange tinted plastic, and we'd like to add several of them into every CityCrushers: Epic Battles boxed game for no extra charge. If we get to the right Stretch Goal level, they'll also be added into the Campaign as a top-up Pledge option.
We'd also encourage feedback on the sprue design - would you like to see changes to the Stress Tokens' design? Just like with the main Armies sprues, there will be time to change or upgrade details on the sprue before we ask our factory to produce thousands of them...
The HobbyBrush Strikes Again
Our painting hero The HobbyBrush has slung some more paint at some prototype test prints of our model kits, this time the Skinner Strike Buggy. He's fitted one with a flamethrower, and the other with a heavy machinegun.
Could everyone please say thank-you to The HobbyBrush for the cool paint jobs? Cheers!
And thank you too dear Backers, for being with us on this journey to create the best looking tiny soldiers game since sliced robot was invented.
Ben @ TMG
