Coming back to Kickstarter (nudge, nudge, wink, wink)… the way The Witcher: Old World is growing, I am starting to worry how much is it going to cost fully…
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I’m thinking the same thing. There is at least one more expansion, though no idea what it is yet.
Given other projects I’m looking at and the confirmation that Black Rose Wars Rebirth is a new core box, I may have to drop my pledge.
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Mentioning this here because it’s all full of “nope” for me, and yet funded in eight minutes, running at 4× funding goal as I write with 29 days to go.
So yeah. Great big minis-heavy game; first time designer, whose other job is running a digital marketing agency that does a lot of boardgame Kickstarter promotion; claims to be Christian but not preachy, but wants you to be completely sure it’s Christian (though some of the angels are, hmm, distinctly not canonical); you can add on $600 for a set of painted minis plus your name in the rulebook…
I mean, it may actually be a decent game. But there’s so much Kickstarter-culture halo round it that I’ll never find out unless I meet someone playing it at a convention.
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I have an idea what you are talking about. I never would have thought to put it quite like this but now I know I do not even have to click the link to be able to visualize exactly what that page looks like. It’s as if I had a vision of … kickstarter hell? How many red flags can it check?
PS: Angel Investor as a backer level… I don’t even know whether to groan or … cry. Maybe they made the game for that one?
PPS: yeah, bored. (Waiting for something)
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There are at least some flags it doesn’t have: there is a rulebook (at least for the core game), and they’ve thought about international shipping.
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Meanwhile FASA (wow, I can’t believe they still exist as an independent entity) is running a campaign straight out of a 1986 mail order catalogue.
(I still want this.)
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Wow. That is… kinda amazing.
I did not expect a 2021 KS to include this:
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That thing is simultaneously marketing poison and the single hottest thing on the game page.
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This is a FASA game right? Having flashbacks of those 80s Star Trek games now!
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I’m going to guess it’ll share some hallmarks from their older designs. My glasses are like bloody rubies for these guys so I’m sickeningly wistful for a game that channels the bad old days. 
[EDIT] I know we’ve got at least one Talon fan here, so that “handy player dashboard” must look tasty to one more person around here.
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That manoeuvre chart looks a lot like the one in Crimson Skies (the original boardgame, not the clickytech thing that came later).
At the time it was said that it descended from the one in Blue Max, which looked something like this:
(Via BGG, modern computer interpretation)
It is actually pretty quick to play – you decide what hex you want to be in (relative to your current position) and at what facing, then look it up on the template to see what manoeuvre difficulty you need to get there.
Of course, this doesn’t have the glorious damage templates of Crimson Skies (same idea as in Renegade Legion: Centurion):
(Via BGG again) where you’d use it to cross off the damage your plane was taking on the armour and internal component diagram on your record sheet.
@VictorViper, I do like Talon but I’ve never actually played it with the physical bits! Hope to remedy that some time soon.
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There are playthrough videos. It looks quite good. I am also skeptical because of the Christian influences, though - nothing inherently wrong with being Christian of course, and Christian mythology is fertile grounds for a cool fantasy setting and/or game… but a lot of Christian media ends up being either evangelizing the faith or about creating a media bubble for a certain stripe of fundamentalist and I am not a fan of those things. Deliverance doesn’t quite seem to be that… but I can’t say it’s definitely not, either.
Also, I don’t know that it’s fair to describe it as minis heavy when the core box has none and even the deluxe version only has 8, for the angels.
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Fair point, but it looked minis-heavy. 
(My tolerance is low – I’ll put up with one as a fancy first-player token, and occasionally more (see VOLT), but…)
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Monolith Games have released a poll for the next pantheon they present in a Mythic Battles game. One of the options is Hindu.
Oh God… Slow motion trainwreck
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Yeah… that’s certainly something.
Although I could go for a cross religion battle game. Jesus vs Buddha. Something like Cthulhu wars.
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As someone who has struggled to teach the Concept of Brahman I am particularly interested in how Mythic would even attempt to define the Hindu God/Gods.
Active religions have mythology just as fascinating and cool for doing weird fantasy stories/games/etc with as the ancient myths we regularly do that with. But gosh, that’s a minefield to step into due to the number of active believers to potentially offend.
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I’m not sure how ‘this is the god of destruction so we’ve made them badass and half mutilated!’ can be done respectfully. I admire the optimism of the backers who have full faith Mythic games can pull it off.
I really don’t know why they’d even consider it when there is no shortage of dead mythologies around the world. Mesoamerica and Babylonia weren’t even options!
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At least they will leave alone Norse mythology? It’s kinda overused lately, isn’t it?
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I’m sorry (seriously) but I’m going to be “that guy” but… it’s Monolith! 
(Mythic got cut out after the first campaign).
That said I was also surprised by that. I know literally nothing about the culture so I avoided that one I did vote, but I went for Japanese and Chinese. I would hope they do it well, or well enough, but hard to say.
Either way I’m hyped for Egypt…one day. (Also Ragnarok!)
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