Warhammer 40K & Wargaming Blog
Gamezone’s Fantasy dungeon-crawler board-game, riding on the old Heroquest brand-name, unlocked several hundred thousand dollars on Kickstarter before being shut down. Ever since, they’ve been chasing opportunities to get back on a crowd-funding platform. On the other end, Twelve Elements of War, with a freshly developed fantasy game, great concept art and promising miniatures has […]
Aaaand it’s back. GamesZone is back with their Heroquest 25th Anniversary Edition on the Spanish crowd-funding platform Lanzanons. #1 – Third Time Lucky? In case you don’t know what I am talking about, here’s a little summary of the story so far. Spanish miniature-making company GameZone have (it seems) secured the (Spanish?) rights to the […]
Just over a month ago, I had the pleasure to publish a guest article from Down Under. Sword and Board Games shared some of their insights into how to design a miniatures game – and showed previewed of their amazing 3D sculpts. This month, the Twelve Elements of War Kickstarter went live and reached its […]
Mantic Open Day (the second this year, after the Open Day in May) has come and gone. Though Deadzone is clearly the current hot topic, there were also some glimpses of what will happen to DreadBall in the future, now that the last Kickstarter-shipment has been sent. #1 – DreadBall Convicts and Brokkrs Here are […]
Lots of Kickstarter mayhem going on this week. Here’s a little update on one campaign that’s going ahead smoothly: Total Extinction. Without a Hollywood brand or a fickle IP, Sentinel Games have worked hard to get their own fantastic vision of grim sci-fi warfare off the ground. And it’s funded!! With 5 days to go. […]
I suppose this particular Kickstarter had it coming. The Heroquest 25th Anniversary Kickstarter has been suspended due to an IP dispute. The Kickstarter-project-page just shows a blank. Heroquest 25th Anniversary is the subject of an intellectual property dispute and is currently unavailable. #1 – Heroquest IP troubles A lot of people had high hopes for […]
We played Total Extinction by Sentinel Games. All I can say is WOW! Fast paced, engage lay, easy to play, and seriously, after reading the rules, you don’t need to look back much at all. This is a guest-post by Jeff La Belle & Crew, backers of Total Extinction on Kickstarter. Preparing a Game of […]
Good games are games that tell interesting stories. Any kind of game can tell a story, from ancient classics like Chess, King’s Table, and Go, to complex military simulations like Warhammer. Characters appear; problems beset them; solutions are sought and struggles are endured; and events in the world unfold. At the end of the story, the […]
Update: The Heroquest 25th Anniversary Kickstarter has been suspended over IP disputes! Here’s an unexpected (for me at least) piece of news. It appears that Spain’s Gamezone Miniatures have somehow found themselves with the right to re-do HeroQuest – a classic dungeon-crawling game (formerly?) set in the “Old World” of Games Workshop’s Warhammer Fantasy. Now […]
I had a busy week, and haven’t been able to follow the world of miniature wargaming as closely as I usually do. When I did, I came across a rather curious sight when I checked in on the final days of Mantic Games’ most recent Kickstarter for a Mars Attacks board game: It seems to […]
