MERCS Recon Kickstarter Imminent

Here is an interesting bit of news.

The makers of MERCS Miniatures are apparently about to launch a Kickstarter for a game called MERCS: Recon, which may be combining the best of their rich near-sci-fi MERCS setting and the fantastic Myth game that was their first runaway-success Kickstarter last year.

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#1 – MERCS Recon Early Pictures

From BoardGamesGeek:

MERCS: Recon is a fully cooperative, stand-alone game set in the exciting MERCS world. Recon uses a modular setup that allows for a highly replayable experience.

Players are MERCS infiltrating an opposing MegaCon location. The MERCS team must fight through the tight corridors of the structure, capture and interrogate worker-citizen, find mission objectives, and breach and secure the package.

Recon utilizes MERCS well known dynamic, high-quality miniatures, an engaging fog-of-war mechanic with variable agent movement, escalating security forces, and a tension-filled end game through a unique breach and clear mechanic.

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#2 – Thoughts?

MERCS Recon really sounds like a project to keep an eye on.

I’ve head my eye on MERCS for a while, but the miniatures are expensive and nobody I know truly plays it. I also gave the Myth Kickstarter a pass, as I do have plenty of dungeon-crawler-games flying around my home already (even if Myth takes a somewhat different spin on it).

A “break-into-MegaCorps” sci-fi/shadowrun style dungeon-game (in the broadest sense), with MERCS miniatures in (hopefully) plastic and an overall production value comparable to Myth?

Now … well … that’s definitely something I could get behind!

What do you think?

Z.