MERCS Recon Kickstarter Is Live

Those Kickstarter campaigns are truly coming hard and fast again these days.

This one has been on the horizon for a while, and is now live on Kickstarter (and funded many times over): MERCS Recon, from the makers of the miniatures skirmish game of MERCS and the highly successful Myth Kickstarter last year.

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#1 – MERCS Recon

MERCS: Recon is a fully cooperative, stand-alone game set in the exciting MERCS world.

The idea of a near-future/Shadowrun-like miniatures board game hits a lot of good points.

Even more importantly, no silly early-bird pledges either, so I can take my time to take this one in and see what they have to offer, before I consider making my pledge. Thumbs up for that!

The game-play itself .. well .. the videos leave me more confused than informed, but I hope some better ones might be coming in the next month. The main downside, at the moment, is that MERCS Recon is once again a Kickstarter asking for a fair bit of money to “get in”.

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#2 – MERCS Recon Pledge Levels

The “cheapest” pledge level qualifying for stretch goals sits at US$ 120,-, plus another US$ 24 shipping to the UK – early next year – for (currently) 20 miniatures.

That is quite a sticker shock, and something that makes me think the retail-option (or eBay) next year might be the better way to go.

But we’ll see. Maybe those stretch-goals will pile up.

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#3 – Thoughts?

What do you think about the MERCS Recon Kickstarter? Are you tempted to get into some near-future corporate espionage and black ops?

Let me know what you think!

Z.