Dreadball Expansion: Dreadball Xtreme

Mantic is now running a Kickstarter campaign for a new expansion to Dreadball, Mantic's game of sci-fi tabletop sport, similar to Blood Bowl but with a sci-fi setting.  The expansion is called DreadBall Xtreme, and focuses on off-the-books matches of Dreadball.  The buy-in is $25 if you only need the team and PDF rules, $75 if you need the full set. The campaign ends on the 16th of March.

At-tack!

Mantic is at it again on Kickstarter, and this time, they're doing a tactical war/board game based on the Mars Attacks franchise.  Entry level for the full game comes in at $100, but the kickstarter (here) features a number of things I'm excited about in the 28mm space:

* 28mm modern civilian miniatures
* easy damaged urban brick walls, as well as intact urban walls.
* Atenocities 28mm urban terrain


These in addition to the 28mm US soldiers and martians (and flying saucers) you'd probably expect.  Check it out!

Dropship Horizon

I wanted to feature one of the blogs I've added to my list -- Dropship Horizon.  Dropship updates regularly, and focuses on small-scale miniatures releases -- both 6mm and 15mm -- in sci-fi gaming.  Given that I've dabbled in using both scales heavily, Dropship's been a wonderful resource.  Check them out!

Cthulhu Wars Kickstarter

Since I missed Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu 7th Kickstarter, I might as well make this Cthulhu week.  The creator of the Call of Cthulhu RPG, Sandy Petersen, is creating a board game of miniatures combat featuring elder gods, cults, and the opening of gates.  The concept reminds me very much of the old Cults Across America, but with two large changes -- gone is the old tongue-in-cheek flavor, and replacing the old cardboard pieces, there are a full range of 28mm-scale miniatures, including the Elder Gods.  Check it out on Kickstarter.

Kickstarter: D&D/Pathfinder Miniatures

For quite a while, I've wanted a set of miniatures with interchangeable parts that covered humans in most of the armor available in Dungeons and Dragons or other fantasy games. It's been particularly difficult to find, and cost-prohibitive, as to properly assemble models representative of adventurers (and not just soldiers), one needs to cobble together a lot of parts and spend quite a bit of money.  Kingdom Death changes that.