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Kickstart Monday: Multiuse Cards are front and center

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On June 5, 2023

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Welcome to Kickstart Monday! This is our weekly series featuring 2 or more crowdfunding projects that have caught our eye. We scour over platforms like Kickstarter, Gamefound, and Indigogo to find projects that interest us.

This week we feature 2 games with multiuse cards. What are multi-use cards you ask? They are cards that have different purposes in the game based on when and where they are played.

Coba

First up is Coba by Crossbow Games. In this co-op game for 1-4 players you are fighting your way through the temple to find treasure. Described as The Mind meets Racko, this pocket sized game has a lot of depth and replayability. The artwork is extraordinary and adds to the game immersion. The cards are used as steps in the cathedral, to determine imitative, and for player actions. WiscoDice had an opportunity to play a prototype of Coba and can confirm that this is a game you don’t want to miss out on. Hear about this game from the designers on WiscoDice podcast episode 110.

The crowdfunding for this game is through The Game Crafter and is live for the next 2 weeks. Crowdfunding on The Game Crafter is a bit different, if you back the project you are guaranteed to get a copy of the game. But the more that back, the lower the price goes. If you miss the crowdfunding window, you can purchase anytime for full retail price.

El Burro

Next up is El Burro: a La Granja Game by Spielworxx. This one is live on Gamefound for another week. In this game you are a farmer in Majorca and need to develop the farm and move goods to the port of Palma. In addition to multi-purpose cards, you also have the fun of dice-drafting.

If you are a fan of La Granja, this is a standalone game in the same family of games. The campaign indicates this is slightly more complex than the first game, La Granja. Also, it plays the standard 2-4 players and includes a solo mode!

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Kickstart Monday: Evolution: Another World and Leviathan Wilds

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On May 22, 2023

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Welcome to Kickstart Monday! This is our weekly series featuring 2 or more crowdfunding projects that have caught our eye. We scour over platforms like Kickstarter, Gamefound, and Indigogo to find projects that interest us.

Evolution: Another World

The first project this week is the Kickstarter for Evolution Another World by CrowD Games.

This is the next installment in the Evolution series of games which all revolve around gaining special traits and attributes to help a species of animals survive and thrive. In Evolution: Another World players will guide their species to success by evolving them with a huge variety of fantasy themed traits. For example you might be able to evolve a Fire-breathing, Many-Eyed Vampire creature or a creature that is Flying Tiny and Fearsome. I think a lot of fun could be had finding the craziest combinations of the various traits.

The artwork for the game is wild and fantastical. The vibrant colors and playful style help to solidify the strong fantasy theme in this game. Hight quality artwork seems to be a staple of the Evolution series and this is no exception. You can pick up the base retail game from the Kickstart but they also offer a Special Edition that will include many additional evolution cards, cards with alternate artwork and a 5-6 player expansion.

If you were looking to add a little bit of magic into your Evolution experience this may be the game for  you. The Kickstarter will end on Wednesday June 7th, so be sure to visit the project page before then.

Leviathan Wilds

Next up this week is Leviathan Wilds a Kickstarter project from Moon Crab Games.

What really caught my eye with Leviathan Wilds was the theme. In the game player go solo or join with others cooperative to climb up and defeat colossal Leviathans. I think the game clearly is drawing some inspiration from the video game Shadow of the Colossus and it is quite clever to bring that kind of gameplay into a board game.

Each player will build a deck by combining a set of character cards and a set of class cards that will provide them with a unique set of abilities. I really like the idea of the mechanic and I would have a ton of fun trying all the different combinations. It looks like the game has 8 characters and 7 different classes for a total of 56 unique combinations so there is plenty there to try out.

Each of the leviathan battles takes place on two pages of a ring binder book with excellent looking artwork on each page. Each of these boss fights each have their own set of rules to mix things up. With 15 Leviathans to face off against combined with the variety of characters and classes I would wager there is a fair amount to discover and a lot of replayability. I think there are a lot of really interesting ideas in this game and that it is one to watch.

If you are ready to take on the challenge climb on up to the Leviathan Wilds Kickstarter page and make your pledge before Thursday June 1st.

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Kickstart Monday: Forges of Ravenshire and Pioneer Rails

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On May 1, 2023

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Welcome to Kickstart Monday! This is our weekly series featuring 2 or more crowdfunding projects that have caught our eye. We scour over platforms like Kickstarter, Gamefound, and Indigogo to find projects that interest us.

Forges of Ravenshire

Our first project of note this week is Forges of Ravenshire a Kickstarter from  B.A. Games.

In Forges of Ravenshire players are blacksmiths competing for the title of Forgemaster. The player who runs their smithy the most successfully and earns the most money will become the new Forgemaster of the town of Ravenshire.

To be the best smiths players will need to run their smithy efficiently and complete contacts to earn money. Players will use dice workers to gather resources that range from simple leather and wood to more exotic materials like mithril and dragon scales.

Players will improve their game engine by upgrading their forge, hiring guild members and improving their forge’s reputation to gain access to even more lucrative contracts.

Forges of Ravenshire features a number of my favorite mechanics: dice worker placement, engine building and player board upgrades. All of this looks to come together in a nice package, all the artwork and components look to be of high quality. If you are ready fire up your forge and test your mettle, make your way to the Kickstarter page and back Forges of Ravenshire by May 11th. 

Pioneer Rails

Next up we have the Kickstarter for Pioneer Rails from Dranda Games and the designers of The Guild of Merchant Explorers.

Pioneer Rails is a flip and write game set in the Old West. During the game you will be drawing a network of railroads across your personal map sheet triggering scoring and collecting bonuses along the way. Each turn a dealer will reveal 3 poker cards and will choose a poker card to use recording it onto their players sheet to build a poker hand. The other players will choose from one of the two remaining cards. After adding to your hand the suit of the chosen card determines which rail line you will be extending. As you build rail across your map you will trigger a variety of features including Saloons, cattle ranches, mines and towns all of which score points for the end game in different ways.

Pioneer rails looks like is had a neat combination of mechanics which all tie in to the western theme. The map sheets are quite attractive as are the poker cards – note that as an add on you can get a full deck of playing cards including jokers. There are 2 available maps in the base game and a third available with an expansion combined with all of the different ways to score points during the game it  seems there is quite a bit of replayability here. Pioneer Rails also comes in at a very reasonable $24 USD (and only $29 to include the expansion) If you are a fan of the flip and write genre this is one to check out. The kickstarter will run though May 17th.

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Kickstart Monday: Teotihuacan: Deluxe Master Set and Zombicide: White Death

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On April 24, 2023

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Welcome to Kickstart Monday! This is our weekly series featuring 2 or more crowdfunding projects that have caught our eye. We scour over platforms like Kickstarter, Gamefound, and Indigogo to find projects that interest us.

Teotihuacan: City of the Gods Deluxe Master Set

First up this week is Teotihuacan: City of the Gods Deluxe Master Set from Board and Dice. Teotihuacan was originally released in 2018 but is back again in a new deluxified form. Teotihuacan is one of the hit Eurogames from the “T-series” by designer David Tascini and is a favorite here at WiscoDice as well.

In Teotihuacan players move worker dice that grow in strength as they move along a rondel that is the city of Teotihuacan itself. Players will gather needed resources, make technological advancements, ascend the steps of the temples to the gods, and build and decorate the pyramid at the center of the city.

The deluxe master set includes a number of aesthetic enhancements to this already great game:

  • Larger custom dice
  • Heat printed resource tokens
  • Heat printed Temple token
  • Dual Layer player boards
  • Alternate board art
  • Custom resource bags
  • Promos
  • Player Mats
  • 5th Player expansion

(Note that not all upgrades are available at all pledge levels)

If you were sitting on the fence for Teotihuacan, now is the time to act you’ve got until May 12 to back this beautiful upgrade to an awesome game.

Zombicide: White Death

Secondly this week we have Zombicide: White Death from CMON, the next entry in the insanely popular Zombicide series of games. 

Zombicide: White Death is a sequel to Black Plague and Green Horde and it takes place in a medieval fantasy setting. Players must defend the frozen city of Wintergrad whether it be from the tops of the stone battlements or on the field of battle. This iteration of Zombicide looks to have primarily an eastern theme. Players may be taking on the role of a samurai or eastern warriors or wizards. The zombies and abominations borrow from eastern mythology as well such as the Kumihimo abomination which appears to be Zombicide’s version of a nine-tailed fox, the Qilin abomination, a Hooven chimerical kind of dragon-horse from Chinese mythology and the intimidating multi-armed Asura abomination, a demon from Indian myths. As it stands the game looks to have at least 40 survivor characters to play and 13 unique abominations. If that’s not enough for you there are of course a huge number of add-ons you can include in your pledge, almost all of which include beautiful and intricately detailed miniatures.

If you are ready to stand your ground against the white death, visit the Kickstarter page before Apr 26 to make your pledge.

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Kickstart Monday: Terminus and Terrorscape

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On April 10, 2023

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Welcome to Kickstart Monday! This is our weekly series featuring 2 or more crowdfunding projects that have caught our eye. We scour over platforms like Kickstarter, Gamefound, and Indigogo to find projects that interest us.

Terminus

Our first project this week is Terminus, a kickstarter from insideUp games.

Terminus is a subway building resource management game for 2 to 5 players. In Terminus players take on the role of a transit company building subway routes to connect districts across the city. Players will take actions around what the game calls an Action Loop. Through the 13 available actions in the Action Loop players must manage multiple aspects of their company including construction resources, power and building permits. They will build subway stations and subway lines to meet the changing demands of the city for service to different districts.  Players will also add new developments to the city, fulfill public projects and earn prestige for their personal agendas.

Terminus looks to be a game of higher complexity that would fit well on the shelf with heavier resource management euro-games. The kickstarter edition will feature a number of upgraded high quality components if it meets its stretch goals. The Kickstarter campaign will wrap up on April 25th.

Terrorscape

Second up this week is the Kickstarter for Terrorscape from Ice Makes games.

Terrorscape is a heavily thematic asymmetrical actions game for 2 to 4 players that promises to recreate the feel of a horror movie at the tabletop. 1 player will take on the role of a bloodthirsty killer that hunts down the other players to bring them to a grisly end. The other 1 to 3 players must work as a team of survivors to avoid the killer and find a way to escape.

The survivors take on the role of a unique character with specific abilities and strengths to lend to the team. There are five base survivor characters to choose from including The Doctor, The Engineer and the Detective. There are plenty of choices for the killer ranging from your standard chainsaw wielding maniac, to werewolves, aliens and even a monstrous carnivorous plant. Terrorscape features detailed miniatures for each of the survivor characters and the various killers.

Gameplay takes place on a two-sided board with a large mansion structure acting as a screen to hide the survivor’s and killer’s side of the board from each other. The mansion also functions as a dice tower! The Killer uses a unique deck of cards that provides a different play style to hunt down and eliminate the survivors. Survivors must scrounge for useful items and weapons while avoiding exposing their location to the killer . Because of the screen separating the board the game has the unique aspect that actions are hidden from the other party so that survivors can slip away undetected or the Killer can set a surprise ambush. The survivors will only win if they locate 5 keys that allow them to escape or they are able to survive long enough to wait for rescue. If the Killer manages to find and kill one of the survivors they lose.

While it looks like there is plenty of content in the base game The Terrorscape campaign also includes expansions that provide new characters and killers as well as new maps to play on. Additional upgrades are available for the deep-pocketed backer including deluxe playmats and components. If all this sounds like a delightfully terrifying time you have until May 20th to back this project.

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