Warzone Eternal

AMA for Tales From a Professional Nerd
almost 2 years ago – Tue, May 09, 2023 at 01:32:32 PM

Alright folks! We are a little over one week in, and man have we been busy! Everybody behind the curtain is blown away by all the support, and we can't wait for you folks to see what else can be in store... in stores? Yeah... ;) 

Anyway, I wanted to go ahead set up a little fun event that goes hand in hand with my vlog/journal/soapbox/weirdness over at You Tube, Tales From a Professional Nerd. 

Using this Update's Comment thread ONLY, I'm going to roll with an hour long Ask Me Anything: Warzone Eternal Edition. Basically, if you have a Warzone-related question you'd like to hear the answer (or as close to an answer as I can legally or knowledgeably give), drop it in the Comments on this thread. When I get to rolling on the episode LIVE this friday, May/12/2021, noon EST... I will just start at the top and start answering until my timer goes off and says I have to go, or until I run out of stuff to answer/talk about. 

Which, if you know me... is unlikely. ;)

So... without further ado...  ASK ME ANYTHING! 

-Bryan C.P. Steele

Week 2 Underway!
almost 2 years ago – Tue, May 09, 2023 at 09:06:21 AM

With one week down, we've already knocked out a bunch of stretch goals, unlocking a slew of new options for your Warzone Eternal force, decal sheets from Death Ray Design, brand new exciting Warzone fiction, and, just over the weekend, the ability to add the downed Archangel Pilot objective model to your pledge, regardless of whether you were able to join us during our early bird period.

NEW STRETCH GOALS!

Looking into the immediate future, our next unlock is for the last batch of Expansion Boxes, broadening the range of models so that each faction has all three of their Starter Box Units represented (Algeroth, always the oddity, already hit that variety).  This includes the much requested Trenchers and, on the opposite end of the spectrum, Mishima's elite Shadow Walker assassins, the Brotherhood's unyielding Fury Elite Guard, and Cybertronic's Atilla weapon platforms.  As usual, higher resolution render images and pricing details are listed in the appropriate faction portion of "The Models" section. 

Following this wave of reinforcements, the Kickstarter will be working towards unlocking the first of our narrative scenario campaigns, the Graveton Protocol. Set in Venus' hotly contested (and just plain hot!) Graveton Archipelago, this will be a three part linked campaign of scenarios playable by any factions. Once unlocked, this campaign will be released at the same time as the electronic rulebook as a free PDF to all backers.

Warzone Eternal already has a number of great new pieces of art. While we all love the classic artwork, adding some new pieces was a goal of ours from the beginning. If we hit $140K, we'll be heading back to our artists and adding three new full color pieces to the print version of the rulebook. 

 PLEDGE MANAGER

In other news, we're continuing to discuss with our pledge manager the back end options to allow backers to swap Starter Boxes from their current pledge levels with Expansion Boxes. This introduces a great deal of complexity, unfortunately, but we're making headway.

But, the definitive answer is that you will be able to change your plege in some form so that you can select the options you like. This may not be a pledge manager solution, with us instead recommending that backers change their pledge level to Observer or Recon, and then adding on their desired Expansion Boxes as Add-Ons. To answer the inevitable question, if you backed in the first 72 hours and your final pledge is equivalent or higher to the value of the Skirmish pledge, you will still receive your Archangel. Just make sure you change your pledge, as opposed to deleting your current pledge, as it's the pledge number that was assigned to you that we'll reference when determining who fell within that 72 hour window.

ARMY BUILDING EXAMPLES

A number of you have asked for more information on building a force and more examples of Unit cards. We're working on both of those now, and you can expect a thorough article on foce building to be added to the Res Nova site, and linked here on the Kickstarter page.

NEW PAINTED MINIATURES!

Finally, we just got the image below in from Jessie Carlile, who is painting up a few of the Starter Box models. We think these look incredible, and really capture well the Capitol aesthetic. Nice job, and thanks again Jessie!  

Alex / Res Nova Games

Week 2 Kick-Off Update
almost 2 years ago – Sun, May 07, 2023 at 08:41:12 AM

Woohoo!  Overnight we unlocked the Pretorian Stalkers, so Algeroth's forces just became that much more deadly.

We've heard that you guys love the models, which is great as we were floored the first time we saw the completed renders as well, but these guys are going to be great fun on the tabletop as well.  While you can include just one in your force, perhaps to full in some available Support Points, as is befitting for their background they perform even better when fielded as a pair.  When you do so, they can take advantage of their Pack Hunter Unit Special Ability, which allows a Stalker to be assigned a second Reaction Counter per Turn, as long as they are within 12 inches of their fellow Stalker.

The Kickstarter is steaming along well, thanks to all of you, and while we're entering that slow down phase that befalls all Kickstarters, we're well-positioned to hit every stretch goal we had hoped for.  In fact, we're currently working with some of our partners to figure out some additional items to add that will help increase the value backers will get from the Kickstarter.  Those discussions are in the works and we'll be announcing the next batch of stretch goals on Tuesday, as part of our "one week in" update.

Additionally, we've heard some consistent requests for a few things, and we're working to address those:

• Conversations with our pledge manager have begun to determine the feasibility of allowing backers to use their pledged amounts as a credit in the pledge manager to select whatever items they like, as opposed to having to take the items currently listed in their pledge manager.  There's some balancing to do here, as we do have some backers who would prefer to keep the Starter Boxes listed in their reward level as opposed to having to re-pick them in the pledge manager.  Creating options for backers while not creating a hassle for others is the goal.
• I'm currently drafting a comprehensive explanation of army building in Warzone Eternal that we'll host on the www.resnovagames.com website when it's finished, linking it on the Kickstarter campaign page.  This will help folks get an idea of what kinds of miniatures they may want for their force, including identifying the Dark and Light allies.
• Of course an army building explanation is only valuable if you have some idea of what Units cost in the game.  We're thus working to release cards for most, if not all, of the miniatures in the 7 Starter Boxes to help provide that context.

So there are a lot of moving parts, as is expected for a Kickstarter, but that means plenty of cool new things to check out over the coming week!

Alex / Res Nova Games

Don't Forget Our Retailer Friends!
almost 2 years ago – Thu, May 04, 2023 at 08:57:07 PM

So, don't forget folks... if you think any of these miniatures and our game would do well for your local game store, let them know about the Retail Backer pledge. Heck, if you are seeing things that you are like "I want that... but maybe not *right* out of the gate." Tell them that!   

Those Retail Backers are going to have access to bring all of the things we unlock for sale to their stores when the campaign is over. This could be big for them AND for you... as that if your store is carrying the product for the game, it will be THAT much easier to get people to play once they see YOUR awesome stuff and you throw around some dice with them once or twice... they'll be hooked!

Can't wait to see what tomorrow brings! But for now... we sleeps!   

-Bryan C.P. Steele; Lead Designer and Professional Nerd

A slew of reinforcements and the galaxy's greatest hunters!
almost 2 years ago – Thu, May 04, 2023 at 06:30:18 PM

With day 3 wrapped, we're steaming ahead to another big set of Unit Expansion Boxes, with one for each of our factions unlocking at $110,000 - Bauhaus's close assault experts, Capitol's finest swordsmen, Cybertronic's shining poster boys, Imperial's corporate warfare specialists, Mishima's Ki-powered teleporters, Algeroth's fearsome line soldiers, and the Brotherhood's heretic-assassinating masters.

A new piece of fiction, "The Price of Heroism" by Richard August, telling the gripping tale of a group of Capitol soldiers, is unleashed at $115,000.

Finally, stalking in from the Venusian jungles to round out this batch of stretch goals, a pair of Algeroth's finest hunters, the Pretorian Stalkers, arrive at $120,000.

The Stalkers have been my favorite Warzone unit (sorry Sea Lions) since I first spied the 1st edition models nearly 30 years ago, so I'm thrilled that we're so close to unlocking our iteration of these fearsome predators.  I hope you love them too!

Alex / Res Nova Games