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I back it @gerry, quite heavily too as I remembered and still have the role play game, signed copied of the first edition, and I love the world setting, the background and the fluff. So when this skirmish game, Cannibal Sector One, came out a put of me was awoken and I jumped in. I was involved in the playtesting of the skirmish game and actually it is a very nice and neat game, with a few faults or not quite the way I would of gone, but I did not write the rules.
The kickstarter, £55k, which is not a lot of money, was for a copy of the rules primary and the figures, which some were done, secondary. So after a year behind its release, the rule book, the rules, the illustrations and the fluff still was not done, no money to print it as the money raised had disappeared, the Nightfall Games guys, David Allsop and Jared Earle, who where directors and the mainly force behind the writing the fluff and layout of the rules, the rules mechanics were written by someone else, resigned, after bailing Daruma out of some debt. This was followed by Graham Wallace of Daruma, leaving Mark Wallace of Daruma to run things on his own. At this stage, in April, Mark Wallace tried to carry everything on his own and had been sinking his own money into keeping it alive and fulfilled, long before the others left, and now he is at this stage and yes he has been a little, okay a lot naive, but as it stands no one is coming out of this smelling of roses. Mark Rapton, Word Forge Games, ex Prodos, left them in April 2015, was helping with the distribution of Daruma’s SLA stock, after being messed around and strung by other distributors, as Mark could not handle all of this on his own, understandable, and now Word Forge games has received some of the stock in lieu of debt, whether it was legal or not, with an aim to get it the KS out to the backers, not only once he has found out what is feasible and does not cost him.
Personally this is a total shambles and this should not be played out in public like this, but thats why gamers do not make good businessmen, and I think this is dead in the water. This saddens me as the range of figures were and are wonderful, they have a small but increasing range, that were not cheap but were very nice, personal opinion here. I have most of what was released and besides a couple of resin issues the sculpts were clean. I really cannot see where this is going to go as the rules mechanics are owned by Daruma and are the moulds of the miniatures, the fluff and illustrations by Nightfall Games along with the import IP licence, the stock is in the hands of Word Forge Games and everything in the hands of the lawyers, what a flipping mess.