Mythic Games Drop New Details On Reichbusters: Projekt Vril
October 17, 2018 by brennon
Mythic Games this week dropped more details on their upcoming game, Reichbusters: Projekt Vril. We learned a lot more about the gameplay and background for it!
Here's what Mythic Games had to say...
"Reichbusters: Projekt Vril is a fast and furious game with lots of weird science, witty one-liners, and heroic moments set during World War II. It is late December 1944 and, on the face of it, history has unfolded as we know it, but that could be about to change.
The Nazis have discovered a source of "vril" that has been brought back to the Reich for study. Vril is a source of energy that can control all types of matter. It can destroy like lightning or replenish life, heal, or cure. It is used to rend through solid matter. Its light is said to be steadier, softer and healthier than that from any flammable material. It can also be used as a power source for animating mechanisms."
It sounds like a lot of different Weird World War dreams coming together into one awesome package.
The gameplay is also sounding fascinating with you working together in this entirely cooperative experience (a major plus). You will be preparing your equipment and then heading out to complete your missions against the vile Vrilmeisters.
An interesting touch to the gameplay is that it starts off as a stealthy infiltration as you try and sneak through their facilities to complete your objectives. You will then decide when you want to unleash hell and start going all guns blazing. This reminds me a lot of the way XCOM games plan out and if they can recreate that on the tabletop then I am all for that mounting tension and sudden frenzied action.
The game features a simple action system which is then supplemented by cards which can start adding to your repertoire, making you a killing machine or a stealthy badass. Each hero also comes with a number of feats which are unique to them and Heroics which allow you to really harness the action hero within each of your characters.
The miniature design for this game has won me over too. As a big fan of the likes of Wolfenstein, you can see the influences here and that's nothing if not for the betterment of the game's appeal.
They have also done some unique things with the design of their Vril-enhanced Germans as you'll see here.
I am very much looking forward to giving this a go when we get to Essen next week and hopefully learning more about the plans they have for the game. I don't particularly need another big game filled with plastic figures but I could probably make an exception if the gameplay is tight enough to make me play it on a regular basis.
What do you think?
"I don't particularly need another big game filled with plastic figures but I could probably make an exception if the gameplay is tight enough to make me play it on a regular basis..."
That Mech really looks awesome. Do we have a date and price yet?
Thanks :). I heard a rumour that won’t be the only mech in the game…
It’s due to launch next month. The exact date should be announced soon.
Great, there is no such a thing as enough mechs 😉
The game launches next month ? So no kickstarter ? Take my money !
It is a KS 🙂
Just as a heads up for folks, the image of the board is from an earlier stage in development. The tiles now contain areas rather than squares 🙂
The Minis look cool but I fear that it would end up straight on the shelf like most other games now do for me… so many games, so little time.
Yep, looking forward to seeing gameplay of this so that I can work out if it’s something that’s going to see enough tabletop time.
That mech does look great.
I do like the miniatures and setting and any excuse to kill germans is good as they are the bad guys of the 20th century…
However… I have pretty much everything for Tannhauser and don’t need another box of plastic to paint…
And Mythic do tend to have very high prices for there KS and a tendency to do rules that need fixing in their games… so I’m reluctant to go in for it…
Plus Brexit means I’ll have to pay customs fees which takes the price even higher.
Whatever happens with Brexit our KS campaigns will be UK friendly. This is relatively small product range (by KS minis board game standards) and the all-in is comfortably the lowest of our campaigns so far.
That’s good to know. I see a lot of KS that say euro friendly, but with anything shipping after march next year (I think it’s march) I’ll be looking for UK friendly. I’m still painting Mythic Battles: Pantheon… when I get chance… and would have loved to go all in on that (I love the Greek Myths… their gods are so much more fun than modern myths… or religions as some people like to call them), but it wasn’t just the $500+ price that stopped me… it was the photo of the guy with stack of boxes and the thought…… Read more »
That long wait lowers the opportunity cost of buying a KS product as opposed to something which can be purchased immediately. Psychologically, things we can have now are worth more to us than things we have to wait for (the credit card industry basically exists because of this lol). It’s why KS campaigns have to compete in other areas such as exclusives which can only be obtained by backing the campaign and in discounted prices. Without that you can just buy the GW thing now and wait a year to get the KS thing in retail and get the same… Read more »
I wouldn’t worry too much about the Brexit situation with regards to Kickstarter, there will be hundreds of UK backers on many projects and the project owners will have to sort some kind of solution out or they risk angering a lot of people if they end up having to pay huge customs fees.
I’m not as confident of that as you. It’s all about saving money and if they have to pay extra to ship to UK they will want just charge extra for shipping.
Hmm isn’t Vril part of the Dust Universe??
Vril is an energy source from a nineteenth century novel called The Coming Race. It’s since become associated with Nazi occultism. It also inspired the product name, ‘Bovril’.
Thanks for the clarification Ben, no way that’s kinda cool. Do like Bovril and the game does look very good. Like the Mech, looking forward to seeing this 🙂
Vril is also in Hollow Earth Expeditions RPG,but they were an inhuman race. The exotic material in that game is Orichalcum which is another mythological substance.
So many great products from GW and others coming thick and fast these days, without a year wait, hassles with pledge managers or huge postage costs. Hard to justify Kickstarting a bunch of minis. If gameplay seems impressively new or interesting then maybe, but only maybe… actually, nah. 😀
But you don’t get top ride the hype train 🙂
Minis look great but the game doesn’t sound particularly ground breaking. I would look at games like Clank in Space to scratch a similar itch unless you are really in awe of the Weird War 2 theme. And you can have Clank in your hands right now rather than wait 12 months 🙂
Take my money.
The sculpts are pretty good and the paint jobs just excellent. Why this theme, it just comes across as bandwagoning off the back of so many Weird War games and mini-ranges over the past few years. Considering Mythic has been so innovative with themes, scales and gameplay over the last last few years this feels a bit lazy.
Mythic really gets how to sell shit. The way they roll out their product, the pacing of reveals and quality on display is just spot on.
Who paints their stuff ?
Most of our minis are painted by Seb Lavigne, our studio painter. Angel Giraldez did some Nazi troopers and zombies, and I believe the mech was painted by our production manager, Erwann.
This looks interesting, could see me jumping on board with this.