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Reply To: So the recent 9th age Kickstarter campaign failed to fund. Any thoughts on why?

December 27, 2018 at 10:50 pm #1317621

elessar2590

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@redben a big reason a lot of people in my area didn’t back it was that the TV series would have been over before we got the game. After the kickstarter finished it was announced that the series was going to be delayed a year and so a few of use went out and bought some stuff.

Plenty of people play rank and file games so I don’t really see that as being a huge issue. As Rank and File go it’s very tame. Set unit sizes of less than 20, plenty of heroes and a very strong IP plus everything was card driven.

It’s not fair to compare two Boardgames to a Miniatures game. Boardgames are far more popular and regularly get huge support on KS because they tap into a giant base of both “Hardcore” and “Part Time” gamers whereas any miniatures game loses a lot of appeal to “Part Timers”. Part Time doesn’t mean not proper gamers or anything like that just people who choose not to go to the effort of painting minis, building terrain and everything else that comes with tabletop gaming.