Icarus Miniatures Add New Rewards To Kickstarter Pledge Levels
September 24, 2015 by brennon
Icarus Miniatures have added another round of bonus items to their £75 pledge level and below as part of their Kickstarter as well as showing off the first 3D prints of the Nexus Grunts. The Nexus really are some of the best looking aliens out there in a Sci-Fi game to date so I can't wait for these models to pop up!
The models have a great amount of detail to them, especially for what is essentially regular foot troops and they are also dominating and dangerous next to the Humans in their game world.
I have a copy of Gabriel Cross sitting on my desk right now and it's a fantastic piece. If the Nexus are anything like Gabriel then folks are in for a treat.
In terms of additional content for the £75 pledge level and more you could get your hands on...
- Everyone at the £75 level will get a signed A3 Print of the rulebook art, as well as A4 prints of the faction box art.
- They'll also get a whole host of desktop backgrounds of the different artwork.
- Because we've passed the 200 backer mark, everyone who pledged £50 is going to get a PDF of The Icarus Project: Artbook One, which contains all the art completed so far, including never before seen work in progress shots, and interviews with some of the artists.
- At 300 backers we'll be giving away a short story anthology ebook to every backer over the £50 mark.
- At 400 backers, every backer over £50 will get the Fall of Aros Campaign book in PDF. It will have full background and rules for playing out one of the most famous campaigns in the background, as well as full rules for creating your own campaigns, and designing your own characters!
It's neat to see them adding more bonus stuff to the pledges and since the whole idea of the Icarus Project came from stories about Gabriel Cross it makes sense for us to be seeing it enrich the world.
Have you pledged for this project?
"I have a copy of Gabriel Cross sitting on my desk right now and it's a fantastic piece. If the Nexus are anything like Gabriel then folks are in for a treat..."
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I have to say, the rules are every bit as slick as the minis. Once they have been proofed fully and a few little kinks ironed out I think this will be my sci-fi game of choice. It really puts 40K and Warpath to shame – although it is a slightly smaller scale game (typically 10 minis or so).
And that Nexus sculpt is incredible! I would love to see this fund – but even if it doesn’t Icarus have said they will produce another mini later this year and try again in early 2016.
I can’t understand how this game is doing so badly on KS. Everywhere I come across it mentioned the talk is extremely positive. People love the minis and are impressed with the ruleset and as starter sets go for skirmish games it does have great value. A faction and a PDF rulebook for £30 is a bargain. They’d been building towards this for quite a while with updates on the rules and art/minis being emailed out to anyone that signed up. So the hype has been there but as of now they’re barely over a third of their funding goal.
I can only speak for me of course. I was initially interested in backing this project. For few months I followed the news here and on BoLS. When the KS started, I looked through and all I could see were cool rendered concepts and single pose illustrations. They were all great, but it really lack of scope for me. No background, no cityscape, no team action elements visible, just single miniatures. I felt the game had the cool factor in term on design but seemed a bit shallow in term of depth. I love minis of course, but above all,… Read more »
I think the other reason this is not taking off is the timing – Mantics Warpath has gone mental. I have backed a few Mantic games in the past, and was watching Warpath as i thought the initial Alpha rules (pre-kickstarter) seemed promising. But having read the all new alpha rules, I;m really not impressed. It seems aimed at a 6mm or 15mm game. Firefight has only a few comments added to the WP rules, so it’s hard to see where that is going to go. As for 2-player sets, Anto said this in the KS caomments (I asked the… Read more »
Yup I gotta agree with everything said so far. I’m shocked this hasn’t funded and will be very disappointed if it doesn’t. The rules are slick and well thought out, the minis are gorgeous and the potential of the game is huge. I’m hoping there will be a rush at the last minute and this one hits the mark.
Agree, it a damn shame and a surprise that this KS isn’t doing better? Haven’t people read the rules? They’re very good, and the models are ace (I have bought the Gabriel Cross model).
My guess is; that there isn’t enough freebies in this KS. Seems that people rather want free restic stuff from China then pay for high quality resin models from England.
Those look really good.
I think the main issue isn’t the quality of the minis nor the quality of the rules. Its the fact that miniature games require a lot of money to seriously get into. Couple that with the fact that its a very saturated market atm, with people that ebay the KS pledges for various games because they are the only person in their community that plays it or they dont get to play it enough. So in short, I think that there is to much supply and not enough demand for a lot of the KS we see today. I am… Read more »
So very true!
Amen Its not just a saturated market, the amount of human soldier miniatures in the market is even more saturated!
That’s very true. In fact, when I look at backing a miniatures KS I always go in for whatever pledge has two factions or starter packs so I can at least get a game in with someone I’ve taught the rules. I think that’s why miniature board games do so well. The really good ones have top quality minis and the rules can often have the depth and levels of strategy as skirmish games. But you get everything you need in one box. You don’t need any of your mates to invest and barring a handful of optional expansions, your… Read more »
I know Anthony at Icarus had planned for more artwork for the starter boxes etc. So those would definitely have helped the setting, the back stories in the blog for each concept are engaging as well so I definitely think the universe is there. I know the old picture speaks 100 words etc. Game aside these are some excellent miniatures for the hobbyists amongst us as well (if I ever finish painting my Gabriel Cross :p)
I really like their miniatures but I find the game design poor and classic… it reminds me of dark lands (mierce miniatures) : great background ans miniatures, worst ruleset ever.
I really like the rules. I’m getting tired of spending half the gaming night reading several rulebooks and faction books to find out what rule x does in circumstance y. Big bloated rulebooks are not always the best IMHO.
It may be that, in 2-3 yrs time, this ruleset expands and becomes more like the bloatbooks we tend to get – but I really hope not!
But there is nothing new ! It’s not a bloatbook nor a 4 pages of rules but it’s between the two, without being quick or long. I was hoping so much from that game with their amazing artworks…
A game WELL WORTH backing.
Cinematic, quick, fluid with designs that are unique yet still fall enough into archetypes to ensure most people will have a faction that will at least somewhat appeal to them.
A shame they’re overshadowed by the Mantic madness.