Mythic Games’ Reichbusters: Projekt Vril Now Available On Kickstarter
November 21, 2018 by brennon
Mythic Games has now taken to Kickstarter with Reichbusters: Projekt Vril. This game of Weird World War Axis bashing is one that we've had a lot of fun with and you can check out our Let's Play above.
The game has you playing as a team of Allied heroes, taken from Britain, America, France, Russia and such sneaking into Nazi facilities in hopes of disrupting their Vril research and killing plenty of them along the way.
Gameplay has each of your characters fighting through the facility, trying to be stealthy at first before exploding into a full-on run-and-gun shooterthon where there are explosions going off everywhere and Warren becomes a very happy bunny indeed.
Mythic's campaign this time around is a little smaller in scope with a focus on just the single boxed game however as you might imagine there are plenty of Expansions...
...and Stretch Goals for you to explore as well. I like that many of their Stretch Goals are focused towards providing alternative sculpts for some of the enemies within the box which helps to shake up the look of the game and we're also seeing some new heroes too.
The real sticking point is that the game is another one of those that deliver a lot of plastic miniatures onto the tabletop for hobbyists to stare at as they realise they're never going to paint all of them. Thankfully, the gameplay makes this prospect not so daunting as I reckon I'd be happy to play Reichbusters even without putting paint to miniature.
There's enough about the gameplay to win over and gamers I reckon with the tense stealth sections and cooperative spirit being the thing that ties this game together. One of the aspects of the mechanics that really won me over is that it encourages you to spend and use the resources at your command; spending cards and getting lots out of your turn. Even when you're just supporting a friend it feels like you've DONE something to help the overall effort.
The fact that heroes feel powerful is great and when combined with the sudden rush of enemies threatening to overwhelm you, you have a great back and forth between the heroes and their Nazi foes.
Are you going to be checking out Reichbusters?
"Even when you're just supporting a friend it feels like you've DONE something to help the overall effort..."
I’m in. Looks like great fun and who doesn’t enjoy killing Nazi especially Mutant Nazi’s!
Backed….. curse you.
Lots of Kickstarters do it, but it’s not a great stretch goal…. Alternate sculpts. It’s not an extra miniature, it’s just a replacement.
I know it’s another mould to make, but not extra value to the backer… and most villains are only on the board a couple of minutes, so the variation is meaningless.
Just so you know, all of our alternate sculpts ARE additional models, not replacements 🙂
We definitely need to make this clearer on the page and will do today 😀
Az
Yep… you need to make that clear. Alternate sculpts tends to mean swapping one figure for another. Perhaps put it as ‘additional sculpts’.
One point though… In the playthrough you stated that when you run out of figures for bad guys, no more are added… so more figures means the difficulty increases 🙂
However, you could spin this as ‘difficulty level’… more Nazis for tougher game.
Is this a one time only ks or will there be a second run? My finances are stretched at moment and not sure I could go for it if I change my mind.
The base game for $100 is looking great value at the moment. The majority of backers are at ‘all in’ for $200. I have a copy of Descent 2.0 that doesn’t get played much, so buying another ‘dungeon crawl’ type game is not for me…but this KS looks great.
My concern from the Let’s Play is the grenade taking down the whole room, as this seems a bit of a shame when the Vrilmeister just appears and then dies. I see they are working on an ‘injured’ mechanic for the Vrilmeisters to ‘fix’ this issue.
Really would love o back but I live in Japan and shipping will cost almost as much as the game. 🙁
Just went all in on this project. It ticks all my gamer boxes. Mythic games (Check), WWII (check), GREAT minis (check), solo and cooperative play (check), Weird WWII (check), kill Nazi’s (guilty pleasure check). Wish it would come out sooner but next Christmas I will have a great gift under the tree. Hope the stretch goals are all reached.