The Fallen Frontiers Reboot Kickstarter Launches!
November 14, 2014 by brennon
Following on from our week or so of interesting information on the game Fallen Frontiers the launch for the new Reboot Kickstarter from Scale75 has gone live tonight!
The game...
"Fallen Frontiers is a miniatures wargame game based on combat squads. The squads offer protection and firepower for the force's heroes. Heroes are the ones that define the game style because their attributes change the characteristics of their squads. Because of this each squad performs differently depending on the hero that leads them. However in Fallen Frontiers heroes are not invincible, but instead are easy to eliminate when they are not with their squad."
As you can see the main boxed game contains a lot of stuff (click to take a closer look). It features both Ares and the Riffs as well as a whole bunch of cards to play the game, some Kickstarter exclusive stuff, counters and tokens and of course some scenery too which is neat. Eventually you'll be playing something like this...
If you'd like to find out more about the rules then the guys behind Fallen Frontiers have put together an Alpha Rulebook for you to dive into and it can be accessed from the Kickstarter page itself. All good when you can actually delve into the rules and see what you'll be doing on the battlefield before you get there.
As well as the beautiful miniatures it's also great to see that the game is going to come with some neat scenery pieces too that mean you can actually play the game out of the box once everything is assembled. There's nothing worse than having all your stuff and no nice table to play on. This approach has worked for Dropzone Commander and of course Infinity with Operation Icestorm so hopefully we'll see that happen a lot more going forward.
...and of course it wouldn't be a Kickstarter without stretch goals and here are just a few of them that are going to be around as the Kickstarter launches. If you head on over to their campaign page you'll see a whole lot more.
Now you've seen all the previews and the Kickstarter is live will you be joining in on this one to make it a reality? Let us know in the comments below...
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Woohoo, it’s live! This is a real kickstarter 😀
Their already funded now lets hope that this continues.
Interesting to see that the funding total is about a third of what it was the previous campaign. It looks like they’ve dropped five minis from the starter box and presumably they can also pitch it lower knowing they don’t have to think about tooling. Definitely a much better approach and it looks like it’s paying off already.
The previous campaign was originally designed behind Plastic miniatures line. After a backsliding and urging of backers they switched to Resin, mainly because they are known for resin not plastic. Because of the miniatures numbers though, there was doubt they’d be able to create that many resin miniatures based. Ultimately it was canceled and then redesigned the campaign. They kept stating they were going to decide based on the campaign, but you can’t really have a campaign without starting out with what it will be made from. The new campaign started out with resin. Although they were going to try… Read more »
Tempted but will have to have a proper look at the rules. Not sure about the card scenery but I suppose it does allow you to play right from the off.
Someone did a battle report based on alpha rules, posted it on Facebook. I’ll have to see if I can find the link. The rules are still in alpha but there are a couple interesting things I do like. I like the idea behind the deck building, creating your army deck which you fuel with Krithium and/or Command Points you get from taking objectives. This changes and enhances the combat styles of the various units, depending on how you created your deck. Fatigue is also an interesting idea (gain initiative too much, troops start gaining Fatigue)… considering I always seem… Read more »
The mini’s look amazing. My bank account is going to take a hit at the end of the kickstarter.
TWG (Talk Wargaming) did a product review of one of the miniatures, a Riff Berserker. There are images of the pieces, detail as well as comparison photo next to Warhammer 28mm and Malifaux 32mm miniatures:
http://tinyurl.com/m7n9243
The Pledge Manager will be out next week. Another mile stone is about to be crossed. If you have not backed they are allowing new backers in at the PM launch, just new backers that did not back during the KS will loose out on Stretch Goals and freebies.