Keep An Eye On Clash Of Spears’ Kickstarter Launch Countdown
November 6, 2019 by avernos
As many know already I'm feverishly excited for the Clash of Spears skirmish warband game being released and with today's announcement that wait is one day closer to finishing.
One half of Fighting Hedgehog, Alvaro Erize, released the news earlier today that Clash of Spears will be launching on Kickstarter on 13th November. You can sign up on the project page to be notified when it goes live next week. The brothers have decided to use Kickstarter as the platform to launch their fast-paced, large scale skirmish game on the world to reach as many people as possible and they have big plans for it.
We've already heard that they have partnered with Victrix to make starter boxes for three of the factions in the rulebook. The Gaulish Celts, above, Romans and Carthaginians. But this is only the start, with Spanish, Italians and Greeks also in the pipeline to provide an easy access point for people who haven't dabbled in historics before. The starter sets also come with several alternative lists so you are not restricted to playing the same force every time while you get to grips with them, which is a touch I absolutely love.
Along with the announcement of the Kickstarter a Carthaginian leader was also shown off in the green.
This fellow will be exclusive to the Kickstarter and is the first of many surprises coming for those who back the Kickstarter, there is no other news yet as to what these may be. But Alvaro has said that there will be early bird deals for people jumping in at the start for both the rulebook and the warband box sets and that these will be limited so if you are interested click on the Kickstarter link to be notified when it goes live. The campaign goes live at 10:30 EST, or 15:30 GMT, 16:30 CET, 2:30 AEDT (sorry Australia). The plan is for the campaign to be relatively short and start production in December and to start shipping in January.
I can't wait to finally get my hands on the book and may even succumb to a new force for it, Carthage tickles my fancy.
It's the final countdown, da-da-da da, du-du-da-da da, da-da-da da, bum-bum-
"...launch their fast paced, large scale skirmish game on the world to reach as many people as possible"
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Some great figures coming out then.
Yeah – looking forward to seeing the boxed sets. I’ve not got unnecessarily excited about a Kickstarter all year so maybe this is the one!
I’ll be in for the rulebook, maybe some Celts. I don’t have any Celts so far
This going to KS came as a surprise to me, but like they said it’s more to raise the “visibility” of the game. Still it’s a sad state of affairs when games for this hobby NEEDS to go onto KS to be able to compete with the marketing (does this mean that KS has a stranglehold on the hobby these days), as current gamers are so used to buying their new games via KS than any other source?
Like I always say, people are the worst, and every bad thing in the industry generally comes down to the consumers being terrible people.
As to the kickstarter, they could have gone ahead without it and going to KS does change their schedule at all. But it is, unfortunately, the best advertising a small company can get.
Yes I was very reluctant to do a KS.. My brother said to me, “but how come if you’ve backed about 10 of them”… I actually backed 68… I checked !! But it was the way to go to be able to release the boxed sets and everything… The whole thing grew more than we thought and KS does give a lot of visibility to a company that had very little. Think we barely just incorporated about a month ago 🙂 … In fact, the support from Gerry and OnTheTabletopTop has been invaluable, we are very thankful to you guys,… Read more »
Thanks for the clarification @Lloyd will find himself being introduced to it soon
oh you big tease 🙂
Just going to wait for retail for this one
We have secured our European retail distributor so you will not have to wait very long, we just need to work to ship the ks orders quickly…