The guys at Prodos Games have given us another update on how the AvP: The Hunt Begins Miniature Game is coming along. They’ve posted some lovely pictures of the matte-finish box, booklets and cards of the Deluxe Kickstarter Edition of the board game. I must admit it does contain some very premium quality artwork to say this started out as a crowd-funding project. Now, the AvP miniatures game has been delayed a few times this year and it’s still going through the lengthy approval process at 20th Century Fox. The current aim is to get the Deluxe Edition shipped to backers by September and there’ll be a mass-produced version of the board game for retail at some point.
AvP: The War Begins was first announced by Prodos Games in October 2013 and they managed to raise just over £379,000 on Kickstarter. We’ll keep you informed of any developments with this project.
Glad to hear they're producing all the other components now. I'm ready for some action.
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It's because it wouldn't balance on the steps. I think they mention it in the article.
Those look so brilliant! Thanks for sharing, Hicks. I love the way the pyramid looks as well. Those figures were so gorgeously painted.
I had been intending to post this up on the front page but it doesn't look like they used the proper rules for it. It was a demo event at a local-ish gaming shop. I went to a few Star Trek Attack Wing games last year and I knew the shop had a relationship with Prodos. They've had a few models since before the KS - painted and on display in the windows. Had I known the event was on I would have done but it's a little disappointing they weren't using the proper rules.
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Look at all them Aliens! Looks like a fun day though! I bet that scenario was cool.
That would be pretty sweet. I'm about ready to start on my flying Queen conversion!
OUTBREAK
Forces:
Humans:
Four 5-man groups of unarmed scientists
Four 5-man squads of WY mercenary riflemen
One 5-man "death squad" with smartguns
One 5-man "containment team" with flamethrowers
Two sentry guns
Aliens (start):
One brood of 5 Stalkers
One brood of 5 adult Warriors
10x independent Facehuggers
Aliens (reserves):
Facehuggers
Stalkers
Infant Warriors
Adult Warriors
1x Alien Queen
Battlefield:
6'x4' totally covered by corridors and at least five large rooms (laboratories). Multiple levels/stories of terrain are encouraged. Remember that long, straight corridors will become dangerous fire lanes and build accordingly. The labs should be spaced out at least 12" away from one another, if possible.
Deployment:
The Aliens starting figures are placed in one laboratory, which must be wholly inside one table quarter. One science team and one mercenary rifle team are then placed in each of the other labs. The Death Squad is placed anywhere in the table quarter opposite the Alien deployment zone, and not within 18" of an Alien figure. The human player then nominates which lab contains the Queen, and deploys the containment team in that room. The sentry guns are placed last, anywhere outside the table quarter the Aliens are deployed in.
Notes:
It is assumed that the starting Aliens have already killed the former occupants of the lab the are deployed in and have triggered the alarm, putting the facility into lockdown. All doors on the table begin closed. They can only be opened manually by humans (touching the door, no remote access!) and may be torn down as usual by Aliens.
All human models may move freely once the game starts, they do not have to stay where they are deployed. Additionally, models may split off and become one-model units of their own. These may join or rejoin units by moving into coherency, however no human unit may ever contain more than five models.
The humans may not kill any Aliens (especially the Queen) that are still secured. They may only attack Aliens that have escaped and are already represented by a model on the table.
If the human player is feeling especially sinister, he may elect to execute the scientists to prevent the acceleration of the outbreak. Preform a normal shooting attack against the scientist unit. Any survivors will naturally flee if possible, and will now be controlled by the Alien player.
The Aliens objective is to make it through the other laboratories, releasing more of their kin as they progress and eventually freeing the Queen.
OBJECTIVE - Free the Queen and escort her to any table edge.
The humans objective is to stop the outbreak before it reaches critical mass, by any means necessary.
OBJECTIVE - Destroy all escaped specimens.
Outbreak!:
If the Aliens are for any reason alone in a lab (because they've killed everyone in it, or it was abandoned to form a strongpoint elsewhere, for example), all casualties to the starting units are replaced. Additionally the Alien player may deploy one of the following:
10x Infant Warriors + additional models equal to the number of human casualties inflicted thus far
5x adult Warriors + additional models equal to half the number of human casualties inflicted thus far (rounding up)
This rule may only be used once per lab, and does not apply to the lab the Aliens are initially deployed in.
Playing the scenario:
The Alien player gets the first turn, representing the sudden nature of the outbreak. The game ends when either the Queen moves into contact with a table edge or there are no Alien figures left on the table.
It's nearly time.
http://www.erklaerpeer.de/interviews/rob-alderman/
Here's an interview with Rob Alderman, one of the sales guys.
- I forget who said it, so take these thoughts with a pinch of salt, but Fox is apparently in favour of a simultaneous release for KS and Retail versions.
- It's not unheard of for items to be sent to stockists early so they can be on the shelf day 1.
- It's very likely to take the lads a few weeks to send out all the individual packages, in order the pledges were made as opposed to (I assume) distributors sending bulk shipments to retailers.
- Then a lot of backers will have to wait for international shipping, and I'm not sure about other countries but I'm quite likely going to have to pay import taxes to actually get at my stuff (even if it's split into two waves), which means waiting for customs to inform me they've got my toys too.
Absolutely nothing against Prodos, it's just that with the challenges involved I can definitely see this happening.
*PLEASED PTERODACTYL SQUAWKING*
I have a feeling we'll be waiting a lot longer for the wargame/book and extras, even if the board game shipped tomorrow.
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I've got something better! lol
My super glue should be arriving any minute now, so I can affix these badboys to some Secret Weapon bases and get painting.
More work done:
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Yeah, I almost gave up on tabletop gaming all together for a while due to this, thankfully I found a group of chilled out people to game with and don't have to expose myself to the horror of the community (offline, at least).
Where Wizkids is concerned, I tend to expect a lot of bitching.
For those who haven't seen it Jarek posted the following to a facebook question:
O.k I have a question, if I have backed the KS campaign and also added pledges through the webstore, will they be sent out with the KS stuff, separately, or with the webstore stuff? And what is the plan with the retail version? Will it have a release date as soon as the pledges are fulfilled? Will it have a later release date once the plastics have been produced? Is it undecided? Can you even say at the moment?
Jarek Ever: Board game 1st to KS, then retail, the add ons to KS and Retail. When I say KS I mean all pledges from shop + KS website.
Quoted for truth. This seems to be the usual state of affairs for anything wargaming related unfortunately. At least the vitriol hasn't reached "Games Workshop did something" levels of rage yet.
I wonder how many of the complainers are 40k expies, actually.
I'll just be glad to start seeing shipping notices. I'm getting sick of the negativity, impatient and lack of understanding all over my feeds.