That French site is formidable! I especially liked the fan-created art for doors.

Prepainted is probly too much to ask from GW.

That French site is formidable! I especially liked the fan-created art for doors.

These days the newish dipping products for quickly painting a large number of figures would be a good option. You could certainly improve the look with minimal effort.

Dipping products? Could you give us an example or link? Sounds interesting.

*crosses fingers*
Please be first edition rules.
*crosses fingers*

-Will

GW has a special opportunity here to redistribute something great.

If you own all three of the original boxed sets, then you have more than enough tiles to play the game. I see no need whatsoever to add further still to that stockpile.

Until space hulk is out, or not, I try the beta rules (+boards, +cards, +missions) from Incursion.

It seems that this game has many similarities with space hulk.

Don’t worry guys, it’s only me and my life savings versus an angry towering wall of cash :-)

Nah, Incursion is a much different beast than Space Hulk. It’s played on squares and has action points but diverges rapidly from there as you’ll see shortly. The two games are however similar enough in “feel” that we expect to be at a, shall we say, competitive disadvantage? :-)

This will certainly affect our plans and I must say that without the marketing and distribution machine of the big guys and the breathing space for the game to take root, there is little sense in ploughing another 40 grand of money I don’t have into this thing just to get a boxed game out especially given the economic woes my architecture firm is suffering.

Tough times people, tough times.

The good news is that we do have a backup plan. You guys will likely get a free game out of this deal and loads more cool art, graphics, fluff, and especially miniatures. This all just means we have to move a little more cautiously and grow the game itself organically. We still have to work out the details of how we’re going to manage this but it will likely begin as free downloadable loveliness. The field is no longer wide open and we are, after all, just a few dedicated folks with a lot of passion, skill, and a need to do good art and design…and not enough money, by a lot, to take on GW.

Seth just showed me the almost complete Blitzhund today and it’s pretty awesome! Andy is just about finished with Drohne, Hans is ready for mastering, and the mighty Kev White has just begun mashing up some green stuff to do the most awesomely diabolical Dr. Hugo von X. After that, MI-13! The volunteer playtesting and design team is getting pretty close on the core stuff (we’d better be after 9 months), and John and I are just now rounding out MI-13 rules.

The board, which may become tiles at this point for ease of download until we can be confident that full production for sale is feasible, is moving along well. Tears of Envy and I had a hell of a time working through the geometry of the thing but we’re on track and she is now cranking away. The card decks and counters are close enough to a final state from a rules testing standpoint to get cracking on the graphic design of those as well.

So, the long and short of it is no, there will be no boxed game just yet but on the upside, you all will get to try the game for free in all its full color glory….very soon As it becomes feasible, we will produce the various components of the game for sale for those who would rather not download and print. If you guys like it a lot and respond though miniatures purchases, we still have time to get it out as a box.

Now, if you ever in your life wanted to support the little guy with a helluva product and a deep commitment to the hobby and each of you individually in the face of overwhelming odds, I encourage you guys to get out and buy some Incursion models!

For the record, I can’t help but look forward to the Space Hulk release myself because I’m a sucker for that game :-)

Jim Bailey
Grindhouse Games

Until space hulk is out, or not, I try the beta rules (+boards, +cards, +missions) from Incursion.
They are online!
http://www.incursiongame.com/pages/downloads

It seems that this game has many similarities with space hulk.
'Sturmzombies' are cool.

-Chris

Incursion seems like a nice game, and I certainly have bought a few minis for it myself, but this is a spacehulk thread. There is already a spot to discuss incursion elsewhere.

I appreciate his at least mentioning it in a thread where like-minded people might be interested.

If there is a black cesspool of forums, AICN is third from the bottom...followed by WWTDD.com and then Foxsports.com, which is just...uh...

Yes!

I have actually seen the prototype of the new version. They are testing it out here because it's a niche market and they hope the information wouldn't leak.. well, too bad they ran into a BGG'er.

Anyway, the new version involves the following:

- Plastic hallway pieces that stand on small legs so you can reach underneath with magnet sticks (explained beneath).

- Each miniature has a small magnet on its base. Addionally, genestealers are fitted with a small battery which makes them move their arms

- To reinforce the "realistic experience" (as stated in the manual), you are not allowed to touch the pieces directly but have to use magnetic sticks which you stick under the boards and use them to move the figures "remotely". This sounds ridicilous but actually works just fine. GW stated that if this catches on, they think about including "magnet sticks" in the Warhammer series.

- SH has a new ruleset that does away with those pesky " 4 action points" and "command points" and uses a much more elegant system: you throw a little 6-sided cube with numbers 1 to 6 on it; the number you see on the top when it stops rolling is the number of "action points" you have on the turn. Genious!

Anyway I would post some pics but I don't want to breach the signed "prototype test" contract too much.

Cheers!