You wait ages for a good game involving HG Wells inspired Martian Tripods invading Earth and two come along at once!
I'm sure you already know about All Quiet on the Martian Front and I've mentioned Fimm McCool's excellent looking boardgame on here as well.
Well now's your chance to get your grubby hands/tentacles on a copy as his Indiegogo campaign is under way - I particularly like the sound of the metal Tripod miniatures should targets be hit early.
I hope to be doing my bit once I've gathered funds together after my excesses with the Martian Front campaign!
For more Martian fun check out my nascent Martian blog.
Well the Alien Dungeon Kickstarter for their new game , All Quiet on the Martian Front, is over and amazingly the amount raised exceeded $300 000! That means lots of extra freebies and in particular, a resin model of a downed Tripod and an escaping Martian, which I'm really looking forward to.
To stop me climbing the walls in anticipation (and I've been hankering after some kind of H G Wells inspired table top action for a while now!) I've set up a new blog, called Of Men and Martians, to explore all things Wellsian, Martian, tripedal and generally connected to the War of the Worlds. I'll also be using it to get to grips with a new scale - 15mm - and all that entails in terms of scenery and playing area.
Worry ye not however - I'm still committed to my Lustria project! Building continues on the Shrine of Rigg and I have an update to share soon with a trial paint scheme for the interior which I'm pretty happy with.
As the LPL draws to a close I'll be looking at the Lustrian stuff I've painted up for it and cracking on with finishing off whichever faction inspires me...
... in the last hours of this evening that the All Quiet on the Martian Front Kickstarter campaign was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than Man's and yet as mortal as his own.
Yet across the gulfs of cyberspace, a mind immeasurably more easily tempted than yours regarded this game with envious eyes, and slowly and surely, I drew my plans to buy it!
Yep, afraid I couldn't resist this one - I just need to convince lots of relatives that chipping in would make a great Christmas present, especially if the good folk at Alien Dungeon are able to ship in time for their target this December.
As you might have guessed I'm a bit of a fan of the whole War of the Worlds thing - I've read the book countless times, had Jeff Wayne's musical version on heavy rotation in the car, got the Orson Wells radio broadcast on tape(!) and I even quite like the various American movie versions.
I tracked down the "sequel" to H G Wells' original text Edison's Conquest of Mars by Garrett P. Serviss, a while back. I say sequel - it was published as a serial six weeks after War Of the Worlds was serialised and involved an Earth counter attack on Mars, led by Thomas Edison and his marvellous inventions, which included a fleet of space ships and ray guns! Strangely the Martians were giant humans but the story is great fun and must be one of the very first genuine Space Operas.
Lets just hope there's more likelihood of the stuff getting delivered on time than Ogilvy's predictions of anything coming from Mars!
Update - Since pledging last night the total has shot over $260 000 and is headed for $270 000! What's more if $300 000 is reached before the campaign ends in 9 hours then all backers at Invasion level or above get a free resin Downed Tripod model, including an escaping Martian! Sounds like a great objective marker to me, if not a fantastic model for the collection.
