Command & Colours WW1

[Fenton]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1992455033/the-great-war-0?ref=discovery

[Leman]

How exactly does a kickstarter work?

[Fenton]

You pledge money. If they reach the amount  they are looking for then they take your money and the game gets made. If not you don't pay anything
I have never backed anything myself but I think that it is how it works

[Ithoriel]

Pretty much that ... except occasionally the game doesn't get made for one reason or another and you lose out. Caveat emptor!

[Leon]

How exactly does a kickstarter work?

We had a chat about it a while back, including the pro's and con's: http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,6029.0.html

I used it to get my Militia Miniatures into production and it worked well for me.  There wasn't any money left at the end of it, but all of the costs of getting the sculpts into production were covered and I've now got a small range of figures that is already paid for.

[holdfast]

Certainly worth a look. The boxed sets with figures are often let down by the figures themselves - Memoir 44, Battlecry.
If the mechanisms work though, the figures supplied, or even the blocks as in C&C, can be replaced by better figures. C&C Ancients is said to have started off as a figures based game and the visual is certainly improved by replacing the blocks. I am about to replace each of the figures in the Memoir 44 set with a base containing 3x10mm. An Army pack almost exactly replaces one set of figures in a Memoir 44 box, although you then have to decide what to do with the tanks.
So it seems to be a reasonable idea to me.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Armies being done by PSC, lovely figures, seen some photos already.