HBG's Amerika Game ON KICKSTARTER NOW - FUNDED!

Variable

Any idea when the game will be released to the masses?

We should have the game being delivered to Backers around May. Retail available around June or so then. We will be setting up a pre-order system as well at HBG but it will cost more than the KS folks paid. We’ll keep you updated.

Variable

@Yavid:

after you answer the question of when we can buy it can you answer the question: what in the blue hell is kickerstarter? and why does it need funding?

Kickstarter is a crowd-funding site that allows us to essentially take pre-orders for a game we want to produce to ensure we meet our BEP. If we don’t collect enough money, nobody pays. If we do, everybody who backs us gets cool stuff. Check it out:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/859357440/amerika-board-game-reboot-ww2-alternate-history

Yavid

I just read tonight about how Larry is thinking of putting something up on Kickstarter to see if there’s an interest

I can’t wait :lol: I do love the idea of doing a Civil War game…That period has always fascinated me! I’ll probably do it one of these days. In the mean time my attention and focus is on the Roman Empire.

GTO http://www.gametableonline.com/ will be featuring my Conquest of the Empire game. I’m seriously considering publishing my own brand new and updated board game version of this old classic. I’ve got some great ideas for this game. Perhaps I’ll put it on Kickstarter to see if there’s any real interest in such a product. If that worked perhaps I could start publishing my own stuff. Interesting.
LH

There’s the whole comment from Larry it’s on his site here’s the link to the conversation:
http://www.harrisgamedesign.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=18451

Flashman

Here’s the real thread:

http://www.harrisgamedesign.com/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=9

Also, add in something like this:

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/494/ave-caesar

to vary the gameplay

and an Eastern expansion for more scenarios and 8 player games

Razor

The attack on America comes true, our homes are in danger

CWO Marc

@Razor:

The attack on America comes true, our homes are in danger

Great poster. I feel like rushing out to buy war bonds!

Variable

Yeah, cool find. Part of the inspiration behind the game I suppose.

Razor

I miss the Canadian player

Narvik

@Razor:

I miss the Canadian player

Suggestion for sculp for the Canadian player

knp7765

I just checked out the latest Kickstarter update from HBG. Great pictures of the box and components. The outer box, storage boxes, game cards, roundels and map all look absolutely fantastic. Very professional job too. I will love to see this game on the shelves at my local game shop. Excellent job Coach and Variable!!

By the way Coach, do you know if Hobbytown USA here in Wichita will be stocking AMERIKA?

Flashman

Maybe if this does well an alternative scenario with a global map and the USSR as a 4th power:

Set in the same period, but the 4 power blocks have fought each other to a standstill. Germany would have expanded to swallow eastern Europe and north Africa, and much of the middle east. Japan will have completed the occupation of China, and maybe driven through India to meet Germany in Persia. USA & what remains of the UK’s empire is merged into a single power controlled from Washington. The Soviet government has moved from threatened Moscow to the relative safety of the Urals.

The idea would be that as a result of primitive nuclear weapons and economies devastated by war, power are no longer able to manufacture and maintain advanced weapons. What you start with in terms of bombers, jest, battleships and so on is what you get - nobody has the capacity to build any more. After a few turns you will no longer be able to maintain complicated machinery, and the units will become redundant. That’s when the new cavalry and archer units come into their own…

knp7765

So you are suggesting a 20th century world war using 16th century weapons? This reminds me of a quote which I think was from Albert Einstein. “I don’t know how they will fight WWIII, but WWIV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

CWO Marc

@knp7765:

So you are suggesting a 20th century world war using 16th century weapons? This reminds me of a quote which I think was from Albert Einstein. “I don’t know how they will fight WWIII, but WWIV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

It also sounds a bit like the multi-decade war shown in the 1936 sci-fi film Things to Come. WWII (predicted by H.G. Wells) breaks out in 1940 and is initially fought with late-1930s vintage weapons. As the years and decades go by, it is fought with increasingly sophisticated weapons (including streamlined Art Deco tanks), but eventually civilization collapses under the strain. By the 1970s, fur-clad local warlords are fighting each other in a plethora of localized conflicts, their “troops” consisting of ragtag rabbles armed with rifles and mounted on horseback. The local population is kept informed of developments by means of communiques written in chalk on a large blackboard in the ruins of what used to be a public square.

Flashman

Also partly inspired by this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFWzpM9re64

Also wonder if anyone’s made a 1984 wargame?

Flashman

Rough idea of a global map, based on one of my old WWII creations:

Germany has taken over Western Europe including Britain. Spain throws in its lot with Germany in return for Morocco. Ireland is united under German rule. Russia has driven Germany back to the starting positions of 1941, but has been attacked in the far East by Japan, which has completed the conquest of China and Australia.

A remnant of the British Empire survives around the periphery of the Indian Ocean

A&A1948.PNG

Narvik

I paid years ago and start to get tired of waiting, anybody know how long to this game is actually coming to my home ?

knp7765

They are still waiting on the plastic game pieces. From what I understand, they were finished at the Chinese factory and shipped to the US. The problem now is the dock worker problems with strikes and such. Once the union and management can come to some agreement, then our stuff will finally get trucked to HBG and they can put our games together and ship them to us.

Tall Paul

Guys,
––I received an e-mail yesterday stating that HBG was now starting to ship the complete AMERIKA games to the Kickstarter backers which will necessarily take a little while to complete. But things are “HAPPENING!”

Tall Paul

knp7765

Hey Paul,
That is not all. You should check out their Facebook page. The US set is all made and packaged up for shipping to HBG. Also they have some pics of the prototype sculpts for the new German set. All very exciting.

knp7765

Hey Everybody,
I got my first pieces for the AMERIKA game. I haven’t gotten my games yet but I’m sure they will be here any day now. The HBG crew have a LOT of work packaging all of this stuff for all the backers. I got my Expansion pieces and the reinforcements for the Allies though and I must say they are really cool.
Great detail, but of course we’re used to that from HBG by now. First is a pic of the German expansion pieces.
Second pic is of the Allied and Japanese expansion pieces.

By the way, in case some of you didn’t know this, the M-6 Medium Tank in the Allied Expansion pieces was actually conceived in 1942 for use as a heavy tank by the US Army and a couple of prototypes were actually built. However, they decided that the M-4 Sherman tank was adequate for the Army’s needs and the M-6 simply was not needed so it was discontinued.
I saw a model kit for this tank in a military magazine and was half tempted to order it for the novelty.

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