(or here’s a list of what launched yesterday that might deserve a closer look)

Project: Animal World War

Designer: Jack Ford Morgan

Artists: Allison Meyers, Barend Chamberlain, Collateral Damage Studios (Bullet, Ninja All-Stars, Wrong Chemistry)

Publisher: Half Monster Games

Genre/Mechanisms: campaign/battle card driven, hexagon grid, legacy game, line of sight, miniatures, scenario/mission/campaign game, team-based game, wargame

Player Count: 2-24

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: HIGH

Summary: “Command anthropomorphic soldiers with unique abilities and strengths as Herbivores or Carnivores.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $63

All-In (w/shipping): $213, include extras, vanity rewards, and additional games

Campaign Ends: 9/13

Game Ships: Nov. 2020

Funding Status: Currently at 45%, with 16 days to go.

Project: Core Clash

Designer: Elroy CT

Artist: Patrick Suen

Publisher: Boar Studio

Genre/Mechanisms: dice rolling, fighting, kill steal, miniatures, square grid

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: HIGH

Summary: A future machine-themed game of dice strategy, team skirmishes, and miniatures.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $141

All-In (w/shipping): $394

Campaign Ends: 8/24

Game Ships: June 2021

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 129%, with 27 days to go.

Project: In Magnificent Style Deluxe Edition

Designer: Herman Luttman (Dawn of the Zeds Second Edition, Dawn of the Zeds Third Edition, In Magnificent Style: Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg)

Artists: Tim Allen (Cruel Necessity: The English Civil Wars 1640-1653, Dawn of the Zeds Second Edition, Zulus on the Ramparts!: The Battle of Rorke’s Drift Second Edition), Rick Barber (La Bataille des Quatre Bras, Grant Takes Command, In Magnificent Style: Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg)

Publisher: Worthington Publishing (Band of Brothers: Ghost Panzer, Band of Brothers: Screaming Eagles, Holdfast: Russia 1941-42)

Genre/Mechanisms: chit-pull system, dice rolling, grid movement, push your luck, solo/solitaire game, square grid, wargame

Player Count: 1

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: light

Risk: medium-low

Summary: “The deluxe edition and update of the solitaire wargame, featuring gameplay as General Longstreet and decisions about how quickly to press advancing troops across the deadly open ground before allowing the men to regroup themselves for another bound.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $71

All-In (w/shipping): $198, includes 3 additional games

Campaign Ends: 8/8

Game Ships: Dec. 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 1437%, with 11 days to go.