(or here’s a list of what launched yesterday that might deserve a closer look… and Project Titles now feature links to their campaigns!)

Project: The Doomsday Project: Episode 1

Designer: Adam Starkweather (The Devil’s Cauldron: The Battles for Arnhem and Nijmegen; A Victory Denied: Crisis at Smolensk, July – September, 1941; Warriors of God: The Wars of England and France, 1135-1453)

Artists: Nadir Elfarra (Aliens; Charlemagne, Master of Europe; Combat!)

Publisher: Compass Games (Crusade and Revolution: The Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939; Enemy Action: Ardennes; The Russian Campaign)

Genre/Mechanisms: alternate history, dice rolling, hexagon grid, modern warfare, simulation, solo/solitaire game, wargame, zone of control

Player Count: 1-2

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: heavy

Risk: medium-low

Summary: “The first in a series of interlocking games covering a World War that never was. The Doomsday Project: Episode 1 cover the major assault on West Germany. Other games in the sub-series will include games on the battle for Norway, the Balkans, the Middle-East and the Far-East…as well as non-system games covering the global naval war and strategic nuclear war. All of which will mate together as a titanic game on World War Three.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $94

All-In (w/shipping): $239, includes two additional games

Campaign Ends: 2/22

Game Ships: Mar. 2021

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 295% with 7 days to go.

Project: Keep Up the Fire! Deluxe Edition

Designer: John Welch (Cruel Necessity: The English Civil Wars 1640 – 1653; Leveé en Masse: The Wars of the French Revolution; The South Shall Rise Again)

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)

Publisher: Old School Wargames (Antietam; Battle of the Bulge 1944; Chancellorsville 1863)

Genre/Mechanisms: action points, campaign/battle card driven, chit-pull system, dice rolling, point to point movement, post-napoleonic, solo/solitaire game, tower defense, wargame

Player Count: 1

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: light

Risk: medium-low

Summary: “A solitaire game set in 1900 Peking, China. You are in command of the Foreign Legations (Ambassadors, their families, staff and small security forces) in the areas assigned to imperial powers and a relief column coming to their rescue. An anti-imperialist revolution is sweeping China and your presence has become the focal point of the Chinese “Boxers” (Society of the Harmonious Fists) and Imperial Manchu forces of the Qing Army who are angry and determined to expel all foreigners from China. Outnumbered, outgunned, and besieged within a small compound in the heart of Peking, you must hold on and hope the relief column can get to you in time.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $71

All-In (w/shipping): $180, includes two additional games

Campaign Ends: 2/27

Game Ships: July 2021

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 1581% with 11 days to go.