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

Project: Band of Brothers: Old Breed South Pacific

Designers: Dean Halley (Conflict of Heroes: Guadalcanal – The Pacific 1942), Jim Krohn (Band of Brothers: Screaming Eagles, Space Empires: 4X, Talon)

Artists: Iván Cáceres (Santa Cruz 1797), Michael Evans (Band of Brothers: Ghost Panzer, Band of Brothers: Screaming Eagles), Christopher Ono (Band of Brothers: Ghost Panzer, Band of Brothers: Screaming Eagles)

Publisher: Worthington Publishing (Band of Brothers: Ghost Panzer, Band of Brothers: Screaming Eagles, Lincoln)

Genre/Mechanisms: dice rolling, hexagon grid, modular board, wargame, world war II

Player Count: 1-2

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-heavy

Risk: medium-low

Summary: “A fast playing game of squad level combat in WWII. It covers the exploits of the U.S. First Marine Division in the battles for Guadalcanal. The rules are very simple (no combat charts are needed) with very few exceptions to remember and yet the game is meant to be all encompassing and will include infantry, tanks, and artillery. Based on years of research, the game system uses a unique suppression mechanic. There are no longer two unique states for a unit, but varying degrees of suppression. This allows suppression to accumulate from multiple fire sources and means that the unit will not take a morale check until it is asked to do something. You will never know for sure how your units will respond until they are needed.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $54

All-In (w/shipping): $279, includes 4 additional Band of Brothers games

Campaign Ends: 10/2

Game Ships: Aug. 2022

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 596% with 25 days to go.

Project: Crazy Cake

Designer: Reed Nickell

Artist: Julia Gattis

Publisher: Be Game Social

Genre/Mechanisms: card game, set collection, take that

Player Count: 2-4

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: light

Risk: HIGH

Summary: “Each baker is competing to build their best 3-tier cake using the highest value ingredients possible while also sabotaging their fellow bakers’ cakes. Bakers get three cards at the beginning, then draw one and play one on their turn. They can either play an ingredient, a “Sabotage” action card, or discard an unwanted card. Use Cake, Filling & Frosting cards to complete your cake one ingredient at a time, while using Sabotage cards to trip up other bakers. Play good ingredients on your cake and bad ingredients on their cakes, but watch out for matching sets, which give extra points. The first one to finish their 3-tier cake ends the game, but the baker with the most points wins.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $20

All-In (w/shipping): $20, same as above

Campaign Ends: 10/7

Game Ships: Jan. 2022

Funding Status: Currently at 26% with 30 days to go.

Project: The Game of Life (El Juego de la Vida)

Designer: Ricardo Gonzalez Dueñas

Artist: Ricardo Gonzalez Dueñas

Publisher: Ricardo Gonzalez Dueñas

Genre/Mechanisms: dice, educational, negotiation, roll/spin and move

Player Count: 2-6

Solo Mode: no

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: HIGH

Summary: “A game about financial education and culture. This consists of a board, with email and surprise cards, tickets, bills, checks, insurance policies; in which the players advance according to what is thrown on the dice, paying and/or charging for consumption / rent according to the business in which they or a player arrives, having the opportunity to buy businesses that do not have an owner and putting franchises on them, mortgage and pawn, as well as can request a credit from the Caja; put your money in installments, buy insurance policies, handle checks, buy bicycles, panels and solar water heaters to save on electricity and gas, and invest in machinery to work the field crops such as combines and tractors. Each player receives an endowment of money when starting the game, and chooses a token from the 6 available colors, when passing through the Payroll space, each player receives money on a monthly basis. The player who has the most accumulated money including the sum of his properties and manages not to go bankrupt wins.”

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $94

All-In (w/shipping): $94, same as above

Campaign Ends: 10/6

Game Ships: Jan. 2022

Funding Status: Currently at 0% with 29 days to go.