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

Project: 1565, St Elmo’s Pay – The Great Siege of Malta

Designer: Tristan Hall (1066, Tears to Many Mothers; Gloom of Kilforth, Paradise Lost)

Artist: Ania Kryczkowska (1066, Tears to Many Mothers; Gloom of Kilforth)

Publisher: Hall or Nothing Productions (1066, Tears to Many Mothers; Gloom of Kilforth, Lifeform)

Genre/Mechanisms: hand management, war game

Player Count: 1-2

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: medium-high

Summary: A card game & war game dramatizing the Great Siege of Malta; also integrates with Hall’s previous self-published war game, 1066, Tears to Many Mothers.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $82

All-In (w/shipping): $151, includes 1066, Tears to Many Mothers & playmats for both

Campaign Ends: 11/1

Game Ships: Sep. 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 267%, with 25 days to go.

Project: Philadelphia 1777

Designer: Grant Wylie (Hold the Line, Holdfast: Russia 1941-42, Napoleon’s War: The 100 Days), Mike Wylie (Hold the Line, Holdfast: Russia 1941-42, Napoleon’s War: The 100 Days)

Artist: Sean Cooke (Hearts & Minds: Vietnam 1967-1977, Hold the Line, Holdfast: Russia 1941-42), Howard Pyle (Liberty or Death: The American Insurrection)

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

Genre/Mechanisms: action points, dice rolling, movement points, point-to-point movement, war game

Player Count: 1-2

Solo Mode: yes

Complexity: medium-light

Risk: medium-high

Summary: Fourth in the Campaigns of the American Revolution from Worthington Publishing, following New York 1776, Trenton 1776, and Saratoga 1777.

Base Pledge (w/shipping): $67

All-In (w/shipping): $270, includes 5 more games

Campaign Ends: 10/21

Game Ships: Apr. 2020

Funding Status: Funded; currently at 214%, with 14 days to go.