Tsarists....in spaaaaace or In Soviet Russia game kickstart YOU!

[republic]

With my recent fascination with the Russians (caused by too many games of Airland battle) this game is the first game I've actually supported by kickstarter.  Good music, interesting story, good art, new ideas...I hope it works!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1964463742/the-mandate

RPS article that lead me there:  http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/10/03/tsarist-space-struggle-the-mandate/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+RockPaperShotgun+%28Rock%2C+Paper%2C+Shotgun%29

[Nefaro]

With my recent fascination with the Russians (caused by too many games of Airland battle) this game is the first game I've actually supported by kickstarter.  Good music, interesting story, good art, new ideas...I hope it works!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1964463742/the-mandate

I find Russian history quite interesting.  It's often violent and darkly surreal.  One good example that reminds me of this is when Peter The Great, as a child during one of the Streltsy revolts, saw his uncle literally torn apart in front of him at the hands of a Russian mob which he had been trying to 'talk down'.  While every locale has a long interesting history and stories to tell, I think England/Britain may be the only other one that can approach the frequency and extent of strife and treachery.   ???

As for the game, it sounds like a great concept and evidentally they have some bits of it working already.  Looks pretty ambitious, hope they can do it.

[Gusington]

It's like Robert Massie wrote a sci fi 4x game...looks awesome. Thanks for posting!

[Darkspire]

Reminds me of Rules of Engagement 2 with Breach 3 bolted on via the IGS system. Looks really good, hope it pans out.

Darkspire

[steve58]

$#@! Yet another Kickstarter to keep an eye on.  Looks pretty good, but I'm getting concerned my rig won't be able to handle some of these games.  This one is due out in Mar 2015?  :-\

[republic]

[republic]

If your into space games, you have to watch how the shields and ship damage work  (2:20 if you want to skip to it)

[mikeck]

Damn....that's cool

[LongBlade]

Damn....that's cool

+1

What I'm getting from going over the KS page is that this first round of KS funding is just pre-production. They will have to do this a couple more times to pull a rabbit out of their hat.

What caught my eye that I haven't seen before? The $50 funding level offers you the 3D plans so that you can use a 3D printer to sculpt a ship. Now that's pretty awesome. Might be worth $50 by itself.

[republic]

Another juicy bit of propaganda for The Mandate