(KICKSTARTER) BlackRain Alpha Strain cyberpunk skirmish live now

[MamlukRaider]

Check here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1466664258/blackrain-alphastrain

I am not personally affiliated with the company but I couldn't see a post on the forum so decided to share

Here is a link to their facebook page https://m.facebook.com/Shockwork-Studio-200569610114760/

[Inso]

35mm

Mind you... the mechs look nice

[beefcake]

35mm

To quote the first line of the page,

Bloody 35mm

The renders look very nice but I'd like to see a physical model.

[YPU]

Mind you... the mechs look nice

All I care about.  
They do still need to be unlocked as stretch goals however... But I'd prefer to buy them when the kickstarter is over and people have actually found the models to be good.

[throwsFireball]

Let's just see here...

• $50
• 6 models
• first Kickstarter
• 35mm
• $25,000 goal
• website is literally a blogspot page (no way to trace the whois)
• no other products than this Kickstarter
• minimum amount of miniatures they need to produce and deliver is 3,000 if they reach the goal
• delivery date is April 2017

Yeah, that's gonna be a very firm no from me. The only Kickstarter I've ever felt scammed by was Double Fine's Broken Age which was a resounding failure of management and even they delivered (sort of) eventually.

Their goals seem pretty achievable but even then I'm wary as all hell of it.

Compare that with the STAR Troopers Kickstarter which is done by a small but established company with a very low boundary of how much they need to deliver ($50 for 8 miniatures at the start for a total minimum delivery of 640 miniatures).

[Dentatus]

Yeah... Black Rain Alpha Strain might well be nice folks/on the level, but I've gotten KS burn one too many times and there are too many little red flags for me to feel comfortable.

Went with STAR Troopers instead.

[Malebolgia]

Hmmmmm, some miniatures are interesting but on a whole it's not that special and original in looks. I'm a Cyberpunk nut, but this isn't really making me salivate. I'll wait for a general release and cherry pick what I need.

[eilif]

Their test prints and casts look pretty good and they're working with maximini...

...so there aren't quite as many red flags as I would expect.  Still, the price and style are quite a bit beyond me.

[salcor]

Too bad they did just have a buy the rules in pdf pledge level.

Salcor

[supervike]

Hmmmmm, some miniatures are interesting but on a whole it's not that special and original in looks. I'm a Cyberpunk nut, but this isn't really making me salivate. I'll wait for a general release and cherry pick what I need.

I agree with this.  Nothing really pops out at me, and of course the scale is a bit offputting too.

[n815e]

Thin parts on some of those.

[MamlukRaider]

You can download the alpha rules for free here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/rjxrn12r3enlxdd/AAD6OQJs4ieEG5TCw0HtgAy9a?dl=0